E-commerce continues to grow at rapid speed with new developments of Internet, networking technologies and web applications. Today Internet technologies have led to new market dynamics and the "power of information" is held in the grasp of many. Along with traditional information sources including sellers, professional reviews/evaluations/recommendations, we now have individual user-generated and controlled content. For instance, in the “blogosphere” world, influential bloggers can create and disseminate content that can enhance or weaken the market demand for a new product. The Web 2.0 movement is gaining significant foothold, new computing models such as utility computing, software as a service (SaaS) and Grid computing are emerging and fundamental shifts occurring in traditional media from sites such as YouTube, Digg and MySpace. In addition, emerging markets in India and China are adding up to 6M new mobile subscribers a month and other parts of Asia such as Japan and Korea are innovating interesting 3G applications such as mobile social networking. These concurrent phenomena add to a variety of interesting IS, Marketing and Statistical analysis related questions.

This symposium focuses on identifying problems and research questions related to empirical research in electronic commerce by bringing together researchers from Information Systems, Statistics, Marketing and related fields. The aim is to help better understand how various lines of work connect to one another and how, together, they can contribute to the modernization and enhancement of empirical research methods for electronic commerce and our digital society at large. The symposium welcomes work that addresses research challenges in the capture, extraction and validation of massive amounts of data from the web, management of unstructured data, and the analysis of data for interdisciplinary research.


For additional information about SCECR 07 contact one of the following co-chairs:

Ravi Bapna, Indian School of Business, ravi_bapna@isb.edu
Dipak Dey, University of Connecticut, dipak.dey@uconn.edu
Paulo Goes, University of Connecticut, paulo.goes@business.uconn.edu
PK Kannan, University of Maryland, pkannan@rhsmith.umd.edu