Wave after wave of novel technologies—ranging from traditional information technologies and digital infrastructures to data-intensive systems and artificial intelligence—are continually enabling new products, services, processes, and modes of organizing. Innovations grounded in enterprise IT, mobile and distributed computing, platforms, analytics, generative AI, blockchain, Internet of Things, cloud computing, extended reality, and robotics are reshaping how value is created, captured, and governed across organizational and societal domains. At the same time, these technologies increasingly shape environmental footprints, labor relations, data governance, and social inclusion/ exclusion, highlighting their dual potential to advance sustainability and equity or to intensify resource consumption, surveillance, and inequality. Importantly, innovation and entrepreneurship increasingly differ not only by technological approach (e.g., IT-enabled, digitally enabled, data-driven, or AI-augmented), but also by value orientation and context. Corporate innovation, new venture creation, and platform entrepreneurship coexist with social innovation, public sector innovation, and community-based forms of entrepreneurship aimed at empowerment, inclusion, and socio-environmental sustainability. Digital and AI-enabled social innovation and social entrepreneurship, for example, illustrate how accessible technologies and emerging AI capabilities can support new forms of service delivery, coordination, and problem-solving—particularly in marginalized or resource-constrained or climate vulnerable settings. At the same time, the rapid diffusion of AI and platform-based business models raises critical challenges related to algorithmic opacity, bias, accountability, labor precarity, environmental costs of computation, and uneven access that demand careful scholarly attention.

Track Chairs
Israr Qureshi, Queen’s University Belfast
Kathryn Brohman, Queen’s University
Prasanna P. Karhade

Schedule
2026
Monday, December 14th
12:00 AM

AI Policy and the Reweighting of Sentiment: Evidence from Crowdfunding

Dhruven Zala, SP Jain Institute of Management and Research
Deep Prakash Chellapilla, S.P. Jain Institute of Management & Research

12:00 AM

AI Workforce Architecture and Digital Innovation: Complementarity, Governance, and the Value of Balance

Christian Schumacher, Vienna University of Economics and Business
Can Tihanyi, Vienna University of Economics and Business

12:00 AM

AlphaFold Shock: Innovation Reallocation in Structural-Biology Firms

Xia Wu, City University of Hong Kong
Angela Lu, Monash University

12:00 AM

CIO as Bricoleur: Fostering Organizational Agility Through IT Bricolage

Hamed Safari, Baylor University
Daniel Chen, Baylor University
Yanlin Zhang, Guangdong University of Technology

12:00 AM

CIO Career Variety and Generative AI Innovation: A U-Shaped Perspective in the Upper Echelons of the Firm

Konstanze Kottmann, University of Münster
Thomas Schäper, University of Muenster
David Bendig, University of Muenster

12:00 AM

Closed No More: How DeepSeek-R1 Reshaped the Productivity, Direction, and Openness of AI Innovation

Wanfang Hou, National University of Singapore
Zhewen Liang, Nanjing University
Lele Kang, Nanjing University

12:00 AM

Cloud Around Me: How National Cloud Ecosystems Shape Software Developer Cloud Platform Use and AI Tool Use

Wei Dai, University of Georgia
Carolina Salge, University of Georgia
Mariana Andrade, The University of Georgia
Terence Saldanha, U. of Georgia

12:00 AM

Exploring the Roles of Non-Commercial Organizations in Open and Coopetitive Ecosystems: The Case of TensorFlow

Jose Teixeira, Aalto University
Syed Sabbir Sabbir Ahmed, University of Jyväskylä
Natalia Vuori, Aalto University

12:00 AM

Individuals’ Minds as an Empirical Site in Digital Innovation Research

Sumin Kim-Andres, Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf
Nina Luise Grigoriou, Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf
Steffi Haag, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Khalid Durani, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf

12:00 AM

Innovations Under Fire: Strategic Responses to Patent Trolls in Digital Ecosystems

Cheuk Hang Au, Edith Cowan University
Md Nazmul Hossain, Edith Cowan University
Chih-Yuan Chou, College of Commerce, National Chengchi University

12:00 AM

Layered Temporality in Digital Service Innovation

Jenny Elo, Tampere University
Henri Jalo, Tampere University
Osku Torro, Tampere University
Henri Pirkkalainen, Tampere University

12:00 AM

Leveraging Intrinsically Interpretable Machine Learning for Startup Success Prediction

Sandra Zilker, Technische Hochschule Nürnberg Georg Simon Ohm
Martin Käppel, Friedrich - Alexander - University Erlangen - Nuremberg
Hanna Jobst, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Sven Weinzierl, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg

12:00 AM

Platforms that Build Entrepreneurs: Generative Market Infrastructure in Rural Africa

Ezequiel Reficco, ESCP
Francisco Layrisse, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität
Carla Bonina, Surrey Business School

12:00 AM

Productive Noise: Theorizing GenAI Hallucinations and Serendipitous Innovation

Milad Saeedi, Western University
Robert D. Austin, Ivey Business School
Ning Su, Ivey Business School, Western University

12:00 AM

Reconfiguring Information Ecosystems: Referential, Curational, and Generative Intermediation

Antti K. Lyyra, Loughborough University
Roser Pujadas, University College London

12:00 AM

The Artificial Intelligence Innovation Wager: How Organizations Integrate Artificial Intelligence into Product Innovation Processes

Christoph Rosenkranz, University of Cologne
Christian Schwens, University of Cologne
Julian Lehmann, Arizona State University
Mei Wu-Gehbauer, University of Cologne
Julia Campmann, University of Cologne | Cologne Institute for Information Systems

12:00 AM

The Relative Effectiveness of Opportunity Framing Under Layered Uncertainty in B2B Platform Marketplaces

Bingqing Xiong, Deakin University
Chaofan Yang, Xi'an Jiaotong University
Reza Kachaouie, Deakin University
Yanping Guo, Xi’an University of Architecture and Technology
Rajeev Sharma, Deakin University

12:00 AM