Prof. Dr. Armin Heinzl
chair person
Contact
Lehrstuhl für ABWL und Wirtschaftsinformatik
L 15, 1-6 - Room 515/516
D - 68161 Mannheim
Phone: +49 621 181-1690
Email: 
Office hours by appointment.
Research Interest
- Information Systems Outsourcing and Governance
- Business and Software Development Processes
- Information Behaviour
Teaching
- Information Management
- Information Systems
- Process Management
Biography
| 2009 | Visiting scholar at ESSEC International Business School, Paris |
| 2005-2008 | Spokesperson of the Primium (www.primium.org) research association |
| since 2003 | Board Member of the Baden-Württemberg Connected (bwcon) |
| 2005-2007 | Spokesperson of the scientific committee for Business Information Systems (WKWI – Wissenschaftliche Kommission für Wirtschaftsinformatik), network of professors for Business Administration |
| 2005-2007 | Managing Director and Academic Director of the Mannheim Business School gGmbH |
| since 2002 | Chair of General Management and Information Systems at the University of Mannheim |
| 2000-2006 | Chairman of the supervisory board of the Heliad Private Equity GmbH & Co.KGaA, formerly VCH Private Equity GmbH & Co.KGaA |
| 1999 | Visiting scholar at the Center of Research on Information Technology in Organizations (CRITO), University of California at Irvine |
| 1996-2002 | Chair of Business Administration, especially Information Systems at University of Bayreuth |
| 1995 | "Habilitation" in Business Administration at the Koblenz Corporate School of Management WHU - Otto Beisheim Hochschule |
| 1993-1994 | Visiting Scholar at Walter E. Haas School of Business Administration, University of California at Berkeley |
| 1990 | Conferral of the doctorate Dr. rer. pol., dissertation topic "Outsourcing of Business Data Processing – An Empirical Analysis of Motives, Ways and Impacts“ |
| 1989 | Visiting Scholar at the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration, Information Systems Management |
| 1990 | Doctorate in Business Administration at the Koblenz Corporate School of Management WHU - Otto Beisheim Hochschule |
| 1986 | Master in Business Administration (Dipl.-Kfm.) at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany |
Awards
| 2008 | Best Information Systems article during the past 50 years for „Outsourcing der Informationsverarbeitung im Mittelstand: Test eines multitheoretischen Kausalmodells" in Journal WIRTSCHAFTSINFORMATIK (together with Jens Dibbern) |
| 2001 | Best Paper Award for the essay „A Conceptual Approach for Simultaneous Flight Schedule Construction with Genetic Algorithms" at the Second European Workshop on Evolutionary Computation in Aerospace (Evoflight), Como, Italy, 18.- 20. April 2001 (together with T. Grosche und F. Rothlauf) |
| 1993 | Disseration award from the Association for Organization (Gesellschaft für Organisation (GfürO)) |
| 1983-1987 | Scholarship from the Organization of Young Talent of the H.F. & PH.F. Reemtsma GmbH & Co, Hamburg |
Selected Publications
Journals
Kude, T., Dibbern, J. and Heinzl, A. (2012).
"Why Do Complementors Participate? An Analysis of Partnership Networks in the Enterprise Software Industry"
In: IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, forthcoming.
Dibbern, J. and Heinzl, A. (2011).
"Systemic Determinants of the Information Systems Outsourcing Decision: A Comparative Study of German and United States Firms"
In: JAIS.
Dibbern, J. and Heinzl, A. (2009).
"Outsourcing of Information Systems Functions in Small and Medium Sized Enterprises: A Test of a Multi-Theoretical Model"
In: Business & Information Systems Engineering, Volume 1 (Reprint as one of “Best papers from 1959 to 2008”, published in Witschaftsinformatik, 43/4, 2001), pp 118-129.
Dibbern, J., Winkler, J., Heinzl, A. (2008).
"Explaining Variations in Client Extra Costs between Software Projects Offshored to India"
In: MIS Quarterly, Volume 32(2), pp 333-366.
Winkler, J., Dibbern, J., Heinzl, A. (2008).
"The impact of cultural differences in offshore outsourcing—Case study results from German–Indian application development projects"
In: Information Systems Frontiers, Volume 10(2), pp 243-258.
Hildenbrand, T., Rothlauf, F. and Heinzl, A. (2007).
"Ansätze zur kollaborativen Softwareerstellung"
In: WIRTSCHAFTSINFORMATIK, Volume 49 (Sonderheft), pp S72-S80.
Winkler, J., Dibbern, J. and Heinzl, A. (2007).
"Der Einfluss kultureller Unterschiede beim IT-Offshoring"
In: WIRTSCHAFTISINFORMATIK, Volume 49(2), pp 95-103.
Geisser, M., Heinzl, A., Hildenbrand, T. and Rothlauf, F. (2007).
"Verteiltes, internetbasiertes Requirements-Engineering"
In: WIRTSCHAFTSINFORMATIK, Volume 49(3), pp 199-207.
Grosche, T., Rothlauf, F. and Heinzl, A. (2007).
"Gravity models for airline passenger volume estimation"
In: Journal of Air Transport Management, Volume 13, pp 175-183.
Zapf, M., Lindheimer, U. and Heinzl, A. (2007).
"The myth of accelerating business processes through parallel job designs"
In: Information Systems and e-Business Management, Volume 5(2), March 2007, pp 117-137.
Zöller, A., Braubach, L., Pokahr, A., Rothlauf, F., Paulussen, T.O., Lamersdorf, W. and Heinzl, A. (2006).
"Evaluation of a Multi-Agent System for Hospital Patient Scheduling"
In: International Transactions on Systems Science and Applications (ITSSA), Volume 1, pp 375-380.
Schoberth, T., Heinzl, A. and Preece, J. (2006).
"Exploring Communication Activities in Online Communities"
In: Journal of Organizational Computing and E-Commerce (JOCEC), Volume 16(3).
Heinzl, A. and Brehm, L. (2006).
"Organisatorische Gestaltung und Erfolgsfaktoren der Postimplementierungsphase von ERP-Systemen"
In: DIE UNTERNEHMUNG, Volume 6, pp 407-425.
Dibbern, J., Heinzl, A. and Leibbrandt, S. (2003).
"Interpretation des Sourcing der Informationsverarbeitung: Hintergründe und Grenzen ökonomischer Einflussgrößen"
In: WIRTSCHAFTSINFORMATIK, Volume 45, pp 533-540.
Güttler, W. and Heinzl, A. (2003).
"Die Adoption des Electronic Commerce im deutschen Einzelhandel."
In: Zeitschrift für Betriebswirtschaft (ZfB), Ergänzungsheft: "Die Zukunft des Electronic Business", Volume 1.
Rothlauf, F., Goldberg, D. and Heinzl, A. (2002).
"Network Random Keys - A Tree Network Representation Scheme for Genetic and Evolutionary Algorithms"
In: Evolutionary Computation, Volume 10(1), pp 75-97, MIT Press.
Dibbern, J. and Heinzl, A. (2001).
"Outsourcing der Informationsverarbeitung im Mittelstand: Test eines multitheoretischen Kausalmodells"
In: WIRTSCHAFTSINFORMATIK, Volume 43, No. 4, pp 339-350.
Dibbern, J., Güttler, W. and Heinzl, A. (2001).
"Die Theorie der Unternehmung als Erklärungsansatz für das selektive Outsourcing der Informationsverarbeitung: Entwicklung eines theoretischen Bezugsrahmens."
In: Zeitschrift für Betriebswirtschaft (ZfB), Volume Vol. 71, No. 6, pp 675-700.
Lehner, F., Bodendorf, F. and Heinzl, A. (2001).
"Teleteaching in der Wirtschaftsinformatik - Erfahrungen aus einem Teleseminar der Universitäten Erlangen-Nürnberg, Regensburg und Bayreuth"
In: Informationstechnik und Technische Informatik (it + ti), Volume 4/2001, pp 184-193.
Heinzl, Armin, König, W. and Hack, J. (2001).
"Erkenntnisziele der Wirtschaftsinformatik in den nächsten drei und zehn Jahren"
In: Wirtschaftsinformatik, Volume 4/2001, pp 339-350.
Proceedings
Hemmer, E. and Heinzl, A. (2012).
"Determinants of Information Channel Choice: The Impact of Task Complexity and Dispositional Character Traits"
In: Proceedings of the 45th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Grand Wailea, Maui, Hawaii, USA.
Spohrer, K., Heinzl, A. and Li, Y. (2011).
"Antecedents of ISD Offshoring Outcomes: Exploring Differences between India and China"
In: Proceedings of the 44th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Koloa, Kauai, Hawaii, USA.
Lazic, M., Groth, M., Schillinger C. and Heinzl, A. (2011).
"The Impact of IT Governance on Business Performance"
In: Proceedings of the 17th Americas Conference on Information Systems, Detroit, Michigan, USA.
Lazic, M., Heinzl, A., and Neff, A. (2011).
"IT Governance Impact Model: How mature IT Governance affects Business Performance"
In: Proceedings of JAIS Theory Development Workshop, Sprouts: Working Papers on Information Systems, forthcoming, ICIS, Shanghai, China.
Stuckenberg, S. and Heinzl, A. (2010).
"The Impact of the Software-as-a-Service Concept on the Underlying Software and Service Development Processes"
In: Proceedings of the 14th Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems (2010), Taipei, Taiwan.
Deibert, S., Hemmer, E.; Heinzl, A. (2009).
"Mobile Technology in the Construction Industry – the Impact on Business Processes in Job Production"
In: Proceedings of the Fifteenth Americas Conference on Information Systems, San Francisco, California, USA.
Winkler, J., Dibbern, J. and Heinzl, A. (2009).
"The Impact of Software Product and Service Characteristics on International Distribution Arrangements for Software Solutions"
In: Proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Information Systems, Phoenix, Arizona, USA.
Kude, T., Dibbern, J. and Heinzl, A. (2008).
"Complementarity, Relation-Specific Investment, and Opportunism: Explaining Asymmetric Governance Modes in Hub-and-Spoke Networks within the Enterprise Application Software Industry"
In: Proceedings of JAIS Theory Development Workshop, Sprouts: Working Papers on Information Systems, 8(25).
Hildenbrand, T., Rothlauf, F., Geisser, M., Heinzl, A. and Kude, T. (2008).
"Approaches to Collaborative Software Development"
In: Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Engineering Complex Distributed Systems (ECDS 2008) in conjunction with International Conference on Complex, Intelligent, and Software Intensive Systems (CISIS 2008), pp 523-528, IEEE Computer Society, Barcelona, Spain.
Deibert, S., Heinzl, A. and Rothlauf, F. (2008).
"The Impact Logic of Mobile Technology Usage on Job Production"
In: Proceedings of the Fourteenth Americas Conference on Information Systems, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Winkler, J., Dibbern, J. and Heinzl, A. (2006).
"Success in Offshoring of Application Services - Does Culture Matter?"
In: 14th European Conference of Information Systems, Göteborg, Sweden.
Dibbern, J., Chin, W. W. and Heinzl A. (2005).
"The Impact Of Human Asset Specificity on the Sourcing of Application Services"
In: 13th European Conference of Information Systems, Regensburg.
Schoberth, T., Preece, J. and Heinzl, A. (2003).
"Online Communities: A Longitudinal Analysis of Communication Activities."
In: Proceedings of the 36th Hawaii International Conference on System Science, Big Island, Hawaii.
Dibbern, J., Brehm, L. and Heinzl, A. (2002).
"Rethinking ERP-Outsourcing Decisions for Leveraging Technological and Preserving Business Knowledge"
In: Proceedings of the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Big Island, Hawaii.
Rothlauf, F., Goldberg, D. and Heinzl, A. (2001).
"On the Debate Concerning Evolutionary Search Using Prüfer Numbers"
In: Workshop Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (ROPNET 2001), San Franciso.
Brehm, L., Heinzl, A. and Markus, L. (2001).
"Tailoring ERP Systems: A Spectrum of Choices and their Implications"
In: Proceedings of the 34. Hawaii International Conference of System Science, Maui, Hawaii, USA.
Schoberth, T. and Heinzl, A. (2001).
"Virtual Communities as a communication instrument for infomediaries: typologies and properties"
In: Proceedings of the 7th Americas Conference on Information Systems.
Monographs
Hirschheim, R. Heinzl, A. and Dibbern, J. (2009).
"Information Systems Outsourcing: Enduring Themes, Global Challenges, and Process Opportunities",
3rd edition, Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
Heinrich, L. J., Heinzl, A. and Roithmayr, F. (2007).
"Wirtschaftsinformatik - Einführung und Grundlegung",
3. Auflage, Oldenburg Wissenschaftsverlag, München.
Haasis, K., Armin, H. and Klumpp, D. (Hrsg.) (2007).
"Aktuelle Trends in der Softwareforschung - Tagungsband zum do it.software-forschungstag 2007",
MFG Stiftung Baden-Württemberg.
Hirschheim, R. A., Heinzl, A. and Dibbern, J. (2006).
"Information Systems Outsourcing: Enduring Themes, New Perspectives and Global Challenges",
2nd edition, Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
Haasis, K., Heinzl, A. and Klumpp, D. (2006).
"Aktuelle Trends in der Softwareforschung. Tagungsband zum doIT Software-Forschungstag am 13. Juli 2006",
Dpunkt Verlag, Heidelberg.
Heinrich, L. J., Heinzl, A. and Roithmayr, F. (2004).
"Wirtschaftsinformatik-Lexikon",
7. Auflage, Oldenburg Wissenschaftsverlag, München.
Bartmann, D., Mertens, P. and Sinz, E.J. (Haupt-Hrsg.) and Amberg, M., Bodendorf, F., Ferstl, O. K., Heinzl, A., Lehner, F., Pernul, G. and Thome, R. (2004).
"Überbetriebliche Integration von Anwendungssystemen",
Shaker, FORWIN-Tagung 2004, Aachen.
Hirschheim, R., Heinzl, A. and Dibbern, J. (2002).
"Information Systems Outsourcing: Enduring Themes, Emergent Patterns and Future Directions",
Springer Verlag, Heidelberg.
Heinzl, A., Güttler, W. and Paulussen, T. O. (2001).
"Strategie, Organisation und Informationsverarbeitung in deutschen Krankenhäusern",
PCO, Bayreuth.
Heinzl, A. (1996).
"Die Evolution der betrieblichen DV-Abteilung: eine lebenszyklustheoretische Analyse",
Physica, Heidelberg.
Heinzl, Armin (1993).
"Die Ausgliederung der betrieblichen Datenverarbeitung - eine empirische Untersuchung der Motive, Formen und Wirkungen",
Schäffer-Poeschel, Stuttgart.
Heinzl, A. and Weber, J. (1992).
"Alternative Organisationskonzepte der betrieblichen Datenverarbeitung",
Schäffer-Poeschel Verlag, Stuttgart
