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DIGIT 2010 will be held on Sunday, December 12, 2010 at the Hyatt Regency St.Louis at the Arch in St. Louis, Missouri.

The theme of the workshop is: Reflections of the Past and Gateway to the Future of Adoption and Diffusion Research.

 Submissions due by Friday, September 10, 2010

Call for Papers

Past DIGIT Workshops

Past European-DIGIT (e-DIGIT) Workshops

Research on adoption and diffusion of IT innovation has spanned several decades. This year’s DIGIT workshop aims to reflect on what we have learned so far, identify outstanding or emergent questions in different spheres, and craft future directions and methods for research.

To this end, we solicit papers on IT adoption and diffusion that serve these dual goals of showing where we have been in the past and where we may be headed in the future. Potential topics for such examination include:
— Theory:  What current theories explain and what they fail to explain
— Measurement:  What current techniques measure and what they fail to —measure
— Methods:  What current analysis methods yield and what they fail to yield

While papers adhering to the theme are preferred, research in other IT adoption and diffusion research domains will be considered.
— Identifying technologies:  enterprise systems, inter-organization systems, personal systems
— Conceptualizing innovations:  feature-centric vs. innovation-centric
— Determining stages:  initiation, adoption, use, assimilation, adaptation, infusion
— Choosing environments:  private vs. public sectors, voluntary vs. captive vs. mandatory settings
— Selecting units of analysis:  individual, group/team, organization, industry, society
— Identifying antecedent categories:  technology, individual, group/network, organization
— Crafting empirical designs:  cross-sectional, longitudinal, panel
— Collecting data:  case studies, experiments, surveys, simulations, mixed methods
— Analyzing data:  structural equations, latent growth models, event history, event sequence 

In the interest of discussing the most current research in this area, working papers are encouraged as well as more complete papers.

All submissions will be blind reviewed. Papers should not have been published previously in a proceedings or journal, nor be under review elsewhere, but may be submitted elsewhere after the DIGIT meeting. At least one author must register and attend the workshop to present the paper if the work is accepted. [Registration is generally limited to 40 participants to foster a workshop atmosphere as in previous meetings.]

All papers should be double-spaced and submitted in Microsoft Word format. Working papers or research in process are limited to ten double-spaced pages. Research papers are limited to twenty double-spaced pages. Both types of submissions should include an abstract. Page counts exclude references. The title page (exclusive of the page counts) 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.

All paper submissions should be sent electronically as a Microsoft Word attachment to digit.workshop@gmail.com. Questions regarding paper submissions should be directed to the Program Chair. The deadline for submission of papers is Friday, September 10, 2010.

Please contact any of the following individuals for more information.
Elizabeth Baker — Workshop Chair
Marcus Rothenberger — Program Chair
Mark Srite — SIGADIT Chair

Please see the complete Call for Papers for additional information on the DIGIT workshop.