Department of Digitalization, Copenhagen Business School

Winter Application for MSc Business Administration and Digital Business 2025 💡 The MSc in Business Administration and Digital Business (or simply "Digital Business") winter admission round 2024/2025 opened 1 October 2024, with the programme starting 1 February 2025. If you or someone you know is interested in practical management and business understanding combined with a strong understanding of digital tools and current and emerging platforms, make sure they see this opportunity to apply to CBS 💻🎓

Dissemination happens in very different ways. September 3rd external lecturer Frejdie Søndergård-Gudmandsen is talking to Danish SME's about how to grasp process, governance & data when exploring AI opportunities for businesses. Registration is still open :)

Curious about some of our researchers' latest work? 💡 Then read the article below from the latest issue of Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems: "From Algorithmic Management to Data-Driven Labour Organising: A Trade Union Approach to Workplace Datafication." The article is authored by several researchers from the Department of Digitalization, Copenhagen Business School: Stig Nyman, Olivia Benfeldt, Dr. Maren Gierlich-Joas, Andreas Blicher Petersen, Somnath Mazumdar, Jacob Nørbjerg, Mads Bødker, José Parra Moyano, Tina Blegind Jensen and Torkil Clemmensen.

On Monday 24 June 2024 Professor Anoush Margaryan, Department of Digitalization, Copenhagen Business School was in Brussels to deliver a keynote presentation on Human Capabilities in the Age of AI and Learning Machines at a seminar on Learning for an AI workplace https://lnkd.in/dCU5w3Rz The seminar was organized jointly by the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training (Cedefop) https://lnkd.in/dJW_M-4E and the Belgian Presidency of the Council of EU https://lnkd.in/erVykMGx The focus of the seminar was on addressing the skill challenges arising from the development and embedding of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies within European workplaces. The seminar presentations and discussions explored the extent to which European workers are using AI technologies as part of the work; the sectors and occupations experiencing changing skill needs arising from the adoption of AI technologies in the workplace; the training and skill development opportunities and investments available to the workers; and the role of social dialogue in facilitating human-centered rather than AI-centered workplaces. The seminar was aimed at social partners and policymakers and other beneficiaries of research. It aimed to communicate research findings and recommendations to inform policy and practice in skill development and training around AI technologies in European workplaces. Participants included representatives of national ministries of labour and education, various directorates of the European Commission, trade unions, informal training providers, and other social partners. Professor Margaryan’s talk focused on uniquely human learning capabilities that were essential in the workplaces increasingly AI-mediated by AI and the so-called machine learning algorithms. Her talk highlighted the discrepancies between human learning and the operations of AI algorithms misnomered as ‘learning’ promoting a critical reassessment of prevailing narratives and claims surrounding AI technologies.

FOLKEMØDET 2024 💡 At this year's Folkemøde Assistant Professor, Sine Zambach, Department of Digitalization, Copenhagen Business School participated in leading exciting and highly relevant debates and teaching sessions on technology and digital learning with a particular focus on children and young people. Together with Coding Pirates, Sine Zambach explored how children and young people learn about technology, both in school and in their spare time. The debate delved into technological understanding, digital literacy, and playing with technology 💻 ✨ Moreover, Sine Zambach and Coding Pirates taught the young generation. They introduced a 7th grade class from Paradisbakkeskolen in Nexø to generative AI and discussed the boundaries of what is acceptable to create with AI. Sine Zambach, who is also active in Coding Pirates in her spare time, is passionate about learning through creation and the use of AI, which is also the theme of her book "AI i gymnasiet" - aiigymnasiet.praxis.dk 📚 Finally, Sine Zambach participated in a session with DOBS – Digitale Oplysninger til Borgerne om Samfundet about Society on generative AI, learning, and data diplomacy. We hope everyone had a good and exciting Folkemøde! ☀

It has truly been some celebrating weeks at DIGI. Once again, we had the pleasure of celebrating a fantastic Ph.D. defense 🎉 On Friday our Ph.D. fellow Sippo Rossi successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis entitled “Bots on Social Media - The Past, Present and Future” 💡 A big congratulation with your degree, Sippo and thank you for an exciting and informative presentation of your research. We would also like to thank the assessment committee Rob Gleasure, Ahmed Elragal and Dezhi Wu for the good discussion that followed. Congratulations to the supervisors Raghava Rao Mukkamala and Jason Thatcher. Once again, a huge congratulations to Sippo from all of us at DIGI – great job 👏😊 #PhD #PhDdefense #CBS

On Friday our Ph.D. fellow Nina Frausing Pedersen, PhD successfully defended her Ph.D. entitled “A Framing Contest between Institutional Actors on Crypto-Asset Policymaking in the EU” 🎉 A huge congratulation to Nina and a thank you for an exciting presentation of her research on the future of payments of Crypto-assets and Blockchain technology. We would also like to thank the assessment committee members Christiane Lehrer, Wendy Currie and Tom Butler PhD MSc for the excellent discussion that followed. Also congratulations to the supervisors Michel Avital, Xiao Xiao and Jonas Hedman. Once again, a big congratulations to Nina from all of us at DIGI – really great job. 👏🥂 #PhD #PhDdefense

RENOWNED SCHOLARS SEMINAR SERIES 💡   Professor Monideepa Tarafdar from University of Massachusetts Amherst gave Friday May 24th a seminar in the Renowned Scholar Seminar Series at CBS’s Department of Digitalization. She provided an excellent overview of the IS community research in both the positive and negative digital technology impact on wellbeing - a research field in which Monideepa has been a leading force for 20 years.   We are grateful that Monideepa took the time to stop by 👏

Congratulations to our Ph.D. fellow Maylis Saigot on successfully defending her Ph.D. thesis entitled “At The Heart of Digital Collaboration. Navigating Interpersonal Affective Pathways in Digitalized Work Environments” 🎉👏 We thank Maylis for interesting and relevant research on how technology influence the work environment, collaboration and team dynamic 💡 Also a big thank to the assessment committee Andrea Carugati, Monideepa Tarafdar, and Torkil Clemmensen for great discussion and valuable feedback. Congulations to Maylis once again and to her supervisors Rob Gleasure and Ioanna Constantiou from us at DIGI. Great job! 💪😃 #PhD #PhDdefense

The Importance of Cybersecurity🌐🔐 When unexpected inquiries arise within one’s area of expertise – Jan Lemnitzer, Department of Digitalization, Copenhagen Business School explains the factors that could influence this year’s threat level of cybersecurity at Eurovision, as well as the types of cyberattacks that could occur at a large event like Eurovision.