- Current Activity
- Thomas Grisold is an assistant professor at the University of Liechtenstein. His research revolves around the intersection of organization studies and information systems research. He is particularly interested in how digital technologies change established ways of organizing. Thomas obtained a PhD from the Vienna University of Economics and Business, an interdisciplinary Master's degree in cognitive science from the University of Vienna and the University of Zagreb, and a Bachelor's degree in management from the Staffordhsire University, UK. Thomas has been working as a guest researcher at universities in the US, Australia and Europe.
Thomas is also the head of the institute's executive teaching program, deliviering workshops on digitalization to executives and companies in the Rhine valley region: uni.li/digitalisierung
- Education
- 2017 — 2018
Masterclass for Management in Central Eastern Europe
WU Executive Academy, Austria - 2015 — 2018
PhD in Social and Economic Science
Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria - 2012 — 2015
MSc in Cognitive Science
University of Vienna, Austria
University of Zagreb, Croatia - 2009 — 2012
BA in Advertising and Marketing Management
Staffordshire University, UK - Career
- since 2018
Assistant Professor
University of Liechtenstein - since 2018
Lecturer
Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria - 2015 — 2018
Research and Teaching Associate
Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria - 2014 — 2018
Advertising Strategist and Copywriter for national and international agencies: TBWA Vienna, WILD Vienna, Zufallsproduktion, among others
- 2014 — 2017
Co-Founder and Partner
Mein Honig (www.meinhonig.at) - 2013 — 2014
Advertising Strategist and Copywriter
BBDO Belgrade, Serbia
BBDO Zagreb, Crotia - Honors
- since 2018
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Community Service:
Co-Chair of the Track "BPM in the Digital Age" @ ECIS 2021 (with Jan Mendling & Michael Rosemann)
Co-Chair of the "Student Track" @ WI 2021 (with Martin Matzner)
Co-Editor Special Issue on Organizational Unlearning @ The Learning Organization (Emerald), published in 2019 (with Adrian Klammer & Nien Nguyen)
Organization of academic events (4th Viktor Frankl Congress 2016 in Vienna; Routines Research Community Workshop 2019 in Liechtenstein) - Visiting Academic
- 2019
University of Notre Dame, US
- 2018
Lancaster University, UK
- 2017
University of Palermo, Italy
- 2016
Queensland University of Technology, Australia
- 2013 — 2014
University of Zagreb, Croatia
- Reviewer Services
- since 2016
Reviewer for Journals:
Management Information Systems Quarterly (MISQ), California Management Review, Information Systems Journal, Information & Organization, Business and Information Systems Engineering (BISE), Journal of Knowledge Management, Business Process Management Journal
Reviewer for Conferences:
ICIS, AOM, ECIS, OLKC, BPM Conference, among others
- Schedule for WS 23/24
- Theorizing in Business Research (Lecture)
- Digital Nudging in Business Process Management
- FFF-Förderprojekt, November 2021 until December 2023
Processes are ubiquitous - they permeate all areas of life. Businesses are organized through processes, novel innovations are created through processes and a panoply of other aspects in people's ... more ...
- Developing Process Mining Capabilities at the Enterprise Level
- ERASMUS, November 2021 until October 2023
Digital technologies affect all areas of work. They support, replace or augment work, and the require spe-cial skills and competencies by those who use them. Process mining is a fast-growing ... more ...
- Process Science: Conceptual foundation for the interdisciplinary study of continuous change
- FFF-Förderprojekt, November 2021 until April 2023 (finished)
Processes are sequences of actions and events, which take effect over time and in context. They guide our every-day activities, and they dynamically change over time. Processes can make an impact on ... more ...
- BPM and Organizational Theory: An Integrated Reference Curriculum Design
- ERASMUS, September 2019 until October 2021 (finished)
BPM is an important management discipline which is concerned with the analysis, design and improvement of business processes. So far, BPM has been mainly embracing prescriptive research, aiming to ... more ...
- Reference Module Design for Explorative Business Process Management
- ERASMUS, December 2018 until November 2020 (finished)
This project investigates the notion of explorative BPM. This is motivated by recent calls to systematically integrate innovation opportunities into business process work. Whereas existing BPM tools ... more ...
Grisold, T., Wurm, B., vom Brocke, J., Kremser, W., Mendling, J., & Recker, J. (in press). Managing Process Dynamics in a Digital World: Integrating Business Process Management and Routine Dynamics in IS Curricula. Communications of the Association for Information Systems. (ABDC_2022: A; ABS_2021: 2; VHB_3: C)
moreGrisold, T., Kremser, W., Mendling, J., Recker, J., vom Brocke J., & Wurm, B. (2023). Keeping pace with the digital age: Envisioning information systems research as a platform. Journal of Information Technology, 38(1), 60-66. (ABDC_2022: A*; ABS_2021: 4; VHB_3: A)
moreGrisold, T., Groß, S., Stelzl, K., vom Brocke, J., Mendling, J., Röglinger, Maximilian, & Rosemann, M. (2022). The Five Diamond Method for Explorative Business Process Management. Business & Information Systems Engineering, 64, 149–166. (ABDC_2022: A; ABS_2021: 2; VHB_3: B)
moreMendling, J., Berente, N., Seidel, S., & Grisold, T. (2021). The Philosopher's Corner: Pluralism and Pragmatism in the Information Systems Field: The Case of Research on Business Processes and Organizational Routines. The Data Base for Advances in Information Systems, 52(2), 127-140. (ABDC_2022: A; ABS_2021: 2; VHB_3: B)
moreGrisold, T., Mendling, J., Otto, M., & vom Brocke, J. (2021). Adoption, Use and Management of Process Mining in Practice. Business Process Management Journal, 27(2), 369-387. (ABDC_2022: B; ABS_2021: 2; VHB_3: C)
moreGroß, S., Stelzl, K., Grisold, T., Mendling, J., Röglinger, M., & vom Brocke, J. (2021). The Business Process Design Space for exploring process redesign alternatives. Business Process Management Journal, 27(8), 25-56. (ABDC_2022: B; ABS_2021: 2; VHB_3: C)
moreGrisold, T., vom Brocke, J., Groß, S., Mendling, J., Röglinger, M., & Stelzl, K. (2021). Digital Innovation and Business Process Management: Opportunities and Challenges as Perceived by Practitioners. Communications of the Association for Information Systems, 49, 556 – 571. (ABDC_2022: A; ABS_2021: 2; VHB_3: C)
morevom Brocke, J., Weber, M., & Grisold, T. (2021). Class Notes: The BPM Context Matrix - A Framework for Context-Aware Business Process Management (BPM). BPTrends: BPM analysis, opinion and insight.
moreGovindarajan, V., Srivastava, A., Grisold, T., & Klammer, A. (2021). Resist Old Routines When Returning to the Office. Harvard Business Review. (ABDC_2022: A; ABS_2021: 3; VHB_3: C; FT_50_2016: yes)
moreGovindarajan, V., Srivastava, A., Grisold, T., & Klammer, A. (2021). Der steinige Weg zum neuen Normal. Harvard-Business-Manager, 43(8), 34-37.
moreBadakhshan, P., Conboy, K., Grisold, T., & vom Brocke, J. (2020). Agile business process management: A systematic literature review and an integrated framework. Business Process Management Journal, 26(6). (ABDC_2022: B; ABS_2021: 2; VHB_3: C)
moreGrisold, T., Klammer, A., & Kragulj, F. (2020). Two Forms of Organizational Unlearning: Insights from Engaged Scholarship Research with Change Consultants. Management Learning, 51(5), 598-619. (ABDC_2022: A; ABS_2021: 3; VHB_3: B)
moreGovindarajan, V., Srivastava, A., Grisold, T., & Klammer, A. (2020). COVID-Imposed Opportunity to Selectively Unlearn Past Practices. California Management Review. (ABDC_2022: A; ABS_2021: 3; VHB_3: B)
moreKlammer, A., Grisold, T., & Gueldenberg, S. (2019). Introducing a ‘stop-doing’ culture: How to free your organization from rigidity. Business Horizons, 62(4), 451-458. (ABDC_2022: B; ABS_2021: 2; VHB_3: C)
moreGrisold, T., & Peschl, M. F. (2017). Why a systems thinking perspective on cognition matters for innovation and knowledge creation. Systems Research and Behavioral Science, 34(3), 335-353. (ABDC_2022: A; ABS_2021: 2)
moreGrisold, T., & Kaiser, A. (2017). Leaving Behind What We are Not: Applying a Systems Thinking Perspective to Present Unlearning as an Enabler for Finding the Best Version of the Self. Journal of Organisational Transformation and Social Change, 14(1), 39-55. (ABDC_2022: C; ABS_2021: 1)
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Klammer, A., Grisold, T., & Nguyen, N. (2019). Guest Editorial: Opportunities and interdisciplinary perspectives for organizational unlearning. The Learning Organization, 26(5), 445-453. (ABDC_2022: B; ABS_2021: 1)
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W. Grisold, W. Struhal & T. Grisold (Eds.). (2019). Advocacy in Neurology. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press.
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Wurm, B., Grisold, T., Mendling, J., & vom Brocke, J. (in press). Business Process Management and Routine Dynamics. In Handbook of Routine Dynamics : Cambridge University Press.
morevom Brocke, J., Grisold, T., & Kipping, G. (2022). Process Science. In N. Gronau, J. Becker, N. Kliewer, J. M. Leimeister & S. Overhage (Eds.), Enzyklopädie der Wirtschaftsinformatik. Berlin: GITO.
morevom Brocke, J., Weber, M., & Grisold, T. (2021). Design Science Research of High Practical Relevance - Dancing Through Space and Time. In P. Rohner, J. Schelp & S. Aier (Eds.), Engineering the Transformation of the Enterprise - A Design Science Research Perspective (pp. 115-135). Cham, Switzerland: Springer.
moreGrisold. Thomas, & Peschl, M. (2017). Change From the Inside Out - Towards a Culture of Unlearning by Overcoming Organizational Predictive Mind. In N. Tomaschek & M. Unterdorfer (Eds.), Veränderung - Der Wandel als Konstante unserer Zeit (pp. 45-63). Münster, Germany: Waxmann Verlag.
moreGrisold, T., & Kaiser, A. (2015). Wissen für Nachhaltigkeit. In F. Luks (Ed.), Rethink Economy (pp. 155-165). Munich, Germany: Ökom Verlag.
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Hartl, S., Franzoi, S., Grisold, T., & vom Brocke, J. (2023). Explaining Change with Digital Trace Data: A Framework for Temporal Bracketing. Paper presented at the 56th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Maui, Hawaii. (VHB_3: C)
moreFranzoi, S., Grisold, T., & vom Brocke, J. (2023). Studying Dynamics and Change with Digital Trace Data: A Systematic Literature Review. Paper presented at the 31st European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS), Kristiansand, Norway. (VHB_3: B)
moreGrisold, T., & Schneider, J. (2023). Dynamics of Human-AI Delegation in Organizational Routines. Paper presented at the Rising like a Phoenix: Emerging from the Pandemic and Reshaping Human Endeavors with Digital Technologies ICIS 2023, Hyderabad, India. (VHB_3: A)
moreOtto, M., Kipping, G., Gau, M., Grisold, T., & vom Brocke, J. (2022). Towards Space Mining: A Smart Space Management Solution to Minimize Indoor Spreading Risk of COVID-19. Paper presented at the 17th International Conference on Design Science Research in Information Systems and Technology, St. Petersburg, Florida, USA. (VHB_3: C)
moreKipping, G., Djurica D., Franzoi, S., Grisold, T., Marcus, L., Schmid, S., vom Brocke, J., Mendling, J., & Röglinger, M. (2022). How to Leverage Process Mining in Organizations - Towards Process Mining Capabilities. Paper presented at the 20th International Conference on Business Process Management, Münster, Germany. (VHB_3: C)
moreDrechsler, K., Grisold, T., Gau, M., & Seidel, S. (2022). Digital Infrastructure Evolution: A Digital Trace Data Study. Paper presented at the International Conference on Information Systems, Copenhagen, Denmark. (VHB_3: A)
moreDrechsler, K., Grisold, T., & Seidel, S. (2022). Cascading Digital Options and the Evolution of Digital Infrastructures: The Case of IIoT. Paper presented at the International Conference on Information Systems, Copenhagen, Denmark. (VHB_3: A)
moreGrisold, T., Gau, M., & Yoo, Y. (2022). Studying the Co-evolution of Individual Actions and Emergent Social Structures using Digital Trace Data. Paper presented at the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), Copenhagen, Denmark. (VHB_3: A)
moreWeber, M., Grisold, T., vom Brocke, J., & Kamm, M. (2021). Context-Aware Business Process Modeling: Empirical Insights from a Project with a Globally Operating Company. Paper presented at the Twenty-Ninth European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS 2021), Marrakesh, Morocco. (VHB_3: B)
morevom Brocke, J., Weber, M., & Grisold, T. (2021). A Matrix for Context-Aware Business Process Management: Empirical Evidence from Hilti. Paper presented at the Industry Forum at 19th Conference on Business Process Management (BPM 2021), Rome, Italy.
moreGrisold, T., Gau, M., & Yoo, Y. (2021). Coding Like a Rockstar: The Role of Social Influence on Action Patterns in GitHub. Paper presented at the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) 2021, Austin, Texas, USA. (VHB_3: A)
moreGrisold, T., Wurm, B., Mendling, J., & vom Brocke, J. (2020). Using Process Mining to Support Theorizing About Change in Organizations. Paper presented at the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS 53), Maui, Hawaii. (VHB_3: C)
moreSeidel, S., Grisold, T., & Berente, N. (2020). Modular Change in Platform Ecosystems and Routine Mirroring in Organizations. Paper presented at the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS 53), Maui, Hawaii. (VHB_3: C)
moreGrisold, T., Gross, S., Röglinger, M., Stelzl, K., & vom Brocke, J. (2019). Exploring Explorative BPM - Setting the Ground for Future Research. Paper presented at the BPM 2019: Business Process Management, Vienna, Austria. (VHB_3: C)
moreGrisold, T., & Mendling, J. (2018). Role Transition During Unlearning and Learning in Organizational Routines: An Interventional Perspective. Paper presented at the International Forum on Knowledge Asset Dynamics. In Proceedings of the International Forum of Knowledge Asset Dynamics (IFKAD 2018), Delft, Netherlands.
moreKragulj, F., Kaiser, A., & Grisold, T. (2018). Identifying Knowledge Enablers in Organizational Visions: A Synthesis of Theory and Practice. Paper presented at the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-51), Big Island, Hawaii. (VHB_3: C)
moreGrisold, T., Kaiser, A., & Hafner, J. (2017). Unlearning before creating new knowledge: A cognitive process. Paper presented at the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS 50), Big Island, Hawaii. (VHB_3: C)
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Grisold, T., Gau, M., & Yoo, Y. (2023). A Mimetic Theory of User Behaviors in Online Communities: A Computational Study of GitHub. Presented at the 83nd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. (VHB_3: B)
moreGrisold, T., Berente, N., & Seidel, S. (2023). Technology Affordances as Generative Processes. Presented at the Academy of Management Conference, Boston, US.
moreGrisold, T., Yoo, Y., & Gau, M. (2022). 'DNA' of Virtual Organizing: Towards a New Construct to Theorize with Digital Trace Data. Presented at the 82nd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Seattle, WA, USA.
moreGrisold, T., & Klammer, A. (2018). What could we mean by “organizational unlearning”? Insights from change consultancy. Presented at the Conference on Intentional Forgetting, Potsdam, Germany.
moreBogolyubov, P., Grisold, T., & Easterby-Smith, M. (2018). The Thinking Behind Systems Thinking: Towards a Framework for Developing Systems Thinking Capabilities. Presented at the Organizational Learning and Knowledge Capabilities (OLKC), Liverpool, United Kingdom.
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