Special Guests

Brian T. Pentland is the Main Street Capital Partners Endowed Professor in the Department of Accounting and Information Systems at Michigan State University. His research is focused on the analysis of repetitive patterns of action, such as organizational routines. He has applied this perspective to software support, auditing, invoice processing, customer service, electronic medical record keeping, and basement band rock. Lately, he has been investigating routine dynamics from the perspective of network dynamics.

Leonhard Dobusch is Professor of Business Administration with focus on Organization at the University of Innsbruck, Austria. He holds degrees in Law and in Business studies and his main research interests include openness as an organizing principle, the communicative constitution of organizationality and private regulation via standards, specifically in the field of intellectual property. He is co-founder and academic director of the Vienna-based Momentum Institute, member of the ZDF television council and blogs at netzpolitik.org.

Daniel Geiger is Professor for Organization Studies at the University of Hamburg, Germany and Visiting Professor for Qualitative Methods at the Ugandan Management Institute. He holds a PhD from Freie Universität Berlin and has been Research Fellow of the Advanced Institute of Management Research, UK. His research focuses on the dynamics of organizational routines, particularly in situations of crisis and emergencies. Most recently he explores the temporal and spatial dimensions of coordinating routines in dealing with tensions. In his studies, and consistent with practice-based and routine dynamics approaches, he draws heavily on participant observation and more embedded forms of data collection.

Marleen Huysman holds a chair in knowledge and organization at the School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, and heads the KIN Center for Digital Innovation and the Department of Knowledge, Innovation, and Networks at the same university. Her research focuses on the development and use of digital innovation, including new ways of working, technology in practice, and algorithms at work. She has a specific interest in using ethnography as a research method.

Jan Mendling is the Einstein-Professor of Process Science with the Department of Computer Science at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany. His research interests include various topics in the area of business process management and information systems. He has published more than 450 research papers and articles, among others in Management Information Systems Quarterly, ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Journal of the Association of Information Systems and Decision Support Systems. He is a department editor for Business and Information Systems Engineering, and co-author of the textbooks Fundamentals of Business Process Management and Wirtschaftsinformatik