CfP: Focus Theme Section on "Service-orientation in Electronic Markets"

Guest Editors:

• Rainer Alt, University of Leipzig, Germany
• Witold Abramowicz, University of Poznan, Poland
• Haluk Demirkan, Arizona State University, USA

Service-orientation has emerged as one of the silver bullets in management and computer science fields. It combines research on economic services, which in opposition to physical goods, are immaterial in nature. While theories from the organizational and marketing science usually capture the nature of these products, engineering disciplines focus on shaping and developing these information goods, and the information systems field focuses on integrating services perceived as encapsulated application functionalities with standardized interfaces. These research streams also converge in the new interdisciplinary area of service science, which integrates the principles, design, and management of economic and technical services. Service science is interested in new forms of value creation using services for organizations, industry structures, consumers, societies and so forth.

The purpose of this special issue is to analyze the linkage between service-orientation and electronic markets. Among the relevant questions are how service oriented solutions provide value to electronic markets, how electronic Markets improve the effectiveness of service industries such as education, healthcare, legal, logistics, and others. In fact, service orientation and electronic markets, are interdependent and closely linked. First of all, electronic markets are coordination services that provide platforms for the economic exchange of information on goods or services and value. Second, electronic markets are intra- and inter- organizational in nature, and service-oriented business processes, architectures and infrastructures are commonly regarded as enablers for the interoperability between organizations. Third, service-oriented concepts rely on intermediaries that support the bundling of basic services towards more comprehensive services and that operate key architecture elements, such as registries and/or repositories. Possible topics of theoretical, applied, field and empirical research include, but are not limited to:

• Services and service-oriented platforms for service orchestration and provisioning
• Services of electronic markets (e.g. payment, logistics, security, trust, etc.)
• Service science and electronic markets
• Service governance issues in electronic markets
• Service-orientation and value chain management
• Business assessment of service-orientation (cost, benefits, performance)
• Quality of services in electronic markets
• Configuration, personalization and evaluation of business services
• Management and customization of services
• Concepts for service operation in/for electronic markets
• Industrialization und standardization of services
• Services modeling and simulation in/for electronic markets
• Service pricing and revenue strategies
• Business models of electronic service markets
• Core mechanisms of B2B electronic markets of services
• Service directories and electronic markets

The topic of this special section is in an emerging research need, and there are many areas of interest that are related to the general topic.

All papers will be peer reviewed and should conform to Electronic Markets’ publication standards. Methodological and theoretical pluralism (empirical or theoretical work, qualitative research, design science, prototypes …) is welcomed by the journal.

Full papers are invited to be submitted by May, 30, 2010. All papers must be original, not published or under review elsewhere. If you would like to discuss any aspect of the focus theme section, please contact us.

Contact addresses:
editors@electronicmarkets.org
Rainer.Alt@uni-leipzig.de
Witold.Abramowicz@kie.ue.poznan.pl
Haluk.Demirkan@asu.edu

Papers must be submitted via the electronic submission system. Instructions are available at http://www.electronicmarkets.org/authors.

Important deadlines:

Deadline extension!

• Submission deadline: May, 30, 2010
• Feedback to authors: July, 8, 2010
• Notification of acceptance: September, 6, 2010