Area Information Systems
The Area Information Systems is part of the Faculty of Business Administration and consists of the chairs of Professors Jens Förderer, Armin Heinzl, Hartmut Höhle, Markus Strohmaier and Junior Professor Jana Rebecca-Rehse.
On this page you will find links to the individual chair websites as well as news and recent publications from the Area Information Systems. For an overview of the wide range of courses offered, contact information for scientific staff, and insight into current research projects please visit the individual chair websites.
Publications
- Rehse, J.-R., Grohs, M., Klessascheck, F., Klein, L.-M., von Landesberger, T. and Pufahl, L. (2026). A task taxonomy for conformance checking. Information Systems : IS, 136, 1–17.
- Förderer, J., Gutt, D. and Greenwood, B. N. (2025). Star wars: An empirical study of star performer turnover and content supply on multisided streaming platforms. Information Systems Research : ISR, 1–16.
- Grohs, M., Pfeiffer, P. and Rehse, J.-R. (2025). Proactive conformance checking: An approach for predicting deviations in business processes. Information Systems : IS, 127, 1–18.
- Halckenhäußer, A., Förderer, J., Heinzl, A. and Henfridsson, O. (2025). Strategic drivers of core expansion on software platforms: evidence from Apple iOS. Information Systems Research : ISR, forthcoming, tbd.
- Pethig, F., Höhle, H., Hui, K.-L. and Lanz, A. (2025). Behavior toward newcomers and contributions to online communities. MIS Quarterly (forthcoming).
- Pieper, M., Fallon, M. and Heinzl, A. (2025). Micro-randomized trials in information systems research: An experimental method for advancing knowledge about our dynamic and digitalized world. Journal of Information Technology : JIT, 40, 214–234.
- Pieper, M. and Gleasure, R. (2025). How AI helps to compile human intelligence: An empirical study of emerging augmented intelligence for medical image scanning. Information Systems Journal : ISJ, 1–23.
- Schuetz, S., Chen, Y., Förderer, J. and Ma, Y. (2025). Does ransomware make investors “WannaCry”? On investors’ divergent reactions to ransomware hits and near misses. Management Information Systems : MIS Quarterly, 49, 1153-1168.
- Zercher, D., Jussupow, E., Benke, I. and Heinzl, A. (2025). How can teams benefit from AI team members? Exploring the effect of generative AI on decision-making processes and decision quality in team–AI collaboration. Journal of Organizational Behavior : OB, 1–28.
- Abb, L. and Rehse, J.-R. (2024). Process-related user interaction logs: State of the art, reference model, and object-centric implementation. Information Systems : IS, 124, 1–16.
- Dietz, J. and Pethig, F. (2024). Informationen zur Universitätsbibliographie MADOC (Mannheim Electronic Document Server). MIS Quarterly (forthcoming).
- Dietz, J., Spohrer, K. and Höhle, H. (2024). Identity work in interdependent professional groups: The role of a target identity in enterprise systems implementation. Information Systems Research : ISR, 1–21.
- Förderer, J. and Burtch, G. (2024). Estimating career benefits from online community leadership: Evidence from stack exchange moderators. Management Science, 1–24.
- Jussupow, E., Benbasat, I. and Heinzl, A. (2024). An integrative perspective on algorithm aversion and appreciation in decision-making. Management Information Systems : MIS Quarterly, 48, 1575-1590.
- Kircher, T. and Förderer, J. (2024). Ban targeted advertising? An empirical investigation of the consequences for app development. Management Science, 70, 1070-1092.
- Kraus, A., Rehse, J.-R. and der Aa, H. (2024). Data-driven assessment of business process resilience. Process Science, 1, 1–32.
- Plattfaut, R., Rehse, J.-R., Jans, C., Schulte, M. and van Wendel de Joode, J. (2024). Robotic process automation – research impulses from the BPM 2023 panel discussion. Process Science, 1, 1–15.
- Rehse, J.-R., Abb, L., Berg, G., Bormann, C., Kampik, T. and Warmuth, C. (2024). User behavior mining: A research agenda. Business & Information Systems Engineering : BISE, 66, 799–816.
- Rehse, J.-R., Leemans, S. J. J., Fettke, P. and Van der Werf, J. M. E. A. (2024). On process discovery experimentation: addressing the need for research methodology in process discovery. ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, 34, 1–29.
- Rink, J., Szabo, K., Hoyer, C., Saver, J. L., Nour, M., Audebert, H. J., Kunz, W. G., Froelich, M. F., Heinzl, A., Tschalzev, A., Hoffmann, J., Schoenberg, S. O. and Tollens, F. (2024). Mobile stroke units services in Germany: A cost-effectiveness modeling perspective on catchment zones, operating modes, and staffing. European Journal of Neurology, 1–9.
- Rink, J., Tollens, F., Tschalzev, A., Bartelt, C., Heinzl, A., Hoffmann, J., Schoenberg, S. O., Marzina, A., Sandikci, V., Wiegand, C., Hoyer, C. and Szabo, K. (2024). Establishing an MSU service in a medium-sized German urban area — clinical and economic considerations. Frontiers in Neurolgy, 15, 1–9.
- Dumas, M., Fournier, F., Limonad, L., Marrella, A., Montali, M., Rehse, J.-R., Accorsi, R., Calvanese, D., De Giacomo, G., Fahland, D., Gal, A., La Rosa, M., Völzer, H. and Weber, I. (2023). AI-augmented business process management systems: a research manifesto. ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems, 14, 1–19.
- Grebe, M., Franke, M. R. and Heinzl, A. (2023). Artificial intelligence: how leading companies define use cases, scale-up utilization, and realize value. Informatik-Spektrum, 46, 197–209.
- Kude, T., Förderer, J., Mithas, S. and Heinzl, A. (2023). How deadline orientation and architectural modularity influence software quality and job satisfaction. Journal of Operations Management, 69, 941–964.
- Oberste, L. and Heinzl, A. (2023). User-centric explainability in healthcare: A knowledge-level perspective of informed machine learning. IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence, 4, 840–857.
- Pethig, F. and Kroenung, J. (2023). Biased humans, (un)biased algorithms? Journal of Business Ethics, 183, 637–652.
- Venkatesh, V., Thong, J. Y. L., Spohrer, K., Chan, F. K. Y., Arora, A., Höhle, H. and Venkatraman, S. (2023). Equality does not make you happy: efects of differentiated leader-member exchange and team-member exchange on developer satisfaction in agile development teams. MIS Quarterly, 47, 1239-1270.
- Hoffmann, P., Zercher, D. and Schimmer, T. (2025). How AI communication capabilities affect developer productivity in AI pair programming: Insights from a large software development organization. In , Thirty-Third European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS 2025), Amman, Jordan, AIS TREO Papers 2025 (S. 1–4). , AISeL: Atlanta, GA.
- Zercher, D., Jussupow, E. and Heinzl, A. (2025). Team climate in team-AI collaboration: Exploring the role of decisional ownership and perceived AI team membership. In , ECIS 2025 proceedings (S. 1–17). European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS) : Research Papers, AISeL: Atlanta, GA.
- Mateja, D., Suddenko, M., Fallon, M., Dietrich, A. and Heinzl, A. (2024). The role of ego-involvement in evaluating AI creativity. In , ECIS 2024 Proceedings (S. 1–17). European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS) : Research Papers, AISeL: Atlanta, GA.
- Pieper, M., Rehse, J.-R. and Fallon, M. (2024). Digitally supported emotion regulation: A conceptualization based on trace data analysis of mHealth use. In , ICIS 2024 Proceedings (S. 1–17). International Conference on Information Systems : ICIS, AIS: Atlanta.
- Sperling, H. (2024). The place to be? Investigating LGBTQ professionals' experiences in IT. In , (S. 1–9). European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS) : Research Papers, AISeL: Atlanta, GA.
- Ding, W. and Höhle, H. (2023). AI-assisted diagnosis of bone tuberculosis: A design science research approach. In , ICIS 2023, Rising like a Phoenix: emerging from the pandemic and reshaping human endeavors with digital technologies : Hyderabad, India, 10–13 December 2023, proceedings (S. 1–9). , AISeL: Red Hook, NY.
- Elsayed, N., Abb, L., Sander, H. and Rehse, J.-R. (2023). Automating computer software validation in regulated industries with robotic process automation. In , Business Process Management: Blockchain, Robotic Process Automation and Educators Forum : BPM 2023 Blockchain, RPA and Educators Forum, Utrecht, The Netherlands, September 11–15, 2023, Proceedings (S. 135–148). Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing : LNBIP, Springer: Berlin [u. a.].
- Hoffmann, P., Shmagina, V., Halckenhäußer, A. and Lüker, N. (2023). The influence of user feedback on complementary innovation in platform ecosystems: NLP evidence on the value of multihoming. In , Proceedings of the 56th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (S. 5994-6003). , University of Hawaii at Manoa: Honolulu, HI.
- Mateja, D., Armbruster, R., Baumert, J., Bleil, T., Langenbahn, J., Schwedhelm, J. C., Sester, S. and Heinzl, A. (2023). AnimateSVG: Autonomous creation and aesthetics evaluation of scalable vector graphics animations for the case of brand logos. In , Proceedings of the 37th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (S. 15710-15716). Proceedings of the ... AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Curran Associates, Inc.: Washington, DC.
- Oberste, L., Rüffer, F., Aydingül, O., Rink, J. and Heinzl, A. (2023). Designing user-centric explanations for medical imaging with informed machine learning. In , Design Science Research for a New Society: Society 5.0 : 18th International Conference on Design Science Research in Information Systems and Technology, DESRIST 2023, Pretoria, South Africa, May 31 – June 2, 2023, Proceedings (S. 470–484). Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer: Berlin [u. a.].
- Rehse, J.-R., Pufahl, L., Grohs, M. and Klein, L.-M. (2023). Process mining meets visual analytics: the case of conformance checking. In , Proceedings of the 56th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences : January 3–6, 2023 (S. 5452-5461). , University of Hawaii at Manoa: Honolulu, HI.
- Schilpp, J., Pethig, F. and Höhle, H. (2023). Analytics dashboards and user behavior: Evidence from GitHub. In , 2023 46th MIPRO ICT and Electronics Convention (MIPRO) : May 22-May 26, 2023, Opatija, Croatia : proceedings (S. 56–61). , IEEE: Opatija, Croatia.
- Sola, D., Warmuth, C., Schäfer, B., Badakhshan, P., Rehse, J.-R. and Kampik, T. (2023). SAP Signavio Academic Models: A large process model dataset. In , Process Mining Workshops : ICPM 2022 International Workshops, Bozen-Bolzano, Italy, October 23–28, 2022, Revised Selected Papers (S. 453–465). Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing : LNBIP, Springer: Berlin [u. a.].
- Zercher, D., Jussupow, E. and Heinzl, A. (2023). When AI joins the team: A literature review on intragroup processes and their effect on team performance in team-AI collaboration. In , European Conference on Information Systems, ECIS 2023 : proceedings (S. 1–18). European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS) : Research Papers, AISeL: Atlanta, GA.
- Lindenmayr, M. and Förderer, J. (2024). Digitale B2B-Plattformökosysteme für produzierende Unternehmen : Anwendungsbereiche und Beispiele entlang der Wertschöpfungskette. In Digitale Plattformen und Ökosysteme im B2B-Bereich : Fallstudien, Ansätze, Technologien und Tools (S. 161–182). Wiesbaden, Deutschland: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden.
- Förderer, J. (2023). Praxistipps für KMU und Start-ups im Umgang mit den BigTech-Plattformen. In Digitale Souveränität für Europa : Herausforderung und Zielsetzung (S. 81–88). Freiburg: Haufe Group.