Daniel Beimborn

Daniel Beimborn holds the chair for business informatics, especially information system management. From 2014 to 2018 he was Professor of Business Informatics at the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management. Together with Prof. Dr. Moormann, he heads the ProcessLab there, which deals with research topics related to process management in financial service providers.

Mr. Beimborn studied and did his doctorate at the Goethe University in Frankfurt before working as a postdoc and habilitation candidate at the Otto-Friedrich-University in Bamberg from 2007-2013. He was a visiting researcher at Microsoft in Redmond (2004), at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge (2006 and 2007), at Georgia State University in Atlanta (2010-2011) and at MIT (2018).

His current research activities include the management of outsourcing and nearshoring relationships, digital innovation & transformation, IT governance and business/IT alignment, standardization of business processes, BPO and shared services in the financial industry, and the importance of IT to support innovation processes. He has published numerous articles in relevant IS journals (MIS Quarterly, Journal of Management Information Systems, Journal of IT, etc.) and is Senior Editor of DATA BASE for Advances in Information Systems and Associate Editor of the journal Business & Information Systems Engineering .

Prof. Beimborn teaches various modules in the context of business informatics, IT management and digital management in the bachelor's and master's programs of the WIAI faculty. He is also a tutor at the Bavarian Elite Academy .

Selected publications:

• Hund, Wagner, Beimborn, Weitzel: Digital innovation: Review and novel perspective, The Journal of Strategic Information Systems (30:4), 2021
• Seeher, Beimborn, Holotiuk; How to Evaluate the Performance of the Chief Digital Officer - A Delphi Study on KPIs for CDOs. Proceedings of the 28th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS), A Virtual AIS Conference, 2020.
• Holotiuk, Beimborn: Temporal Ambidexterity: How Digital Innovation Labs Connect Exploration and Exploitation for Digital Innovation. Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), Munich, 2019.
• Jentsch, Beimborn, Reitz: Templates for Joined Work Systems - How Business Process Modularity and IT Flexibility Enable Mutual Understanding among Business and IT. Proceedings of the 38th International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), Seoul, 2017.
• Kettenbohrer, Beimborn, Leyer: Examining the Impact of Business Process Management System Use on Employees' Process Orientation. Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), Dublin, 2016.
• Schlosser, Beimborn, Weitzel, Wagner: Achieving Social Alignment between Business and IT - An Empirical Evaluation of the Efficacy of IT Governance Mechanisms. Journal of Information Technology , 30(2), 2015, pp. 119-135.
• Zolper, Beimborn, Weitzel: The Effect of Social Network Structures at the Business/IT Interface on IT Application Change Effectiveness. Journal of Information Technology , 29(4), 2014, pp. 148-169.
• Wagner, Beimborn, Weitzel: How Social Capital among IT and Business Units Drives Operational Alignment and IT Business Value. Journal of Management Information Systems , 31(1), 2014, pp. 241-271.
• Joachim, Beimborn, Weitzel: The Influence of SOA Governance Mechanisms on IT Flexibility and Service Reuse. Journal of Strategic Info. Systems, 22 (1), 2013, pp. 86-101.
• Zolper, Beimborn, Weitzel: Why the Rivers Leaves its Bed - Analyzing Deviations between Planned and Actual Interaction Structures in IT Change Management Processes. Journal of Information Technology , 28(4), 2013, pp. 333-353.
• Beimborn: How Stable are Cooperative Sourcing Coalitions? Game Theoretical Analysis and Experiment Game Theoretical Analysis and Experiment. Electronic Markets , 24(1), 2013, pp. 19-36.
• von Stetten, Beimborn, Weitzel: Analyzing and Managing the Impact of Cultural Behavior Patterns on Social Capital in Multinational IT Project Teams – A Case Study Approach. Business Information Systems Engineering (BISE) , 4 (3), 2012, pp. 137-151.
• Beimborn, Blumenberg, König, Martin, Moos, Schlosser, Weitzel: Successful design of outsourcing relationships based on partnership: Relational factors in the outsourcing management of the 1,000 largest banks in Germany. Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2009.
• Blumenberg, Wagner, Beimborn: Knowledge Transfer Processes in IT Outsourcing Relationships and their Impact on Shared Knowledge and Outsourcing Performance. International Journal of Information Management , 29(5), 2009, pp. 342-352.
• Wüllenweber, Beimborn, Weitzel, König: The Impact of Process Standardization on BPO Success. Information Systems Frontiers , 10(2) 2008, pp. 211-224.
• Weitzel, Beimborn, König: A Unified Economic Model of Standard Diffusion: The Impact of Standardization Cost, Network Effects and Network Topology. MIS Quarterly , 30 (Special Issue) 2006, pp. 489-514.

Companies

• Dean of Studies Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg (2022)
• Professor of Information Systems Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg (2018)
• Visiting Scholar Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2018 — 2018)
• Full Professor Frankfurt School of Finance & Management (2014 — 2018)
• Assistant Professor University of Bamberg (2007 — 2014)
• Visiting Scholar Georgia State University - J. Mack Robinson College of Business (2010 — 2011)
• Researcher Goethe University (2001 — 2007)
• Visiting Researcher Louisiana State University (2006 — 2006)
• Visiting Researcher Microsoft (2004 — 2004)