[AISWorld] DIGIT 2016 Call for Paper - Technology Adoption, Use and Diffusion Research at the Crossroad (Deadline 14th Sept. 2016, Pre-ICIS Workshop 11th Dec. 2016) (AIS SIGADIT)

[Laumer, Sven]

AIS Special Interest Group on Adoption and Diffusion of Information Technology  
(AIS Outstanding SIG 2014, 2015)

DIGIT 2016 
Sunday, December 11, 2016

Call for Papers

Technology Adoption, Use and Diffusion Research at the Crossroad

Submissions Due: Wednesday, September 14, 2016  (Final deadline; there will be no deadline extension)

When the technology acceptance model (TAM, Davis 1989) was developed in 1989 computers were new and alien to many organizations and individuals. At that time, technologies were designed to automate administrative and transactional work typically by utilizing large enterprise systems. Now digital technologies are ubiquitous in every aspect of our societies, work, and lives. With an unrelenting pace of innovation, technology acceptance includes smartphones, social media, wearable devices, IoT, and digital agents (e.g. Siri and Amazon's Echo), that are used in many new business and personal contexts. Organizations and consumers now face many new dilemmas, new questions, and new uncertainties. Individuals might on the one side be challenged to adapt to the changes induced by the infiltration of digital technologies. They might feel a great uncertainty about these technologies and might have the impression that they are able to deal with this development in both the private and the business world. On the other hand, individuals might use digital technologies to take advantage of the benefits provided to the individual or organization. Some of these heavy users are called 'digital natives' as they were born in a world that is used to information technology. Hence, it is not a challenge to explain their adoption of these technologies. Nevertheless, these heavy users of digital technologies might become addicted to their use inducing new challenges for individuals, organizations and societies. As an implication, Thomas Davenport concluded in his keynote at the CIO symposium at ICIS 2015 in Fort Worth that "we need to begin preparing people for the impacts of these technologies". 

As a consequence of this development, technology adoption and diffusion research is at the crossroads. Digital technologies infuse and shape our daily lives, yet many of our core theoretical perspectives derive from the time when computers where new and unknown to many individuals, in general. Hence, this development provides scholarly opportunities to discuss new theoretical underpinnings and methodological approaches that require novel approaches to understand how individuals, organizations or societies adopt and use information technology. Now in its 26th year the SIGADIT community offers the 2016 DIGIT workshop to provide researchers with an opportunity to discuss the implications of this development. In line with the general theme of ICIS 2016 we invite papers that exemplify crossroad issues of the acceptance, use and diffusion of digital technologies. We would also like to encourage contributions that use new methodological approaches that are based on the diffusion of digital technologies (e.g. big data analytics) to study technology adoption, use and diffusion phenomena. Potential topics related to the theme of the 2016 DIGIT workshop include (but are not limited to): 
* Organizational adoption and use of digital technologies
* Individual acceptance and use of digital technologies
* Factors enabling or inhibiting acceptance and use of digital technologies (e.g. individual's trust of digital technologies)
* Positive and negative consequences of using digital technologies for both organizations and individuals
* New theoretical perspectives on acceptance, use and diffusion of digital technologies
* New methodological approaches to study acceptance, use and diffusion of digital technologies

Submitted research can be conceptual, analytical, design-oriented, or empirical in nature. The workshop will include paper presentations, paper roundtables, panel discussions and poster presentations. 

***Instructions for Contributors***

In the interest of discussing the most current research in this area, we welcome 
* Full research papers (twenty double-spaced pages)
* Research-in-progress papers (page limit ten double-spaced pages)
* Research idea abstracts (two double-spaced pages)

All submissions will be blind reviewed. Papers should not have been published previously in proceedings or journals, nor be under review elsewhere, but it is the general objective of the workshop that they will be submitted to a premier outlet after the DIGIT workshop.
Submission will be published in the AIS Electronic Library. The authors can choose whether they want the full paper or only an extended abstract to be published. For past submissions see: http://aisel.aisnet.org/digit/   

***Instructions for Submissions***

The deadline for submission of papers is Wednesday, September 14, 2016. This is the final deadline; there will be no deadline extension. Notification of acceptance or rejection will be made in late October.

All papers should be double-spaced and submitted in Microsoft Word format. Full research and research-in-progress papers should include an abstract. Page counts exclude the title page, references and appendices. The title page 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. Please use the DIGIT 2016 paper template, which can be found online at http://www.sigadit.net/digit.html. 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 Sven Laumer (mailto:sven.laumer at uni-bamberg.de).

***Instructions for Participation***

The workshop date will be Sunday, December 11, 2016. At least one author must register and attend the workshop to present the paper if the work is accepted. 

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 the Workshop Chair, Ryan T. Wright, for additional information.

***Workshop Committee***

For information on SIGADIT and the DIGIT workshop, please contact the 2016 workshop committee:

Andreas Eckhardt
SIGADIT Chair 
mailto:andreas.eckhardt at ggs.de 
Management Department
German Graduate School of Management & Law 
Germany

Ryan T. Wright
2016 DIGIT Workshop Chair 
mailto:rwright at isenberg.umass.edu 
Isenberg School of Management
University of Massachusetts
Amherst, MA

Sven Laumer
2016 DIGIT Program Chair
mailto:sven.laumer at uni-bamberg.de 
Department of Information Systems and Services
Otto-Friedrich University Bamberg
Bamberg, Germany

For more information about DIGIT see
http://www.sigadit.net/digit.html