[AISWorld] [Deadline Extended] CFP: DIGIT 2021 Pre-ICIS Workshop

[LEE, ZACH W.Y.]

[Deadline Extended] Call for Papers: DIGIT 2021 Pre-ICIS Workshop

Information Technology Adoption and Diffusion and Resilience Building in Disruptions

Submission Deadline Extended: October 10, 2021


Building resilience with information technology in the time of disruptions has been crucial for many during the COVID-19 and should continue to be in our agenda in the post-COVID-19 world. Organizations, individuals, and societies have been facing disruptions of different forms, natural disasters, political and social unrest, and epidemics and pandemics, affecting their normal functioning from different aspects. The past two years have witnessed enormous examples of organizations, individuals, and societies harnessing advanced information systems and technologies to survive the disruptions and even thrive afterward. For example, organizations have utilized a wide array of collaborative technologies to keep their businesses running and built increasing online presences across multiple digital channels. Individuals have embraced digital technologies into different aspects of their life, reshaping many of their working, communicating, and purchasing behaviors and habits. Changes resulted from such disruptions occur also at the society level, governments across the world have accelerated the digitization of the provision of public services.

While the phenomenon with organizations, individuals, and societies using information technologies for resilience building in disruptions has become more prevalent, our understanding of it will benefit from further scientific investigation and a tight alignment to theoretical lenses used in adoption and diffusion research. The 2021 DIGIT workshop provides an opportunity for researchers to come together and generate vibrant discussions and exchanges of ideas about how organizations, individuals, and societies can harness information technologies to build resilience in and for disruptions. While papers adhering to the theme of building resilience with information technologies, research in other IT adoption and diffusion research domains are very welcome. Potential topic areas include, but are not exclusive to:

- Organizational information technology adoption and diffusion to survive disruptions across different sectors and industries, such as business, education, and public services
- Individual and collective technology use behaviors, such as adaptation, coping, improvisation in the presence of disruptions
- Multi-level studies considering the rippling effects of disruptions and their implications for IS adoption and diffusion
- Process models studying adoption, diffusion, and abandonment before and after a disruption
- New theorization of how disruptions matter in IT adoption and diffusion theories at the individual, organizational, and societal levels
- New qualitative, quantitative, and design-led methodological approaches to examine the dynamics of -IT adoption and diffusion in disruptions

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

Instructions for Contributors:
In the interest of discussing the most current research in this area, we welcome
- Completed research papers (fourteen single-spaced pages)
- Research-in-progress papers (seven single-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.

Proceedings of the workshop 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 proceedings see: http://aisel.aisnet.org/digit/

Instructions for Submissions:
The extended deadline for submission of papers is Sunday, October 10, 2021. We will review and accept manuscripts on a rolling basis until the extended deadline.

All papers must conform to the instructions given in the DIGIT 2021 submission template. They must be single-spaced and submitted in Microsoft Word format. Papers, both full research and research-in-progress submissions, 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 2021 submission template, which can be found online at: https://www.sigadit.net/digit

All paper submissions should be sent electronically as a Microsoft Word attachment to: zach.lee at durham.ac.uk<mailto:zach.lee at durham.ac.uk>

Questions regarding paper submissions can be sent to the program co-chairs: Zach W. Y. Lee (zach.lee at durham.ac.uk<mailto:zach.lee at durham.ac.uk>) and Jean-Grégoire Bernard (jean-gregoire.bernard at vuw.ac.nz<mailto:jean-gregoire.bernard at vuw.ac.nz>)

Instructions for Participation:
The workshop date will be held on Saturday, December 11, 2021 as a virtual event.  At least one author must register and attend the workshop to present the paper if the work is accepted.


Workshop Committee:
For information on SIGADIT and the DIGIT workshop, please contact the 2021 workshop committees:

Jennifer Claggett
2021 DIGIT Workshop Chair
claggejl at wfu.edu<mailto:claggejl at wfu.edu>
School of Business
Wake Forest University
Winston-Salem, NC, USA

Zach W. Y. Lee
2021 DIGIT Program Co-Chair
zach.lee at durham.ac.uk<mailto:zach.lee at durham.ac.uk>
Durham University Business School
Durham University
Durham, UK

Jean-Grégoire Bernard
2021 DIGIT Program Co-Chair
jean-gregoire.bernard at vuw.ac.nz<mailto:jean-gregoire.bernard at vuw.ac.nz>
Wellington School of Business & Government
Victoria University of Wellington
Wellington, New Zealand

Christian Maier
2021 SIGADIT Chair-Elect
christian.maier at uni-bamberg.de<mailto:christian.maier at uni-bamberg.de>
Department of Information Systems and Services
University of Bamberg
Bamberg, Germany

Geneviève Bassellier
2021 SIGADIT Chair
genevieve.bassellier at mcgill.ca<mailto:genevieve.bassellier at mcgill.ca>
Desautels Faculty of Management
McGill University
Montreal, Canada

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