- Current Activity
- Theresa Schmiedel is an Assistant Professor at the Hilti Chair of Business Process Management at the University of Liechtenstein. She holds a PhD in business economics from the University of Liechtenstein and a Diploma in economics from the University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany, which she conducted partially at York University, Toronto, Canada. She worked as a Research Assistant at the Department for Sociology and Empirical Social Research, University of Hohenheim, and the Center for Cultural and General Studies, University of Karlsruhe, Germany. Her research focuses on social aspects in information systems research, particularly on the interconnection of culture and business process management (www.bpm-culture.org). She has been leading several research projects in the area of BPM, e.g. sponsored by the Liechtenstein National Research Fund. Her research has been published in journals, including Information & Management, Enterprise Information Systems, and Business Process Management Journal, as well as in academic books and conference proceedings. Her work has been acknowledged with the National Research Award of the Principality of Liechtenstein in 2013.
Office hours: Thursday 11.45 am - 12.30 pm, only by appointment with the administration office (sandra.beyer@uni.li)
- Education
- 2009 — 2012
University of Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Principality of Liechtenstein
Dissertation
Degree: Doctor of Philosophy in Business Economics (PhD) - 2004 — 2005
York University, Toronto, Canada
Fields of study: Sociology und Economics - 2001 — 2007
University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany
Course of study: Business and Economics,
Special fields: Sociology, Controlling, Economics,
Degree: Graduate Economist - Career
- since 2013
Assistant Professor
Hilti Chair of Business Process Management,
University of Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Principality of Liechtenstein - 2012 — 2013
Post Doc
Hilti Chair of Business Process Management,
University of Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Principality of Liechtenstein - 2009 — 2012
Research Assistant
Hilti Chair of Business Process Management,
University of Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Principality of Liechtenstein - 2007 — 2009
Research Assistant
ZAK | Centre for Cultural and General Studies,
Universität Karlsruhe (TH), Karlsruhe, Germany - 2005 — 2007
Student and Graduate Assistant
Department for Sociology and Empirical Social Research,
University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany - 2003 — 2004
Student Assistant
Department for Accounting and Finance,
University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany - Awards
- since 2015
Claudio Ciborra Award Nominee
"A gender perspective on business process management competences offered on professional online social networks", Paper presented at the 23rd European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS), 26-29 May 2015, Münster, Germany
(together with E. Gorbacheva, A. Stein, and O. Mueller) - since 2014
Emerald Literati Network Award for Excellence 2013
Highly Commended Paper: "Which cultural values matter to business process management? Results from a global Delphi study", Business Process Management Journal 19(2):292-317
(together with J. vom Brocke and J. Recker) - since 2013
Liechtenstein Award for Young Researchers
(Category: Dissertation) - since 2013
Best Student Paper Award
"Developing an organizational culture supportive of business process management",
11th International Conference on Wirtschaftsinformatik, Leipzig, Germany
(together with S. Tumbas) - since 2011
Participating Young Economist at the
4th Meeting of Nobel Laureates in Economic Sciences
(around 360 Young Economists selected among more than 5000 applicants worldwide) - since 2011
Participating PhD student at the Doctoral Consortium of the
9th International Conference on Business Process Management
(8 PhD students selected among applicants worldwide) - Memberships
- since 2015
Academy of Management (AoM)
- since 2013
Verband der Hochschullehrer für Betriebswirtschaft e.V. (VHB)
- since 2012
Association of Information Systems (AIS)
- since 2009
European Research Center for Information Systems (ERCIS)
- BPM Online
- ERASMUS, October 2015 until October 2017 (finished)
Ziel des Projekts ist die Entwicklung eines europaweiten Konzepts für die Weiterbildung im Bereich Prozessmanagement. Als Antragsteller und leitender Projektpartner arbeitet das Team des Hilti ... more ...
- RISE-BPM
- EU H2020-Förderprojekt, May 2015 until April 2019
RISE_BPM networks world-leading research institutions and corporate innovators to develop new horizons for Business Process Management (BPM). BPM is a boundary-spanning discipline focused on ... more ...
- Institutional Logics of Digital Innovation
- FFF-Förderprojekt, January 2015 until March 2017 (finished)
Digital technologies are ubiquitous (Lyytinen et al. 2004), they permeate virtually every aspect of organizational life (Zammuto et al. 2007) and are imperative for organizational innovation (Yoo et ... more ...
- Culture in Business Process Management (BPM): Exploring the Cultural Fitness of Organizations for BPM
- FFF-Förderprojekt, July 2012 until September 2014 (finished)
The research project aims at developing a deeper understanding of organizational culture in the context of BPM. It particularly focuses on objectives in the following three domains. Body of ... more ...
- Culture in Business Process Management
- PhD-Thesis, September 2009 until September 2012 (finished)
Cultural aspects essentially influence the success of business processes. Even though many academics acknowledge the importance of considering cultural aspects in BPM there is hardly a discussion on ... more ...
vom Brocke, J., Baier, M., Schmiedel, T., Stelz, K., Röglinger, M., & Wehking, C. (2021). Context-Aware Business Process Management. Business & Information Systems Engineering, 63(5), 533-550. (ABDC_2022: A; ABS_2021: 2; VHB_3: B)
moreSchmiedel, T., Recker, J., & vom Brocke, J. (2020). The relation between BPM culture, BPM methods, and process performance: Evidence from quantitative field studies. Information and Management, 57(2), 103175. (ABDC_2022: A*; ABS_2021: 3; VHB_3: B)
moreZelt, S., Recker, J., Schmiedel, T., & vom Brocke, J. (2019). A Theory of Contingent Business Process Management. Business Process Management Journal, 25(6), 1291-1316. (ABDC_2022: B; ABS_2021: 2; VHB_3: C)
moreZelt, S., Schmiedel, T., & vom Brocke, J. (2018). Understanding the Nature of Processes: An Information-Processing Perspective. Business Process Management Journal, 24(1), 67-88. (ABDC_2022: B; ABS_2021: 2; VHB_3: C)
moreZelt, S., Recker, J., Schmiedel, T., & vom Brocke, J. (2018). Development and validation of an instrument to measure and manage organizational process variety. Public Library of Science (PLoS ONE), 13(10), e0206198.
moreSchmiedel, T., Müller, O., & vom Brocke, J. (2018). Topic Modeling as a Strategy of Inquiry in Organizational Research: A Tutorial with an Application Example on Organizational Culture. Organizational research methods, 22(4), 941-968. (ABDC_2022: A*; ABS_2021: 4; VHB_3: A)
moreSpiegel, M., Schmiedel, T., & vom Brocke, J. (2017). What makes change harder - or easier. MIT Sloan Management Review, 58(3), 88-89. (ABDC_2022: A; ABS_2021: 3; VHB_3: C; FT_50_2016: yes)
morevom Brocke, J., Zelt, S., & Schmiedel, T. (2016). On the Role of Context in Business Process Management. International Journal of Information Management, 36(3), 486-495. (ABDC_2022: A*; ABS_2021: 2; VHB_3: C)
moreKummer, T.-F., & Schmiedel, T. (2016). Reviewing the role of culture in strategic information systems research: A call for prescriptive theorizing on culture management. Communications of the Association for Information Systems (CAIS), 38(5), 122-144. (ABDC_2022: A; ABS_2021: 2; VHB_3: C)
morevom Brocke, J., Schmiedel, T., Simons, A., Schmid, A., Petry, M., & Baeck, C. (2016). From Local IT Needs to Global Process Transformation: Hilti's Customer Service Program. Business Process Management Journal, 22(3), 594-613. (ABDC_2022: B; ABS_2021: 2; VHB_3: C)
moreGorbacheva, E., Stein, A., Schmiedel, T., & Müller, O. (2016). The role of gender in business process management competence supply. Business & Information Systems Engineering (BISE), 58(3), 213-231. (ABDC_2022: A; ABS_2021: 2; VHB_3: B)
morevom Brocke, J., Zelt, S., & Schmiedel, T. (2015). Considering Context in Business Process Management: The BPM Context Framework. BPTrends: BPM analysis, opinion and insight, Class Notes November 2015, 1-12.
moreSchmiedel, T., vom Brocke, J., & Recker, J. (2014). Development and Validation of an Instrument to Measure Organizational Cultures´ Support of Business Process Management. Information and Management, 51(1), 43-56. (ABDC_2022: A*; ABS_2021: 3; VHB_3: B)
morevom Brocke, J., Schmiedel, T., Recker, J., Trkman, P., Mertens, W., & Viaene, S. (2014). Ten Principles of Good Business Process Management. Business Process Management Journal (BPMJ), 20(4), 530-548. (ABDC_2022: B; ABS_2021: 2; VHB_3: C)
moreMüller, O., Schmiedel, T., Gorbacheva, E., & vom Brocke, J. (2014). Toward a Typology of Business Process Management Professionals: Identifying Patterns of Competence through Latent Semantic Analysis. Enterprise Information Systems, 10(1), 50-80. (ABDC_2022: A; ABS_2021: 2)
moreSchmiedel, T. (2014). On the management of culture within business process management. Uporabna Informatika, 12(2), 68-75.
morevom Brocke, J., Schmiedel, T., Recker, J., Trkman, P., Mertens, W., & Viaene, S. (2014). 10 Principles of Good BPM. BPTrends: BPM analysis, opinion and insight, Class Notes October 2014, 1-12.
moreZelt, S., Schmiedel, T., & vom Brocke, J. (2014). Benchmarking cultural fitness for Business Process Management: On the need for a consideration of the nature of processes. 360° - The Business Transformation Journal, 12(Dec 2014), 28-37.
moreSchmiedel, T., vom Brocke, J., & Recker, J. (2013). Which cultural values matter to business process management? Results from a global Delphi study. Business Process Management Journal (BPMJ), 19(2), 292-317. (ABDC_2022: B; ABS_2021: 2; VHB_3: C)
moreSchmiedel, T., vom Brocke, J., & Recker, J. (2013). How fit is your organizational culture for business process management? 360° - The Business Transformation Journal, 6(Jan 2013), 81.
moreSchmiedel, T., vom Brocke, J., Uhl, A., & Zeitz, S. (2013). A global HR transformation: How a leading company leveraged the innovative power of IT. 360° - The Business Transformation Journal, 7(Apr 2013), 56-65.
moreSchmiedel, T., vom Brocke, J., & Recker, J. (2012). Is your organizational culture fit for business process management? BPTrends(May 2012), 1-5.
moreSchmiedel, T., vom Brocke, J., & Recker, J. (2012). Cultural fitness for business process management: What is it and what is it worth? The World Financial Review, November-December 2012, 21-24.
morevom Brocke, J., & Sinnl, T. (2011). Culture in business process management. A literature review. Business Process Management Journal (BPMJ), 17(2), 357-377. (ABDC_2022: B; ABS_2021: 2; VHB_3: C)
morevom Brocke, J., Petry, M., & Schmiedel, T. (2011). How Hilti masters transformation. 360° - The Business Transformation Journal, 1(Jul 2011), 38-47.
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J. vom Brocke & T. Schmiedel (Eds.). (2015). BPM - Driving Innovation in a Digital World. Heidelberg: Springer.
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vom Brocke, J., Fay, M., Schmiedel, T., Petry, M., Krause, F., & Teinzer, T. (2017). A Journey of Digital Innovation and Transformation - The Case of Hilti. In G. Oswald & M. Kleinemeier (Eds.), Shaping the Digital Enterprise (pp. 237-251): Springer.
morevom Brocke, J., Petry, M., Schmiedel, T., & Sonnenberg, C. (2015). How Organizational Culture Facilitates a Global BPM Project: The Case of Hilti. In J. vom Brocke & M. Rosemann (Eds.), Handbook on Business Process Management: Strategic Alignment, Governance, People and Culture (International Handbooks on Information Systems) (2 ed., Vol. 2, pp. 693-713). Berlin: Springer.
moreSchmiedel, T., vom Brocke, J., & Recker, J. (2015). Culture in Business Process Management: How Cultural Values Determine BPM Success. In J. vom Brocke & M. Rosemann (Eds.), Handbook on Business Process Management: Strategic Alignment, Governance, People and Culture (International Handbooks on Information Systems) (2 ed., Vol. 2, pp. 649-663). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.
moreSchmiedel, T., & vom Brocke, J. (2015). Business process management: Potentials and challenges of driving innovation. In J. vom Brocke & T. Schmiedel (Eds.), BPM - Driving Innovation in a Digital World (pp. 3-15). Heidelberg, Germany: Springer.
moreSchmiedel, T., & vom Brocke, J. (2014). Cultural values matter: The role of organizational culture in ECM. In J. vom Brocke & A. Simons (Eds.), Enterprise Content Management in Information Systems Research: Foundations and Cases (pp. 75-87). Berlin: Springer.
moreSchmiedel, T., vom Brocke, J., & Uhl, A. (2014). Operational Excellence. In A. Uhl & L.A. Gollenia (Eds.), Digital Enterprise Transformation: A Business-Driven Approach to Leveraging Innovative IT (pp. 207-230). Surrey: Gower.
moreSchmiedel, T., vom Brocke, J., Uhl, A., & Zeitz, S. (2013). A Global HR Transformation: How a Leading Company Leveraged the Innovative Power of IT. In A. Uhl & L. A. Gollenia (Eds.), Business Transformation Essentials. Case Studies and Articles (pp. 159-172): Gower.
morevom Brocke, J., Petry, M., & Schmiedel, T. (2013). How Hilti Masters Transformation. In A. Uhl & L. A. Gollenia (Eds.), Business Transformation Essentials. Case Studies and Articles (pp. 203-213): Gower.
morevom Brocke, J., Petry, M., Sinnl, T., Kristensen, B. Ø., & Sonnenberg, C. (2010). Global Processes and Data. The Culture Journey at Hilti Corporation. In J. vom Brocke & M. Rosemann (Eds.), Handbook on Business Process Management: Strategic Alignment, Governance, People and Culture (International Handbooks on Information Systems) (Vol. 2, pp. 537-556). Berlin: Springer.
moreBuß, E., & Sinnl, T. (2008). Management in der modernen Gesellschaft. In E. Buß (Ed.), Managementsoziologie. München: Oldenbourg.
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Denner, S.-M., Röglinger, M., Schmiedel, T., Stelzl K., & Wehking, C. (2018). How context-aware are extant BPM methods? - Development of an assessment scheme. Paper presented at the Business Process Management Conference, Sydney, Australia. (VHB_3: C)
moreSchmiedel, T., Müller, O., Debortoli, S., & vom Brocke, J. (2016). Identifying and quantifying cultural factors that matter to the IT workforce: An approach based on automated content analysis. Paper presented at the 24th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS), Istanbul, Turkey. (VHB_3: B)
moreTumbas, S., Schmiedel, T., & vom Brocke, J. (2015). Characterizing Multiple Institutional Logics for Innovation with Digital Technologies. Paper presented at the 48th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), 05-08 Jan 2015, Hawaii, USA. (VHB_3: C)
moreGorbacheva, E., Stein, A., Schmiedel, T., & Müller, O. (2015). A gender perspective on business process management competences offered on professional online social networks. Paper presented at the 23rd European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS 2015), Münster, Germany. (VHB_3: B)
moreTumbas, S., & Schmiedel, T. (2013). Developing an organizational culture supportive of business process management. Paper presented at the 11th International Conference on Wirtschaftsinformatik (WI), 27 Feb - 01 Mar 2013, Leipzig, Germany.
moreTumbas, S., Schmiedel, T., Bringmann, M., & vom Brocke, J. (2013). Developing a BPM-supportive organizational culture: On the importance of contextual factors. Paper presented at the 21st European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS), 05-08 Jun 2013, Utrecht, Netherlands. (VHB_3: B)
morevom Brocke, J., & Schmiedel, T. (2011). Towards a conceptualisation of BPM culture: Results from a literature review. Paper presented at the 15th Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems (PACIS), 07-11 July 2011, Brisbane, Australia.
morevom Brocke, J., & Sinnl, T. (2010). Applying the BPM-Culture-Model: The Hilti case. Paper presented at the 21st Australasian Conference on Information Systems (ACIS), 01-03 Dec 2010, Brisbane, Australia.
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