Prof. Dr. Thomas Hess
Head of Institute
Institute for Digital Management and New Media
Office hours:
Tuesdays from 2:30 pm (please contact dmm@som.lmu.de for an appointment)
Postal address:
Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1
80539 Munich
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
- Full Professor for Information Systems & Management and Director of the Institute for Digital Management and New Media (prev. Institute for Information Systems and New Media) at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU) since 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 to 2013
- Member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities since 2017
- Co-editor (and others) of the journals: Journal of Management Information Systems, Electronic Markets as well as MedienWirtschaft and MISQ Executive
- Founder and member of the board of directors of BIDT, founder and member of the board of IBC e.V., member of the board of directors of Münchner Kreis
- Consultant and member of a supervisory board with main focus on media management, ICT industry and information management
Research Focus
Selected Publications
- Gierlich-Joas, M.; Baiyere, A.; Hess, T. (2024)
Inverse Transparency and the Quest for Empowerment through the Design of Digital Workplace Technologies, Journal of the Association for Information Systems, JAIS Preprints (Forthcoming). 131. - Lehrer, C.; Constantiou, I.; Matt, C.; Hess, T. (2023)
How ephemerality features affect user engagement with social media platforms, MIS Quarterly (47:4), pp. 1663-1678
- Hess, T. (2022)
Digitale Transformation strategisch steuern. Vom Zufallstreffer zum systematischen Vorgehen
Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden, 2nd edition - Chanias, S.; Myers, M.; Hess, T. (2019)
Digital transformation strategy making in pre-digital organizations: The case of a financial services provider
Journal of Strategic Information Systems (28:1), pp. 17-33 - Singh, A.; Hess, T. (2017)
How Chief Digital Officers Promote the Digital Transformation of Their Companies
MIS Quarterly Executive (16:1), pp. 1-17