Chair's News

Here, interested persons, researchers, and students can find selected information on noteworthy publications, awards, current activities and other events of the chair.

Dr. Deborah Mateja Receives the Dissertation Award of the Stiftung für Kommunikations- und Medienwissenschaften

The Stiftung für Kommunikations- und Medienwissenschaften honors Dr. Deborah Mateja for her dissertation on creativity and artificial intelligence.

Dr. Désirée Zercher's Research on AI Team Members Honored with the Prestigious Südwestmetall Dissertation Award

Dr. Désirée Zercher is the University of Mannheim's recipient of the prestigious Südwestmetall Dissertation Award 2026.

New Publication in Information Systems Research: “Strategic Drivers of Core Expansion on Software Platforms”

André Halckenhäußer, Jens Förderer, Armin Heinzl (all University of Mannheim), and Ola Henfridsson (University of Miami, Florida) have published an article investigating the strategic drivers of core expansions on software platforms: a phenomenon where platform owners like Apple integrate ...

Award ceremony on a stage: several people receive certificates and bouquets; a slide in the background reads “Best Dissertation – Dr. Deborah Mateja.”

Dr. Deborah Mateja receives the “Future of Work” Science Award

For her outstanding contribution to understanding human creativity in interaction with generative artificial intelligence, Dr. Deborah Mateja has received the “Future of Work” Science Award for the best dissertation. The award is presented for the thirteenth time by the Stiftung der Volksbank ...

Bild zu Paper veröffentlichung: Process-level value creation from business analyticsA theoretical literature review of value creation paths and changes induced by machine learning

Article Published: Process-level value creation from business analytics

Pascal C. Kunz, Kai Spohrer, and Armin Heinzl present a theoretical literature review that systematizes process-level value creation through business analytics and shows how machine learning (ML) reweights the identified value-creation paths. The analysis is based on a theoretical literature review ...