DiWoP – Supporting the digital transformation of non-profit social care providing organizations

The project deals with the digitalisation of non-statutory welfare organisations. It investigates how (the expectation of) changing data infrastructures resonate in and affect these organisations, focusing on the organisational structures that are emphasized, addressed or transformed in digitalisation processes. Together with scholars from the KPM Center for Public Management, at the University of Bern, we explore these processes in cooperation with up to 20 small and medium-sized non-profit organisations (NPOs) in the German and Swiss welfare sector, specifically in the field of integration and child and youth welfare. We conduct an extensive interview study to explore and assess the current needs of these organisations with regard to digitalisation phenomena. The goal is twofold. First, we aim to contribute to current research in organisation studies by studying the interdependence of organisational change and management approaches in the changing social and technological environment of today’s small welfare organisations. Second, we offer to support these organisations in planning and realising digitalisation processes.

Project duration: 01.01.2021 to 31.12.2024

Principal investigator

Univ.-Prof. Dr. Tobias Scheytt
Helmut-Schmidt-University |
University of the Federal Armed Forces
Department of Management Accounting and Control
E-Mail: [email protected]

Co-Principal Investigator
Dr. Jaromir Junne

Helmut-Schmidt-University |
University of the Federal Armed Forces
Department of Management Accounting and Control
Tel.: +49 40 6541-2373
E-Mail: [email protected]

www.hsu-hh.de/icu

Cooperation partner

University Bern (CH)
KPM Center for Public Management

Prof. Claus Jacobs, PhD
www.kpm.unibe.ch

Project Staff

Dr. Vera Linke
Helmut-Schmidt-University |
University of the Federal Armed Forces
Department of Management Accounting and Control

Maximilian Einhaus
Helmut-Schmidt-University |
University of the Federal Armed Forces
Department of Management Accounting and Control

Student assistants in the project

Lennart Deisen
Helmut-Schmidt-University |
University of the Federal Armed Forces
Department of Management Accounting and Control

Janes Winkler
Helmut-Schmidt-University |
University of the Federal Armed Forces
Department of Management Accounting and Control

Sofya Kvasha
University of Administration in Lower Saxony (HSVN) / Department of Management Accounting and Control @ Helmut-Schmidt-University Hamburg

Nhi Pung
University of Administration in Lower Saxony (HSVN) / Department of Management Accounting and Control @ Helmut-Schmidt-University Hamburg

Jonas Nahrwold
Helmut-Schmidt-University |
University of the Federal Armed Forces
Department of Management Accounting and Control

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Letzte Änderung: 6. February 2023