René Riedl

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René Riedl
Personnel
birthday February 21, 1977
position Defender
Juniors
Years station
0000-1993 SK Forward Steyr
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1993-1995 SV Garsten
1995-1996 SK Forward Steyr 6 (0)
1996-2002 SV Gmunden
2003-2005 SK Bad Wimsbach 1933
1 Only league games are given.

René Riedl (born February 21, 1977 ) is a former Austrian football player . After his active career, he became a business IT specialist . He is professor for digital business and innovation at the University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria and an associated university professor at the Institute for Information Engineering at Johannes Kepler University Linz. He is also the Scientific Director of the Neuro-Information-Systems Society.

Career as a football player

Riedl started his career at SK Vorwärts Steyr . Between 1993 and 1995 he played for SV Garsten . For the 1995/96 season he returned to the Bundesliga forward Steyr. The then 18-year-old made his debut in the team in July 1995 in the UEFA Intertoto Cup against the Bulgarian team FC Spartak Plovdiv . In the end, Vorwärts Steyr won Group 12 of the UI Cup and made it to the round of 16, where it ended up against the eventual champion RC Strasbourg . He made his Bundesliga debut in August 1995 when he came on as a substitute for Amir Groso in the 69th minute against FC Tirol Innsbruck on the third matchday of that season . By the end of the season he made six appearances, but with the Upper Austrians he had to be relegated from the Bundesliga.

He then moved to the lower class SV Gmunden for the 1996/97 season . After several years with the Gmundners, he played for SK Bad Wimsbach in 1933 between 2003 and 2005 before ending his career.

After the professional career

After graduating from the Steyr Commercial Academy in 1996, Riedl studied commercial sciences at the Johannes Kepler University in Linz, completing his master's degree in 1999. He then worked in an IT company in Linz. In 2001 he accepted the position of university assistant with Lutz Jürgen Heinrich and received his doctorate in business informatics in 2004. rer. soc. oec. At a young age, his main focus was in the areas of information management and management of IT projects. In the mid-2000s he began to deal increasingly with the neurological, psychological and sociological phenomena of digitization. He is one of the co-founders of the research discipline Neuro-Information-Systems (NeuroIS) and the NeuroIS Retreat conference. In spring 2007 he was visiting scholar at Harvard University , Harvard Business School , USA. In 2009 he completed his habilitation in business informatics at the Johannes Kepler University in Linz and was appointed associate professor there in 2010. In spring 2012 he was visiting professor at the Department of Information Technologies at HEC Montréal , Canada, and since 2013 he has held the professorship for digital business and innovation at the University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria at the Faculty of Economics and Management on the Steyr campus. He is also the scientific director of the NeuroIS Society, which was founded in Vienna in 2018, and a member of the board at the Institute for Personnel and Organizational Development in Business and Administration at the Johannes Kepler University Linz. He is or was active as a lecturer at many universities, including the University of Innsbruck , the UMIT - Private University for Health Sciences, Medical Informatics and Technology, the Zeppelin University Friedrichshafen, the University of Applied Sciences Burgenland and the HEC Montréal. He is currently Vice Dean at the Faculty of Economics and Management at the University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria, where he is responsible for research and development.

Main focus of work and research

Since the beginning of his academic career, Riedl has focused on the phenomena of the development and use of information systems . For example, in the early 2000s he dealt with the outsourcing of IT services to application service providers as part of his dissertation ; today he is primarily concerned with the phenomena of digital transformation . Riedl gained worldwide recognition in the scientific community through his initiatives and research work in the field of Neuro Information Systems (NeuroIS). He has published work in the world's most respected specialist journals in information systems research, including MIS Quarterly and the Journal of Management Information Systems. The three main phenomena that Riedl deals with are technostress , trust in online environments and human decision-making behavior on the Internet with special consideration of user emotions. He researches these phenomena with instruments from the neurosciences (e.g. functional magnetic resonance imaging , electroencephalography , heart rate and skin conductivity measurements as well as hormone determinations) as well as with methods from social, economic and technical sciences (e.g. surveys, interviews, clickstream analyzes ).

Outside employment

Riedl was and is editor of several journals, including MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, Journal of Management Information Systems, Journal of the Association for Information Systems, Database for Advances in Information Systems and Business and Information Systems Engineering. He is also a reviewer for academic journals and specialist conferences as well as for the National Science Foundation in the USA and the German Research Foundation. His research is funded by institutions such as the Fund for the Promotion of Scientific Research, the Austrian Research Promotion Agency , the European Union, the State of Upper Austria and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Canada. To date, he has published 21 books and around 175 articles in specialist journals, conference proceedings and books. He is also a regular speaker at international specialist conferences, keynote speaker at practitioner conferences and appears on the radio (e.g. ORF broadcast Newton or SRF broadcast Input).

Books (selection)

  • With Lutz Jürgen Heinrich and Armin Heinzl: Business informatics: Introduction and foundation (4th edition) . Springer, Berlin 2011. ISBN 978-3-642-15425-6
  • With Lutz Jürgen Heinrich and Dirk Stelzer: Information management: basics, tasks, methods (11th edition) . De Gruyter Oldenbourg, Munich 2014. ISBN 978-3-11-035306-8
  • With Pierre-Majorique Léger: Fundamentals of NeuroIS: Information Systems and the Brain. Springer, Berlin 2016. ISBN 978-3-662-45090-1
  • Management of IT projects: successfully designing digital transformation (2nd edition) . De Gruyter Oldenbourg, Munich 2019. ISBN 978-3-11-047127-4

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personal data
SURNAME Riedl, René
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian business IT specialist
DATE OF BIRTH February 21, 1977