Preface The International conference on Business Informatics Research (BIR) focusses on fields of business informatics. In particular, it targets the research that bridges management and engineering aspects and facilitates communication between scientific and practical applications. This volume contains publications presented at the pre-BIR forum, workshops and doctoral consortium of the BIR 2017 conference, organized in Copenhagen, Denmark, 28-30 August, 2017. This volume includes publications presented at the pre-BIR forum day (BIR 2017), the 2nd Workshop on Managed Complexity (ManComp 2017), and the doctoral consortium of the 16th International Conference on Business Informatics Research (BIR 2017). The 1st pre-BIR forum day was organized by Björn Johansson. The forum day had as its focus to discuss and develop papers submitted to the BIR conference in a workshop setting. From the submitted papers for the BIR conference 22 papers were invited for resubmissions to the pre-BIR forum. After dealing with reviews authors of 12 papers submitted their papers and presented them at the pre-BIR forum. The 2nd Workshop on Managed Complexity (ManComp 2017) was organized by Peter Forbrig, Marite Kirikova and Charles Moller. The workshop had its focus on managing complexity. Managing complexity has a long tradition for algorithms and general problems. However nowadays informatics requires managing complexity also at different levels and configurations of social, physical, enterprise, software and hardware systems The workshop focused on approaches and methods for managing complexity in the domain of applied informatics that may concern an interplay of systems and ecosystems of various sizes and substances. Its purpose was to share and transfer knowledge on complexity identification, representation, controlling and reduction as well as to exploit possible synergies in development of innovative complexity handling strategies, approaches and methods. The goal of the workshop, in which four papers were presented, was to bring together researchers and practitioners to discuss theoretical approaches and real-life case studies featuring success and/or failure stories in managing complexity. This year’s BIR Doctoral Consortium was organized by Atanu Chaudhuri. The BIR 2017 DC provided doctoral students with a good place for receiving an early feedback on their progress from the field experts and experienced researchers. I would like to thank all Workshop Chairs and their Program Committee members for their diligence in selecting the papers and ensuring their high scientific quality. Björn Johansson August 2017 Organisation BIR 2017 Workshop and pre-BIR forum Chair Björn Johansson Department of Informatics, School of Economics and Management, Lund University, Sweden Pre-BIR forum Program Committee Jan Aidemark Linneaus University, Sweden Bo Andersson Lund University, Sweden Eduard Babkin Higher School of Economics (Nizhny Novgorod); Russia Per Backlund University of Skövde, Sweden Rimantas Butleris Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania Sven Carlsson Lund University, Sweden Witold Chmielarz University of Warsaw; Faculty of Management, Poland Niclas Eberhagen Linnaeus University, Sweden Peter Forbrig University of Rostock, Germany Ahmad Ghazawneh IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark Jānis Grabis Riga Technical University, Latvia Darek Haftor Linnaeus University, Sweden Markus Helfert Dublin City University, School of Computing, Ireland Stefan Henningsson Copenhagen Business School, Denmark Amin Jalali Stockholm University, Sweden Gustaf Juell-Skielse Stockholm University, Sweden Dimitris Karagiannis University of Vienna, Austria Marite Kirikova Riga Technical University, Latvia Andrzej Kobylinski Warsaw School of Economics, Poland Birger Lantow University of Rostock, Germany Michael Le Duc Mälardalen University, Sweden Osama Mansour Linnaues University, Sweden Raimundas Matulevicius University of Tartu, Estonia Ulf Melin Linkoping University, Sweden Patrick Mikalef Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet, Norway Jyrki Nummenmaa University of Tampere, Finland Jacob Nørbjerg Copenhagen Business School, Denmark Victoria Paulsson IC4/ Dublin City University Business School, Ireland Tomas Pitner Masaryk University, Czech Republic Nava Pliskin Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel Vaclav Repa University of Economics, Czech Republic Kurt Sandkuhl The University of Rostock, Germany Ulf Seigerroth Jönköping University, School of Engineering, Sweden Andrzej Sobczak Warsaw School of Economics, Poland Janis Stirna Stockholm University, Sweden Ann Svensson University West, Sweden Torben Tambo Aarhus University, Denmark Lars Taxén Linköping University, Sweden Olgerta Tona Lund University, Sweden Anna Wingkvist Linnaeus University, Sweden Jelena Zdravkovic Stockholm University, Sweden Alfred Zimmermann Reutlingen University, Germany BIR 2017 Doctoral Consortium Chair Atanu Chaudhuri Aalborg University, Copenhagen, Denmark 2nd Workshop on Managed Complexity (ManComp 2017) ManComp 2017 Workshop Co-Chairs Marite Kirikova Riga Technical University, Latvia Peter Forbrig University of Rostock, Germany Charles Moller Aalborg University, Denmark ManComp 2017 Workshop Committee Members Clara Bassano Panthenope University of Naples, Italy Albertas Caplinskas Instute of Mathematics and Informatics, Lithuania Bertrand, David Ecole Centrale de Lyon, France Peter Forbrig University of Rostock, Germany Janis Grundspenkis Riga technical University, Latvia Markus Helfert Dublin City University, Ireland Ebba Þóra Hvannberg Iceland University, Iceland Marite Kirikova Riga Technical University, Latvia Christophe Kolski University of Valenciennes, France Paula Kotze CSIR Meraka Institute Pretoria, South Africa Henry Linger MONASH University, Australia Oscar Pastor Lopez Politechnical University of Valencia, Spain Charles, Moller Aalborg University, Denmark Malgorzata Pankovska University of Economics in Katowice, Poland Jose Perez Rios University of Valladolid, Spain Khuram Shahzad University of the Punjab, Pakistan Chris Stary University of Linz, Austria Bengt Wangler Stockholm University, Sweden Marco Winckler Paul Sabatier University Toulouse, France Jelena Zdravkovic Stockholm University, Sweden Iryna Zolotaryova Kharkiv National University of Economics, Ukrain