Master of Science module "Hands on Digital Management Research"

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 (information available soon) and are held in person on site.

Instructions for grading

• Deliverables and grading information (link follows soon)
• Template for research exposé
• Example exposé

0. Information Session
1. Scientific Thinking
2. Overview on Information Systems Research Methods
3. Research Methods - Design Science
4. 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.

• 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)

• 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)
  

The session focuses on digital technologies and the future of work. Please prepare the following materials:

• Required reading: Baptista et al. (2020) Digital work and organisational transformation: Emergent Digital/Human work configurations in modern organisatins (10 pages)


• Required reading: Weritz et al. (2022) How Much Digital is Too Much? A Study on Employees' Hybrid Workplace Preferences (18 pages)

The session focuses on AI in Business and Society. Please prepare the following materials:

• Required reading: Wu et al. (2023) AutoGen: Enabling Next-Gen LLM Applications via Multi-Agent Conversation (only the first 10 pages!)


• Required reading: Fügener et al. (2022) Cognitive Challenges in Human–Artificial Intelligence Collaboration: Investigating the Path Toward Productive Delegation (17 pages)

• 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 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)

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)