Prof. Dr. Michael Wessel

Since 2023, Prof. Dr. Michael Wessel holds the Chair for Business Information Systems, esp. E-Commerce and Digital Business. He is also an Associate Professor at the Department of Digitalization at Copenhagen Business School and received his doctorate from the Technical University of Darmstadt in 2016.

His current research projects, which are mainly empirical and quantitative, include the management of digital platforms, the design of consumer-oriented e-commerce solutions, the development of digital and data-based business models, the potential of digital entrepreneurship, and the interaction between humans and AI/algorithms.

Curriculum Vitae

Period	Position
Since 2023	Professor of Business Information Systems, esp. E-Commerce and Digital Business at the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Since 2021	Associate Professor at the Department Department of Digitalization of the Copenhagen Business School
2017 – 2020	Assistant Professor at the Department Department of Digitalization of the Copenhagen Business School
2013 – 2016	Ph.D. in Information Systems at Technical University of Darmstadt
2006 – 2013	Studies at the University of Amsterdam (M.Sc. in Business Information Systems), Hasso Plattner Institute, Copenhagen Business School, University of Leeds, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, and University of Bremen
Professor Wessel has been a visiting researcher at various institutes, including the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG) and the Weizenbaum Institute.

Research

Professor Wessel is the author and co-author of numerous articles in international journals such as the Journal of Management Information Systems, the Information Systems Journal, the Journal of Information Technology, Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice, the Journal of Business Venturing, Decision Support Systems and Electronic Markets. He has also published in the proceedings of international conferences such as the International Conference on Information Systems and the European Conference on Information Systems.

Editorial and Review Activities

Associate Editor at the European Journal of Information Systems
Guest Editor at the Journal of Management Information Systems
Frequent reviewer for numerous international journals (e.g., Management Science, MIS Quarterly, Journal of the Association for Information Systems, Information Systems Journal, European Journal of Information Systems, Journal of Strategic Information Systems, Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice, Journal of Business Venturing, Decision Support Systems, Electronic Markets, Business & Information Systems Engineering) and for conferences (e.g. ICIS, ECIS, AMCIS, HICSS, WI).