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12th Americas Conference on Information Systems

August 4-6, 2006, Acapulco, México

[edit] Abstract

Virtual Community is a well differentiated and well established business model. Examples for Virtual Communities range from Communities of Interest, Communities of Relationship, Gaming Communities, and Communities of Transaction to Peer-to-Peer Communities or Mobile Communities. Within the field of information systems sciences we are looking at interaction patterns, transaction processes, management aspects, business models, and design aspects of information systems and services for Virtual Communities. Community members interact via digital media and contribute value in the form of content, reviews, and recommendations. Related issues are trust, network effects, transaction costs and the design of services. Well-organized communities even expand their power across various channels and into the off-line world.

[edit] Possible Topics

We call for papers on social as well as business communities. Possible topics include (but are not limited to):

• Social, political and economic impact of Virtual Communities
• Community models, platforms, services, and interactions, multi-channel communities
• Management and organizational behavior of communities
• Community-related business models
• Transaction-oriented Virtual Communities, Customer collaboration
• Peer-to-Peer or mobile services for Virtual Communities
• Case studies and empirical studies, best practices and lessons learned

[edit] AMCIS 2006 Papers

• Virtual Competence: A New Perspective on Individual Knowledge, Skills and Abilities in Virtual Organization (Yinglei Wang, Richard Ivey School of Business, The University of Western Ontario, Nicole Haggerty, Richard Ivey School of Business, The University of Western Ontario)

• Employee Knowledge Sharing in Highly Dispersed Organizations (Yulin Fang, The University of Western Ontario, City University of Hong Kong, Derrick J Neufeld, The University of Western Ontario, City University of Hong Kong)

• Success Factors of Communities for User Driven Content: the Case of Ciao.com (Ralph Stöckl, University of Munich, Institute of Information Systems and New Media, Alexander Kosyak, University of Munich, Institute of Information Systems and New Media, Benedikt von Walter, University of Munich, Institute of Information Systems and New Media, Thomas Hess, University of Munich, Institute of Information Systems and New Media)

• Investigation of the Effects of Members´ Closeness, Size and IT in Virtual Communities: The Social Network Perspective (Yap, Lee-Xian, National University of Singapore, Bock, Gee-Woo Gilbert National University of Singapore)

• Supporting Social Interaction in Virtual Communities: Role of Social Presence (Kathy Ning Shen, City University of Hong Kong, Mohamed Khalifa, City University of Hong Kong)

• The role of virtual communities for the social network of cancer patients (Karin Janina Schweizer, Microsoft Deutschland GmbH, Jan Marco Leimeister, Technische Universität München)

• Antecedents of Virtual Community members´ participation: the Triandis Interpersonal behavior Perspective (Honglei Li, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Vincent, S. Lai, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

• IT Governance in Virtual Communities: An exploration of the issues in the Caribbean context (Arlene Bailey, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica, Gerald G. Grant, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada)

• Blessing or Curse? A Taxonomy for Virtual Product Communities (Antje Sester, Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, Boris Eder, Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration)

• Empirical study on Communities of Practice and E-commerce: influence of community of practice on pricing on eBay (Halbana Tarmizi, University of Nebraska at Omaha, Lotfollah Najjar, University of Nebraska at Omaha)

• A Model for the Antecedents of Member Loyalty: The Case of USENET Newsgroup (Kyung Woo Kang, College of Business Administration, University of Rhode Island, Seung Kyoon Shin, College of Business Administration, University of Rhode Island)