Background: The Wuhan International Conference on E-Business (WHICEB) is an AIS affiliated conference which has been held successfully since the year of 2000, serving as an annual academic conference for improvement and development of global e-business study, academic exchange, and cooperation. In the coming year of 2021, we will be holding the 20th conference with the topic of 'AI (Artificial Intelligence)-enabled Business Innovation'.
With the transition from internet times to AI times, technological improvement and business model innovation have reciprocal influence. Technological improvement can promote business innovation, and vice versa. The application of 5G technology has brought about new business prospects in the field of big data and AI applications. Digitalization and AI technology have inspired a new round of business innovation in manufacturing, business, education and personal life. New technology, business, and rules will redefine the scenario of 'internet plus', reconfigure the business model from the bottom up. Welcome to the AI-enabled era! Facing the opportunities brought by AI, many enterprises have taken the initiatives in product and business innovation in organization and management change. Meanwhile, guidance and support from the academic field are also needed.
English will be the formal language at the conference. World-class scholars in e-business field will be invited to give keynote speeches, workshops on different topics will be organized together with academic institutions located within China or abroad., Doctor consortium will be held at the conference, active youth scholars will be invited to give an individual speech at different sessions, not to mention other enriching activities. All accepted papers will be presented in the respective session. In view of the Covid-19 outbreak, WHICEB2021 will consider organizing academic exchange activities both online and offline.
Paper Submission: We accept two types of submissions (full research papers and short research papers) from different aspects of business and from different disciplines. Research methods as a case study, modeling, empirical study, on-spot, questionnaire, or experimental study are all welcomed. Conference proceedings will be listed in the Conference Proceedings Citation Index- Science/Social Science & Humanities (CPCI-S or CPCI-SSH, the former Index to Scientific & Technical Proceedings®, ISTP). The proceedings will also be available at AIS eLibrary (http://ais.site-ym.com/?AISeLibrary). Papers accepted at the 20th conference will summitted to ISI to apply for CPCI-S or CPCI-SSH index.
International Journal Recommendation: Selected best papers from the proceeding will be recommended to the following international academic journals/special issues: Electronic Commerce Research and Applications (SSCI), Electronic Markets-The International Journal on Networked Business (SSCI), Electronic Commerce Research (SSCI), Internet Research (SSCI), Journal of Database Management (SCIE), Journal of Organizational and End User Computing (SCI & SSCI), International Journal of Networking and Virtual Organizations (EI & Scopus), Journal of Systems and Information Technology (EI & Scopus).
Important Dates
Submission deadline for full manuscript: January 31st, 2021
Acceptance announcement and Registration: March 15th, 2021
Deadline for final camera-ready paper: March 31st, 2021
Conference date: May 28th - 30th, 2021
【Track Call for Paper】
【13】Trust in Digital Economy
Track Description
In recent years, there has been a substantial increase in internet penetration and people's digital presence. As the internet is becoming increasingly accessible, the online-driven lifestyle, such as social computing, e-commerce is having a far-reaching effect on mass consumer behaviour, resulting in a digital consumption surge.
In whatever cultural background and market environment and to whatever stage digital economy develops, building, maintaining and enhancing online trust is always a primary issue for the digital economy's development. The trust-building mechanism of the digital economy is helpful for one party in the relationship to confirm that the other party will not do harm to the first by virtue of its information advantage, thereby effectively facilitating the smooth social interaction. As a result, analysis of major factors that shape trust in the digital economy/e-commerce environment and study of the online trust-building mechanism becomes an important task in the development process of the digital economy.
In this track, aiming at exploring specific factors influencing the consumers' trust in digital economy/e-commerce environment and their influence mechanism, to address the post-COVID19 new normal supporting remote working, international collaboration, and build a resilient future. Furthermore, we attempt to answer the two following questions:
Which factors constitute online users' trust in the digital economy?
How do these factors currently influence online users' behaviours?
Topics
What we are interested in is to examine how and why people are motivated to trust in the online environment, as well as the impacts of residing in the digital economy on human beliefs, attitudes, and behaviours, from both positive and negative perspectives. We look for submission that cover but are not limited to:
- Trust in social computing
- Trust in social networking service
- Trust in unfamiliar enterprises
- Trust and trust management in O2O/B2C/P2P environment
- Trust in e-commerce/e-business/social shopping environment
- Sentiment analysis in social media for trust issues
- Social innovation and the trust relationship
- Impact and influence of fake news in social media
- Trust of fintech on social media platforms
Track Co-Chairs
Dr Cong Cao Zhejiang University of Technology, China
Dr Jun Yan University of Wollongong, Australia
Dr Mengxiang Li Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong SAR
Contact Us
Dr Cong Cao Zhejiang University of Technology, China
Email: congcao@zjut.edu.cn
Website: http://whiceb.cug.edu.cn/
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Cong Cao
Associate Professor
Zhejiang University of Technology
China
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