Smart BIS Research Seminars

With their team members, they organise 1 to 2 hours research seminars.

• 25/09/2025 – Joint SMART BIS/LITEM seminar with RITM Lab – Université Paris-Saclay, featuring Prof. Petros Chamiokotis, ESCP Business School (France).

We are pleased to announce our next joint seminar with RITM. We will have the pleasure of welcoming Pedros Chamaktiotis, Professor of Management at ESCP Business School (Madrid Campus), who will give a talk entitled: “How digital technologies influence work-life boundary management.”

Petros Chamakiotis, PhD, is (Full) Professor of Technology Management in the Department of Management at ESCP Business School (Madrid Campus), where he is also the Scientific Director of the MSc in Digital Project Management & Consulting (2020–present) and the elected European Faculty Advisory Committee (EFAC) Representative for the Madrid Campus. He is also an Associate Fellow at the Digital Futures at Work Research Centre in the UK; and an Associate/Senior Editor for the Information Systems Journal, the Information Systems Practice Journal, and the Australasian Journal of Information Systems.

Petros is known for his work on Information Systems (IS)-mediated environments (e.g. GenAI, hybrid work, online communities, virtual teams) and the topics of leadership and creativity within this context. He is also interested in the wider societal impacts of IS and specifically in how IS use/adoption can create value in the Global South and the contexts of forced migration and natural disasters. He has helped to generate over GBP 8m in research income from prestigious British funders and, to date, he has published nearly 100 papers in leading academic journals, edited collections, and international conference proceedings. Further, he has edited three Special Issues as Guest Editor, he has published teaching cases, and he writes regularly for the international professional/popular press.

Finally, Petros is an active member of the international IS research community and he has undertaken leadership roles such as that of Chair of the IFIP Working Group 9.5 on ‘Our Digital Lives’. He has acted as an External Examiner (EE) for postgraduate programmes and for PhD defences (viva examinations) and as Mentor at Doctoral Consortia. And he has sat on both sides of accreditation boards and panels, more recently with the team that led to the renewal of ESCP Business School’s AACSB accreditation.

• 23/05/2025 – Editorial Session with Prof. Monideepa Tarafdar, University of Massachusetts Amherst (USA).

We are honored to have Professor Monideepa Tarafdar as our guest speaker for our next SMARTBIS/LITEM seminar scheduled on the 23rd of May 2024. Professor Tarafdar’s visit to IMTBS is funded by the Institut Carnot TSN www.lereseaudescarnot.fr/en/carnot- institute/telecom-societe-numerique. During the seminar, Professor Tarafdar will be providing an editorial talk. Please RSVP to Anuragini Shirish at anuragini.shirish@imt-bs.euby 21 May 2025.

About Monideepa Tarafdar:

Monideepa Tarafdar is Charles J. Dockendorff Endowed Professor at Isenberg School of Management, University of Massachusetts Amherst and the Editor-in-Chief of Journal of the AIS. Her current research focuses on algorithmic bias, platform and gig work, human-LLM collaboration, and affective and cognitive responses to technology. Her work has been published in journals such as Science, PNAS Nexus, Information Systems Research, Journal of MIS, Journal of the AIS, Journal of Operations Management, Harvard Business Review and MIT Sloan Management Review. She is a recipient of best paper awards from the Decision Sciences Institute, INFORMS and the AIS, and has been awarded the title of Fellow of the AIS. She is listed among the top 2% cited faculty in the world in the 2023 Stanford scientist citations rankings list. She has held appointments as Visiting Scholar / Professor at MIT Sloan School, the London School of Economics, IIM Calcutta, and Weizenbaum Internet Institute, Berlin. Her research has been featured in among others, Boston Globe, BBC World News, Chronicle of Higher Education, Economist, Guardian, Hindustan Times, MIT Technology Review, Reuters and Wired.

• 26/03/2025 – Research talk by Prof. Marina Debić, University of Zagreb (Croatia).

We are honoured to have Professor Marina Dabić as our guest speaker for our next SMART BIS/LITEM seminar on the 26th of March 2025. Professor Dabić will talk on “Digitalization and Business Model Transformation” during the seminar.

Abstract :

The distinctions between digitization, digitalization, and digital transformation remain still open for understanding of how digital technologies reshape industries and redefine business models. By understanding these complexities, we can better appreciate the impact of digitalization on our industries and businesses. Digitalization is not just about converting analogue data into digital formats (digitization) or implementing technology-driven organizational changes (digital transformation). It represents a broader sociotechnical shift that reconfigures markets, erodes traditional barriers to entry, and enables platform-based, asset-light business models. However, this transition is complex and with strong regulatory frameworks, organizational inertia, and structural constraints often slow or distort digital adoption. It’s crucial to understand that the impact of digitalization depends not only on technological advancement but on how firms, institutions, and industries adapt to and shape these changes.

This lecture critically examines the pivotal role of digitalization in driving business model innovation, posing key questions: How do incumbent firms navigate the shift toward digital models? What determines who thrives and who fails in this transition? What are characteristic of the digitalization paradox? What are options for innovation, resistance, and the future of competitive advantage. This lecture will emphasize the urgent need for managerial and institutional adaptation in navigating the tensions between innovation and resistance, disruption and consolidation, arguing that digitalization is as much a managerial and institutional challenge as it is a technological one.

Speaker Biography:

Professor Marina Dabić is a professor at the Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Zagreb, the University of Dubrovnik and the School of Business and Economics at the University of Ljubljana. From 2013 to 2022, she was a professor at Nottingham Trent University in the UK. She is a visiting professor at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa, and the ICN, France.

She has authored over 250 Scopus and WOS-indexed articles and edited ten books with Springer, Edward Elgar, Routledge, Palgrave and De Gruyter. She is Editor-in-Chief of Technology in Society, Associate Editor of Technological Forecasting & Social Change and Strategic Change, and Senior Department Editor for IEEE Transactions on Management. She is ranked in the top 2% of scholars in business and management (Stanford list 2022–2024). She publishes her work in top-tier journals, including the Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of World Business, Journal of Business Horizons, and Journal of Business Ethics. 90% of her publications were published in Q1 listed journals in WOS and/or Scopus. Prof. Dabić has supervised nine PhDs and participated in over 20 Ph.D.’s committees worldwide. She is a panel member for the European Research Council (ERC) and Horizon Europe, a reviewer for the European Science Foundation and a grantee/partner in 20 EC-funded projects. She is also the Strategic Director for Accreditation at the triple-accredited Faculty of Economics and Business University of Zagreb. She is an AACSB mentor and an EFMD reviewer, as per the review team.

Prof. Dabić is currently visiting Institut Mines-Telecom Business School as a visiting research scholar funded by Carnot TSN. 

• 23 /01/2025 – Research Talk by Prof. Alexander Benlian, Technical University of Darmstadt (Germany), on Experience Sampling in IS research.

We are honored to have Professor Alexander Benlian as our guest speaker for our next SMART BIS/LITEM Seminar scheduled for 23rd January 2025 from 12:30 pm-1:30 pm. His talk will be about "Leveraging Experience Sampling Methodology in Information Systems: Insights and Practical Lessons from Technostress, Agile Development, and Cybersecurity Studies". 

Abstract:

This presentation explores the Experience Sampling Methodology (ESM) as applied in three distinct areas of Information Systems research: technostress, agile software development, and cybersecurity. Prof. Benlian will discuss both the unique advantages and the inherent challenges of using ESM across these cases, sharing best practices and personal insights gained throughout the research lifecycle. The talk concludes with a look at emerging research opportunities in IS that ESM could help address, highlighting its potential for nuanced data collection in dynamic environments.

About Prof. Alexander Benlian:

Alexander Benlian is a Professor of Information Systems, especially Electronic Services, at the Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany. His research focuses on the digital transformation of work and people, IT entrepreneurship, algorithmic management in organizational and platform environments, and human-computer interaction. His research has been published in MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, Journal of Management Information Systems, Entrepreneurship Theory G Practice, and Journal of Business Venturing, among others. He serves as Senior Editor at European Journal of Information Systems, as Department Editor at Business G Information Systems Engineering, and as Associate Editor at Information Systems Research.

• 03/12/ 2024 – Research Talk by Prof. Michel Carter, University of Manchester (UK), on IT identity and responses to IT change.

We are honored to have Professor Michelle Carter as our guest speaker for our next SMART BIS/LITEM seminar scheduled on the 3rd of December 2024. She is also a coming is as a visiting faculty funded by TSN Carnot. 

During the seminar, Professor Carter will give a talk on “When Identities Dwell: How Forgone IT Identity Shapes Responses to IT Change.”

Bio of the speaker:

Michelle Carter is a Professor of Information Systems in the Alliance Manchester Business School’s Division of Management Sciences and Marketing at the University of Manchester. Michelle earned her PhD in Management (Information Systems) from Clemson University, SC. Her research focuses on information technologies’ involvement in identity and social change, factors that shape IT usage behaviors, and information systems management. Michelle's work has appeared in MIS Quarterly, the European Journal of Information Systems, the Journal of the Association for Information Systems, and the Journal of Information Technology, as well as other journals, books, and conference proceedings.

Michelle is co-Editor-in-Chief of AIS Transactions on Replication Research. She serves as a senior editor for the European Journal of Information Systems and an associate editor for MIS Quarterly. Michelle is a Distinguished Member – Cum Laude of the AIS. She is a past president of the Association for Information Systems (AIS) Special Interest Group on Social Inclusion and previously chaired the AIS committee on diversity and inclusion. In 2021, she was elected to serve on the AIS Council as Vice President for Special Interest Groups and Colleges.

• 29/02/2024 : Smart BIS/LITEM seminar editorial talk, 12:00am -1:00pm

We are honored to have Professor Sundeep Sahay as our guest speaker for our next SMART BIS/LITEM seminar scheduled on the 29thof February 2024. During this seminar, Professor Sahay will be providing an editorial talk.

Please RSVP to Anuragini Shirishat anuragini.shirishping@imt-bspong.eu by 27thFebruary 2024.

About Sundeep Sahay:

He is interested in understanding the intersection between technology and global health, in the context of ongoing challenges of climate, antimicrobial resistance (AMR), environmental AMR and migration. As the world gets both connected and disconnected, implications on health are increasingly becoming complex and interconnected. He is particularly interested in understanding these relationships within the context of low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), with a key focus on India. A key focus is on enhancing the impacts of his research on policy and practice, developed within an action research framework. Theoretically, he draws upon and seeks to contribute to theories of social science and anthropological research methods. He is also an affiliate professor at the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Oslo, and the honorary visiting professor at the University of Sheffield, as well as the honorary president of the Society for Health Information Systems Programs (HISP India).

Current areas of research interest:

Understanding AMR throughthe lens ofhealthinequities. How can problems whichare socially and politically "invisible" be made more visible through the introduction of digitally mediated practices and institutions. How do forces of structural and slow violence impede policy and practice-based interventions in the domain of AMR. Critically examining the promise of digital personal data for improving healthcare in LMICs: Myth and reality. Implications of digital personal data for maternal and child healthcare on human and gender rights.

He is currently the senior editor of Informations Systems Research journal (ISR)

Location : Hybrid: IMT-BS(room F026 ), online at: https://webconf.imt.fr/frontend/ced-2bc-kxr-xlm

• 17/01/2024 : IMT Data & AI - IMT BS SMART BIS, 1pm -2:15 pm

IMT Data & AI - IMT BSSMART BIS/LITEM ResearchTeam is happy to welcome Associate Professor Rohit Nishant to speak at the seminar scheduled for the 17thof January 2024. During this seminar, Associate Professor Nishant will discusshispaper titled ‘Who is Really inCharge- The Control Issue and Its Role in AI Failure.‘

Please RSVP to Anuragini Shirishat anuragini.shirishping@imtbspong.eu and Ka Ho Yim at ka.yimping@imtpong.fr before 15thJanuary.

Abstract:

Our research delves into the reasons why AI frequently and severely fails to solve organizational problems. We contend that these failures are often caused by misconceptions about the capabilities of AI held by humans. This leads to a “control problem” during a crisis, where neither humans nor AI is in control, resulting in AI failure. To examine human-machine interactions in problemsolving processes, we employ a combination of topic modeling, textual analytics, and agent-based modeling. Our study identifies fallacies and underlying causes that contribute to AI failure, and we develop a framework that utilizes agent-based modeling to propose design principles for more effectiveuse of AI.

Keywords: AI, failure, control problem, textual analytics, agent-based modeling

Speaker Bio:

Rohit Nishant is an Associate Professor in the Department of MIS at FSA Ulaval and axis lead for emerging technology theme at the Information Technology and Business Research Center (CeRTIA). His research interests include AI and Green IS. He has published in top academic journals, including MIS Quarterly, Research Policy, Journal of the Association for Information Systems, European Journal of Information Systems, Journal of Strategic Information Systems, Journal of Information Technology, and Information Systems Journal, and practitioner journals, including MIS Quarterly Executive. He currently serves as an AE at EJIS and I&M. He is a special issue editor for DSSand JSIS.

Location: on-line

• 28/11/2023 : Smart BIS/LITEM Research Seminar, 11:30am - 1pm

We are honored to have guest speakers Yingqin Zheng and Priyanka Pandey as the speakers for our next SMART BIS/LITEM Seminar scheduled for 28th November 2023. They will present their paper on "Technologies of Power and Digital Inclusion", followed by a short editorial talk.

Kindly RSVP to Anuragini Shirish before the 24th of November to this e-mail address: anuragini.shirish@imt-bs.eu

Abstract:

This study moves beyond the conventional focus on technology access, adoption, and participation in communities, and instead presents a perspective on digital inclusion as a complex process of both empowerment and subjugation. Drawing on Foucault’s theorization on subjectivity and power, our case study of community health workers in rural India reveals that the adoption of a mHealth application simultaneously subordinated and strengthened the subjectivity of the community health workers. The study explicates the process through which the health workers oscillated between the enhancement of their individual efficacy, and their submission to institutionalized power as facilitated by the mHealth application during their everyday work practices. Thus, by shifting the focus from “who” is digitally included to “how” they become digitally included, our research provides a fresh perspective that enriches and deepens the discourse of digital inclusion. It generates both theoretical and practical implications for anyone interested in understanding digital inclusion from a more granulated and practice-based perspective.

 About Yingqin Zheng

Yingqin Zheng is currently a Reader (Associate Professor) at Essex Business School. Her research interests lie in the social and ethical implications of digital transformation, with a particular focus on digital inclusion and digital justice. She was a co-founder of the Digital Organisation and Society Research Centre at Royal Holloway University of London and serves as a senior editor at Information Systems Journal.

About Priyanka Pandey

Priyanka Pandey is currently a Lecturer in Public Services and Technology at King’s Business School. Her research investigates the role digital artefacts and platforms play in everyday practices, with a particular emphasis on structures, cultures, institutional mechanisms, and power processes. She is interested in deconstructing the relationship between technology and social and organisational change, within the public sector, and Global South context.

Location: on-line 

• 14/04/2023 : Smart BIS/LITEM Meet the Editors Session

We are extremely delighted and honoured to welcome Prof. Suprateek Sarker as our guest speaker to our forthcoming SMART BIS/LITEM meet the editors seminar. See details attached.

Prof. Sarker, is Rolls-Royce Commonwealth Eminent Professor of Commerce, McIntire School of Commerce, University of Virginia, President of Association for Information Systems (AIS),  Incoming Editor-in-Chief, Information Systems Research (INFORMS).

His Detailed Bio is available at https://www.commerce.virginia.edu/faculty/ss6wf

Event Date and Time: 14 April 2023, 10.am-11.30am

Venue: Espace Vinci, 25 rue des Jeûneurs 75002 Paris.

Contact details: 01 42 46 79 77

Access Info: Métros L8 et L9 Grands Boulevards, L3 Sentier ou Bourse10 min from Saint-Lazare, Gare de l’Est25 min from Gare Montparnasse et Gare de Lyon

RSVP: We would like to know the number of participants not later than 13th April for better organisation. Please confirm your interest to Anuragini Shirish, anuragini.shirishping@imt-bspong.eu

•  20/04/2023: Smart BIS/LITEM Seminar: Academic Writing Center Workshop

Date: 20th April 2023, 11:30pm -1:30pm
Venue: IMT-BS - F018 (F building) or hybrid: https://webconf.imt.fr/frontend/ced-2bc-kxr-xlm. 
The Academic Writing Center (AWC) will conduct a workshop where they will organize writing exercises,
collective brainstorming, and a Q&A session.
The program outline is as follows:

•  20 minutes : Introduction of the Academic Writing Center – CentraleSupélec
• 45 minutes : Writing Exercise
• 40 minutes : Collective brainstorming for future workshop requirements
• 15 minutes : Q & A

We hope to see you all there!
Kindly RSVP to anuragini.shirish@imt-bs.eu if you intend to join the event, before 17th April 2023.

• 22nd of  February 2023

We are extremely honored to begin our SMART BIS/LITEM seminar this year with a 'Meet the Editors' session presided by an extremely accomplished scholar Dr. Michael Myers, the Current Editor-in-Chief of the European Journal of Information Systems also called as 'EJIS' (https://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?show=aimsScope&journalCode=tjis20) from the University of Auckland. This session is scheduled for the 22nd of  February 2023 and will be on: "Publishing in EJIS and the AIS Basket of 8"

The session will take place online, please join via this MS teams: linkTime: 9am-10am (Paris)

Michael D Myers is Professor of Information Systems at the University of Auckland Business School, New Zealand. His research interests are in the areas of digital transformation, the social, organizational and cultural aspects of digital technologies, and qualitative research methods in information systems. He won the Best Paper Award in the Journal of Strategic Information Systems in 2019 (with Simon Chanias and Thomas Hess) for a paper titled “Digital transformation strategy making in pre-digital organizations: The case of a financial services provider.” He also won the Best Paper award (with Heinz Klein) in MIS Quarterly in 1999. Michael served as President of the Association for Information Systems (AIS) in 2006-2007 and as Chair of International Federation of Information Processing (IFIP) Working Group 8.2 from 2006-2008. He also served as a Senior Editor of MIS Quarterly from 2001-2005 and as a Senior Editor of Information Systems Research from 2008-2010. He currently serves as Editor-in-Chief of European Journal of Information Systems. Michael is a Fellow and LEO award winner of AIS and received an honorary doctorate from Aalto University, Finland, in 2022.

Feel free to send this invitation to your collaborators but kindly ask them to RSVP to Anuragini Shirish (anuragini.shirish@imt-bs.eu)  before the event to ensure we can update them of any changes to this event.

• 2nd December 2022

 We are honoured to have Professor Stéphanie Missonier from HEC Lausanne, University of Lausanne present her work along with Professor Aurélie Dudézert in our next SMART BIS/LITEM Seminar. They will be presenting their research in progress paper. 

 "The study of the Sustainable Development of IS Management: A paradoxical dialogical avatar"

The seminar will be at IS Lab, Room-H418, Etoile Building, IMT BS, Evry, Time: 10am till 11am

Below you will find the abstract of the paper and here the brochure of the event for more information. 

Abstract:
The study of sustainable development and IS management is a (hot) topic of current interest. It is increasingly crystallizing in the scientific and public arena around the notion of “digital sobriety” in particular. This phenomenon is structured by contradictory tensions which the world is seizing upon, each one expressing and reinterpreting it in its own way and according to its own prism. As a key topic for MIS research, the objective of our research is to identify how to study such a phenomenon defined as a 'wicked' problem. In this presentation, we will show how the study of sustainable development and MIS is a wicked problem and the paradoxical tensions that make it up. We will propose the prerequisites and avenues for scientifically studying this phenomenon and for further research.

• 21 October 2022

Dr. Silvia Masiero, Associate professor of Information Systems at the Department of Informatics, University of Oslo, join us as a guest speaker for the LITEM/SMART BIS Research seminar on the 21st of October.

The seminar will take place online from 10:30am to 12pm CET and can be accessed with this link: https://webconf.imt.fr/frontend/anu-pda-jo7-qfu

Silvia Masiero will be discussing her paper on "Decolonising Critical Information Systems Research: A Subaltern Approach".

About the seminar: Theories used in the Information Systems (IS) field come in large majority from authors based in Western countries, a bias that holds for critical theories as well. Such a bias is made more problematic by the mandate of critical theory, which is meant exactly to illuminate the oppressive conditions of the status quo. Against this backdrop, this paper explores the subalternity theory approach – developed by the Subaltern Studies collective from the early 1980s – as an indigenous theory that, proposing a socially and geographically connotated narration of “history from below”, can play a major role in the effort to decolonise critical IS research. By positioning subaltern theory in the IS field, the paper offers an alternative to the Western hegemony of critical theories, exploring the potential of such an alternative to voice systematically silenced and marginalised perspectives.

Kindly RSVP if you are able to make it for this session at anuragini.shirishping@imt-bspong.eu

More information: https://partage.imt.fr/index.php/s/JdJCZjKm4YkySEr