Karl crank

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Karl E. Kurb (born December 27, 1947 in Geislingen an der Steige ) is a German business informatics specialist and professor of business informatics at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder) .

Career

From 1969 to 1974 he studied business administration at the University of Mannheim . After graduating with a degree in business administration, he worked as a research assistant from 1975 to 1978 and obtained his doctorate in 1977. rer. pole. at the Faculty of Business Administration at the University of Mannheim. In 1978 he moved to Berlin. From 1978 to 1982 he worked there as an academic advisor and lecturer in the field of systems analysis and IT, computer science department, at the Technical University of Berlin . In 1982 he completed his habilitation in the computer science department of the TU Berlin and was awarded the qualification to teach in the field of applied computer science . From 1982 to 1985, he took over a professorship for business informatics at the Faculty of Economics at Bielefeld University . From 1985 to 1990 he held the chair for business informatics (later business informatics) at the Technical University of Dortmund . In 1990 he took over the chair of business informatics at the newly founded institute for business informatics at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster . From 1995 to 2016 he held the chair of business informatics at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder). On March 31, 2016, Kurb retired.

In addition, he is the dean of the Virtual Global University (VGU) School of Business Informatics (SBI) based in Berlin .

Kurbel's research focuses are:

  • Globalization of information processing
  • Offshoring
  • Enterprise Resource Planning
  • Supply chain management
  • Virtual education & multimedia

Writings (monographs)

  • Enterprise Resource Planning and Supply Chain Management , Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg 2013.
  • Enterprise Resource Planning and Supply Chain Management in Industry , 7th edition; Oldenbourg-Verlag, Munich, Vienna 2011.
  • The Making of Information Systems - Software Engineering and Management in a Globalized World , Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg 2008.
  • Production planning and control in enterprise resource planning and supply chain management , 6th edition, Oldenbourg-Verlag, Munich, Vienna 2005 (1st edition 1993).
  • Programming and software technology , Addison-Wesley-Verlag, Bonn 1997.
  • Development and use of expert systems - An application-oriented introduction to knowledge-based systems , 2nd edition, Springer-Verlag, Berlin et al. 1992 (1st edition 1989).
  • Program development , 5th edition, Gabler-Verlag, Wiesbaden 1990 (1st edition 1979).
  • Programming style in Pascal, Cobol, Fortran, Basic, PL / 1 , Springer-Verlag, Berlin 1985.
  • Software engineering in the production area , Gabler-Verlag, Wiesbaden 1983.
  • Simultaneous production planning in multi-stage series production - possibilities and limits of lot size, sequence and schedule planning , Erich Schmidt Verlag, Berlin 1978.

literature

  • Crank: A subjective view of the development of business informatics , in: Lutz Jürgen Heinrich (Ed.): History of business informatics - emergence and development of a scientific discipline, 2nd edition, Springer Gabler, Berlin / Heidelberg, 2011/2012, p. 115– 123 (including Crank's curriculum vitae).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Crank profile on the website of the European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder).
personal data
SURNAME Crank, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Crank, Karl E.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German business IT specialist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH December 27, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Geislingen an der Steige