Description

According to the internet, Elon Musk is often praised for his visionary mindset, innovation, risk-taking attitude, and energy. Jan vom Brocke is just like that, we think. With the positivity he brings into every project and meeting, Jan has been right at the center of many seminal developments in our field over the past twenty years, from the rise of design science to the inception of NeuroIS, the development of literature reviews, and more recently the creation of process science. We take the opportunity to reflect with him on his work, the way he builds and steers highly successful research groups, and how he manages to do research that is both impactful and engaging to many different audiences.

Episode Reading List

• vom Brocke, J., van der Aalst, W. M. P., Grisold, T., Kremser, W., Mendling, J., Pentland, B., Roeglinger, M., Rosemann, M., Weber, B., Berente, N. (2024). Process Science: The Interdisciplinary Study of Socio-Technical Change. Process Science, forthcoming.
• Process Science. https://link.springer.com/journal/44311.
• Rescher, N. (1996). Process Metaphysics: An Introduction to Process Philosophy. SUNY Press.
• Van de Ven, A. H., & Poole, M. S. (1995). Explaining Development and Change in Organizations. Academy of Management Review, 20(3), 510-540.
• Aldrich, H. E. (2011). Heroes, Villains, and Fools: Institutional Entrepreneurship, NOT Institutional Entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurship Research Journal, 1(2).
• Hargadon, A. B. (2003). How Breakthroughs Happen: The Surprising Truth about how Companies Innovate. Harvard Business Press.
• Tuunanen, T., Winter, R., & vom Brocke, J. (2024). Dealing with Complexity in Design Science Research: Using Design Echelons to Support Planning, Conducting, and Communicating Design Knowledge Contributions. MIS Quarterly, 48(2), https://doi.org/10.25300/MISQ/2023/16700.
• vom Brocke, J., Simons, A., Niehaves, B., Riemer, K., Plattfault, R., & Cleven, A. (2009). Reconstructing the Giant: On the Importance of Rigour in Documenting the Literature Search Process. 17th European Conference on Information Systems, Verona, Italy.
• Seckler, C., Mauer, R., & vom Brocke, J. (2023). The World Needs Design Science Now More Than Ever. AACSB Insights, https://www.aacsb.edu/insights/articles/2023/08/the-world-needs-design-science-now-more-than-ever.
• Abbasi, A., Chiang, R. H. L., & Xu, J. (2023). Data Science for Social Good. Journal of the Association for Information Systems, 24(6), 1439-1458.
• Seidel, S., Recker, J., & vom Brocke, J. (2013). Sensemaking and Sustainable Practicing: Functional Affordances of Information Systems in Green Transformations. MIS Quarterly, 37(4), 1275-1299.
• Berglund, H., Bousfiha, M., & Mansoori, Y. (2020). Opportunities as Artifacts and Entrepreneurship as Design. Academy of Management Review, 45(4), 825–846.
• Dimoka, A., Banker, R. D., Benbasat, I., Davis, F. D., Dennis, A. R., Gefen, D., Gupta, A., Ischebeck, A., Kenning, P. H., Pavlou, P. A., Muller-Putz, G., Riedl, R., vom Brocke, J., & Weber, B. (2012). On the Use of Neuropyhsiological Tools in IS Research: Developing a Research Agenda for NeuroIS. MIS Quarterly, 36(3), 679-702.
• vom Brocke, J., Mendling, J., & Rosemann, M. (2021). Business Process Management Cases Vol. 2. Springer.
• vom Brocke, J., Simons, A., Riemer, K., Niehaves, B., Plattfault, R., & Cleven, A. (2015). Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: Challenges and Recommendations of Literature Search in Information Systems Research.Communications of the Association for Information Systems, 37(9), 205-224.