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The Digital Transformation Research Group

The Digital Transformation Research Group is a cross-division research group based in Alliance Manchester Business School with links to other Schools across The University of Manchester

The group’s research concentrates around research themes that are driven by the transformative potential of digital technologies including mobile apps and digital platforms, artificial intelligence systems, blockchain and new financial technologies, the Internet of Things, cloud infrastructures and many more. The group is multidisciplinary in nature, with members coming from information systems, computer science, operations research and decision sciences, marketing and strategy.

The focus on the transformative potential of digital technologies is aligned with the University of Manchester’s Digital Futures initiative to engage in emerging research areas and to support Greater Manchester's ambitions to become a leading digital city. 

The Digital Transformation Research Group has direct links with some of the key digital initiatives across The University of Manchester, including Fintech and our Data Visualisation Observatory.

Group Members

  • Alaa Almirabi     
  • Amir Ashrafi      
  • Efthymios Rizopoulos    
  • Gerardo Quinones          
  • Hizal Hanis Bin Hashim  
  • Kathleen Kennedy          
  • Lavinia Rognone              
  • Maram Alalwan
  • Md Rifayat Islam              
  • Rawan Alhazmi 
  • Sharon Wandili 
  • Shuyu Li               
  • Tiantian Wang  
  • Tiantian Xian     
  • Vasileios Karountzos      
  • Xinyue Wang     
  • Zainab Atia         

Seminar Series

The Digital Transformation Research Group at AMBS is privileged to host academic experts presenting their latest research on digital transformation and related topics. Upcoming and past seminars appear below.

Date Venue Topic Speaker Detail

11/10/2022, 1pm - 2.30pm

AMBS 3.049

Safeguarding against the Turing Trap with Augmented Human-Machine Learning 

Panos Constantinides

Panos is Professor of Digital Innovation and Digital Learning Lead for Executive Education at Alliance Manchester Business School. Previously, he held positions at the Warwick Business School (WBS), Lancaster University's Management School (LUMS), and the Judge Business School at the University of Cambridge, where he earned his PhD. His research focuses on the transformative potential of digital technology, including digital platforms, infrastructures and artificial intelligence. Panos currently serves as a Senior Editor at MIS Quarterly and a Senior Editor at Information & Organization. He has previously served as Senior Editor for the ISR Special Issue on Platforms and Infrastructures in the Digital Age, which examined the digital transformation of platform ecosystems across various sectors.

AMBS 3.049

10/11/2022, 12pm - 2.00pm

Online

Algorithmic Interactions in Open Source Work

Maha Shaikh

Maha is Reader in Digital Innovation at King’s College London. Her primary area of research is open source software development. The theoretical issues driving her research include the dynamics of learning and organizing in open source collectives, material agency, digital and open innovation, and algorithmic work. Prior to joining King’s College London, she was an Associate Professor of Information Systems at Warwick Business School. She currently serves as an Associate Editor for MISQ and as an editorial board member for the Journal of Information Technology, Journal of Strategic Information Systems, and Information and Organization. Previously she served as an Associate Editor for Information Systems Research (ISR) – 2018-2021.

Watch a recording on YouTube.

Zoom

Meeting ID: 995 9424 5610

Passcode: DT2022

06/12/2022, 2.00pm - 4.00pm

AMBS 4.017

Reorganisation and Participation in Decentralized Platform Ecosystems: Evidence from Blockchain Forking

Dr. Ying-Ying Hsieh 

Dr. Ying-Ying Hsieh is Assistant Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Imperial College Business School. She is also an Associate Centre Director of the Center for Cryptocurrency Research and Engineering at Imperial College London. With a focus on organisation theory and strategy, Ying-Ying's research unpacks the coordination and governance mechanisms within blockchain-based decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs). At a higher level, her research investigates how technological innovation enables novel forms of organising. Her research settings revolve around the context of the cryptocurrency industry (e.g., Bitcoin) and more broadly, the financial technology (FinTech) industry, with theoretical underpinnings of organization design and entrepreneurial strategy. Her recent work explores the adoption/diffusion and change of DAOs.

AMBS 4.017

07/12/2022, 11.30am - 2.00pm

AMBS 4.014

Encouraging Eco-Driving with Post-Trip Visualized Storytelling: An Experiment Combining Eye-Tracking and a Driving Simulator

Dr. Ben Choi 

Ben Choi is an assistant professor in Information Technology and Operations Management at the Nanyang Technological University. Ben received his B Sci and PhD in Information Systems from the National University of Singapore. He has been named the Reviewer of the Year at the Journal for the Association of Information Systems (2020) and MIS Quarterly (2016). He has published multiple papers in premier information systems journals including Information Systems Research, Journal of Management Information Systems, and Journal of the Association for Information Systems. His research interests focus on human-computer/robotic interactions, data visualizations, sustainability, and information privacy using various methods (i.e., lab/field experiments, surveys, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and physiological measurements, such as computer vision, GSR, and eye-tracking).

AMBS 4.014

15/02/2023

AMBS Penthouse

Prophets without Profits: What Next for Crypto-Asset Regulation?

Professor Wendy Currie

Professor Wendy Currie works at the University of Bradford

AMBS Penthouse

18/05/2023

AMBS Penthouse

Brown Bag Seminar

  • Nikolay Mehandjiev, Professor University of Manchester, AMBS
    “Multi-level mixed-methods analysis of digital transformation in the R&D function of Unilever”
  • Tao Wen, PhD Student, University of Manchester, AMBS
    “Analyzing communication patterns and dynamics in an organizational hierarchy through social network analysis”
  • Aseem Pahuja, Assistant Professor, University of Manchester, AMBS
    “Metaverse valuation”

AMBS Penthouse

06/06/2023

AMBS Penthouse

The Seesaw of Visibility: How Organizations Struggle for Dignity when Managing the Visibility of Personal Data

Professor Marta Stelmaszak

Professor Marta Stelmaszak works at Portland State University

AMBS Penthouse

 

Date Venue Topic Speaker Detail

28/01/2022, 1pm - 2.30pm

Online

Data network effects

Robert Wayne Gregory
Robert W. Gregory is Associate Professor of Business Technology at University of Miami Herbert Business School. He is also a Research Fellow with MIT’s Center for Information Systems Research (CISR), Research Associate at Weatherhead School of Management's xLab. He co-founded and currently serves as President-Elect of the newly formed AIS special interest group on Digital Innovation, Transformation, and Entrepreneurship (SIGDITE). Robert's research program focuses on novel management and information systems phenomena related to the diffusion and innovation with digital technologies and the associated transformation of individuals, organizations, and markets. He serves as Associate Editor for Information Systems Research (ABS 4*/FT50) and Journal of the Association for Information Systems (ABS4).

Watch Robert's talk.

Zoom Meeting

Meeting ID: 980 9394 9196
Passcode: AMBS2022

17/02/2022, 11am - 12.30pm

AMBS Penthouse

Digital Oil: Machineries of Knowing

Eric Monteiro
Eric Monteiro is professor at the Norwegian University of Technology. Eric’s primary field of interest is digitalisation of organizations. Key concerns include challenges of integration, change, and standardization. Particularly interested in the interplay between 'technical' and non-technical design decisions especially in large-scale ("infrastructural") projects. Empirically, his work has focused on the health care sector (Norway and developing countries) and the oil and gas sector. He is a senior editor at MISQ (ABS4*/FT50) and Information and Organization (ABS3) and served previously as Senior Editor at Information Systems Research (ABS4*/FT50) and Editor-in-chief of the SJIS (2001-2005)

Watch Eric's talk.

Room TBC

17/03/2022
11am - 12.30pm

In-person, 
AMBS Penthouse

Biding Their Time: The Influences of Executive Compensation and Board Cybersecurity Intensity on SEC Data Breach Notification

Jason Thatcher
Jason Bennett Thatcher holds the Milton F. Stauffer Professorship in the Department of Management Information Systems at the Fox School of Business of Temple University. Jason’s current research examines technology use, cybersecurity, and strategic decisions about technology. His work appears in MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, Journal of Applied Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, and Journal of the AIS. He has served as a senior editor for MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, and Journal of the Association for Information Systems.

Watch Jason's talk.

AMBS Penthouse

01/04/2022, 11.30am - 1pm

Online

TBC

Andrew Burton-Jones
Andrew Burton-Jones is a professor of business information systems at the University of Queensland Business School. He obtained his BCom (Hons) and M. Information Systems from the University of Queensland and his Ph.D. from Georgia State University. Previously, he was an associate professor at the University of British Columbia. Andrew researches how organizations can use IT more effectively (especially in the healthcare sector), how to improve systems analysis and design methods, and how to improve theories and methods in the IS discipline. He is a Fellow of the Association for Information Systems and is currently editor-in-chief of MIS Quarterly (ABS4*/FT50).

Zoom Meeting

Meeting ID: 984 4562 4583
Passcode: AMBS2022

 

19/05/2022
11am - 12.30pm

In-person, 
AMBS Penthouse

The Digital X Phenomena

Abayomi Baiyere
Abayomi Baiyere is an Associate Professor at Digitalisation Department of Copenhagen Business School; a Research Affiliate at MIT Sloan Center for Information Systems Research and a visiting scholar at University of Turku. His research interest seats at the intersection of digital innovations, digital disruption and the societal impact of digitalisation. His studies have looked at digitalization issues from both an organizational and societal perspective - with focus on digital transformation, digital strategy, disruptive innovations as well as digital work. He currently serves as an associate editor of Information Systems Journal - ISJ and Information and Organisation.

Watch Abayomi's talk.

Room TBC

26/05/2022, 11am - 1pm

In-person, 
AMBS Penthouse

AI, management, and the impact of supervisory agents on social exchange

Nick Berente
Nick Berente is an Associate Professor at the University of Notre Dame. He studies how digital innovations like artificial intelligence technologies drive change in organizations and institutions. He teaches courses on Strategic Business Technology and is Co-Director of the GAMA Lab. Prof. Berente received his PhD from Case Western Reserve University’s Weatherhead School of Management. He was an entrepreneur prior to his academic career, founding two technology companies. He is the principal investigator for a number of U.S. National Science Foundation projects and has won multiple awards for his teaching and his research. Prof. Berente is associate editor for MIS Quarterly.

Room TBC 

 

PhD Workshops

PhD workshops are run in joint by external academic experts and the academics affiliated with the Digital Transformation Research Group. The aim of these PhD workshops is to engage our PhD students on a number of academic practices, from applying different methodologies, writing papers for journals, presenting at conferences, reviewing and giving feedback to colleagues and applying for academic jobs. Forthcoming workshops appear below. 

DateVenueTopicSpeakerDetail

28/01/2022, 3pm - 4.30pm

Online

Phenomenon-based Theorising

Robert Wayne Gregory
Robert W. Gregory is Associate Professor of Business Technology at University of Miami Herbert Business School. He is also a Research Fellow with MIT’s Center for Information Systems Research (CISR), Research Associate at Weatherhead School of Management's xLab. He co-founded and currently serves as President-Elect of the newly formed AIS special interest group on Digital Innovation, Transformation, and Entrepreneurship (SIGDITE). Robert's research program focuses on novel management and information systems phenomena related to the diffusion and innovation with digital technologies and the associated transformation of individuals, organizations, and markets. He serves as Associate Editor for Information Systems Research (ABS 4*/FT50) and Journal of the Association for Information Systems (ABS4).

Zoom Meeting

Meeting ID: 953 7023 9724
Passcode: AMBS2022

18/02/2022, 11am - 12.30pm

AMBS Penthouse

Interactive PhD Event with Student Presentations

Eric Monteiro
Eric Monteiro is professor at the Norwegian University of Technology. Eric’s primary field of interest is digitalisation of organizations. Key concerns include challenges of integration, change, and standardization. Particularly interested in the interplay between 'technical' and non-technical design decisions especially in large-scale ("infrastructural") projects. Empirically, his work has focused on the health care sector (Norway and developing countries) and the oil and gas sector. He is a senior editor at MISQ (ABS4*/FT50) and Information and Organization (ABS3) and served previously as Senior Editor at Information Systems Research (ABS4*/FT50) and Editor-in-chief of the SJIS (2001-2005)

 

Room TBC

18/03/2022
11am - 12.30pm

In-person, AMBS Penthouse

Interactive PhD Event with Student Presentations

Jason Thatcher
Jason Bennett Thatcher holds the Milton F. Stauffer Professorship in the Department of Management Information Systems at the Fox School of Business of Temple University. Jason’s current research examines technology use, cybersecurity, and strategic decisions about technology. His work appears in MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, Journal of Applied Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, and Journal of the AIS. He has served as a senior editor for MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, and Journal of the Association for Information Systems.

AMBS Penthouse

01/04/2022, 1.30pm - 3pm

Online

TBC

Andrew Burton-Jones
Andrew Burton-Jones is a professor of business information systems at the University of Queensland Business School. He obtained his BCom (Hons) and M. Information Systems from the University of Queensland and his Ph.D. from Georgia State University. Previously, he was an associate professor at the University of British Columbia. Andrew researches how organizations can use IT more effectively (especially in the healthcare sector), how to improve systems analysis and design methods, and how to improve theories and methods in the IS discipline. He is a Fellow of the Association for Information Systems and is currently editor-in-chief of MIS Quarterly (ABS4*/FT50).

Zoom Meeting

Meeting ID: 984 4562 4583
Passcode: AMBS2022

 

20/05/2022
11am - 12.30pm

In-person, 
AMBS Penthouse

The Digital X Phenomena

Abayomi Baiyere
Abayomi Baiyere is an Associate Professor at Digitalisation Department of Copenhagen Business School; a Research Affiliate at MIT Sloan Center for Information Systems Research and a visiting scholar at University of Turku. His research interest seats at the intersection of digital innovations, digital disruption and the societal impact of digitalisation. His studies have looked at digitalization issues from both an organisational and societal perspective - with a focus on digital transformation, digital strategy, disruptive innovations as well as digital work. He currently serves as an associate editor of Information Systems Journal - ISJ and Information and Organisation.

Room TBC

27/05/2022, 11am - 12.30pm

In-person, 
AMBS Penthouse

AI, management, and the impact of supervisory agents on social exchange

Nick Berente
Nick Berente is an Associate Professor at the University of Notre Dame. He studies how digital innovations like artificial intelligence technologies drive change in organizations and institutions. He teaches courses on Strategic Business Technology and is Co-Director of the GAMA Lab. Prof. Berente received his PhD from Case Western Reserve University’s Weatherhead School of Management. He was an entrepreneur prior to his academic career, founding two technology companies. He is the principal investigator for a number of U.S. National Science Foundation projects and has won multiple awards for his teaching and his research. Prof. Berente is an associate editor for MIS Quarterly.

Room TBC