I am a professor for information systems ("Wirtschaftsinformatik") at OTH Regensburg, a Technical University for Applied Sciences. I'm Deputy Dean of Study Affairs ("Studiendekan") and International Coordinator ("Auslandsbeauftragter") in our Faculty of Computer Sciences and Mathematics. In addition I coordinate the virtual teaching and e-learning efforts of our university in my role as E-Learning Coordinator.

My research interests are:

  • IT-Strategy
  • IT-Governance
  • IT-Organization
  • IT-Sourcing (IT-Outsourcing, IT-Offshoring, IT-Backsourcing)
  • Business-managed IT/Shadow IT
  • Other (Management Consulting and Teaching Didactics)

You can find a list of my applications on my Google Scholar profile and on ORCID. I currently supervise PhD students in cooperation with the Chair of Information Systems in Manufacturing and Commerce at Dresden Technical University.

I'm Associate Editor for Information & Management. I was AE/Track Chair at various conferences, such as WI, MKWI, or AMCIS. Furthermore, I acted as reviewer for the Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), Australasian Conference on Information Systems (ACIS), Business & Information Systems Engineering (BISE), Communications of the AIS (CAIS), European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS), Information & Management (InfMan), Information Systems Management (ISM), Journal of Information Technology Theory and Application (JITTA), Journal of Cloud Computing, HMD Praxis der Wirtschaftsinformatik, and Organizacija.

My teaching activities involve:

  • Business Administration 1 and 2 (Allgemeine Betriebswirtschaftslehre 1 und 2)
  • Project Management
  • Strategic IT/IS Managemenet
  • Research Methods in IS
  • Management Consulting
  • Strategic Management

I have created several Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) / virtual course in English funded by the Virtual University of Bavaria (Virtuelle Hochschule Bayern - VHB):

  • Fundamentals of Project Management
  • Fundamentals of Business Administration 1
  • Fundamentals of Business Administration 2
  • Fundamentals of Strategic Management
  • Digital Business & Information Systems
  • Allgemeine Betriebswirtschaftslehre

If you are a student and would like me to supervise your thesis you find suggested topics and areas of interest on the respective page "student theses".

My professional background:

  • I worked as a management consultant for Bain & Company in their Munich office
  • I was an entrepreneur and freelance software developer for Microsoft, Vodafone and other customers
  • My academic studies took me to EBS University, Oestrich-Winkel, and Unitec Institute of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand
  • My PhD research focused on success factors of IS offshoring, aka the transfer of software development and maintenance acitivities to lower-cost countries