Prof. Dr. Janine Hacker

Dr. Janine Hacker has held the Chair of Information Systems and Social Networks at the University of Bamberg since February 2026.

Dr Janine Hacker completed her studies in International Information Systems (MSc.) at Friedrich-Alexander-Universit?t Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU). She then worked as a research assistant at the Chair of Information Systems, specialising in the service sector, and completed her doctorate with summa cum laude in 2017. During this time, she spent several research stays as a visiting scholar at the Discipline of Business Information Systems at the University of Sydney in Australia. From 2018 to 2020, Dr Hacker worked as a senior assistant in the Information Management Research Group at the Institute of Informatics at the University of Zurich in Switzerland. She then worked as an assistant professor at the Business School of the University of Liechtenstein.
Dr Hacker's research work is interdisciplinary and applied in nature. She has successfully initiated and carried out projects with colleagues from the fields of computer science, sociology and music education, as well as with partners from industry (including Deloitte Australia, Deloitte Switzerland, Datev eG and Siemens AG). Her research has been published in various journals, including EJIS, I&O, CMR and BISE. 
Dr Hacker has served as track chair and associate editor for leading international information systems conferences (including ECIS and ICIS) on several occasions. In addition, she regularly serves as a reviewer for various journals, including MISQ, ISJ, EJIS and BISE.

Dr Hacker's research focuses on the use and design of digital communication and collaboration technologies in various contexts. Using qualitative and quantitative approaches, she investigates how these technologies are accepted by users, how they influence their working and living environments, and what transformative effects they have at the individual, corporate and societal levels.

Selected research topics:

• Digital work, knowledge management and team collaboration (e.g. using enterprise social software)
• Interorganizational collaboration (e.g. within blockchain consortia)
• Digital collaboration between individuals (e.g. using video conferencing systems)
• Use of innovative technologies in the arts and culture sector (including low-latency technology)
• Human-AI collaboration
• Online communities and social media
• Digital responsibility and digital participation

Hacker, J., Sch?bel, S., Car?t, A. (2025) Let’s Choir-laborate: Designing a Technology Solution to Support Online Group Singing. In Proceedings of the 58^th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. Big Island, Hawaii, USA.

Hacker, J., Sch?bel, S., Henning, H., & Car?t, A. (2025) Musik als Brücke – ?berlegungen zum inklusiven Potenzial von Online-Chorsingen. HMD, 62, 1444–1462. 

Hacker, J., Trier, M., & Richter, A. (2024). Unfolding the contextual nature of enterprise social media use – a morphogenetic approach. European Journal of Information Systems. 

Zavolokina, L., Bauer-H?nsel, I., Hacker, J., & Schwabe, G. (2024). Organizing for value creation in blockchain information systems. Information and Organization, 34(3). 

Hacker, J., Miscione, G., Felder, T., & Schwabe, G. (2023): Commit or not? How blockchain consortia form and develop. California Management Review, 65(3), 110-131.

Weber, M., Hacker, J., Karintaus, L., Pekkola, S., vom Brocke, J., & Ylinen, M. (2023). Preparing for Cyberattacks: A Case Study of Resilience in the Health-Care Sector. In Proceedings of the 31st European Conference on Information Systems. Kristiansand, Norway.

Bauer, I., Ziolkowski, R., Hacker, J., & Schwabe, G. (2022): Why Blockchain: A Socio-technical Perspective on the Motives of Business Consortia Members to Engage with Blockchain Technology. Distributed Ledger Technologies: Research and Practice.

Hacker, J., & Riemer, K. (2021). Identification of User Roles in Enterprise Social Networks – Method Development and Application. Business & Information Systems Engineering, 63, 367–387

Weber, M., Hacker, J., & vom Brocke, J. (2021). Resilience in Information Systems Research - A Literature Review from a Socio-Technical and Temporal Perspective. In Proceedings of the 42nd International Conference on Information Systems. Austin, USA. 

Schneider, J., Hacker, J., Litvinova, Y., Handali, J., & vom Brocke, J. (2021). Exploring the Use of Backgrounds in Web-conferencing with Image and Text Analysis. In Proceedings of the 42nd International Conference on Information Systems. Austin, USA.

Hacker, J., vom Brocke, J., Handali, J. P., Otto, M., & Schneider, J. (2020). Virtually in this together – how web-conferencing systems enabled a new virtual togetherness during the COVID-19 crisis. European Journal of Information Systems, 29(5), 563–584.

Hacker, J. V., Johnson, M., Saunders, C., & Thayer, A. L. (2019). Trust in Virtual Teams: A Multidisciplinary Review and Integration. Australasian Journal of Information Systems, 23.

Grottke, M., Hacker, J., & Durst, C. (2018). Which Factors Determine Our Online Social Capital? An Analysis Based on Structural Equation Modeling. Australasian Journal of Information Systems, 22. 

Hacker, J., Bodendorf, F., & Lorenz, P. (2017). A Framework to Identify Knowledge Actor Roles in Enterprise Social Networks. Journal of Knowledge Management, 21(4), 817–838.