The research cooperation with the Institute of Information Systems – Information Engineering does not stop at China.
After South Korea and the USA, now also China. Our joint research project continues to develop successfully with international input. The focus of our research is on economic decision-making and is therefore a global topic.
The distance is unimportant. The first step counts.
Since TD Trusted Decisions was founded, the company has been conducting joint research with the Institute of Information Systems – Information Engineering at the Johannes Kepler University Linz (JKU) on TD’s core topic – entrepreneurial decision-making. The focus here is on IT support for both variants of the human decision, the intuitive and the rational. And especially on the combination of the two “modes”.
The first prototype to support managers in the decision-making process was presented in Seoul, South Korea, in 2017. The scientific community at the “Workshop for Information Technology and Systems”, WITS for short, was impressed. The prototype was further developed with interesting input from researchers. Together with the results from two surveys of decision-makers (qualitative and quantitative), we then presented our findings at the AMCIS, “Americas Conference on Information Systems”, in 2018.
PACIS 2019 – Information exchange in the Pacific-Asia region
The prototype is now being further developed in the direction of combining the decision modes (intuitive and rational). To this end, we took the opportunity to discuss the current state of research and the planning of future research with a high-caliber audience in Xi’an, China. Last month, we presented our research findings at the PACIS, “Pacific Asian Conference on Information Systems”. Armed with international and intercultural feedback, we are now working on two new funding applications for further financing of the research cooperation.
Xi’an
Xi’an, the capital of Shaanxi province, is a vibrant city and economic metropolis with around eight million inhabitants and the starting point for a visit to one of the greatest archaeological finds of the 20th century – the Terracotta Army. Despite the lively discussions during the conference, we were able to take a half-day off to make a detour to the UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Philipp Wicke | Managing Director (TD) & Dr. David Rückel | Lecturer (JKU)
