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Dipl.-Kfm. Dominik Böhler

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Dominik Böhler graduated from FAU in 2009 with a Master in business administration (Dipl.-Kfm.) and a major in Entrepreneurship. In the course of his studies he spent two semesters at Hull Business School, UK where he received a bachelor's degree in business. He also was an active member of START for many years and served as President of START Erlangen-Nürnberg e.V.. He gained practical experience during several internships and projects with firms like STABILO, SiemensVDO, Continental and several others in Germany and the UK.

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Publications

04. Conference Papers

Adamczyk, S., Böhler, D., Bullinger, A. C., & Möslein, K. M. 2011. Facilitating interaction in web-based communities: The case of a community for innovation in healthcare. Paper presented at the 41th Gesellschaft für Informatik Conference (GI).

07. Book Chapters

Böhler, D., Bullinger, A. C., & Möslein, K. M. 2010. Structuring interaction in open collective work: A sensemaking perspective on ontologies (Volume P-1). In Fähnrich, K. - P., & Franczyk, B. (Eds.), Informatik 2010. Service Science - Neue Perspektiven für die Informatik. Lecture Notes in Informatics (LNI) - Proceedings, Series of the Gesellschaft fuer Informatik: 979–984.

Dissertation Topic

Ontologies for organizing: from data structures to structuring meaning creation

My research explores how information systems can support organizing by initiating and supporting sensemaking processes. I will focus on mitigating three organizational problems: bounded rationality, distribution of actors and ambiguity. Therefore I will elicit actors' cognitive maps into an ontology using collaborative and automated approaches. This should support interaction in distributed organizations.

A multitude of different approaches mainly reduce the effects of bounded rationality and distribution. The problem of ambiguity in computer-mediated organizational interaction is usually traded off with limiting the expressiveness of information input into the system. This limits possibilities for information systems to support interactions in organizing processes, since the user’s expressiveness is limited to the bounded rationality of the designer.

The ideas on a Semantic Web try to overcome this tradeoff, but aren’t clearly linked to organizational interaction problems. In organization science, the sensemaking perspective connects reduction of ambiguity with iterative re-framing actors’ mental models to create meaning. However, combining an unstructured organizing process with the demands of structured modeling in information systems, e.g. ontology engineering, has received little attention.