Daniel Beimborn is Research Associate at the Department for Information Systems and Services at University of Bamberg, Germany. Daniel graduated in Business Administration at Goethe University, Frankfurt, where he also received his PhD in Information Systems. He has been member of the PhD program 492 "Enabling Technologies for Electronic Commerce" of the German National Science Foundation (DFG). He worked with Microsoft in Redmond and was Visiting Scholar at Louisiana State University and Georgia State University. He is author of more than 70 reviewed articles (in MIS Quarterly, International Journal of Information Management, Information Systems Frontiers, WIRTSCHAFTSINFORMATIK etc.) and conference papers (ICIS, ECIS, AMCIS, WI, HICSS, PACIS) as well as seven books on outsourcing and process optimization of banking processes, cooperative sourcing, outsourcing relationship management, standardization, IT management, and IT business alignment. His current research activities cover business process outsourcing (BPO) in financial industries, management of outsourcing and nearshoring relationships, business process standardization, IT governance and the business value of service-oriented architectures. He teaches courses on IT outsourcing, IT governance, and electronic finance and he is responsible for the development of University of Bamberg’s B.Sc. program on International Information Systems Management (IISM).

Curriculum Vitae

Since 2007: Assistant Professor (Akad. Rat), Information Systems, University of Bamberg

July 2007: Doctoral Defense and Graduation (Dr. rer. pol.). Topic of Dissertation Thesis: Cooperative Sourcing - Simulation Studies and Empirical Data on Outsourcing Coalitions in the Banking Industry (published by Gabler in 2008)

2001 - 2007: Research Assistant at the Institute for Information Systems, University of Frankfurt, from 2001 - 2004 also Member of PhD Program 492 of the DFG (German National Science Foundation)

1996 - 2001: Studies of Business Administration (Majors: Controlling, Operations Research, Information Systems), University of Frankfurt

Teaching Activities

Winter term 2011/12: BA course “International Outsourcing Management”, University of Bamberg (and in VAWi since summer term 2011)

Summer term 2011: MA+BA seminar "Change Management", University of Bamberg

Summer term 2010: BA seminar "What is the Role of IT for Successful Outsourcing", University of Bamberg

Since 2009: Annual BA course "Electronic Finance", University of Bamberg

Since 2007: Assisting in the MA course "ISDL1 - Standards and Networks", University of Bamberg

Since 2007: Assisting in the MA seminars "Information Systems in the Service Sector", University of Bamberg, supervision of more than 25 seminar theses, University of Bamberg

Since 2001: Supervision of more than 50 MA theses, BA theses, and Diploma theses, University of Bamberg and University of Frankfurt

2007: Assisting in the BA course "IT Controlling", University of Bamberg

2001 - 2005: Assisting in the Diploma course "IT-enabled Management of Business Processes", University of Frankfurt

2001 - 2007: Assisting in the Diploma seminar "Information Systems and Information Management", supervision of more than 30 seminar theses

Research Areas

• Governance of Outsourcing Relationships
• Cooperative Sourcing, Shared Services
• Nearshoring and Culture
• Business Value of Service-oriented Architectures, SOA Governance
• Business Process Standardization
• IT Business Value Creation, IT Governance, and Business/IT Alignment
• Economics of IT Standards and Networks
• Platform-as-a-Service

Selected Publications

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

Wüllenweber, K., Beimborn, D., Weitzel, T., and König, W. (2008): The impact of process standardization on business process outsourcing success, Information Systems Frontiers, Volume 10, Number 2 (April 2008), 211-224

Beimborn, D., Franke, J., Gomber, P., Wagner, H., and Weitzel, T. (2006): Die Bedeutung des Alignments von IT und Fachressourcen in Finanzprozessen: Eine empirische Untersuchung, Wirtschaftsinformatik (48:5), 331-339

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