Honors

Selected Recognitions and Awards

• Included in the Stanford List of World`s Top 2% Scientists for the year 2023 (based the October 2023 updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators); positioned #2 in Europe and #32 worldwide in Information Systems (based on recent year impact).
• Recognized with the Award for Academic Service to the NeuroIS Community by the NeuroIS Society.
• Included in the Stanford List of World`s Top 2% Scientists for the year 2022 (based the September 2022 updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators); positioned in the top 0.5% (in the career-long database) and the top 0.1% (in the last year dataset) across all fields of science.
• Personally ranked #2 in Europe and #25 worldwide in the most recent AIS Research Rankings (based on total amount of articles published in the Senior Scholars’ Basket of journals during the past three years, 2018-2020).
• Identified #1 Most Cited Information Systems Scholar in Germany, Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein in the 2022 Stanford List (excluding self-citations); #2 in the EU; #9 in Europe, the Middle East and Africa and #54 globally (out of 5`077 in the field).
• Recipient of the AIS Outstanding Chapter Award 2021 for achievements in research, teaching and knowledge transfer, Liechtenstein Chapter of the AIS, 2022 – eights time in a row since 2014 (see the Crypto Credential).
• Named Schöller Senior Fellow by the Dr Theo and Friedl Schoeller Research Center for Business and Society at the FAU Friedrich–Alexander University Erlangen–Nürnberg in February 2022.
• Ranked in Stanford Study – the August 2021 data-update – among the Top 1% of the World’s Most-cited Scientists over entire careers (based on standardized citation indicators from 1996 to 2020) and one of the World’s Top 0.3% Most-cited Scientists by last year`s performance (based on data from 2020) covering ~7 million scientists in 22 major fields ranging from medicine to engineering, physics, biology, economics and business.
• Named Fellow of the ESCP Center for Design Science in Entrepreneurship, in 2021.
• Listed in World Scientist and University Ranking 2021 among the top 1% most cited researcher in Europe across all fields of science (#2`288 out of 216`537), ranked #25`183 worldwide (out of 699`268) and #1 for Liechtenstein.
• Recipient of the BPM 2021 Case Innovation Award with the paper “A Matrix for Context-Aware Business Process Management: Empirical Evidence from Hilti” at the 19st International Business Process Management Conference, Rome, Italy.
• Recipient of the AIS Outstanding Chapter Award 2020 for achievements in research, teaching and knowledge transfer, Liechtenstein Chapter of the AIS, 2021. 
• Recipient of the Best Paper of the Year 2020 by Electronic Markets (ISI: 4.417) for the paper “Conceptualizing Smart Service Systems” (together with D. Beverungen, M. Matzner, J. Mendling, O. Müller).
• Named Fellow of the Association for Information Systems (AIS) for outstanding contributions to the information systems discipline in terms of research, teaching and service, 2019.
• Listed in Stanford Study – one of the world’s top 2% most-cited scientists (based on data from 1996 to 2019) and one of the world’s top 0.5% most-cited scientists (based on current data from 2019) covering ~7 million scientists in 22 major fields ranging from medicine to engineering, physics, biology, economics and business.
• Listed among the Top 20 of all Management Professors by Wirtschaftswoche (both in 2020 and 2018) out of 3,500 researcher across all fields such as accounting, finance, management, marketing) based on publication quality metrics; ranked #2 in IT Management.
• Identified Best Published Swiss/Liechtenstein Information Systems Researcher according to AIS Research Rankings 2017-2019, and (together with colleagues) ranked #1 in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Liechtenstein, #2 in Europe and #29 in the world.
• Recipient of the ERASMUS+ Award 2020 for the best project in Higher Education since 2014, by AIBA, Developing an Online Curriculum for Business Process Management together with Jörg Becker (WWU Münster), Jan Mendling (WU Vienna), Hajo Reijers (VU Amsterdam), and Matthias Trier (CBS Copenhagen).
• Recognized a Digital Leader 2020 by the initiative Digital Liechtenstein, for taking an active role in the development of Liechtenstein and its region towards an innovative ecosystem for digital innovation and a champion in digital transformation
• Ranked #1 in the DACH region, #5 in Europe and #39 worldwide as the Institute for Information Systems, according to AIS Research Rankings 2017 and 2019.
• Recognized for the Best German Information Systems Research Paper of the Year 2019, German Academic Association for Business Research (VHB), Information Systems Section (WKW), Journal of Management Information Systems, co-authored with C. Lehrer, A. Wieneke, S. Seidel and R. Jung
• Recipient of the AIS Outstanding Chapter Award 2019 for achievements in research, teaching and knowledge transfer, Liechtenstein Chapter of the AIS, 2019. 
• Recipient of the NeuroIS Outstanding Contribution Award for longstanding services developing the community, NeuroIS Retreat, Vienna, 2018.
• Recipient of the AIS Outstanding Chapter Award 2018 for exceptional achievements in research, teaching and knowledge transfer, Liechtenstein Chapter of the AIS, 2018.
• Ranked among the Top 20 of all Management Professors by Wirtschaftswoche in 2018 (#2 in Switzerland and Liechtenstein, #3 in Austria, Switzerland and Liechtenstein, #17 in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Liechtenstein out of 2`800 researcher across all fields) based on publication performance.
• Recipient of the AIS Senior Scholars` Best Publication Award, Using Text Analytics to Derive Customer Service Management Benefits from Unstructured Data, in: Management Information Systems Quarterly Executive (MISQe), 15(4), 243-258, co-authored with Oliver Müller, Iris Junglas, and Stefan Debortoli, for one out of five best publications of the discipline in 2017.
• Recipient of the AIS Award for Outstanding Contribution to Information Systems Education, Associationfor Information Systems, recognizing achievements in Information Systems pedagogy, curriculum development, inspiration of independent and original thinking in students, advising students, and appropriation of new teaching tools and methods 2017.
• Recipient of the WfMC Global Awards for Excellence in BPM & Workflow together with the Hilti Corporation for having demonstrably excelled in implementing innovative solutions to meet strategic business objectives, 2017.
• Recipient of the AIS Outstanding Chapter Award 2017 for achievements in research, teaching and knowledge transfer, Liechtenstein Chapter of the AIS, 2017. 
• Recipient of the Best Theory Paper Award at ICIS 2017, Digital Capabilities for Buffering Tensions of Structure, Space, and Time during Entrepreneurial Growth, International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS 2017), Seoul, South Korea, co-authored with S. Tumbas and N. Berente.
• Nominee of the Most Innovative Short Paper Award at ICIS 2017, Get It before It’s Gone? How Limited Rewards Influence Backers’ Choices in Reward-Based Crowdfunding, International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS 2017), Seoul, South Korea, co-authored with M. Weinmann, M. Tietz, A. Simons.
• Recipient of the AIS Outstanding Chapter Award 2016 for achievements in research, teaching and knowledge transfer, Liechtenstein Chapter of the AIS, 2016. 
• Recipient of the ICIS 2015 Best Paper Award, The ‘Digital Façade’ of Rapidly Growing Entrepreneurial Organizations, International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS 2015), Fort Worth, TX, USA, co-authored with N. Berente, S. Seidel, and S. Tumbas, 2015.
• Recipient of the AIS Technology Challenge Award 2015, Association for Information Systems (AIS), for significant contributions to the innovative use of technologies in the association, 2015.
• Recipient of the BAC 2015 Best Prototype and Demo, ICIS 2015 Business Analytics Congress, demo: MineMyText.com – Text Mining in the Cloud, together with O. Müller and S. Debortoli, 2015.
• Recipient of the AIS Outstanding Chapter Award 2015 for achievements in research, teaching and knowledge transfer, Liechtenstein Chapter of the AIS, 2015. 
• Recipient of the International IS Doctoral Student Advisor of the Year 2015, Förderkreis der Wirtschaftsinformatik Mannheim e.V., for contributions to the development of early career researcher, Förderkreis der Wirtschaftsinformatik Mannheim e.V., Germany, 2015.
• Recipient of the Emerald Literati Network 2015 Award for Excellence, Highly Recommended Paper. Emerald Group Publishing, paper Emotions and ERP Information Sourcing: The Moderating Role of Expertise. Industrial Management & Data Systems. Co-authored with P.-M Léger and R. Riedl, 2015.
• Recognized for One out of 10 BPMJ’s most exceptional papers, paper: Ten principles of good business process management, Business Process Management Journal, co-authored with T. Schmiedel, J. Recker, P. Trkman, W. Mertens, and S. Viaene, 2014.
• Recipient of the BISE Outstanding Reviewer Award 2014, Business & Information Systems Engineering, 2014 (ISI impact factor: 5.837).
• Recipient of the JAIS Recognition for Service Certificate 2014 for services to the Journal of the Association for Information Systems (ISI impact factor: 3.487).
• Recipient of the AIS Outstanding Chapter Award 2014 for achievements in research, teaching and knowledge transfer, Liechtenstein Chapter of the AIS, 2019. 
• Recognized for the Best German Information Systems Research Paper of the Year 2013, German Academic Association for Business Research (VHB), Information Systems Section (WKWI), paper: Sensemaking and Sustainable Practicing: Functional Affordances of Information Systems in Green Transformations. MIS Quarterly, co-authored with S. Seidel and J. Recker, 2013.
• Nominated for the Best European Research Paper of the Year 2013, CIONET Community and Benelux Chapter of the Association for Information Systems, paper: Sensemaking and Sustainable Practicing: Functional Affordances of Information Systems in Green Transformations.  MIS Quarterly, Co-authored with S. Seidel and J. Recker, 2013.
• Recipient of the Emerald Literati Network 2014 Award for Excellence. Emerald Group Publishing. paper: Which cultural values matter to business process management?: Results from a global Delphi study. Business Process Management Journal, co-authored with T. Schmiedel and J. Recker, 2014.
• Recipient of the AIS Award for Innovation in Teaching 2013 for demonstrating best practices as well as creative uses of technology to enhance teaching and learning, Association for Information Systems (AIS), 2013.
• Nominated for the Best European Research Paper of the Year 2012 Nominee, CIONET Community and Benelux Chapter of the Association for Information Systems, paper: On the use of neurophysiological tools in IS research: Developing a research agenda for NeuroIS, MIS Quarterly, co-authored with with A. Dimoka, R. D. Banker, I. Benbasat, F. D. Davis, A. R. Dennis, D. Gefen, A. Gupta, P. Kenning, P. A. Pavlou, G. Müller-Putz, R. Riedl and B. Weber.
• Nominated for the DESRIST Best Paper Award, Design Science Research in Information Systems and Technology (DESRIST), Paper: Neuroscience in Design-oriented Research: Exploring New Potentials, Co-authored with. R. Riedl and P.M. Léger, 2011.
• Nominated for the ECIS Best Paper, European Conference on Information Systems, Galway, 2008, paper: A Business Process Perspective on Enterprise Content Management: Towards a Framework for Organisational Change. Co-authored with A. Simons and A. Cleven, 2008.
• Recipient of the EU Fellowship Award, Research stay at the University of Warwick, UK, Mobility Committee of the EU NoE GARNET, 2007.
• Recipient of the Best Paper Award, 11th Annual Health Informatics Society of Ireland (HISI) Conference, Dublin, Ireland, paper: Supporting IS Innovation in a Healthcare Context Using Process Modelling, co-authored with Ó. P. Scolaí, S. Kelly, C. Buddendick, and S. Klein, 2006.
• Recipient of the Best PhD Thesis Award, Faculty of Economics at the University of Muenster, Germany, together with M. zur Mühlen, 2002.