The Workshop on e-Business (WeB) is a premier annual one-day conference on e-Business and e- Commerce held in conjunction with International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS). The purpose of WeB is to provide an open forum for e-Business researchers and practitioners world-wide, to share topical research findings, explore novel ideas, discuss success stories and lessons learned, map out major challenges, and collectively chart future directions for e-Business.
The 18th Workshop on e-Business (WeB) is to be held in Munich, Germany on December 14th, 2019. The theme of WeB 2019 is “Smart Business: Technology and Data Enabled Innovative Business Models and Practices." Today’s business is becoming smarter and more connected thanks to the rapid advancement of information technologies and data science. Artificial intelligence and machine learning, cloud computing, IoT, blockchain, and many other technologies are being used in various business functions (e.g., customer relationship management, marketing and promotion, supply chain management, and resource planning) and decision making. By analyzing big data from diverse sources and platforms, organizations and companies are increasingly capable of understanding their customers, competitors, and markets at a finer level of granularity and in a larger scale. Increased intelligence has spawned new, innovative business models and strategies, which are transforming, reshaping, and even redefining the environment, boundary, conditions, operations, and transactions of e-business.