Bjørn Erik Munkvold

    • Professor
  • School EIT faglig
  • School of Economics, Innovation and Technology

Background

Bjørn Erik Munkvold is Adjunct Professor at the School of Economics, Innovation and Technology. His main position is Full Professor in Information Systems at the University of Agder (UiA), where is leading the Centre for Integrated Emergency Management (CIEM). He has also been responsible for developing and running the PhD program in Information Systems and UiA (2009–2022).

Professor Munkvold’s research focuses on the implementation of ICT in organizational contexts, with particularemphasis on collaborative technologies. He has conducted in-depth studies of implementation and use oftechnological solutions supporting enterprise collaboration and content management, virtual projects,knowledge management, enterprise resource planning systems and building information modelling, withan overall focus on contributing to effective deployment and use of the technologies. Currently, his mainfocus is on how ICT can support collaborative work practices in the domain of emergency management.

Munkvold's teaching at Kristiania includes qualitative research methods and supervision of master theses.

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