EM: Call for Position Papers (anytime)

Electronic Markets (EM) invites well-known scholars in various areas of electronic markets and business networking to write a position paper on a salient issue of their choice. 

Electronic Markets is a quarterly journal edited at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland, and the University of Leipzig, Germany, and published by Springer Verlag. First published in 1991, EM was the first journal to report on the developments and trends in electronic commerce as well as the policies, system concepts, methodologies, impacts, and cultural changes related to this rapidly evolving field. As such the journal embraces the entire range of electronic “market” issues - covering not just transactions but also the wider process of business collaboration as e. g. information, negotiation, trust, risk-taking, customer relationships, buyers finding sellers, sellers finding customers, electronic services.

We invite our colleagues to submit a proposal for a position paper. Such papers will be somewhat shorter in length (about 6500 words) than regular research paper submissions. Position papers should be well developed, thought-through and articulated to address emergment, controversial, even paradoxical issues. Ideally, such papers should develop rigorous evidence-based arguments, yet rely on scholarly thought and logic. Accordingly, position papers should offer novel and fresh perspectives, potentially open new areas of discourse, or possibly even resolve unsettled research questions and issues important to electronic markets and networked business. Authors (with a well established reputation from academia, industry or government) should have a profound knowledge of the area they write about.

A well-known example for a position paper is Carr, Nicholas G. (2003): IT Doesn’t Matter, in: Harvard Business Review, Vol. 81, No. 5, pp. 41-49.

A second very good example is the following: George, Joey F.; Valacich, Joseph S.; Valor, Josep (2005): Does Information Systems Still Matter? Lessons for a Maturing Discipline, in: Communications of the Association for Information Systems, Vol. 16, No. 1, pp. 219-232.

All proposals will be handled by our online submission system (see http://www.electronicmarkets.org/authors/submission). After a first screening submitted proposals authors will be invited to submit a final version of their paper. All papers received will be double-blind reviewed by at least two Associate Editors of EM and, if necessary, well-established peers with expertise on the paper’s topic. Submissions should conform to Electronic Markets’ publication standards (see http://www.electronicmarkets.org/authors). A final acceptance decision will be made by the Editor-in-Chief.

In case you would like to discuss any aspect of the call please send an e-mail to: editors@electronicmarkets.org.