Introducing the 2023 AIS Entrepreneurial Innovation Fellowship Participants

The Association for Information Systems is excited to introduce the AIS Entrepreneurial Innovation Fellowship (EIF) program’s first student cohort!  AIS, with support from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, will offer funding to support the continuation of entrepreneurialism-focused research for program participants, reimbursements for travel to AIS and AIS-affiliated conferences, and global collaboration opportunities with faculty mentors. 

The students selected for the cohort have demonstrated their research provides practical implications for management practice and institutional change, as well as significant societal insights and scholarly impacts. Throughout the program, students will present their research in workshops on entrepreneurship and IS research. Working papers will be available for open access in the AIS eLibrary through the program’s progression. 

The cohort will present research at an upcoming virtual seminar in early 2023. We look forward to celebrating the program’s first cohort at ICIS 2022 in Copenhagen, Denmark!

2023 Entrepreneurship Innovation Fellowship Students

Ira Anjali Anwar, University of Michigan, United States
Ira Anjali Anwar is a second year PhD student at the School of Information, University of Michigan. Her research unpacks the experiences of women in the service economy---their engagement with on demand gig platforms to access opportunities for micro-entrepreneurship, and the challenges they encounter in navigating the digital ecosystem in India.

Bright Frimpong, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, United States
Bright Frimpong is a fourth year PhD candidate in Information Systems at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. Bright’s research goal is to uncover the cultural value conflicts that impede the growth of crowdfunding in developing regions and suggest how indigenous platform administrators can resolve these conflicts.

Pascal Hamm, EBS University, Germany
Pascal Hamm is a second year PhD student in Information Systems at EBS University in Germany with a focus on the adoption of AI systems in organizations. Hamm is currently focusing on the elaboration of success factors that lead to AI adoption in organizations, the impact of XAI on perceptual variables and performance, and the factors for organizational readiness for AI.

Lan Li, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, United States
Lan Li is a third year PhD student in Information and Library Science at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the United States. Lan is currently investigating the ways in which freelancing entrepreneurs manage, cope, and negotiate the uncertainties and ambiguities that undergird their online freelancing experience.

Ferdinand Mittermeier, University of Bamberg, Germany
Ferdinand Mittermeier is a third-year PhD student in International Information Systems Management at the University of Bamberg in Germany. Mittermeier hopes to achieve a long-term goal of unraveling the secrets of new venture creation in the digital age.

Tanguy Tresor Sindihebura, The University of Nottingham Ningbo China
Tanguy Tresor Sindihebura is a second year PhD student in Information Systems at University of Nottingham Ningbo China. Sindihebura is currently pursuing research on goal setting and crowdfunding.

Hannah Stein, Saarland University, Germany
Hannah Stein is a second year PhD student in Information and Service Systems at Saarland University and the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI). Stein is researching how subjective value assessments, e.g., of company data or of personal data in social media, can be transformed into objective and comprehensible pricing methods that could be applied in data markets and data ecosystems.

Faculty Lead
Deborah Soule, Northeastern University, United States 
Deborah Soule is a Visiting Lecturer in the Supply Chain and Information Management Group at Northeastern University. She has previously taught undergraduate, graduate, and professional students on topics including information systems, organizational behavior, management of technology and innovation, digital transformation and multi-sided platforms, organizational learning, and business analytics.