Jonas Betz and his colleagues, Fenja Reinsberg from Karlstad University and Ivana Hudáková from the University of Vaasa, were successful in the EUNICE Student Research Clubs selection process with their joint application. Out of a total of four research clubs established, the EUNICE committee selected their project for financial support and subsequent implementation.

In March, the conference of the Verband der Hochschullehrerinnen und Hochschullehrer e. V. (VHB) took place in Göttingen.

An article titled “Alumni Management and Temporal Spatial Distance: A Theoretical Investigation” by Sophia Bittner-Zähr was recently published in the journal Management Revue.

From 6 to 11 July 2026, Sophia Bittner-Zähr attended two conferences in France. First, together with Marie Tallarek from the Department of Health Sciences, she presented her paper on emotion-related practices in emotionally demanding workplaces.

Jonas Betz attended the annual international conference of the Action Research Network of the Americas in Sobral, Brazil. There, he presented a research paper on dealing constructively with resistance in organisational change processes.

On 11 May 2026, Prof. Dr. Javier Gonzalo Rodríguez Ruiz from the Universidad de Guadalajara will give a research presentation at BTU entitled “Digitalization patterns and economic growth in Mexico”.

The open access article has emerged from a capstone project co-supervised by Lukas Fitz at the University of North Carolina Wilmington.

This practical guide for business research is now available in English and as a printed edition. The publication offers researchers a practical guide to applying open science practices in their day-to-day academic work.

The article by Lukas Fitz proposes design principles to accommodate specific needs of small and medium-sized complementor enterprises as part of dominant digital platform ecosystems. The proposal is based on abductive reasoning by reflecting on expert inputs and prevalent design features of platform artifacts from literature.

The specialised mini-track ‘AI-enabled Digital Transformation for SMEs’ will be held for the first time as part of the 60th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-60) in January 2027, under international leadership including researchers at the BTU.