Joachim R. Daduna was teaching as a professor in Business Administration with the focus on distribution and in-company logistics at the University of Applied Business Administration and Laws at Berlin.

Before he had a professorship in the same field from 1994 to 1997 in the Faculty of Business Administration and Social Sciences at the University of Applied Sciences for Engineering, Business Administration, and Design at Konstanz. After studying Business Administration at the University of Hamburg from 1972 to 1978 he worked for the Institute for Operations Research and Informatics of the University of German Armed Forces at Hamburg, where he received his Ph.D. in Business Administration.

Afterwards for a period of several years occupations followed at Hamburger Hochbahn Aktiengesellschaft and later on at Dornier GmbH (Consulting Department) in Friedrichshafen, Berlin, and Athens.

Within his research activities he published (also as a co-author) several books as well as numerous papers in the field of logistics, public mass transit, and information management in national and international journals and in contributed works.