PD Dr. Dr. Björn Niehaves
- Phone:
- +49 (0) 251 - 83 - 38087
- Fax:
- +49 (0) 251 - 83 28087
- Email:
- Address:
- Leonardo-Campus 3
48149 Münster - Room:
- 123
- Office hours:
- nach Vereinbarung
- At the chair since:
- 2002-08
Research Statement
"Practicing inter-disciplinarity defines the core of my research activities. During my Master and PhD studies in Information Systems (above all together with Prof. Dr. Joerg Becker) and in Political Science (above all together with Prof. Dr. Paul Kevenhoerster), I was able to familiarize myself with a rich variety of research approaches, methodologies, and theory perspectives. To me, the main challenge lies in fruitfully combining these perspectives in order to reframe, reformulate, or redefine “traditional” research views. For instance, I seek to integrate design science-approaches and social science research in the move of my SchumpeterFellowship-based project on ICT & Aging. Another example, with my Habilitation Thesis on “Business Process Governance” I seek to exploit actor-oriented and political science-based theories for redefining business process management (BPM) in networks. Here, philosophically-sound research and intensive collaboration with scholars from across different disciplines, to me, are key success factors."
Short Bio
Bjoern is a Visiting Associate Professor at Copenhagen Business School, Schumpeter Fellow of the Volkswagen Foundation, and heads a research group at the European Research Center for Information Systems, Muenster University, Germany. Bjoern received a PhD in Information Systems (2006, summa cum laude) and a PhD in Political Science (2008, summa cum laude) from Muenster University. In 2006 (Best Dissertation Award of Muenster University), 2007 (Best Paper Award at EGOV), 2008 (Best Paper Award at E-SOCIETY), and 2009 (e|Gov Innovation Award) his work has received additional recognition. Bjoern has published in international journals (including Information Systems Journal (ISJ) and Business Process Management Journal (BPMJ)) and presented at international conferences (for instance, International Conferences on Information Systems (ICIS)). Bjoern held visiting positions at Harvard University (Cambridge, MA), London School of Economics, Waseda University (Tokyo), and the Royal Institute of Technology (Stockholm). Since 2008, he serves as Associate Editor of the European Journal of Information Systems (EJIS).
