We study the interfaces between entrepreneurship, organizing data & knowledge, and digital infrastructures & ecosystems.

Projects

• Entrepreneurship and Innovation with Bio Data
  • Towards Health Futures Community
  • Creating and Appropriating Value from Bio Data
    (joint project with ELIXIR)
• Digital Entrepreneurship @Digital Entrepreneurship Hub
  • Startup Ecosystems for Digital Ventures 
  • Design Science Research with Digital Entrepreneurs
  • Business-managed and shadow IT
• Educational Service Engineering for Science & Tech Entrepreneurs
  • Postdoc-to-Innovators Project
    (with Cambridge, Paris, Glasgow, Innsbruck, Schlumberger, AstraZeneca, BP and Shell)
  • Freie Academic Entreprepreneurs Online Course
    (funded by DFG excellence initiative; co-funded by Ernst-Reuter-Gesellschaft)
  • Project LEON: Introduction to Data Science Engineering
    (subproject with Cedis, funded by Federal Ministry of Education and Reseach)
  • Entrepreneurial Network University (EXIST IV)
  • (funded by Federal Ministry of Economics and Energy and ESF)
  • BWL für Veterinärmediziner
    (finished, funded by Volkswagenstiftung, KELDAT, and Cedis

Selected Publications

Rothe, H.; Wessel, L.; Barquet, A. B., Accumulating Design Knowledge: A Mechanisms-based Approach. In Journal of the Association for Information Systems (2019, accepted).

Wessel, L., Davidson, E., Barquet, A., Rothe, H., Peters, O. & Megges, H. (forthcoming) Configuration in Smart Service Systems: A Practice-based Inquiry. Information Systems Journal (ISJ), SI: Smart Service Systems

Rothe, H.; Jarvenpaa, S., L.; and Penninger, A. A., How do entrepreneurial firms appropriate value in bio data infrastructures: an exploratory qualitative study. In Proceedings of the 27th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS), 2019. Awarded by Claudio Ciborra Award for most innovate paper 2019

Schweighofer, P.; Weitlaner, D.; Ebner, M.; and Rothe, H., Influential factors for technology-enhanced learning: professionals’ views.  Journal of Research in Innovative Teaching & Learning, 2019.

Fürstenau, D.; Anisimova, D.; Masak, D.; Rothe, H.; and Schulte-Althoff, M., The Digital Platform Otto. de: A Case Study of Growth, Complexity, and Generativity. In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Wirtschaftsinformatik, 2019.

Rothe, H.; Täuscher, K.; and Basole, R., C., Competition between platform ecosystems: a longitudinal study of MOOC platforms. In Twenty-Sixth European Conference on Information Systems, 2018.

Kooper, A.; Furstenau, D.; Zimmermann, S.; Klotz, S.; Rentrop, C.; Rothe, H.; Strahringer, S.; and Westner, M., Shadow IT and Business-Managed IT: A Conceptual Framework and Empirical Illustration. International Journal of IT/Business Alignment and Governance (IJITBAG), 9(2): 19. 2018. 

Furstenau, D.; Rothe, H.; and Sandner, M., Shadow systems, risk, and shifting power relations in organizations. Communications of the Association for Information Systems, 41. 2017.

Rothe, H.; and Steier, F., Shaping the Boundaries of a Service Ecosystem: The Case of Udacity. In Proceedings of the 50th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2017.