Nick Berente

Nick Berente studies how digital innovations like artificial intelligence technologies drive change in organizations and institutions. He teaches courses on Strategic Business Technology and is Co-Director of the GAMA Lab. Prof. Berente received his PhD from Case Western Reserve University’s Weatherhead School of Management. He was an entrepreneur prior to his academic career, founding two technology companies. He is the principal investigator for a number of U.S. National Science Foundation projects and has won multiple awards for his teaching and his research. Prof. Berente is associate editor for MIS Quarterly.

Publications

• "Managing Artificial Intelligence", (With Bin Gu, Jan Recker, Radhika Santhanam), MIS Quarterly, 2021

• "A behavioral perspective on service center routing: The role of inertia", (With Aaron Schecter, Kaitlin Wowak, Han Ye, Ujjal Mukherjee), Journal of Operations Management - Accepted (awaiting publication)

• "Team Design Thinking, Product Innovativeness, and the Moderating Role of Problem Unfamiliarity", (With Varun Nagaraj, James Gaskin, Kalle Lyytinen), Journal of Product Innovation Management, 37, 2020

• "Data-Driven, Data-Informed, Data-Augmented: How Ubisoft’s Ghost Recon Unit Uses Data for Continuous Product Innovation", (With Karl Werder, Stefan Seidel, John Gibbs, Jan Recker), California Management Review, 62, 2020

• "Trust in Sharing Encounters among Millennials", (With Christoph Mittendorf, Roland Holten), Information Systems Journal, 29, 2019

• "Institutional Logics and Pluralistic Responses to Enterprise System Implementation: A Qualitative Meta-Analysis", (With Kalle Lyytinen, Youngjin Yoo, Chris Maurer), MIS Quarterly, 43, 2019

• "Data-Driven Computationally-Intensive Theory Development", (With Stefan Seidel, Hani Safadi), Information Systems Research, 30, 2019

• "Autonomous Tools & Design Work: A Triple-Loop Approach to Human-Machine Learning", (With Stefan Seidel, Aron Lindberg, Kalle Lyytinen, Jeffrey Nickerson), Communications of the ACM, 62, 2019

• "Digital Innovation and Institutional Entrepreneurship - Chief Digital Officer Perspectives on Their Role", (With Sanja Tumbas, Jan vom Brocke), Journal of Information Technology, 33, 2018

• "Succeeding with Autonomous Tools in Systems Design: Reflective Practice & Ubisoft’s Ghost Recon Wildlands Project", (With Stefan Seidel, Benoit Martinez, Aron Lindberg, Kalle Lyytinen, Jeffrey Nickerson), IEEE Computer, 51, 2018

• "Digital and Analog Logics: An Analysis of the Discourse around Property Rights and Information Goods", (With Karim Jetha, John King), The Information Society, 33, 2017

• "Is That Social Bot Behaving Unethically?", (With Carolina Salge), Communications of the ACM, 60, 2017

• "Build it, but will they come? A Geoscience Cyberinfrastructure Baseline Analysis", (With Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld, Karen Baker, Dorothy Carter, et al ), Data Science Journal, 15, 2016

• "Five ways consortia can catalyze open science", (With Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld, Karen Baker, Courtney Flint, et al), Nature, 543, 2016

• "Coordinating Interdependencies in Online Communities: A Study of an Open Source Software Project", (With Aron Lindberg, James Gaskin, Kalle Lyytinen), Information Systems Research, 27, 2016

• "Routines as the Shock Absorbers of Organizational Transformation: Integration, Control, and NASA’s Enterprise Information System", (With Kalle Lyytinen, Youngjin Yoo, John King), Organization Science, 27, 2016

• "Toward Generalizable Sociomaterial Inquiry: A Computational Approach for ‘Zooming In & Out’ of Sociomaterial Routines", (With James Gaskin, Kalle Lyytinen, Youngjin Yoo), MIS Quarterly, 38, 2014

• "Open Data: Crediting a Culture of Cooperation", (With B Bolukbasi, J Cutcher-Gershenfeld, L DeChurch, et al), Science, 342, 2013

• "The Era of Incremental Change in the Technology Innovation Life Cycle: An Analysis of the Automotive Emission Control Industry", (With Jaegul Lee), Research Policy, 42, 2013

• "Digital Innovation and the Division of Innovative Labor: A Dual-hierarchy View of Complex Product Architectures", (With Jaegul Lee), Organization Science, 23, 2012

• "Institutional Contradictions and Loose Coupling: Post-Implementation of NASA’s Enterprise Information System", (With Youngjin Yoo), Information Systems Research, 23, 2012

• "Arguing the Value of Virtual Worlds: Patterns of Discursive Sensemaking of an Innovative Technological Environment", (With Sean Hansen, Jacqueline Pike, Patrick Bateman), MIS Quarterly, 35, 2011

Awards

• "AIS Distinguished Member, Cum Laude", Association for Information Systems, 2020
• "Best Paper Award", Information Systems Research, 2019
• "Best Paper Award", PEARC Workforce Track, 2019
• "Best Publication Award", Association for Information Systems, 2019
• "Outstanding Associate Editor Award", MIS Quarterly, 2018
• "Best Journal Paper Runner-Up", Academy of Management OCIS Division, 2017
• "Best Theory Development Paper Award", International Conference on Information Systems, 2017
• "Associate Editor of the Year Award", Information Systems Research, 2016
• "Board Member Recognition Award", Information and Organization, 2016
• "Best Paper Award", Academy of Management OCIS Division, 2015
• "Best Paper Award", International Conference on Information Systems, 2015
• "Best IS Publication Award", Association for Information Systems, 2014
• "Best Paper Award", Information and Organization, 2014
• "Outstanding Paper Award", Americas Conference on Information Systems Research Methods Track, 2014
• "Best Journal Paper Runner-Up", Academy of Management OCIS Division, 2013
• "E. Grosvenor Plowman Best Paper Award", Supply Chain Management Educators' Conference , 2011
• "Doctoral Dissertation Award", ACM SIGMIS, 2009
• "Outstanding Paper Award", IT & People, 2009
• "Outstanding Reviewer Award", Journal of Strategic Information Systems, 2007