Alexander Eck

Berlin School of Economics and Law | HWR · Department of Business and Economics (FB 1)

We report on the computational reconstruction of 273 open source software ecosystems, consisting of 41,388 artifacts and couplings between them, extracted from digital traces of 34.4 million software artifacts. We argue that digital traces are a new kind of data source, and propose 'exploratory data loops' to exploit the benefits of digital trace d...

Digital platform ecosystems capitalize on the engagement of large groups of actors with diverse skills that create unexpected services, find novel uses, and move the ecosystem forward in unanticipated ways. The generativity concept captures this phenomenon, which some scholars regard as fundamental to our understanding of how digital innovation pla...

The concept of generativity as the capacity of a technology or a system to be malleable by diverse groups of actors in unanticipated ways has recently gained considerable traction in information systems research. We review a sample of the body of knowledge and identify that scholars commonly investigated generativity in conjunction with digital inf...

This article explores IT resources that can plausibly contribute to increased agility in the creation of new or adaptation of existing information systems (IS), while keeping operational risks under control. Embedded in the empirical context of a large financial company and on the example of an IT architecture design we demonstrate how such IT reso...

Despite being a cornerstone of agile development, surprisingly little is known about how organizations assimilate continuous integration (CI) and what organizational changes the practice implies. Through a systematic literature review complemented by case study research we address this gap and develop a conceptual framework describing organizationa...

While coordination of work within open source software (OSS) communities is well-researched, it is virtually unknown how work is coordinated across community boundaries. However, as OSS projects are often part of a larger digital ecosystem of interdependent artifacts and communities, cross-community coordination is a pertinent topic. We turn to the...

Given the unprecedented role of digital service platforms in private life, this research sets out to identify the mechanisms that are designed into information systems with the purpose to increase consumer centricity. We evaluate the consumer centricity of an information system against three reflective indicators, that is the degree of need orienta...

Platform ecosystem participants often draw from capabilities provided to them by other actors in the ecosystem. While heralded as a driver of innovation, it is unclear how exactly platform evolution is affected by this dynamic. In this short paper we apply event sequence analysis to extract and analyse sequential patterns related to capability rede...

This paper explores the impact of digitized products on industrial service innovation. Digital technologies equip physical products with versatile material properties that create a multitude of opportunities for value co-creation. In particular, product-complementing service offerings are an obvious field for investigating service innovation that l...

Getting an organization to a sustainable level of agility in order to cope better with digitization is a transformation in its own right, which touches upon many areas. From the viewpoint of an IT department, we regard these five dimensions as paramount to improve towards increased agility: stakeholders, culture, spaces, IT architecture & processes...

Digital transformation captures the imagination of both optimists and pessimists. To the first group, digitization provides unparalleled entrepreneurial opportunities. To the latter, it breaks proven business models apart and erodes established revenue bases. Regardless of the perspective, to thrive companies need to sense unpredictable environment...

Als „engineer-to-order“ (ETO) werden Produkte bezeichnet, die für einen konkreten Kundenauftrag entwickelt oder angepasst werden. Während die für diese Produkte erforderlichen Entwicklungs- und Konstruktionstätigkeiten in der Vergangenheit meist zentral durchgeführt wurden, erfordert die zunehmende Globalisierung die Zusammenarbeit weltweit verteil...

Angesichts der zunehmenden Globalisierung der Märkte erfordern Produktentwicklung und Engineering immer häufiger die Zusammenarbeit zwischen weltweit verteilten Standorten. Zur Bewältigung der Herausforderungen globaler Engineering-Prozesse wird das erforderliche Wissen regelmäßig in IT-Anwendungen zentral gespeichert und lokal verwendet. Als „engi...