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Consolidation of international research cooperation: Prof. Dr. Robert O. Briggs gives a doctoral course at the invitation of Dr. Sarah Oeste-Reiß and Prof. Dr. Jan Marco Leimeister
From 25.09 - 06.10.2017, Prof. Dr. Robert O. Briggs visited the Department of Information Systems (Prof. Dr. Jan Marco Leimeister) at the University of Kassel and the University of St.Gallen to consolidate international research cooperation in the field of collaboration engineering, to hold a doctoral course as a guest lecturer and to give a research talk as part of the ITeG lecture series.
Robert O. Briggs is Professor of Management Information Systems and Director of Doctoral Studies in the Management Information Systems Department at San Diego State University. He is co-founder of the research field of Collaboration Engineering and one of the top researchers in the field of Information Systems (ranked 46th in the Top 100 IS Researchers 2008-2010; h-index 48, i10-index 119). Numerous publications in A-journals (e.g. Journal of Management Information Systems, MIS Quaterly) underline his excellent sense for first-class research. In the course of his academic career, Prof. Dr. Robert O. Briggs has worked at the University of Arizona, Delft University of Technology, University of Nebraska and San Diego State University, among others, and has constantly expanded his research network.
As part of the research cooperation between Prof. Robert O. Briggs and Dr. Sarah Oeste-Reiß, Prof. Dr. Robert O. Briggs was invited to Kassel and St. Gallen. In this context, international cooperation in the field of collaboration engineering was consolidated and a challenging format was offered in which doctoral students from various universities acquired important scientific theory skills, received paper coaching and had the opportunity to network with other doctoral students as part of Prof. Dr. Robert O. Briggs' doctoral course "The Simple Elegance of Causal Inquiry". The course brought together doctoral candidates and students from the University of Kassel, the University of Hamburg and the University of St.Gallen. In addition, Prof. Dr. Briggs gave two research talks on "A Field Experiment to Test the Yield Shift Theory of Satisfaction" and "A Structured Methodology for Collaboration Engineering".
Dr. Sarah Oeste-Reiß was responsible for organizing and coordinating the course, the research talks and the activities and networking of the participants from the participating universities and disciplines in close cooperation with Prof. Dr. Robert O. Briggs.
It is a special honor for the Department of Information Systems to have gained Prof. Dr. Robert O. Briggs as a guest lecturer for a doctoral course and in this way to have been able to give the participants a unique insight into the wealth of experience of an excellent scientist from the USA.