[AISWorld] AMCIS 2021 – Adoption and Diffusion of Information Technology (ADIT) Track: Call For Minitrack Proposals

Wed Sep 16 05:44:02 EDT 2020

*Call For Minitrack Proposals*
*AMCIS 2021: Adoption and Diffusion of Information Technology (ADIT) Track *

We invite the submission of minitrack proposals to Adoption and Diffusion
of Information Technology (ADIT) Track in the 27th Americas Conference on
Information Systems (AMCIS 2021), which will be held on August 5-7, 2021 in
Montreal, Canada.

*Track Description: *
The extant literature on adoption and diffusion has improved our
understanding of how IT is utilized by individuals, groups, and
organizations and its wanted and unwanted consequences. In turn, we now
have rich insights into relevant topics such as digital innovation, digital
business models, and factors that affect IT implementation, to name a few.
With the accelerating pace of digital transformation in many organizations
and societies and the fundamental role of IT systems and services in it, as
has been witnessed during COVID-19 pandemic, there is still much to learn
about the diffusion and adoption of IT. We need to investigate the
potential of new digital innovations, while also examining downsides of
adoption and diffusion of IT. Issues such as IS misuse, obsessive
addiction, technostress, information overload, and new digital divides to
name a few, all have become important areas to investigate. This track
seeks to be a forum for high quality research that can theoretically and/or
practically provide valuable insights into the adoption and diffusion of
digital innovations at the individual, group, organizational, and societal
levels. This includes the application of all types of research
methodologies.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
1. Cutting Edge adoption and diffusion
2. Individual, group, or organizational IT adoption decisions
3. Adoption or diffusion of IT supporting organizational and
inter-organizational initiatives
4. Adoption of IT in a residential/ household context
5. Global or cross-cultural studies of IT implementation, adoption, and
post-adoption
6. Adoption and use of social technologies, smart devices, and other
emerging IT
7. Adoption or diffusion of IT in specific sectors (such as e-government)
8. Communication types and channels on the diffusion of IT
9. Socio-economic impacts of IT adoption and diffusion
10. The impact of IT use on the daily/social/professional life of
consumers/citizens
11. Dark Sides and Negative outcomes of IS use (e.g., information overload,
technostress)
12. Theories, concepts, and tools of IT adoption and diffusion
13. Theoretical essays or critical reviews of adoption and diffusion of IT
14. Usage and post-adoption behaviors, such as infusion, exploitation, and
exploration
15. Dark usage and post-adoption behaviors, such as misuse, obsessive use,
compulsive use, and addictive use
16. Adoption and Diffusion of Ambivalent IT

Minitrack chairs will be responsible for:
a) Promoting their minitrack to generate manuscript submissions to AMCIS
2021;
b) Solicit and assign reviewers for manuscripts submitted to the minitrack;
c) Provide a summary report to authors based on reviews;
d) Making recommendations to track chairs about each manuscript submitted
to the mini-track; and
e) Nominate best papers and reviewers

*Journal Fast Track Opportunity:*
High quality and relevant papers from this track will be selected for
fast-tracked development towards Internet Research (
www.emeraldinsight.com/loi/intr
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Selected papers will need to expand in content and length in line with the
requirements for standard research articles published in the journal.
Although the track co-chairs are committed to guiding the selected papers
towards final publication, further reviews may be needed before final
publication decisions can be made. Internet Research (IntR) is an
international and refereed journal that is indexed and abstracted in major
databases (e.g., SSCI, SCI, ABI/INFORM Global), with the impact factor
4.708 in 2019.

*To submit a minitrack proposal, you must submit: *
a) Minitrack co-chairs (names, emails, affiliations);
b) Minitrack Title;
c) A short description of minitrack for the AMCIS 2021 website (up to 150
words);
d) A call for papers for your minitrack.

To submit a minitrack proposal, visit:
https://new.precisionconference.com/ais
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and
follow the submission guidelines.

*Important Dates: *
September 21, 2020: PCS opens for Minitrack submissions
October 16, 2020: Minitrack submissions are due (PCS will close).
October 23, 2020: Track chairs make recommendations on mini-tracks
October 30, 2020: Mini-track decisions announced
January 6, 2021: System opens for general paper submissions
March 26, 2021: Reviews are due
April 8, 2021: Mini-track chair recommendations are due

*Track Co-Chairs: *
Andreas Eckhardt, Full Professor, University of Innsbruck,
andreas.eckhardt at uibk.ac.at
Hamed Qahri-Saremi, Assistant Professor, DePaul University,
hamed.saremi at depaul.edu
Jean-Grégoire Bernard, Senior Lecturer, Victoria University of Wellington,
jean-gregoire.bernard at vuw.ac.nz

Please contact us if you have any questions. We look forward to receiving
your proposals in the system (https://new.precisionconference.com/ais
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).

Best regards,
Andreas Eckhardt, and Hamed Qahri-Saremi, and Jean-Grégoire Bernard