Karl Werder is an associate professor in the Section Digital Business Innovation of the IT University of Copenhagen, DK. He serves as an associate editor at the Communications of the Association for Information Systems and Business & Information Systems Engineering Journal, and as an editorial review board member for the Decision Sciences Journal. Karl was a visiting scholar at Laval University, CA, and at Georgia State University, US. Karl also provided his expert opinion to media outlets, such as IEEE Spectrum and BLOG@CACM.
Karl investigates the resolution of inherent trade-offs of digital innovation, that is, the success of digital innovation depends on navigating interlocking tensions. For example, the very qualities that make digital technologies—especially AI—innovative (e.g., complexity and agency) are the same qualities that can undermine their use and trustworthiness. His work has been published or is forthcoming in leading journals from information systems (e.g., Journal of Management Information Systems, Journal of the Association for Information Systems, Journal of Strategic Information Systems), software engineering (e.g., IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Communications of the ACM, Information & Software Technology), and management (e.g., California Management Review), among others.
Werder, K., Cao, L., Ramesh, B. & Park, E. H. (2024). Empower Diversity in AI Development: Diversity Practices that Mitigate Social Biases from Creeping into Your AI. Communications of the ACM, 67(12), 31-34.
Bockelmann, T., Werder, K., Recker, J., Lehmann, J. & Bendig, D. (2024). Configuring Alliance Portfolios for Digital Innovation. Journal of Strategic Information Systems, 33(1), 101808.
Park, E. H., Werder K., Cao, L. & Ramesh, B. (2022). Why do Family Members Reject AI in Health Care? Competing Effects of Emotions. Journal of Management Information Systems, 39(3), 765-792.
Jabbari, M., Recker, J., Green, P. & Werder, K. (2022). How do Individuals Understand Multiple Conceptual Modeling Scripts? Journal of the Association for Information Systems, 23(4), 1037-1070.
Werder K., Ramesh, B. & Zhang, R. (2022). Establishing Data Provenance for Responsible Artificial Intelligence Systems. ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems, 13(2), No.:22.
Werder, K., Li, Y., Maedche, A. & Ramesh, B. (2021). Software Development Process Ambidexterity and Project Performance: A Coordination Cost-Effectiveness View. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 47(4), 836-849.
Werder, K., Seidel, S., Recker, J., Berente, N., Gibbs, J., Abboud, N., & Benzeghadi, Y. (2020). Data-Driven, Data-Informed, Data-Augmented: How Ubisoft’ s Ghost Recon Wildlands Live Unit Uses Data for Continuous Product Innovation. California Management Review, 62(3), 86-102.