Alfred Taudes

Head of In­sti­tute

WU (Vi­enna Uni­versity of Eco­nom­ics and Busi­ness)
De­part­ment of In­form­a­tions Sys­tems and Op­er­a­tions
In­sti­tute for Pro­duc­tion Man­age­ment

Build­ing D2, En­trance C, 3rd Floor
Welthan­delsplatz 1, 1020 Vi­enna, Aus­tria

Email: al­fred.taudes(at)wu.ac.at
Phone: +43-1-31336/5611
Fax: +43-1-31336/90 5611

Con­sulta­tion: by ap­point­ment

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, where he heads a WU Re­search In­sti­tute on this topic 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