Aims & Scope

Electronic Markets - The International Journal is a leading scientific journal for advancing the understanding and practice of electronic markets.

Started in 1991, Electronic Markets - The International Journal was the first journal to report on developments and the latest trends related to the exciting and rapidly evolving research field of electronic markets and related issues and thus has been a pionier in field of scientific electronic commerce (e-commerce) research publication.

Beside the general research section Electronic Markets covers a focus theme section in each issue as well.

Electronic Markets - The International Journal is a multidisciplinary journal whose audience includes:

• Scientists / scholars from various disciplines with an interest in the relationships between advances in information and communication technology, new forms of value creation, and social change;
• Policy and decision-makers in government, industry and education;
• Managers concerned with the effects of the electronic commerce revolution, organizations and society.
  

Scope

Electronic Markets - The International Journal embraces a rich array of electronic markets issues. We address the relationship between advances in information and communication technology, new forms of value creation, and social change including societal and legal issues.

Background

Electronic Markets - The International Journal was established in 1991, long before the Internet became known outside the academic world and before the rise of modern electronic commerce and electronic business.

The journal emerged from the 'Competence Center Electronic Markets', CCEM, an industry funded research group founded 1989 by Prof. Beat Schmid at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland.

At that time the concept of ‘electronic markets’ (EM) was a vision developed by leading researchers from various different fields. From the very beginning, electronic market research and the respective publication followed a highly interdisciplinary approach. Whereas many journals focusing on EM-related subjects have their beginning and home in the domain of information systems (IS), Electronic Markets brought together researchers from various disciplines including IS and business but also economics, design, information science, psychology and sociology from the very beginning. In doing so, it contributed to the emergence of a new area of research.

It is our strong belief that only an interdisciplinary perspective can cover the whole range of possible impacts of electronic markets on economic systems and thus on societies. Therefore the main contribution of Electronic Markets to the respective field is not only to address innovative and upcoming topics at an early stage but to broaden the perspective on e-commerce and e-business as well. And because it is evident that electronic markets significantly transform the way value is being created, there will be an even greater need for Electronic Markets in the future.

Journal Sections

The journal publishes original articles, in the form of:

• theoretical research articles
• empirical research articles
• literature reviews
• case studies
• ... and others.

The journal in its printed version is approximately 100 pages long and is divided into two major parts:

Focus Theme Section

Presents 3 to 5 articles grouped around a common theme. The theme is anounced in our periodic calls for papers.

General Research Section

Presents papers on issues of on-going interest to our readers. These issues include, but are not limited to the following:

• Emergence of new forms of value creation like e-marketplaces, e-business, mobile business, 'u-commerce',
• Effects of e-commerce, e-business, m-business on
  • organizations,
  • industry structures,
  • products and services,
  • consumer behaviour,
  • societies, etc.
• Internet as an emerging infrastructure,
• Applications of new technologies to value creation,
• Economics of electronic markets, e-commerce, e-business, m-business,
• Legal issues,
• Reference models of electronic markets,
• Solutions: payment, logistics, security, trust, etc.
• Standardization issues,
• Management / organizational / business and economic management science,
• Business networking and interorganisational information systems.

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Article Format

We have the following guidelines for structure and format of articles to be published in Electronic Markets:

Article Length

The preferred article length for publications in Electronic Markets is around 5000 words. Article length should always be in the range of 3,500 to 6,500 words.

Article Structure

For suggestions and further reading on the recommended structure and style of an academic article, please visit our author's reference section.