Gerhard Knolmayer

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Gerhard F. Knolmayer (born June 17, 1948 in Vienna ) is an Austrian economist . Until 2013 he worked as a professor for business administration , especially business informatics , at the University of Bern .

biography

Knolmayer graduated from the Bundesrealgymnasium 21 in Vienna in 1966. He studied business administration at the University for World Trade and graduated in 1970 with a master's degree . In the same year he became a university assistant and lecturer at the University of World Trade. He received his doctorate in 1972 , his doctoral supervisors were Erich Loitlsberger and Stephan Koren . Subsequently, he was university assistant and lecturer at the University of Vienna , where he received his habilitation in 1979 with the thesis "Programming models for production program planning: A contribution to the methodology of model construction" for the subjects of business administration and business IT .

In 1979 Knolmayer was entrusted with a substitute professorship for the subject of production management at Kiel University ; In 1980 he was appointed full professor at the same university. Together with Reinhart Schmidt , Knolmayer founded a research center for corporate data processing and communication systems there in 1985. In 1988 Knolmayer was appointed to the Institute for Information Systems at the University of Bern. During his work in Bern, he did research stays at the Bratislava University of Economics , the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) of the University of California at Berkeley and the Center for Information Technology Innovation (CITI) of the Queensland University of Technology .

Gerhard Knolmayer was co-editor of the journals Wirtschaftsinformatik , OR Spectrum, Information Systems & e-Business Management as well as Enterprise Modeling and Information Systems Architectures. From 1995 to 1997 Knolmayer was the spokesman for the business informatics department in the Presidium of the Society for Informatics (GI). From 1995 to 2000, Knolmayer headed the GI working group “Time-Oriented Business Information Systems” (ZobIS). In a commemorative publication for Gerhard Knolmayer, numerous well-known authors investigate the question “Quo vadis business informatics?”.

After his retirement , Gerhard Knolmayer turned to the fine arts more than before. In several works he takes up logistic concepts and their ecological effects with special consideration of climate change.

Honors

  • In 2005 Knolmayer was made a Fellow of the Society for Computer Science (GI).
  • In 2011, the Economics and Behavioral Science Faculty of the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg awarded him an honorary doctorate for “his life's work and in particular for his work on the decision-making foundation in the design of information and logistics systems”.

Fonts

  • The importance of process combinations for the admissibility and optimality of production management alternatives. Dissertation . University of World Trade, 1971.
  • Programming Models for Production Scheduling: A Contribution to the Methodology of Model Construction. (= Interdisciplinary Systems Research. Volume 63). Habilitation thesis , University of Vienna, 1978. Birkhäuser, Basel / Boston / Stuttgart 1980, ISBN 3-7643-1054-5 .
  • with Peter Mertens : Organization of information processing: Basics - structure - division of labor. 3. Edition. Gabler, Wiesbaden 1998, ISBN 3-409-33106-9 .
  • with Peter Mertens, Alexander Zeier and Jörg Thomas Dickersbach : Supply Chain Management Based on SAP Systems: Architecture and Processes. Springer, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-540-68737-5 .
  • R. Jung, T. Myrach (Ed.): “Quo vadis Wirtschaftsinformatik?”, Festschrift for Prof. Gerhard F. Knolmayer on the occasion of his 60th birthday. Gabler, Wiesbaden 2008, ISBN 978-3-8349-1145-2 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Image galleries by Gerhard Knolmayer Website of the Dusty Art Gallery, accessed on June 9, 2020.
  2. ↑ Honor (PDF; 118 kB), website of the Gesellschaft für Informatik, September 2005, accessed on September 6, 2018.
  3. ↑ Honorary doctorate from Prof. Dr. Gerhard Knolmayer. Newsroom, Public Relations and Relationship Management of the University of Freiburg, November 17, 2011, accessed on September 6, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Knolmayer, Gerhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Knolmayer, Gerhard F.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian economist
DATE OF BIRTH June 17, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna