Prof. Dr. Oliver Krancher (ITU Copenhagen): Research talk on "digital sourcing" on June 5

As part of the Distinguished Research Fellowship Program, Prof. Dr. Oliver Krancher (IT University of Copenhagen) will visit TU Dresden for a first research stay at the beginning of June. Further information about the program and the fellows can be found here. During his stay at our Chair, he will give a talk on Wednesday, June 5, 2024, 10:00-11:30am, in room SCH A315B on the topic "Digital Sourcing: A Discussion of Agential, Semiotic, Infrastructural, Combinatorial, and Economic Shifts" (see also abstract below). We would be very pleased about a large attendance.

Abstract: A rich body of information systems (IS) sourcing research examines sourcing decisions (e.g., outsourcing, multisourcing, offshoring) and their implementation. Much of this research builds on reference theories, such as transaction cost economics and the knowledge-based view, that focus on the sourcing of human labor and relatively fixed digital assets under bounded rationality. Yet, organizations and their sourcing practices are undergoing significant shifts in the digital era, involving not only human but also technology agency (e.g., artificial intelligence), malleable digital assets that can be flexibly recombined (e.g., in platform ecosystems and low-code development), and digital technology that attenuates bounded rationality (e.g., generative artificial intelligence). In my talk, I will discuss some implications of these agential, semiotic, infrastructural, combinatorial, and economic shifts for digital sourcing, i.e., research and practice of IS sourcing in the digital era.