Prof. Dr. Alexander Benlian has been designated as an AIS Distinguished Member Cum Laude by the Association for Information Systems (AIS). The AIS Distinguished Member Program recognizes members who have made a significant impact on the association.
Prof. Dr. Alexander Benlian was awarded with the Most Active Author Award in Electronic Markets for having published among others the most articles in this journal in the last five years (2019-2023). He was among the five most active authors in a list of more than 500 authors. Furthermore, the citations of his papers represent the 2.1% of the total citations in these five years.
Armin Alizadeh, Felix Hirsch, Alexander Belian, Martin Wiener and Alec W. Cram were awarded the Best Paper Award for their article “Perceived Algorithmic Control: Conceptualization and Scale Development” at the European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS) ausgezeichnet. The conference was held in Kristiansand, Norway, June 11-16, 2023.
Lea Müller was honored for her paper “Too Drained from Being Agile? The Self-Regulatory Effects of the Use of Agile ISD Practices and their Consequences on Turnover Intention” with the AISD First Award. This award is designed to promote new members of the AISD community by recognizing an outstanding publication that an author has published in a leading journal as their first ever IS journal article.
Martin Adam, Michael Wessel and Alexander Benlian were awarded with the '2022 Electronic Markets Paper of the Year' Award for their article "AI-based chatbots in customer service and their effects on user compliance“ (published in: Electronic Markets, 31(2), 427-445).
In the current “Betriebswirte-Ranking der Wirtschaftswoche” from 2022, in which researchers were evaluated according to their publication achievements over the last 5 years, Prof. Alexander Benlian once again performs very well and is rated as the third most research-intensive business economist in this period. Over 3,000 business administration researchers in the DACH region were considered in this ranking.
We are pleased to announce that Annika Reinelt and Prof. Dr. Alexander Benlian were awarded the Best Full Research Paper Award at the European Conference on Information Systems 2022. The conference took place in Timișoara, Romania, on June 18-24, 2022, where a total of 238 papers on a wide variety of topics in Information Systems were presented and discussed. The paper by Annika Reinelt and Prof. Benlian deals with technology-induced stress in the use of collaboration systems – read in detail here.
Martin Adam has been awarded a place in the Athene Young Investigator funding program of the TU Darmstadt. The program promotes scientific independence of selected young scientists, among other things by granting them certain professorial rights (e.g. the right to award a doctorate). Martin sees the acceptance as a privilege and trust in his previous and especially future work; moreover, the award has a “signal effect” for him. More details about the award and his research interests can be found here.
The paper “To Compare Against Oneself or Others? Evaluative Standards as Design Elements to Affect Heating Energy Consumption” by Charlotte Wendt, Dominick Werner, Martin Adam and Alexander Benlian was awarded the Best Paper Award for Conference Theme Track A: IS for Sustainability at ICIS 2021. The conference took place December 12-15 in Austin,Texas.
The paper “No Matter I'll Be Selected; in the Next Challenge I Will Be Better!” – Understanding Non-Technical Skill Development in the Gig Economy by Karoline Glaser, Daniel J. Veit, Adeline Frenzel-Piasentin and Jonas Toutaoui has received a Best Paper Nomination at the HICSS 2022.
Prof. Dr. Alexander Benlian has been awarded an Outstanding Teaching Award by the Department of Economics of Goethe University and Goethe Business School for his teaching in the summer semester 2021. Prof. Benlian received the 1st prize for the course “Digital Business Models and Architecture” as part of the “Master of Digital Transformation Management” at GBS.
Martin Adam receives the university-wide “Special Prize for Digital Teaching“ from the CARLO UND KARIN GIERSCH STIFTUNG for the inaugural course “Increasing Well-Being with Data Analytics“ at the Technische Universität Darmstadt.
It was an invaluable experience for him to see students applying insights from research in their personal lives and using data analytics tools to (anonymously) trace and reflect on their developments. What makes him especially happy and proud is that he could empirically demonstrate a significant improvement in students‘ well-being, productivity, and IT usage throughout the course – the course truly impacted the students.
Prof. Dr. Alexander Benlian has been designated as an AIS Distinguished Member by the Association for Information Systems (AIS). The AIS Distinguished Member Program recognizes members who have made a significant impact on the association.
Auf der European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS) 2021 wurde Alexander Benlian für seinen Artikel “Algoactivistic Practices in Ridesharing – A Topic Modeling & Grounded Theory Approach” für den Claudio Ciborra Award Runner-Up ausgezeichnet.
In the current “Betriebswirte-Ranking der Wirtschaftswoche”, in which researchers were evaluated according to their publication output over the last 5 years, Prof. Alexander Benlian comes in 4th place. Over 3,000 business administration researchers in the DACH region were considered in this ranking.
In the current “Betriebswirte-Ranking der WirtschaftsWoche”, in which researchers were evaluated according to their publication output over the last 5 years, Prof. Alexander Benlian comes in 5th place. Over 2,500 business administration researchers in the DACH region were considered in this ranking.
Robin Klostermeier, Prof. Dr. Steffi Haag and Prof. Dr. Alexander Benlian were awarded the Best Paper Award 2018 of the journal “HMD – Praxis der Wirtschaftsinformatik”. The award was given for the article “Digital Twins – An Exploratory Case Study to Investigate Business Models” and presented at the Wirtschaftsinformatik-Konferenz 2019 at the University of Siegen.
Ingmar Haffke, Bradley Kalgovas and Prof. Dr. Alexander Benlian were awarded the Best Paper Award 2017 at the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) 2018 in San Francisco for their article “Options for Transforming the IT Function Using Bimodal IT”, published in the journal MIS Quarterly Executive.
Prof. Dr. Alexander Benlian has received an Outstanding Teaching Award from the Department of Economics at Goethe University and Goethe Business School. Prof. Benlian teaches the course “IT Architectures & Digital Business Models” in the part-time MBA program (Master of Digital Transformation Management) at Goethe Business School.
Prof. Dr. Alexander Benlian, Martin Adam and Assistant Professor Michael Wessel were awarded the Best Paper Award of the journal “Review of Managerial Science”.
The award was given for the co-authored article “Of Early Birds and Phantoms: How Sold-Out Discounts Impact Entrepreneurial Success in Reward-Based Crowdfunding” for the planned Special Issue “Digital Innovation and Venturing” at the 2018 Global Innovation and Knowledge (GIKA) Conference in Valencia.
Once a year, the “Vereinigung von Freunden der Technischen Universität zu Darmstadt e. V.” (Association of Friends of the Technical University of Darmstadt) awards the prize for outstanding scientific achievements for the best dissertation of each department of the TU Darmstadt. At the Department of Law and Economics, Dr. Michael Wessel was pleased to receive this award this year. He received the prize for his thesis “Crowdfunding: Platform Dynamics under Asymmetric Information”, which he wrote at the Department of Information Systems & E-Services under Prof. Dr. Alexander Benlian.
Thomas Wagner, Thomas Hess und Alexander Benlian were awarded with the '2015 Electronic Markets Paper of the Year' Award for their article Converting freemium customers from free to premium – The role of the perceived premium fit in the case of music as a service“ (published in: Electronic Markets, 24(4), 259-268).
This year, the ISE department received the Athene Award for Good Teaching from the Department of Law and Economics. The lecture Internet-based Business Models was awarded for the concept of the course “Internet-based Business Models”, which promotes independent, autonomous learning, active participation of students, reflection of theory as well as the transferability of theoretical knowledge into the practice of start-up culture.
Ferdinand Thies and Michael Wessel, Department of Information Systems & E-Services (ise) at TU Darmstadt, were awarded the Best Paper Award for their paper “The Effects of Personalization on Purchase Intentions for Online News: An Experimental Study of Different Personalization Increments”. The paper was selected from a total of 913 submissions and 282 accepted articles.
Prof. Dr. Alexander Benlian has been awarded a scholarship by the Dr. Werner Jackstädt Foundation on the topic of “Factors influencing dynamic investor behavior on crowdfunding platforms”. The criteria for awarding the scholarship are the academic excellence of the scientist and the quality of his research work.
At International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) 2014 in Auckland, New Zealand Ferdinand Thies, Michael Wessel and Alexander Benlian were for their article für ihren Artikel “Understanding the dynamic interplay of social buzz and contribution behavior within and between online platforms – Evidence from crowdfunding“ for the Best Paper Runner-Up.
Prof. Alexander Benlian ranks 8th in the ranking (best research performance) of all 2,346 business administration professors and is thus among the top 1% in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. In the ranking of the most research-intensive scientists under the age of 40, Prof. Benlian came in 5th overall (Link to ranking: Handelsblatt-BWL-Ranking 2014, report in hoch3 2/2015 (opens in new tab)).
In the international business information systems research ranking based on the AIS (Association for Information Systems) Senior Scholars' Basket of Journals from 2011-2013, Prof. Benlian is the only European researcher among the top 10 most research-intensive scientists worldwide (ranked 6th). (Link to ranking: AIS-Ranking (opens in new tab)).
Prof. Dr. Alexander Benlian received an award from the Carlo and Karin Giersch Foundation for the lecture “Internet-based Business Models”. With this award, the TU Darmstadt recognizes a blended learning scenario that is highly oriented towards interactivity, in which various Web 2.0-supported e-learning tools promote the active participation of students in the face-to-face course as well as independent and team-oriented collaboration in the online phases.
Report: E-Learning Award
Video: 2012 E-Learning Verleihung