Research Projects

Opening the Black Box of Music Royalties with Machine Learning
Innosuisse, April 2024 until January 2026

High-Quality Machine Learning solution to translate spoken German dialect into Official German ("Hochdeutsch")
Preproposal PhD-Thesis, since February 2024

Security of Artificial Intelligence in Finance
Preproposal PhD-Thesis, since February 2024

Understanding and Explaining Organizational Dynamics Using Digital Trace Data
PhD-Thesis, since December 2023

A platform for tracking, predicting, and maintaining the Health of Batteries powering IoT devices
PhD-Thesis, since December 2023

Design Science Research in Entrepreneurship
PhD-Thesis, since November 2023

Regulation in Information Systems Research - On the interplay of technology and regulation
PhD-Thesis, since November 2023

Large Language Models - Autograding & Governance for businesses
FFF-Förderprojekt, September 2023 until July 2025

SAMLAF: Security Assessment of Machine Learning Applications in Finance
FFF-Förderprojekt, September 2023 until February 2025

Domain integrated product recommendations for a B2B enterprise: A Unified Recommender System
PhD-Thesis, since August 2023

A hybrid framework for product development using simulation, supervised learning and mathematical optimization
PhD-Thesis, since August 2023

Advancing Process Research with Digital Trace Data
PhD-Thesis, since July 2023

Advancing Process Science - Leveraging Multiple Sources of Data in Business Process Management
PhD-Thesis, since June 2023

Leading and Managing Through Paradoxical Tensions in Organizations
FFF-Förderprojekt, June 2023 until December 2023 (finished)

Design Science Research Academy
ERASMUS, March 2023 until February 2025

Broadening the Recognition Ecosystem in VET with Micro-Credentials
ERASMUS, October 2022 until March 2025

Online Choirs: How to carry out virtual choir rehearsals with the help of digital tools
ERASMUS, September 2022 until April 2025

Sensor-based activity recognition for hand-held power tools at the construction site
PhD-Thesis, since February 2022

Journaling Design Science Research
FFF-Förderprojekt, December 2021 until November 2023

The Role of Space in Information Systems
FFF-Förderprojekt, December 2021 until November 2022 (finished)

Digital Nudging in Business Process Management
FFF-Förderprojekt, November 2021 until December 2023 (finished)

Developing Process Mining Capabilities at the Enterprise Level
ERASMUS, November 2021 until October 2023 (finished)

AI-bility: Cultivating AI Awareness in Schoolchildren
ERASMUS, November 2021 until October 2023

The Emergence of Industrial Industry of Things Solutions
FFF-Förderprojekt, November 2021 until October 2023 (finished)

Process Science: Conceptual foundation for the interdisciplinary study of continuous change
FFF-Förderprojekt, November 2021 until April 2023 (finished)

Towards Trustworthy AI: Validating & Explaining AI Models and Decisions
FFF-Förderprojekt, November 2021 until December 2022 (finished)

How to improve both supply chain resilience and sustainability?
PhD-Thesis, since September 2021

Hackers and AI: Investigating Hacker's Technical Innovation Through the Lens of Cyber Threat Intelligence and Natural Language Processing
PhD-Thesis, since September 2021

Performance Management und Bewertungen mit Process Mining und Big Data
FL Innovationscheck, April 2021 until September 2021 (finished)

Security of Artificial Intelligence Systems in 5G Networks
PhD-Thesis, since February 2021

On the Role of Change in Business Process Management (BPM)
PhD-Thesis, since February 2021

Alliance for developing, teaching and training Digital Forensics and Incident Response students and practitioners
ERASMUS, September 2020 until August 2023 (finished)

The role of self and place in the digital world: Challenges for hybrid work and virtual collaboration
PhD-Thesis, September 2020 until January 2023 (finished)

Digitally Multisensory: From Human-Like to Human-Centered Principles
FFF-Förderprojekt, July 2020 until June 2022 (finished)

Meeting Industrial Demand for Skills in Information Security Education
ERASMUS, October 2019 until September 2021 (finished)

BPM and Organizational Theory: An Integrated Reference Curriculum Design
ERASMUS, September 2019 until October 2021 (finished)

Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) / Blockchain: Aspects of Contract, Consumer and Company Law
FFF-Förderprojekt, April 2019 until September 2022 (finished)

Zivil- und gesellschafts-rechtliche Fragen des "Smart Home"
FFF-Förderprojekt, April 2019 until August 2020 (finished)

Large Scale Big Data Pattern Mining
Innosuisse, January 2019 until March 2021 (finished)

Design Thinking in Virtual Reality: Feasibility Study
FFF-Förderprojekt, January 2019 until December 2019 (finished)

Reference Module Design for Explorative Business Process Management
ERASMUS, December 2018 until November 2020 (finished)

Detection of Malicious Cryptomining in Network Metadata
FFF-Förderprojekt, December 2018 until January 2019 (finished)

Deep Learning Applications in Enterprise Data Science
PhD-Thesis, September 2018 until June 2023 (finished)

The Role of the State in Digital Transformation: Value Creation with Emergent Technology – Liechtenstein’s Token Economy Case Liechtenstein
PhD-Thesis, September 2018 until June 2022 (finished)

Human and Artificial Intelligence Systems - Transfer of Knowledge
PhD-Thesis, September 2018 until June 2022 (finished)

Virtual Reality in Higher Education: Application Scenarios and Recommendations
ERASMUS, September 2018 until February 2021 (finished)

Distributed Ledger Technology in Liechtenstein Private Law
internes Projekt, July 2018 until July 2021 (finished)

Archaeology of Digital Artifacts in Practice
FFF-Förderprojekt, July 2018 until June 2020 (finished)

Towards a Context-sensitive Conceptual Framework and Design Principles for Internet of Things Solution
FFF-Förderprojekt, July 2018 until March 2020 (finished)

Digital Nudging — The Power of Defaults
FFF-Förderprojekt, June 2018 until December 2021 (finished)

Virtual Reality in Architecture
FFF-Förderprojekt, June 2018 until May 2020 (finished)

Data driven company valuation and IPO performance prediction
FFF-Förderprojekt, April 2018 until March 2020 (finished)

Change of Value Networks due to Data Use and Digitalization in the Construction Sector
PhD-Thesis, February 2018 until January 2022 (finished)

Successful Adoption of Business Process Management
PhD-Thesis, February 2018 until July 2021 (finished)

IoT technologies and advanced data analytics as enablers for innovative data driven processes
PhD-Thesis, February 2018 until January 2021 (finished)

Mustererkennung in grossen Datenmengen
FL Innovationscheck, December 2017 until June 2018 (finished)

Text Mining for Curriculum Design for Multiple Information Systems Disciplines
ERASMUS, October 2017 until September 2019 (finished)

Data governance in financial services companies
PhD-Thesis, September 2017 until July 2022 (finished)

Smart Production & Organizations: The impact of digitalization on organizations within manufacturing industries
PhD-Thesis, September 2017 until June 2022 (finished)

Design Thinking in Virtual Reality
PhD-Thesis, September 2017 until August 2020 (finished)

Decision-making in crowdfunding
PhD-Thesis, September 2017 until August 2020 (finished)

Game-based Skill Assessment and Development
FFF-Förderprojekt, September 2016 until August 2019 (finished)

Gender Equality in Digital Entrepreneurship
ERASMUS, September 2016 until August 2019 (finished)

Messen und Fördern der Informationskompetenz von Digital Natives in der Bodenseeregion
IBH-Förderprojekt, June 2016 until June 2018 (finished)

Analysing enterprise content to support decision making
PhD-Thesis, February 2016 until February 2020 (finished)

Immersive systems for personnel assessment and development
PhD-Thesis, February 2016 until February 2020 (finished)

Designing Digital Choice Sets: How Does the Presentation of Options Influence Users' Decision Making?
PhD-Thesis, February 2016 until May 2019 (finished)

EQUAL-IST Gender Equality Plans for Information Sciences and Technology Research Institutions
EU H2020-Förderprojekt, January 2016 until January 2019 (finished)

MASTIS - Establishing Modern Master-level Studies in Information Systems
ERASMUS, October 2015 until October 2018 (finished)

BPM Online
ERASMUS, October 2015 until October 2017 (finished)

Learning Analytics
ERASMUS, October 2015 until September 2017 (finished)

On the relationship between advanced analytics and business value
PhD-Thesis, September 2015 until August 2018 (finished)

RISE-BPM
EU H2020-Förderprojekt, May 2015 until April 2019 (finished)

Principles for Information Systems Development
FFF-Förderprojekt, May 2015 until May 2017 (finished)

Grenzüberschreitendes Leben und Arbeiten - Cross-border Life and Work
FFF-Förderprojekt, April 2015 until April 2019 (finished)

Enterprise Content Analytics
FFF-Förderprojekt, March 2015 until February 2018 (finished)

Online Choice Architecture
FFF-Förderprojekt, March 2015 until June 2017 (finished)

Organizational openness and innovation - exploring capabilities and the role of digitalization
PhD-Thesis, February 2015 until January 2020 (finished)

Institutional Logics of Digital Innovation
FFF-Förderprojekt, January 2015 until March 2017 (finished)

Designing and Making Use of Design Principles in Information Systems Research
PhD-Thesis, September 2014 until February 2018 (finished)

On the Role of Socio-Technical Inertia in Organizational Transformations
PhD-Thesis, February 2014 until November 2019 (finished)

FETCH Future Education and Training in Computing: How to support learning at anytime anywhere
ERASMUS, October 2013 until September 2016 (finished)

Toward Context-Awareness in Business Process Management - Development and Application of a Process Taxonomy
PhD-Thesis, September 2013 until December 2016 (finished)

Institutional Logics of Digital Innovation
PhD-Thesis, February 2013 until June 2017 (finished)

The role of information systems in environmental sustainability transformations
PhD-Thesis, February 2013 until May 2016 (finished)

Business Value of Real-Time and High-Performance Computing
PhD-Thesis, February 2013 until October 2015 (finished)

Green Information Systems for Belief Formation in Organizational Sustainability Transformations
FFF-Förderprojekt, January 2013 until September 2015 (finished)

Evaluating IT Support for Creative Processes
FFF-Förderprojekt, July 2012 until January 2015 (finished)

Culture in Business Process Management (BPM): Exploring the Cultural Fitness of Organizations for BPM
FFF-Förderprojekt, July 2012 until September 2014 (finished)

eSociety Bodensee 2020: Vorbereitung einer Strategie zur offenen gesellschaftlichen Innovation für die Bodensee-Region
IBH-Förderprojekt, June 2012 until July 2014 (finished)

PRAXIS: European Center for Project/Internship Excellence
October 2011 until December 2014 (finished)

Improving and innovating content-intensive processes
PhD-Thesis, March 2011 until August 2014 (finished)

Content-aware Business Process Management (CA-BPM)
FFF-Förderprojekt, January 2011 until April 2014 (finished)

Sustainability-aware Business Process Management (SABPM)
FFF-Förderprojekt, December 2010 until March 2014 (finished)

Implementation of SOA-based ERP-systems
internes Projekt, since October 2009

The management of collaborative Information Systems research projects
PhD-Thesis, September 2009 until June 2014 (finished)

Culture in Business Process Management
PhD-Thesis, September 2009 until September 2012 (finished)

Towards a Value-oriented Perspective on Business Process Management - On the Design of Methods to Evaluate the Economic Impact of Alternative Process Designs
PhD-Thesis, October 2008 until February 2013 (finished)

Managing enterprise content in business processes
PhD-Thesis, October 2008 until October 2011 (finished)

eFinance - Risikotheorie und Risikomanagement des privaten Haushalts
FFF-Förderprojekt, September 2008 until December 2012 (finished)

Management von Lehr- und Lernprozessen
internes Projekt, since April 2008

Sustainable access and parking in mixed-use residential areas in the case of Hochschule Liechtenstein
FFF-Förderprojekt, January 2008 until October 2013 (finished)

ECM-Blueprinting: Management von Content in Geschäftsprozessen
FFF-Förderprojekt, January 2008 until May 2012 (finished)

Wertorientiertes Prozessmanagement
internes Projekt, since January 2008

Wirtschaftlichkeit und Qualitätssicherung im Prozessmanagement (Kollaborative Referenzmodellierung)
internes Projekt, since October 2007

Network of Excellence GARNET: Management of Collaborative Research Processes
Netzwerkprojekt, June 2005 until June 2011 (finished)

IT-Security Awareness Management
internes Projekt, January 2005 until October 2013 (finished)

SOA-Controlling
internes Projekt, January 2004 until October 2012 (finished)