390028 SE PhD-M: Forschungsseminar eBusiness - Advanced research issues and methods in electronic business (2017S)

The course "Advanced research issues and methods in electronic business" addresses selected topics of electronic business and electronic commerce. During an initial phase of orientation an overview on classic research questions in those fields will be given. PhD students and doctoral candidates shall choose out of a pool of eBusiness relevant topics one that is related to their own doctoral work or that may provide a contribution to it. Focus is laid on metrics and evaluation methods in the context of service oriented architectures/e-services, as well as in collaborative value creation and mass customization.
Methods: Presentation, academic discourse, peer reviewing, discussion.
Objective: PhD students and doctoral candidates passing the course "Advanced research issues and methods in electronic business" will gain insight into recent research fields of electronic Business from a management perspective; they will be able to give an overview on classic and recent research in this area and describe selected issues in detail; furthermore, they will be able to propose and apply evaluation methods, to identify reliable and high-quality literature sources and comment on topics elaborated by students on PhD/doctoral level. They will be able to perform own research in this area; they will know key-players and their ongoing research as well as key-events and scientific outlets in that particular field.