Archive: Research Projects

Determinants of Data Disclosure in Digital Workplaces

This research project investigates the determinants of data disclosure in the digital workplace. The goal is to develop a deep understanding of how various factors of digital work influence the willingness to disclose data.

Exploitative leadership in digital collaboration – resilience for employees, leaders and digital communication tools (ELDiCO)

The project analyzes the use of digital communication tools in leadership practice and investigates their potentially destructive effects. The aim is to identify key mechanisms and, building on this, to develop resilience-enhancing…

Prevalence and acceptance of home office in Germany

The bidt conducted several short surveys providing insights into the prevalence and practice of home office in Germany (in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic).

Learning from the ‘frontrunner’? A multidisciplinary analysis of the Chinese Social Credit System and its impact on Germany

The project investigates the opportunities and risks derived from China’s SCS-driven digital transformation.

Empowerment in tomorrow’s production: Rethinking mixed skill factories and collaborative robot systems

This project examines novel concepts for collaboration between humans and robots in factories.

Business models of data-driven start-ups and their positioning along the value chain

This bidt-funded project shows how established companies benefit from new players with data-driven business models.

RESPONSIBLE ROBOTICS (RR-AI) Tracing ethical and social aspects of AI-based transformations in healthcare work and knowledge environments

The integration of embodied Artificial Intelligence (AI) into healthcare and society generally is expected to deliver major benefits over the coming decades.

Palliative care as a digital working world: Perspectives and design options for the digital transformation of communication and collaboration processes in multi-professional care in the last phase of life (PALLADiUM)

The project analyses and designs the digital working environment of palliative care. At the core of the project is the design of a digitally supported work system to improve multi-professional collaboration.

Awareness, motivation and implementation of data portability – Enabling radical and disruptive innovation through enhanced data portability

The project investigates how data portability can be implemented in order to improve competition between online services and data-driven innovations.

„Transforming digitally“: Digital innovations for the successful realization of organizational change

How can digital innovations be leveraged in organizational change processes to better address well-known challenges and to increase the low success rates of change projects? The multi-disciplinary research consortium combines…