DIGIT

DIGIT 2021 Workshop

When: Saturday, December 11, 2021

Submissions Due: Friday, October 01, 2021. Extended to Sunday October 10, 2021
Please see our Call for Papers for details.
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The Special Interest Group on the Adoption and Diffusion of Information Technology (SIGADIT) invites all SIGADIT members to participate in the 2021 DIGIT Workshop.

This year’s program features a panel discussion embracing the conference theme of challenges: What to tackle, how to tackle it, and how to do so as a research community? (Panelists: Prof Deborah Compeau, Prof Elena Karahanna, Prof Suprateek Sarker and Prof Andrew Burton-Jones). See panel description for further details.

Building resilience with information technology in the time of disruptions has been crucial for many during the COVID-19 and should continue to be in our agenda in the post-COVID-19 world. Organizations, individuals, and societies have been facing disruptions of different forms, natural disasters, political and social unrest, and epidemics and pandemics, affecting their normal functioning from different aspects. The past two years have witnessed enormous examples of organizations, individuals, and societies harnessing advanced information systems and technologies to survive the disruptions and even thrive afterward. For example, organizations have utilized a wide array of collaborative technologies to keep their businesses running and built increasing online presences across multiple digital channels. Individuals have embraced digital technologies into different aspects of their life, reshaping many of their working, communicating, and purchasing behaviors and habits. Changes resulted from such disruptions occur also at the society level, governments across the world have accelerated the digitization of the provision of public services.

While the phenomenon with organizations, individuals, and societies using information technologies for resilience building in disruptions has become more prevalent, our understanding of it will benefit from further scientific investigation and a tight alignment to theoretical lenses used in adoption and diffusion research. The 2021 DIGIT workshop provides an opportunity for researchers to come together and generate vibrant discussions and exchanges of ideas about how organizations, individuals, and societies can harness information technologies to build resilience in and for disruptions. While papers adhering to the theme of building resilience with information technologies, research in other IT adoption and diffusion research domains are very welcome. Potential topic areas include, but are not exclusive to:

• Organizational information technology adoption and diffusion to survive disruptions across different sectors and industries, such as business, education, and public services

• Individual and collective technology use behaviors, such as adaptation, coping, improvisation 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 IT adoption and diffusion theories at the individual, organizational, and societal levels

• New qualitative, quantitative, and design-led methodological approaches to examine the dynamics of IT adoption and diffusion in disruptions

Submitted research can be conceptual, analytical, design-oriented, or empirical in nature. The workshop will include paper presentations, paper roundtables and panel discussion.

Instructions for Contributors
In the interest of discussing the most current research in this area, we welcome

• Completed 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: https://aisel.aisnet.org/digit/

** Submissions Due: Friday, October 01, 2021, Sunday, October 10, 2021 (Extended date)**
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Submission Instructions
All papers must conform to the instructions given in the DIGIT 2021 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 2021 submission template.

All paper submissions should be sent electronically as a Microsoft Word attachment to: zach.lee@durham.ac.uk

Questions regarding paper submissions can be sent to the program co-chairs: Zach W. Y. Lee (zach.lee@durham.ac.uk) and Jean-Grégoire Bernard (jean-gregoire.bernard@vuw.ac.nz)

Participation
The workshop date will be held on Saturday, December 11, 2021 as a VIRTUAL (fully online) event. You do not have to submit a paper to attend the workshop, and we are excited to have scholars of all levels come together and discuss topics of information technology adoption and diffusion and participate in panels and roundtables. However, if you do have a paper accepted, then at least one author must register and attend the workshop to present the paper if the work is accepted.

We especially encourage PhD students to participate in our workshop. We offer a discounted attendance fee for PhD students, and the fee will be waived for student authors of accepted papers.

Registration
How: Please register via the ICIS registration website. Our workshop this year is virtual and can be added to your ICIS registration or as a stand-alone attendee.
What: This year our event is focused on two major components. The workshop panel will take place from 1-2:45pm. The virtual round table sessions that follow will show-case our accepted papers and provide an opportunity to give generative feedback to authors from 3-4pm.

DIGIT Workshop Committee
For information on SIGADIT and the DIGIT workshop, please contact the 2021 workshop committees:

Jennifer Claggett
2021 DIGIT Workshop Chair
claggejl@wfu.edu
School of Business, Wake Forest University
Winston-Salem, NC, USA

Christian Maier
2021 SIGADIT Chair-Elect
christian.maier@uni-bamberg.de
Department of Information Systems and Services
University of Bamberg,
Bamberg, Germany

Zach W. Y. Lee
2021 DIGIT Program Chair
zach.lee@durham.ac.uk
Durham University Business School, Durham University
Durham, UK

Geneviève Bassellier
2021 SIGADIT Chair
genevieve.bassellier@mcgill.ca
Desautels Faculty of Management,
McGill University,
Montreal, Canada

PAST DIGIT WORKSHOPS (and PAPERS)

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