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<p style="line-height:normal"><b><span style="font-family:"Gulim","sans-serif";color:navy">AIS
Special Interest Group on Adoption and Diffusion of
Information Technology</span></b> </p><p style="line-height:-107%"><u></u></p>
<p style="line-height:-107%"><span style="font-family:"Gulim","sans-serif"">DIGIT 2013 Call for Papers</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p style="line-height:-107%"><span style="font-family:"Gulim","sans-serif"">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 <b>Embracing
Theoretical
and Methodological Breakthroughs in IT Adoption and
Diffusion Research</b>.</span> </p><p style="line-height:-107%"><u></u></p>
<p style="line-height:-107%"><span style="font-family:"Gulim","sans-serif"">The workshop will include paper
roundtables, panel discussions and poster presentations. This
year, our honorable panel members include leading IS scholars
(<b><i>Varun Grover, Arun Rai</i></b>
and <b><i>Bernard Tan</i></b>)<b> </b>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**. <u>The deadline for submission of papers
is Monday, September 2, 2013.</u> Notification of acceptance
or rejection will be made in </span><span style="font-family:"Gulim","sans-serif";color:windowtext">late
October.</span><span style="font-family:"Gulim","sans-serif"">
See the Call for Papers below for more details.</span> </p><p style="line-height:-107%"><u></u></p>
<p style="line-height:-107%"><span style="font-family:"Gulim","sans-serif"">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</span><span style="font-family:"Gulim","sans-serif";color:windowtext"> 2013 </span><span style="font-family:"Gulim","sans-serif"">workshop
organizers:</span> </p><p style="line-height:-107%"><u></u></p>
<p style="line-height:-107%"><span style="font-family:"Gulim","sans-serif""><br></span></p><p style="line-height:-107%"><span style="font-family:"Gulim","sans-serif"">SIGADIT Chair</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p style="line-height:-107%"><span style="font-family:"Gulim","sans-serif"">Marcus Rothenberger<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="line-height:-107%"><span style="font-family:"Gulim","sans-serif"">University of Nevada, LasVegas</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p style="line-height:-107%"><u><span style="font-family:"Gulim","sans-serif";color:windowtext"><a href="mailto:marcus.rothenberger@unlv.edu" target="_blank">marcus.rothenberger@unlv.edu</a></span></u><u><span style="color:windowtext"><u></u><u></u></span></u></p>
<p style="line-height:-107%"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p style="line-height:-107%"><span style="font-family:"Gulim","sans-serif";color:windowtext">Workshop Chair</span><span style="color:windowtext"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="line-height:-107%"><span style="font-family:"Gulim","sans-serif";color:windowtext">Heshan Sun</span><span style="color:windowtext"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="line-height:-107%"><span style="font-family:"Gulim","sans-serif";color:windowtext">Clemson
University</span><span style="color:windowtext"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="line-height:-107%"><u><span style="color:windowtext"><a href="mailto:sunheshan@gmail.com" target="_blank"><span>sunheshan@gmail.com</span></a><br>
</span></u><u><span></span></u><u><span style="font-family:"Gulim","sans-serif";color:windowtext"><u></u><u></u></span></u></p>
<p style="line-height:-107%"><u></u><u></u></p>
<p style="line-height:-107%"><span style="font-family:"Gulim","sans-serif""><br>
Program Chair</span><span style="font-family:"Gulim","sans-serif""><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="line-height:-107%"><span style="font-family:"Gulim","sans-serif"">Andreas Eckhardt</span><span style="font-family:"Gulim","sans-serif""><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="line-height:-107%"><span style="font-family:"Gulim","sans-serif"">Goethe University Frankfurt</span><span style="font-family:"Gulim","sans-serif""><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="line-height:-107%"><u><span style="color:windowtext"><a href="mailto:eckhardt@wiwi.uni-frankfurt.de" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:"Gulim","sans-serif";color:windowtext">eckhardt</span></a><a href="mailto:eckhardt@wiwi.uni-frankfurt.de" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:"Gulim","sans-serif";color:windowtext">@</span></a><a href="mailto:eckhardt@wiwi.uni-frankfurt.de" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:"Gulim","sans-serif";color:windowtext">wiwi.uni-frankfurt.d</span></a><a href="mailto:eckhardt@wiwi.uni-frankfurt.de" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:"Gulim","sans-serif";color:windowtext">e</span></a></span></u><u><span style="font-family:"Gulim","sans-serif";color:windowtext"><u></u><u></u></span></u></p>
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<p style="line-height:-107%"><span style="font-family:"Gulim","sans-serif";color:windowtext"><br>
** 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 (</span><u><a href="mailto:sunheshan@gmail.com" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:"Gulim","sans-serif";color:windowtext">sunheshan@gmail.com</span></a></u><span style="font-family:"Gulim","sans-serif";color:windowtext">)
for additional information.</span><span style="color:windowtext"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p><b><span style="font-family:"Gulim","sans-serif"">DIGIT
2013 Call for Papers</span></b><br></p><p style="line-height:-107%"><u></u></p>
<p style="line-height:-107%"><b><span style="font-family:"Gulim","sans-serif"">Embracing
Theoretical and Methodological Breakthroughs in IT Adoption
and Diffusion Research </span></b><u></u><u></u></p>
<p style="line-height:-107%"><span style="font-family:"Gulim","sans-serif"">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, </span><span style="font-family:"Gulim","sans-serif";color:windowtext">data mining</span><span style="font-family:"Gulim","sans-serif"">)
may provide a significant step forward. </span><span style="font-family:"Gulim","sans-serif";color:windowtext">More controlled
settings that allow for gathering objective data could soon be
more common.</span><span style="font-family:"Gulim","sans-serif";color:red">
</span><span style="font-family:"Gulim","sans-serif"">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.</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p style="line-height:-107%"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p style="line-height:-107%"><span style="font-family:"Gulim","sans-serif"">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):</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p style="margin-left:24.0pt;line-height:-107%"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;line-height:-107%"><span>●<span> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:"Gulim","sans-serif";color:windowtext">Identifying
technologies: feature-centric vs. innovation-centric</span><span style="color:windowtext"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="margin-left:24.0pt;line-height:-107%"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;line-height:-107%"><span>●<span> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:"Gulim","sans-serif";color:windowtext">Determining
stages: initiation, adoption, use, assimilation, adaptation,
infusion</span><span style="color:windowtext"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="margin-left:24.0pt;line-height:-107%"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;line-height:-107%"><span>●<span> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:"Gulim","sans-serif";color:windowtext">Choosing
environments: private vs. public sectors, voluntary vs.
mandatory settings</span><span style="color:windowtext"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="margin-left:24.0pt;line-height:-107%"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;line-height:-107%"><span>●<span> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:"Gulim","sans-serif";color:windowtext">Selecting units
of analysis: individual, group/team, organization, industry,
society, nation</span><span style="color:windowtext"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="margin-left:24.0pt;line-height:-107%"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;line-height:-107%"><span>●<span> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:"Gulim","sans-serif";color:windowtext">Identifying usage
behaviors: infusion use, effective use, adaptive use,
innovative use, habitual/automatic use, extended use, and
routine use</span><span style="color:windowtext"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="margin-left:24.0pt;line-height:-107%"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;line-height:-107%"><span>●<span> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:"Gulim","sans-serif";color:windowtext">Crafting
empirical designs: cross-sectional, longitudinal, time-series,
multilevel, panel</span><span style="color:windowtext"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="line-height:-107%"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p style="line-height:-107%"><span style="font-family:"Gulim","sans-serif"">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.</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p style="line-height:-107%"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p style="line-height:-107%"><span style="font-family:"Gulim","sans-serif"">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.</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p style="line-height:-107%"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p style="line-height:-107%"><b><span style="font-family:"Gulim","sans-serif"">Instructions
for Contributors</span></b><u></u><u></u></p>
<p style="line-height:-107%"><span style="font-family:"Gulim","sans-serif"">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.</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p style="line-height:-107%"><span style="font-family:"Gulim","sans-serif";color:windowtext">This year, all
paper submissions should be sent electronically as a Microsoft
Word attachment to <a href="mailto:digit.workshop@gmail.com" target="_blank">digit.workshop@gmail.com</a>.
Questions regarding paper submissions should be directed to
the program chair Andreas Eckhardt (</span><u><span style="color:windowtext"><a href="mailto:eckhardt@wiwi.uni-frankfurt.de" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:"Gulim","sans-serif";color:windowtext">eckhardt</span></a><a href="mailto:eckhardt@wiwi.uni-frankfurt.de" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:"Gulim","sans-serif";color:windowtext">@</span></a><a href="mailto:eckhardt@wiwi.uni-frankfurt.de" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:"Gulim","sans-serif";color:windowtext">wiwi.uni-frankfurt.d</span></a><a href="mailto:eckhardt@wiwi.uni-frankfurt.de" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:"Gulim","sans-serif";color:windowtext">e</span></a></span></u><span style="font-family:"Gulim","sans-serif";color:windowtext">).</span></p>
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