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Curriculum vitae

Academic education

1997-2003 Studied economics at the University of Paderborn, specializing in marketing and business informatics: Marketing and Business Informatics; Degree: Dipl.-Kfm.

2007-2011 Doctorate at the Technical University of Munich, Chair of Information Systems; Degree: Dr. rer. pol.

2014-2019 Habilitation at the University of Kassel, Department of Information Systems; Degree: Dr. rer. pol. habil. (Private lecturer)

 

Work experience

2003-2005 Research assistant (project team member) at the Cooperative Computing & Communication Laboratory (C-LAB), Paderborn

2005-2006 Research assistant (project team member) in the KNOW-IT research project at the Faculty of Economics at Witten/Herdecke University

2007-2010 Research assistant (for doctorate) at the Chair of Information Systems (Prof. Dr. Helmut Krcmar), Technical University of Munich (scholarship "Communities of Innovation" as part of the dissertation funding program CVLBA (Center for Very Large Business Application) of SAP AG)

2011-2013 Post-doctoral research assistant (project manager for the EU project "The Open Innovation Project" and research group leader) at the Department of Information Systems (Prof. Dr. Jan Marco Leimeister), University of Kassel

April 2013 to March 2014 Representation of the W3 Chair of Information Systems at the University of Kassel

September and October 2013 research stay at the Institute for Information Systems at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland

since 2014 Research Fellow at the Institute for Information Systems (Competence Center Crowdsourcing) at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland

since April 2014 Academic Councillor (currently) (habilitation candidate, research group leader and project leader) at the Department of Information Systems (Prof. Dr. Jan Marco Leimeister), University of Kassel (currently on leave to hold a deputy professorship)

April 2018 to September 2019 Representation of the WIFU Endowed Chair for Corporate Entrepreneurship & Digitalization in Family Businesses, Witten Institute for Family Business (WIFU), Faculty of Business Administration and Economics, Witten/Herdecke University

since October 2019 Substitute (W3) for the Chair of Business Administration, in particular Information Management at the FernUniversität Hagen(www.uni-hagen.de/bima)

Awards

2008 Gratification of the Technical University of Munich for special research achievements in the dissertation scholarship "Communities of Innovations"

2013 Emerald Citation of Excellence Award for the scientific article "Leveraging Crowdsourcing: Activation-Supporting Components for IT-Based Ideas Competition" in the Journal of Management Information Systems

2013 Best Paper Award nomination for the article "12 Years of GENEX Framework: What Did Practice Learn from Science in Terms of Web-Based Ideation?" at the International Conference on Information Systems (WI2013)

2013 Award for the course "Creating Innovative Services" as an innovative teaching concept as part of the teaching innovation competition of the University of Kassel

2014 Best Paper Award for the paper "Analyzing Governance Mechanisms for Crowdsourcing Information Systems: A Multiple Case Analysis" at the European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS 2014)

2014 Award for the project "Unikat Crowdfunding" by the Stifterverband der Deutschen Wissenschaft

2016 Best Conference Track Paper Award and Best Overall Conference Paper Award nomination for the paper "Promoting the Quality of User Generated Ideas in Online Innovation Communities: A Knowledge Collaboration Perspective" at the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS 2016)

2020 Best Research-in-Progress Paper Award of the European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS 2020) for the paper "Which Motivations Boost Idea Quality? Exploring the Impact of Customers' Motives for Participating in Virtual Ideas Communities on Ideation Outcome"

Research interests

  • The IS perspective on Crowdsourcing for Innovation/Open Innovation
  • IT-support for Business Model Innovation
  • Consumer behavior on the Internet
  • Internet-based business models, in particular Crowdfunding- and Crowdsourcing-Systems

Selected publications

Leimeister, J. M.; Huber, M.; Bretschneider, U.; Krcmar, H. (2009): Leveraging Crowdsourcing: Activation-Supporting components for IT-based ideas competition, in: Journal of Management Information Systems (JMIS), Vol. 26, No. 1, pp. 197-224

Bretschneider, U.; Hartmann, M.; Leimeister, J.M. (2015): Fostering Ideation Among Patients: Exaptation of Web-based Ideation Platforms as Health 2.0 Tools for Virtual Patient Communities, in: Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS 2015), December 13-16, 2015, Fort Worth, Texas/USA

Ebel, P.; Bretschneider, U.; Leimeister, J.M. (2016): Leveraging Virtual Business Model Innovation: A Framework for Designing New Business Model Development Tools, in: Information Systems Journal (ISJ), accepted for publication

Bretschneider, U.; Leimeister, J.M. (2017): Not Just An Ego Trip: Exploring Backers' Motivation for Funding in Incentive-Based Crowdfunding, in: Journal of Strategic Information Systems (JSIS), Vol. 26, pp. 246-260

Project management and acquisition

Publications