Nils Urbach

Nils Urbach (* 1980 ) is a German business informatics specialist and holder of the professorship for business informatics and strategic IT management at the University of Bayreuth .

Life

Nils Urbach studied business informatics from 2000 to 2004 at the University of Paderborn , where he graduated in 2004 with a degree in business informatics. He then worked from 2004 to 2006 as a management consultant for Accenture in Kronberg im Taunus. After moving to the EBS Business School in Wiesbaden, he initially worked there from 2006 to 2010 as a research assistant at the Institute of Research on Information Systems, where he received his doctorate summa cum laude in January 2010 (first reviewer Prof. Dr. Gerold Riempp, second reviewer Prof. Dr. Christine Legner). He then worked as a postdoctoral fellow at EBS Business School from 2010 to 2013, where he headed the Competence Center Strategic IT Management. During this time, he was also a managing consultant at Horváth & Partners in Frankfurt. Nils Urbach gained international experience during his research stays in 2008 at the University of Pittsburgh (Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business) and in 2012 at the Université de Lausanne (Hautes Etudes Commerciales).

Urbach has held the professorship for business informatics and strategic IT management at the Faculty of Law and Economics at the University of Bayreuth since 2013 . He is also deputy scientific director at the core competence center for finance and information management (FIM) and the business informatics project group at the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology FIT in Augsburg and Bayreuth.

Research and Teaching

In research and teaching, Nils Urbach focuses on issues of strategic IT management. His research focus is particularly on the investigation and design of solutions for controlling IT organizations as well as the adoption, use and success of business information systems . More recent research projects focus on digital transformation in a business and private context. In addition, he deals with the investigation of collaborative information systems and mobile business applications , the organizational use of social media and the evaluation and introduction of technological innovations . In his research, both empirical and design-oriented research methods are used as complementary approaches.

His research results have been published in international journals. Together with Frederik Ahlemann , he wrote the book IT Management in the Age of Digitization .

Web links

• Profile on the website of the University of Bayreuth
• Profile on the website of the core competence center for finance & information management and the business informatics project group at Fraunhofer FIT
• Profile on Google Scholar