Chair of Digital Management

Prof. Dr. Henner Gimpel

Prof. Dr. Henner Gimpel holds the Chair of Digital Management, is Vice Dean for Research and Knowledge Transfer at the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences at the University of Hohenheim, and is head of the Digital Business Management program. He is engaged in a leading position at the Branch Business & Information Systems Engineering of the Fraunhofer FIT and director of the FIM Research Center for Information Management.

The main focus of his work is the analysis and design of digitization. He deals with socio-technical information systems in which people, information and digital technologies interact with each other. The goals here are, on the one hand, the human-centered and economically target-oriented development and use of information systems and, on the other hand, the analysis of individual acceptance and handling of digital technologies in the financial sector, the health sector and the high-tech industry.

Professor Gimpel focuses on the following topics:

  • Digital Health und Well-being
  • Hybride, künstliche und kollektive Intelligenz
  • Smart Sustainability und digital Ethik
  • IT-Adoption und Nutzung

In his research, Professor Gimpel primarily uses theoretically based quantitative empirical studies (laboratory and field experiments, structured surveys, analysis of secondary data using statistical and data mining methods) and links these with design oriented and conceptional theoretical approaches. His research is anchored in information systems and business administration with strong ties to behavioral economics, psychology, and computer science, in parts to sociology, medicine, and ethics. Professor Gimpel gained international research experience during two research stays at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center in New York and a research stay at the Center for Interuniversity Research and Analysis on Organizations in Montréal.

Professor Gimpel supports numerous companies in various industries in the development of innovative solutions for individual questions and challenges regharding digital transformation. He also gained practical experience as a management consultant at McKinsey & Company for five years. Some of the companies Professor Gimpel has worked with in recent years: Allianz, BMW, Carl Zeiss, Deutsche Bank, Flughafen München, Hufschmied Zerspanungssysteme, IBM, Klinik Martha Maria Nürnberg, Klinikverbund Allgäu, Microsoft, NORD/LB, Porsche Consulting, PwC, Siemens, Universitätsklinikum Augsburg, Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Universitätsklinikum Mannheim und die Versicherungskammer Bayern.

In his teaching, Professor Gimpel deals with business administration with a focus on sustainable management in the digital age, information systems and digitization. In these areas he offers lectures, exercises, (project) seminars and the supervision of individual research and dissertations for Bachelor and Master students and doctoral candidates. The didactic preparation is based on the theoretical model of the cognitive apprenticeship. In a balanced ratio of instructive and permissive teaching and learning opportunities, students can acquire specialist, methodological and personnel skills. In addition to the courses offered at the University of Hohenheim, Professor Gimpel is a lecturer at the Goethe Business School and the Digital Leadership Academy.

Curriculum Vitae

Henner Gimpel studied industrial engineering and management at the University of Karlsruhe (now Karlsruhe Institute of Technology KIT) with a focus on business administration and applied computer science. After completing his studies, he earned his doctorate at the Faculty of Economics with distinction on topics at the interface between information systems and behavioral economics. At KIT he did research and taught at the Institute of Information Technology and Marketing and the Karlsruhe Service Research Institute and headed the Karlsruhe School of Services. From 2014 to 2020, he held the professorship for industrial engineering in the Faculty of Mathematics, Natural Sciences, and Technology at the University of Augsburg. Professor Gimpel gained international research experience during two research stays at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center in New York and a research stay at the Center for Interuniversity Research and Analysis on Organizations in Montréal.

His academic performance was honored with the Friedrich von Klinggräff Medal, his diploma thesis with the first prize in the university competition of the Deutsches Aktieninstitut, his doctorate with the Walter-Georg-Waffenschmidt Prize for Business Administration, and his research with the Fugger Prize for Science. He received several awards for his teaching achievements.

Publications, Lectures, and Memberships

Professor Gimpel publishes his research in national and international journals and at conferences (e.g., JMIS, JAIS, JIT, EJIS, BISE, DSS, ISF, JEBO, GDN, EM, IJEC, JBE, ICIS). He is one of the editors of the journal Electronic Markets and a regular member of the program committee of the most important German, European and international conferences in information systems (e.g., ICIS, ECIS, WI).

If you are interested in the following publications, feel free to email me or contact me via Research Gate​.

Professor Gimpel regularly gives lectures on digital transformation topics at industrial companies and organizations and organizes or supports conferences in this field.

Professor Gimpel is a member of numerous professional associations and commissions, including of the Association of University Lecturers in Business Administration (VHB), the Society for Computer Science (GI), the Association for Information Systems (AIS) and the Society for Experimental Economic Research (GfeW).

Contact details

University of Hohenheim

Chair of Digital Management (570G)
Schloss Osthof-Ost
Tel: 0711/459 24051
digital@uni-hohenheim.de