• Research foci

    • Strategic dimensions of IOS and intercompany organizational forms
    • Strategic potential of Electronic Commerce
    • Evolution and diffusion of information infrastructures, e.g. in health care
    • Development of Interorganisational Systems (IOS) and electronic markets

  • Education

    1995
    Habilitation and venia legendi in Business Administration at University of St. Gallen, Switzerland
    1994
    Habilitation fellow of the German Research Foundation (DFG)
    1987
    Doctoral degree (Dr. rer. pol.) in Business Administration at University of Cologne
    1983
    University degree in Business Administration (Diplom) at University of Cologne
    1978- 1983
    Studies in Business Administration at University of Cologne

  • Positions

    2020- 2023
    Vice Dean Internationalization
    2008- 2010
    Dean of the Münster School of Business and Economics, University of Münster
    2003- 2006
    John Sharkey Professor of Electronic Commerce, University College Dublin
    2001
    Visiting Professor at University of Linz, Austria, and Guest Lecturer at Turku School of Economics and Business Administration and Helsinki School of Economics, Finland
    1997- 2024
    Professor of Information Systems and Inter-Organisational Systems at University of Münster
    1996- 1997
    Professor of Information Systems at University of Koblenz-Landau
    1995- 1996
    Acting Professor of Information Systems at University of St. Gallen, Switzerland
    1993- 1996
    University Lecturer of Information Systems and project manager of the Competence Center for Electronic Markets (CC EM) at the Department for Information Systems at University of St. Gallen, Switzerland
    1992- 1993
    John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellowship at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
    1987- 1992
    Research Associate at the "Gesellschaft für Mathematik und Datenverarbeitung mbH" (GMD)
    1983- 1987
    Research Assistant at the Institute for Business Administration and Corporate Planning at University of Cologne

  • External functions

    since 2020
    Member of the Advisory Board of Electronic Markets – The International Journal on Networked Business
    2016- 2025
    Academic coordinator of NITIM, NITIM (The international graduate school for research on Networks, Innovation, Technology and Information Management)
    05/2016- 12/2019
    Senior Editor - The Journal of Strategic Information Systems (JSIS)
    2014- 2021
    Director of International Accreditation, School of Business and Economic, University of Münster
    2010- 2020
    Vorsitzender, Rektoratskommission für Internationalisierung, Chair Rector's Committee on International Affairs, Uni Muenster
    since 1999
    Member, Editorial Board, International Journal of Electronic Commerce (IJEC)
    since 1998
    Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal “IT&T - Information Technology & Tourism”

  • Appointments

    2002
    Call to the John Sharkey Professorship of Electronic Commerce am University College Dublin, Ireland