Aida Boukhris @FAU_Germany won the best paper award for her work on Dynamic Roles of Resources in Smart Service Systems at this year’s conference on Competitive Advantage in the Digital Economy (#CADE2019). Her paper shows how Actor-Network Theory can contribute to a better understanding of the continuous evolution of digital business ecosystems. It is part of her dissertation project of smart services. Florian Maurer @fhvorarlberg also presented a paper with findings from his research at ...

This year is the centenary of the FAU School of Business, Economics and Society (WiSo). To celebrate this anniversary, regional artists have been invited to present their view of management research at the FAU building in Findelgasse for the next six months. The exhibition includes a position by members of the wi1 chair. Their work is a comment on digital technology and the knowledge society.

Management researchers are used to study how digitization transforms industry. The wi1 ...

The latest journal paper by Alexander Bohnert, Albrecht Fritzsche and Shirley Gregor is now available online at https://rdcu.be/8UrI. It deals with the question how references to the digital transformation in strategic statements relate to the actual business performance of a company. The study is focussed on insurance companies in Europe. It finds that there is a positive relationship between the expression of digital agendas in companies and their ...

Albrecht Fritzsche and Sascha Julian Oks met with regional officials of the Association of German Engineers (VDI) to hand over their compilation on the Future of Engineering, published in the renowned Springer Series on Philosophy of Engineering and Technology (POET). The book presents twenty different views on contemporary challenges for engineering in theory and practice, which will shape the future of the discipline and its interaction with other stakeholders in technology and innovation ...

Wi1 member Dominik Kalb took center stage in the first plenary paper session at this year’s #CADE2018 conference on Competitive Advantage in the Digital Economy, held at Palazzo Pesaro Papafava in Venice. In his talk on “Mobilizing Information Resources”, he presented insights from the ongoing research project SmartDif on the creation of smart service ...