Kai Riemer
Senior Lecturer
kai.riemer@sydney.edu.au
Room 436
H69 - Economics and Business Building
The University of Sydney
NSW Australia 2006
Phone: +61 2 9036 9053
Fax: +61 2 9351 7294
Kai joined the University of Sydney in August 2009 from Münster University in Germany, where he held a position as Assistant Professor. He received his Diploma in Information Systems (Dipl. Wirt-Inform.) and his Ph.D. from Münster University, Germany, where he also recently finished his Postdoctoral thesis (Habilitation). Kai has held visiting positions with the Department of Information Systems at the University of Melbourne (in 2003) and Quinn School of Business at University College Dublin (in 2004).
His research interests cover the areas of e-Collaboration, inter-firm networking, virtual work, social impact of ICTs, and E-Commerce. In one current research stream he focuses on the application and use of communication media and collaborative systems and their impact and effect on groups and people in virtual work contexts (e.g. virtual teams, distributed projects). In doing so, he developed a method for team communication analysis supporting media selection. Another area of interest is concerned with the concept of the virtual organisation (VO). A prospective area for future research is the exploration of collaborative business process modelling practices.
Kai has been involved in a number of successful grant applications both for research projects (funded by the European Commission) as well as for industry collaboration projects (e.g. projects with Deutsche Bahn or Daimler AG).
Kai’s community contributions include: Guest editor of a Special Issue of the E-Markets Journal on “E-Collaboration”; Guest editor of a special issue of the International Journal of e-Collaboration (IJeC) on “Real-time Communication and distributed work”; Associate Editor of the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS); Editorial Board member of the International Journal of eCollaboration (IJeC); and Member of IFIP working group 8.2.
Research Expertise
- Collaborative Business and Business Networking
- Virtual Teams and Organisations
- eCollaboration: Communication and Collaboration Technologies
- Media selection, media choice research
- Qualitative & participatory research methods