Hannes Rothe

University of Duisburg-Essen | uni-due

We develop an empirically-grounded understanding of how design knowledge accumulates over time. Drawing from theory on knowledge creation, we conceptualize accumulation along the goals and scope of knowledge in DSR as a distinct knowledge creation problem. Through two empirical studies, we theorize knowledge accumulation in DSR by unpacking (a) thr...

In this paper we develop a new perspective on configuration processes inherent to smart service systems that brings human actors to the theoretical foreground, is informed by practice theory, and is grounded in an intervention study of smart locating systems used in home care of persons with dementia. Maintaining control of the location of persons...

Research summary Optimal distinctiveness theory highlights that firms need to balance opposing pressures for differentiation (to gain competitive benefits) and conformity (to gain legitimacy). Yet, extant optimal distinctiveness research rarely considers that the pressure for conformity can substantially vary between competing firms. Studying the p...

The assumption that generativity engenders unbounded growth has acquired an almost taken-for-granted position in information systems and management literature. Against this premise, we examine the relationship between generativity and user base growth in the context of a digital platform. To do this, we synthesize the literature on generativity int...

Data has become an indispensable input, throughput and output for the healthcare industry. In recent years, omics technologies such as genomics and proteomics have generated vast amounts of new data at the cellular level, at the molecular, structural and functional levels. It holds the potential to innovate therapeutics, vaccines, diagnostics, cons...

How do new entrepreneurial ventures effectively deploy linguistic frames to attract customer demand? Drawing on framing and categories research, we develop and test theory about how category dynamics shape the effectiveness of two commonly observed frames—social impact framing and innovativeness framing—in the context of prosocial categories. We te...

It is well understood that in order to compete and survive, organizations must consider ecosystem-centric perspectives. Platforms play a central role in the rapid emergence of this type of organization and the proliferation of digital technologies (Gawer, 2021; de Reuver et al., 2018; van Dijck et al., 2018). As we enter a “digital first” economy (...

AI ventures promise to automate and augment ever more human tasks. This provides rich opportunities for growth. Yet, digital and human resources that involve AI are oftentimes task-specific and hard to scale. Furthermore, clients remain skeptical to be fully automated by external services. Thus, it remains unclear how AI ventures achieve growth. We...

Digital data objects on viruses have played a pivotal role in the fight against COVID-19, leading to healthcare innovation such as new diagnostics, vaccines, and societal intervention strategies. To effectively achieve this, scientists access viral data from online communities (OCs). The social-interactionist view on generativity, however, has put...

Metropolitan area of Berlin is giving away potential for innovation in bio technology, but has a good chance of catching up with the world's leading locations. This is important, because biotech will have a huge impact on our life and societies (not only thanks to companies such as BioNTech SE or CureVac). We are happy to present our report on the...

Open access life science resources such as data and software, are fundamental for breakthrough discoveries, scientific excellence and entrepreneurial endeavours. Seventy-six percent of companies surveyed in our newest report “Open data: a driving force for innovation in the life sciences” state that their product or service would not exist without...

Open Science is a founding principle of ELIXIR, a pan-European research infrastructure for life science data, with 21 Member countries plus the European Molecular Biology Laboratory. The mission of ELIXIR is to coordinate bioinformatics resources so that they form a single, integrated and pan-European infrastructure, which can be used freely by aca...

This report documents the outcomes of a professional development workshop (PDW) held at the 40th International Conference on Information Systems in Munich, Germany. The workshop’s goal was to identify how information systems (IS) researchers can contribute to enriching the understanding of digital entrepreneurship—that is, the intersection of digit...

accepted 14.02.2020: With the advent of end-user and cloud computing, business users can implement information systems for work practices on their own – either from scratch or as extensions to existing systems. The resulting information systems, however, often remain hidden from managers and official IT units, and are therefore called “shadow IT sy...

It is now well understood that to survive and compete in the information-driven, globally connected 21st Century, organizations must acknowledge the speed and resilience of platforms and ecosystems. With the rapid emergence and proliferation of cloud services, artificial intelligence, and 5G, new human-machine relationships are emerging. These hybr...

The term diversity has raised much attention from scholars and practitioners alike to discuss how different viewpoints, mindsets, educational backgrounds, perspectives, and knowledge (or the lack thereof) contribute to the ongoing digitalization in a variety of industries [1, 4, 6]. Despite the presence of the topic in scholarly publications and pu...

COVID-19 has significantly impacted on societies and healthcare sectors worldwide. New needs in terms of research, diagnostics, treatments, and care emerged in rapid pace and brought with them substantial implications for value creation. While significant change in how value was being created and captured in health care was already underway before...

The ongoing digitalization triggers the emergence of digital innovation potentials that lead to novel business opportunities for entrepreneurs across many industries (Henfridsson & Yoo, 2013). Digital technologies increase flexibility and decrease costs of designing digital innovations (Kohli & Melville, 2019; Nambisan, Lyytinen, Majchrzak, & Song,...

We study the growth, complexity, and generativity of a digital platform—Otto.de. Through a longitudinal analysis of the company’s 65 GitHub open source repositories over a period of 6.5 years, we find a) support for a superlinear growth pattern, b) a structural split in the platform into two clusters, and c) indication that more active repositories...

Entrepreneurship Education is being promoted as a remedy for the innovation gap at higher education institutions and to the employment bottleneck early-career researchers face when aiming for a tenured position in academia. However, postdoctoral researchers (postdocs) encounter institutional boundaries when moving in the interspace between academia...

Recent technological advances such as in genome sequencing have exploded bio data infra-structures including those that comprise of generic - anonymized or pseudonymized - data. As open data, the bio data infrastructures do not constrain the final application context for their data. Rather it is up to complementors, taking the role of digital entre...

Purpose The literature includes several studies that define different critical success factors (CSF) which have to be considered to support the implementation of technology-enhanced learning (TEL) approaches. An analysis of such studies revealed that (1) regional differences seem to determine the CSF for TEL approaches, (2) certain CSF are relevan...

We analyze the growth, complexity, and generativity of the digital platform Otto.de, a revelatory case of a large German company that has opened up its internal IT platform to outside developers. We find indication for a superlinear growth pattern fueled by external developers and the introduction of microservices as well as the emergence of a stru...

[https://tu-dresden.de/bu/wirtschaft/isih/ressourcen/dateien/paper/IJITBAG-Kopper-Fuerstenau-et-al-2018-Shadow-IT-and-Business-Managed.pdf] Research on Shadow IT is facing a conceptual dilemma in cases where previously “covert” systems developed by business entities are integrated in the organizational IT management. These systems become visible,...

Research on Shadow IT is facing a conceptual dilemma in cases where previously "covert" systems developed by business entities (individual users, business workgroups, or business units) are integrated in the organizational IT management. These systems become visible, are therefore not "in the shadows" anymore, and subsequently do not fit to existin...

The last decade has seen a rise in software-based platforms that engender entirely new ecosystems. In newly emerging platform markets, platforms compete for partners and customers in a rapidly changing environment. Yet, extant research mostly studies platforms' supply-side and demand-side strategies in relatively established platform markets. By co...

Marketers who integrate influencers into their advertising strategy seek to improve information reach and information impact of their content. At the same time, influencers are overloaded with information. This design research study proposes a content-influencer-fit model to improve the effectiveness of influencer identification and management. Bas...

E-Learning ist einerseits an vielen öffentlichen und privaten Bildungseinrichtungen gelebte Normalität, andererseits kommt es kontinuierlich zu Innovationen, deren didaktische, technische und organisatorische Implikationen es zu reflektieren gilt. Beispielhaft sei auf die zunehmende Nutzung freier Bildungsressourcen („Open Educational Resources (OE...

The simulation of heuristic problems of timetable and rotation planning is a well-established procedure in the local public transport for years. However, agent-based approaches like MATSim have additional potentials, which extend beyond the usual application. This contribution illustrates one of these potentials using the example of the introductio...

(http://aisel.aisnet.org/cais/vol41/iss1/3) Drawing on notions of power and the social construction of risk, we build new theory to understand the persistence of shadow systems within organizations. From a single case study in a mid-sized savings bank we derive two feedback cycles that concern shifting power relations between business units and cen...

In this paper, we problematize a relative absence of established ways to develop and communicate knowledge contributions (KC) from Design-oriented research (DOR) within information systems. This is problematic since it hinders the potential for knowledge accumulation within the field. Thus, for communicating KC, we propose a framework, dubbed PDSA...

Service-dominant logic highlights the ability of service ecosystems to ‘self-adjust’ as a reaction to systemic inefficiencies or external changes [1]–[3]. We contribute to the question on how focal actors shape the boundaries of service ecosystems through service innovation. This is a single case study on a digital eco-system focused on a first mov...

Das gemeinsame Schreiben in kurzen Zeiträumen in sogenannten „Booksprints“ hat vor allem durch digitale Technologien an Fahrt gewonnen. Plattformen zur virtuellen Kooperation und Kommunikation sowie schließlich auch zur Online-Veröffentlichung ermöglichen einen gemeinsamen, räumlich verteil- ten und parallelisierten Veröffentlichungsprozess, welche...

We draw on notions of power and the social construction of risk to understand the persistence of shadow IT within organizations. From a single case study in a mid-sized savings bank we derive two feedback cycles that concern shifting power relations between business units and central IT associated with shadow IT. A distant business-IT relationship,...

This paper is a report on the findings of a study conducted on the use of the social networking service NING in a cross-location e-learning setting named “Net Economy”. We describe how we implemented NING as a fundamental part of the setting through a special phase concept and team building approach. With the help of user statistics, we examine the...

In der industriellen Fertigung verspricht das " Mass Customization " eine Verbindung von individu-alisierter und standardisierter Leistungserstellung. Daran angelehnt sollen Serviceplattformen ähn-liche Ziele im Service Engineering erfüllen. Auch bei der Erstellung von Lernservices werden auf dieser Grundlage Kostenvorteile und Qualitätssteigerunge...

Terms like e-, m- or Blended Learning show, currently many educational services are supported by web technologies. Within such services predominant parts of learner’s usage processes are hidden from the educator’s perception. In front of a service-dominant logic understanding usage processes is essential to comprehend the value-co-creation of educa...

Evaluating online discussions is a complex task for educators. Information systems may support instructors and course designers to assess the quality of an asynchronous online discussion tool. Interactivity on a human-to-human, human-to-computer or human-to-content level are focal elements of such quality assessment. Nevertheless existing indicator...

Shadow IT is becoming increasingly important as digital work practices make it easier than ever for business units crafting their own IT solutions. Prior research on shadow IT systems has often used fixed accounts of good or evil: They have been celebrated as powerful drivers of innovation or demonized as lacking central governance. We introduce...

Research on human-computer-interaction is concerned with revealing factors, which drive usage of information systems. One of which is given by a strong dependence of usage on users´ acceptance of the system concerned. This research is also applicable to an e-learning context in higher education. As a result student’s perceptions towards e-learning...

L3T ist die Kurzform für das preisgekrönte und frei zugängliche “Lehrbuch für Lernen und Lehren mit Technologien” (http://l3t.eu). Im Sommer 2013 wurde das Buch im Rahmen des Projekts “L3T 2.0″ gänzlich überarbeitet und erweitert. Dabei wurde ein neuartiger Weg eingeschlagen: Innerhalb von sieben Tagen, vom 20. bis 28. August 2013 wurde das Buch in...

L3T 2.0 war kein statisch geplantes Projekt mit „normalen“ Projektmanagement-Strukturen, sondern basierte auf der Arbeit und den Aktivitäten von Freiwilligen, einer Online-Gemeinschaft, die sich auch wesentlich in der Organisation und der Gestaltung des Projekts, beginnend mit der Planungsphase, eingebracht haben.

As active and innovative e-learning researchers, we had been part of the voting crowd but also were applicants to public voting contents on the Web.L3T, a project delivering an open textbook about learning and teaching withtechnologies, was applicant at three public voting contests on the Web: at the‘Neue Deutsche Buchpreis” (2011), at the podcast...

This paper is a report on the findings of a study conducted on the use of the social networking service NING in a cross-location e-learning setting named “Net Economy”. We describe how we implemented NING as a fundamental part of the setting through a special phase concept and team building approach. With the help of user statistics, we examine the...