Robert Winter (born c. 1960) is a German
business theorist
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, Professor of business & information systems engineering at the
University of St. Gallen
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, and director of its Institute of Information Management. He is known for his contributions in the field of
Enterprise Architecture and
Business Engineering
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.
Biography
Winter studied
economics
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Economics focuses on the behaviour and interactions of economic agents and how economies work. Microeconomics analyzes ...
,
business administration and
business education
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Secondary education
At secondary l ...
at the
Goethe University Frankfurt, where he received his PhD in 1989 and his
Habilitation in 1995.
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at the University of St. Gallen. Accessed November 20, 2013
Winter started his academic career in 1984 as Associate Professor at Goethe University Frankfurt. In 1996 he moved to the University of St. Gallen, where he is appointed Professor at the School of Management (SoM), and director of its Institute of Information Management (Instituts für Wirtschaftsinformatik). Winter is Vice Editor-in-Chief of the ''Business & Information Systems Engineering Journal'' and associate editor of the ''European Journal of Information Systems'', ''International Journal of Organizational Design and Engineering'' and ''MISQ Executive Journal''.
His research interests are in the field of "Situational Method Engineering for Information Management, Enterprise Architecture Management, Enterprise Transformation Management, Health Network Engineering, Corporate Management Systems and Service Innovation & Engineering."
Publications
Winter authored and coauthored numerous publications.
Publications: Robert Winter
University of St. Gallen.
Modelle, techniken und werkzeuge im business engineering
" ''Business Engineering''. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2003. 87-118.
* Braun, Christian, and Robert Winter.
A comprehensive enterprise architecture metamodel and its implementation using a metamodeling platform
" Desel, Jörg; Frank, Ulrich (2005): 24-25.
* Winter, Robert, and Ronny Fischer.
Essential layers, artifacts, and dependencies of enterprise architecture
" ''Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference Workshops, 2006. EDOCW'06. 10th IEEE International''. IEEE, 2006.
* Winter, Robert. "Organisational design and engineering: proposal of a conceptual framework and comparison of business engineering with other approaches." International Journal of Organisational Design and Engineering 1.1 (2010): 126-147.
* Loos, P., Lechtenbörger, J., Vossen, G., Zeier, A., Krüger, J., Müller, J., ... & Winter, R. (2011). "In-memory databases in business information systems." ''Business & Information Systems Engineering'', 3(6), 389-395.
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References
External links
Robert Winter
at the University of St. Gallen
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
German business theorists
Enterprise modelling experts
Goethe University Frankfurt alumni
Academic staff of the University of St. Gallen