Basic concept
The course uses flipped classroom and blended learning concepts. As a student, you obtain various material for your time flexible, individual preparation. Afterwards, we support your learning process in a series of live sessions where you enter into discussion with the lecturers and your fellow students. Further, you engage in hands-on exercises for creating your research projects and receive feedback.Individual preparation is essential
For the live sessions, you need to prepare the content beforehand. Without preparation, participation in a live session is meaningless. Preparation means that you read/watch/listen to the provided material and perform the assigned tasks. You should not only consume it but actively process it: reflect on it, assess your agreement, dissenting opinion, and critique, take notes, form questions and build perspectives you want to remember and/or share in the live sessions. You will only be able to take advantage of the live sessions when you come prepared. The material for your individual preparation includes:- Reading material
- Educational videos
- Slides used in the educational videos and the live sessions
Live sessions
Live sessions take place weekly from Wednesday, 05th of April from 4:15pm to 5:45pm. Login data are provided in Ilias. Please refer to the slide deck "Course Organization" for information which sessions are zoom-only, in presence only and hybrid. In the live sessions, we use mural.com as a digital whiteboard as well as mentimeter.com. We share the link in the live sessions. You can log in without an account and without providing your name. Using the services is voluntary. If you use it, you agree to the service providers terms and conditions.Formal frame
- The course is bilingual German/English. Discussions will be in German, many materials to be read are in English
- 6 ECTS
- It is an elective course (Please check HohCampus and your study plans for course availability)
- M.Sc. Management (Schwerpunktbereich Digital Business Management, Schwerpunktbereich Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Sustainability, freier Wahlbereich)
- M.Sc. Wirtschaftsinformatik (Wahlpflichtbereich im Schwerpunkt Wirtschaftsinformatik)
- M.Sc. Wirtschaftspädagogik (Pflicht im Schwerpunkt Wirtschaftsinformatik)
- Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Henner Gimpel, Dr. Julia Lanzl, and Dr. Manfred Schoch
Instructions for grading
- Information Session
- Scientific Thinking
- Overview on Information Systems Research Methods
- Research Methods - Mixed Method
- Research Methods - Design Science
- Research Methods - Survey Research
- We will discuss slide deck 0 on the course organization and the first section of slide deck 1 on scientific thinking. You might want to download the documents and (depending on your preferences) have a printout.
- No further preparation is required.
The session relates to slide deck 1 on scientific thinking.
Please prepare the following materials:
- Required reading: Gimpel et al. (2021) The Effectiveness of Social Norms in Fighting Fake News on Social Media (21 pages)
- Required reading: Lange and Pfarrer (2017) EDITORS’ COMMENTS: SENSE AND STRUCTURE—THE CORE BUILDING BLOCKS OF AN AMR ARTICLE (10 pages)
- Required preparation: Get a high-level understanding of the template for research exposé
- Required video: What theory is (8:32 minutes)
- Required video: Types of theories (4:43 minutes)
- Supplementary material for voluntary deep dive: Gregor (2006) The Nature of Theory in Information Systems (25 pages)
- Supplementary reading: Whetten (1989) What constitutes a theoretical contribution? (6 pages)
The session relates to slide deck 1 on scientific thinking.
Please prepare the following materials:
- Required video: Scientific thinking (8:08 minutes)
- Required video: The theoretical and empirical planes of research (9:17 miutes)
- Required video: The research process (7:26 minutes)
- Required reading: Colquitt and George (2011) Publishing in AMJ – Part 1: Topic Choice (3 pages)
- Required reading: Grant and Pollock (2011) Publishing in AMJ – Part 3: Setting the Hook (5 pages)
- Supplementary video: Scientific writing (11:34 minutes)
- Supplementary video: The Craft of Writing Effectively (81:51 minutes)
- Supplementary reading: Bhattacherjee (2012) Social Science Research: Principles, Methods, and Practices. Chapter 2 (7 pages)
- Supplementary video: Scientific method and quality (8:42 minutes)
- Supplementary reading: AIS Code of Research Conduct
- Supplementary video: Research design: Options and perspectives (7:48 minutes)
For more information see "Deliverables and grading information" in the course organization
The session focuses on digital technologies and the future of work. Please prepare the following materials:
Information will be made available soon.
Information will be made available soon.
For more information see "Deliverables and grading information" in the course organization
The session relates to slide deck 2 on overview on information systems research methods.
Please prepare the following materials:
- Required video: Overview on Information Systems Research Methods (21:54 minutes)
- Required reading: Mazaheri et al. (2020) Research Directions in Information Systems Field, Current Status and Future Trends: A literature analysis of AIS Basket of Top Journals" (24 pages)
- Supplementary material: AIS: "IS Research, Methods, and Theories"
- Supplementary material: Straub, Gefen, and Recker: "Quantitative Reseach in Information Systems"
The session relates to slide deck 3 on mixed methods. Please prepare the following materials:
- Required videos: Mixed methods research (part 1): What is mixed methods research? (9:51 minutes)
- Required videos: Mixed methods research (part 2): Purposes and research designs (13:59 minutes)
- Required videos: Mixed methods research (part 3): Drawing meta-inferences from results (8:53 minutes)
- Required Podcast: Dr. John Creswell on Mixed Methods (only first 9 minutes)
- Required reading: Frank, L., Gimpel, H., Schmidt, M., & Schoch, M. (2017). Emergent User Roles of a Digital Workplace: A Network Analysis Based on Trace Data. Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), Seoul, South Korea. (15 pages)
- Supplementary reading: Venkatesh, V., Brown, S. A., & Bala, H. (2013). Bridging the qualitative-quantitative divide: Guidelines for conducting mixed methods research in information systems. MIS quarterly, 21-54. (35 pages)
- Supplementary reading: Venkatesh, V., Brown, S. A., & Sullivan, Y. W. (2016). Guidelines for conducting mixed-methods research: An extension and illustration. Journal of the Association for Information Systems, 17(7), 2. (60 pages)
The session relates to slide deck 4 on Design Science. Please prepare the following materials:
- Required video: Design Science Research (13:25 minutes)
- Required reading: Adam et al. (2023) Human-Centered Design and Evaluation of a NeuroIS Tool for Flow Support (21 pages)
- Required reading: Sonnenberg and vom Brocke (2012) Evaluations in the Science of the Artificial – Reconsidering the Build-Evaluate Pattern in Design Science Research (16 pages)
- Required reading: Gregor and Hevner (2013) POSITIONING AND PRESENTING DESIGN SCIENCE RESEARCH FOR MAXIMUM IMPACT (17 pages)
The session relates to slide deck 5 on survey research and structural equation modeling. Please prepare the following materials:
- Required videos: Introduction to survey research (8:13 minutes)
- Required videos: Model construction & instrument development (10:47 minutes)
- Required videos: Data collection in survey research (4:17 minutes)
- Required videos: Validation of structural equation models (5:11 minutes)
- Required reading: Junglas et al. (2019) Innovation at work: The relative advantage ofusing consumer IT in the workplace (23 pages)
- Supplementary reading: Urbach and Ahlemann (2010) Structural Equation Modeling in Information Systems Research Using Partial Least Squares (36 pages)
For more information see "Deliverables and grading information" in the course organization
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