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Publikation 10 Postulate zum Innovationsmanagement(03.02.2015) Meyer, Rolf10 Postulate zum Innovationsmanagement.06 - PräsentationPublikation 12 tools to face sustainability reporting(Center for Corporate Reporting, 04.10.2017) Daub, Claus-Heinrich; Brand, Fridolin S.; Brunner, Elgin; Winistörfer, Herbert01B - Beitrag in Magazin oder ZeitungPublikation 7 Schlüssel Modell(Quergründer, 01.06.2016) Meyer, Rolf; Meyer, Mona; Meyer, Rolf; Köhle, Ivan7 Schlüssel Modell zur Entwicklung von Geschäftsideen. Eigenes Modell04A - Beitrag SammelbandPublikation A collaborative system to improve knowledge sharing in scientific research project(SAGE, 2019) Julpisit, Attipa; Esichaikul, Vatcharaporn; Suna, Ali Onur01A - Beitrag in wissenschaftlicher ZeitschriftPublikation A framework to identify factors affecting the performance of third-party B2B e-marketplaces: A seller’s perspective(Springer, 2018) Thitimajshima, Wiyada; Esichaikul, Vatcharaporn; Krairit, Donyaprueth01A - Beitrag in wissenschaftlicher ZeitschriftPublikation A new version of the Langelier-Ludwig square diagram under a compositional perspective(Elsevier, 2022) Templ, Matthias; Gozzi, Caterina; Buccianti, Antonella01A - Beitrag in wissenschaftlicher ZeitschriftPublikation A non-essentialist model of culture: Implications of identity, agency and structure within multinational/multicultural organizations(SAGE, 23.02.2015) Nathan, GaneshThis article, opens, briefly clarifying paradigms of essentialism and non-essentialism (also known as anti-essentialism) and shows evolving dimensions of dominant models of culture, namely, Hofstede (5), Trompenaars and Hampden-Turner (7) and Global Leadership and Organizational Behavior Effectiveness (GLOBE) (9) – referred to as the paradigm of 5-7-9 cultural dimensions in this article that tend to essentialize culture. This can lead to ethical concerns restricting the capacity of agency for choice and identity, which are necessary for the democratization of organizations. It then presents a model of culture within the paradigm of anti-essentialism, adapting the model presented by Nathan (2010), within the topic of multiculturalism based on Dilthey’s works on social interactionism and meaning in history, shows that the model can pave the way for the democratization of organizations and discusses the implications of organization culture in terms of agency, identity, and structure within multinational/multicultural organizations. This article concludes by encouraging further research, possibly within Critical Management Studies (CMS) along with qualitative research methods, to enhance the non-essentialist model of culture within organizational studies.01A - Beitrag in wissenschaftlicher ZeitschriftPublikation A practical recipe for open innovation for the circular economy(2023) Pavlova, Pavlina; Wyss, Ananda; von Kutzschenbach, Michael; Daub, Claus-HeinrichThe article proposes a hybrid approach that combines various design methods to organize and deliver successful open innovation ideation workshops to prototype new circular products and services. Three case studies are presented, including two intra-company collaboration workshops and a creativity and interdisciplinary workshop for students. A well-defined workshop setup structure and tools used are presented to enable practitioners to run similar workshops. The challenges and solutions developed during the case study workshops are summarized, and funding and realization details are provided. The paper emphasizes that the workshops are just the first step towards realizing circular economy solutions and further support and resources are needed to bring the ideas to fruition.06 - PräsentationPublikation A rising tide against internationalisation: Go with the flow or swim against the current?(2023) Buttery, Robert; Swennenhuis, Monique; Betts, Alicia06 - PräsentationPublikation A survey-based design of a pricing system for psychotherapy(BioMed Central, 2018) Hulliger, Beat; Sterchi, MartinErstellung eines Tarifs für Leistungserbringer im Gesundheitswesen, psychologische Psychotherapeuten, aufgrund einer Erhebung über Kosten der Psychotherapie und einer Erhebung über Zeitaufwände für die Psychotherapie.01A - Beitrag in wissenschaftlicher ZeitschriftPublikation A systematic overview on methods to protect sensitive data provided for various analyses(Springer, 2022) Templ, Matthias; Sariyar, Murat01A - Beitrag in wissenschaftlicher ZeitschriftPublikation A tale of eight countries or the EU council presidency translator in retrospect(2020) Metuzale, Kristine06 - PräsentationPublikation A toolkit for personal health resources at the workplace(31.05.2015) Schulte, Volker; Verkuil, Arie HansStrengthening personal health resources is an important aspect of "Health promotion at the workplace’’. Workplace Health Promotion (WHP) is the combined effort of employers, employees and society to improve the health and well-being of people at work. This can be achieved through a combination of improving the work organization and the working environment, promoting active participation, and encouraging personal development. The question is how employers can best provide access to high quality tools and blended learning programmes which enhance workers’ health behaviors. While acknowledging the individual’s responsibility for his or her own health, this set of activities focuses on the role of the environment and the managers or employers. The attention here is on the organization and design of work in both its physical and psychosocial dimensions. Our task is to identify, prioritize and validate those instruments, which are most appropriate for specific cultures, environments and technologies as guided by the principles of the WHO healthy workplace model. The connection between the physical and psychosocial environments is influenced by high level management choices and decisions about how work will be organised. The psychosocial environment is essential for a health promotion climate. Consequently, the workplace is seen primarily as a venue through which various health promotion programmes can be delivered. Supportive management climate refers to organizing work in ways that promote rather than defeat health of employees. This means maximizing the degree to which employees participate in the governance of their own work (including the maintenance of a physically safe environment), and providing adequate recognition and acknowledgment for good work. In this way, management will communicate their serious intention to create those working conditions that lies in the focus of the connection between the organization of work and health. WHP consists of policies based on programmes, projects or instruments such as questionnaires, guidelines and information materials, programmes on the prevention of addictive drugs (such as alcohol abuse, smoking), the promotion of healthy eating habits, opportunities for physical activity, addressing mental health and stress, promoting family friendly working conditions and providing diversity training programmes.04B - Beitrag KonferenzschriftPublikation A transdisciplinary approach supporting the implementation of a big data project in livestock production: an example from the Swiss pig production industry(Frontiers Research Foundation, 2019) Faverjon, Céline; Bernstein, Abraham; Grütter, Rolf; Nathues, Christina; Nathues, Heiko; Sarasua, Cristina; Sterchi, Martin; Vargas, Maria Elena; Berezowski, JohnBig Data approaches offer potential benefits for improving animal health, but they have not been broadly implemented in livestock production systems. Privacy issues, the large number of stakeholders, and the competitive environment all make data sharing, and integration a challenge in livestock production systems. The Swiss pig production industry illustrates these and other Big Data issues. It is a highly decentralized and fragmented complex network made up of a large number of small independent actors collecting a large amount of heterogeneous data. Transdisciplinary approaches hold promise for overcoming some of the barriers to implementing Big Data approaches in livestock production systems. The purpose of our paper is to describe the use of a transdisciplinary approach in a Big Data research project in the Swiss pig industry. We provide a brief overview of the research project named “Pig Data,” describing the structure of the project, the tools developed for collaboration and knowledge transfer, the data received, and some of the challenges. Our experience provides insight and direction for researchers looking to use similar approaches in livestock production system research.01A - Beitrag in wissenschaftlicher ZeitschriftPublikation Achieving competitive advantage by addressing the dimensions of eco-sustainability and innovation in manufacturing processes(2011) Hinz, Andreas; Scherrer-Rathje, Maike; Neumann, MichèleThis paper explores how firms can generate competitive advantage by simultaneously addressing the dimensions of eco-sustainability and innovation in manufacturing processes. The eco-sustainability dimension is divided into eco-efficiency and eco-effectiveness while the innovation dimension is divided into incremental and radical innovation. These two dimensions are combined in an eco-sustainability & innovation matrix which allows to build clusters of studied firms. In order to shed more light into the connectedness of these two dimensions and the impact on competitive advantage, case studies are conducted with firms that are actively engaged in eco-sustainability and innovation initiatives.04B - Beitrag KonferenzschriftPublikation Achtsame Führung. Schlüsselelemente für das Management im 21. Jahrhundert(Schäffer-Pöschel, 2021) Schulte, Volker; Steinebach, Christoph; Veth, KlaskeDas Buch befasst sich mit Mindful Leadership in unterschiedlichen Kulturen und beschreibt zukünftige notwendige Führungsqualifikationen des Managements. Dabei wird vor allem auf die Parameter Resilienz, Empathie und Ethik eingegangen.03 - SammelbandPublikation Action fields of digital transformation - a review and comparative analysis of digital transformation maturity models and frameworks(edition gesowip, 2019) Bumann, Jimmy; Peter, Marc K.; Verkuil, Arie Hans; Hinkelmann, Knut; Aeschbacher, Marc04A - Beitrag SammelbandPublikation Active expectation management in chatbot conversations(University of Melbourne, 2021) Haupt, Martin; Rozumowski, Anna; Bove, Liliana L.; Bell, Simon J.; Hito, AbrahamChatbots have gained strong popularity in customer service, although users regularly experience unsatisfactory interactions and service failures, often due to highly exaggerated performance expectations. As a viable option, firms might therefore consider using ‘active expectations management’ by describing chatbot limitations. However, the question remains whether this strategy has a positive or negative impact on customer satisfaction and reuse intentions. Drawing on expectancy violation theory and the computers are social actors (CASA) paradigm, we empirically examine the effects of different expectation management strategies on user satisfaction and reuse intention. The results of a between-subjects experiment (n = 346) demonstrate that expectation management is an effective strategy to at least partly recover the failure. Furthermore, we show that different message types (i.e., ‘adapt’ vs. ‘understand’) have differential effects, whereas message positioning was found to be irrelevant. Our results enrich the service and chatbot literature and give managerial guidance for successful chatbot design.04B - Beitrag KonferenzschriftPublikation Active querying approach to epidemic source detection on contact networks(Nature, 2023) Sterchi, Martin; Hilfiker, Lorenz; Grütter, Rolf; Bernstein, AbrahamThe problem of identifying the source of an epidemic (also called patient zero) given a network of contacts and a set of infected individuals has attracted interest from a broad range of research communities. The successful and timely identification of the source can prevent a lot of harm as the number of possible infection routes can be narrowed down and potentially infected individuals can be isolated. Previous research on this topic often assumes that it is possible to observe the state of a substantial fraction of individuals in the network before attempting to identify the source. We, on the contrary, assume that observing the state of individuals in the network is costly or difficult and, hence, only the state of one or few individuals is initially observed. Moreover, we presume that not only the source is unknown, but also the duration for which the epidemic has evolved. From this more general problem setting a need to query the state of other (so far unobserved) individuals arises. In analogy with active learning, this leads us to formulate the active querying problem. In the active querying problem, we alternate between a source inference step and a querying step. For the source inference step, we rely on existing work but take a Bayesian perspective by putting a prior on the duration of the epidemic. In the querying step, we aim to query the states of individuals that provide the most information about the source of the epidemic, and to this end, we propose strategies inspired by the active learning literature. Our results are strongly in favor of a querying strategy that selects individuals for whom the disagreement between individual predictions, made by all possible sources separately, and a consensus prediction is maximal. Our approach is flexible and, in particular, can be applied to static as well as temporal networks. To demonstrate our approach’s practical importance, we experiment with three empirical (temporal) contact networks: a network of pig movements, a network of sexual contacts, and a network of face-to-face contacts between residents of a village in Malawi. The results show that active querying strategies can lead to substantially improved source inference results as compared to baseline heuristics. In fact, querying only a small fraction of nodes in a network is often enough to achieve a source inference performance comparable to a situation where the infection states of all nodes are known.01A - Beitrag in wissenschaftlicher ZeitschriftPublikation Adopting AI in the banking sector - The wealth management perspective(Springer, 2021) Wittmann, Xinhua; Lutfiju, Flutra; Gerber, Aurona; Hinkelmann, KnutWhile interest in understanding the impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the real world has been growing, there is limited research on what digital transformation means in the banking sector. The present paper aims to address this gap in the literature by means of a field study based on 11 interviews with wealth managers from across front, middle and back offices in a large Swiss bank. Our analyses suggest bank employees have relatively positive attitudes toward the adoption of new technologies. According to the research, the top three advantages for adopting AI in wealth management are: efficiency, enhanced clients’ experience and better customer insight. Yet, AI also brings new challenges to banking. Obstacles identified include process complexity, greater maintenance effort, and increased regulatory requirements. Still, AI is expected to change the banking model to an integrated, hybrid and leaner operation with digital processes that offer front-to-back solutions. With respect to the future of the bank workforce, hiring tech-savvy talent will be crucial. AI will be able to free bank employees from repetitive jobs for more interesting and creative tasks.04B - Beitrag Konferenzschrift