Prof. Dr. Thomas Hess

Curriculum Vitae

• Born in 1967 in Darmstadt, Germany
• "Diplom" in Information Systems from the Darmstadt University of Technology in 1992
• Doctorate in Economics at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland in 1995 including a research period at the Nanyang University of Singapore
• Assistant to the Board of Bertelsmann in 1996 and 1997
• Taskgroup-supervisor at the Institute for Information Systems at the University of Göttingen (1998-2001); interim professor at the University of Augsburg during the summer term 2001
• Habilitation at the University of Göttingen in 2001
• Appointment to a C4 professor and director of the Institute for Information Systems and New Media at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) - Munich School of Management (2001)
• Rejected a proposal for a chair at the University of Mannheim (2004)
• Visiting Professor at the Turku School of Economics and Business Administration (spring 2004)
• Dean of the Munich School of Management at Ludwig-Maximilian-University Munich (2008-2011), Chairman of the Business Information Systems Research Committee from 2011 bis 2013
• Co-editor (and others) of the journals: Wirtschaftsinformatik/Business & Information Systems Engineering,The International Journal on Media Management, Electronic Markets as well as  MedienWirtschaft and Zeitschrift für Controlling und Management
• Coordinator of the Center for Internet Research and Media Integration (CIM)
• Member of the Board of the CDTM (Center for Digital Technology and Management)
• Consultant and member of a supervisory board with main focus on media management and information management

Research Interests

• Digitalization of Media Industry
• Provision and Usage of Software
• New Management Systems
• Foundations of Business Informatics
• Media Management

Selected Publications

• Benlian, A.; Titah, R. ; Hess, T. (2012)
  Differential Effects of Provider and User Recommendations in e-Commerce Transactions: An Experimental Study
  Published in: Journal of Management Information Systems, Vol. 29, No. 1, pp 237-272.
• Buxmann, P.; Diefenbach, H.; Hess, T. (2012)
  The Software Industry. Economic Principles, Strategies, Perspectives
  erschienen in: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
• Benlian, A.; Koufaris, M.; Hess, T. (2011)
  Service Quality in Software-As-A-Service: Developing the SaaS-QUAL Measure and Examining its Role in Usage Continuance
  erschienen in: Journal of Management Information Systems (JMIS), 28, 3, S. 85-126
• Quiring, O.; von Walter, B.; Atterer, R.; Hess, T. (2008)
  Decentralised Electronic Commerce: Exploring the Effects of Revenue Splitting Inside File Sharing Systems
  erschienen in: Electronic Markets, Vol. 18, No. 2, pp. 175-186
• Mann, F.; von Walter, B.; Hess, T.; Wigand, R.T. (2009)
  Open access publishing in science
  erschienen in: Communications of the ACM, Vol. 52, No. 3, pp. 135-139

Publications Overview