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 Faculty of Management, Economics and Social Sciences

Stefan Seidel

Research focuses

Digital Innovation, Digital Transformation, Artificial Intelligence

Curriculum vitae

  • Since 2023 Professor and Chair of Information Systems, Faculty of Management, Economics and Social Science, University of Cologne
  • Since 2020 Honorary Professor of Business Information Systems, National University of Ireland
  • 2018-2022 Professor and Chair of Information Systems and Innovation, University of Liechtenstein
  • 2015 – 2018 Associate Professor, University of Liechtenstein
  • 2009 – 2015 Assistant Professor, University of Liechtenstein
  • Dr. rer. pol. in Economics, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster
  • Studies in Information Systems, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster

Selected publications

  • Berente, N., Seidel, S., & Safadi, H. (2019). Research Commentary - Data-Driven Computationally-Intensive Theory Development. Information Systems Research (ISR), 30(1), 50-64.
  • Miranda, S., Berente, N., Seidel, S., Safadi, H., & Burton-Jones, A. (2022). Editor's Comments: Computationally Intensive Theory Construction: A Primer for Authors and Reviewers. MIS Quarterly, 46(2), iii-xviii.
  • Seidel, S., Berente, N., Lindberg, A., Lyytinen, K., & Nickerson, J. (2019). Autonomous Tools and Design: A Triple-Loop Approach to Human-Machine Learning. Communications of the ACM, 62(1), 50-57.
  • Seidel, S., Berente, N., Martinez, B., Lindberg, A., Lyytinen, K., & Nickerson, J. (2018). Autonomous Tools in Systems Design: Reflective Practice in Ubisoft's Ghost Recon Wildlands Project. IEEE Computer, 51(10), 16-23.
  • Informed, Data-Augmented: How Ubisoft's Ghost Recon Wildlands Live Unit Uses Data for Continuous Product Innovation. California Management Review, 62(3).
  • Lehrer, C., Wieneke, A., vom Brocke, J., Jung, R., & Seidel, S. (2018). How Big Data Analytics Enables Service Innovation: Materiality, Affordance, and the Individualization of Service. Journal of Management Information Systems, 35(2), 424-460.
  • Watson, R., Ketter, W., Recker, J., & Seidel, S. (2022). Sustainable Energy Transition: Intermittency Policy Based on Digital Mirror Actions. Journal of the Association for Information Systems, 23(3).
  • Seidel, S., Recker, J., & vom Brocke, J. (2013). Sensemaking and Sustainable Practicing: Functional Affordances of Information Systems in Green Transformations. Management Information Systems Quarterly (MIS Quarterly), 37(4), 1275-1299.
  • Seidel, S., Chandra Kruse, L., Székely, N., Gau, M., & Stieger, D. (2018). Design principles for sensemaking support systems in environmental sustainability transformations. European Journal of Information Systems, 27(2), 221-247.
  • Zampou, E., Mourtos, I., Pramatari, K., & Seidel, S. (2022). A Design Theory for Energy and Carbon Management Systems in the Supply Chain. Journal of the Association for Information Systems, 23(1), 329-371.