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    Nicolas Pfeuffer &  Oliver Hinz

  2. Information Systems and E-Services, Technical University Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany

    Alexander Benlian

  3. Research Center Finance and Information Management, University of Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany

    Henner Gimpel

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Pfeuffer, N., Benlian, A., Gimpel, H. et al. Anthropomorphic Information Systems. Bus Inf Syst Eng 61, 523–533 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12599-019-00599-y

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