Three UoC's young scientists are nominated for the Young Talent Award of the German Academic Association for Business Research (VHB). The Association awards this prize annually to younger members of the association or upcoming scientists, who do not have a PhD in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. This award is for outstanding publications by upcoming scientists and is aimed at encouraging and motivating budding scientists to present their research activities in a renowned area, publish beyond the German-speaking sphere and open themselves up to international discourse.
This nomination underlines the scientific achievements of Stephan Schneider (research assistant at the Department of Information Systems and Systems Development), Ali Sunyaev (Assistant Professor for Information Systems and Information Systems Quality) and Hendrik Wilhelm (Assistant Professor at the Seminar for Business Administration, Corporate Development and Organization).
The Scientific Commission Information Systems (WK WI) has nominated Stephan Schneider and Ali Sunyaev as candidates for the award because of their journal article „Determinant Factors of Cloud-Sourcing Decisions: reflecting on the IT Outsourcing Literature in the Era of Cloud Computing“, appeared in the Journal of Information Technology. The Scientific Commission Organisation (WK ORG) has nominated Hendrik Wilhelm because of his dissertation text „Changing Organizational Routines: Antecedents, Processes, Outcomes“.
In total four papers have been nominated for this award, so this year half of the nominated articles are from the UoC's Faculty of Management, Economics and Social Sciences. This emphasizes the research performance of the young scientists at the University of Cologne.