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Business and Management
Germany
2023

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Business and Management

D-Index
63
Citations
20424
World Ranking
436
National Ranking
14

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Business and Management in Germany Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Business and Management in Germany Leader Award

Overview

Thomas Hess is a researcher affiliated with Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München in Germany. Their primary areas of study span Psychology and Social Sciences, with a focus on aging and gerontology research. Hess has contributed extensively to understanding psychological well-being, health disparities, and social dynamics among older adults.

The main topics covered in Hess's research include:

  • Aging and Gerontology Research
  • Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
  • Health Disparities and Outcomes
  • Retirement, Disability, and Employment
  • Psychological and Temporal Perspectives Research
  • Social and Intergroup Psychology
  • Technology Use by Older Adults

Hess's work spans various subfields of psychology with an emphasis on Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology as well as Social Psychology, Health, Demography, and Sociology and Political Science.

Several notable recent papers authored or coauthored by Hess reflect their research interests and collaborations. These include:

  • "Antecedents and Consequences of Endorsing Prescriptive Views of Active Aging and Altruistic Disengagement," 2022, Frontiers in Psychology
  • "Age-Related Attributions of Experienced Changes in Life: Origins and Implications," 2020, The Journals of Gerontology Series B
  • "Predictors of engagement in young and older adults: The role of specific activity experience," 2020, Psychology and Aging
  • "Motivation and Healthy Aging: A Heuristic Model," 2021, The Journals of Gerontology Series B
  • "Older adults' preferences for colorectal cancer-screening test attributes and test choice," 2020, UNC Libraries

Throughout their career, Hess has frequently collaborated with several scholars, including:

  • Klaus Rothermund
  • Helene H. Fung
  • Maria Clara Pinheiro de Paula Couto
  • Sylvie Graf
  • Shyhnan Liou

Hess's publications have appeared predominantly in these venues:

  • The Journals of Gerontology Series B
  • Innovation in Aging
  • PsycTESTS Dataset
  • European Journal of Ageing
  • Psychology and Aging

Best Publications

  • Digital Transformation Strategies

    Christian Matt;Thomas Hess;Alexander Benlian

  • Options for Formulating a Digital Transformation Strategy

    Thomas Hess;Christian Matt;Alexander Benlian;Florian Wiesböck

  • Digitalization: Opportunity and Challenge for the Business and Information Systems Engineering Community

    Christine Legner;Torsten Eymann;Thomas Hess;Christian Matt

  • How Chief Digital Officers Promote the Digital Transformation of their Companies

    Anna Singh;Thomas Hess

  • Opportunities and risks of Software-as-a-Service: Findings from a survey of IT executives

    Alexander Benlian;Thomas Hess

  • Grundzüge der Wirtschaftsinformatik

    Peter Mertens;Freimut Bodendorf;Wolfgang König;Matthias Schumann

  • Digital transformation strategy making in pre-digital organizations: The case of a financial services provider

    Simon Chanias;Michael D. Myers;Thomas Hess

  • Memorandum on design-oriented information systems research

    Hubert Österle;Joerg Becker;Ulrich Frank;Thomas Hess

  • Adult Age Differences in Dual Information Processes Implications for the Role of Affective and Deliberative Processes in Older Adults' Decision Making

    Ellen Peters;Thomas M. Hess;Daniel Västfjäll;Corinne Auman

  • Business models: An information systems research agenda

    Daniel Veit;Eric K. Clemons;Alexander Benlian;Peter Buxmann

  • Grundfragen der Medienwirtschaft

    Matthias Schumann;Thomas Hess

  • Drivers of SaaS-Adoption – An Empirical Study of different Application Types

    Alexander Benlian;Thomas Hess;Peter Buxmann

  • Selective Engagement of Cognitive Resources: Motivational Influences on Older Adults' Cognitive Functioning.

    Thomas M. Hess

  • Differential Effects of Provider Recommendations and Consumer Reviews in E-Commerce Transactions: An Experimental Study

    Alexander Benlian;Ryad Titah;Thomas Hess

  • Service quality in Software-As-A-Service: Developing the SaaS-QUAL measure and examining its role in usage continuance

    Alexander Benlian;M. Koufaris;Thomas Hess

  • How open is this platform? The meaning and measurement of platform openness from the complementors’ perspective

    Alexander Benlian;Daniel Hilkert;Thomas Hess

  • Software as a Service

    Peter Buxmann;Thomas Hess;Sonja Lehmann

  • How do chief digital officers pursue digital transformation activities? The role of organization design parameters

    Anna Singh;Patricia Klarner;Thomas Hess

  • What Does a Chief Digital Officer Do? Managerial Tasks and Roles of a New C-Level Position in the Context of Digital Transformation

    Anna Horlacher;Thomas Hess

  • Aging and cognition : knowledge organization and utilization

    Thomas M. Hess

  • AI-Based Digital Assistants

    Alexander Maedche;Christine Legner;Alexander Benlian;Benedikt Berger

Frequent Co-Authors

Alexander Benlian
Alexander Benlian Technical University of Darmstadt
Eric K. Clemons
Eric K. Clemons University of Pennsylvania
Jan Marco Leimeister
Jan Marco Leimeister University of Kassel
Martin Bichler
Martin Bichler Technical University of Munich
Helmut Krcmar
Helmut Krcmar Technical University of Munich
Ramayya Krishnan
Ramayya Krishnan Carnegie Mellon University
Alexander Maedche
Alexander Maedche Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Dimitris Karagiannis
Dimitris Karagiannis University of Vienna
Rolf T. Wigand
Rolf T. Wigand Arizona State University
Jason Bennett Thatcher
Jason Bennett Thatcher University of Colorado Boulder

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