Dennis M. Steininger

Rheinland-Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern-Landau | TUK · School of Business and Economics

More than 50 years ago, information technology (IT) began to change society, the economy, and industries worldwide. This change has included waves of technological disruption that have been exploited by entrepreneurial actors who seize the associated new opportunities. Research on related phenomena is spread across different disciplines. Recently,...

Crowdfunding has become a viable alternative to traditional venture capital and business angel funding. However, new ventures are prone to failure despite exceeding their funding goals. Extant literature presents broad knowledge of the antecedents of crowdfunding success but lacks insights into the causes and consequences of entrepreneurial failure...

In response to the impact of the SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) pandemic, various developers turned to smartphone-based contact tracing to address the challenges of manual tracing. Due to the presence of network effects, i.e., the effectiveness of contact tracing applications increases with the number of users, information technology standards were critical...

Drawing on contingency and upper echelon theories, this study conceptualizes family firm CEO succession as a special window of opportunity for the new generation to reinvent and rejuvenate the firm and restore the environment-organization fit that had often deteriorated pre-succession. We argue that CEO-related human capital enables successors to i...

Many firms use social media (SM) to solicit online investments. In this study, we examine the interaction between SM attributes and online-investment attributes to determine how this interaction shapes users’ investment decisions. Specifically, we investigate initial coin offerings (ICOs) as an application domain of distributed ledger technology fo...

A considerable amount of research has been conducted on business models. Yet, success of business models, and, in particular, what influences their ability to scale have remained widely unexplored. However, in a digital world, being able to quickly scale a business model is important to compete. This study therefore aims at discovering themes that...

Over the past twenty years the dynamic capabilities view (DCV) has gained prominence in the IS field as a theoretical perspective from which to explain competitive advantage in turbulent environments. While there are quite a few review studies of DCs in the strategic management domain, research on DCs in the IS area has not been synthesized nor cri...

Classification schemes are important groundwork for research on many topics of different business disciplines such as information systems (IS). They make investigating topics manageable by allowing researchers to delimit their work to certain taxa or types (e.g., of artifacts or firms) and provide a basis for generalization. Opposed to theoreticall...

Developing and keeping a community motivated is critical for success, particularly in self-hosted crowdfunding. Existing research has identified social capital as an important driver of such endeavors. However, the process of how social capital can be developed, managed, and targeted towards a common goal in digital settings is mostly unknown. Appl...

====== THE FULL-TEXT CAN BE FOUND HERE: https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1ZBLK98SGemAI ====== Deciding which artist or song to sign and promote has always been a challenge for recording companies, especially when it comes to innovative newcomer singers without any chart history. However, the specifics of a creative industry such as the hedonic natur...

Crowdfunding is on the rise: its volume grew 1000% in only three years and is about to outpace worldwide venture capital spending. A quickly growing body of research is exploring the emerging crowdfunding phenomenon. While the literature offers a detailed and comprehensive picture of decision-making for traditional startup financing or bank loans,...

PLEASE ALSO SEE THE FULL PAPER IN THE ELECTRONIC MARKETS JOURNAL: A quickly growing body of research is exploring the emerging crowdfunding phenomenon. However, in contrast to traditional startup financing or bank loans, decision-making for investments in crowdfunded ventures is not well researched. Many individual studies investigate aspects that...

A quickly growing body of research is exploring the emerging crowdfunding phenomenon. However, in contrast to traditional startup financing or bank loans, decision-making for investments in crowdfunded ventures is not well researched. Many individual studies investigate aspects that influence investor decision-making in crowdfunding campaigns, but...

While consumption of content in offline formats continues to decline, many providers are still struggling to monetize their content online, because consumers’ willingness to pay (WTP) for content in online formats is low. The availability of free content on the Internet is often considered the primary reason for this issue. However, we hold that th...

The digitalization and the diffusion of connected mobile devices have urged media companies to deliver their content in digital formats such as apps. We evaluate differences in customers' preferences and willingness to pay between traditional and digital content services conducting an adaptive conjoint analysis. Within this analysis we compare subs...

======== NOTE: PLEASE FIND THE FULL FOLLOW-UP JOURNAL ARTICLE HERE: https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1ZBLK98SGemAI ======== The peculiarities of the recording industry system, such as fashion cycles, the hedonic nature of music, socionetwork effects, informal heuristics in the decision-making process of recording companies, and the opaque selection...

In an empirical study, we explore success factors of electronic business models by comparing how the two professional social networking sites (SNS) LinkedIn and Xing have achieved competitive advantage. Using the grounded theory method and a resource-based perspective, our interpretative case study employs the business models of the respective orga...

Despite high potentials and sophisticated goals set by federal policy-makers, local authorities are reluctant to move procurement to the Internet. This paper investigates the reasons of this phenomenon by presenting insights from a positivist multiple-case study among thirteen German municipalities. Our results suggest that perceived risks and bene...

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Working papers / Ludwig-Maximilians- Universität, Institut für Wirtschaftsinformatik und Neue Medien (Vol. 1), T. Hess (ed.), München: Univ.

Web 2.0 has recently been one of the most discussed topics in Information Systems science and practice. However, little consensus is found on what its components and characteristics actually are and what a comprehensive conceptualization might look like. This paper tries to shed light on these questions by systemizing the phenomenon's characteristi...