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Responsibilities
- Institute management GEMiT / FB08
- Acquisition and coordination of research projects
- Teaching education at HSNR in Bachelor and Master Business Informatics, International Master and Master Business Management

Profile
Kathleen Diener is professor for Business Informatics & Digital Innovation at The Hochschule Niederrhein and institute director of the institute Business Process Management and IT.

She also heads the RWTH affiliated institute for enterprise cybernetics and is a permanent visiting scientist at the TIM Institute at RWTH Aachen University.

Previously, she conducted research with Henry Chesbrough during a PostDoc stay at UC Berkeley. Kathleen Diener studied psychology at Humboldt University Berlin and received her PhD in the field of organization of open innovation projects at RWTH.

She is currently researching the phenomenon of organizational change from two perspectives. On the one hand, Prof. Diener is interested in different forms of collaboration (e.g. crowdsourcing) to cope with environmental change. Topics such as social capital, open innovation, business model innovation and innovation ecosystems are in the foreground. On the other hand, she looks at individual cognitions in the innovation context and how they influence decision making.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kathleen-diener-a979585/

Topics and interests
- Open Innovation and Innovation Intermediaries
- Digital Business Ecosystems
- Design of Sociotechnical Systems
- Mangerial Cognition and Biases (e.g. Not-Invented-Here Syndrome)
 

Publications
Pollok, P., Amft, A., Diener, K., Lüttgens, D., & Piller, F. T. (2021). Knowledge diversity and team creativity: How hobbyists beat professional designers in creating novel board games. Research Policy, 50(8), 104174. doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2020.104174

Diener, K., Luettgens, D., & Piller, F. T. (2020). Intermediation for open innovation: Comparing direct versus delegated search strategies of innovation intermediaries. International Journal of Innovation Management, 24(04), 2050037. doi.org/10.1142/S1363919620500371

Diener, K. and Piller, F. T. (2020): The Market for Open Innovation: OIA Survey 2020. Raleigh, NC: Lulu Inc. 2020 (3rd edition, first edition in 2010). oia.open-innovation.com

Brenk, S., Lüttgens, D., Diener, K., & Piller, F. (2019). Learning from failures in business model innovation: solving decision-making logic conflicts through intrapreneurial effectuation. Journal of Business Economics, 89(8), 1097-1147. doi.org/10.1007/s11573-019-00954-1

Zynga, A., Diener, K., Ihl, C., Lüttgens, D., Piller, F., & Scherb, B. (2018). Making Open Innovation Stick: A Study of Open Innovation Implementation in 756 Global Organizations: A large study of international companies shows that distinct routines and organizational structures differentiate organizations that succeed with open innovation. Research-Technology Management, 61(4), 16-25. doi.org/10.1080/08956308.2018.1471273

Antons, D., Declerck, M., Diener, K., Koch, I., & Piller, F. T. (2017). Assessing the not-invented-here syndrome: Development and validation of implicit and explicit measurements. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 38(8), 1227-1245. doi.org/10.1002/job.2199

Google Scholar: scholar.google.de/citations

Responsibilities
- Research assistant on the "WiLMo" project
- Conception and creation of teaching/learning materials on the foundation courses of business informatics

Profile
Sinem initially completed her B.Sc. at the Faculty of Textile and Clothing Technology in the Design Engineering program. She then switched to the Faculty of Business Administration and Economics and completed an M.Sc. in the Business Information Systems (M.Sc.) program. During her Masters, Sinem gained practical experience in the field of Business Intelligence.

Topics and interests
- Foundation courses in business informatics
- OER content
- Technostress

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Areas of responsibility

- Acquisition of third-party funds

- teaching education (change management, empirical methods, information management)

- research

profile

Four years after completing her Master's degree, Sabine decided to further her scientific career and started a PhD in cooperation with the Hochschule Niederrhein at RWTH Aachen University in 2019. She joined the research institute GEMiT as a research associate in January 2022. In addition to independent research work, her activities include support for other research projects and the acquisition of third-party funding.

Topics and interests

- innovation collaborations

- innovation processes

- change management

- Business model/innovation

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