Jeff Nickerson

Stevens Institute
of Technology

Arun Sundararajan

New York University
USA

Robin Teigland

Stockholm School
of Economics, Sweden

Description

Digital technologies are reshaping the way we organize economic activity, shifting us from activities conducted within traditional institutions towards new, fluid peer-to-peer marketplaces, sharing communities and other firm-market hybrids. Along the way, novel forms of crowd-based capitalism emerge, the lines between personal and professional blur, social cues subsume many of the roles of market forces, additive manufacturing replaces traditional mass manufacturing and what it means to have a job changes. We fund our projects through Kickstarter and RocketHub; staff our projects through Amazon’s Mechanical Turk, TaskRabbit and Upwork; build our products from open-source designs using micro-manufacturers like Local Motors and FirstBuild; and sell, exchange and share them through communities like Etsy, Yerdle and OurGoods. We find our accommodation using Airbnb and Couchsurfing while transporting ourselves using a range of alternatives from Uber and Lyft to SnappCar, Getaround, BlaBlaCar, La’Zooz and Didi Kuaidi. Meanwhile, cryptocurrencies, such as Bitcoin, and their underlying blockchain protocols, are increasingly becoming the focus of the financial sector across the globe and spawning the next generation of entirely decentralized peer-to-peer marketplaces and institutions.

This track welcomes research that expands our knowledge of how digital technologies are influencing the sharing of and access to resources through peer-to-peer networks and communities and the effect of these systems on value creation in the public and private sectors of society. We are equally interested in work that provides insight into the sharing of and access to tangible resources, such as financial capital, property and physical goods, as in work investigating the sharing and access to intangible resources, such as knowledge and social capital. We encourage studies that assess today’s newer crowd-based systems as well as those rooted in precursors like Apache, Linux, Wikipedia and Innocentive, tracing the influence of these models on individuals, firms, industries, governments and societies. As peer-to-peer networks reshape the structures, boundaries and business models of traditional firms, they simultaneously enable bottom-up, emergent forms of organizing that challenge many of our basic assumptions related to value creation and firm-market boundaries. Firms in established industries struggle to understand the implications of these disruptive forces as they experiment with models of open innovation and a range of partnership and investment strategies. As the blockchain promises new forms of government, meanwhile today’s government regulators, policy makers and labor organizations struggle with how to deal with consumer protection, taxation, employee rights, the social safety net, data privacy and intellectual property issues. The need for rigorous scholarship to guide business and society is clear.

Topics of Interests

We seek theoretical and empirical papers at all levels of analysis, and we welcome research from any disciplinary, philosophical, methodological and theoretical perspective or paradigm. A clear connection with information systems and the enabling role of digital technologies is encouraged. Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:

• Crowdfunding (philanthropic, reward-based, peer-to-peer lending, equity-based)
• Crowdsourcing, opensourcing and open innovation.
• Analysis of commons-based peer production systems
• Collective creativity through peer production
• The sharing economy, collaborative consumption and the collaborative economy
• The economics and sociology of peer-to-peer marketplaces and platforms
• Cryptocurrencies, the blockchain, and new economic/social mechanisms they enable
• Smart contracts, distributed collaborative organizations, blockchain government
• Digital labor markets and their effects on the workforce
• Reputation, review systems and trust in the sharing economy
• Sharing ideas but not profits: issues of IP and attribution in remix networks
• Pricing mechanisms in peer-to-peer marketplaces
• The strategic use of crowdfunding and crowdsourcing by firms and the public sector
• The influence of crowd-based and sharing models on innovation and entrepreneurship
• Geo-spatial and geopolitical issues related to crowd-based capitalism
• The influence of the sharing economy on localization and circular economies
• Policy challenges: consumer and labor protection, insurance and taxation, competitive and antitrust considerations
• Data privacy and data governance issues related to crowd-based models
• The implications and risks of algorithmic ranking and choice in crowd-based models

Associate Editors

• Ohad Barzilay, Tel Aviv U., Israel
• Tanya Y. Beaulieu, Utah State U., USA
• Mark Boons, Erasmus U. Rotterdam, Netherlands
• Sabine Brunswicker, Purdue U., USA
• Valentina Carbone, ESCP, France
• Jan Damsgaard, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
• Dominik Dellermann, University of Kassel
• Paul Di Gangi, UAB Collat School of Business, USA
• Anne-Laure Fayard, NYU Tandon School of Engineering, USA
• Joseph Feller, U. College, Cork, Ireland
• Pnina Fichman, Indiana U., Bloomington, USA
• Koen Frenken, Utrecht U., Netherlands
• Lauren Rhue Goggins, Wake Forest College, USA
• John Horton, NYU Stern School of Business, USA
• Mingfeng Lin, U. of Arizona, USA
• Winter Mason, Facebook
• Andres Monroy-Hernandez, Microsoft Research
• Tingting Nian, U. of California, Irvine, USA
• Christoph Riedl, Northeastern U., USA
• Daniel Schlagwein, The U. of New South Wales, Australia
• Susan Shaheen, U. of California, Berkeley, USA
• Megan Squire, Elon U., USA
• Hui Wang, Radford U., USA
• Molly Wasko, UAB Collat School of Business, USA
• Georgios Zervas, Boston U., USA

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Jannis Kallinikos

LSE
United Kingdom

Ann Majchrzak

U. of Southern
California

Kai Riemer

University of
Sydney

Description

With the unrelenting pace of digital innovation and the infiltration of digital technologies into every aspect of our society, our work, and our lives, we are faced with many new dilemmas, new questions, new uncertainties, that such innovations bring. As a result, the IS community is finding itself at several crossroads. We are now living in a world deeply infused with and shaped by digital technology, yet many of our core perspectives and theories derive from a time when computers were new and alien to the world. By the same token, previously distinct intellectual disciplines are converging and different directions forward are becoming available. Faced with new challenges of a world infused with digital technology, taking the paths forward will bring the discipline to new and unchartered territory. Tensions will occur along crossroads of academia and industry, different geographic regions, varying research traditions, open and proprietary modes of knowledge generation enterprise and consumer technologies, new realities and established theories, and the economic and social responsibilities. This track aims to provide a forum to raise these questions and debate the unfamiliar possibilities ahead as we collectively seek clarity at these crossroads of our digital innovation journey.

Digital Innovation should be distinguished from more traditional innovation associated with the delivery or organizational involvement of IT. We view digital innovation as having broader scope than IT innovation, being associated with pervasive, occasionally light-weight technologies whose diffusion across the social fabric cuts across the boundaries of established institutional domains and fields of social practice (examples are smartphones, Web 2.0 technologies, social media, wearable devices etc). As the conference theme track, digital innovation at a crossroads recounts the experience of the traditional Irish melting-post of the crossroads, where Irish people gathered to converse, reflect, empathize and celebrate, thereby bringing disparate groups together.

In this light, this track invites papers that exemplify a crossroad issue, that is, an issue which brings together disparate perspectives. These perspectives to be brought together should be from different academic disciplines, different research traditions, or conflicting assumptions or views about an issue. We seek to have scholarly papers taking on the big issues outlined above – not as reflections or critiques or meta-analyses or reviews or citation counts or lists of digital technologies. Moreover, if a paper prepared by a scholar can be placed in other tracks (such as Track 18 – Social Media and Digital Collaboration, and Track 19- Crowdsourcing, Crowdfunding and Sharing Economy), the paper should be sent there. Instead, we seek to challenge our colleagues to submit crossroads-type papers that transform the manner in which digital innovation is studied. Such crossroads papers should consider new ways of conceptualizing and then acting upon the digital innovation environment. As a crossroads paper, there should be seemingly disparate and diverging views brought together. The paper should be replete with research-oriented examples to justify its logical arguments. Such examples could come from previously published cases that have been reinterpreted, qualitative anecdotes derived from interviews, or quantitative data obtained as part of a big data scrape. The paper should make the case that it is transformative, either by offering (and testing if possible) propositions that have not been suggested previously, or offering innovative “melting pot” explanations of digitally-enabled events.

Topics of Interest

We have no particular bent on the specific issue or topic addressed by submissions, as long as a paper is associated with Digital Innovation at a Crossroads. We invite papers utilizing a diverse range of research approaches, and welcome controversial and well-argued papers that challenge established positions. In sum, we seek no less than new ways to transform our understanding of digital innovation.

Associate Editors

• Aleksi Aaltonen, Warwick Business School, Warwick University, UK
• Roman Beck, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark
• Ole Hanseth, University of Oslo, Norway
• Niall Hayes, Lancaster University, UK
• Jonny Holmström, Umea University, Sweden
• Giovan Francesco Lanzara, University of Bologna, Italy
• Attila Marton, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
• Jochen Runde, Cambridge University, UK
• Ping Wang, University of Maryland, USA
• Omar El Sawy, U. of Southern California, USA
• Kalle Lyytinen, CASE Western Reserve University, USA
• Jonathan Wareham, University of Barcelona, Spain
• Marcel Bogers, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
• Luca Giustiniano, Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali Guido Carli, Italy
• Gerhard Schwabe, University of Zurich, Switzerland
• Petri Hallikainen, University of Sydney, Australia
• Stefan Schellhammer, University of Muenster, Germany
• Stefan Klein, University of Muenster, Germany
• Matti Mäntymäki, University of Turku, Finland
• Mathias Klier, Ulm University, Germany
• Dongming Xu, University of Queensland, Australia
• Nelson Granados, Pepperdine U., USA

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