Department of Information Systems and Services

For Students

The ISS team offers IS-courses at Bachelor and Master level. For a detailed description of our courses see the section "for students" (available in German only).

For Researchers

The four main research areas of the ISS team are

• Business-IT Alignment and Business Value of IT
• (Social) Networks and IT
• IT Adoption and Usage
• Outsourcing

You can find a detailed description of our research projects in the section "for researchers". Our research results have been published in scientific journals and conferences. Some selected publications are:

• Weitzel, T., Beimborn, D., and König, W. (2006) A Unified Economic Model of Standard Diffusion: The Impact of Standardization Cost, Network Effects and Network Topology Management Information Systems Quarterly (MISQ), Volume 30, Special Issue on Standard Making, 489-514
• Eckhardt, Andreas; Laumer, Sven; Weitzel, Tim, Who influences whom? - Analyzing workplace referents’ social influence on IT adoption and non-adoption, In: Journal of Information Technology (JIT), Vol. 24, Issue 1 (March 2009)

For Managers

The main question of our research is “How to use IT to make money?". With our research we focus on generating solutions managers can apply in their organisations. The main topics of the ISS team are

• E-Recruiting and E-HRM
• Business Process Standardisation
• Business Value of SOA
• Social Networks and IT
• Business-IT Alignment
• Outsourcing

You can find a detailed description of our research projects in the section "for managers". Our research results have been published in books and research reports. Some selected are:

• von Stetten, A., Eckhardt, A., Laumer, S., Weitzel, T., and König, W. (2010), Recruiting Trends 2010 - Eine empirische Untersuchung mit den Top-1.000-Unternehmen aus Deutschland sowie den Top-300-Unternehmen aus den Branchen Automotive, Finanzdienstleistung und IT, Research Report, Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg und Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
• Beimborn, Daniel; Blumenberg, Stefan; König, Wolfgang; Martin, Sebastian F.; Moos, Bernhard; Schlosser, Frank; Weitzel, Tim (2009), Erfolgreiche Gestaltung partnerschaftlicher Outsourcingbeziehungen: Relationale Faktoren im Outsourcingmanagement der 1.000 größten Banken in Deutschland; Books on Demand, Norderstedt (ISBN 978-3-8391-2901-2), online available