ICEC 2021

22nd International Conference on Electronic Commerce

Chengdu, China, June 29th - July 1, 2021

The conference is online and free: please check or download our schedule.

Welcome to ICEC 2021 at Chengdu!

The 22nd International Conference on Electronic Commerce (ICEC 2021) will be held in Chengdu, China on June 29th - July 1, 2021. ICEC 2021 aims at providing researchers and practitioners in electronic commerce and related areas with an opportunity to present original ideas and share insightful opinions. The theme of ICEC 2021 is “E-Commerce in AI era.”

We have many presentations of high quality original research papers addressing issues concerning the theory, design, development, evaluation, and application of electronic commerce and related fields. We also have presentations of research-in-progress contributions that are innovative and inspirational.

The selected papers will be invited to special issue of the journals such as Electronic Commerce Research (SSCI) and Electronic Commerce Research and Application (SSCI).

Technical Sessions

The paper presentations will be organized into following technical sessions (tentative):

Important Dates

Deadline for paper submission: March 31, 2021 Notification of acceptance: May 15, 2021 Deadline for final camera-ready version of accepted papers: May 30, 2021 Conference: June 29th - July 1, 2021

Registration & Submission


Registration is Free of Charge!





We welcome submissions of original research papers addressing issues concerning the theory, design, development, evaluation, and application of electronic commerce and related fields. We also encourage submissions of research-in-progress contributions that are innovative and inspirational. Research articles particularly sought after are those motivated by real-world business problems and validated using rigorous research methodologies.

1. The submitted papers must be original work. A paper with substantial overlap with the submission must neither be already published, nor be currently under review for publication in any other venue.
2. All submissions will be handled electronically at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icec2021
3. All submissions must be in English (Except Chinese paper track). Each paper is limited to 8 pages including figures and references. Please follow the Manuscript Templates for Conference .
4. Both full papers and abstracts are welcome.
5. Registration will open soon and it will be free!.

Conference Committee

Advisery Committee
  • Jae Kyu Lee, Xi‘an Jiaotong University, China and Founder of ICEC Center and Conference
  • Kyoung Jun Lee, Kyung Hee University,Korea
  • Christopher Westland, Editor-in-Chief of ECR
  • Christopher Yang, Editor-in-Chief of ECRA
  • Zhangxi Lin, Texas Tech University, USA
  • Qi Li, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China
  • Qiang Ye, Harbin Institute of Technology, China
Conference Co-Chairs
  • Qing Li, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, China
  • Gyoo Gun Lim, Korea Society of IT Services;Director, ICEC Center
  • Lifang Peng, Xiamen University, China
Program Co-Chairs
  • Yun Xu, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, China
  • Sang Kon Lee, Korea Tech (Korea University of Technology and Education), Korea
Organizing Co-Chairs
  • Yu Wang, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, China
  • Xin Luo, The University of New Mexico，USA
  • Chuan Luo, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, China
  • Kai Li, Nankai University, China
  • Kyung Jin Cha, Hanyang University, Korea
  • Jung Woo Lee, Yonsei University, Korea
Special Issues Editors
  • Sung-Byung Yang (Coordinating Chair), Kyunghee University, Korea
  • Taeho Hong, Pusan National University, Korea
  • Jian Mou, Pusan National University, South Korea
  • Dan J. Kim, University of North Texas, USA
  • Xusen Cheng, Renmin University of China
Local Organizing Co-Chairs
  • Xuehai Yang, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, China
Conference Secretariat
  • Wenjin Zhao, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, China
  • Email: zhaowenjin@swufe.edu.cn

Conference Schedule

Day 1

Keynote Speech: Trade Informativeness and Liquidity in Bitcoin Markets (Prof. Chris Westland)

 

Jun 29, Beijing Time 9:00-10:00

 

Zoom Meeting ID: 883 9076 9842 Password: 0629

Zoom linkage:

https://dooyle.zoom.us/j/88390769842?pwd=RDRNNlZRdlc4U0ttc2J5MFhtc2ZnZz09

Financial Technology

Moderator: Prof. Jun Wang

 

Jun 29, Beijing Time 10:20-11:40

 

Zoom Meeting ID: 835 3978 2178 Password: 0629

Zoom linkage: https://dooyle.zoom.us/j/83539782178?pwd=NXBhVytMTitiRGhBV2llSjJSU3ozUT09

 

1.      Influencing Factors of College Students’ Intention to Use Consumer Financial Tools: Evidence from "Ant Credit Pay"

By Chengjing Huang , Renping Yang, Yuning Jin and Boyu Wen

2.      Firm Differentiation and Financial Performance: A Social Media Perspective

By Ling Liu, Jixin Ye and Aoxuan Liu

 

 

Digital Transformation of Services - Shaping the Future of Service Work, Session 1

Jun 29, Beijing Time 14:00-15:20

Moderator: Prof. Jungwoo Lee

 

Zoom Meeting ID: 824 2964 0650 Password: 0629

Zoom linkage:

https://dooyle.zoom.us/j/82429640650?pwd=NjM3Y00wTWFrTEcyUEgwVzdzd3N6UT09

 

1.      Fan-made K-Pop Goods Transactions Trend Visualization Analysis in Twitter

By Dajeong Yun, Yeonji Jang, Hyerin Lee and Juyoung Kang

2.      Intention of word-of-mouth in terms of planned vs. impulse buying in social media influencer marketing

By Hisashi Masuda, Spring Han and Jungwoo Lee

3.      Exploring ESM Incentive Factors for Employees from the Perspective of Adaptive Structuration

By Xukun Qing et al.

4.      Forecasting Real Estate Market by Deep Learning Through Clustering

By Eun Kyung Shin and Taeho Hong

Digital Transformation of Services - Shaping the Future of Service Work, Session 2

Jun 29, Beijing Time 15:30-17:00

Moderator: Prof. Jungwoo Lee

 

Zoom Meeting ID: 824 2964 0650 Password: 0629

Zoom linkage:

https://dooyle.zoom.us/j/82429640650?pwd=NjM3Y00wTWFrTEcyUEgwVzdzd3N6UT09

 

1.      The Influence of Traditional Retail Enterprise Channel Synergy on Enterprise Performance

By Juying Wang and Jia Xu

2.      A Study on the Social CRM adoption in SMEs impacted by COVID-19: Based on the TOE Framework

By Song-Yi Yun

3.      Research on Promotion Mode of Dual-channel Supply Chain

By Junlin Chen, Wei Gao, Haiqi Jiang and Juzhu Li

 

Cross-border E-commerce and Risk Management

Moderator: Prof. Shan Liu

Jun 29, Beijing Time 10:20-11:40

 

 

Zoom Meeting ID: 893 1747 4153 Password: 0629

Zoom linkage:

https://dooyle.zoom.us/j/89317474153?pwd=QW01aDBsbmVWN05RK2xVdkNTQ1lFUT09

 

1.      Affordances, Transaction Utilities, Perceived Risks, and Consumer Purchase Behavior on Cross-border E-commerce Platforms

By Jiaxin Li, Shan Liu, Qing Zhu and Xiaosong Wu

2.      Cross-border e-commerce risk management from the perspective China and South Korea: A review based on bibliometric analysis

By Qing Zhu, Yinglin Ruan and Shan Liu

3.      University is No Longer Safe: Identifying Factors Affecting the Data Breach Incidents

By Wei Xiao and Jin Li

4.      Cross-border E-Commerce in South Korea for Micro Businesses in Mongolia

By Kihyon Kim and Gyoo Gun Lim

The Social Impact of IS, Session 1

Moderator: Prof. Tao Wang

Jun 29, Beijing Time 14:00-15:20

 

Zoom Meeting ID: 872 2102 4075 Password: 0629

Zoom linkage:

https://dooyle.zoom.us/j/87221024075?pwd=SXlHbHZ4Y3hhbHNWdWkwZnlXdVVHQT09

 

1.      Factors Affecting Purchasing Intention of Customers on E-commerce Live Streaming Platform: Evidence from Taobao

By Renping Yang, Chengjing Huang, Jia Song, Xiaomei Wang and Siyu Yao

2.      How brand-related tweets impact consumer purchase behavior

By Shuai Zhang, Bo Zhou and Haichao Zheng

3.      Social Media Addiction: Definition, Measurement, Predictors and Consequences

By Jiayu Lin, Wenxin Tan, Zifeng Cheng and Miao Miao

4.      Understanding the Key Drivers of Impulse Purchasing on Live Streaming from the Perspective of Flow Experience

By Yu Ruoyu and Yi Cui

The Social Impact of IS, Session 2

Moderator: Prof. Tao Wang

Jun 29, Beijing Time 15:30-17:00

 

Zoom Meeting ID: 872 2102 4075 Password: 0629

Zoom linkage:

https://dooyle.zoom.us/j/87221024075?pwd=SXlHbHZ4Y3hhbHNWdWkwZnlXdVVHQT09

 

1.      Influence of Information Disclosure of Equity Crowdfunding Project on Investors ' Investment Intention

By Ruiying Meng, Guyue Shen, Qiukai Cheng, Minghui Kang, Jun Guo and Tao Wang

2.      Exploring the factors influencing users' continued intention to use Green IS – Take Ants Forest as an example

By Wenxin Tan, Zhuzhu Li, Jiayu Lin, Zifeng Cheng and Jun Guo

3.      What stops you from donating? Explanation based on signaling theory and elaboration likelihood model: An empirical study.

By Zifeng Cheng, Xueying Fan, Wenxin Tan and Jiayu Lin

Day 2

Keynote Speech: Epistemology and Cognitive Computing in eCommerce (Prof. Zhangxi Lin)

 

Jun 30, Beijing Time 9:00-10:00

 

Zoom Meeting ID: 896 6955 5422 Password: 0630

Zoom linkage:

https://dooyle.zoom.us/j/89669555422?pwd=eWtIa2dCbFdGQzdObGpQV2RMTWlsQT09

General Track, Session 1

Jun 30, Beijing Time 10:20-11:40

 

Moderator: Prof. Chuan Luo

 

Zoom Meeting ID: 857 7616 1621 Password: 0630

Zoom linkage:

https://dooyle.zoom.us/j/85776161621?pwd=K0lXYVBtd2FiMVlXWXhSQVlJcGhMQT09

 

1.      Study of Consumer Review Systems in Electronic Commerce

By Nesrine Charradi, Anis Kalboussi and Hadj Kacem Ahmed

2.      The Impact of Public Opinion on In-game Purchases

By Jing Li

3.      Improving the User Experience and System Efficiency of the Human-Machine Competitive Hybrid System: A Design Science Framework

By Liting Li, Haichao Zheng, Li Dong, Chunlin Li, Runping Wu and Zhuoran Dai

4.      Analyzing the Impact of Social Commerce on Consumer Behavior: A Systematic Literature Review

By Wenjin Zhao and Yun Xu

General Track, Session 2

Moderator: Prof. Kai Li

Jun 30, Beijing Time15:30-17:00

 

Zoom Meeting ID: 830 0614 6049 Password: 0630

Zoom linkage:

https://dooyle.zoom.us/j/83006146049?pwd=d3N3R0tSdlV2R3dUR1ZsWEx4QnZaQT09

 

1.      Who will be more willing to update their face images and do their appearances matter?

By Dongyu Chen and Zhiyuan Qi

2.      How the presence of online healthcare impacts the market structure: an economic modeling approach

By Kaiye Chen, Jing Wu and Lijun Wei

3.      Understanding Impulsive Buying in Live Streaming Commerce: A Heuristic-Systematic Model

By Xia Li, Yun Zhang and Qinghong Shuai

4.      Reward Referral Programs and Impulse Buying in Social Commerce: The Mediating Role of Envy

By Yue Chen, Yun Zhang, Xinsi Wang and Qinghong Shuai

 

Innovations of IT Service in AI Era, Session 1

Jun 30, Beijing Time 14:00-15:20

 

Moderator: Prof. Sangkon Lee

 

Zoom Meeting ID: 810 6396 1459 Password: 0630

Zoom linkage:

https://dooyle.zoom.us/j/81063961459?pwd=WklZZ0R0cngrS2Vwbnk2N2Z0RGRiQT09

 

1.      A comparative analysis of travelers’ online reviews among China, South Korea, and USA using sentiment analysis in the era of the COVID-19 pandemic

By Taeho Hong, Jonggwan Won and Junwoo Hong

2.      The Impact of Enterprise Security Management on Business Performance

By Eunhee Shin, Harang Yu, Sungyun Bae and Hangbae Chang

3.      A Study on the effect of Fintech Services on e-commerce: Focusing on Internet-Only Banking and Mobile Payment Services

By Wook-Joon Sung and Deokwon Heo

4.      An Investigation on the Continuous Use of Carsharing: Evidence from RFMC Model

By Hanbyeol Stella Choi, Chanhee Kwak and Junyeong Lee

 

 

Innovations of IT Service in AI Era, Session 2

Jun 30, Beijing Time 15:30-17:00

 

Moderator: Prof. Kyungjin Cha

 

Zoom Meeting ID: 810 6396 1459 Password: 0630

Zoom linkage:

https://dooyle.zoom.us/j/81063961459?pwd=WklZZ0R0cngrS2Vwbnk2N2Z0RGRiQT09

 

1.      The Role of Emotions in AR-Based Online Shopping Experience: Shopping-Oriented Experience and Exploration-Oriented Experience

By Jun Liu and Zhao Du

2.      Defense Cloud Computing Service Policy Direction

By Sun-O Choi and Jong-Bae Kim

3.      A Data-Driven Approach for Selecting Accounts in B2B Marketing

Edi Ferriera, Qiwei Han and Bruno Silva

Cross-Regional Issues of Public Opinion on COVID-19

Moderator: Prof. MOU JIAN

Jun 30, Beijing Time 10:20-11:40

 

Zoom Meeting ID: 896 0137 2598 Password: 0630

Zoom linkage: https://dooyle.zoom.us/j/89601372598?pwd=Zk5CRTVPOFNORkc2ck9ObWNMYklqdz09

 

1.      Fake News Detection: Case of COVID-19 “Infodemic”

By Olga Chernyaeva and Taeho Hong

2.      Predicting Cryptocurrency Market Using Social Media Sentiments and Search Trends during Covid-19

By Jian Mou, Chong Guan, Wenting Liu and Jongki Kim

3.      Customers' self-protective motivation toward ride-sharing service in the post-COVID-19 world

By Xusen Cheng, Ying Bao, Xiaowen Huang and Junhan Gu

Crowdsourcing, Crowdfunding and Open science

Moderator: Prof. Haichao Zheng

Jun 30, Beijing Time14:00-15:20

Zoom Meeting ID: 881 8899 1421 Password: 0630

Zoom linkage:

https://dooyle.zoom.us/j/88188991421?pwd=Z2FaNmJJSVM4a3hYeHFPSk9UVFFuQT09

 

1.      Influencing Factors of Investors' Intentions to Follow Investment under the Mode of "Leading Investment + Following Investment"

By Lufan Ma, Shuhua Chen, Tianyi Sheng, Yanan Wen, Jun Guo and Tao Wang

2.      The Impact of Information Disclosure on Product Crowdfunding

By Jing Li

3.      How Knowledge Sharing Contributes to Crowdfunding Platform Innovation: A Cross-platform Empirical Study

By Zhiyuan Nong, Jing Wu and Dongmei Pang

4.      The Effect of Social Network and Third-party Endorsement on Equity Crowdfunding Performance

By Dongmei Pang, Jing Wu, Zhiyuan Nong, Shixu Chen, Kaiye Chen and Bo Zhou

 

A Workshop on AI in Bright Internet Research at June 29th (2:00 - 5:00 pm)

Jae Kyu Lee (Chair) and Research Team of Bright Internet Project Consortium

 

Zoom Meeting ID: 822 6396 7004 Password: 419280

Zoom linkage: https://dooyle.zoom.us/j/89601372598?pwd=Zk5CRTVPOFNORkc2ck9ObWNMYklqdz09

 

  1. Architecture of Bright Internet Database and AI Models [Jae Kyu LEE (Xi’an Jiaotong University and KAIST), Yunfeng ZANG (Shanghai Yovole System), Zhou ZHAO (iSoftStone)]]
  2. Trend of Text Mining and Deep Learning [Kyumin Lee (KAIST), Qing ZHU (Shaanxi Normal U.)]
  3. Database Structure of Bright Internet Data Center with Privacy Encryption[Zhihao LI (iSoftStone), Ryan Qingfeng PAN(Coremail), Victor Wei YI (China Financial Certification Authority), Yangyang WANG (Tsinghua University CERNET)]
  4. Contrast of Bright Internet Approach with Honeynet Approach [Alvin LEUNG (City University of Hong Kong)]
  5. Content-based Sentence Classification and BERT Model [Xinpei DONG (Xi’an Jiaotong University and Xi’an Big Data)]
  6. Context-based Classification of Spam Mails [Qi HUANG, Fengyao WANG, Rongli TANG (Xi’an Jiaotong University)]
  7. Integrated Model using Contents and Context Information [Jae Kyu LEE(Xi’an Jiaotong University and KAIST)]
  8. Discussion for Research Collaboration [Expert Panelists]

Intro to Chengdu

Chengdu is the capital of the Chinese province of Sichuan. Chengdu is located in central Sichuan. The surrounding Chengdu Plain is known as the "Country of Heaven" and the "Land of Abundance". Chengdu is now one of the most important economic, financial, commercial, cultural, transportation, and communication centers in Western China. More than 260 Fortune 500 companies have established branches in Chengdu. Due to its favorable natural environment, weather, cuisine, relaxed lifestyle, and affordable living cost, Chengdu has been named as the most livable city for many times.