Prof. Dr. Sven Overhage

About the Person

Sven Overhage is a university professor and holds the Chair for Business Informatics, especially Industrial Information Systems at the Faculty of Business Informatics and Applied Informatics at the Otto-Friedrich University of Bamberg. He studied Information Systems at the Technical University of Darmstadt. He then completed his doctorate and habilitation at the Faculty of Economics at the University of Augsburg. Prior to his appointment at the University of Bamberg, he held the W3 professorship for Business Administration, in particular Information Systems and Systems Engineering. He was also a lecturer at the Technical University of Darmstadt and the University of Liechtenstein. Sven Overhage is the author of more than 75 scientific publications in journals (e.g. DSS, IEEE TEM, BISE, EM), conference proceedings (e.g. ICIS, ECIS, WI) and edited volumes. He gained practical experience in numerous projects with industry, which he carried out in the course of his work at the university or as an independent consultant.

Research Interests

Sven Overhage's research and evaluation activities are primarily focused on innovative methods for the design, development, and operation of industrial information systems. His research interests particularly include service-oriented development methods, agile approaches, advanced analytics techniques, business process modeling approaches, as well as strategies for managing digital transformation.

Functions and Offices

Liaison lecturer at the Bavarian Elite Academy

Formerly

Vice Dean of the Faculty of Business Informatics and Applied Informatics
Member of the Faculty Council of the Faculty of Business Informatics and Applied Informatics
Course representative for the Master's degree program in Business Education / Business Informatics
Program representative for the Bachelor's degree program in Business Informatics
Program representative for the Master's program in Business Informatics
Capacity Representative of the Faculty of Business Informatics and Applied Informatics
Chairman of the Examination Board for the Business Informatics, International Information Systems Management and Business Education / Business Informatics degree programs
Chairman of the Admissions Committee for the Master's degree programs Business Informatics, International Information Systems Management and Business Education / Business Informatics 
Member of the Examination Board for the Business Informatics, International Information Systems Management and Business Education / Business Informatics  degree programs
BAf?G representative of the Faculty of Business Informatics and Applied Informatics

Awards / Nominations

Best Reviewer Award of the International Conference on Business Informatics 2015
Best Paper Award of the Symposium Modeling of Business Information Systems (MobIS) 2008
Nomination for the GI Dissertation Award 2006
Best Paper Award of the International Conference on Business Informatics 2005
Second place at the Microsoft XML Web Service Competition (Germany) 2002

Selected Publications

To view the comprehensive list of publications, please refer to the link provided.

Raab, M.; Schlauderer, S.; Overhage, S.; Friedrich, T.: More than a Feeling: Investigating the Contagious Effect of Facial Emotional Expressions on Investment Decisions in Reward-Based Crowdfunding. In: Decision Support Systems 135 (2020).

Friedrich, T.; Schlauderer, S.; Overhage, S.: The Impact of Social Commerce Feature Richness on Website Stickiness Through Cognitive and Affective Factors: An Experimental Study. In: Electronic Commerce Research and Applications 36 (2019).

Schlauderer, S.; Overhage, S.: BoSDL: An Approach to Describe the Business Logic of Software Services in Domain-Specific Terms. In: Business & Information Systems Engineering 60 (2018) 5, S. 393-413.

Weidinger, J.; Schlauderer, S.; Overhage, S.: Is the Frontier Shifting into the Right Direction? A Qualitative Analysis of Acceptance Factors for Novel Firefighter Information Technologies. In: Information Systems Frontiers 20 (2018) 4, S. 669-692.

Overhage, S.; Birkmeier, D.; Schlauderer, S.: Quality Marks, Metrics, and Measurement Procedures for Business Process Models: The 3QM-Framework. In: Business & Information Systems Engineering 4 (2012) 5, S. 229-246.