[AISWorld] AMCIS 2013 CFP Mini-Track: User Resistance to Information Technology

[Sven Laumer]

AMCIS 2013 CFP Mini-Track: User Resistance to Information Technology
Track: Adoption and Diffusion of Information Technology (SIGADIT)

Chicago, Illinois, USA, August 15-17, 2013
DESCRIPTION
Despite more than two decades of IS research on adoption and diffusion of IT, there is still no unified definition of resistance regarding the implementation and use of new information technology. There are only a few theories and models dealing with user resistance from an IS perspective. This is mainly due to the various causes and diverse forms resistance can take. The signs of resistance can be shown by the most varied groups of personnel - such as shop-floor workers, technical staff, management, and boards of directors - and the resultant modes of behavior can differ to a very large extent.
Challenges of this kind are acknowledged by the CIOs of top American companies for IT implementation. The management of change and the resistance connected to it is rated as the sixth most important challenge for CIOs in a survey of the Society for Information Management. Consequently, the objective of this mini-track is to provide valuable new insights of user resistance to information technology. The general idea of this mini-track is to explain, why individuals resist using a technology. The mini-track welcomes all different kinds of theoretical perspectives and research methodologies.

SUGGESTED TOPICS
Topics of interest to this mini-track include but are not limited to:

*         User resistance and IT-induced organizational change

*         Change management methods to address and overcome user resistance

*         User resistance and IS implementations (User resistance in pre- and post-implementation phases)

*         User resistance as a positive side effect of IS implementations

*         User resistance to mandatory technologies in organizations (e.g. ERP-systems, ECM-systems, Healthcare, E-Government, etc.)

*         User resistance to consumer technologies (e.g. Smartphones, Facebook, etc.)

*         Technostress and user resistance

*         Different user resistance behaviors (e.g. sabotage, turnover, non-usage, organizational commitment, discontinuous usage, criticism, etc.)

*         The role of enablers and inhibitors for user resistance, beliefs about different user resistance objects (e.g. information, system, or service quality, etc.)

*         User resistance and social influence / social networks

*         User resistance and individual differences (e.g. age, gender, personality, etc.)

*         User resistance and the digital divide, Resistance to IT of digital immigrants vs. digital natives (Are digital natives less resistance than digital immigrants?)

*         Psychological and physiological consequences of user resistance


Important dates:
January, 4, 2013               Submission system starts to accept submissions
February 22, 2013            Deadline for paper submissions
April 22, 2013                   Notification of acceptance
May 9, 2013                      Final copy due
Sven Laumer                                                 Andreas Eckhardt                                                    Christian Maier
University of Bamberg                                 Goethe University Frankfurt                                   University of Bamberg
sven.laumer at uni-bamberg.de<mailto:sven.laumer at uni-bamberg.de>                    eckhardt at wiwi.uni-frankfurt.de<mailto:eckhardt at wiwi.uni-frankfurt.de>                            christian.maier at uni-bamberg.de<mailto:christian.maier at uni-bamberg.de>

Mini-Track-E-Mail: userresistance at laumer.info



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