HUBER Thomas

I am passionate about the managerial and societal oportunities and challenges related to modern information technology. I am particularly interested in understanding dynamics over time. Therefore, many of my projects take a process-theoretic stance. I explore my interest in IT-related change processes in three broad research areas: 

• Managing Digital Transformation Processes: Platform Ecosystems / Management of Large-Scale System Implementation Projects / Management of AI projects
• Governnace Dynamics in Software Development: Dynamics of Contracts & Controls / Managing Pardoxes & Contradictions
• Digital collaboration: Prototype Use / Distributed Agile Software Development

• 2013 : Certificate of Advanced Studies in Higher Education (Universität Bern, Switzerland)
• 2013 : PhD in Information Systems (Universität Bern, Switzerland)
• 2009 : Diploma (combined Bachelor's and Master's degree) in Business Administration (University of Mannheim, Germany)

Full-time academic appointments

• 2019 - Present : Assistant Professor (ESSEC Business School, France)

Other Academic Appointments

• 2013 - 2018 : Senior Researcher ("Oberassistent") (Universität Bern, Switzerland)
• 2015 : Visiting Scholar (Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business, United States of America)
• 2010 - 2013 : Research Assistant and Ph.D. Student (Universität Bern, Switzerland)
• 2012 : Visiting Scholar (Case Western Reserve University. Weatherhead School of Management, United States of America)

• 2020 : White Project , ESSEC Foundation

• 2020 : Best Associate Editor, ICIS 2020 (Track: Societal Impact of IS)
• 2020 : Best Reviewer Award AMCIS 2020
• 2019 : Best Reviewer Award AMCIS 2019

• HUBER, T., WINKER, M., DIBBERN, J. and BROWN, C. (2020). The use of prototypes to bridge knowledge boundaries in agile software development. Information Systems Journal, 30(2), pp. 270-294.
• HURNI, T., HUBER, T., DIBBERN, J. and KRANCHER, O. (2020). Complementor Dedication in Platform Ecosystems: Rule Adequacy and the Moderating Role of Flexible and Benevolent Practices. European Journal of Information Systems, In press.
• KUDE, T., HUBER, T. and DIBBERN, J. (2019). Successfully Governing Software Ecosystems: Competence Profiles of Partnership Managers. IEEE Software, 36(3), pp. 39-44.
• HUBER, T., KUDE, T. and DIBBERN, J. (2017). Governance Practices in Platform Ecosystems: Navigating Tensions Between Cocreated Value and Governance Costs. Information Systems Research, 28(3), pp. 563-584.
• HUBER, T.L., FISCHER, T., DIBBERN, J. and HIRSCHHEIM, R. (2013). Towards a Process View of Complementarity and Substitution of Contractual and Relational Governance in Information Systems Outsourcing. Journal of Management Information Systems, 30(3), pp. 81-114.

• HURNI, T., DIBBERN, J. and HUBER, T. (2020). Emerging Innovation Ecosystems: The Critical Role of Distributed Innovation Agency. In: Rudy Hirschheim, Armin Heinzl, Jens Dibbern eds. Information Systems Outsourcing. The Era of Digital Transformation. 1st ed. Springer, pp. 101-143.
• HUBER, T., DIBBERN, J. and FISCHER, T. (2020). How and Why Software Outsourcing Projects Drift—an Actor-Network-Theoretic Investigation of Control Processes. In: Rudy Hirschheim, Armin Heinzl, Jens Dibbern eds. Information Systems Outsourcing. The Era of Digital Transformation. 1st ed. Springer, pp. 277-312.

• HUBER, T., DIBBENR, J., FISHER, T. and KIRSH, L. (2019). How and Why Software Projects Drift: A Process View. In: 5th International Conference on the Outsourcing of Information Services (ICOIS) 2019.
• HUBER, T. and MALAURENT, J. (2019). Les engagements en matière de responsabilité sociale, sociétale et environnementale des entreprises françaises implantées en Afrique à travers leur rapport annuel d'activité. In: 37ème Université d'été de l'Audit Social.
• HUBER, T. and MALAURENT, J. (2019). Ethical Dilemmas in the Age of A.I: The Case of the Chinese Social Credit System. In: International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS 2019).