Abayomi Baiyere
Associate Professor & Distinguished Research Fellow of Digital TechnologyOverview
Abayomi Baiyere is an Associate Professor & Distinguished Research Fellow of Digital Technology at Smith School of Business, Queen's University. He also holds affiliation with the Digitalization Department of Copenhagen Business School and the University of Turku and has been a Research Affiliate at MIT Sloan Center for Information Systems Research. Before joining academia, he worked for companies such as SAP, ABN AMRO (Dialogues Incubator), and as an Entrepreneur. His research interest sits at the intersection of digital transformation, digital disruption, and the societal impact of digitalization. His studies have looked at these issues from an organizational and societal perspective. His research mostly takes a design science, ethnography, or mixed methods orientation.
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Digital “x”—Charting a Path for Digital-Themed Research
Digital this, Digital that... What do we mean when we add "Digital" to existing concepts?
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Abayomi Baiyere is an Associate Professor & Distinguished Research Fellow of Digital Technology at Smith Business School, Queen's University. He also holds affiliation with the Digitalization Department of Copenhagen Business School and the University of Turku and has been a Research Affiliate at MIT Sloan Center for Information Systems Research. Before joining academia, he worked for companies such as SAP, ABN AMRO (Dialogues Incubator), and as an Entrepreneur. His research interest sits at the intersection of digital transformation, digital disruption, and the societal impact of digitalization. His studies have looked at these issues from an organizational and societal perspective. His research mostly takes a design science, ethnography, or mixed methods orientation.
Some of his research has been recognized with best paper awards or nominations, such as – AoM CTO 2022 Best Paper Publication | JAIS 2021 Best Paper Honourary Mention | CMCE 2021 Research Award | EJIS 2020 best paper award | AoM OCIS 2020 Best-published Paper Award runner-up (ISR) | ECIS 2020 Best Paper Award nominee | MCIS 2018 Best Paper Award and | ICIS 2017 Paperathon Joint Winner, among others.
He has served as the president of the Digital Innovation, Transformation and Entrepreneurship special interest group of AIS and the immediate past lead of the Digital Disruption and Transformation special interest group of ISPIM. He has served as an executive member of the CTO (formerly OCIS) division of AoM. He also leads and co-organizes the African Workshop in Information Systems workshop series.
He holds editorial roles as associate editor in leading journals such as MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Journal - ISJ, and European Journal of Information Systems. He has served as guest editor on special issues in ISJ, Technovation and Journal of Strategic Information Systems (JSIS) among others. He is also on the editorial board of Information and Organization. His work has been accepted in journals such as MIS Quarterly (MISQ), Information Systems Research (ISR), Journal of the Association for Information Systems (JAIS), California Management Review (CMR), Technological Forecasting and Social Change (TFSC), among others.
Academic Degrees
PhD, Information Systems Department
University of Turku, Finland (2016)
International Masters in Management of Information Technology
University of Turku, Finland (2011)
MSc. Information Management
Tilburg University, The Netherlands (2011)
MSc. Management & IT
IAE Graduate School of Management, France (2011)
MSc. Economics & Business Administration
Turku School of Economics, Finland (2011)
Academic Experience
Smith School of Business, Queen's University
Associate Professor, Digital Technology Group (2023 - Present)
Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
Research Affiliate, Department of Digitalization (2021 - Present)
Assistant Professor, Department of Digitalization (2017-2020)
University of Turku, Finland
Docent/Research Affiliate, Information Systems Science Department (2017 - Present)
Postdoc and Digital Innovation Researcher (2016-2017)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Research Affiliate, Center for Information Systems Research (2017-2024)
Publications
Journal Articles (selected)
2025 Baiyere, A., Bauer, J., Constantiou, I., and Hardt, D. “Fake News Detection with supporting evidence” MIS Quarterly (in press)
2024 Baiyere, A., Salmela, H., Nieminen, H. and Kankainen, T. “Assessing digital capabilities for digital transformation—The MIND framework.” Information Systems Journal – ISJ
2024 Gierlich-Joas, M., Baiyere, A., & Hess, T. “Inverse transparency and the quest for empowerment through the design of digital workplace technologies”. Journal of the Association for Information Systems - JAIS.
2024 Wessel, L., Baiyere, A., Danelski, A., Rappert, F., Roksch, S., Selmke, S., Gersch, M., Hanke, S., Rothe, H. and Sundermeier, J. “Smart Sitting: A Design Science Research Study in the Context of Posture Management” European Journal of Information Systems
2023 Baiyere, A., Lyytinen, K., Grover, V., Gupta. A. and Woerner, S. “Digital ‘x’ – Charting a path for digital-themed research” Information Systems Research - ISR
2023 Fürstenau, D., Baiyere, A., Schewina, K, and Schulte-Althof, M. and Rothe, H. “Extended Generativity Theory on Digital Platforms” Information Systems Research – ISR
2023 Baiyere, A., Salmela, H., Tapanainen, T. and Galliers R. “Backstory to the Digital Agility Theory.” Journal of the Association for Information Systems – JAIS
2023 Baiyere, A., Berente, N. & Avital, M. On Digital Theorizing, Clickbait Research, and The Cumulative Tradition”. Journal of Information Technology – JIT
2023 Zimmer, M., Baiyere, A. and Salmela, H. “Digital Workplace Transformation: Subtraction Logic as Deinstitutionalising the taken-for-granted” Journal of Strategic Information Systems – JSIS
2022 Salmela, H., Baiyere, A., Tapanainen, T. & Galliers R. “Conceptualizing agility for the digital era” Journal of the Association for Information Systems – JAIS
2021 Wessel, L., Baiyere, A., Ologeanu-Taddei, R., Cha, J., & Jensen, T., Unpacking the difference between digital transformation and IT-enabled organizational transformation. Journal of Association of Information Systems – JAIS (Paperathon award winner)
2021 Ritala, P., Baiyere, A., Hughes, M., & Kraus, S., Digital strategy implementation: The role of individual entrepreneurial orientation and relational capital. Technological Forecasting and Social Change - TFSC.
2021 Morgan, L., Gleasure, R., Baiyere, A., & Dang, H. P., Share and Share Alike: How Inner Source Can Help Create New Digital Platforms. California Management Review
2020 Baiyere, A., Salmela, H. and Tapanainen, T. “Digital Transformation and the New Logics of Business” Process Management” European Journal of Information Systems – EJIS (Best EJIS paper + CMCE research award)
2020 Baiyere, A., Heikki, T., Venkatesh, V., Wyatt, J. and Donnellan, B. “Internet of Things (IoT) – A Research Agenda for Information Systems” Communications of the Association for Information Systems – CAIS
2019 Fürstenau, D., Baiyere, A., & Kliewer, N. “A Dynamic Model of Embeddedness in Digital Infrastructures.” Information Systems Research – ISR (2019 Best published paper runner up)
2019 Mäntymäki, M., Baiyere, A., & Islam, A. N. “Digital platforms and the changing nature of physical work: Insights from ride-hailing.” International Journal of Information Management - IJIM, 49, 452- 460.
2018 Baskerville, R., Baiyere, A., Hevner, A., Gregor, S., and Rossi M. “Design Science Research Contributions: Artifacts, Design Theories, or Both?” Journal of the Association for Information Systems – JAIS
Conference Articles (selected)
Baiyere, Nieminen (2024) Contextual Limits of Incorporating Artificial Intelligence in an Organization Academy of Management 2024 (1), 21330
Mosconi, Brohman, Baiyere, et al. (2024) Digital and IT-Enabled Organizational Transformation-Where Do We Go From Here? International Conference of Information Systems, Bangkok Thailand
Brohman, Khan, Fu, Mukkamala, Baiyere (2024) BiasMirror: Towards Mitigating Implicit Bias International Conference of Information Systems, Bangkok Thailand
Santos, Wang, Baiyere (2024) ICSOB PhD Retreat 2023 Preface ICSOB 2023: Companion Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Software Business Lahti Finland.
Fabian, E Smailhodzic, A Baiyere (2024) Digital Trace Data–“Wild Wild West” Practices & Ethics Of Web Scraping European Conference of Information Systems, Cyprus
Baiyere, A., Schneider, S., & Stein, M. K. (2023). Digital Work: A Conceptual Clarification. In Proceedings of the 56th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. ed. /Tung X. Bui. Honolulu
Baiyere, A., & Fürstenau, D. (2022). Digital Practices. In Academy of Management Proceedings (AoM Best paper proceedings)
Patel, S., Baiyere, A., & Johnsen, C. G. (2022). Beyond Practice: Assemblage Thinking in Sociomateriality Research. In Proceedings of the 30th European Conference on Information Systems
Baiyere, A. (2022) “Fostering Innovation Ecosystems: Enablers and Challenges”. In ISPIM Conference Proceedings
Morgan, L., Gleasure, R., & Baiyere, A. (2022). Is Inner Source the Next Stage in the Agile Revolution? In A. Elbanna, S. McLoughlin, Y. K. Dwivedi, B. Donnellan, & D. Wastell (Eds.), TDIT 2022: Co-creating for Context in the Transfer and Diffusion of IT (pp. 130-136)
Mosconi, E., Baiyere, A., & Wessel, L. K. (2022). Introduction to Making Digital Transformation Real. In HICSS conference
Hornberger, J., Mack, Y., & Baiyere, A. (2022). The Role of the Strategic Corporate Accelerator: Overcoming Obstacles of Corporate Startup Engagement. In HICSS conference
Chasin, F. and Baiyere, A. (2022) “Transforming Digital Inventions into Digital Innovations – A Missing Material Perspective on Technology Adoption”. In Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
Baiyere, A., and Hukkal, P. (2020) “Digital Disruption – A conceptual clarification”. In Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
Zimmer, M., Baiyere, A., Salmela, H. (2020) Digital Workplace Transformation: The Importance of Deinstitutionalising the Taken for Granted, In European Conference on Information Systems (Best paper nomination)
Baiyere, A., Avital, M., Dennis, A., Gibbs, J., Teeni, D. (2020) Fake News: What Is It and Why Does It Matter? In Academy of Management Annual Meeting 2020
Baiyere, A., Avital, M., Berente, N., Henfridsson, O., Hinings, C. B., Tuertscher, P., & Yoo, Y. (2019). Digital “X”: In Need of New Theories or Do Prior Theories Suffice? In The Academy of Management Annual Meeting 2019.
Baiyere, A., Avital, M., Barrett, M., Berente, N., Constantiou, I., Fuerstenau, D., Garud, R., Henfridsson, O., Hinings C.R., Jarvenpaa, S., Levina, N., Lyytinen, K., Tuertscher, P., Wessel, L. and Yoo, Y. (2019). Digital Practices: Unpacking the New Logics of Organizing in a Digital Age. In Academy of Management Annual Meeting 2019.
Baiyere, A. and Rosenstand, C. A. F., (2019). Digital “x”: Beyond Bounded Rationality, Toward a Theory of Bounded Imagination. In ISPIM Innovation Conference
Baiyere, A., Mäntymäki, M., and Islam N. (2019) “Duality of Work in Sharing Economy Platforms: Insights from Uber”. In AMCIS conference
Baiyere, A., Jensen, T., Fischer, L., Staykova, K., Wessel, M., & Hedman, J. (2019). Navigating Global Online Market Places (GOMPs)–An ADR Perspective. In International Working Conference on Transfer and Diffusion of IT (pp. 529-535). Springer, Cham.
Endres, H., Ghosh, A. Indulska, M. and Baiyere, A. (2019) “Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) Business Model Classification”. In International Conference in Information Systems
Fuerstenau, D., Rothe, H., Baiyere, A., Schulte-Althof, M., Masak, D., Schewina, K. and Anisimova, D. (2019) Growth, Complexity, and Generativity of Digital Platforms: The Case of Otto.de In International Conference in Information Systems
Tuikka, A.M. Baiyere, A. and Kimppa, K. (2019) Representing Precarious Work in the Sharing Economy through (De) motivations of Uber Contractors BLED 2019 Proceedings
Baiyere, A. (2018) “Fostering Innovation Ecosystems - ISPIM Innovation Forum” Technovation, 69, 1.
Baiyere, A., Ross, J. W., & Sebastian, I. M. (2018). “Designing for Digital: Lessons from Spotify” MIT Sloan School of Management, CISR Briefing.
Baiyere, A., & Nieminen, H. (2018). Innovation Agility: Leveraging Digital Affordance in Innovation Projects. In Academy of Management Proceedings (Vol. 2018, No. 1, p. 18763). Briarcliff Manor, NY 10510.
Baiyere, A., Tapanainen, T., & Salmela, H. (2018). Agility of Business Processes–Lessons from a Digital Transformation Context. In The 12th Mediterranean Conference on Information Systems. MCIS 2018. (Awarded best paper)
Baiyere, A. and Nieminen, H. (2018) “Innovation Valleys: Reconceptualizing the innovation valley of death (a survival lens)” International Society for Professional Innovation Management – Stockholm, Sweden.
Baiyere, A., Cha, J., Ologeanu-Taddei, R., & Wessel, L. (2017). Digital Practice Misfits: Beyond IT Artifacts. International Conference in Information Systems ICIS 2017 Proceedings Atlanta, GA.
Baiyere, A. (2017). Digital Acceleration: How Digitalization is Reshaping the Work-Life Interface. In Academy of Management Proceedings (Vol. 2017, No. 1, p. 17032). (Awarded best student paper runner up)
Baiyere, A., Grover, V., Gupta, A., Woerner, S., & Lyytinen, K. J. (2017). Digital" x"-A new tune for IS research or old wine in new bottles? International Conference in Information Systems ICIS 2017 Atlanta, GA.
Baiyere, A. (2017). The Interface of IT Capabilities and Disruptive Innovations. In Australasian Conference on Information Systems. ACIS 2017. RMIT University.
Baiyere, A. and Li, H. (2016) “Application of a Virtual Collaborative Environment in a Teaching Case” Americas Conference on Information Systems, (AMCIS 2016) San Diego, USA.
Baiyere, A., Venkatesh, V., Donnellan, B., Tabet, S. and Toppi, H. (2016) “IoT – Towards a Research Agenda for Information Systems” Americas Conference on Information Systems, (AMCIS 2016) San Diego, USA.
Baiyere, A., Hevner, A., Gregor, S., Rossi, M. and Baskerville, R. (2015) “Artifact and/or Theory? Publishing Design Science Research in IS” International Conference in Information Systems (ICIS 2015), Texas, USA.
Baiyere, A., Hevner, A., Donnellan, B., Smith, C. and Stikeleather, J., (2015) “Panel: Disruptive Innovations and IT - Wicked yet Empowering” Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS 2015), Puerto Rico.
Baiyere, A. and Salmela, H (2015) “Wicked yet Empowering: When IT Innovations are Disruptive Innovations” International Conference in Information Systems (ICIS 2015), Texas, USA.
Baiyere, A. (2015) “When Disruptive Innovation is not only about Companies - A Societal Perspective.” 26th International Society for Professional Innovation Management – (ISPIM 2015), Budapest Hungary.
Baiyere, A., Salmela, H. (2015) “IS Capability Assessment- The MIND Canvas” Design Science Research in Information Systems and Technology Conference – (DESRIST 2015), Dublin, Ireland.
Salmela, H., Tapanainen, T., Baiyere, A. Hallanoro M, Galliers R (2015) “IS Agility Research: An assessment and Future Directions” European Conference of Information Systems – (ECIS 2015), Munster Germany.
Baiyere, A. (2014) “Disrupted Disruptions: Lessons from potential Disruptive Innovations that never disrupted” 25th International Society for Professional Innovation Management Conference, Dublin, Ireland.
Baiyere, A., and Salmela, H. (2014) “Towards A unified view of Information System (IS) Capability” Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems (PACIS 2014), Chengdu, China.
Baiyere, A. (2014) “Disruptive Innovations at Bottom of Pyramid: A Future Alert/False Alarm?” International Society for Professional Innovation Management Americas Forum, Montreal, Canada.
Baiyere, A. and Li, H. (2014) “Synergizer - Reviving a Failed IS Project. The case of MidasSource company” Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems (PACIS 2014), Chengdu, China.
Baiyere, A. and Salmela, H. (2013) “Review - Disruptive Innovation and Information Technology – Charting a path” 24th Australasian Conference on Information Systems (ACIS 2013), Melbourne Australia.
Baiyere, A. (2013) “Understanding Disruptive Innovations and the Bottom of the Pyramid” International Society for Professional Innovation Management, 6th ISPIM Symposium Melbourne Australia.
Baiyere, A. (2013) “Who is looking at myCloud – Angels or Demons” in 7th Conference of the Australian Institute of Computer Ethics (AiCE), Melbourne Australia.
Baiyere, A. and Roos, J. (2011) “Disruptive Innovations at the Bottom of the Pyramid Can they impact on the sustainability of today’s companies?” Proceedings of the conference on Trends and Future of Sustainable Development. Tampere Finland
Edited Books and Book Chapters
Baiyere, A., Galliers R. & Stein, M.K. (Eds.). (Forthcoming) The Routledge companion to management information systems. Routledge Taylor & Francis Group.
Schallmo, D., Baiyere, A., Gertsen, F., Rosenstand, C. A. F., & Williams, C. A. (Eds.) (2024). Digital Disruption and Transformation. Case Studies, Approaches, and Tools. Springer.
Zimmer, M. P., Baiyere, A., & Salmela, H. (2023). Digital Transformation and Institutional Work: A Paradox View. In E. Monod, & Y. Jiang (Eds.), Digital Transformation: Organizational Challenges and Management Transformation Methods (pp. 219-263). [18]. Information Age Publishing Inc
In the Media
2024 Assessing Your Organization's Digital Readiness: A Guide to Digital Transformation. Smith Business Insight.
https://smith.queensu.ca/insight/content/A-Guide-to-Digital-Transformation.php
Teaching
Teaching Activities
Smith School of Business, Queen's University
2024 Teacher – Designing Digital Innovations (MFIT Program)
2024 Teacher – Foundations of MIS II, PhD seminar series
2024 Teacher – Digital Transformation & Ethical Product Leadership
2023 Teacher – Digital Leadership (MDPM Program)
2022 Teacher – Digital Ethics (MDPM Program)
Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
2020 Teacher – Digital Entrepreneurship
2020 Teacher – Digital Transformation
2020 Co-Teacher – Advances in IT Management
2018 Teacher – Digital Business
2018 Teacher – Digital Strategy
2014-2016 Co-Teacher – Project Management
2015-2016 Co-Teacher – Digital Business
Supervision of Graduate and Masters Students
2021-2023 One Ph.D. Student, Department of Digitalization, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
2017-2021 One Ph.D. Student, Information Systems Department, University of Turku, Finland
2017-2022 67 Masters Students (38 student groups = 38 theses), Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
Teaching Material Development
- Digital Leadership Simulation
- Teaching Case: Quick X case study
- Teaching Case: Synergizer - Reviving a failed IS Project
Presentations
Scholarly and Practitioner Engagement (recent/selected)
Panels
2024 Panel facilitator, “New Paradigms of Innovation: Breaking orthodoxies to stimulate ecosystem change.”Digital Futures Symposium, Toronto, Canada
2024 Panel-facilitator, “Digital and IT-enabled organizational transformation - where do we go from here?” ICIS 2024, Bankok, Thailand
2023 Panelist, “AIS Doctoral Student College: Beyond Borders: Nurturing Diversity & Inclusivity in IS”
2023 Panel facilitator, “Developing an AI-agile mindset” Copenhagen, Denmark
2023 Panel facilitator, “Generative AI” Digital Disruption & Transformation Special Interest Group, ISPIM
2022 Panelist, Researcher-Practitioner Exchange, John Molson School of Business, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
2022 Panelist, Digital Innovation, Transformation and Entrepreneurship Special Interest Group, AIS event
2022 Panel facilitator, “Digital X opportunities in companies and journals”, ISPIM SIG event
2022 Panel facilitator, ISPIM conference opening event, Denmark
2021 Panelist, “Digital Transformation vs. Disruption”, Deakin University Melbourne, Australia
Practitioner Talks
2024 Practitioner Talk, “Design for Digital” Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
2023 Practitioner Talk, “Digital Transformation Trends” VSA Talk, Deloitte, Denmark
2023 Practitioner Talk, “Navigating digital transformation” Banedanmark, Denmark
2021 Practitioner Talk, “Workplace Digital Transformation, Maersk Global HR Executives, Denmark
2019 Practitioner Talk, “Pathways and roadbumps: Navigating Digital Transformation” Schneider Electric
2019 Practitioner Talk, “Pathways to Digital Transformation” Nykredit
2018-2019 Keynote, “Digital innovation in critical times”, Nigerian innovation summit, Nigeria
2018 Keynote, “Digitization vs. Digitalization” Practitioner event, Berlin, Germany
2018 Speaker, "Digital Ecosystems Thinking" Bi-annual MPDays event, Tampere, Finland
Seminars and Academic Talks
2025 Speaker, “Relationship between Organizing for Digital vs IT” Tampere University, Finland
2024 Speaker, “Digital Acceleration Paradox” University of Turku, Finland
2024 Speaker, “Fake News & True News Detection – Value of Discursive Evidence in determining Veracity” Bremen University, Germany
2024 Speaker, “A work-Life Perspective of the Digital Acceleration Paradox” CPCSS Seminar, Jyvaskyla University, Finland
2024 Speaker, “Digital Acceleration and its Paradoxical Effect” Freie University, Berlin
2024 Speaker, “Beyond Digital vs IT” Ivey Business School Seminar, Western University, London, Canada
2023 Speaker, “Digital Practices” Telfer Research Seminar, University of Ottawa, Canada
2023 Speaker, IM&S Seminar, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
2022 Speaker, “Frontiers of Digital Transformation" the University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
2022 Keynote, “Digital X – Charting a path for Digital-themed research” Business Information Systems Conference, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
2022 Keynote panel, “Innovating in a Digital World”, ISPIM conference, Denmark
2022 Keynote “Navigating life after the PhD” Junior Research Lab, ISPIM, Copenhagen, Denmark
2022 Speaker, MIS Guest Speaker Series, John Molson School of Business, Concordia University, Canada
2022 Speaker, Distinguished Speaker Series, SISM, University of South Florida, USA
2022 Speaker, “Fake News” Seminar presentation, Notre Dame University, South Bend, USA
2022 Speaker, Research presentation, Loughborough University, UK
2022 Speaker, Digital Transformation Research Group - Seminar Series, Manchester, UK
2022 Speaker, Research Seminar, DIBSA, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia
2022 Speaker, Global Business Innovation Seminar Series, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia
2022 Speaker, SISTM Seminar presentation, UNSW University, Sydney Australia
2021 Speaker, Organization Research Group, brown bag seminar series, LMU Munich, Germany
2021 Speaker, “Digital vs. IT” Leuphana Research Colloquium, Leuphana, Germany
Invited Lectures
2023 Lecture "Digital Transformation" Witten University, Germany
2023 Lecture "Digital Transformation" University of Turku, Finland
2022 Lectures "The digital X phenomena in information systems" INFORTE seminar series, Finland
2022 Practitioner MBA Lecture "Digital Strategy" University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Awards
Academic Awards and Honours
2024 Best Published Paper in JSIS in 2023 – (JSIS 2023 paper)2023 AIS Mid-Career Award – AIS Awards
2023 Research Award (JSIS 2023 paper) – Leuphana University of Lüneburg
2023 Elegant Scholarship Award – This IS Research (honorable mention – ISR 2023 paper)
2022 AIS Distinguished Member, Cum Laude – AIS Awards
2022 Academy of Management (AoM) best paper proceedings – AoM 2022 Annual Meeting
2022 Best Published Paper in JAIS in 2021 (honorable mention - JAIS 2021 paper)
2021 Best Published Paper in EJIS in 2020 – Stafford Beer Medal Award (EJIS 2020 paper)
2021 Research Awards – Centre for Management Consulting Excellence (EJIS 2020 paper)
2020 Best Published Paper in the IS field in 2019 (2nd runner up) – AoM 2020 (ISR 2019 paper)
2020 Best Paper Award (nominee) – ECIS 2020 conference
2018 Best Paper Award – MCIS 2018 conference
2017 Paperathon Award – ICIS 2017 conference
2017 Best Student Paper Award (1st runner up) – AoM 2017 OCIS Division
Teaching Awards
2019 Excellence in Education Award2020 Excellence in Education Award
Fellowships & Grants
2024 Distinguished Research Fellow of Digital Technology, Smith School of Business
2021-2022 Carlsberg Foundation, Department of Digitalization, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
2018 Otto Monsted grant, Department of Digitalization, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
2018-2020 Industriens Fond grant (collaborator), Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
2017 Kaute Foundation, CISR Massachusetts Institute of Technology – MIT, USA
2016-2019 D4Value, Tekes – Business Finland, (collaborator) Fastems and University of Turku, Finland
2016-2017 PoDoCo Grants, Information Systems Department, University of Turku, Finland
2015 Nokia Awards, Information Systems Department, University of Turku, Finland
2014-2016 Kone Foundation, Information Systems Department, University of Turku, Finland
2014 TOP Foundation, Information and Process Management, Bentley University, Boston USA
2012-2013 Liikesivistysrahasto grants, Information Systems Department, University of Turku, Finland
Service
Leadership and Mentor Roles (selected)
Leadership Roles
2023 President, Digital Innovation, Transformation and Entrepreneurship, Special Interest Group (SIG DITE)
2020-2023 Lead (and pioneer), Theory of Digital Unit, Department of Digitalization, CBS, Denmark
2020-2023 Lead (and founding member), Digital Disruption and Digital Transformation SIG, ISPIM
2018-2021 International representative-at-Large: CTO division of Academy of Management (AoM)
Mentor Roles
2024 AIS Entrepreneurial Innovation Fellowship
2023 MISQ Scholarly Development Academy
2023-2024 SIG DITE Paper Development Workshop
2023 African Workshop on Information Systems
2023 ISJ Paper Development Workshop
2021-2022 ICIS Paperathon
2021 Mentor, Doctoral Student Corner, ICIS 2021
2021 Mentor, Paperathon teams ICIS 2021
2020-2022 Mentor, Doctoral Consortium ECIS 2022, ISPIM 2022, AoM 2020-2021
Editorial Roles and Service
Editorial Roles (journals)
2025 Associate Editor, MIS Quarterly
2024 Associate Editor, European Journal of Information Systems (EJIS)
2024 Guest Senior Editor, Journal of Strategic Information Systems, Digital Transformation and the
Changing Context of Strategy and Work special issue
2024 Guest Senior Editor, Technovation, Gearing up for impact: Embedding design science in innovation and entrepreneurship research special issue
2021 Guest Senior Editor, Information Systems Journal (ISJ), Digital Transformation special issue
2020 Associate Editor, Information Systems Journal (ISJ)
2020 Editorial Board, Information & Organization (I&O)
Editorial Roles (conferences - upcoming/ongoing)
2024 Track Chair, ECIS 2024
2024 Track Chair, DESRIST 2024
2023-2024 Mini-track Chair, HICSS 2023, 2024
2023 Track Chair, ICIS 2023
2023 Workshop Chair, ECIS 2023
2023 Associate Editor, ECIS 2023
2023 Associate Editor, WI 2023
2023 Doctoral Consortium chair, ICSOB 2023
2023 Co-editor, Routledge book on the future of the IS Discipline
2023 Co-editor, Springer book on Digital Transformation and Digital Disruption
2022 Editorial Committee, DESRIST 2022
2019 Conference Review Coordinator, AMCIS conference, Cancun, Mexico
2018 Track Chair, MCIS conference, Corfu, Greece
2018-2021 Minitrack Chair, AMCIS conference
2017-2022 Associate Editor, ICIS 2017-22 (others: IFIP, AoM, ECIS, PACIS, DESRIST)
Memberships of Scientific Societies
2016 Member, Academy of Management (AoM). Active in CTO, TIM, SaP, and STR divisions2014 Member, Association of Information Systems (AIS). Active in DITE, CNoW and GTM SIGs
2014 Member, International Society of Professional Innovation Management (ISPIM)
Organisation of Scientific Meetings (selected)
2023 Co-organizer: Digital Futures Symposium, Toronto
2020-2023 Initiator & co-facilitator: ISPIM Digital Disruption and Transformation Fireside chat series
2020 Initiator & co-organizer: African Workshop on Information Systems (Annual event)
2019 Organizer: AoM Symposium + PDW, Digital “X”: In Need of New Theories or Do Prior Theories Suffice? –with Avital, Berente, Henfridsson, Hinings, Garud, Tuertscher & Yoo
2019 Co-organizer and facilitator: "Design for Digital" event with Jeanne Ross and Cynthia Beath, Copenhagen Denmark
2017 Organizer: ICIS 2017 Panel, Digital "X" - A new tune for IS research or old wine in new bottles? – with Grover, Lyytinen, Gupta, Woerner, Seoul, South Korea
2016 Organizer: AMCIS 2016 Panel, IoT–Towards a research agenda for information systems - Baiyere, Venkatesh, Donnellan, Topi, Tabet, and Hevner, Puerto Rico
2015 Organizer: ICIS 2015 Panel Artifact and/or theory? Publishing design science research in IS - Baiyere, Hevner, Gregor, Baskerville, Rossi, Texas, USA
2014-2017 Organizer: Junior Research Lab, ISPIM conferences – USA, Australia, Ireland, Hungary, Canada, Singapore, Portugal,