ABSTRACT

CALL FOR PAPERS
Diffusion of Internet, web services and service oriented architectures as well as mobile and pervasive technologies can result in deep industry wide and organizational transformations with far reaching micro- and macro economic effects. The transformation is triggered by new and pervasive ICT infrastructures, new products and services that enable continually new product- and process-innovations. Recent innovations in new business practices such as Zero Latency Business, Mass Customisation, Product Modularisation, Enterprise Application Integration, Collaborative Supply Chain Management, Mobile Commerce, Customer Integration, or Software as Service (SaaS) in product development and distribution are just few examples of deep changes the Internet and Mobile Technologies have created. Internet and Mobile Technologies affect all facets of production, distribution and usage of information goods and significantly transform development-, production- and distribution of physical goods in ‘Old-Economy’ industries.

The impact of Internet based technologies is seen clearly in emerging corporate strategies. These strategies recognize new competitive challenges within existing value chains that will dissolve, or be totally reassembled. Competition is shifting from an inter-company level to a competition over strategic partners and architectural control. This we call competition within and between emerging Value Webs- new value chain arrangements. Value Webs consist of networks of partners and competitors which collaborate across and within various stages of value chain. These interactions are enabled and constrained by ICT capability where value extraction draws upon specific architectural responsibility and control.

Information Systems researchers have directed their attention to specific examples of these Net-Enabled Value Webs (see e.g. previous HICSS mini-track papers or 2002 volumes 2 & 3 of Information Systems Research). Net Enabled Value Webs can execute transactions, rapidly exchange information, and innovate through new business processes, and at an unprecedented pace. Accordingly inter-organizational cooperation is often discussed in terms of B2B-Marketplaces, Supply Chain Management, Virtual Organizations, or Strategic Alliances etc. Also new types of collaborative communities, e.g. on-line communities or communities of practice, are emerging which fundamentally have changed the relationships between producer and consumers. Information and Communication Technologies both enable and constrain these and other types of Value Web arrangements. Recently, the impact and potential of Mobile & Ubiquitous Computing Technologies has attracted increased attention in shaping new value creation networks (see e.g. several tracks in conferences such as ICIS etc. and special editions of journals such Electronic Markets, etc.) due to the need to reconfigure large portions of the value chains that will deliver mobile services. All these aspects and research topics describe a paradigm shift in value creation and extraction in the age of the internet.

Since the research in Value Webs requires multidisciplinary research involving applied computer and information sciences (such as Computer Supported Cooperative Work, Artificial Intelligence, Information Retrieval, Human Computer Interaction, Information Systems, Ontologies) and social sciences (such as Economics, Management Science, Institutional theory, Policy), the minitrack addresses primarily empirical and conceptual research. The topics covered in the Minitrack include, but are not restricted to the following subjects:

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