http://dl.gi.de/handle/20.500.12116/34558 2026-07-23T11:14:18Z http://dl.gi.de/handle/20.500.12116/34568 Designing for Crowdfunding Co-creation Lipusch, Nikolaus; Dellermann, Dominik; Bretschneider, Ulrich; Ebel, Philipp; Leimeister, Jan Marco Crowdfunding is now established as a valid alternative to conventional methods of financing for startups. Unfortunately, to date, research has not investigated how backers can be encouraged to support entrepreneurs beyond funding. The aim of this study is to design and evaluate certain design elements for reward-based crowdfunding platforms that can engage backers in co-creational activities for product development. The study uses a design science research (DSR) approach and the theoretical concept of psychological ownership to inform a new design and then experimentally test that design. The results suggest that the derived artifacts positively influence co-creational activities in crowdfunding and that feelings of psychological ownership play an important mediating role. The contribution of this research is threefold. First, this paper extends crowdfunding’s application potential from merely a method of financing to a method of value creation with customers for product development. Second, the study advances DSR by applying a new DSR approach that shows whether a design performs as hypothesized by theory. Third, this research allows the exploration of backers’ individual behavior as opposed to their collective behavior. 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z http://dl.gi.de/handle/20.500.12116/34567 Standardization of Forms in Governments Scholta, Hendrik; Balta, Dian; Räckers, Michael; Becker, Jörg; Krcmar, Helmut Forms are central interfaces for information exchange between a government and its citizens. As a way to translate laws into practice, forms are an essential part facilitating this exchange. Unfortunately, forms often require substantial development effort to ensure they comply with legal requirements, with the result that citizens often describe them as highly complex. Standardization of forms through reference modeling would help to minimize governments’ effort by reusing elements and would reduce complexity for citizens by providing a unified representation of information. The article contributes a meta-model for a modeling language that can be used in representing reference models for forms. It follows a design science research approach to elicit form structure and editorial process requirements and to iteratively design the meta-model. The paper demonstrates and evaluates the meta-model using focus groups and application in three case studies. It extends research on standardization to reference modeling and government forms. 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z http://dl.gi.de/handle/20.500.12116/34569 Software-Defined Business Alt, Rainer; Leimeister, Jan Marco; Priemuth, Thomas; Sachse, Stephan; Urbach, Nils; Wunderlich, Nico 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z http://dl.gi.de/handle/20.500.12116/34566 A Case for a New IT Ecosystem: On-The-Fly Computing Karl, Holger; Kundisch, Dennis; Meyer auf der Heide, Friedhelm; Wehrheim, Heike The complexity of development and deployment in today’s IT world is enormous. Despite the existence of so many pre-fabricated components, frameworks, cloud providers, etc., building IT systems still remains a major challenge and most likely overtaxes even a single ambitious developer. This results in spreading such development and deployment tasks over different team members with their own specialization. Nevertheless, not even highly competent IT personnel can easily succeed in developing and deploying a nontrivial application that comprises a multitude of different components running on different platforms (from frontend to backend). Current industry trends such as DevOps strive to keep development and deployment tasks tightly integrated. This, however, only partially addresses the underlying complexity of either of these two tasks. But would it not be desirable to simplify these tasks in the first place, enabling one person – maybe even a non-expert – to deal with all of them? Today’s approaches to the development and deployment of complex IT applications are not up to this challenge. “On-The-Fly Computing” offers an approach to tackle this challenge by providing complex IT services through largely automated configuration and execution. The configuration of such services is based on simple, flexibly combinable services that are provided by different software providers and traded in a market. This constitutes a highly relevant challenge for research in many branches of computer science, information systems, business administration, and economics. In this research note, it is analyzed which pieces of this new “On-The-Fly Computing” ecosystem already exist and where additional, often significant research efforts are necessary. 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z