University of Münster, Department of Information Systems, Münster, Germany, joerg.becker@ercis.uni-muenster.de

Jörg Becker is head of the Department of Information Systems of the University of Münster and of the European Research Center for Information Systems (ERCIS). He is Professor of Information Systems and directs the Chair for Information Systems and Information Management. He holds an honorary professorship at the National Research University – Higher School of Economics (NRU-HSE) in Moscow and is member of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts. His research interests cover Information Modelling including Reference Modelling, Hybrid Value Creation, Business Process Management, E-Government, and Retail Information Systems. Jörg has published in renowned outlets, including MIS Quarterly (MISQ), European Journal of Information Systems (EJIS), Business & Information Systems Engineering (BISE), Information Systems Frontiers (ISF), Information Systems Journal (ISJ), and Business Process Management Journal (BPMJ). He has authored and edited numerous books, including Retail Information Systems, Process Management, Modernizing Processes in Public Administrations, and Reference Modeling.