Content creators generate and upload content on social media platforms. If these platforms have a revenue-sharing policy, content creators earn income from advertising revenue. This income is heavily dependent on the distribution of the content …
Advancements in technology have led to the widespread adoption of machine learning (ML) algorithms in almost all areas of society (e.g., shaping customer experiences through recommendations, and supporting organizational activities through …
The Success of IT Freelancers on Digital Labor Platforms
When IT work is performed through digital labor markets, IT professionals have a high degree of personal responsibility for their careers and must use appropriate strategies to be successful. This paper investigates the success of IT freelancers …
Many markets for online services such as social media, search, social messaging, or commerce have developed into skewed playing fields, where a small number of dominant online service providers (OSPs) have gained enormous economic and epistemic …
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Johann Kranz, Sophie Kuebler-Wachendorff, Emmanuel Syrmoudis, Jens Grossklags, Stefan Mager, Robert Luzsa, Susanne Mayr
Since the European information economy faces insufficient access to and joint utilization of data, data ecosystems increasingly emerge as economical solutions in B2B environments. Contrarily, in B2C ambits, concepts for sharing and monetizing …
verfasst von:
Simon Scheider, Florian Lauf, Frederik Möller, Boris Otto
Conceptualizing the Interworking of Humans and AI-Enabled Systems
Artificial intelligence (AI) offers great potential in organizations. The path to achieving this potential will involve human-AI interworking, as has been confirmed by numerous studies. However, it remains to be explored which direction this …
verfasst von:
Lukas Fabri, Björn Häckel, Anna Maria Oberländer, Marius Rieg, Alexander Stohr
Extending Enterprise Modeling to Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity
Critical infrastructure (CIs) such as power grids link a plethora of physical components from many different vendors to the software systems that control them. These systems are constantly threatened by sophisticated cyber attacks. The need to …
verfasst von:
Yuning Jiang, Manfred A. Jeusfeld, Jianguo Ding, Elin Sandahl
Establishing an Action Design Research Process for Machine Learning Projects
The most promising standard machine learning methods can deliver highly accurate classification results, often outperforming standard white-box methods. However, it is hardly possible for humans to fully understand the rationale behind the …
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Nicolas Pfeuffer, Lorenz Baum, Wolfgang Stammer, Benjamin M. Abdel-Karim, Patrick Schramowski, Andreas M. Bucher, Christian Hügel, Gernot Rohde, Kristian Kersting, Oliver Hinz
Exploring the Identity of the ‘Corporate Nomad’ Knowledge Worker Archetype
Working conditions of knowledge workers have been subject to rapid change recently. Digital nomadism is no longer a phenomenon that relates only to entrepreneurs, freelancers, and gig workers. Corporate employees, too, have begun to uncouple their …
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Dr. Julian Marx, Prof. Dr. Stefan Stieglitz, Felix Brünker, Jun.-Prof. Dr. Milad Mirbabaie
Apart from researching large-scale infrastructural technologies like electronic health records and health information exchanges, the field of healthcare IT is increasingly interested in exploring how individuals can play a more active role in …
verfasst von:
Daniel Fürstenau, Martin Gersch, Stefanie Schreiter
Theorizing Change in Sociomaterial Practices of Working from Home
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to an enforced ‘big bang’ adoption of working from home, involving the rapid implementation and diffusion of digital collaboration technologies. This radical shift to enforced working from home led to substantial …
Employees often use enterprise social media (ESM) for communication, collaboration, and knowledge sharing, leading to ESM networks–that is, social networks of interrelated employees based on ESM. Many organizations possess ESM networks, and there …
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Sebastian Schötteler, Sven Laumer, Heidi Schuhbauer
A Method for the Continuous Tracking and Assessment of Organizational Capabilities and Maturity
Maturity models are valuable management tools for assessing and managing capabilities and therefore creating a basis for their identification, prioritization, and further development. Numerous maturity assessment methods have been developed to …
verfasst von:
Christoph Stoiber, Maximilian Stöter, Ludwig Englbrecht, Stefan Schönig, Björn Häckel
The COVID-19 pandemic forced sociotechnical systems (STS) to highly integrate remote work. Large-scale analyses show that the positivity of tweets about work from home decreased until COVID-19 was declared a pandemic by the WHO and re-increased in …
Due to ongoing digitalization and the social distancing measures that came along with the COVID-19 pandemic, the working conditions and environments have changed for many individuals. Because of increased telework, the use of digital technologies …
The Effects of Life-Work Conflict on Job Outcomes and the Role of the IT Telework Environment
Teleworkers who live and work in the same space are vulnerable to conflicts between personal life and work (LWC). The Covid-19 lockdowns increased the intensity and risk of LWC and changed telework conditions, confronting teleworkers with …
Exploring the Role of Digital Workplace Tools for Job Satisfaction
The COVID-19 pandemic forced information workers across the world to work from home. This situation removes the physical boundary between work and home, impacting their work-life balance. How information workers configure the digital workplace …