[AISWorld] CFP: Pre-ICIS DIGIT 2013 Workshop

[Heshan Sun]

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*AIS Special Interest Group on Adoption and Diffusion of Information
Technology*

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DIGIT 2013 Call for Papers****

The Special Interest Group on the Adoption and Diffusion of Information
Technology will again host a pre-ICIS workshop for people interested in
information technology adoption and diffusion (DIGIT). DIGIT will be held
in the morning of Sunday, December 15, 2013 in Milan, Italy. The theme this
year is *Embracing Theoretical and Methodological Breakthroughs in IT
Adoption and Diffusion Research*.

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The workshop will include paper roundtables, panel discussions and poster
presentations. This year, our honorable panel members include leading IS
scholars (*Varun Grover, Arun Rai* and *Bernard Tan*)* *to discuss new
theoretical and methodological breakthroughs for adoption and diffusion
research beyond the traditional ways. Faculty members and doctoral students
are encouraged to attend and submit papers for roundtable discussion and
poster session. Doctoral students submitting papers to the conference will
be eligible for a workshop scholarship that covers the DIGIT registration
fee**. *The deadline for submission of papers is Monday, September 2,
2013.*Notification of acceptance or rejection will be made in late
October. See the Call for Papers below for more details.

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In order to foster the workshop atmosphere that has developed in previous
meetings, registration will again be limited to about 50 people.
Refreshments will be provided to attendees. You can register for DIGIT
during the regular ICIS registration process. For information on SIGADIT
and past DIGIT workshops, please contact the 2013 workshop organizers:

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SIGADIT Chair****

Marcus Rothenberger****

University of Nevada, LasVegas****

*marcus.rothenberger at unlv.edu***

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Workshop Chair****

Heshan Sun****

Clemson University****

*sunheshan at gmail.com
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Program Chair****

Andreas Eckhardt****

Goethe University Frankfurt****

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** Up to 3 doctoral student authors will receive a full scholarship to
cover their workshop fee. Depending upon remaining funds, full or partial
scholarships will be offered to all other doctoral students, who submit
papers for workshop consideration. Please contact Heshan Sun (*
sunheshan at gmail.com*) for additional information.****

 *DIGIT 2013 Call for Papers*

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*Embracing Theoretical and Methodological Breakthroughs in IT Adoption and
Diffusion Research *****

Around a quarter-century after the early beginnings of adoption and
diffusion research in the late eighties, IS researchers need to run new
paths in order to gather new knowledge and keep adoption and diffusion of
IT as one of the core topics of the entire IS domain. Especially in terms
of methodologies, more approaches capturing all nuances in individual
adoption decision making opening black boxes such as how attitudes turn
into usage behaviors or distinct behavioral patterns are clearly needed. As
common method variance and sole perceptual data could turn more and more
into obstacles, new ideas on collecting (i.e. experiments, simulations,
mixed methods) and analyzing data (latent growth models, event studies,
agent based modeling, multi-level analysis, diary studies, data mining) may
provide a significant step forward. More controlled settings that allow for
gathering objective data could soon be more common. Hence, we call for
scholarly effort investigating the adoption and diffusion of IT with new
theoretical underlyings and new empirical and/or analytical methods
providing new insights and limiting bias to achieve a more holistic
understanding about why and how people use IT.****

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While papers adhering to the theme are encouraged, research in other IT
adoption and diffusion research domains will also be considered. Potential
topics areas include (but are not exclusive to):****

●         Identifying technologies: feature-centric vs. innovation-centric**
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●         Determining stages: initiation, adoption, use, assimilation,
adaptation, infusion****

●         Choosing environments: private vs. public sectors, voluntary vs.
mandatory settings****

●         Selecting units of analysis: individual, group/team,
organization, industry, society, nation****

●         Identifying usage behaviors: infusion use, effective use,
adaptive use, innovative use, habitual/automatic use, extended use, and
routine use****

●         Crafting empirical designs: cross-sectional, longitudinal,
time-series, multilevel, panel****

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In the interest of discussing the most current research in this area,
research-in-progress papers are encouraged as well as full research papers.
Submitted research can be conceptual, analytical, design-oriented, or
empirical in nature.****

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All submissions will be blind reviewed. Papers should not have been
published previously in a proceedings or journal, nor be under review
elsewhere, but may be submitted elsewhere after the DIGIT meeting. At least
one author must register and attend the workshop to present the paper if
the work is accepted.****

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*Instructions for Contributors*****

All papers should be double-spaced and submitted in Microsoft Word format.
Working papers or research in process are limited to ten double-spaced
pages. Research papers are limited to twenty double-spaced pages. Both
types of submissions should include an abstract. Page counts exclude
references. The title page (exclusive of the page counts) should include
the paper title and the authors' names, affiliations, and e-mail addresses.
The main body of the paper should have a title, but no author
identification.****

This year, all paper submissions should be sent electronically as a
Microsoft Word attachment to digit.workshop at gmail.com. Questions regarding
paper submissions should be directed to the program chair Andreas Eckhardt (
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