Master of Science module "Hands on Digital Management Research"

Basic concept

Individual preparation is essential

• Reading material
• Educational videos
• Slides used in the educational videos and the live sessions

Live sessions

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

• Deliverables and grading information
• Template for research exposé
• Example exposé

0. Information Session
1. Scientific Thinking
2. Overview on Information Systems Research Methods
3. Research Methods - Mixed Method
4. Research Methods - Design Science
5. 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)

The session focuses on IS Innovation, Adoption and Diffusion. Please prepare the following materials:

• Required reading: Burton-Jones and Straub (2006) Reconceptualizing System Usage: An Approach and Empirical Test (only chapter 1-5! 9 pages)


• Required reading: Schuetz and Venkatesh (2020) Research Perspectives: The Rise of Human Machines: How Cognitive Computing Systems Challenge Assumptions of User-System Interaction (15 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 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)