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

• 2021 - Present : Associate Professor (ESSEC Business School, France)
• 2019 - 2021 : 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

• HURNI, T., HUBER, T. and DIBBERN, J. (2022). Power dynamics in software platform ecosystems. Information Systems Journal, 32(2), pp. 310-343.
• HURNI, T., HUBER, T., JENS, D. and KRANCHER, O. (2021). Complementor Dedication in Platform Ecosystems: Rule Adequacy and the Moderating Role of Flexible and Benevolent Practices. European Journal of Information Systems, 30(3), pp. 237-260.
• 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(11), pp. 270-294.
• 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). A Process Model of Complementarity and Substitution of Contractual and Relational Governance in IS Outsourcing. Journal of Management Information Systems, 30(3), pp. 81-114.

• HUBER, T. (2013). Dynamics of Governance and Control in Inter-Organizational Software Development. Bern: University of Bern.

• 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.

• KUDE, T. and HUBER, T. (2019). How to Successfully Govern Software Platform Ecosystems. ESSEC Knowledge.