Uwe Leimstoll is a professor of Information Systems and E-Business. At the Competence Center E-Business, he works on business-related research projects, primarily on the topics "E-Commerce" and "Business Software in SMEs". He is co-author of the Business Software Study FHNW and of the E-Commerce Report Switzerland.

Uwe Leimstoll studied Industrial Engineering at the University of Applied Sciences Offenburg (Germany) and Economics at the University of Freiburg i.Br. (Germany). For several years, he worked in classical business consulting and as a lecturer at the University of Cooperative Education, Villingen-Schwenningen (Germany). In July 2001, he received his PhD in Information Management from the Faculty of Economics (Institute for General Economic Research, Department of Information Systems, Prof. Dr. Franz Schober) of the University of Freiburg i.Br.

Link to the dissertation "Information Management in Medium-sized Enterprises"

Uwe Leimstoll started his work at the FHNW in April 2001 as a research assistant at the Institute for Applied Business Administration (IAB) of the predecessor institution, the University of Applied Sciences of both Basel FHBB. Today he is a professor for Information Systems and E-Business at the Institute for Information Systems (IWI) of the School of Business FHNW.

Teaching Activities

• MSc Business Information Systems: E-Business and Mobile Business
• BSc Business Information Technology: E-Business
• BSc Business Administration and BSc International Management: Information Management
• Coaching and supervision of project work and bachelor’s and master’s theses

Projects are the basis for successful, applied teaching. Click here to see a list of Uwe Leimstoll’s projects. To the IRF

• Woelfle, R., & Leimstoll, U. (2018). E-Commerce Report Schweiz 2018. Olten: FHNW.
• Zumstein, D., Steigerwald, A., Leimstoll, U., Gasser, B., Mohr, S., & Briw, A. (2018). Schweizer Onlinehändlerbefragung 2018: Digital Commerce. Luzern: Hochschule Luzern - Wirtschaft.
• Leimstoll, U., Dannecker, A., Knechtli, H., Quade, M., Tanner, C., & Wölfle, R. (2018). E-Business in the Era of Digital Transformation. In R. Dornberger (Eds.), Business Information Systems and Technology 4.0 (pp. 81-101). Cham: Springer.
• Leimstoll, U., & Wölfle. R. (2017). Changing Attitudes of Retailers Towards Cross-channel Commerce and its Success Factors: a Longitudinal Study. In P. Kommers, & P. Isaias (Eds.), Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on e-Society (39-48). Budapest, IADIS Press.
• Wölfle, R., & Leimstoll, U. (2017). E-Commerce in der Schweiz 2016. In R. Köhler (Eds.), Jahrbuch Marketing 2017 (pp. 77-81). St. Gallen: Kömedia AG.