Senior Lecturer in BIS
Overview
Marten Risius is Senior Lecturer in Business Information Systems at the University of Queensland (UQ) in Brisbane, Australia. He graduated in psychology summa cum laude from the University of Osnabrueck, Germany and was the first psychologist to graduate from the House of Finance at the Goethe University Frankfurt, where he received his PhD in Information Systems summa cum laude. Afterwards, he worked as postdoctorate at the University of Mannheim, Germany, where he managed the research alliance "ForDigital" between the University of Mannheim and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). Subsequently, he worked as an assistant professor (tenure-track) at Clemson University, SC, USA prior to joining UQ. Marten is also a research fellow at the Weizenbaum Institute in Berlin, Germany.
His research interests are in the areas of social media and blockchain technologies. He applies business analytics to solve managerial and societal issues (e.g., centralization, echo-chambers, fake news). His articles have been published in several journals (e.g., JSIS, JIT, I&M, MISQE, BISE) and peer-reviewed conference proceedings (ICIS, ECIS, AMCIS, PACIS).
His dissertation thesis was recognized as the best publication in the entire field of Business Administration from a young researcher in Germany, Austria and Switzerland by the VHB (German Academic Association for Business Research), received the TARGION award for the best practice-oriented research on strategic information management, was honored as the best dissertation from the Frankfurt Chamber of Commcerce, and was a finalist for the Schmalenbach-Award.
He serves as Associate Editor at ICIS, ECIS and WI, as Session Chair at PACIS, and as reviewer for various international journals (e.g., ISR, JAIS, JSIS, DSJ, BISE, ISeB, Electronic Markets, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice) and conferences (e.g., ICIS, ECIS, HICSS, AMCIS, PACIS, WI, MKWI). In his free time he serves as member of the young jury for the DVPT Start-Up Future Awards.
Research Interests
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Social Media - Managerial and Societal Issues
Identify and evaluate individual and organizational social media management strategies, advance social media analytics, and address topics such as echo chambers and fake news. -
Blockchain - Managerial and Societal Issues
Identify blockchain use-cases, ICO types, and blockchain affordances as well as the role of cryptocurrencies and centralization tendencies in blockchain technologies.
Research Impacts
His work has been covered by public media sites such as The Boston Globe and is frequently featured on his blockchain channel at China Finance Online.
Qualifications
- Doctor Rerum Politicarum, Goethe University
Publications
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Journal Article: A ten-step decision path to determine when to use blockchain technologies
Pedersen, Asger B., Risius, Marten and Beck, Roman (2019) A ten-step decision path to determine when to use blockchain technologies. MIS Quarterly Executive, 18 2: 99-115. doi:10.17705/2msqe.00010
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Journal Article: Effects of transparency: analyzing social biases on trader performance in social trading
Glaser, Florian and Risius, Marten (2018) Effects of transparency: analyzing social biases on trader performance in social trading. Journal of Information Technology, 33 1: 19-30. doi:10.1057/s41265-016-0028-0
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Conference Publication: Facebook user segmentation to enable targeted social advertisement
Risius, Marten and Aydingül, Okan (2018). Facebook user segmentation to enable targeted social advertisement. In: Proceedings of International Conference on Information Systems 2018, ICIS 2018. 39th International Conference on Information Systems, ICIS 2018, San Francisco, CA United States, (). 13 - 16 December 2018.
Publications
Journal Article
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A ten-step decision path to determine when to use blockchain technologies
Pedersen, Asger B., Risius, Marten and Beck, Roman (2019) A ten-step decision path to determine when to use blockchain technologies. MIS Quarterly Executive, 18 2: 99-115. doi:10.17705/2msqe.00010
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Effects of transparency: analyzing social biases on trader performance in social trading
Glaser, Florian and Risius, Marten (2018) Effects of transparency: analyzing social biases on trader performance in social trading. Journal of Information Technology, 33 1: 19-30. doi:10.1057/s41265-016-0028-0
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Risius, Marten and Spohrer, Kai (2017) A Blockchain Research Framework What We (don't) Know, Where We Go from Here, and How We Will Get There. Business and Information Systems Engineering, 59 6: 385-409. doi:10.1007/s12599-017-0506-0
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A blockchain-based approach towards overcoming financial fraud in public sector services
Hyvarinen, Hissu, Risius, Marten and Friis, Gustav (2017) A blockchain-based approach towards overcoming financial fraud in public sector services. Business and Information Systems Engineering, 59 6: 441-456. doi:10.1007/s12599-017-0502-4
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Benthaus, Janek, Risius, Marten and Beck, Roman (2016) Social media management strategies for organizational impression management and their effect on public perception. Journal of Strategic Information Systems, 25 2: 127-139. doi:10.1016/j.jsis.2015.12.001
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Effectiveness of corporate social media activities in increasing relational outcomes
Risius, Marten and Beck, Roman (2015) Effectiveness of corporate social media activities in increasing relational outcomes. Information & Management, 52 7: 824-839. doi:10.1016/j.im.2015.06.004
Conference Publication
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Facebook user segmentation to enable targeted social advertisement
Risius, Marten and Aydingül, Okan (2018). Facebook user segmentation to enable targeted social advertisement. In: Proceedings of International Conference on Information Systems 2018, ICIS 2018. 39th International Conference on Information Systems, ICIS 2018, San Francisco, CA United States, (). 13 - 16 December 2018.
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Chanson, Mathieu, Risius, Marten, Gjoen, Jonas and Wortmann, Felix (2018). Initial coin offerings (ICOS): The role of social media for organizational legitimacy and underpricing. In: International Conference on Information Systems 2018, ICIS 2018. International Conference on Information Systems 2018, ICIS 2018, San Francisco, CA United States, (). 13 - 16 December 2018.
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Chanson, Mathieu, Risius, Marten and Wortmann, Felix (2018). Initial coin offerings (ICOs): an introduction to the novel funding mechanism based on blockchain technology. In: Americas Conference on Information Systems 2018: Digital Disruption, AMCIS 2018. 24th Americas Conference on Information Systems 2018: Digital Disruption, AMCIS 2018, New Orleans, LA, (). 16-18 August 2018.
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Strategic Leadership in the Digital Age: A Multi-Disciplinary Review, Framework, and Research Agenda
Heavey, Ciaran, Kyprianou, Christina, Simsek, Zeki and Risius, Marten (2018). Strategic Leadership in the Digital Age: A Multi-Disciplinary Review, Framework, and Research Agenda. In: 38th Strategic Management Society Conference (SMS 2018), Paris, France, (). 22-25 September 2018.
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Virtual reality and blockchain technology in the era of 5g: Disrupting business and society
French, Aaron M., Risius, Marten, Shim, J. P., Bordnick, Patrick S., Parsons, Jeffrey and Holtman, David (2018). Virtual reality and blockchain technology in the era of 5g: Disrupting business and society. In: Americas Conference on Information Systems 2018: Digital Disruption, AMCIS 2018. 24th Americas Conference on Information Systems 2018: Digital Disruption, AMCIS 2018, New Orleans, LA United States, (). 16 - 18 August 2018.
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Automatic Detection of Fake News on Social Media Platforms
Janze, Christian and Risius, Marten (2017). Automatic Detection of Fake News on Social Media Platforms. In: Proceedings of the 21th Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems (PACIS 2017). 21st Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems (PACIS 2017), Langkawi, Malaysia, (). 16-20 July 2017.
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Is it worth it? Dismantling the process of social media related sales performance
Risius, Marten, Benthaus, Janek and Akolk, Fabian (2016). Is it worth it? Dismantling the process of social media related sales performance. In: 24th European Conference on Information Systems, ECIS 2016. 24th European Conference on Information Systems, ECIS 2016, Istanbul, Turkey, (). 12 - 15 June 2016.
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Differential emotions and the stock market.The case of company-specific trading
Risius, Marten, Akolk, Fabian and Beck, Roman (2015). Differential emotions and the stock market.The case of company-specific trading. In: Proceedings of 23rd European Conference on Information Systems, ECIS 2015. 23rd European Conference on Information Systems, ECIS 2015, Münster, Germany, (). 26-29 May 2015.
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Differentiated sentiment analysis of corporate social media accounts
Risius, Marten and Akolk, Fabian (2015). Differentiated sentiment analysis of corporate social media accounts. In: 2015 Americas Conference on Information Systems, AMCIS 2015. 21st Americas Conference on Information Systems, AMCIS 2015, Fajardo, Puerto Rico, (). 13 - 15 August 2015.
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Bridging the gap - Organizational mindfulness and mindful organizing in mobile work environments
Dernbecher, Sabine, Risius, Marten and Beck, Roman (2014). Bridging the gap - Organizational mindfulness and mindful organizing in mobile work environments. In: ECIS 2014 Proceedings - 22nd European Conference on Information Systems. 22nd European Conference on Information Systems, ECIS 2014, Tel Aviv, Israel, (). 9 - 11 June 2014.
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Risius, Marten (2014). Is it really about facts? The positive side of 'Meforming' for turning self-disclosure into social capital in enterprise social media. In: ECIS 2014 Proceedings - 22nd European Conference on Information Systems. 22nd European Conference on Information Systems, ECIS 2014, Tel Aviv, Israel, (). 9 - 11 June 2014.
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Risius, Marten and Beck, Roman (2014). You Reap What You Sow? How Knowledge Exchange Effectiveness is Affected by Different Types of Communication in Enterprise Social Media. In: Sprague, RH, 2014 47th Hawaii International Conference On System Sciences (Hicss). 47th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Waikoloa, HI United States, (540-549). 6-9 January 2014. doi:10.1109/hicss.2014.74
