Prof. Dr. Benedikt Berger

Research interests

• Use and monetization of digital media (technologies)
• Interaction with and development of AI-based systems

Academic experience

• Assistant Professor in Information Systems, specifically Digital Transformation and Society at University of Münster (since October 2021)
• Postdoc and head of research group at the Institute for Information Systems and New Media with Prof. Dr. Thomas Hess (July 2017 - September 2021)
• Research and teaching assistant at the Institute for Digital Management and New Media (prev. Institute for Information Systems and New Media) with Prof. Dr. Thomas Hess (September 2013 - June 2017)
• Research stay at the Department of Information Technologies of HEC Montréal in Montréal, Canada
• Dissertation (Dr. oec. publ.) on the topic “Content-driven Commerce: Empirical Studies of the IT-enabled Convergence of Two Business Models”
• Master in Management (M.Sc.) at the Universiy of Mannheim (August 2011 - September 2013)
• Study abroad semester at the International College of the Mahidol University in Bangkok, Thailand
• Student assistant at the Dieter Schwarz Endowed Chair of Business Administration, E-Business and E-Government with Prof. Dr. Daniel Veit
• Master’s thesis on the topic “What do news readers pay for? A conjoint analysis”
• Bachelor in Communication and Media Management (B.Sc.) at the Business and Information Technology School (BiTS) Iserlohn (April 2008 - March 2011)
• Study abroad semester at Unitec University of applied sciences in Auckland, New Zealand
• Student assistant and tutor for mathematics and stochastics
• Bachelor’s thesis on the topic “Tablet-Computer als alternativer Vertriebsweg für Tageszeitungen in Deutschland”

Teaching experience

• Wirtschaftsinformatik (B.Sc., lecture & tutorial)
• Digital Products and Services (M.Sc., lecture & tutorial)
• New Products: From Ideas to Market (M.Sc., lecture)
• Forschungsmethoden der Wirtschaftsinformatik (MBR, lecture)
• Digitale Wirtschaft (M.Sc., project course)
• Advanced Topics on Digitalization, Transformation and Management (M.Sc., seminar)
• Empirische Studien zu Neuen Medien (B.Sc., seminar)
• Theoretisches Hausarbeitenseminar (B.Sc., seminar)
• Grundlagen der Betriebswirtschaftslehre für Nebenfach- und Lehramtsstudierende - Teil 1 (B.Sc., tutorial)

Community engagement

• Track chair
• Track “Business Models and Digital Transformation” at the European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS) 2020
• Track “AI-based Systems - User Interaction, Design, and Methods” at the International Conference on Wirtschaftsinformatik (WI) 2020
• Track “Business Models and Digital Entrepreneurship” at the International Conference on Wirtschaftsinformatik (WI) 2019
• Associate editor
• Track “Design, Management and Impact of AI-based Systems” at the International Conference on Wirtschaftsinformatik (WI) 2021
• Track “Business Models and Digital Transformation” at the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) 2019
• Track “Business Models and the Value of IS in a Digital World” at the European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS) 2019
• Track “Business Models in the Digital World” at the European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS) 2018
• Track “Personal ICT: Design, use and impacts” at the European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS) 2018
• Reviewer
• Information Systems Journal (ISJ)
• European Journal of Information Systems (EJIS)
• Journal of Strategic Information Systems (JSIS)
• Business & Information Systems Engineering (BISE)
• Electronic Markets (EM)
• Information & Management (I&M)
• Internet Research (IR)
• Information Systems (IS)
• Künstliche Intelligenz (KI)
• Journal of Media Business Studies (JMBS)
• Management Review Quarterly (MRQ)
• National and internationalen Conferences (ICIS, ECIS, AMCIS, HICSS, WI)
• Memberships
• Association for Information Systems (AIS)
• German Academic Association of Business Research (VHB)
• German Informatics Society (GI)

Industry experience

• Industry projects in cooperation with the Bavarian Industry Association (vbw – Vereinigung der Bayerischen Wirtschaft e. V.)
• Freelancing and internships at media companies and PR agencies