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PublicationType: journal articleJournal: Sustainable FuturesVolume: 4
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PublicationJournal: Renewable and Sustainable Energy ReviewsVolume: 176
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PublicationAlgorithmic Management: Its Implications for Information Systems Research(ACM, 2023)
;Cameron, Lindsey ;Lamers, Laura ;Meijerink, JeroenMöhlmann, MareikeIn recent years, the topic of algorithmic management has received increasing attention in information systems (IS) research and beyond. As both emerging platform businesses and established companies rely on artificial intelligence and sophisticated software to automate tasks previously done by managers, important organizational, social, and ethical questions emerge. However, a cross-disciplinary approach to algorithmic management that brings together IS perspectives with other (sub-)disciplines such as macro- and micro-organizational behavior, business ethics, and digital sociology is missing, despite its usefulness for IS research. This article engages in cross-disciplinary agenda setting through an in-depth report of a professional development workshop (PDW) entitled “Algorithmic Management: Toward a Cross-Disciplinary Research Agenda” delivered at the 2021 Academy of Management Annual Meeting. Three leading experts (Mareike Möhlmann, Lindsey Cameron, and Laura Lamers) on the topic provide their insights on the current status of algorithmic management research, how their work contributes to this area, where the field is heading in the future, and what important questions should be answered going forward. These accounts are followed up by insights from the breakout group discussions at the PDW that provided further input. Overall, the experts and workshop participants highlighted that future research should examine both the desirable and undesirable outcomes of algorithmic management and should not shy away from posing ethical and normative questions.Type: journal articleJournal: Communications of the Association for Information Systems (CAIS)Volume: 52 -
PublicationAnalyse, Konzeption und Produktion interaktiver Bildungsmedien im Jahr 2023( 2024)Institut für Wirtschaftspädagogik
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PublicationAnalytical approaches for the climate-related risk estimation of commercial banks’ credit activities: challenges, opportunities, and the way aheadBanks typically attempt to quantify climate-related risks, whether physical or transition ones, by adopting a top-down or a bottom-up analytical approach for the risk estimation of their borrowers. The two analytical approaches for risk estimation are regarded as mutually exclusive, when, in reality, they can complement each other in a mutually beneficial way. We discuss the challenges and opportunities of both analytical approaches with a focus on their applicability for commercial banks’ loans, and highlight directions for future research.Type: journal article
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PublicationType: newspaper articleJournal: CSR MagazinIssue: 39
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PublicationArtificiality and Sustainability in Entrepreneurship / Exploring the Unforeseen, and Paving the Way to a Sustainable Future(Springer Verlage, 2022)
;Adams, Richard ;Pundziene, Asta ;Volkmann, Christine ;Adams, Richard ;Pundziene, AstaVolkmann, ChristineThis edited collection explores the past, present, and future of artificiality and sustainability in entrepreneurship, the unforeseen consequences, and how to head forward to a sustainable future. First, we integrate the concepts of entrepreneurship and artificiality. We propose that entrepreneurs produce artefacts of entrepreneurship - new ventures, entrepreneurial firms, etc. - that have functions and goals set to respond to the conditions of the diverse environments in which they operate. Second, we contend that the prevailing technological environment can be perceived as an artefact that significantly impacts entrepreneurs, new ventures, and entrepreneurial firms. Digital technologies effectuated new forms of ventures such as born-digital and transformed incumbents to adopt them. Digital technologies come with virtualising our everyday environments and induce behavioral and cognitive changes, which call for new capabilities, e.g., dynamic capabilities. Finally, we conclude with further research questions to be addressed by the entrepreneurship, technology management and sustainability scholars.Type: book sectionVolume: ISSN 2364-6918 -
PublicationArtificiality and Sustainability in Entrepreneurship / Exploring the Unforeseen, and Paving the Way to a Sustainable Future(Springer Verlage, 2022)
;Adams, Richard ;Pundziene, Asta ;Volkmann, Christine ;Adams, Richard ;Pundziene, AstaVolkmann, ChristineType: bookVolume: ISSN 2364-6918 -
PublicationAssessing the Sustainability of the Business Model: Firm Governance Using the Sustainable Value Creation Framework and Its MeasurementsThe generally accepted definition of sustainability's has a future orientation where "the needs of the present" are satisfied "without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs” (Brundtland, 1987). That sustainability is at the firm level (as in von Carlowitz, 1712) is an increasingly self-evident proposition. Yet leaders aspiring to make their organizations sustainable face a multitude of challenges, and not exactly because of a lack of choice in the CSR and ESG options available to them. Bafflement can easily turn into frustration when inconsistency, the lack of connection to the firm’s business model or poor-quality data become apparent. On the other hand, progress towards applying sustainability has been considerable over the last decade as exemplified by the ‘big’ global ESG framework and standard-setting organizations. Yet despite the progress made by the copious number of frameworks and measurements, serious issues and blind spots persist. For instance, monopoly positions, subsidies or regulatory privileges are clearly unsustainable and yet rarely captured by existing sustainable frameworks and measurements. This is but one issue—a review of all those identified in the academic and practitioner literature is the paper's first step. In a second step, this paper proposes requirements for sustainability frameworks and measurements. These include: (i) comprehensive capture of sustainable activities; (ii) comprehensive capture of unsustainable activities; (iii) pricing all the value creation and appropriation of the firm; (iv) measuring business model sustainability in relation to the financial statement; (v) measuring the balance of the business model’s sustainable and unsustainable activities. In the third and final step, the paper discusses two sustainable value creation measurements (VCr/VCp) anchored in a multi-disciplinary body theory while developing specific metrics for their calculation. Once empirically validated, the VCp/VCr measurements might inform managers and investors in their choices, inform public policy and could even be employed to adjust equity valuations and credit ratings.Type: journal articleDOI: 10.2139/ssrn.4246093
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PublicationAutomatic Classification of High vs. Low Individual Nutrition Literacy Levels from Loyalty Card Data in Switzerland( 2022-10-24)
;Wu, Jing ;Fuchs, Klaus ;Stoll, MelanieBally, LiaThe increasingly prevalent diet-related non-communicable diseases (NCDs) constitute a modern health pandemic. Higher nutrition literacy (NL) correlates with healthier diets, which in turn has favorable effects on NCDs. Assessing and classifying people's NL is helpful in tailoring the level of education required for disease self-management/empowerment and adequate treatment strategy selection. With recently introduced regulation in the European Union and beyond, it has become easier to leverage loyalty card data and enrich it with nutrition information about bought products. We present a novel system that utilizes such data to classify individuals into high- and low- NL classes, using well-known machine learning (ML) models, thereby permitting for instance better targeting of educational measures to support the population-level management of NCDs. An online survey (n = 779) was conducted to assess individual NL levels and divide participants into high- and low- NL groups. Our results show that there are significant differences in NL between male and female, as well as between overweight and non-overweight individuals. No significant differences were found for other demographic parameters that were investigated. Next, the loyalty card data of participants (n = 11) was collected from two leading Swiss retailers with the consent of participants and a ML system was trained to predict high or low NL for these individuals. Our best ML model, which utilizes the XGBoost algorithm and monthly aggregated baskets, achieved a Macro-F1-score of .89 at classifying NL. We hence show the feasibility of identifying individual NL levels based on household loyalty card data leveraging ML models, however due to the small sample size, the results need to be further verified with a larger sample size.Type: journal articleJournal: MADiMa '22: Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Multimedia Assisted Dietary Management -
PublicationType: journal articleJournal: Betriebs-BeraterVolume: 79Issue: 13/14
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PublicationBetterPlanet: Sustainability Feedback from Digital ReceiptsThe global food system accounts for 25–30% of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions. A large share of these emissions is due to individual food shopping patterns. Despite the rising concern about the environment, many individuals fail to act upon it and change their food consumption. In this study, we attempt to motivate individuals to reduce their food-shopping-induced environmental footprint. To narrow the intention-behavior gap, we propose a novel technical system that gives automated near-term sustainability feedback on individuals’ food shopping recorded on digital receipts and communicates this feedback through the mobile application BetterPlanet, Based on a small sample (n = 8), we find a directional decrease in the overall CO2-Scores. Therefore, our study demonstrates the technical feasibility of automated sustainability feedback from digital receipts. The proposed energy-weighted CO2-Scoring Model contributes to the growing knowledge body of sustainability assessment.Type: book sectionJournal:Advances in Mobile Computing and Multimedia IntelligenceLecture Notes in Computer Science
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PublicationBig Data as Supportive Incentivization for Sustainable Behavior: Shaping Sustainable Tourism Behaviour in the Alps with the Support of Image-Recognition(AMS Proceedings, 2023)
;Florian GasserSven BriedenAfter two years of nearly "no-tourism" or chaotic touristic situations, people are starting again to travel around the globe, leading to relief to tourism destinations. However, the threat of climate change and the global call for the reduction of CO2-gas emissions forces tourism destinations, primarily when related to winter tourism, to foster a long-term sustainable transition towards a more resilient, low-carbon tourism strategy. Therefore, besides reducing CO2-gas emissions, measures against potential over-tourism effects have to be taken, and a more qualitative than quantitative tourism approach should be fostered. This study validated insights of big data and image recognition technology discloses tourism behavior patterns, which can be used to split and guide tourists to various routes, to reduce huge crowds in tourism hot spots (threat of overtourism), to transform tourism transportation to CO2-friendly options, and to balance the negative externalities for the environment, as well as for the local population, besides encouraging a long-term sustainable economy.Type: conference paper -
PublicationBildungsmythen entlarvt(Zentrum für Hochschul- und Wissenschaftsdidaktik (ZHW) der Universität Regensburg, 2024-02-15)Du bist ein visueller Lerntyp. Wir nutzen nur 10 % unseres Gehirns. Die beste Lehre ist wertneutral. Bildungsmythen treten oft in Form von Phrasen und Plattitüden auf. Obwohl viele dieser fragwürdigen Annahmen über Bildungsphänomene nicht empirisch belegt sind, sind sie tendenziell weit verbreitet, hartnäckig, und haben es irgendwie geschafft, ins Alltagswissen aufgenommen zu werden (De Bruyckere et al., 2020; Sinatra & Jacobson, 2019). Diese Mythen können zwar einem Körnchen Wahrheit entsprungen sein, doch sie können problematisch sein, besonders dann, wenn Lehrende unbewusst ihnen entsprechend handeln oder sie sogar verbreiten. "Einer der Vorteile davon, besser zu verstehen, wie wir den Bullshit anderer zurückweisen können, ist, dass wir dadurch ein besseres Bewusstsein für unseren eigenen Bullshit lernen können" (Pennycook et al., 2015, S. 26). Genau wie in anderen Bereichen existieren auch im Bereich der Bildung viele Mythen und zweifelhafte Annahmen. Bildungsmythen sind Überzeugungen [über Lehr-und Lernphänomene], die vertreten werden,Type: digital resourceJournal: lehrblick. Inspirationen für gute Hochschullehre
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PublicationType: book reviewJournal: Journal of Global EthicsVolume: 18Issue: 2
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