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Statement Editor-in-Chief

Welcome to Electronic Markets - The International Journal on Networked Business!

The digital transformation has profoundly changed the way organizations and individuals interact. Information technology is a main driver in this development and almost omnipresent today. Many technololgies - from mobile devices, blockchain infrastructures, big data, artificial intelligence, digital platforms and services - have grown in maturity and unveal unparalled impact when converging in innovative application scenarios.

As a scholarly journal, Electronic Markets EM) covers this exciting field of digital business. EM is proud that it has a long legacy in this area. Started in 1991, it was one of the first journals covering topics of IT-enabled networked business in general and electronic market platforms in particular. Among the examples are the analysis and design of (electronic) market platforms and mechanisms, business models, value chains and networks from many perspectives.

Although EM emerged from Germany-speaking countries, it is an international journal with editorial capacity in the Americas, Asia, Australia, and Europe. Co-editors, senior editors, associate editors, and editorial board members are renowned colleagues who strive for high quality regarding scientific rigor and relevance for practice. In 2010 Electronic Markets was accepted for the Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) and now ranks with an impact factor of 7.1 (2023).

EM encourages all researchers to submit their best work, which should be rigorous (e.g., methods and generalization) and relevant (e.g., novelty and impact). It will be double-blindly reviewed and each submission will be supervised by one of our co-editors, senior or associate editors or, in case of a submission to a special issue, a guest editor. EM's review process is based on an online submission system and we aim to provide timely feedback. We hope you consider EM for your work and are open for any suggestions.

Rainer Alt for the entire editorial team

Leipzig, August 2024

History

Electronic Markets (EM) was established in 1991, long before the Internet became known outside the academic world and before the rise of modern electronic commerce and electronic business. The journal emerged from the 'Competence Center Electronic Markets' (CCEM) an industry-funded research group founded in 1989 by Prof. Beat Schmid at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. Since 2006, the journal is hosted at Leipzig University and has evolved towards a leading international academic journal.

In the beginning, the concept of electronic markets was a vision developed by leading researchers from various different fields. From the very beginning, electronic market research followed an interdisciplinary approach. Whereas many journals focusing on EM-related subjects have their beginning and home in the domain of information systems (IS), EM brought together researchers from various disciplines including IS and business but also economics, design, information science, psychology, and sociology from the very beginning. In doing so, it contributed to the emergence of a new area of research.

It is our strong belief that only an interdisciplinary perspective can cover the whole range of possible impacts of electronic markets and digital platforms on economic systems as well as societies. Therefore, the main contribution of EM to the respective fields is not only to address innovative and upcoming topics at an early stage but to broaden the perspective on e-commerce and e-business as well. And because it is evident that electronic markets significantly transform the way value is being created, there will be an even greater need for EM in the future. EM is a multidisciplinary journal whose audience includes:

  • Scientists and scholars from various disciplines related to digital platforms, ecosystems and transformation
  • Practitioners concerned with the digital transformation in business such as new (digital) business models or the business impact of new technologies
  • Policy and decision-makers in government, industry, and education

For overview of the history of EM see the Editorial 25/1: 25 years of Electronic Markets.

Editorial Board

The editor-in-chief together with three co-editors oversee the journal. They are supported by an international team of senior and associate editors as well as editorial board members, who represent leading scholars in the field of electronic/digital business. EM's editorial office is hosted at the Information Systems Institute at Leipzig University, Germany.

Rainer Alt

Leipzig University, Germany

Mathias Klier
Ulm University, Germany

Maria Madlberger
Webster Vienna Private University, Austria

Hans-Dieter Zimmermann
Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland

Ramona Coia
Leipzig University, Germany

Ulrike Baumöl
University of St. Gallen, Switzerland

Steven Bellman
University of South Australia, Australia

Markus Bick
ESCP Business School Berlin, Germany

Anastasia Constantelou
University of the Aegean, Greece

Ioanna Constantiou
Copenhagen Business School, Denmark

Mark de Reuver
Delft University of Technology, Netherlands

Judith Gebauer
University of North Carolina Wilmington, USA

Christopher P. Holland
Loughborough University, UK

Ulrike Lechner
Universität der Bundeswehr München, Germany

Christian Matt
University of Bern, Switzerland

Andreja Pucihar
University of Maribor, Slovenia

Marianna Sigala
University of Newcastle, Australia

Martin Smits
Tilburg University, Netherlands

Reima Suomi
University of Turku, Finland

Nils Urbach
Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences, Germany

Doug Vogel
Harbin Institute of Technology, China

Adam Vrechopoulos
Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece

Yun Wan
University of Houston-Victoria, USA

Babak Abedin
Macquarie University, Australia

Martin Adam
University of Göttingen, Germany

Shahriar Akter
University of Wollongong, Australia

Jörn Altmann
Seoul National University, South Korea

Baidyanath Biswas
Trinity Business School, Ireland

Francisco Javier Blanco-Encomienda
University of Granada, Spain

Roger Bons
FOM University of Applied Sciences, Germany

Ricardo Büttner
Helmut-Schmidt-University, Germany

Katharina Ebner
FernUniversität Hagen, Germany

Shengnan Han
Stockholm University, Sweden

Andreas Hein
University of St. Gallen, Switzerland

Thomas Hess
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, Germany

Val Hooper
Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

Jianwei Hou
Minnesota State University Mankato, USA

Efosa C. Idemudia
Howard University, USA 

Christian Janiesch
TU Dortmund University, Germany

Marijn Janssen
Delft University of Technology, Netherlands

Christine Legner
University of Lausanne, Switzerland

Christiane Lehrer
Copenhagen Business School, Denmark

Uwe Leimstoll
FHNW School of Business, Switzerland

Juho Lindman
University of Gothenburg, Sweden

Fábio Lobato
Federal University of Western Pará, Brazil

Wolfgang Maaß
Saarland University and German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Germany

Shahrokh Nikou
Delft University of Technology, Netherlands

Nadine Kathrin Ostern
Queensland University of Technology, Australia

Mijalche Santa
SS. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje, Macedonia

Maximilian Schreieck
University of Innsbruck, Austria

Luba Torlina
Monash University, Australia

Samuel F. Wamba
Toulouse Business School, France

Antragama Ewa Abbas
University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg

Nizar Abdelkafi
Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Mazen Ali
University of Bahrain, Kingdom of Bahrain

Alexander Benlian
Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany

Benedikt Berger
Münster University, Germany

Carla Bonato Marcolin
Federal University of Uberlandia, Brasil

Moritz Bruckner
University of Augsburg, Germany

Regis Cabral
FEPRO, Funding for European Projects, Sweden

Christer Carlsson
Åbo Akademi University, Finland

Sohail Chaudhry
Villanova University, USA

Christy M.K. Cheung
Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong

Farhad Daneshgar
Bangkok University, Thailand

Yi Ding
Georgia Gwinnett College, USA

Xuebing Dong
Shangai University, China

Nestor Duch-Brown
European Commission, Spain

Jerry L. Fjermestad
NJIT New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA

Henner Gimpel
University of Hohenheim, Germany

Peter Gomber
Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany

Jaap Gordijn
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands

Ulrike Gretzel
University of Southern California, USA

Tobias Guggenberger
FIM Research Institute for Information Management, Germany

Tobias M. Guggenberger
Fraunhofer Institute for Software and Systems Engineering, Germany

Juho Hamari
Tampere University, Finland

Oliver Hinz
Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany

Tianhang Huang
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Stanislav Ivanov
Varna University of Management, Bulgaria

Kathrin Kirchner
Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Denmark

Chulmo Koo
Kyung Hee University, South Korea

Helmut Krcmar
Technical University of Munich, Germany

Barbara Krumay
Johannes Kepler University Linz (JKU), Austria

Ho Geun Lee
Yonsei University, South Korea

Jan Marco Leimeister
University of St. Gallen, Switzerland

Susanne Leist
Regensburg University, Germany

Hongxiu Li
Tampere University, Finland

Weng Marc Lim
Sunway University Business School, Malaysia

Zhiyong Liu
Dalian University of Technology, China

Jian Mou
Pusan National University, South Korea

Matthias Murawski
FOM University of Applied Sciences, Germany

Shintaro Okazaki
King's College London, UK

Günter Prockl
Copenhagen Business School, Denmark

Bharat Rao
New York University, USA

Olaf Reinhold
Leipzig University, Germany

Maximilian Röglinger 
Research Center Finance & Information Management (FIM), Germany

Hannes Rothe
University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany

J. Manuel Sánchez-Cartas
Universidad Computense de Madrid, Spain

Detlef Schoder
University of Cologne, Germany

Johannes Sedlmeir
University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg

Kim B. Serota
Oakland University, USA

Pedro Soto-Acosta
University of Murcia, Spain

Katarina Stanoevska-Slabeva
University of St. Gallen, Switzerland

Ali Sunyaev
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany

Cyrine Tangour
Fraunhofer IMW, Germany

Frédéric Thiesse
Julius-Maximilians-University Würzburg, Germany

Simon Trang
University of Göttingen, Germany

Manuel Trenz
University of Goettingen, Germany

Virpi Kristiina Tuunainen
Aalto University, Finland

Frank Ulbrich
Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Switzerland

Heinz-Theo Wagner
Neu-Ulm University of Applied Sciences, Germany

Bruce W. Weber
University of Delaware, USA

Christof Weinhardt
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany

Manuel Wiesche
TU Dortmund University, Germany

James R. Wolf
Illinois State University, USA

Lin Xiao 
Nanjing University of Aeronautics & Astronautics, China

Yanwu Yang
Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
 

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