Elgar Fleisch
Elgar Fleisch (born January 22, 1968 in Bregenz) is an Austrian/Swiss academic, Professor of Technology Management at the University of St. Gallen and Professor of Information Management at the ETH Zurich.
Biography
Fleisch received his BA in mechanical engineering in 1987 at the HTL in Bregenz, his Ma in business economics at the Vienna University of Technology, and in 1993 his PhD in the area of Artificial Intelligence. In 1994 he completed his habilitation at the Institute of Computer Science at the University of St. Gallen (HSG) on corporate networks.
In 1996 Fleisch had interrupted his postdoctoral research for a year and founded the company IMG Americas in Philadelphia, USA. In 2000 he became assistant professor at the HSG. In 2002 he is appointed Professor at the Institute for Technology Management at the University of St. Gallen (ITEM-HSG). In 2004 he also became professor of Information Management at the ETH Zurich at the Department of Management, Technology and Economics (MTEC).
Research
Ever since the emergence of the concept of Internet of Things (IoT) in 1999, Fleisch's research interest focussed on the merger of the physical and digital worlds to an Internet of things. He aims to understand this merger in the dimensions of technology, applications and implications and, based on new technologies and applications for the benefit of the developing business and society.
Fleisch has organized its research into five research laboratories that span each over both universities, combine technology and economics and are theoretically grounded and anchored in practice. All projects take place in close cooperation with the industry, which resulted in numerous scientific papers and the introduction of nine startups.
Selected publications
Elgar Fleisch published several books and numerous articles.[1][2][3] Books, a selection:
- Hubert Österle, Elgar Fleisch and Rainer Alt Business Networking: Shaping Collaboration between Enterprises., Springer, Heidelberg 2000.
- Fleisch, Elgar. Das Netzwerkunternehmen: Strategien und Prozesse zur Steigerung der Wettbewerbsfähigkeit in der" Networked economy". Berlin: Springer, 2001.
- Fleisch, Elgar, and Friedemann Mattern (eds). Das Internet der Dinge: Ubiquitous Computing und RFID in der Praxis. Visionen, Technologien, Anwendungen, Handlungsanleitungen. 2005.
Articles, a selection:
- Fleisch, Elgar. "Das Netzwerkunternehmen." Business Networking in der Praxis. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2002. 39-62.
- Fleisch, Elgar, Oliver Christ, and Markus Dierkes. "Die betriebswirtschaftliche Vision des Internets der Dinge." Das Internet der Dinge. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2005. 3-37.
- Fleisch, Elgar, and Christian Tellkamp. "Inventory inaccuracy and supply chain performance: a simulation study of a retail supply chain." International journal of production economics 95.3 (2005): 373-385.
- Gebauer, Heiko, Elgar Fleisch, and Thomas Friedli. "Overcoming the service paradox in manufacturing companies." European Management Journal 23.1 (2005): 14-26.
- Staake, Thorsten, Frédéric Thiesse, and Elgar Fleisch. "Extending the EPC network: the potential of RFID in anti-counterfeiting."Proceedings of the 2005 ACM symposium on Applied computing. ACM, 2005.
References
External links
- Profile of Elgar Fleisch on the website of the ETH Zurich