madigi

Department of Digitalization

Michel
Avital
Professor
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Ph.D.


Room: HOW/60-2.08
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+45 4185 2037 (**Please call the mobile number**)
E-mail: ma.digi@cbs.dk
Michel Avital
Presentation

Design and innovation are the leitmotifs in my work that focuses on examining the crossroads of information, technology, and people. My research combines both soft and hard methods to advance theory and knowledge about how digital technologies are developed, applied, managed and consumed in the context of human organizations. I am particularly interested in research of enduring consequences and value partnerships with business organizations, grassroots communities, and policymakers.

Primary research areas
  • Blockchain Technology
  • Distributed Organization and Business Models
  • Generative Design and Innovation Practices
  • Digital Entrepreneurship
  • Organizations and Organizing in a Digital World
  • Positive Organizational Scholarship and Appreciative Inquiry
Administrative tasks

PhD Program Coordinator

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Courses
Supervision

==> Blockchain related PhD:  Looking for prospective doctorate students who are interested in pursuing research on blockchain technology, especially in the context of decentralized platforms and distributed organizations.

Ph.D. and Master thesis projects that relate to my research interest would be considered favorably. Creative out-of-the-box thinkers are welcome with ANY research idea.

Other teaching activities

Blockchain Business Development workshops check it out

Office hours:   After class or by appointment

We are on a mission to help students succeed.

 

  

 

Selected publications

Avital. M. (2024). “Digital Transformation of Academic Publishing: A Call for Decentralization and Democratization of Academic Journals,” Journal of the Association for Information Systems. 25(1), 172-181.

Gol, E.S, Avital, M. and Stein, M.K. (2023). “Crowdworking: Nurturing Expert-Centric Absorptive Capacity,” Information Systems Research. check it out

Avital, M., Chatterjee, S., and Furtak, S. (2023) "Sensing the Future: A Design Framework for Context-Aware Predictive Systems," Journal of the Association for Information Systems. 24(4), 1031-1051.

Avital, M., Jensen, T. B., and Dyrby, S. (2023). "The Social Fabric Framework: Steps to Eliciting the Social Making of Organisations in the Digital Age," European Journal of Information Systems.

Jetzek, T., Avital, M. and Bjorn-Andersen, N. (2019) “The Sustainable Value of Open Government Data,” Journal of the Association for Information Systems check it out

Gol, E.S., Stein, M.K, and Avital, M. (2019) “Crowdwork Platform Governance toward Organizational Value Creation,” Journal of Strategic Information Systems

 

=Selected papers pre-2012:

Schultze, U. and Avital, M. (2011). Designing Interviews to Generate Rich Data for Information Systems Research, Information and Organization, 21(1), 1-16.

Avital, M. and Singh, B. (2011). Collaboration Trumps Competition in High-Tech Project Teams, Int. J. Organisational Design and Engineering

Thatchenkery, T. Cooperrider, D. and Avital, M. (Eds.) (2010). Positive Design and Appreciative Construction: From Sustainable Development to Sustainable Value, Advances in Appreciative Inquiry, Volume 3, Emerald Publishing, Bingley, UK.

Avital, M. and Te'eni, D. (2009). From Generative Fit to Generative Capacity: Exploring an Emerging Dimension of Information Systems Design and Task Performance, Information Systems Journal, 4(19), 345-367.

Avital, M., Boland, R.J. and Lyytinen, K. (2009). Introduction to Designing Information and Organizations with a Positive Lens, Information and Organization, 19(3), 153-161.

Avital, M. and Germonprez, M. (2004) "Reflections on Paragrammatic Uses of Organizational Theory," Organization Studies, 25 (6), pp. 1045-1048.

Cooperrider, D. and Avital, M. (Eds.) (2004) Constructive Discourse and Human Organization, Advances in Appreciative Inquiry, Volume 1, Elsevier Science, Oxford, UK.

Avital, M. (2002) "Reflections of Time in Lived Experience," Journal of Management Inquiry, 11 (1), pp. 25-27.

Avital, M. (2000) "Dealing with Time in Social Inquiry: A Tension between Method and Lived Experience," Organization Science, 11 (6), pp. 665-673.

Avital, M. and Vandenbosch, B. (2000) "SAP Implementation at Metalica: An Organizational Drama," Journal of Information Technology, 15 (3), pp. 183-194.

Publications sorted by:
2024
Michel Avital; Dov Te'eni / A Contrarian Walks into a Bar : Heretical Thinking on AI in and for Organization.
Paper presented at The 14th Organization, Artifacts & Practices Workshop. OAP 2024
, 2024
Paper > peer review
Ignacio Godoy Descazeaux; Michel Avital; Rob Gleasure / Building a New Front? : The Emerging Infrastructure for Quantum Computing.
Paper presented at DBOSI 2024: The 6th Nordic Workshop on Digital Foundations of Business, Operations, Strategy, and Innovation, 2024
Paper > peer review
Michel Avital / Digital Transformation of Academic Publishing : A Call for the Decentralization and Democratization of Academic Journals.
In: Journal of the Association for Information Systems, Vol. 25, No. 1, 2024, 10 p., p. 172-181
Editorial > peer review
2023
Elham Shafiei Gol; Michel Avital; Mari-Klara Stein / Crowdworking : Nurturing Expert-centric Absorptive Capacity.
In: Information Systems Research, 29.11.2023
Journal article > peer review
Bastian Wurm; Michael Wessel; Monica Chiarini Tremblay; Michel Avital; Philipp Hukal; Iris Junglas / Digital Trace Data Research in Information Systems : Opportunities and Challenges.
In: Proceedings of the 31st European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS)Atlanta, GA : Association for Information Systems. AIS Electronic Library (AISeL) 2023 (Proceedings of the European Conference on Information Systems)
Article in proceedings > peer review
Ignacio Godoy Descazeaux; Michel Avital; Rob Gleasure / Images of Quantum Computing : Taking Stock and Moving Forward.
In: Proceedings of the 31st European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS)Atlanta, GA : Association for Information Systems. AIS Electronic Library (AISeL) 2023 (Proceedings of the European Conference on Information Systems)
Article in proceedings > peer review
Abayomi Baiyere; Nicholas Berente; Michel Avital / On Digital Theorizing, Clickbait Research, and the Cumulative Tradition
In: Journal of Information Technology, Vol. 38, No. 1, 3.2023, p. 67-73
Comment/debate > peer review
Michel Avital; Samir Chatterjee; Szymon Furtak / Sensing the Future : A Design Framework for Context-aware Predictive Systems.
In: Journal of the Association for Information Systems, Vol. 24, No. 4, 2023, p. 1031-1051
Journal article > peer review
David G. Schwartz; Michel Avital; Sirkka L. Jarvenpaa; Kalle Lyytinen; Galit Shmueli; Dov Te'eni / The Future Impact of AI on Academic Journals and the Editorial Process
In: Proceedings of the 44th International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS): Rising like a Phoenix: Emerging from the Pandemic and Reshaping Human Endeavors with Digital Technologies. Atlanta, GA : Association for Information Systems. AIS Electronic Library (AISeL) 2023 (Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems)
Article in proceedings > peer review
Dov Te'eni; Michel Avital; Tilo Böhmann; Emma Coleman; Monideepa Tarafdar / The Role of Academic Associations in Promoting Social Action
In: Communications of the Association for Information Systems, Vol. 53, No. 1, 2023, p. 938-949
Journal article > peer review
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Research Projects
Outside activities

2019-2024:

  • Sikkerhedsstyrelsen: Ad hoc consulting
  • SWIFT Institute: Ad hoc contract research
  • Sparinvest: Ad hoc consulting
  • Region H: Ad hoc consulting
  • CBS Executive: Ad hoc executive teaching
  • Háskóli Íslands: Ad hoc executive teaching
  • Digi Associates: Ad hoc consulting