Andreas Eckhardt

Andreas Eckhardt is a Full Professor of Information Systems at the University of Innsbruck (since Oct. 2020). Prior to this appointment, he was a Professor of Human Resource Management at the German Graduate School of Management and Law (GGS) in Heilbronn. At GGS he also acted as Academic Director for the MBA study program. He held visiting professorships at the University of Hong Kong and the University of Innsbruck. He received his Ph.D. in Information Systems from Goethe University Frankfurt. Before his academic career he worked as a project manager for DaimlerChrysler Taiwan in Taipei. His research on technology adoption, cybersecurity, digital innovation, technostress, virtualization of organizations, and the future of work has been published in two books, several book chapters, conference proceedings, and many scientific journals including MIS Quarterly, Journal of Information Technology, Information Systems Journal, Journal of Strategic Information Systems, European Journal of Information Systems, Information & Management, Business & Information Systems Engineering, and MIS Quarterly Executive. He is the recipient of numerous awards for his research, teaching, and community work, among others the Magid Igbaria Outstanding Paper Award, the ECIS Best Research in Progress Paper Award and the SIGADIT Best Paper Award. He chaired tracks at all major IS conferences (e.g., ICIS, ECIS, AMCIS, and WI). Currently he is a Senior Editor for Information Systems Journal and member of the editorial board of AIS Transactions on Human-Computer Interaction. He is Past Chair of the AIS Special Interest Group on Adoption and Diffusion of Information Technology (SIGADIT) as well as member of the ImPACT IT Data Group and the AIS Diversity & Inclusion Committee.

Education

• Dr. rer. pol. (PhD) Goethe University (2006 — 2010)
• Diploma FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg (2000 — 2005)

Companies

• Chairman BAFIT - Network Banking, Accounting, Auditing, Finance & IT (2021)
• Full Professor Leopold-Franzens Universität Innsbruck (2020)
• Academic Director MBA German Graduate School of Management and Law (GGS) (2019 — 2020)
• Professor German Graduate School of Management and Law Heilbronn (2015 — 2020)
• Visiting Professor The University of Hong Kong (2015 — 2015)
• Assistant Professor Goethe-Universität Frankfurt a. Main (2010 — 2015)
• Visiting Researcher The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (2013 — 2013)
• Graduate Research Assistant Centre of Human Resources Information Systems (2006 — 2010)
• HR Project Manager DaimlerChrysler Taiwan (2005 — 2006)