WHICEB 2012 - The Eleventh Wuhan International Conference on E-Business

The annual Wuhan International Conference on E-Business (WHICEB) promotes intellectual research and facilitates academic and corporate networking in e-business and relevant fields. The conference aims at presenting innovative initiatives, solutions and approaches to making the Internet a productive and efficient alternative for the new eWorld. As emerging digital environments generate new ways of communication and interaction between individuals, organizations and societies we need to examine the structures, processes and operations to ensure our migration to a more reliable eWorld. We also have to identify entrepreneurial opportunity of e-business and to help enterprises for the challenges ranging from technological to behavioral issues, from marketing to privacy issues, from effectiveness to security issues. Moreover, it is essential that managers, employees and citizens take actions at both the macro and the micro levels; our discourse focuses on designing suitable organizational configurations, effective and efficient processes, new kinds of products and services, and necessary infrastructures and technologies. In this global world, we need to leverage technologies and manage processes of services and products for the e-business.
Wuhan International Conference on E-Business holds annually in May, and is widely recognized in the region and beyond as an excellent and fascinating academic conference. We have successfully held ten WHICEB conferences in the past since 2000. We welcome paper submissions from different aspects of business and from different disciplines. Conference proceedings will be listed in the Index to Scientific & Technical Proceedings®(ISTP) or in the Index to Social Sciences and Humanities Proceedings®(ISSHP). The proceedings will also be available at AIS eLibrary, and will be submitted to EI (Engineering index). Selected best papers from the proceeding will be recommended to the following international academic journals/special issues: Electronic Markets-The International Journal on Networked business, International Journal of Information Technology and Management, International Journal of Services Technology and Management ,International Journal of Mobile Learning and Organization, International Journal of Revenue Management , Chinese Journal of Management, International Journal of Networking and Virtual Organizations, International Journal of Business Process Integration and Management ,International Journal of Biomedical Engineering and Technology, Electronic Government: An International Journal, Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research, China Journal of Information Systems, etc.
There are six major tracks in this conference.Topics listed below are suggested but not limited to.
E-Business and Developments Topics including E- Commerce issues and developments, E-Business strategy and risks ,E-Business impacts across organizations ,E -Business value chain management, E -Business applications in service industries, Enablers and inhibitors of e-commerce in SMEs, Web-based marketing and mobile marketing, Privacy, security, and trust of e-commerce and mobile business , E-Health, Collaboration and innovation in online social networks, Collaboration and innovation in e-Government ,Web-based education and training, E-Business policies & regulations
IT/IS for E-Business Topics including Workflow and business process tools and management for e-business, Services computing in e-business, Cloud computing ,Components, services and solutions for e-business ,Collaboration information systems and technology, ERP applications and business process innovation ,Adoption and diffusion of green IT/IS, Web-based Information Systems and Applications, Security and privacy methods and solutions for enabling e-business
Knowledge Management and Business Intelligence Topics including Knowledge management processes and structures, Knowledge management in virtual teams and distributed contexts, Design,development and use of knowledge management systems, Capturing and sharing knowledge in social networks, Data, text, and Web mining for business intelligence,Real-time decision making based on business intelligence, Leveraging business intelligence systems for knowledge creation, Business intelligence systems and collaborative business
Human Behavior in IS Applications Topics including Human and social factors in e-business and IS adoption and deployment, Cultural factors for adoption and use of IT/IS, The impact of IS on human behavior in organizations, The impact of social networking web sites on human behavior in communications, IS impact people's willingness or ability to switch to a new system, The social and behavioral impacts of emerging technology ,Organizational and human factors and the success of virtual teams, Human behavior change with the proliferation of online social networking
Innovation Management and IT applications Topics including ICT-enabled process innovation and analytics within and between organizations, IT outsourcing-enabled business transformation and new inter-organizational forms, IT project management methodologies, Entrepreneurship in technology innovation strategy, Strategic management,SME's development strategy, Human resource management, Innovation and management of production systems, IT applications in accounting and finance management, Emerging market risk management, Development of capital markets in emerging economies, Cost control methods and international economics management Operations & Services Management Topics including Green supply chain management, Distribution logistics service management, Customer relationship management in operations & service, Inter-organization cooperation and management, Service requirements analysis, modeling and design, Integration of IT services architecture and management with customer services, Methodologies and techniques for automated service composition and delivery, Business value of service and value co-creation, Quality control and management in operations &service, Service economics, risk, supply chain and life cycle.
Important Dates
Submission deadline for full manuscript:January 20, 2012
Acceptance announcement:February 28, 2012
Deadline for final camera-ready paper:March 15, 2012
Registration:March 15, 2012
Conference date:May 26-27, 2012