Institute of Information Systems and Digital Business (IWI-HSG)

Prof Dr Daniel Schlagwein will be at the HSG in HS2024 as a visiting professor of the SoM. In this context, he is offering a research seminar on "Theory, Theory Building and Theoretical Contribution", to which HSG-researchers interested in the topic are invited. The workshop explores the foundational concepts of “theory” in Information Systems (IS) and business and organizational research more widely.

Dr. Niclas Kannengiesser is a postdoctoral researcher with the critical information systems infrastructures research group at the KIT and currently a visiting researcher at the University of Zurich. In his presentation, he will deal with the topic of Automated Machine Learning (AutoML) - a topic that can also be exciting from a business perspective. He will show how practitioners can benefit from AutoML and provide an outlook on decentralized machine learning processes and the role of AutoML in such processes.

Kevin Bauer is Assistant Professor of E-Business and E-Government at the University of Mannheim, and starting in 2025, he will be Professor for Game-Theoretic and Causal AI in Business and Economics at Goethe University Frankfurt. In his talk, Kevin Bauer presents the findings of a paper that explores whether Explainable AI (XAI) can improve human metaknowledge and thereby enhance delegation efficiency in human-AI collaborations.

Thomas Hess is Full Professor of Information Systems and Management at the LMU Munich School of Management and director of the Institute for Digital Management and New Media. His research focuses on the potential of digital technologies for the value creation and the management structure of companies. In his research talk, he presents the results of an interpretative case study, on the basis of which the process of digital change of a European media group was analyzed.