Doctoral Candidate

Manfred Schoch
Doctoral Candidate
manfred.schoch@fim-rc.de
+49 821 598 – 3916
Bldg. J Room 2302
University of Augsburg
Manfred Schoch completed his Abitur at the Carl-Benz-Gymnasium in Ladenburg, Germany in 2007. He then proceeded to work for the Daimler AG in Mannheim, Germany as part of a 2.5 year vocational training program and received his degree in International Business Assistance from the German Chamber of Commerce. After that, he continued his academic education with an undergraduate degree in Business Information Systems at the University of Augsburg, Germany, which he completed in 2014. During his subsequent graduate studies, he spent one semester in the MBA program of the Joseph M. Katz School of Business at the University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. He then received his graduate degree in Information-oriented Business Administration in 2017 from the University of Augsburg. During his studies, Manfred Schoch was able to gain substantial practical experience within Germany and abroad. The companies he worked for include Mercedes-Benz Direct (London, UK), Allianz BV (Munich, Germany), and the Bank of New York Mellon (Pittsburgh, PA, USA). Parallel to his studies he also worked at interactivelabs as a Social Media Analyst, and at the Research Center FIM as a research assistant, both in Augsburg, Germany. Since April 2017 he has been a Doctoral Candidate and Teaching Assistant at the Research Center FIM.
As part of his research, Manfred Schoch focuses on topics within the realm of Communication and IT-supported Collaboration. His research deals with Social Software in general, and the use of it within organizations in particular.
Curating a Crowd that Evaluates Ideas to Solve Grand Challenges : The Role of Specializationpresented at: 6th International Conference on Computational Social Science, Cambridge, MA (virtual), 2020 | Gimpel, HennerLaubacher, RobertSchäfer, RicardaSchoch, Manfred | |
Quantification of Echo Chambers : A Methodological Framework Considering Multi-party Systemspresented at: 27th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS), Stockholm and Uppsala, Sweden, 2019 | Markgraf, MoritzSchoch, Manfred | |
Nutzerrollen der politischen Diskussion auf Twitter : Eine Analyse der Bundestagswahl 2017in: Informatik Spektrum, 2019 | Schoch, ManfredGimpel, HennerHinz, Oliver | |
User Roles in Online Political Discussions : A Typology based on Twitter Data from the German Federal Election 2017presented at: 26th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS), Portsmouth, UK, 2018 | Gimpel, HennerHaamann, FlorianSchoch, ManfredWittich, Marcel | |
User Roles in Online Political Discussions : a Typology based on Twitter Data from the German Federal Election 2017presented at: 80. Jahrestagung des Verbands der Hochschullehrer für Betriebswirtschaft (VHB 2018), Magdeburg, Deutschland, 2018 | Gimpel, HennerHamann, FlorianSchoch, ManfredWittich, Marcel | |
Emergent User Roles of a Digital Workplace : A Network Analysis Based on Trace Datapresented at: 38th International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), Seoul, South Korea, 2017 | Frank, LeonhardGimpel, HennerSchmidt, MarcoSchoch, Manfred | |
The Business Alignment of Social Media Analyticspresented at: 23rd European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS), Münster, Germany, 2015 | Kleindienst, DominikusPfleger, ReginaSchoch, Manfred |