Our book "Digitalization Cases" will be published in October 2018 by Springer. Stay tuned for further Information.

Our article "Should We Stay or Should We Go? Analyzing Continuance of Cloud Enterprise Systems" co-authored by Sebastian Walther, Darshana Sedera, Torten Eymann, Saonee Sarker, Boris Otto and me has been published in the Journal of Information Technology Theory and Application (JITTA).

Two of our research papers have been accepted for presentation at the 26th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS 2018). The first one entitled “Don't Slip on the ICO – A Taxonomy for a Blockchain-Enabled Form of Crowdfunding” is co-authored by Gilbert Fridgen, Ferdinand Regner, André Schweizer, and me. The second paper “Insights into Personal ICT Use: Understanding Continuance and Discontinuance of Wearable Self-Tracking Devices” is the result of a collaboration between Arne Buchwald, Albert Letner, Matthias von Entress-Fürsteneck, and me. ECIS 2018 will take place from June 23 to 28 in Portsmouth, UK. It is the most prestigious conference of the European Information Systems research community.

On June 21, 2018, I will give a talk on the potentials of blockchain at the After Work XChange in Munich organized by the Plan.Net Innovation Studio.

I will chair the track “Rethinking IS Strategy and Governance in the Digital Age” of the 27th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS 2019) togehter with Martin Wiener from Bentley University and Monideepa Tarafdar from Lancaster University. ECIS 2019 will take place from June 8-14 in Stockholm-Uppsala, Sweden. It is the most prestigious conference of the European Information Systems research community. The call for papers of our track can be found here.

Our article “Integrating the Troublemakers: A Taxonomy for the Cooperation between Retail Banks and Fintechs” co-authored by André Schweizer, Benedict Drasch and me has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Economics and Business. The Journal publishes high quality research papers in all fields of finance and in closely related fields of economics. The Journal is interested in both theoretical and applied research with an emphasis on topics in corporate finance, financial markets and institutions, and investments. In our paper, we present a taxonomy for the cooperation between retail banks and fintechs. The paper can be downloaded here.

I will chair the IT Strategy and Management track of the 14. Internationale Tagung Wirtschaftsinformatik (WI 2019) together with Paul Drews from Leuphana University of Lüneburg. WI 2019 will take place from February 24 to 27 in Siegen, Germany. It is the most prestigious conference of the German Information Systems research community. The call for papers of our track can be found here.

As part of the IT-Forum Oberfranken, I hosted a panel on the future of work in the digital age. Together with four experts from both academia and practice, I discussed about our perspectives on the new work life as well as resulting chances and challenges. A video of the panel discussion can be accessed here.

A couple of days ago, I gave a talk about bitcoin and blockchain at the Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum (HNF) in Paderborn, Germany. With more than 450 guests, the talk was one of the most visited talks in the 22 years history of HNF. A video of my talk can be accessed here.