Biography
Wolfgang Koenig received a diploma in Business
Administration in 1975 and a diploma in Business Pedagogic
in 1977, both from Frankfurt University. At the same university,
he was awarded the Ph.D. degree in 1980 ("Hardware-Supported
Parallelization of Information Systems") and completed
his habilitation thesis - a kind of advanced Ph.D. degree
- in 1985 ("Strategic Planning of the Information Systems
Infrastructure"). From 1985 to 1991, he was appointed
Professor of Information Systems at the Koblenz School of
Corporate Management, also serving as Dean from 1986 to 1988.
In 1991, he became Professor of Information Systems at the
Frankfurt University, in the Economics and Business Administration
Faculty, and since then he has run the Institute of Information
Systems.
All in all, he spent more than two years working in the US,
in particular at the IBM Research Laboratories in San Jose,
CA, and Yorktown Heights, NY, as well as at the Kellogg Graduate
School of Management, Northwestern University, Chicago/Evanston,
IL, at the University of California at Berkeley and at the
University of Hawaii at Manoa. From 1995 to 2000, he headed
an interdisciplinary research program sponsored by the German
National Science Foundation on "Competitive Advantage
by Networking - the Development of the Frankfurt and Rhine-Main
Region". Since end of 2002 he chairs the “E-Finance
Lab Frankfurt am Main”, a joint research program of
Accenture, Deutsche Bank, Deutsche Postbank, Finanz_IT, IBM,
Microsoft, Siemens and T-Systems (all tier-1-partners), and
DAB bank, IS.Teledata and VR NetWorld (all tier-2 partners),
in conjunction with the universities of Frankfurt and Darmstadt.
He serves as Editor-in-Chief of the leading Mid-European IS
journal "WIRTSCHAFTSINFORMATIK" (www.wirtschaftsinformatik.de).
He is member of the board of external directors of several
companies. His research interest is in standardization, networking,
and e-finance.
His list of publications may be retrieved from
http://www.is-frankfurt.de/personal/personaldetails.php?pernr=14?
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