Alfred has undertaken research in the interface of Operations and Supply Chain Management, Marketing Engineering and Knowledge Management. He has published more than 150 articles, among ohters in international top journals like Mangement Science,  European Journal of Operational Research, International Journal of Production Economics, Marketing Science and MIS Quarterly.
His actual research interests are on the impact of Digitalization on Operations Management and on Cryptoeconomics https://www.wu.ac.at/cryptoeconomics/

• Cryptoeconomics

• Industrie 4.0 and Big Data

Background

Alfred holds a doctoral degree in Business Administration from WU Vienna,  a Magister Degree in Management Information Systems from Vienna University and a PhD (Habilitation) from WU Vienna in both fields. After assistant professorships at WU in the areas Operations Research and Applied Informatics he was visting professor at Universities Augsburg, Münster, Essen and Tsukuba, Japan and joined WU in 1993. There he coordinated large scale research projects such as WWTF-project "Integrated Demand and Supply Chain Management" and the Special Research Area Adaptive Models in Economics and Management Science. His teaching includes an undergraduate course in Operations Strategy and an IT seminar on the master level.

Research Interests

• Operations Strategy

• Information Systems

• Cryptoeconomics

Related Programmes

• Full-time MSc in Supply Chain Management

• Busines Administration Specialization Production Management

Lectures at WU

• Current Lectures

Research Database

• PURE (Publications, Projects, Activities)