Prof. Dr. Roman Beck
Roman Beck is head of the E-Finance and Services Science Chair at the Institute of Information Systems at the Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany. Roman is initiator and project coordinator of the BMBF-funded joint research project Financial Business Grids and the research on IT project risk management within the E-Finance Lab. Previously, Roman coordinated the research project IT Standards and Network Effects, funded by the German National Science Foundation. Since 2001 he was responsible for the German part of the multi-national research project Globalization and E-commerce, coordinated by CRITO, University of California at Irvine. His research focuses on the role of IT in creating new business models, the diffusion of IT innovations, IT project management, and the role of externalities and network effects on the adoption of new standards. He received the "Innovation 2010 Award" in 2003 for his EDI-based SME integration solution and the "Innovation Award 2005" together with one of his student.
As visiting scholar, he spent three months at CRITO, University of California at Irvine in 2003 and further two months at the School of Information, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 2004. In 2008, he was visiting professor at the CIS Robinson College of Business, Georgia State University at Atlanta for three months. He publishes on a wide array of topics in the field of Grid and IT Services, as well as IT standards. He serves as reviewer and associate editor for countless journals and conferences, e.g., ICIS and ECIS. His academic research has been presented at several international IS conferences and has been published in proceedings and academic journals such as Communications of AIS, EM-Electronic Markets, Information Polity, Information Systems Frontiers, Journal of Electronic Commerce in Organizations, Journal of Global Information Management, Journal of Grid Computing, Systemes d Informations et Management, and Wirtschaftsinformatik.
Until today, Roman has raised € 3.31 Mio research grants from the US and German National Science Foundation, the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), and private organizations.
