Achim Oberg, University of Hamburg

Achim Oberg studied Business Informatics at the University of Mannheim and the University of St. Gallen, and completed his doctoral studies in Organizational Sociology at the Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Peter Walgenbach (University of Jena) and Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Alfred Kieser (University of Mannheim). He conducted research and teaching at the University of Mannheim, KIT Karlsruhe, and RWTH Aachen. In recent years, he has conducted research at the Institute for Organization Studies under Prof. Dr. Renate E. Meyer at the Vienna University of Economics and Business, while concurrently leading the Digitalization Research Team at the Institute for SME under Prof. Dr. Michael Woywode at the University of Mannheim. In his research, Achim Oberg combines methods from computer science for collecting and processing large amounts of natural data with sociological theories, particularly neo-institutionalism, for data interpretation. He employs methods of social and semantic network analysis to visualize, understand, and explain social structures and dynamics.