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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">Call for Papers<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span lang="EN-US">21st Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS’15)</span></i></b><b><i><span lang="EN-US">
</span></i></b><b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE"><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p style="background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">August 13-15, 2015, Puerto Rico<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><strong><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"> </span></strong><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><strong><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Track:</span></strong><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Adoption and Diffusion of Information Technology (SIGADIT)
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Minitrack:</span></strong><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"> Unintended Drivers and Consequences of Technology Usage</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Minitrack chairs:</span></strong><span lang="EN-US"> Sven Laumer, Christian Maier, University of Bamberg, Germany<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">In line with the AMCIS 2015 theme “Blue Ocean IS Research” we call for research that focuses on unintended drivers and consequences of technology usage. By focusing on different technologies in a private or workplace
context, by providing novel theoretical perspective and by using various research methodologies papers submitted to the AMCIS 2015 Mini Track on “Unintended Drivers and Consequences of Technology Usage” should provide system developers and implementers new
insights into unintended phenomena related to technology usage. Research in the past has identified several positive and intended drivers and consequences of technology usage, which system designers have in mind when designing and implementing technologies.
They focus on system or information quality, perceived ease of use and usefulness to increase individual and organizational net benefits, productivity, adoption, usage, or user satisfaction.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">However, there is also research and practical observations that indicate that technology usage is related to unintended and rather negative drivers and that also some unintended behaviors and consequences can occur. Unintended
drivers include beliefs like information overload, social overload, or dissatisfaction, unintended behaviors include user resistance behaviors or the manifestation of workarounds, and unintended consequences include stress, addiction, or employee turnover.
These unintended drivers and consequences are to some extent not covered by the initial system design as they are rather unintended and occur when the technology is implemented and used.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">Potential Topics:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Therefore, the objective of this mini-track is to focus on unintended drivers and consequences of technology usage to provide system developers guidelines to avoid these rather negative aspects when designing and implementing
technologies. Papers might focus on one of the following aspects, but are not limited to:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><![if !supportLists]><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-US">Drivers and consequences of different types of user resistance behaviors<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><![if !supportLists]><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-US">User’s workarounds<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><![if !supportLists]><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-US">Organizational strategies to avoid user resistance<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><![if !supportLists]><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-US">Drivers and consequences of technostress<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><![if !supportLists]><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-US">Individual and organizational coping mechanisms to avoid technostress<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><![if !supportLists]><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-US">Drivers and consequences of technology addiction<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><![if !supportLists]><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-US">Strategies to address technology addiction<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><![if !supportLists]><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-US">Social influence on technology acceptance<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><![if !supportLists]><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-US">User personality and technology acceptance<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><![if !supportLists]><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-US">Privacy threats when using technology<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">We welcome different kinds of theoretical perspectives focusing on both private and organizational usage of technology and its consequences for individuals, organizations, and society by using various research methodologies.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><b><span lang="EN-US">Important Dates for AMCIS 2015:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">January 5, 2015: Manuscript submissions for AMCIS 2015 begin<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">February 25, 2015: AMCIS manuscript submissions closes for authors
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">Tuesday, April 21, 2015: Authors notified about the disposition of their papers.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">Tuesday, April 28, 2015: Authors submit camera-ready revision of their papers.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">May 5, 2015: Final decisions on AMCIS 2015 program are made<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">Instructions for authors: AMCIS website (
</span><a href="http://amcis2015.aisnet.org/"><span lang="EN-US">http://amcis2015.aisnet.org/</span></a><span lang="EN-US"> )<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Minitrack-Details: <a href="http://amcis2015.aisnet.org/2-uncategorised/31-adoption-and-diffusion-of-information-technology-sigadit-track">
http://amcis2015.aisnet.org/2-uncategorised/31-adoption-and-diffusion-of-information-technology-sigadit-track</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:DE"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:DE"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:DE">_________________________________________________________<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:8.0pt;color:#0563C1;mso-fareast-language:DE">Dr. Sven Laumer</span></u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:8.0pt;mso-fareast-language:DE"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:8.0pt;mso-fareast-language:DE"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;mso-fareast-language:DE"><a href="http://www.uni-bamberg.de/en"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#0563C1">Otto-Friedrich University Bamberg</span></a></span><u><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#0563C1;mso-fareast-language:DE"><o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;mso-fareast-language:DE"><a href="http://www.uni-bamberg.de/en/isdl/"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#0563C1">Information Systems and Services</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:DE"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:8.0pt;mso-fareast-language:DE"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:8.0pt;mso-fareast-language:DE">Contact:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:8.0pt;mso-fareast-language:DE">Tel: +49 951 863 2873<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:8.0pt;mso-fareast-language:DE">Fax: +49 951 863 2872<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;mso-fareast-language:DE"><a href="mailto:sven.laumer@uni-bamberg.de"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#0563C1">sven.laumer@uni-bamberg.de</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:8.0pt;mso-fareast-language:DE"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;mso-fareast-language:DE">Post: Postfach 1549 |96045 Bamberg | Germany<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;mso-fareast-language:DE">Visting: Room 04.037 | An der Weberei 5 | 96047 Bamberg | Germany<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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