Research Focuses

Our professorship is engaged in various areas, including:

• Cross-Organizational Knowledge Management with a Focus on Innovation (Open Innovation): This area explores how organizations can effectively share and manage knowledge across different boundaries to foster innovation. It emphasizes collaborative approaches where firms leverage external ideas and technologies to enhance their own innovation processes, thereby creating a more dynamic and interactive innovation ecosystem.
• Digital Platform Strategies and Digital Ecosystems: This topic investigates how businesses can effectively utilize digital platforms to create value and drive growth. It examines the interconnections in digital ecosystems and the strategic implications of platform-based business models, focusing on network effects, user engagement, and the integration of services across multiple stakeholders.
• Standardization in the Context of Digitalization: This aspect addresses the critical of standardization in facilitating the digital transformation of industries. It includes the development and implementation of standards that ensure interoperability, compatibility, and quality in digital processes and products, which is essential for achieving efficiency and scalability.
• Collaborative Business Models: This field examines innovative business models that prioritize collaboration among various stakeholders, including businesses, consumers, and institutions. It looks into how such models can create shared value and enhance competitive advantage through partnerships, joint ventures, and co-creation initiatives.
• Strategy Development in the Digital Context, Digitalization, and Virtualization of Business Processes: This area focuses on how organizations can develop effective strategies in an increasingly digital and virtual environment. It includes the study of digital transformation strategies, the integration of digital technologies into core business processes, and the impact of virtualization on operational efficiency and organizational structure.
• Crowdsourcing and Crowdfunding, or the Involvement of the Public in Business Processes (e.g., Open Source Software, 3D Printing): This topic explores the mechanisms and benefits of involving the public in corporate processes through crowdsourcing and crowdfunding. It examines how organizations can harness collective intelligence and resources from the community, particularly in innovative fields such as open-source software development and 3D printing, thus enhancing creativity and reducing costs.