Dr. Sanja Tumbas

• Research Project Acquisition, International Collaboration, and Proposal Leadership

• Academic Research in the area of Information Systems, Entrepreneurship, Societal Impact of Digital Technologies

• Supervision and Coaching

• Course Development and Teaching

• BSc International Business Administration

• MSc Digital Business Administration

• Business Information Technologies - IBIT

• Digital Business Transformation - SDB2

• Digital Innovation

• Digital/Technology Entrepreneurship

• Societal Impact of Digitalization

• 2023 - 2024 Tech Policy Fellow EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
• 2022 - 2023 Research Associate IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark
• 2017 - 2021 Assistant Professor IESE Business School, Spain
• 2013 - 2017 Doctoral Student University of Liechtenstein, Principality of Liechtenstein

• 2017 Doctor of Philosophy (Dr. rer. oec.) University of Liechtenstein, Principality of Liechtenstein
• 2012 Master of Science in Information Systems University of Münster, Germany
• 2008 Bachelor of Science in Information Systems University of Novi Sad, Serbia

• Tumbas, Sanja, "Digital-Physical Prototyping For Anchoring Legitimacy In Science-Based Ventures"
  (2026). ECIS 2026 TREOs. 114

• Berente, N., Hansen, S., Rosenkranz, C., & Tumbas, S. (2026). Translating agile development in different institutional contexts: Dynamism, pluralism, and ratcheting over time. Information Systems Research. Advance online publication.

• Lehmann, J., Berends, H., Berente, N., & Tumbas, S. (2025). Architectural learning in the professional 3D printing ecosystem: Proxies and the complementarity space. Organization Science, 37(1), 157–185.

• Lehmann, J., Hukal, P., Recker, J., & Tumbas, S. (2025). Layering the architecture of digital product innovations: Firmware and adapter layers. Journal of the Association for Information Systems, 26(1), 162–194.

• Mankevich, V., Tumbas, S., & Holmström, J. (2025). Digital innovation sourcing through entrepreneurial storytelling: Insights from Pebble Time’s crowdfunding success. Information and Organization, 35(1), Article 100552.

• Drechsler, K., Gregory, R., Wagner, H.-T., & Tumbas, S. (2020). At the crossroads between digital innovation and digital transformation. Communications of the Association for Information Systems, 47(1), 521–538.

• Tumbas, S., Berente, N., & vom Brocke, J. (2018). Digital innovation and institutional entrepreneurship: Chief digital officer perspectives of their emerging role. Journal of Information Technology, 33(3), 188–202.

• Association for Information Systems (Academic)

Mankevich, V., Tumbas, S., & Holmström, J. (2025). Digital innovation sourcing through entrepreneurial storytelling: Insights from Pebble Time’s crowdfunding success. Information and Organization, 35(1), Article 100552.

The Software and Hardware Side of Digital Entrepreneurship: The 3DPrint Venture

Tumbas, S., Berente, N., & vom Brocke, J. (2017). Digital capabilities for buffering tensions of structure, space, and time during entrepreneurial growth. In Proceedings of the 38th International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS 2017) (Paper 21).

Tumbas, S., Berente, N., Seidel, S., & vom Brocke, J. (2015). The “digital façade” of rapidly growing entrepreneurial organizations. In ICIS 2015 proceedings. Association for Information Systems.

• Serbian - Native or bilingual proficiency
• Hungarian - Native or bilingual proficiency
• English - Full professional proficiency
• German - Professional working proficiency