Global Mobility Roundtable Conference in Los Angeles: Niche Evolution in the Mobile Business Ecosystem
The 6th Annual Global Mobility Roundtable Conference will be held in USC in the beginning of June. FinNode is sponsoring and participating in the conference, and wants to invite Finnish mobile business researchers to this event. FinNode prepares to provide additional activities around the conference that have value to Finnish participants. What these activities will be depends on the participants as well as other sponsors. The deadline for papers is March 5, 2007.
The general outline of the conference and paper submissions:
The adoption of mobile devices and services continues to present trends that confound prediction with surprise and paradox. The expectation of a "killer application" or a dominant player orchestrating the value chain is giving way to the idea that the next wave of mobile service innovations may blossom from multiple niches and small, flexible players.
We will explore the essential research questions, underlying dynamics and expected viability of m-business from a Southern California perspective.
Journal Routing:
The best papers from the conference are intended to be fast-tracked to either JAIS, CAIS, JSIS or IJEB after revision. Invitation to submit will not guarantee publication, but papers will be offered a faster review process and a careful developmental review.
The Call for Papers includes but isn't limited to the topics below:
- Business models for delivering data services: the mobile virtual network operator redefined
- Defining customer niches: demographics and lifestyle factors
- Understanding the drivers of innovation in enterprise use of mobile services and applications
- Enterprise niches: hospitals, universities, small business, etc.
- Social and cultural context as a means of defining users
- New paradigms and theories: learning from the developing world
- State of the stats: survey studies to identify factors underlying adoption
- Competing access technologies and new service availability
- Emerging m-business research niches and the development of this field of inquiry
Papers should not exceed 5,000 words in length.
For more information about the event organizers, please click here.
For detailed instructions on submitting papers, please click here.
LA Global Mobility Roundtable Important Dates:
March 5, 2007: Submission deadline (full paper)
March 15, 2007: Notification of acceptance decision
April 25, 2007: Deadline for final paper submission
April 25, 2007: Deadline for early registration
May 31, 2007: Pre-Conference Tour: site visits to Digital Hollywood, Conference Reception
June 1-2 2007: LA Global Mobility Roundtable Conference