The attitude-behaviour gap depicts the disparity between individuals’ attitudes and behaviour regarding a problem. For instance, this phenomenon is prominent regarding energy consumption, where people often express concerns about sustainability but struggle to turn those into tangible actions. But narrowing this gap and reducing energy consumption and CO2 emissions requires behavioural interventions since technological advances alone are…

Conversational agents ought to ease different facets of a user’s daily work life, function as stress relief, and in the long run, transform the digital workplace. Through enhanced persuasiveness, conversational agents can increase the user’s confidence in their abilities and create a less stressful work environment. However, applying conversational agents in the digital workplace might also have the opposite effect as negative consequences of…

Am 05. und 06.10.2023 bietet der Lehrstuhl für Wirtschaftsinformatik, insb. Betriebliche Informationssysteme (Prof. Dr. Beverungen), in Kooperation mit der mindsquare AG aus Bielefeld eine zweitägige ITIL Foundation Schulung an. Die IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) kommt in der IT-Infratruktur jedes mittleren und großen Unternehmens vor und ist eine Sammlung vordefinierter Prozesse, Funktionen und Rollen. Weitere Informationen finden Sie hier.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is often perceived as a disruptive technology that leads to uncertainties among employees and, eventually, fears of job loss arise. While many organisations have moved beyond the planning phase, it is crucial to shed light on the perception of AI to manage the employees’ attitudes towards it and to counteract possible resistance behaviour. To examine the perception of AI, Professor Mirbabaie and his colleagues…

Der Lehrstuhl von Prof. Beverungen kann drei Publikationserfolge bei der ECIS 2023, der führenden internationalen Konferenz für Informationssysteme, verzeichnen. In Kooperation zwischen dem Lehrstuhl von Prof. Blömer und seinem damaligen wissenschaftlichen Mitarbeiter Jan Bobolz, stellen Prof. Beverungen und sein wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter Simon Hemmrich eine Methode für die Weitergabe von geldbasierten Bewertungen innerhalb eines…

While social media allows businesses unprecedented levels of communication, those also come with risks, as constant negative Word-of-Mouth (NWOM) may jeopardise a corporate image and cause defensiveness in corporate communication. This paper presents a case study of the railway company Deutsche Bahn and how they communicate through Twitter. For this, Professor Mirbabaie and his co-authors analysed 36,757 Twitter postings using sentiment and…

In diesem Bootcamp werden Teams gemeinsam an Prototypen arbeiten, um Ihre KI-Fähigkeiten zu verbessern und Ihre Erfahrungen mit ChatGPT, Dall-E oder StableDiffusion und anderen Werkzeugen für generative Künstliche Intelligenz zu testen und zu erweitern. Lösungen auf Basis generativer AI werden unsere Gesellschaft und unsere Wirtschaft stark verändern. Schon heute werden die neuen Möglichkeiten der AI Werkzeuge in einigen Branchen - z.B. im…

Abstract: Literature reviews represent a key genre for preserving and developing knowledge in many scientific fields, including the operations research (OR) discipline. Although the body of OR reviews shows a large diversity in terms of entities investigated, methodologies applied, and contributions developed, our discipline has been rather silent on the genre of literature reviews. As a consequence, the OR field misses (1) a classification of…

Abstract: The overall quality of last-mile delivery in terms of operational costs and customer satisfaction is primarily affected by traditional logistics planning and the consideration and integration of driver knowledge and behavior. However, this integration has yet to be exploited. This phenomenon is mirrored in two largely separated research bodies on logistics planning and driver behavior. Bridging this gap by using and integrating…

Digital nomadism had been exclusively related to entrepreneurs, freelancers, and gig workers. But recently, the working conditions of knowledge workers rapidly changed as corporate employees began to uncouple their work from stationary (home) offices and 9-to-5 schedules too. Still, this fundamentally differs from the original notion of digital nomadism. Therefore, in this paper, Professor Mirbabaie and his colleagues explore the work identity of…

Climate change increasingly affects countries around the globe, and urgency rises as natural disasters increase in frequency and severity. Therefore, crisis communication is crucial to provide the general public with information and recommendations to protect their safety. Besides traditional channels, social media is an increasingly popular tool for disseminating such information. Thus, in this project, Professor Mirbabaie, Jonas Rieskamp and…

Die Juniorprofessur für Wirtschaftsinformatik, insb. Digital Society sucht eine*n Wissenschaftliche*n Mitarbeiter*in (w/m/d).

Am 18.03.2023 hat Herr Schryen im Deutschlanfunk ein Interview gegeben, in dem er erläutert, wie Universitäten, IT-Unternehmen  und Hilfsorgnisationen im Forschungsprojekt KatHelfer-PRO gemeinsam einen Cloud-Service entwickeln, der hilfsbereite Menschen schnell koordinieren und zielgerichtet einsetzen kann. Das gesamte Interview ist auf der Seite des Deutschlandfunk zu hören. 

Opinions and views vary from person to person, and in today’s world, there is probably no place where this is more evident than on Twitter. In this study, Professor Mirbabaie analyses how different user types communicate regarding topics, tweet characteristics, links, and specific sentiments toward refugees. Following 13 September 2015, after Germany decided to implement border controls, all tweets containing the keyword “Flüchtlinge” (English:…

Despite all the varying problems and threats we face as a society, climate change remains an inglorious constant. In this study, Professor Mirbabaie and Jonas Rieskamp conducted a study together with their colleagues at Darwin University, focusing on heat waves. Even though heat waves have devasting impacts on human health and well-being, studies are rare and often confined to specific locations. Therefore, this study explores conversations on…