Newcastle upon Tyne, UK - 13/14th of September, 2022
The I3E conference is the flagship of event of WG6.11. This conference has become a continued tradition that attracts quality research and presentations. The conference aims to bring together contributions from a variety of perspectives, disciplines and communities for the advancement of knowledge in the areas of e-business, e-services and e-society..
Newcastle University Business School is very excited to host the 21th IFIP Conference e-Business, e-Services, and e-Society I3E2022 conference.
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The COVID-19 pandemic is arguably one of the most defining crises our societies have experienced in the past 50 years, both in terms of the global reach, but also its impact on numerous levels. In a very short time SARS-CoV-2 has created havoc across continents, effectively halting social and economic activities. In such unprecedented times individuals and private and public organisations had to respond with unprecedented measures that had a similarly unprecedented impact. The coronavirus scars will be deeply felt for a long time.
In such a context information and communication technologies had a vital role to play. Social distancing meant that online applications became critical in ensuring the continuity of personal and business services. An online meme asking “who led the digital transformation of your company” having COVID-19 as the chosen answer perfectly captures the urgency with which existing digital services were extended and new ones were rolled out, often in haste. IT managers had to react quickly to a rapidly escalating crisis and come up with innovative solutions to ensure business continuity.
Although everyone is eager to return to “normal”, the post-pandemic 'business as usual' is likely to be different to that individuals and organisations were accustomed to before the pandemic. Understanding the changes that have taken place and their impact in the future is a pressing priority, if we are to thrive in such a turbulent environment. To this end, the IFIP2022 Conference would welcome submissions that aim to offer topical insights in areas of interest.
Such areas may include, but are not limited to those listed below. The suggested topics are not an exhaustive list and any other topic related to e-business, e-services and e-society are welcome. All methodological approaches (empirical, analytical, conceptual or mixed) that create new insights and make a tangible contribution to theory and practice will be well received.
Yogesh K. Dwivedi is a Professor of Digital Marketing and Innovation and Founding Director of the Emerging Markets Research Centre (EMaRC) at the School of Management, Swansea University, Wales, UK. In addition, he holds a Distinguished Research Professorship at the Symbiosis Institute of Business Management (SIBM), Pune, India. Professor Dwivedi is also currently leading the International Journal of Information Management as its Editor-in-Chief. His research interests are at the interface of Information Systems (IS) and Marketing, focusing on issues related to consumer adoption and diffusion of emerging digital innovations, digital government, and digital and social media marketing particularly in the context of emerging markets. Professor Dwivedi has published more than 500 articles in a range of leading academic journals and conferences that are widely cited (more than 41 thousand times as per Google Scholar). He has been named on the annual Highly Cited Researchers™ 2020 and 2021 lists from Clarivate Analytics. Professor Dwivedi is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Business Research, European Journal of Marketing, Government Information Quarterly and International Journal of Electronic Government Research, and Senior Editor of the Journal of Electronic Commerce Research.
Matthew Jones is a Reader in Information Systems at the Judge Business School at the University of Cambridge. His research focuses on the relationship between information systems and social and organisational change, especially in the healthcare sector. He has also published extensively on theoretical and methodological issues in information systems research. Matthew is currently a Senior Editor at the European Journal of Information Systems, Information and Organisation and the Journal of the Association for Information Systems and on the Editorial Board for Health Informatics Journal, Information Technology and People and Organization Studies and is the current Chair of IFIP WG8.2 (Information Systems and Organisations).
Eivor Oborn is current Professor of Healthcare Management in the area of Innovation and Organisational Change at Warwick Business School, UK. She earned her PhD at Cambridge Judge Business School, University of Cambridge in 2006, and is currently an honorary Fellow at Cambridge Judge Business School and Fellow at the Cambridge Digital Innovation Centre (CDI). Eivor is also a Visiting Professor at Stockholm School of Economics (SSE) in Sweden. Eivor is Senior Editor at MISQ and has published work in leading journals, including Academy of Management Journal, Organization Science, Information Systems Research and MISQ. Her research interests span the fields of healthcare, online communities, digital innovation & ICTs, as well as entrepreneurship in ecosystem contexts. She is particularly interested in research that seeks to address social and organisational problems, linked with the use of digital technologies. She has employed a wide variety of theoretical perspectives which include practice theory, adoption and diffusion of IT innovation, theories of time and theories of knowledge in her work. She teaches in the area of Change Management, Strategic Health Leadership and Corporate Entrepreneurship.
Paul Watson FREng is Director of the UK's National Innovation Centre for Data, and Professor of Computer Science at Newcastle University. He is also a Fellow of the Alan Turing Institute. After working in industry designing designing parallel database servers he moved to Newcastle University where his research and teaching has focussed on scalable data engineering. Professor Watson is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the British Computer Society, and a Chartered Engineer. He received the 2014 Microsoft Jim Gray eScience Award.
IoT North, an IoT community, Paul Wealls will share his story of building a successful community of IoT developers, makers, hackers, business owners and people just interested in the what, why and how of the Internet of Things. The community evolved from a product validation process Paul was carrying out for a TaTa communications invested start up, discovering a great amount of enthusiasm and intelligence in IoT but with no home. With 35 members at the first event IoT North is now home to over 5600+ members across the globe, but mostly UK based.
You can access previous I3E proceedings by visiting the Springer website.
For more information please visit Working Group 6.11: Communication Aspects of the E-World I3E Conference.