Last week, I visited the 38th International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS 2017) in Seoul, Korea. Together with our doctoral students, we presented a couple of research papers and received valuable feedback from several inspiring discussions.

​During the last couple of weeks, we published two papers in Wirtschaftsinformatik & Management. The first one is about the development of disruptive innovation with blockchain, while the second one focuses on IT outsourcing in the digital age.

I was nominated as Associate Editor of the "Blockchain, cryptocurrencies, and new business models" track  of the 39th International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS 2018). ICIS 2018 will be held in San Francisco, California, USA, December 13-16, 2018. The conference brings together information systems researchers from around the world to discuss cutting edge research.

I will service as program committee member of BIS 2018. The 21st International Conference on Business Information Systems will take place from July 28 to 30 in Berlin, Germany. During the 21 years of the BIS conference history, it grew as well renowned event of the scientific community. Every year it joins international researchers for scientific discussions on the development, implementation and application of business information systems, based on innovative ideas and computational intelligence methods. The conference addresses a wide scientific community and experts involved in the development of business computing applications.

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 accepted for publication. It will be published in the Journal of Information Technology Theory and Application (JITTA) in a couple of weeks.

On September 27, I gave an expert talk about the potential of blockchain technology for sustainable supply chain management at the "Nauener Gespräche 2017" organized by econsense. Please find here a short report about the conference.

Our paper "Unchaining Social Businesses – Blockchain as Basic Technology of a Crowdfunding Platform", co-authored by André Schweizer, Vincent Schlatt, Gilbert Fridgen and me, has been accepted for presentation at the 38th International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS 2017).

ICIS 2017 will take place from December 10 to 13, 2018, in Seoul, Korea. The purpose of the conference is to provide a platform for academics and practitioners to identify and explore the issues, opportunities, and solutions that promote IT convergence and find new business value of information and communication technology. It is also expected to serve as the spring-board for gathering and disseminating experiences gained in implementing IT convergence to create new values in a variety of industrial settings.

My article "IT-Governance im Zeitalter der Digitalisierung – Unternehmen im Spannungsfeld zwischen Flexibilität und Kontrolle" has been published in the recent issue of Spektrum Bayreuth. The article is available online at the website of the University of Bayreuth.