Emerging Trends and Innovations in Electronic and Mobile Business: Navigating New Frontiers in E-commerce and Beyond

Dear Colleagues,

E- and M-Business are highly innovative fields that are exposed to constant development and change. The first International Workshop on Entrepreneurship, Electronic and Mobile Business (IWEMB) was launched in 2017 as an initiative for researchers to discuss the upcoming trends and current challenges within research and the resulting managerial implications from different perspectives. We welcome both conducted studies and work in progress. We are expecting 15–20 papers presented at the workshop. This year’s workshop will be on October 10–11, 2024, at Aston University’s College of Physical Science and Engineering in Birmingham, United Kingdom.

IWEMB is a joint initiative of the Center of Advanced E-Business Studies (CAEBUS) at the RheinMain University of Applied Sciences in Wiesbaden, Germany, and the International College of the National Institute of Development and Administration (ICO NIDA) in Bangkok, Thailand. We want to offer a platform for researchers in the fields of E- and M-Business to generate relevant new insights within an international exchange of ideas. Our mission is to bring together researchers from institutions worldwide to discuss current research on entrepreneurship in Electronic and Mobile Business in an intense workshop. Selected generated knowledge of the IWEMB workshop will be published in the Special Issue of the Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research (JTAER).

There will be a two-step process to select the papers for the JTAER. In the first step, authors can submit extended abstracts concerning paper ideas to the IWEMB 2024. All submissions will be peer reviewed by the IWEMB program committee. Accepted papers will be presented at the IWEMB 2024 workshop in Birmingham, UK. After the event, the organizational committee and the general chairs will invite the best papers for the JTAER Special Issue. The IMEMB 2024 conference fees will cover the publication costs for the Special Issue. For more details, visit the IWEMB conference website (www.iwemb.org).

As the title reflects, all submissions should clearly focus on electronic or mobile business. Submissions unrelated to electronic or mobile business will not be considered for review.

Topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Electronic and mobile business model innovation
  (including gamification, data analytics, AI, and machine learning);
• Customer and user behavior in E-/M-Business and the gaming industry;
• Entrepreneurship and leadership in E-/M-Business and the gaming industry;
• Commercialization of new concepts in electronic/mobile business and gaming;
• User-centered and lean startup methods in E-/M-Business and the gaming industry;
• Impact of E-/M-Business and gamification on market structures.

Submission Notice

The two-step process and all corresponding deadlines are described on the IWEMB 2024 website (www.iwemb.org). Authors interested in participating in the JTAER Special Issue must submit extended abstracts to the IWEMB 2024 workshop. Accepted submissions (peer reviewed) must be presented at the IWEMB 2024 workshop in Birmingham, UK. Selected papers from the IWEMB 2024 workshop will be invited to submit full papers to the JTAER free of charge. There is no option to submit papers directly to the JTAER issue.

Prof. Dr. Stephan Böhm
Dr. Sid Suntrayuth
Prof. Dr. Manolya Kavakli-Thorne
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research is an international peer-reviewed open access quarterly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 1000 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

• electronic and mobile business
• business innovation
• customer and user behavior
• gaming industry