mwdigi
Department of Digitalization

Michael Wessel is an Associate Professor at Copenhagen Business School, Department of Digitalization. His current research focus is on digital platforms. On a macro level, he analyses their business models, the competition among them as well as their disruptive effects on existing industries. On a meso or micro level, he looks at specific platforms in order to understand how certain signals and behaviors of platform participants shape the dynamics within the digital platform. To do so, he blends traditional quantitative research methods with data mining and machine learning techniques.
Michael holds a doctorate in Information Systems (IS) from Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany and a Master’s degree from the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. His work has been published in journals such as the Journal of Information Technology, Journal of Management Information Systems, and Decision Support Systems. He also presented his work at the major IS conferences and was awarded “Best Conference Paper Runner-up” at the ICIS 2014 in Auckland, New Zealand and “Best Full Research Paper” at the ECIS 2015 in Münster, Germany.
- Digital platforms and ecosystems
- Platform strategies and competition
- Dynamics in two-sided and multi-sided markets
- Crowdfunding and the Sharing Economy
- Digital entrepreneurship and innovative business models
- Effects of the digital transformation for education
- Data mining, text analytics, machine learning
Thesis projects that relate to my primary research areas.
- Wessel, M., Adam, M. and Benlian, A. (2019). The Impact of Sold-Out Early Birds on Option Selection in Reward-Based Crowdfunding. Decision Support Systems, Vol. 117, 2.2019, p. 48-61.
- Thies, F., Wessel, M., and Benlian, A. (2018). Network Effects on Crowdfunding Platforms: Exploring the Implications of Relaxing Input Control. Information Systems Journal (28:6), pp. 1239-1262.
- Wessel, M., Thies, F., and Benlian, A. (2017). Opening the Floodgates of Increasing Platform Openness in Crowdfunding. Journal of Information Technology (32:4), pp. 344-360.
- Thies, F., Wessel, M., and Benlian, A. (2016). Effects of Social Interaction Dynamics on Platforms. Journal of Management Information Systems (33:3), pp. 843-873.
In: Proceedings of the 54th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences : Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) 2021, p. 6543-6552 (Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences)
In: Electronic Markets, 17.3.2020
In: Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice, 24.12.2020
In: Proceedings of the Seventy-ninth Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management. ed. /Guclu Atinc. Briarcliff Manor, NY : Academy of Management 2019, 1 p. (Academy of Management Proceedings)
In: ICT Unbounded, Social Impact of Bright ICT Adoption: Proceedings of FIP WG 8.6 International Conference on Transfer and Diffusion of IT, TDIT 2019. . ed. /Yogesh Dwivedi; Emmanuel Ayaburi; Richard Boateng; John Effah. Cham : Springer 2019, p. 529-535 (IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, No. 558)
In: Review of Managerial Science, Vol. 13, No. 3, 6.2019, p. 545–560
In: Decision Support Systems, Vol. 117, 2.2019, p. 48-61
In: Proceedings of the 39th International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS)Atlanta, GA : Association for Information Systems. AIS Electronic Library (AISeL) 2018 (Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems)
In: Proceedings of the 39th International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS)Atlanta, GA : Association for Information Systems. AIS Electronic Library (AISeL) 2018, 1 p. (Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems)
In: Information Systems Journal, Vol. 28, No. 6, 11.2018, p. 1239-1262
In: ICIS 2017 ProceedingsAtlanta, GA : Association for Information Systems. AIS Electronic Library (AISeL) 2017 (Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems)
In: Journal of Information Technology, Vol. 32, No. 4, 2017, p. 344-360
Darmstadt : Technische Universität Darmstadt 2016, 125 p.
In: Journal of Management Information Systems, Vol. 33, No. 3, 2016, p. 843-873
In: ECIS 2016 Proceedings. ed. /Meltem Özturan; Matti Rossi; Daniel Veit. Atlanta, GA : Association for Information Systems. AIS Electronic Library (AISeL) 2016 (Proceedings of the European Conference on Information Systems)
In: Decision Support Systems, Vol. 90, 10.2016, p. 75-85
In: ECIS 2015 Proceedings. ed. /Jörg Becker; Jan vom Brocke; Marco De Marco. Atlanta, GA : Association for Information Systems. AIS Electronic Library (AISeL) 2015 (Proceedings of the European Conference on Information Systems)
In: Proceedings der 12. Internationalen Tagung Wirtschaftsinformatik (WI 2015). ed. /Oliver Thomas; Frank Teuteberg. Atlanta, GA : Association for Information Systems. AIS Electronic Library (AISeL) 2015, p. 2137-1251
In: ECIS 2015 Proceedings. ed. /Jörg Becker; Jan vom Brocke; Marco De Marco. Atlanta, GA : Association for Information Systems. AIS Electronic Library (AISeL) 2015 (Proceedings of the European Conference on Information Systems)
In: Proceedings of the Thirty Sixth International Conference on Information Systems. ICIS 2015: Exploring the Information Frontier. . ed. /Traci Carte; Armin Heinzl; Cathy Urquhart. Atlanta, GA : Association for Information Systems. AIS Electronic Library (AISeL) 2015 (Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems)
In: ECIS 2014 Proceedings. ed. /Michel Avital; Jan Marco Leimeister; Ulrike Schultze. Atlanta, GA : Association for Information Systems. AIS Electronic Library (AISeL) The 22nd European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS) 2014, 2014 (Proceedings of the European Conference on Information Systems)
In: Proceedings of the 35th International Conference on Information Systems. ICIS 2014: Social Media and Digital Collaborations. . ed. /Elena Karahanna; Ananth Srinivasan; Bernard Tan. Atlanta, GA : Association for Information Systems. AIS Electronic Library (AISeL) The 35th International Conference on Information Systems. ICIS 2014, 2014 (Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems)
2018-2021:
- Strit, www.strit.de: Consulting clients in the area of digitalization and develop software (own company)