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Prof. Dr. Verena Tiefenbeck
School of Business, Economics and Society
Tenure-Track-Professur für Digitale Transformation
Lange Gasse 20
90403 Nürnberg
Publications
- Mehta, P., Tiefenbeck, V., & Staake, T. (2026). Electric vehicle charging strategies in residential communities: Permissible penetration levels and emissions. Energy Reports, 15. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.egyr.2025.108978
- Schnurr, D., Hartl, P., Manzke, L., Schmidbauer, E., Haßler, J., & Tiefenbeck, V. (2026). Data Donations: Data Disclosure for the Common Good. Business & Information Systems Engineering. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12599-026-00989-z
- Borzino, N., Hiepler, B., Schmitt, K., Schmitz, J., Schubert, R., & Tiefenbeck, V. (2025). Switching Off: Energy Saving Goals Outshine Incentives—Evidence from a Field Experiment. Environmental & Resource Economics. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10640-025-00973-3
- Grummon, A.H., O'Sullivan, K., Petimar, J., Lee, C.J., Zeitlin, A.B., Cleveland, L.P.,... Block, J.P. (2025). Nutrition Info and Other Front-of-Package Labels and Simulated Food and Beverage Purchases: A Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Network Open, 8(10). https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2025.37389
- Manzke, L., O'Sullivan, K., & Tiefenbeck, V. (2025). “Did I buy that just now?” – Investigating factors influencing the accuracy of food choice self-reports in a simulated online grocery store. Appetite, 214. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2025.108032
- Manzke, L., & Tiefenbeck, V. (2025). Reflection Prompts in Online Grocery Shopping: Effects of Personalization and Timing on Relevance, Persuasion, and Reactance. In Americas Conference on Information Systems, AMCIS 2025 (pp. 2972-2981). Montreal, QC, CA: Association for Information Systems.
- O'Sullivan, K., Tiefenbeck, V., Stucki, M., Bradford, S., Fuchs, K.L., Wanner, S., & Fleisch, E. (2025). A single specific and actionable swap recommendation can lead to substantial reductions in households’ dietary carbon footprints. Journal of Cleaner Production, 526. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2025.146577
- Ochmann, J., Zilker, S., Michels, L., Tiefenbeck, V., Matzner, M., & Laumer, S. (2025). The Effects of Information and Incentive Interventions on the Adoption of Algorithms in Human Resources: An Experimental Study. SIGMIS Database - the Data Base for Advances in Information Systems, 56(1), 44-60. https://doi.org/10.1145/3715966.3715970
- Schneider, L., & Tiefenbeck, V. (2025). Interdependence Within Collective CRM Continuance. A Systematic Literature Review and Integrated Framework. In Proceedings of the European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS). Amman, JO.
- Hevner, A.R., Parsons, J., Brendel, A.B., Lukyanenko, R., Tiefenbeck, V., Tremblay, M.C., & vom Brocke, J. (2024). Transparency in design science research. Decision Support Systems, 182. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dss.2024.114236
- Kuhlemann, S., Mehta, P., & Tiefenbeck, V. (2024). Greener or Faster: Unraveling the Impact of Travel Time Presentation on Rail vs. Air Travel Decision-Making. In ICIS 2024 Proceedings. Bangkok.
- Merian, S., O'Sullivan, K., Stöckli, S., Beretta, C., Müller, N., Tiefenbeck, V.,... Natter, M. (2024). A field experiment to assess barriers to accurate household food waste measurements. Resources Conservation and Recycling, 206. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resconrec.2024.107644
- Ochmann, J., Michels, L., Tiefenbeck, V., Maier, C., & Laumer, S. (2024). Perceived algorithmic fairness: An empirical study of transparency and anthropomorphism in algorithmic recruiting. Information Systems Journal. https://doi.org/10.1111/isj.12482
- Rosenberger, J., Kuhlemann, S., Tiefenbeck, V., Kraus, M., & Zschech, P. (2024). The Impact of Transparency in AI Systems on Users’ Data-Sharing Intentions: A Scenario-Based Experiment. In Wirtschaftsinformatik 2024 Proceedings. Würzburg.
- Wagon, F., Fridgen, G., & Tiefenbeck, V. (2024). Shaping stable support: Leveraging digital feedback interventions to elicit socio-Political acceptance of renewable energy. Energy Policy, 195. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2024.114307
- Fang, X., Götte, L., Rockenbach, B., Tiefenbeck, V., Sutter, M., Schöb, S., & Staake, T. (2023). Complementarities in behavioral interventions: Evidence from a field experiment on resource conservation. Journal of Public Economics, 228. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpubeco.2023.105028
- Merian, S., O'Sullivan, K., Stoeckli, S.J., Beretta, C., Tiefenbeck, V., Mueller, N.,... Natter, M. (2023, May). A Field Experiment on Biases in Food Waste Measurement Methods. Paper presentation at EMAC Annual Conference 2023, Odense, DK.
- Michels, L., Ochmann, J., Schmitt, K., Laumer, S., & Tiefenbeck, V. (2023). Salience, transparency, and self-nudging: a digital nudge to promote healthier food product choices. European Journal of Information Systems. https://doi.org/10.1080/0960085X.2023.2229787
- Staake, T., Tiefenbeck, V., & Stiefmeier, T. (2023). Information Systems and Behavioural Change: Feedback Interventions to curb the consumption of natural resources. In Vanessa A. Cooper, Johann J. Kranz, Saji K. Mathew, Richard T. Watson (Eds.), Handbook of Information Systems and the Environment. (pp. 253-274). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing.
- Wörner, A., Tiefenbeck, V., & Ketter, W. (2023). Blockchain-enabled markets: A literature review with a focus on decentralised energy markets. Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd..
- Wörner, A., Tiefenbeck, V., & Ketter, W. (2023). Chapter 16: Blockchain-enabled markets: A literature review. In Edward Elgar Publishing (Eds.), Handbook of Information Systems and the Environment. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing.
- Fuchs, K., Lian, J., Michels, L., Mayer, S., Toniato, E., & Tiefenbeck, V. (2022). Effects of Digital Food Labels on Healthy Food Choices in Online Grocery Shopping. Nutrients, 14(10). https://doi.org/10.3390/nu14102044
- Mehta, P., & Tiefenbeck, V. (2022). Solar PV sharing in urban energy communities: Impact of community configurations on profitability, autonomy and the electric grid. Sustainable Cities and Society, 87. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scs.2022.104178
- Michels, L., Ochmann, J., Günther, S.A., Laumer, S., & Tiefenbeck, V. (2022). Empowering Consumers to Make Environmentally Sustainable Online Shopping Decisions: A Digital Nudging Approach. In Proceedings of the HICSS 2022.
- Michels, L., Ochmann, J., Tiefenbeck, V., & Laumer, S. (2022). The Acceptance of AI-based Recommendations: An Elaboration Likelihood Perspective. In Proceedings of the 17. Internationale Tagung Wirtschaftsinformatik.
- Wörner, A., Tiefenbeck, V., Wortmann, F., Meeuw, A., Ableitner, L., Fleisch, E., & Azevedo, I. (2022). Bidding on a Peer-to-Peer Energy Market: An Exploratory Field Study. Information Systems Research. https://doi.org/10.1287/isre.2021.1098
- Koch, K., Tiefenbeck, V., Liu, S., Fleisch, E., & Wortmann, F. (2021). Taking mental health & well-being to the streets: An exploratory evaluation of in-vehicle interventions in the field. In Proceedings of the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Online Virtual Conference (originally Yokohama, Japan).
- Michels, L., Schmitt, K., Ochmann, J., Laumer, S., & Tiefenbeck, V. (2021). Is It All About Transparency? The Effectiveness and Ethics of a Digital Salience Nudge. In Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 2021 European Conference on Information Systems. Marrackech, Morocco.
- Pena-Bello, A., Parra, D., Herberz, M., Tiefenbeck, V., Patel, M.K., & Hahnel, U.J.J. (2021). Integration of prosumer peer-to-peer trading decisions into energy community modelling. Nature Energy. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41560-021-00950-2
- Toniato, E., Mehta, P., Marinkovic, S., & Tiefenbeck, V. (2021). Peak load minimization of an e-bus depot: impacts of user-set conditions in optimization algorithms. Energy Informatics, 4. https://doi.org/10.1186/s42162-021-00174-4
- Ableitner, L., Tiefenbeck, V., Meeuw, A., Wörner, A., Fleisch, E., & Wortmann, F. (2020). User behavior in a real-world peer-to-peer electricity market. Applied Energy, 270. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2020.115061
- Graf, V., Graf-Drasch, V., Tiefenbeck, V., Weitzel, R., & Fridgen, G. (2020). Supporting Citizens’ Political Decision-Making Using Information Visualisation. In In Proceedings of the 28th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS). Marrakesch, MA.
- Günther, S.A., Staake, T., Schöb, S., & Tiefenbeck, V. (2020). The behavioral response to a corporate carbon offset program: A field experiment on adverse effects and mitigation strategies. Global Environmental Change-Human and Policy Dimensions, 64. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2020.102123
- Meeuw, A., Schopfer, S., Wörner, A., Ableitner, L., Tiefenbeck, V., Fleisch, E., & Wortmann, F. (2020). Implementing a blockchain-based local energy market: Insights on communication and scalability. Computer Communications, 160, 158-171. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.comcom.2020.04.038
- Ochmann, J., Michels, L., Zilker, S., Tiefenbeck, V., & Laumer, S. (2020). The influence of algorithm aversion and anthropomorphic agent design on the acceptance of AI-based job recommendations. In International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) (Eds.), Proceedings of the 41st International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS). Hyderabad, Indien, IN.
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