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*CFP: DIGIT 2020 - Sunday, December 13, 2020*
*IS Innovation Adoption, Use, and Diffusion in a World of
Disruptions*
*Submissions Due: Monday, September 14, 2020*
The Special Interest Group on the Adoption and Diffusion of
Information
Technology (SIG ADIT) is over 30 years old and will again host a
pre-ICIS
workshop for people interested in information technology adoption
and
diffusion (DIGIT). DIGIT will be held on Sunday December 13, 2020
as a
virtual workshop.
For decades, IS research on adoption and diffusion has tracked and
explained how individuals and organizations use technology. This
has been a
steady evolution from considering mandatory use contexts of IT
within
organizations (e.g., PC, ERP systems), to focusing on individual
decisions
to adopt and use technology in volitional contexts, to unpacking
the
complex situation of advice giving or recommender systems
(Benbasat 2018).
Yet, the beginning of 2020 has unveiled a new host of disruptions,
including a global pandemic and powerful civil rights protests and
political movements. These phenomena are still unfolding but IS is
at the
heart of many of our solutions to cope with these disruptions.
Now,
individuals, organizations, and whole ecosystems have been forced
to
innovatively use technology - from virtual meetings replacing
in-person
gatherings, to the rapid digitization of processes, to using smart
devices
to track individuals for contact tracing and disease prevention
initiatives. These situations are ripe with individuals,
organizations, and
society using information technology in novel ways, and our
understanding
of them will likely benefit from the theoretical lenses used in
adoption
and diffusion research.
Like any extreme case, we believe there is a unique and expansive
opportunity to discover important insights about IS innovation,
adoption,
use, and diffusion that may contribute back to our core body of
knowledge.
For example, the disruptions of the global pandemic have put
pressures on
the adoption, use, and diffusion of IS innovation different than
we have
seen before. It is a global phenomenon, affecting the wide breath
of
economies, politics, cultures, healthcare systems, etc., around
the world,
at nearly the same time. The activities of each industry,
organization, and
individual has likely been touched in complex and interesting
ways, as new
practices are adopted. Further, many of these practices had to be
embraced
nearly overnight as sweeping stay-at-home or shelter-in-place
orders were
put into place. This has no doubt shifted the power between
constituents
(Markus 1983), generated new digital divides (Bussewitz &
Olson, 2020;
Ramsetty & Adams, 2020; Stewart, 2020), triggered nearly
immediate changes
in the utilization and benefits of IS investments (Gal et al.
2008; Yoo et
al. 2010), and highlighted the importance of combined, real-time
data sets
in times of uncertainty (Brynjolfsson et al. 2016), as well as a
plethora
of other consequences to uncover.
The 2020 DIGIT workshop provides an opportunity for IS innovation
researchers to come together and generate vibrant discussions and
exchanges
of ideas about disruptions and their impact in innovation,
adoption, use,
and diffusion of IS. While papers adhering to the disruption theme
are
encouraged, research in other IT adoption and diffusion research
domains
will also be considered. Potential topic areas include, but are
not
exclusive to:
- Individual and collective IS innovation behavior, such as
adaptation,
coping, improvisation, and resilience, in the presence of
disruptions
- Multi-level studies considering the rippling effects of
disruptions
and their implications for IS adoption and diffusion
- Process models studying adoption, diffusion, and abandonment
before
and after a disruption
- New theorization of how disruptions matter in IS innovation
theories
at the individual, organizational, interorganizational, and
society levels
- New qualitative, quantitative, and design-led methodological
approaches to examine the dynamics of IS innovation and adoption,
including
the use of big trace datasets
- IS innovation adoption, diffusion, and abandonment in the
presence of
various forms of societal events or social influence
Submitted research can be conceptual, analytical, design-oriented,
or
empirical in nature. The workshop will include paper
presentations, paper
roundtables and panel discussions. Please note, that due to the
virtual
format, we will not have a poster presentation option this year.
*Instructions for Contributors*
In the interest of discussing the most current research in this
area, we
welcome
- Full research papers (fourteen single-spaced pages)
- Research-in-progress papers (seven single-spaced pages)
All submissions will be blind reviewed. Papers should not have
been
published previously in proceedings or journals, nor be under
review
elsewhere, but it is the general objective of the workshop that
they will
be submitted to a premier outlet after the DIGIT workshop.
Proceedings of the workshop will be published in the AIS
Electronic
Library. The authors can choose whether they want the full paper
or only an
extended abstract to be published. For past proceedings see:
http://aisel.aisnet.org/digit/
*Instructions for Submissions*The deadline for submission of
papers is
Monday, September 14, 2020.
Notification of acceptance or rejection will be made in
late-October.
All papers must conform to the instructions given in the DIGIT
2020
submission template. They must be single-spaced and submitted in
Microsoft
Word format. Papers, both full research and research-in-progress
submissions, should include an abstract. Page counts exclude the
title
page, references and appendices. The title page 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. Please
use the DIGIT 2020 submission template, which can be found online
at:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JxlwW_22ia7Bg1Za3dS8YPcrVxbbkpn2/view?usp=sharing
All paper submissions should be submitted using the submission
system at
https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/DIGIT2020
Questions regarding paper submissions can be sent to the program
co-chairs:
Jean-Grégoire Bernard (
jean-gregoire.bernard@vuw.ac.nz) or
Jennifer
Claggett (
claggejl@wfu.edu)
*Instructions for Participation*The workshop date will be held on
Sunday,
December 13, 2020 as a virtual event. At least one author must
register
and attend the workshop to present the paper if the work is
accepted. A
minimal workshop fee will be charged to employed academics ($20
USD) to
cover operating costs. Registration is free of charge for
postgraduate
students.
*Workshop Committee*
For information on SIGADIT and the DIGIT workshop, see
https://www.sigadit.net/digit or please contact the 2020 workshop
committee:
Jean-Grégoire Bernard
2020 DIGIT Program Co-Chair
jean-gregoire.bernard@vuw.ac.nz
Wellington School of Business & Government
Victoria University of Wellington
Wellington, New Zealand
Jennifer Claggett
2020 DIGIT Program Co-Chair
claggejl@wfu.edu
School of Business
Wake Forest University
Winston-Salem, NC, USA
Christian Maier
2020 DIGIT Workshop Chair
christian.maier@uni-bamberg.de
Department of Information Systems and Services
University of Bamberg
Bamberg, Germany
Christy M. K. Cheung
2020 SIGADIT Chair
ccheung@hkbu.edu.hk
School of Business
Hong Kong Baptist University
Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong
*References*
Benbasat, I. 2018. Who’s the Boss? From History to the Future of
Implementation, Adoption, Diffusion Research in IS/IT Focusing on
Individuals, Keynote Presentation presented at the DIGIT, San
Francisco,
CA, December 2018.
Brynjolfsson, E., Geva, T., and Reichman, S. 2016. “Crowd-Squared:
Amplifying the Predictive Power of Search Trend Data,” MIS
Quarterly
(40:4), pp. 941-+.
Bussewitz, C., and Olson, A. 2020. “Gig Workers Face Shifting
Roles,
Competition in Pandemic,” Associated Press, July 5. (
https://apnews.com/ebc223c6d783c49feca6ffb27af6264b, accessed July
16, 2020)
Gal, U., Lyytinen, K., and Yoo, Y. 2008. “The Dynamics of IT
Boundary
Objects, Information Infrastructures, and Organisational
Identities: The
Introduction of 3D Modelling Technologies into the Architecture,
Engineering, and Construction Industry,” European Journal of
Information
Systems (17:3), pp. 290–304.
Markus, M. L. 1983. “Power, Politics, and MIS Implementations,”
Communications of the ACM (26:6).
Ramsetty, A., and Adams, C. 2020. “Impact of the Digital Divide in
the Age
of COVID-19,” Journal of the American Medical Informatics
Association (in
press, ocaa078).
Stewart, E. 2020. “The Pandemic Job Divide: Those Who Can Stay
Safe at
Home, and Those Who Can’t,” Vox.com, June 12. (
https://www.vox.com/covid-19-coronavirus-economy-recession-stock-market/2020/6/12/21283820/,
accessed July 16, 2020)
Yoo, Y., Henfridsson, O., and Lyytinen, K. 2010. “Research
Commentary—The
New Organizing Logic of Digital Innovation: An Agenda for
Information
Systems Research,” Information Systems Research (21:4), pp.
724–735.
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