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Welcome to my website. My name is Jochem Hummel and I am an Assistant Professor in the Information Systems and Management group at Warwick Business School in the United Kingdom. Here you will find information on my life, my research, my publications, and my teaching past and present.
Overview
My research focuses on understanding the organizing mechanisms and processes used by organizations in complex interorganziational collaborations to pursue broad goals related to digital innovation. My first priority lies with doing highly rigorous, qualitative, empirical research. For example, my dissertation research concerns a longitudinal study of a collaboration between “big science” and “big business: called Helix Nebula, where I analyze how large scientific institutes (CERN, EMBL, ESA) collaborate with commercial cloud computing organizations (Atos, T-Systems), and public infrastructure providers (EGI, GEANT), to develop a European scientific cloud computing infrastructure.
I am a passionate qualitative researcher (case study and ethnographic methods). I typically do process research, and through my interest in micro-level dynamics I also have knowledge of practice theory. Driven by my determination for methodological rigor I have adopted digital methods for qualitative data as a complementary analysis technique.
- 2020
- Visiting scholar Miami Herbert Business School – invited by Prof. Ola Henfridsson
- Cambridge Science Festival, presentation with Lauren Waardenburg on 10 March 2020
- Papers under review and Organization Science, MIS Quarterly (MISQ), JAIS, MISQ E
Senior tutor for first year International Management and Foundation year students at Warwick Business School
- 2019
- Succesfully defended PhD dissertation ‘Collaboration and innovation between heterogeneous actors’ at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
- Award for outstanding contribution to teaching at Warwick Business School
- Award for outstanding contribution to pastroral care at Warwick Business School
Working on paper with Prof. Ola Henfridsson
- 2018
- Joined Warwick Business School as Assistant Professor in the Information Systems Management Group
Reveived of the 2018 EGOS Max Boisot Award for outstanding papers by early career scholars contributing to knowledge-based studies of complex organizations (link)
- 2017
- Visiting PhD at the Cambridge Judge Business School, invited by Prof. Shaz Ansari
- Awarded the ABCD Reviewing Award – two years in a row – of the OMT division (AOM)
Awarded TIM division Reviewing Award
- 2016
Awarded the ABCD Reviewing Award of the OMT division (AOM)
Research Interests
Theory
complex interorganizational collaboration, generativity, development of artificial intelligence systems, science and technology studies, organizational pluralism, organizational resourcing, framing, new ways of organizing, open innovation
Phenomena
Digital innovation, big science, science-business collaborations, platforms and ecosystems
Methods
Qualitative methods (case study and ethnographic methods), digital methods for qualitative data (topic modelling, text analysis, sequence analysis, cluster analysis)
Teaching Interests
technology and innovation, digital innovation, qualitative research methods, digital methods for qualitative data, strategic management, open and user innovation, knowledge management, business research methods, new ways of organizing
Sample of lecture on modularity
