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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b><span style="color: red;">****** New Paper submission deadline: February 28, 2010
******</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b><span style="color: red;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b><span style="text-transform: uppercase;">Call for Papers: <br>
<i>Information Technology and Management</i></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt; text-align: center;" align="center"><b><span style="text-transform: uppercase;">S</span>pecial Issue on “Theoretical and
Methodological Advances <br>
for Research on the Adoption and Diffusion of <br>
New ITs and Technological Innovations”</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10pt; text-align: center;" align="center"><b>_____________________________________________________________________________________</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt;"><b><span style="text-transform: uppercase;">Guest Editors</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt;"><b>Ajit Kambil</b>, Deloitte
Research; <a href="mailto:akambil@mac.com" target="_blank">akambil@mac.com</a> <b><br>
Robert J. Kauffman</b>, Arizona State University; <a href="mailto:rkauffman@asu.edu" target="_blank">rkauffman@asu.edu</a> <b><br>
Angsana A. Techatassanasoontorn</b>, Pennsylvania State University; <a href="mailto:angsanat@ist.psu.edu" target="_blank">angsanat@ist.psu.edu</a> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt;"><b><span style="text-transform: uppercase;">Motivation</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt;">There is a growing recognition
that adoption and extensive diffusion of new ITs and technological innovations
are critical for individuals to have meaningful engagements in an information
society. Similarly important are new IT and technology innovations that help
organizations to survive and thrive in the highly competitive environment of
the global economy. Another frontier for impact is at the country level
for sustainable social and economic development. Some examples include
the emergence of new technologies, such as mobile and Internet-based telephony,
open software systems, infrastructure and application support for digital
social networks, digital entertainment services on the Internet, and more
intelligent hardware-based data storage systems. Their incorporation into
innovative products and services has had dramatic benefits at all these levels.
</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt;">The adoption and diffusion of
new technologies and innovations research literature is voluminous and has
identified a number of factors associated with adoption and diffusion across
multiple levels. For instance, the technology acceptance model offers a
parsimonious theory to explain individual acceptance of a new innovation.
Similarly, cumulative research at the organizational and interorganizational
levels has been able to explain innovation-related needs and abilities that are
associated with different adoption behaviors. However, as a number of leading
senior scholars and industry observers have expressed, there still are many
opportunities for theory development in the adoption and diffusion of new
innovations area. For example, Lucas et al. (2007) stated that much
research up to the present has emphasized individual adoption and acceptance of
innovations. They called for a broader umbrella of research that offers rich
theorizing for innovations with technology by accounting for the relevant
technological, institutional, and historical contexts. Fichman (2004) called
for research to move beyond the dominant paradigm of establishing the relationships
between the independent variables of innovator profiles, and the dependent
variables of innovation quantity. Some of the most promising opportunities for
theory development involve such topics as contagion effects, management
fashion, innovation mindfulness, technology ecosystems and innovation life
cycles, innovation configurations, technology destinies, the evolution of
standards organizations, and quality-led innovation. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt;">Moreover, there are many new
methods that can address research questions and offer new approaches for theory
development. For example, survival analysis from public health and spatial
econometrics from geographical information systems offer new ways to support
the development of next-stage theoretical perspectives on the adoption and
diffusion process for different technological innovations. The same can
be said for data mining and other advanced statistical methods that blend
techniques from computer science to emphasize the recognition of patterns and
regime shifts and changes. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt;">A final aspect of the motivation
for this special issue is to engage industry researchers, thought leaders, and
practice innovators, who have special organizational, business, government and
other context reasons for developing new approaches to understanding how
technologies and innovations diffuse. Some recent examples of specific
interest include the diffusion of social networking technologies, outsourcing
and new approaches to IT services, and mobile and nomadic
computing. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt;">Our objective of this special
issue is to publish managerially interesting, rigorous, forward-looking, and
innovative research that advances theoretical and methodological knowledge
regarding the adoption and diffusion of new technologies and innovations.
Some prospective topics may include but are not limited to the following:</p>
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<td style="border: 1pt solid black; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 167.7pt;" valign="top" width="224">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Advertising-related
technology innovations</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Banking and financial
services systems</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Blogs and social networking
technologies</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Business intelligence &
analytics</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Business process modeling
innovations</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Digital media &
entertainment innovations</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Digital music & artistic
transmutations</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Electronic billing systems</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Electronic voting &
e-government systems</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Financial market &
trading technologies</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Financial risk management
systems</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"></span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-style: solid solid solid none; border-color: black black black -moz-use-text-color; border-width: 1pt 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 159.6pt;" valign="top" width="213">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Healthcare systems and technologies</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">High-definition TV systems
& standards</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Information goods &
digital products</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Information privacy &
digital security</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">ITs for economic &
social development</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Location-based systems &
services</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Management fashion
developments</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Market operations & exchange
solutions</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Mobile telecommunication
systems</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Nomadic computing service
innovations</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Online auctions and market
mechanisms</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"></span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-style: solid solid solid none; border-color: black black black -moz-use-text-color; border-width: 1pt 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 167.7pt;" valign="top" width="224">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Online instruction &
digital learning aids Open software and systems innovations</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Service-oriented systems
& technologies</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Statistical methods for IT
adoption study</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Technology ecosystem
forecasting tools</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Technological innovation-led
performance</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Technology stack,
infrastructure changes</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Vendor-managed inventory,
supply chain</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Vertical information systems
standards</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Yield management and revenue
control</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 6pt 0in;"><b><span style="text-transform: uppercase;">Important Dates</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt;">Paper submission deadline:
February 28, 2010<br>
First review
by:
April 15, 2010 <br>
First revision
by:
July 15,
2010<br>
Additional reviews/revisions: July 15, 2010 to December
1, 2010<br>
Notification of acceptance: As
early as possible, but not later than January 31, 2011</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt;"><b><span style="text-transform: uppercase;">Paper Format</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span style="color: black;">Each
manuscript page should have a 1-inch margin on the top, bottom, right and left.
Font sizes must be set to 12 and font type must be double-spaced Times New
Roman. The first page should contain the title, abstract, and keywords.
This first page should not be numbered. The abstract should be less than 200
words. List 2 to 6 keywords representing your research below the abstract. Each
subsequent page should be numbered starting with 2. Maximum numbered page
length is 32 pages, including figures, tables, and references. For reference
styles, see the following link posted on <i>Information Technology and
Management</i> journal website: </span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.springeronline.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,11855,4-170-70-35612778-0,00.html" target="_blank">www.springeronline.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,11855,4-170-70-35612778-0,00.html</a>.
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt;"><b><span style="text-transform: uppercase;">Online Submission and Review Process</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt;">All manuscripts must be
submitted online at the journal’s website at <a href="http://www.editorialmanager.com/item/" target="_blank"><span style="color: purple;">www.editorialmanager.com/item/</span></a>. The website
provides instructions on how to register and submit a manuscript. All papers
will be peer- reviewed by experts in the research area. The guest editors
make final decisions on acceptance. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt;"><b><span style="text-transform: uppercase;">References</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 6pt 0.25in;">1.<span style="font-size: 7pt;">
</span>R. G. Fichman. Going beyond the dominant paradigm for information
technology innovation research: emerging concepts and methods, <i>Journal of
the Association for Information Systems</i> <b>5</b>(8) (2004) 314-355.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 6pt 0.25in;">2.<span style="font-size: 7pt;">
</span>H. C. Lucas, Jr., E. B. Swanson, and R. W. Zmud. Implementation,
innovation, and related themes over the years in information systems research,<i>
Journal of the Association for Information Systems</i> 8(4) (2007) 206-210.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: navy;">Angsana A. Techatassanasoontorn</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: navy;">Assistant Professor</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="color: navy;">College</span><span style="color: navy;"> of
</span><span style="color: navy;">Information Sciences</span><span style="color: navy;"> and Technology</span></span></p>
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