IS innovation, adoption and diffusion
Track 19
Track chairs
Annette M. Mills
University of Canterbury, Department of Accounting and Information Systems
Victoria Reibenspiess
Wake Forest University
Florian Pethig
Tilburg University
Track description
From artificial intelligence and agentic systems to platform ecosystems, the Internet of Things (IoT/AIoT), and quantum computing, digital technologies are radically redefining how organisations, public infrastructures, and societies operate. Yet these technologies do more than enable connections. They actively shape and reshape digital borders, that is, the boundaries between geographies, economies, sectors, organisations, communities, and individuals that determine who participates, who benefits, and under what conditions.
To thrive in this evolving landscape, organisations, economies and societies must harness the potentials and power of digital technologies in ways that balance innovation with responsible practices. Understanding how digital boundaries are constructed, negotiated, reinforced, or bridged through processes of innovation and diffusion is now central to contemporary IS research. This calls for thoughtful reflection on how existing theories and methodologies can be engaged, adapted, and reshaped, as well as how new approaches can be developed to address the complexities introduced by emerging technologies.
This track invites contributions that move beyond technological capabilities to examine the socio-technical, organizational, cultural, and regulatory factors that influence how emerging and combinatorial technologies reshape participation and access. Studies that advance understanding of the complexities of how digital technologies are adopted and diffused across levels (individual, organisational, inter-organisational, societal), sectors (public, private, non-profit), and contexts (developed and emerging economies), are especially encouraged.
Topics of interest
- Adoption, use and diffusion of digital technologies across organisational and national borders
- Bridging digital divides for promoting inclusivity, equity, sustainable development goals, and access in lesser-studied contexts
- Organisational, societal and individual adoption, use, and abandonment of digital technologies
- Cross-border digital transformation initiatives, including ecosystems, platforms, and global digital infrastructures
- Empowering individuals, diverse communities, and societies through emerging IT/IS
- The role of institutional, regulatory, cultural, and geopolitical forces in shaping diffusion patterns
- Ecological, social, regulatory, geopolitical, and ethical opportunities, challenges and consequences of digital technologies for the environment, economies, societies and human wellbeing
- Change management and digital transformation with digital technologies
- Multi-level and multi-stakeholder perspectives on the adoption, implementation, use and diffusion of emerging IT/IS
- Multidisciplinary perspectives on acceptance, use, and diffusion of digital technologies
- New theoretical perspectives on, and methodological approaches for digital adoption, use, diffusion of and transformation across borders
Associate editors
Arturo Cano Bejar
New Mexico State University, NM, USA
Frank Chan
ESSEC Business School, France
Yi-Te Chiu
Institute of Service Science, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
Mike Dinger
University of South Carolina Upstate, SC, USA
Samira Farivar
Carleton University, Canada
Anand Jeyaraj
Wright State University, OH, USA
Ioannis Kanellopoulos
Tilburg University, Netherlands
Hugo Lam
University of Liverpool, UK
Sven Laumer
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
Zach Lee
City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Seth Li
William & Mary, VA, USA
Yafang Li
University of Memphis, TN, USA
Xixi Li
University of Science and Technology Beijing, China
Christian Maier
University of Bamberg, Germany
Markus Nöltner
Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen, Germany
Hamed Qahri-Saremi
Colorado State University, CO, USA
Saima Qutab
University of Auckland, New Zealand
Andrew Schwarz
Louisiana State University, LA, USA
Maduka Subasinghage
The University of Western Australia, Australia
Nehir Tanyel
University of Texas at San Antonio, TX, USA
Isaac Vaghefi
Baruch College, City University of New York, NY, USA
Christoph Weinert
University of Bamberg, Germany
Zherui Yang
IE University, Spain
Alex Zarifis
University of Southampton, UK
Xinhui Zhan
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
