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Papers by Sven Laumer

Management Research Review, 2010

... Andreas Eckhardt, Institute of Information Systems, University of Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Mai... more ... Andreas Eckhardt, Institute of Information Systems, University of Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany. ... Drawing mainly on production and supply-chain literature (de Toni and Panizzolo, 1993; Jayaram and Vickery, 1998; Manrodt and Vitasek, 2004; Phelps, 2006 ...

ABSTRACT Many businesses and private households rely on Free Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS). ... more ABSTRACT Many businesses and private households rely on Free Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS). Due to a lack of sustained contributors, however, most FLOSS projects do not survive. The early identification of developers who are likely to remain is thus an eminent challenge for the management of FLOSS initiatives. Previous research has shown that individuals' subjective assessment is often inaccurate emphasizing the need to objectively evaluate retention behavior. Consistent with the concepts Person-Job (P-J) and Person-Team (P-T) fit from the traditional recruitment literature, we derive objective measures to predict developer retention in FLOSS projects. In an analysis of the contribution behavior of former Google Summer of Code (GSoC) students we reveal that the level of development experience and conversational knowledge is strongly associated with retention. Surprisingly, our analysis reveals that students with abilities that are underrepresented in the project and students with a higher academic education do not remain considerably longer.

ABSTRACT Using a case study of a financial service provider, this research provides a next step t... more ABSTRACT Using a case study of a financial service provider, this research provides a next step toward an answer to the question about the importance of an employee's attitude toward a newly introduced information system in light of a mandatory usage setting. Based on the Commitment to Change Model, the paper argues theoretically and provides case study evidence that negative attitudes toward new information systems influence work-related and health-related outcomes. The observed case indicates that a negative evaluation of a new financial information system leads to negative consequences such as decreased organizational commitment and overall job satisfaction as well as an increased turnover intention and a higher number of sick days. The results implicate that work- and health-related consequences are potential dependent variables for technology adoption research and that practitioners have to address these issues during the implementation of information systems in organizations.

Journal of Information Technology, 2009

... influence in technology (non-) adoption is strongly related to the social comparison theory (... more ... influence in technology (non-) adoption is strongly related to the social comparison theory (Festinger ... It has mostly been social psychology researchers (Ahtola, 1976; Warshaw, 1980; Miniard and ... that the opinions of these referents or groups in a workplace environment differ or ...

ABSTRACT Despite an era of global recession qualified staff is still rare due to the demographica... more ABSTRACT Despite an era of global recession qualified staff is still rare due to the demographical situation worldwide. Companies are forced to develop new cost saving recruitment strategies to ensure the necessary labor supply while recruitment budgets are pruned. In this area, the use of information technology creates interesting opportunities to contact candidates and process applications, not only more economically but also more quickly. The actual value of the contribution made by IT in HR is nevertheless still disputed. For this reason, we conducted an empirical analysis in three different countries examining the impact of IT on process performance determinants in staff recruitment. With the aid of three causal models for Germany, Austria and Switzerland we could confirm a positive impact of IT use on time and costs per hire as well on the overall recruitment process quality.

Wirtschaftsinformatik / Angewandte Informatik, 2009

Mis Quarterly Executive, 2009

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Information Systems Frontiers, 2010

The article suggests a model for examining the adoption of e-recruiting by individuals. The model... more The article suggests a model for examining the adoption of e-recruiting by individuals. The model is empirically evaluated using survey data from 323 full and under age applicants. The results explain substantial parts of the individual adoption decision. Interestingly, the relative importance of the adoption drivers varies with age, social environment and the level of education. While, as expected, overall Performance Expectancy is the major force behind adopting e-recruiting, the relative importance of the other factors differs a lot. Whereas Facilitating Conditions came out as an important driver for under age pupils, full age students by contrast are highly driven by the influence of their peer groups and the communication of the respective company they apply for. A major outcome is that the Subjective Norm of family and friends, teachers and professors has a weaker influence for under age pupils who mostly live with their parents than for the group of students who already left home to study at college. Consequentially we assume that the social influence of peer groups on an individual’s adoption differs with respect to age, social environment and level of education. This should be investigated more carefully in future adoption research as it might provide an answer for the varying significance of Subjective Norm in adoption research.

International Journal of E-services and Mobile Applications, 2009

ABSTRACT As one of the top issues for CIOs nowadays the recruiting and retention of IT-profession... more ABSTRACT As one of the top issues for CIOs nowadays the recruiting and retention of IT-professionals has received a lot of attention both in practice and research. While companies are in dire need of new strategies and integrated approaches in human resources, research has predominately observed the general attitude of IT-professionals to their work, their individual incentives and consequentially their turnover intention. We aim to relieve these needs in practice by introducing an approach containing an aligned ITarchitecture of e- recruiting and retention processes. For this purpose we use a design science approach to develop an IT-architecture of retention processes and their related subsystems and combine this architecture with the next-generation holistic e-recruiting system invented by In Lee in 2007. This architecture could increase knowledge transfer and thereby improve the adjustment and performance of both processes.

Business & Information Systems Engineering, 2009

1 IT-supported personnel selectionComputers have been used in the recruitment process to assess t... more 1 IT-supported personnel selectionComputers have been used in the recruitment process to assess the suitability of applicants for more than 40 years. The motivation for introducing computer-supported selection of applicants first lay in its ability to save time as well as to improve the quality of the selection process, which is intended to be achieved by a combination of computer-based selection procedures with conventional processes such as, for example, job interviews. User groups typical of this early phase of computer-supported assessment of suitability were state run labor market institutions and the military (Bartram 2000; Konradt and Sarges 2003).With the increasingly broad use of the Internet in the later 1990s the attractivity of this medium for finding staff (employer side) and job-seeking (employee side) also grew. The enormous rise in user-numbers led many businesses to realize that the Internet represented a new resource for the search for suitable employees for their rec