<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;text-align:center"><b><font face="Calibri" size="4">Call For Minitrack Proposals—AMCIS 2014 in Savannah, GA</font></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;text-align:-webkit-auto">
<br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;text-align:-webkit-auto"><font face="Calibri" size="4"><b>Track:</b> Adoption and Diffusion of Information Technology (SIGADIT)</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;text-align:-webkit-auto">
<font face="Calibri" size="4"> </font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;text-align:-webkit-auto"><font face="Calibri" size="4">We invite the submission of minitrack proposals to the Track on Adoption and Diffusion of Information Technology at the 20<sup>th</sup> Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS 2014), which will be held on August 7-10, 2014 Savannah, Georgia.<b><u> </u></b><a href="http://amcis2014.aisnet.org/"><span style="color:rgb(56,110,255)">http://amcis2014.aisnet.org</span></a></font></p>
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</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;text-align:-webkit-auto"><font face="Calibri" size="4">JJ Po-An Hsieh, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, <a href="mailto:jj.hsieh@polyu.edu.hk"><span style="color:blue">jj.hsieh@polyu.edu.hk</span></a></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;text-align:-webkit-auto"><font face="Calibri" size="4">Heshan Sun, Clemson University, <a href="mailto:sunh@clemson.edu"><span style="color:blue">sunh@clemson.edu</span></a></font></p>
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<b><font face="Calibri" size="4">Track Description:</font></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;text-align:-webkit-auto"><font face="Calibri" size="4">Despite the prevalence of technology in business, diffusion and adoption of information technology (IT) remains a challenge with many research questions unanswered. The answers to these questions are valuable given that technology usage is a prerequisite for realizing the value from technology investment. Yet, despite the increasing investment in IT, many still struggle to find the link between the adoption and use of the technology and their predictors and consequences.</font></p>
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<font face="Calibri" size="4">The struggles with understanding the impact of IT are further complicated by the evolving nature of IT. New technologies such as social media, cloud computing, and business analytics potentially change the nature and speed of diffusion. New organizational contexts such as inter‐organizational alliances, the push for e‐government, and the societal focus on IT‐enabled healthcare may also play a role affecting the ways through which IT exercises its impacts. Further, the pervasiveness of IT in emerging forms such as iPads, smart phones, and wearable devices, may change the types of individuals who adopt earlier (or later), influence the spread of innovations, or affect the types of technologies that are accepted. This track focuses on these and other issues related to the diffusion of IT. We welcome innovative research on this topic, especially papers that bridge the gap between academic and business thought and that promote the theoretical and methodological breakthroughs in this field.</font></p>
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<font face="Calibri" size="4">Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:</font></p><p class="" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;text-align:-webkit-auto"><font face="Calibri" size="4">· Multilevel units of analysis impact on diffusion</font></p>
<p class="" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;text-align:-webkit-auto"><font face="Calibri" size="4">· Individual and/or group‐level acceptance versus resistance to IT</font></p><p class="" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;text-align:-webkit-auto">
<font face="Calibri" size="4">· Technology design factors influencing technology adoption and diffusion</font></p><p class="" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;text-align:-webkit-auto"><font face="Calibri" size="4">· Diffusion of smart phones, wearable devices, and other mobile technologies</font></p>
<p class="" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;text-align:-webkit-auto"><font face="Calibri" size="4">· Enablers and barriers to diffusion and adoption of IT-enabled healthcare</font></p><p class="" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;text-align:-webkit-auto">
<font face="Calibri" size="4">· The adoption and diffusion of sustainable IT initiatives</font></p><p class="" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;text-align:-webkit-auto"><font face="Calibri" size="4">· Post-adoption system use and its antecedents and consequences</font></p>
<p class="" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;text-align:-webkit-auto"><font face="Calibri" size="4">· The dark side of technology adoption – drawbacks, social, and ethical issues</font></p><p class="" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;text-align:-webkit-auto">
<font face="Calibri" size="4">· Different forms of IT usage – adaptive, excessive, and motivated Use</font></p><p class="" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;text-align:-webkit-auto"><font face="Calibri" size="4">· Adoption and diffusion of social media</font></p>
<p class="" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;text-align:-webkit-auto"><font face="Calibri" size="4">· Novel and alternative approaches for investigating IT adoption and diffusion</font></p><p class="" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;text-align:-webkit-auto">
<font face="Calibri" size="4">· Methodological issues regarding IT adoption and diffusion</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;text-align:-webkit-auto"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;text-align:-webkit-auto">
<b><font face="Calibri" size="4">Submission:</font></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;text-align:-webkit-auto"><font face="Calibri" size="4">To submit a minitrack proposal, you must submit a) minitrack chairs (names, emails, affiliation); b) minitrack title; c) short description of minitrack for the AMCIS 2014 website (up to 150 words); d) call for papers for your minitrack. If you would like to submit a proposal, visit: <a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001dlS4F3OIILicebE7fjRwX3sC1L5M9GHjUVRl8gVA49cK2IVb4sBPCsXAZn3xYKWsBNJda4g_Y8OwIRdl-cQqz81Idx8XRTLsHXevIpQsjnqoWVcm7yz7Blmb9mJGli18Obb60j9qQq8IqFZn3_b-SQ=="><span style="color:blue">http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/amcis2014</span></a>, login and select the appropriate track.</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;text-align:-webkit-auto"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:-webkit-auto;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica"><font face="Calibri" size="4">Minitrack chairs will be responsible for a) promoting their minitrack to generate manuscript submissions to AMCIS 2014; b) soliciting and assigning reviewers for manuscripts submitted to the minitrack; and c) making recommendations to track chairs about each manuscript submitted to the minitrack. Each of these important dates and activities are identified on the AMCIS 2014 website.</font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;text-align:-webkit-auto;margin-left:0.5in"><font face="Calibri" size="4">• November 4, 2013: Submit minitrack proposals via the online submission system.</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;text-align:-webkit-auto;margin-left:0.5in"><font face="Calibri" size="4">• January 4, 2014: Manuscript submissions for AMCIS 2014 begin</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;text-align:-webkit-auto;margin-left:0.5in">
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