Transitioning from school to university can be challenging as it requires first-year students to integrate into a new environment, organise themselves and deal with more responsibility. Presumably, lacking self-organisation and self-responsibility is connected to most premature dropouts occurring in this so-called “transition-in” phase. Considering these problems, there is a mobile app to tackle insufficient student experiences, support learning…

While proliferating digital technologies provides new opportunities, it also comes with risks as technological development outpaces the corresponding regulatory changes. But, to avoid negative implications, information systems (IS) researchers must first understand the consequences of the digital transformation process to then contribute to its design. In this context, digital responsibility (DR) has the potential to mark a second wave of a…

Today’s INNO4S workshop provided the opportunity to discuss the status quo of the INNO4S project, develop new ideas, and thoroughly plan and map out the path for the future. In this project, Professor Mirbabaie, Marie Langer and their colleagues from the University of Münster and the University of Cologne seek to showcase how digital technologies can provide powerful innovations to overcome the central challenges of our time. To successfully…

The quality and validity of research depend on the work of reviewers. Hence, we are pleased to announce that the European Conference of Information Systems (ECIS) awarded Professor Mirbabaie the best reviewer award recognising him for his outstanding review work at the 31st ECIS in Kristiansand, Norway.