Jeffrey Nickerson (jnickers)

Jeffrey Nickerson

Professor and Steven Shulman '62 Endowed Chair for Business Leadership

School of Business

Babbio Center 631
(201) 216-5385

Research

• Collective intelligence
• Design and creativity
• Digital innovation

Most papers can be found on my Google Scholar or my SSRN page

Institutional Service

  • Ph.D. Program Committee for Data Science Member
  • School of Business Nominations Committee for Full Professor Member
  • School of Business Research Committee Chair
  • Student Managed Investment Fund Advisory Board Member
  • University Promotion and Tenure Committee Member
  • Hanlon Advisory Board Member
  • School of Business Nominations Committee Member
  • Search Committee for Tenure stream positions in Information Systems Member
  • MSIS program committee Member
  • University Strategic Planning Task Force Member
  • Search Committee for the Vice Provost of Research Member
  • School of Business Board of Advisors Member
  • School of Business Tenure Committee Member
  • Provost Search Committee Member
  • Search Committee for the Vice President for Information Technology and Chief Information Officer Member
  • Dean's Committee of the School of Business Member
  • Hanlon Advisory Board Member
  • Meeting of the deans/associate deans of research Member
  • Nominating Committee for promotion to Full Professor Chair
  • Ph.D. Program Committee for Data Science Member
  • School of Business Board of Advisors Member
  • School of Business Nominations Committee Member
  • Search Committee for Tenure stream positions in Information Systems Member
  • Student Managed Investment Fund Advisory Board Member
  • MSIS program committee Member
  • Bi-weekly meeting of the deans/associate deans of research Member
  • Board of Trustees Investment Committee Member
  • Dean's Committee of the School of Business Member
  • Ph.D. Program Committee for Business Administration Member
  • Ph.D. Program Committee for Data Science Member
  • School of Business Board of Advisors Member
  • School of Business Nominations Committee Member
  • Schulman Chair Search Committee Chair
  • Student Managed Investment Fund Advisory Board Member
  • MSIS program committee Member

Professional Service

  • Society of Automotive Engineers Consultant
  • ACM Collective Intelligence Conference Member of the Steering Committee
  • Pica9 Board Member
  • A Research Coordination Network to Converge Research on Work in the Age of Increased Automation co-PI
  • Alphabet Consultant/Tester
  • HICSS Doctoral Consortium Mentor
  • The Web Conference Senior Program Committee Member
  • AOM Doctoral Consortium Mentoring
  • HICSS Minitrack Co-Chair
  • ACM Collective Intelligence Conference Member of the Steering Committee
  • Pica9 Board Member
  • Collective Intelligence Conference Member of the Steering Committee

Professional Societies

  • ACM Member
  • AIS – Association for Information Systems Member
  • AOM – Academy of Management Member
  • AAAI Member
  • AIS – Association for Information Systems Member
  • AIS – Association for Information Systems Member

Grants, Contracts and Funds

NSF: Exploring Design and Evaluation Space through Crowds and Communities

NSF: Collaborative Research: Understandingand Improving Implicit Coordination in

Peer Production Networks, with Deborah Gordon, Stanford.

NSF: Planning to study automation and the future of news production with Kevin Crowston(PI), Keren Henderson(co-PI, Syracuse), and Lydia B. Chilton (co-PI, Columbia)

NSF: A Research Coordination Network to Converge Research on the Socio-Technological Landscape of Work in the Age of Increased Automation. with Kevin Crowston (PI, Syracuse), and Ingrid M. Erickson (Co-PI, Syracuse)

Selected Publications

Book Chapter

  1. Nickerson, J. (2020). Remixing Systems: Collective design through modification. Handbook of Digital Innovation. Edward Elgar Publishing.

Conference Proceeding

  1. Petridis, S.; Diakopoulos, N.; Crowston, K.; Hansen, M.; Henderson, K.; Jastrzebski, S.; Nickerson, J.; Chilton, L. B. (2023). Anglekindling: Supporting journalistic angle ideation with large language models. Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1--16).
  2. Zhang, S.; Yan, B.; Herve, J.; Nickerson, J. (2023). The Work Ecosystem: Software Technology Diversity and the Value of Occupations. Occupations as Systems of Technology Skills: The Role of Modularity and Connectedness. Academy of Management Meetings Proceedings. Academy of Management Meetings Proceedings.
    https://journals.aom.org/doi/abs/10.5465/AMPROC.2023.212bp.
  3. Nickerson, J.; Zhang, S. (2023). Generative AI in Knowledge Work. Leading and Managing in the Digital Era.
  4. Zhang, S.; Nickerson, J. V. (2023). Understanding and Predicting Changes in the Occupation Ecosystem. Shiyan Zhang. Leading and Managing in the Digital Era.
  5. Nickerson, J.; Wang, S.; Chilton, L. B. (2023). Ideating with Text and Image Models by Treating Data as Material. Data as a Material for Design: Alternative Narratives, Divergent Pathways, and Future Directions.
  6. Wang, S.; Chilton, L.; Nickerson, J. V. (2023). Writing with Generative AI: Multi-modal and multi-dimensional tools for journalists. The Second Workshop on Intelligent and Interactive Writing Assistants at ACM CHI.
  7. Nickerson, J.; Seidel, S.; Yepes, G.; Berente, N. (2022). Design Principles for Coordination in the Metaverse (vol. 2022). Academy of Management.
    http://dx.doi.org/10.5465/ambpp.2022.15178abstract.
  8. Zhang, S.; Nickerson, J. (2022). The Coevolution of Tasks and Technologies. Academy of Management Proceedings (1 ed., vol. 2022). Academy of Management.
    http://dx.doi.org/10.5465/ambpp.2022.17122abstract.
  9. Seidel, S.; Berente, N.; Nickerson, J.; Yepes, G. (2022). Designing the Metaverse. Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences.
    http://dx.doi.org/10.24251/hicss.2022.811.
  10. Seidel, S.; Nickerson, J.; Saltz, J.; Lindberg, A. (2022). Introduction to the Minitrack on AI, Organizing, and Management. Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences.
    http://dx.doi.org/10.24251/hicss.2022.718.
  11. Zheng, L. N.; Mai, F.; Yan, B.; Nickerson, J. (2021). The Effect of Learning Machines on Online Community Governance. Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems.
  12. Zhang, S.; Nickerson, J. (2021). Occupation Modularity and the Work Ecosystem. International Conference on Information Systems.
  13. Zhang, S.; Nickerson, J. (2021). The Coevolution of Tasks and Technologies. ACM Collective Intelligence.
  14. Lindberg, A.; Nickerson, J.; Saltz, J.; Seidel, S. (2021). AI, organizing, and management. Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (vol. 2020-January, pp. 5493-5494).
  15. Zheng, L.; Mai, F.; Gordon, D. M.; Nickerson, J. (2020). Bursty coordination in online communities. 40th International Conference on Information Systems, ICIS 2019.
  16. Gerber, E. M.; Nickerson, J.; Dontcheva, M.; Dabbish, L.; Hill, C. (2019). Collective innovation. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW (pp. 106-110).
  17. Nagasamudram, R.; Nickerson, J. (2019). Experiments in Collective Design. DESRIST.
  18. Nickerson, J.; Lei (Nico) Zheng; Albano, C. M. (2019). Knowledge Production by Collectives Composed of Humans and Machines. Collective Intelligence.
  19. Nickerson, J.; Zheng, L. N.; Albano, C. M. (2019). Steps toward Understanding the Design and Evaluation Spaces of Bot and Human Knowledge Production Systems. Wiki Workshop.
  20. Xiao, L.; Nickerson, J. (2019). Imperatives in Past Online Discussions: Another Helpful Source for Community Newcomers?. Proceedings of the 52nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu.
  21. Zheng, L.; Mai, F.; Gordon, D.; Nickerson, J. (2018). Bursty Coordination in Online Communities. Workshop on Information Technology and Systems.
  22. Lei (Nico) Zheng; Mai, F.; Gordon, D. M.; Nickerson, J. (2018). Bursty Coordination in Online Communities. Workshop on Information in Technology.
  23. Nickerson, J.; Zhang, S.; zur Muehlen, M. (2018). Designing Work. Workshop on Power Struggles in the Digital Economy at CSCW.
  24. Han, Y.; Nickerson, J. (2018). Novelty and Diversity: Remixing with Human-based Search Algorithms. International Conference on Information Systems.
  25. Nagasamudram, R.; Mazumdar, A.; Nickerson, J. (2018). Towards a System for Experimenting with Remixing. The Industrial Internet of Things: New Perspectives on HCI and CSCW within Industry Settings, a workshop at CSC.
  26. Creamer, G.; Ren, Y.; Nickerson, J. (2013). Impact of dynamic corporate news networks on asset return and volatility. 2013 International conference on social computing (pp. 809--814).
  27. Creamer, G.; Ren, Y.; Sakamoto, Y.; Nickerson, J. (2013). News and sentiment analysis of the european market with a hybrid expert weighting algorithm. 2013 International Conference on Social Computing (pp. 391--396).
  28. Creamer, G.; Ren, Y.; Nickerson, J. (2011). News, Corporate Network and Price Discovery. Workshop on Information in Networks (WIN). NYU Stern.
  29. Blake, M. B.; Sliva, A. L.; zur Muehlen, M.; Nickerson, J.; Sprague, R. (2007). Binding Now or Binding Later: The Performance of UDDI Registries. Proceedings of the 40th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-40). Waikoloa, HI: IEEE.
  30. Corter, J. E.; Nickerson, J.; Esche, S.; Chassapis, C. (2004). Remote versus hands-on labs: A comparative study. Proceedings - Frontiers in Education Conference, FIE (vol. 2).
  31. Nickerson, J.; zur Muehlen, M.; King, J. L.; Lyytinen, K. (2003). Defending the Spirit of the Web: Conflicts in the Internet Standards Process. Workshop on Standard Making: A Critical Research Frontier for Information Systems (pp. 327-343). Seattle, WA.

Editorial, Conference Proceeding

  1. Lindberg, A.; Nickerson, J.; Saltz, J.; Seidel, S. (2021). AI, organizing, and management. Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (vol. 2020-January, pp. 5493-5494).
  2. Lindberg, A.; Nickerson, J.; Saltz, J.; Seidel, S. (2021). AI, organizing, and management. Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (vol. 2020-January, pp. 5493-5494).
  3. Lindberg, A.; Seidel, S.; Nickerson, J. (2020). AI & Organizing. Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (vol. 2020-January, pp. 5159).

Journal Article

  1. Zheng, L.; Mai, F.; Yan, B.; Nickerson, J. (2023). Stigmergy in Open Collaboration: An Empirical Investigation Based on Wikipedia. Journal of Management Information Systems .
    https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07421222.2023.2229119.
  2. Kyriakou, H.; Nickerson, J.; Majschrzak, A. (2022). Novelty and the Structure of Design Landscapes: A Relational View of Online Innovation Communities. MIS Quarterly (3 ed., vol. 46, pp. 1691-1720).
  3. Ren, J.; Dong, H.; Popovic, A.; Sabnis, G.; Nickerson, J. (2022). Digital platforms in the news industry: how social media platforms impact traditional media news viewership. European Journal of Information Systems (pp. 1-18). Informa UK Limited.
    http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0960085x.2022.2103046.
  4. Dong, H.; Ren, J.; Padmanabhan, B.; Nickerson, J. (2022). How are social and mass media different in relation to the stock market? A study on topic coverage and predictive value. Information & Management (2 ed., vol. 59, pp. 103588). Elsevier BV.
    http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.im.2021.103588.
  5. Ren, J.; Dong, H.; Padmanabhan, B.; Nickerson, J. (2021). How does social media sentiment impact mass media sentiment? A study of news in the financial markets. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (9 ed., vol. 72, pp. 1183-1197).
  6. Seidel, S.; Berente, N.; Lindberg, A.; Lyytinen, K.; Martinez, B.; Nickerson, J. (2020). Artificial Intelligence and Video Game Creation: A Framework for the New Logic of Autonomous Design. Journal of Digital Social Research (3 ed., vol. 2, pp. 126--157).
  7. Lindberg, A.; Seidel, S.; Nickerson, J. (2020). Introduction to the Minitrack on AI and Organizing.
  8. Zheng, M.; Marsh, J. K.; Nickerson, J.; Kleinberg, S. (2020). How causal information affects decisions. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications (1 ed., vol. 5).
  9. Seidel, S.; Berente, N.; Lindberg, A.; Lyytinen, K.; Nickerson, J. (2020). Artificial Intelligence and Video Game Creation: A framework for the new logic of autonomous design. Journal of Digital Social Research (3 ed., vol. 2).
    http://dx.doi.org/10.33621/jdsr.v2i3.46.
  10. Han, Y.; Ozturk, P.; Nickerson, J. (2020). Leveraging the Wisdom of Crowd to Address Societal Challenges: Revisiting the Knowledge Reuse Process for Innovation through Analytics. Journal of the Association for Information Systems (5 ed., vol. 21).
  11. Zheng, M.; Marsh, J. K.; Nickerson, J.; Kleinberg, S. (2020). How causal information affects decisions.. Cognitive research: principles and implications (1 ed., vol. 5, pp. 6).
  12. Lyytinen, K.; Nickerson, J.; King, J. L. (2020). Metahuman systems = humans + machines that learn. Journal of Information Technology.
  13. Zheng, L.; Albano, C. M.; Vora, N. M.; Mai, F.; Nickerson, J. (2019). The roles bots play in Wikipedia. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction (CSCW ed., vol. 3).
  14. Wang, K.; Nickerson, J. (2019). A Wikipedia-based Method to Support Creative Idea Generation: The Role of Stimulus Relatedness. Journal of Management Information Systems (4 ed., vol. 36, pp. 1284-1312).
  15. Ren, J.; Nickerson, J. (2019). Arousal, valence, and volume: how the influence of online review characteristics differs with respect to utilitarian and hedonic products. European Journal of Information Systems (3 ed., vol. 28, pp. 272-290). Informa UK Limited.
    http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0960085x.2018.1524419.
  16. Seidel, S.; Berente, N.; Lindberg, A.; Lyytinen, K.; Nickerson, J. (2019). Autonomous tools and design: A triple-loop approach to human-machine learning. Communications of the ACM (1 ed., vol. 62, pp. 50-57).
  17. Seidel, S.; Berente, N.; Lindberg, A.; Lyytinen, K.; Nickerson, J. (2019). Autonomous tools and design: A triple-loop approach to human-machine learning. Communications of the ACM (1 ed., vol. 62, pp. 50-57).
  18. Seidel, S.; Berente, N.; Lindberg, A.; Lyytinen, K.; Nickerson, J. (2018). Autonomous tools and design: a triple-loop approach to human-machine learning. Communications of the ACM (1 ed., vol. 62, pp. 50--57). ACM.
  19. Seidel, S.; Berente, N.; Martinez, B.; Lindberg, A.; Lyytinen, K.; Nickerson, J. (2018). Autonomous tools in system design: Reflective practice in ubisofts ghost recon wildlands project. Computer (10 ed., vol. 51, pp. 16-23).
  20. Creamer, G.; Ren, Y.; Sakamoto, Y.; Nickerson, J. (2016). A textual analysis algorithm for the equity market: The European case. The Journal of Investing (3 ed., vol. 25, pp. 105--116). Institutional Investor Journals Umbrella.
  21. Nickerson, J.; Corter, J. E.; Esche, S.; Chassapis, C. (2007). A model for evaluating the effectiveness of remote engineering laboratories and simulations in education. Computers and Education (3 ed., vol. 49, pp. 708-725).
  22. Corter, J. E.; Nickerson, J.; Esche, S.; Chassapis, C.; Im, S.; Ma, J. (2007). Constructing reality: A study of remote, hands-on, and simulated laboratories. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (2 ed., vol. 14).
  23. Nickerson, J.; zur Muehlen, M. (2006). The Ecology of Standards Processes: Lessons from Internet Standardization. MIS Quarterly (Special Issue ed., vol. 30, pp. 467-488).
  24. zur Muehlen, M.; Nickerson, J.; Swenson, K. D. (2005). Developing Web Services Choreography Standards - The Case of REST vs. SOAP. Decision Support Systems (1 ed., vol. 40, pp. 9-29).

Magazine/Trade Publication

  1. Aroyo, L.; Dumitrache, A.; Simperl, E.; Lease, M.; Michelucci, P.; Nickerson, J. (2018). Reports of the workshops held at the sixth AAAI conference on human computation and crowdsourcing. AI Magazine (4 ed., vol. 39, pp. 57). Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence.
  2. Seidel, S.; Berente, N.; Martinez, B.; Lindberg, A.; Lyytinen, K.; Nickerson, J. (2018). Autonomous tools in system design: Reflective practice in ubisofts ghost recon wildlands project. Computer (10 ed., vol. 51, pp. 16-23).

Technical Report

  1. Nickerson, J.; Lyytinen, K.; King, J. (2022). Automated Vehicles: A Human/Machine Co-learning Perspective. Society of Automotive Engineers.
    https://saemobilus.sae.org/content/EPR2022009/.