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      <p class="Standard1" style="line-height:normal">+++ APOLOGIES FOR
        CROSS-POSTINGS +++<br>
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style="font-family:"Gulim","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Gulim;color:navy">AIS

            Special Interest Group on Adoption and Diffusion of
            Information Technology</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
      <p class="Standard1" style="line-height:-107%"><o:p> </o:p></p>
      <p class="Standard1" style="line-height:-107%"><span
          style="font-family:"Gulim","sans-serif";
          mso-bidi-font-family:Gulim">DIGIT 2013 Call for Papers</span><o:p></o:p></p>
      <p class="Standard1" style="line-height:-107%"><o:p> </o:p></p>
      <p class="Standard1" style="line-height:-107%"><span
          style="font-family:"Gulim","sans-serif";
          mso-bidi-font-family:Gulim">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 style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">Embracing
Theoretical

            and Methodological Breakthroughs in IT Adoption and
            Diffusion Research</b>. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
      <p class="Standard1" style="line-height:-107%"><o:p> </o:p></p>
      <p class="Standard1" style="line-height:-107%"><span
          style="font-family:"Gulim","sans-serif";
          mso-bidi-font-family:Gulim">The workshop will include paper
          roundtables, panel discussions and poster presentations. This
          year, our honorable panel members include leading IS scholars
          (<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><i
              style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Varun Grover, Arun Rai</i></b>
          and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><i
              style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Bernard Tan</i></b>)<b
            style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"> </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";mso-bidi-font-family:Gulim;color:windowtext">late

          October.</span><span
style="font-family:"Gulim","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Gulim">
          See the Call for Papers below for more details.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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      <p class="Standard1" style="line-height:-107%"><span
          style="font-family:"Gulim","sans-serif";
          mso-bidi-font-family:Gulim">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";
          mso-bidi-font-family:Gulim;color:windowtext"> 2013 </span><span
style="font-family:"Gulim","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Gulim">workshop

          organizers:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
      <p class="Standard1" style="line-height:-107%"><o:p> </o:p></p>
      <p class="Standard1" style="line-height:-107%"><span
          style="font-family:"Gulim","sans-serif";
          mso-bidi-font-family:Gulim">SIGADIT Chair</span><o:p></o:p></p>
      <p class="Standard1" style="line-height:-107%"><span
          style="font-family:"Gulim","sans-serif";
          mso-bidi-font-family:Gulim">Marcus Rothenberger<o:p></o:p></span></p>
      <p class="Standard1" style="line-height:-107%"><span
          style="font-family:"Gulim","sans-serif";
          mso-bidi-font-family:Gulim">University of Nevada, LasVegas</span><o:p></o:p></p>
      <p class="Standard1" style="line-height:-107%"><u><span
            style="font-family:"Gulim","sans-serif";
            mso-bidi-font-family:Gulim;color:windowtext"><a
              class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
              href="mailto:marcus.rothenberger@unlv.edu">marcus.rothenberger@unlv.edu</a></span></u><u><span
            style="color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
      <p class="Standard1" style="line-height:-107%"><o:p> </o:p></p>
      <p class="Standard1" style="line-height:-107%"><span
          style="font-family:"Gulim","sans-serif";
          mso-bidi-font-family:Gulim;color:windowtext">Workshop Chair</span><span
          style="color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
      <p class="Standard1" style="line-height:-107%"><span
          style="font-family:"Gulim","sans-serif";
          mso-bidi-font-family:Gulim;color:windowtext">Heshan Sun</span><span
          style="color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
      <p class="Standard1" style="line-height:-107%"><span
          style="font-family:"Gulim","sans-serif";
          mso-bidi-font-family:Gulim;color:windowtext">Clemson
          University</span><span style="color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
      <p class="Standard1" style="line-height:-107%"><u><span
            style="color:windowtext"><a
              href="mailto:sunheshan@gmail.com"><span
                style="font-family:"Gulim","sans-serif";
                mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New
                Roman";color:windowtext">sunheshan@gmail.com</span></a><br>
          </span></u><u><span
            style="font-family:"Gulim","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times

            New Roman"; color:windowtext"></span></u><u><span
style="font-family:"Gulim","sans-serif";color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
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      <p class="Standard1" style="line-height:-107%"><span
          style="font-family:"Gulim","sans-serif";
          mso-bidi-font-family:Gulim"><br>
          Program Chair</span><span
          style="font-family:"Gulim","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
      <p class="Standard1" style="line-height:-107%"><span
          style="font-family:"Gulim","sans-serif";
          mso-bidi-font-family:Gulim">Andreas Eckhardt</span><span
          style="font-family: "Gulim","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
      <p class="Standard1" style="line-height:-107%"><span
          style="font-family:"Gulim","sans-serif";
          mso-bidi-font-family:Gulim">Goethe University Frankfurt</span><span
          style="font-family:"Gulim","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
      <p class="Standard1" style="line-height:-107%"><u><span
            style="color:windowtext"><a
              href="mailto:eckhardt@wiwi.uni-frankfurt.de"><span
                style="font-family:"Gulim","sans-serif";
                mso-bidi-font-family:Gulim;color:windowtext">eckhardt</span></a><a
              href="mailto:eckhardt@wiwi.uni-frankfurt.de"><span
                style="font-family:"Gulim","sans-serif";
                mso-bidi-font-family:Gulim;color:windowtext">@</span></a><a
              href="mailto:eckhardt@wiwi.uni-frankfurt.de"><span
                style="font-family:"Gulim","sans-serif";
                mso-bidi-font-family:Gulim;color:windowtext">wiwi.uni-frankfurt.d</span></a><a
              href="mailto:eckhardt@wiwi.uni-frankfurt.de"><span
                style="font-family:"Gulim","sans-serif";
                mso-bidi-font-family:Gulim;color:windowtext">e</span></a></span></u><u><span
style="font-family:"Gulim","sans-serif";color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
      <p class="Standard1" style="line-height:-107%"><o:p></o:p></p>
      <p class="Standard1" style="line-height:-107%"><span
          style="font-family:"Gulim","sans-serif";
          mso-bidi-font-family:Gulim;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"><span
style="font-family:"Gulim","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Gulim;color:windowtext">sunheshan@gmail.com</span></a></u><span
style="font-family:"Gulim","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Gulim;color:windowtext">)
          for additional information.</span><span
          style="color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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      <p class="Standard1" style="line-height:-107%"><b
          style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span
style="font-family:"Gulim","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Gulim">DIGIT

            2013 Call for Papers</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
      <p class="Standard1" style="line-height:-107%"><o:p> </o:p></p>
      <p class="Standard1" style="line-height:-107%"><b
          style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span
style="font-family:"Gulim","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Gulim">Embracing

            Theoretical and Methodological Breakthroughs in IT Adoption
            and Diffusion Research </span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
      <p class="Standard1" style="line-height:-107%"><o:p> </o:p></p>
      <p class="Standard1" style="line-height:-107%"><span
          style="font-family:"Gulim","sans-serif";
          mso-bidi-font-family:Gulim">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";
          mso-bidi-font-family:Gulim;color:windowtext">data mining</span><span
style="font-family:"Gulim","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Gulim">)
          may provide a significant step forward. </span><span
          style="font-family:"Gulim","sans-serif";
          mso-bidi-font-family:Gulim;color:windowtext">More controlled
          settings that allow for gathering objective data could soon be
          more common.</span><span
style="font-family:"Gulim","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Gulim;color:red">
        </span><span
style="font-family:"Gulim","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Gulim">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><o:p></o:p></p>
      <p class="Standard1" style="line-height:-107%"><o:p> </o:p></p>
      <p class="Standard1" style="line-height:-107%"><span
          style="font-family:"Gulim","sans-serif";
          mso-bidi-font-family:Gulim">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><o:p></o:p></p>
      <p class="Standard1"
        style="margin-left:24.0pt;text-indent:-23.95pt;line-height:
        -107%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:
          8.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:-107%"><span
            style="mso-list:Ignore">●<span style="font:7.0pt "Times
              New Roman"">         </span></span></span><span
          style="font-family:"Gulim","sans-serif";
          mso-bidi-font-family:Gulim;color:windowtext">Identifying
          technologies: feature-centric vs. innovation-centric</span><span
          style="color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
      <p class="Standard1"
        style="margin-left:24.0pt;text-indent:-23.95pt;line-height:
        -107%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:
          8.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:-107%"><span
            style="mso-list:Ignore">●<span style="font:7.0pt "Times
              New Roman"">         </span></span></span><span
          style="font-family:"Gulim","sans-serif";
          mso-bidi-font-family:Gulim;color:windowtext">Determining
          stages: initiation, adoption, use, assimilation, adaptation,
          infusion</span><span style="color: windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
      <p class="Standard1"
        style="margin-left:24.0pt;text-indent:-23.95pt;line-height:
        -107%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:
          8.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:-107%"><span
            style="mso-list:Ignore">●<span style="font:7.0pt "Times
              New Roman"">         </span></span></span><span
          style="font-family:"Gulim","sans-serif";
          mso-bidi-font-family:Gulim;color:windowtext">Choosing
          environments: private vs. public sectors, voluntary vs.
          mandatory settings</span><span style="color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
      <p class="Standard1"
        style="margin-left:24.0pt;text-indent:-23.95pt;line-height:
        -107%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:
          8.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:-107%"><span
            style="mso-list:Ignore">●<span style="font:7.0pt "Times
              New Roman"">         </span></span></span><span
          style="font-family:"Gulim","sans-serif";
          mso-bidi-font-family:Gulim;color:windowtext">Selecting units
          of analysis: individual, group/team, organization, industry,
          society, nation</span><span style="color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
      <p class="Standard1"
        style="margin-left:24.0pt;text-indent:-23.95pt;line-height:
        -107%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:
          8.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:-107%"><span
            style="mso-list:Ignore">●<span style="font:7.0pt "Times
              New Roman"">         </span></span></span><span
          style="font-family:"Gulim","sans-serif";
          mso-bidi-font-family:Gulim;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"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
      <p class="Standard1"
        style="margin-left:24.0pt;text-indent:-23.95pt;line-height:
        -107%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:
          8.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:-107%"><span
            style="mso-list:Ignore">●<span style="font:7.0pt "Times
              New Roman"">         </span></span></span><span
          style="font-family:"Gulim","sans-serif";
          mso-bidi-font-family:Gulim;color:windowtext">Crafting
          empirical designs: cross-sectional, longitudinal, time-series,
          multilevel, panel</span><span style="color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
      <p class="Standard1" style="line-height:-107%"><o:p> </o:p></p>
      <p class="Standard1" style="line-height:-107%"><span
          style="font-family:"Gulim","sans-serif";
          mso-bidi-font-family:Gulim">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><o:p></o:p></p>
      <p class="Standard1" style="line-height:-107%"><o:p> </o:p></p>
      <p class="Standard1" style="line-height:-107%"><span
          style="font-family:"Gulim","sans-serif";
          mso-bidi-font-family:Gulim">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><o:p></o:p></p>
      <p class="Standard1" style="line-height:-107%"><o:p> </o:p></p>
      <p class="Standard1" style="line-height:-107%"><b
          style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span
style="font-family:"Gulim","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Gulim">Instructions

            for Contributors</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
      <p class="Standard1" style="line-height:-107%"><span
          style="font-family:"Gulim","sans-serif";
          mso-bidi-font-family:Gulim">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><o:p></o:p></p>
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          style="font-family:"Gulim","sans-serif";
          mso-bidi-font-family:Gulim;color:windowtext">This year, all
          paper submissions should be sent electronically as a Microsoft
          Word attachment to <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
            href="mailto:digit.workshop@gmail.com">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"><span
style="font-family:"Gulim","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Gulim;color:windowtext">eckhardt</span></a><a
              href="mailto:eckhardt@wiwi.uni-frankfurt.de"><span
                style="font-family:"Gulim","sans-serif";
                mso-bidi-font-family:Gulim;color:windowtext">@</span></a><a
              href="mailto:eckhardt@wiwi.uni-frankfurt.de"><span
                style="font-family:"Gulim","sans-serif";
                mso-bidi-font-family:Gulim;color:windowtext">wiwi.uni-frankfurt.d</span></a><a
              href="mailto:eckhardt@wiwi.uni-frankfurt.de"><span
                style="font-family:"Gulim","sans-serif";
                mso-bidi-font-family:Gulim;color:windowtext">e</span></a></span></u><span
style="font-family:"Gulim","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Gulim;color:windowtext">).</span><span
          style="color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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