I will stay as Visiting Research Scholar at the École des Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC) of the University of Lausanne (UNIL) in Switzerland from July 2 until August 3, 2012. I will collaborate with Prof. Dr. Christine Legner and her team at the Institut des Systèmes d'Information (ISI) on joint research projects.

From June 10-13, 2012 I participated in the 20th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS 2012) which took place at ESADE in Barcelona, Spain to present my papers "Do We Fully Understand the Critical Success Factors of Employee Portal Utilitarianism? - Uncovering and Accounting for Unobserved Heterogeneity" co-authored by Kunal Mohan and "Why Do People Switch to New Technologies? – Proposing a Conceptual Model to Explain Technology Transition" co-authored by Rahul Thakurta. Furthermore, I served as a session chair for the "Adoption and Diffusion“ and "IT/IS Management and Development Methodologies" tracks.

Two of my articles on IT outsourcing steering have been accepted for publication in refereed journals. The article "How to Steer the IT Outsourcing Provider - Development and Validation of a Reference Framework of IT Outsourcing Steering Processes" which I wrote together with Tobias Würz from Horváth & Partners Management Consultants has recently been accepted for publication in Business & Information Systems Engineering and is expected to be published in October of this year. The article "Ein integrierter Ansatz zur Steuerung von IT-Outsourcing-Vorhaben" on the same topic has been published in April this year in the special issue on "Strategic IT Management" of HMD - Praxis der Wirtschaftsinformatik.