[AISWorld] CfP Pre-ICIS DIGIT 2013 Workshop

[Andreas Eckhardt]

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

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*.

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.

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 the2013 workshop 
organizers:

SIGADIT Chair

Marcus Rothenberger

University of Nevada, LasVegas

_marcus.rothenberger at unlv.edu___

Workshop Chair

Heshan Sun

Clemson University

_sunheshan at gmail.com <mailto:sunheshan at gmail.com>
_____


Program Chair

Andreas Eckhardt

Goethe University Frankfurt

_eckhardt <mailto:eckhardt at wiwi.uni-frankfurt.de>@ 
<mailto:eckhardt at wiwi.uni-frankfurt.de>wiwi.uni-frankfurt.d 
<mailto:eckhardt at wiwi.uni-frankfurt.de>e 
<mailto:eckhardt at wiwi.uni-frankfurt.de>___


** 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 <mailto:sunheshan at gmail.com>_) for additional 
information.


*DIGIT 2013 Call for Papers*

*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.

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

?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

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.

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.

*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 (_eckhardt <mailto:eckhardt at wiwi.uni-frankfurt.de>@ 
<mailto:eckhardt at wiwi.uni-frankfurt.de>wiwi.uni-frankfurt.d 
<mailto:eckhardt at wiwi.uni-frankfurt.de>e 
<mailto:eckhardt at wiwi.uni-frankfurt.de>_).


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