Prof. Dr. David Antons

Research interests:

• Hybrid Intelligence in organizations
• Interaction of human and machine
• Human-AI decision making
• Knowledge sharing and technology transfer
• Organizational climate
• Psychological factors influencing decision making
• Attitude research and implicit attitude measurement
• Learning from feedback
• Text Mining, Natural Language Processing, Topic Modeling

• Piening, E.P., Salge, T.O., Antons, D. & Kreiner, G. (2018), Standing Together or Falling Apart? Understanding Employees’ Responses to Organizational Identity Threats. Academy of Management Review , forthcoming.
• Antons, D., Joshi, A. & Salge, T.O. (2018), Content, Contribution, and Knowledge Consumption: Uncovering Hidden Topic Structures and Rhetorical Signals in Scientific Texts. Journal of Management , forthcoming.
• Paluch, S., Antons, D., Brettel, M., Hopp, C., Salge, T. O., Piller, F., & Wentzel, D. (2019). Stage-gate and agile development in the digital age: Promises, perils, and boundary conditions. Journal of Business Research , forthcoming.
• Huetten, A. S. J., Antons, D., F. Breidbach, C., Piening, E. P., & Salge, T. O. (2019). The impact of occupational stereotypes in human-centered service systems. Journal of Service Management , 30(1), 132-155.
• Antons, D., & Breidbach, C. F. (2018). Big data, big insights? Advancing service innovation and design with machine learning. Journal of Service Research , 21(1), 17-39.
• Hopp, C., Antons, D., Kaminski, J. & Salge, T.O. (2018), Disruptive Innovation: Conceptual Foundations, Empirical Evidence, and Research Opportunities in the Digital Age, Journal of Product Innovation Management , Vol. 35(3): 446-457.
• Hopp, C., Antons, D., Kaminski, J. & Salge, T.O. (2018), The Topic Landscape of Disruption Research: A Call for Consolidation, Reconciliation, and Generalization. Journal of Product Innovation Management , Vol. 35(3): 458-487.
• Salge, T.O., Vera, A., Antons, D., & Cimiotti, J. (2017), Fighting MRSA Infections in Hospital Care: How Organizational Factors Matter, Health Services Research [VHB: A], 52(1), 959-983.
• Breidbach, C., Antons, D. & Salge, T.O. (2016), Seamless Service? On The Role and Impact of Service Orchestrators in Human-Centered Service Systems, Journal of Service Research , 19(4), 458-476.
• Antons, D., Kleer, R. & Salge, T.O. (2016), Mapping the Topic Landscape of JPIM, 1984-2013: In Search of Hidden Structures and Development Trajectories. Journal of Product Innovation Management , 33(6), 726-749.
• Antons, D. and Piller, F. (2015): Opening the Black Box of "Not-Invented-Here": Attitudes, Decision Biases, and Behavioral Consequences, Academy of Management Perspectives , Volume 29, No. 2, S. 1–25.
• Gesing, J., Antons, D., Piening, E. Rese, M. & Salge, T.O. (2015), Joining Forces or Going for it Alone? On the Interplay among External Collaboration Partner Types, Interfirm Governance Modes, and Internal R&D. Journal of Product Innovation Management , 32(3), 424-440.
• Lüttgens, D.; Antons, D.; Pollok, P.; Piller, F. (2014): Wisdom of the Crowd and Capabilities of a Few: Internal Success Factors of Crowdsourcing for Innovation, Journal of Business Economics (vormals: Zeitschrift für Betriebswirtschaft), Volume 84, Issue 3, S. 339-374.

David Antons is a researcher, keynote speaker and management consultant specialising in innovation management, corporate strategy and decision-making. He is a professor at the University of Bonn and former co-director of the Institute for Technology and Innovation Management at RWTH Aachen University, one of Europe's leading technology institutes. He has been a visiting scholar at the Department for Organisational Behaviour and Information Systems at the Judge Business School at the University of Cambridge in England. He also visited the Department of Computing and Information Systems at the School of Engineering at the University of Melbourne in Australia.

David Antons received his doctorate in Technology and Innovation Management from RWTH Aachen University in 2013. He also completed his habilitation at RWTH Aachen University, focusing on text mining in management research. Before joining the Aachen faculty, he received offers for professorships at the universities of Bochum and Mainz.

David Antons is considered an expert on a wide range of topics in strategy and innovation management, ranging from decision-making errors at the individual level to the acquisition of digital technologies and business model innovations to the interplay between digital transformation and organizational reputation. His research has been recognised with a nomination as a finalist for the ‘Innovating Innovation’ Award from Harvard Business Review and McKinsey for his research on the implementation of open innovation. He has also been awarded the RWTH Lecturer, a prize for outstanding researchers with exceptional teaching skills. As part of his research programme, he has collaborated with a wide range of companies in the fields of mechanical engineering, mobility, healthcare, finance and banking, insurance and construction.