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.
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