Contact
Ludwigstraße 28 VG
80539 Munich
80539 Munich
Email:
benedikt.berger@ercis.uni-muenster.de
Website:
https://www.wi.uni-muenster.de/de/institut/dtg/personen/benedikt-berger
Office hours:
on appointment
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