madigi
Department of Digitalization
Design and innovation are the leitmotifs in my work that focuses on examining the crossroads of information, technology, and people. My research combines both soft and hard methods to advance theory and knowledge about how digital technologies are developed, applied, managed and consumed in the context of human organizations. I am particularly interested in research of enduring consequences and value partnerships with business organizations, grassroots communities, and policymakers.
- Blockchain Technology
- Distributed Organization and Business Models
- Generative Design and Innovation Practices
- Digital Entrepreneurship
- Organizations and Organizing in a Digital World
- Positive Organizational Scholarship and Appreciative Inquiry
PhD Program Coordinator
- Future Tech for Business
- Blockchain Business Development
- Blockchain for Digital Transformation in Practice
- Blockchain Summer School
- Perspectives on Blockchain (PhD Seminar)
- Blockchain in Business and Society
- Digital Entrepreneurship
- Designing Innovation in Practice
- Digital Services Innovation
- Evidence-Based Management
- IS & Change Management
- Digital Organization
- Research Methods for Digital Business
- Advances in Digital Technology Management Seminar (PhD Seminar)
- Quantitative Research Methods Seminar (PhD Seminar)
- Qualitative Research Methods Seminar (PhD Seminar)
==> Blockchain related PhD: Looking for prospective doctorate students who are interested in pursuing research on blockchain technology, especially in the context of decentralized platforms and distributed organizations.
Ph.D. and Master thesis projects that relate to my research interest would be considered favorably. Creative out-of-the-box thinkers are welcome with ANY research idea.
Blockchain Business Development workshops
Office hours: After class or by appointment
We are on a mission to help students succeed.
Avital. M. (2024). “Digital Transformation of Academic Publishing: A Call for Decentralization and Democratization of Academic Journals,” Journal of the Association for Information Systems. 25(1), 172-181. 
Gol, E.S, Avital, M. and Stein, M.K. (2023). “Crowdworking: Nurturing Expert-Centric Absorptive Capacity,” Information Systems Research.
Avital, M., Chatterjee, S., and Furtak, S. (2023) "Sensing the Future: A Design Framework for Context-Aware Predictive Systems," Journal of the Association for Information Systems. 24(4), 1031-1051.
Avital, M., Jensen, T. B., and Dyrby, S. (2023). "The Social Fabric Framework: Steps to Eliciting the Social Making of Organisations in the Digital Age," European Journal of Information Systems.
Jetzek, T., Avital, M. and Bjorn-Andersen, N. (2019) “The Sustainable Value of Open Government Data,” Journal of the Association for Information Systems
Gol, E.S., Stein, M.K, and Avital, M. (2019) “Crowdwork Platform Governance toward Organizational Value Creation,” Journal of Strategic Information Systems
=Selected papers pre-2012:
Schultze, U. and Avital, M. (2011). Designing Interviews to Generate Rich Data for Information Systems Research, Information and Organization, 21(1), 1-16.
Avital, M. and Singh, B. (2011). Collaboration Trumps Competition in High-Tech Project Teams, Int. J. Organisational Design and Engineering
Thatchenkery, T. Cooperrider, D. and Avital, M. (Eds.) (2010). Positive Design and Appreciative Construction: From Sustainable Development to Sustainable Value, Advances in Appreciative Inquiry, Volume 3, Emerald Publishing, Bingley, UK.
Avital, M. and Te'eni, D. (2009). From Generative Fit to Generative Capacity: Exploring an Emerging Dimension of Information Systems Design and Task Performance, Information Systems Journal, 4(19), 345-367.
Avital, M., Boland, R.J. and Lyytinen, K. (2009). Introduction to Designing Information and Organizations with a Positive Lens, Information and Organization, 19(3), 153-161.
Avital, M. and Germonprez, M. (2004) "Reflections on Paragrammatic Uses of Organizational Theory," Organization Studies, 25 (6), pp. 1045-1048.
Cooperrider, D. and Avital, M. (Eds.) (2004) Constructive Discourse and Human Organization, Advances in Appreciative Inquiry, Volume 1, Elsevier Science, Oxford, UK.
Avital, M. (2002) "Reflections of Time in Lived Experience," Journal of Management Inquiry, 11 (1), pp. 25-27.
Avital, M. (2000) "Dealing with Time in Social Inquiry: A Tension between Method and Lived Experience," Organization Science, 11 (6), pp. 665-673.
Avital, M. and Vandenbosch, B. (2000) "SAP Implementation at Metalica: An Organizational Drama," Journal of Information Technology, 15 (3), pp. 183-194.
Paper presented at DBOSI 2024: The 6th Nordic Workshop on Digital Foundations of Business, Operations, Strategy, and Innovation, 2024
In: Journal of the Association for Information Systems, Vol. 25, No. 1, 2024, 10 p., p. 172-181
In: Information Systems Research, 29.11.2023
In: Proceedings of the 31st European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS)Atlanta, GA : Association for Information Systems. AIS Electronic Library (AISeL) 2023 (Proceedings of the European Conference on Information Systems)
In: Proceedings of the 31st European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS)Atlanta, GA : Association for Information Systems. AIS Electronic Library (AISeL) 2023 (Proceedings of the European Conference on Information Systems)
In: Journal of Information Technology, Vol. 38, No. 1, 3.2023, p. 67-73
In: Journal of the Association for Information Systems, Vol. 24, No. 4, 2023, p. 1031-1051
In: Proceedings of the 44th International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS): Rising like a Phoenix: Emerging from the Pandemic and Reshaping Human Endeavors with Digital Technologies. Atlanta, GA : Association for Information Systems. AIS Electronic Library (AISeL) 2023 (Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems)
In: Communications of the Association for Information Systems, Vol. 53, No. 1, 2023, p. 938-949
In: European Journal of Information Systems, Vol. 32, No. 2, 4.2023, p. 127-153