Distinguished Research Fellows 2021: Award Ceremony Julia Kotlarsky (University of Auckland Business School)

In this Award Ceremony Professor Julia Kotlarsky from the University of Auckland Business School is awarded as one of the Distinguished Research Fellows 2021. In her research talk she gives insights in her current research as well as a quick outlook regarding the Fellow project  "Becoming a Data-driven Organization: Theorizing on Digital Transformation Processes" that she wants to work on at the TU Dresden together with the Chairs of Business Engineering (Prof. Dr. Martin Wiener) and Information Systems in Trade and Industry (Prof. Dr. Susanne Strahringer). 

The Award Ceremony will be conducted online. The link to the zoom conference is available at: https://tu-dresden.de/bu/wirtschaft/forschung/distinguished-research-fellowships/award-ceremonies-2021

About Julia Kotlarsky
Julia is a Professor of Information Systems at the University of Auckland Business School, New Zealand. She holds a PhD from Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University (Netherlands). Julia’s research interests revolve around technology sourcing and digital innovation in knowledge-intensive businesses. More recently, she has also started to study the interplay and interfaces between artificial intelligence (AI) technologies and human actors, focusing on data issues and digital transformation. Julia has published 16 books on technology, innovation and sourcing, and has written extensively about these topics in both managerial and academic journals including MIS Quarterly, Journal of Management Information Systems, Journal of Strategic Information Systems, Journal of Information Technology, and the Wall Street Journal.

Julia is the President of a newly established Association for Information Systems (AIS) Special Interest Group on Advances in Sourcing. She serves as a Senior Editor for the Journal of Information Technology. For full details and a list of her publications see Julia’s University of Auckland web page at https://unidirectory.auckland.ac.nz/profile/jkot131

About the joint research project
The pace of new technological developments and trends such as the emergence of big data and the Internet of Things (IoT) have pushed many companies towards digital transformation – a process that typically involves efforts to significantly re-design and digitize business processes, and/or establish new digital revenue streams that rely on (real-time) data from multiple sources.

The proposed research project—to be conducted in collaboration with the TU Dresden hosts Prof. Dr. Martin Wiener and Prof. Dr. Susanne Strahringer—aims to investigate and develop a process theory on different, context-dependent digital transformation paths for companies that set forth to become a data-driven organization (i.e., an organization that relies on data as a core element for creating and capturing value).

This research is designed as a theory-building study. The empirical part of the project will involve the collection of qualitative data in multiple organizations to capture the temporal perspective of how data, supporting infrastructure, business processes, and organizational roles evolve throughout the timeline of the digital transformation journey.