Matthias Murawski

• Professor
• Research Assistant at ESCP Europe Business School Berlin

Purpose As one of the most energy-intensive sectors, the manufacturing industry is strongly affected by current economic, ecological and political issues and is increasingly looking to reduce its energy consumption through effective management. One important component of energy management is monitoring, which can be improved by using the Internet o...

Purpose The current gap between the required and available artificial intelligence (AI) professionals poses significant challenges for organisations and academia. Organisations are challenged to identify and secure the appropriate AI competencies. Simultaneously, academia is challenged to design, offer and quickly scale academic programmes in line...

Sales professionals need to possess specific competencies to be successful at their job, but these competencies are unstable and subject to change, especially in the digital age. As such, we aim to answer the following question: What are the current competencies required for sales professionals? To answer this, we conducted a case study with a reno...

Early-stage venture capital (VC) is a risky type of financing activity due to startups’ extremely high failure rate and the many unknown variables related to a venture’s future success. VCs’ investment decisions are further challenged by a rise in competition, significant time constraints, and different cognitive biases. In recent years, Machine Le...

Since the late 1990s, audio industry has been subject to severe changes, due to the advent of new technologies such as the mp3 compression codec and the related arrival of peer2peer sharing platforms. The latter ones were replaced by streaming platforms which now drive the digital transformation in this industry. However, there is still turmoil on...

Many applications, across an array of different industries, access blockchain technology. This paper focuses on the luxury industry and explores how these blockchain-based applications add value. The study incorporates the findings of a Delphi study of luxury sector professionals. Eleven luxury brand core values were identified and validated, and s...

In China, the traditional wallet with cash and credit cards is a distant memory as everything is done through the same app: WeChat. In Germany going out cashless and the idea of paying for coffee with the smartphone seems – at least partly – like science fiction, although research shows that cash is considered “inconvenient”. Starting from a reflec...

The general lack of profitability of mobility concepts, the coexistence of a volatile investment environment, and despite the appearance of new market entries raise many questions regarding the motivation of car manufacturers engaging in mobility services. The purpose of this paper is to extend the current research in this field by exploring the le...

The use of big data promises to drive economic growth and development and can therefore be a value-adding factor, but compared to private or public organisations, the country level is rarely investigated, and that is even more evident for developing countries. Another topic hardly ever considered in the big data research field is ‘big data readines...

Triggered by popular cases such as political election campaigns in the United States of America and the United Kingdom, research on fake news, particularly in the context of social media, has gained growing importance recently. Our chapter deals with the individual user’s perspective and places the focus on the competency to detect fake news – the...

To preserve competitive advantage in a more and more digitalized environment, today’s organizations seek to assess their level of digital maturity. Given this particular practical relevance, a plethora of digital maturity models, designed to asses a company’s digital status quo, has emerged over the past few years. Largely developed and published b...

Big data has gained academic relevance over the last decade and is also of interest to other role-players such as governments, businesses and the general public. Based on our previous work on the Big Data Readiness Index (BDRI) we place the focus on one under-investigated aspect of big data: the linkage to happiness. The BDRI, applied on Africa, in...

Although young adults familiar with digital technology join the workforce and bring in more advanced digital competences, the demand for digital competences in many industries increases even faster. In this study, we place the focus on the banking industry in the United Kingdom and aim for exploring those digital competences that are required for j...

In times of increasing importance of social media services, we have to rethink information literacy. One of the key assumptions of existing information literacy constructs is “static” information, meaning that information does not change. But compared to traditional and mostly unidirectional media services such as printed newspapers or television,...

Big data promises to drive economic growth and development, but if not applied across borders it can lead to a greater digital divide. There are, however, no indexes measuring big data readiness on country level. Most existing indexes cover topics such as digitalization and focus on developed economies with a clear underrepresentation of Africa. Th...

German enterprises are often characterised by low levels of digital maturity. One reason for this is a lack of required structural changes on the path towards digital transformation. We consider a prescriptive framework, the digital transformation framework (DTF), which contains four structural requirements for digital transformation. Based on 16 i...

One of the current major trends in education is the integration of innovative technology. In this context, gamification – which encompasses the integration of game elements in non-gaming systems (Licorish, Owen, Daniel, George, 2018) – plays an important role. In this paper, we consider one specific game-based learning tool: Kahoot! (Existing liter...

In this chapterwe link two recent phenomena. First, innovations in technology have lowered the cost of data storage and enabled scalable parallel computing. Connected with social media, the Internet of Things applications and other sources, large data sets can easily be collected. These data sets are the basis for greatly improving our understandin...

Electronic word-of-mouth (eWOM) has attracted a great deal of attention in both academia and practice in recent years. Our empirical study investigates the relation of negative comments and consumers’ trust in fashion presentations focusing on clothing. It is a product category characterized by a lot of online conversation and opinion sharing, but...

Exploiting big data seems to be an important success factor for companies in the digital age. However, recent studies show that there is a short supply of professionals who are able to deal with data appropriately. This is at least partly caused by a mismatch between university offerings and presumed industry needs. This study analyses two related...

Purpose Considering working in the digital age, questions on the consequences for the individual workers are, so far, often neglected. The purpose of this paper is to deal with the question of whether the digital competences of the workforce is a research topic. The authors argue for the thesis that it is indeed a research topic. Design/methodolo...

Despite the overwhelming and unabated popularity of social networks in the past years, the motivation behind an individual’s registration to such platforms is still largely uncharted. Based on an in-depth review of leading Information Systems literature, this paper investigates which factors potentially influence individual´s self-disclosure in soc...