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Monday, March 08, 2010 08:41 Age: 2 years

Awards and dissertations

 

E-Finance Lab researchers Prof. Roman Beck and Robert Gregory, together with Oliver Marschollek, were awarded the best paper award at the 4th Pre-ICIS International Research Workshop on IT Project Management (www.sigitprojmgmt.org) in Phoenix, USA. With their research, they show how boundary spanning mechanisms help to bridge the diverging interests of different stakeholders in IT projects. Congratulations!

Dipl.-Wirtsch.-Ing. Julian Eckert (Layer I) has received his doctoral degree on October 6th, 2009, with a dissertation on “Cross-organizational Service-based Workflows – Solution Strategies for Quality of Service Optimization”. Congratulations!

On November 19th, 2009, Eva Gerstmeier (former researcher at the E-Finance Lab) successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis “Interactive Pricing Mechanisms”. In particular, she analyzed in her thesis how financial service providers should react to the wider popularity of those pricing mechanisms, which are nowadays frequently used for pricing online advertisements. In 2008, a proposal for this thesis was awarded with the prize of the Horizont foundation. Congratulations!