Nicholas Berente
Professor
IT, Analytics, and Operations
574-631-4943
363 Mendoza College of Business
- Biography
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Nick Berente studies how digital innovations like artificial intelligence technologies drive change in organizations and institutions. He teaches courses on Strategic Business Technology and is Co-Director of the GAMA Lab and affiliated faculty in Notre Dame's Lucy Family Institute for Data & Society and also Notre Dame's Technology Ethics Center. Prof. Berente received his PhD from Case Western Reserve University and conducted postdoctoral studies at the University of Michigan. He was an entrepreneur prior to his academic career, founding two technology companies. He is the principal investigator for a number of U.S. National Science Foundation projects and has won multiple awards for his teaching and his research. Prof. Berente is a senior editor for MIS Quarterly.
Education
Postdoc, University of Michigan
Ph D, Case Western Reserve University
MBA, Case Western Reserve University
BSBA, John Carroll University
Areas of Expertise
digital innovation, digital transformation, organizational & insitutional change, cyberinfrastructure, artificial intelligence
Editorial Boards
Senior Editor
MIS Quarterly
June 1, 2022
MIS Quarterly
June 1, 2022
Senior Editor
Information and Organization
January 1, 2020
Information and Organization
January 1, 2020
Associate Editor
MIS Quarterly
January 1, 2017 - December 31, 2021
MIS Quarterly
January 1, 2017 - December 31, 2021
Associate Editor
Information and Organization
January 1, 2015 - December 31, 2019
Information and Organization
January 1, 2015 - December 31, 2019
Associate Editor
Information Systems Research
January 1, 2014 - December 31, 2016
Information Systems Research
January 1, 2014 - December 31, 2016
"The Entrainment of Task Allocation and Release Cycles in Open Source Software Development", (With Aron Lindberg, Aaron Schecter, Kalle Lyytinen, Phil Hennel), MIS Quarterly, forthcoming - Accepted (awaiting publication)
"Does Analytics Help Resolve Equivocality in the Healthcare Context? Contrasting Effects of Analyzability and Variety", (With Idris Adjerid, Corey Angst, Sarv Devaraj), Journal of the AIS - Accepted (awaiting publication)
"Rethinking Project Escalation: An Institutional Perspective on the Persistence of Failing Large-Scale Information System Projects", (With Carolina Salge, Venkata Mallampalli, Ken Park), Journal of Management Information Systems, 39, 2022
"Technology Lifecycles and Digital Innovation: Patterns of discourse across levels of abstraction", (With Uri Gal, Friedrich Chasin), Journal of the AIS, 23
"Computationally-Intensive Theory Construction: A Primer for Authors and Reviewers", (With Shaila Miranda, Stefan Seidel, Hani Safadi), MIS Quarterly, 46, 2022
"Managing Artificial Intelligence", (With Bin Gu, Jan Recker, Radhika Santhanam), MIS Quarterly, 45, 2021
"A behavioral perspective on service center routing: The role of inertia", (With Aaron Schecter, Kaitlin Wowak, Han Ye, Ujjal Mukherjee), Journal of Operations Management, 67, 2021
"Team Design Thinking, Product Innovativeness, and the Moderating Role of Problem Unfamiliarity", (With Varun Nagaraj, James Gaskin, Kalle Lyytinen), Journal of Product Innovation Management, 37, 2020
"Data-Driven, Data-Informed, Data-Augmented: How Ubisoft’s Ghost Recon Unit Uses Data for Continuous Product Innovation", (With Karl Werder, Stefan Seidel, John Gibbs, Jan Recker), California Management Review, 62, 2020
"Institutional Logics and Pluralistic Responses to Enterprise System Implementation: A Qualitative Meta-Analysis", (With Kalle Lyytinen, Youngjin Yoo, Chris Maurer), MIS Quarterly, 43, 2019
"Data-Driven Computationally-Intensive Theory Development", (With Stefan Seidel, Hani Safadi), Information Systems Research, 30, 2019
"Autonomous Tools & Design Work: A Triple-Loop Approach to Human-Machine Learning", (With Stefan Seidel, Aron Lindberg, Kalle Lyytinen, Jeffrey Nickerson), Communications of the ACM, 62, 2019
"Succeeding with Autonomous Tools in Systems Design: Reflective Practice & Ubisoft’s Ghost Recon Wildlands Project", (With Stefan Seidel, Benoit Martinez, Aron Lindberg, Kalle Lyytinen, Jeffrey Nickerson), IEEE Computer, 51, 2018
"Is That Social Bot Behaving Unethically?", (With Carolina Salge), Communications of the ACM, 60, 2017
"Five ways consortia can catalyze open science", (With Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld, Karen Baker, Courtney Flint, et al), Nature, 543, 2016
"Coordinating Interdependencies in Online Communities: A Study of an Open Source Software Project", (With Aron Lindberg, James Gaskin, Kalle Lyytinen), Information Systems Research, 27, 2016
"Routines as the Shock Absorbers of Organizational Transformation: Integration, Control, and NASA’s Enterprise Information System", (With Kalle Lyytinen, Youngjin Yoo, John King), Organization Science, 27, 2016
"Toward Generalizable Sociomaterial Inquiry: A Computational Approach for ‘Zooming In & Out’ of Sociomaterial Routines", (With James Gaskin, Kalle Lyytinen, Youngjin Yoo), MIS Quarterly, 38, 2014
"Open Data: Crediting a Culture of Cooperation", (With B Bolukbasi, J Cutcher-Gershenfeld, L DeChurch, et al), Science, 342, 2013
"The Era of Incremental Change in the Technology Innovation Life Cycle: An Analysis of the Automotive Emission Control Industry", (With Jaegul Lee), Research Policy, 42, 2013
"Digital Innovation and the Division of Innovative Labor: A Dual-hierarchy View of Complex Product Architectures", (With Jaegul Lee), Organization Science, 23, 2012
"Institutional Contradictions and Loose Coupling: Post-Implementation of NASA’s Enterprise Information System", (With Youngjin Yoo), Information Systems Research, 23, 2012
"Arguing the Value of Virtual Worlds: Patterns of Discursive Sensemaking of an Innovative Technological Environment", (With Sean Hansen, Jacqueline Pike, Patrick Bateman), MIS Quarterly, 35, 2011
"Best Journal Paper Runner Up", Academy of Management CTO Division, 2022
"Best Theory Development Paper Award", International Conference on Information Systems, 2021
"AIS Distinguished Member, Cum Laude", Association for Information Systems, 2020
"Best Paper Award", Information Systems Research, 2019
"Best Paper Award", PEARC Workforce Track, 2019
"Best Publication Award", Association for Information Systems, 2019
"Outstanding Associate Editor Award", MIS Quarterly, 2018
"Best Journal Paper Runner-Up", Academy of Management OCIS Division, 2017
"Best Theory Development Paper Award", International Conference on Information Systems, 2017
"Associate Editor of the Year Award", Information Systems Research, 2016
"Board Member Recognition Award", Information and Organization, 2016
"Best Paper Award", Academy of Management OCIS Division, 2015
"Best Paper Award", International Conference on Information Systems, 2015
"Best IS Publication Award", Association for Information Systems, 2014
"Best Paper Award", Information and Organization, 2014
"Outstanding Paper Award", Americas Conference on Information Systems Research Methods Track, 2014
"Best Journal Paper Runner-Up", Academy of Management OCIS Division, 2013
"E. Grosvenor Plowman Best Paper Award", Supply Chain Management Educators' Conference , 2011
"Doctoral Dissertation Award", ACM SIGMIS, 2009
"Outstanding Paper Award", IT & People, 2009
"Outstanding Reviewer Award", Journal of Strategic Information Systems, 2007
Academy of Management CTO Doctoral Consortium, National Science Foundation (NSF), $29,275
Transforming Small and Medium-Sized Manufacturing Firms Through Participatory AI Adoption and Implementation, National Science Foundation (NSF), $150,000
Understanding the Assumptions of Principal Investigators Making the Leap to Large”, National Science Foundation (NSF), $96,000
Not just for fun: What can we learn from video games about digital age organizations?, Schlindwein Family Grant, $15,000
Collaborative Strategies for Successful Large-Scale, Distributed Science and Engineering Projects, National Science Foundation (NSF), $119,000
XSEDE 2.0 Sub-award: Integrating, Enabling and Enhancing National Cyberinfrastructure , National Science Foundation (NSF), $250,000
Fostering Successful Innovative Large-Scale, Distributed Science and Engineering Projects through Integrated Collaboration, National Science Foundation (NSF), $100,000
Research Collaboration Network for Managing Collaborative Research Centers, National Science Foundation (NSF), $500,000
Virtual Organization Resources and Toolkits Exchange (VORTEX), National Science Foundation (NSF), $205,000
Managing Cyberinfrastructure Centers in a Demanding Era The Development of Science Executives, National Science Foundation (NSF), $290,000
Supporting Successful Design and Management of Research Centers, National Science Foundation (NSF), $300,000
Electronic Health Records and Caregiver-Patient Interaction, Novant Health, $7,500