February 19, 2025
Announcement of the Schöller Fellows 2025
The Schöller Research Center is excited to announce its sixteenth Fellows-cohort:
This year’s Schöller Senior Fellow is Prof. Prithwiraj Choudhury, PhD (Harvard University).
Schöller Fellows 2025 are Dr. Stefan Arnold (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg), Dr. Aksornchan Chaianong (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg), Dr. Simon Horn (Max-Planck-Institut für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht), Dr. Christoph Küffner (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg), and Prof. Dr. Mario Liebensteiner (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg).
The honorary award goes to the Director of the Deutsches Museum Nuremberg Marion Grether.
The Award Ceremony takes place on Thursday, May 22, 2025 at Hirsvogel Hall in Nuremberg.
December 19, 2024
Shirley Gregor and Jan Marco Leimeister honored at ICIS 2025
Two Schöller Senior Fellows were honored at the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) in Bangkok (Thailand):
Prof. Shirley Gregor, Ph.D. was honoured with the AIS LEO Award. The LEO Award for lifetime exceptional achievement in Information Systems recognizes outstanding academics and practitioners forexceptional contributions to research in and/or the practice of information systems. Our Senior Fellows already include two other LEO Award awardees: Carol Saunders from 2010 and Ritu Agarwal from 2019.
Prof. Dr. Jan Marco Leimeister was namend an AIS Fellow. The AIS Fellow Award recognizes outstanding contributions in research, teaching and service in the field of Information Systems. Jan Marco Leimeister joins Ritu Agarwal, Shirley Gregor, Alan Hevner, Jeffrey Parsons, Carol Saunders, and Jan vom Brocke as the seventh Schöller Senior Fellow to receive this honor.
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November 25, 2024
Dr. Günther Beckstein receives Honorary Medal of FAU WiSo
At the FAU WiSo Honors Night on November 14, 2024 in the Historic Town Hall in Nuremberg, Dr. Günther Beckstein, former Bavarian Minister-President, was awarded the Medal of Honour of the School of Business, Economics and Society (FAU WiSo). The laudatory speech was held by Marcus König, Mayor of the City of Nuremberg.
As a representative of the Schöller Foundations, Dr Beckstein made a significant contribution to the implementation of the extensive funding measures of the Schöller-Foundations at the School. These led in particular to the establishment of the Dr. Theo and Friedl Schöller Research Center for Business and Society and the Schöller Endowed Professorship for Information Systems (Digitalization in Business and Society). Since the Schöller Research Center was founded in 2010, Dr. Beckstein has been an active member of its Advisory Board.
Funding from the Schöller-Foundations has enabled FAU WiSo to establish innovative research collaborations with leading international researchers and thus make a lasting contribution to sustainable and science-based development in business and society.
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November 22, 2024
Simon Reif among “Top 40 under 40”
German business magazine Capital has included Schöller Fellow Prof. Dr. Simon Reif in its “Top 40 under 40”. According to Capital, he is one of the greatest talents in economics, politics, and society under the age of 40 who are shaping developments in Germany.
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October 17, 2024
Almasa Sarabi publishes paper in Administrative Science Quarterly
Schöller Fellow Dr. Almasa Sarabi (with N. Lehmann) published an article in Administrative Science Quarterly (A+).
A substantial body of research examines the relevance of hiring as a source of gender disparities in organizations. However, there is limited evidence on how different groups of key organizational decision makers contribute to gender disparities in hiring outcomes.
To address this research gap, the authors exploited the adoption of a new hiring process in a multinational corporation, which transferred the task of shortlisting from hiring managers to HR departments. In their paper “Who Shortlists? Evidence on Gender Disparities in Hiring Outcomes”, they find that the transfer of shortlisting from hiring managers to HR departments led to fewer gender disparities in hiring outcomes and thus increased the proportion of newly hired women.
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October 2, 2024
Call for Applications: Schöller Fellowships 2024
In 2024, the Dr. Theo and Friedl Schöller Research Center for Business and Society will appoint the fifteenth cohort of Schöller Fellows. Application for fellowships is now open in the following two categories:
– Schöller Senior Fellows for internationally renowned scholars
– Schöller Fellows for promising early-career scholars (including assistant professors, post-docs and outstanding PhD students)
Application deadline is December 31, 2024.
The application form as well as further information regarding the application process and the fellowships (selection criteria, rights and obligations, etc.) are available here.
September 29, 2024
Fabian Kosse publishes paper in Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes
Schöller Fellow Prof. Dr. Fabian Kosse (with J. Habel et al.) published an article in Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes (A).
One underexplored question is whether specific professions and associated job characteristics can foster neuroticism. Drawing on Cybernetic Big Five Theory (CB5T), the authors examine in their paper “Neuroticism and the Sales Profession” in various studies whether business-to-business (B2B) sales jobs entail frequent experiences of uncertainty, which over time increase salespeople’s neuroticism.
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June 30, 2024
Jeffrey Parsons publishes paper in Journal of Product Innovation Management
Schöller Senior Fellow Prof. Jeffrey Parsons, PhD (with A. Abbasi et al.) published an article in Information Systems Research (A+).
In their editorial “Pathways for Design Research on Artificial Intelligence”, the authors address some of the challenges faced in publishing design research related to AI and articulate viable pathways for publishing such work. More specifically, they highlight major impediments, use the explosion in the state of the art for large language models to underscore these impediments, propose some pathways for overcoming the impediments, and use several example articles to illustrate how the pathways can be followed for different types of AI-related design artifacts.
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June 7, 2024
Jeffrey Parsons honored with DESRIST Lifetime Achievement Award
Schöller Senior Fellow Prof. Jeffrey Parsons, Ph.D. was honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award for his contributions to design science research at this year’s International Conference on Design Science Research in Information Systems and Technology (DESRIST) in Trollhättan, Sweden.
May 27, 2024
Evangelia Demerouti and Katharina Ebner publish paper in Human Resource Management
Schöller Senior Fellow Prof. Dr. Evangelia Demerouti and Schöller Fellow Katharina Ebner (with C. Roth, R. Soucek and K. Moser) published an article in Human Resource Management (A).
In their paper “Toward a Better Understanding of Self‐Regulation Promoting Interventions: When Performance Management and Job Crafting Meet”, the authors conducted a field experiment to examine the effects of two self-regulation promoting interventions – the Productivity Measurement and Enhancement Systems intervention (ProMES), a job crafting intervention, and their combination – on individual employee performance and innovation through selected process variables.
The findings suggest that while self-regulation promoting interventions increase favorable outcomes through different mechanisms their combination may unexpectedly impair relevant processes and, more generally, overwhelm employees.
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April 14, 2024
Christian Baccarella and Lukas Maier publish paper in Journal of Product Innovation Management
Schöller Fellows Prof. Dr. Christian Baccarella and Dr. Lukas Maier published an article in the Journal of Product Innovation Management (A).
Their paper “The Psychological and Behavioural Consequences of Customer Empowerment in New Product Development: Situational Framework, Review, and Research Agenda” examines the psychological and behavioural effects of (active) customer involvement in all phases of a company’s product development. The authors provide a comprehensive review of existing research and develop a framework that identifies different scenarios of customer involvement and their consequences. This understanding enables companies to develop more effective customer involvement strategies that can increase success in the long term.
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