Chair of Business Administration & Accounting

• Financial Accounting
• Management Accounting & Controlling 
• Insolvency
• Business Ethics

Chair of Management Accounting & Auditing

Sustainability

• Voluntary and Statutory Sustainability Requirements of Stakeholders (e.g. SDGs, EU CSR Directive)
• Sustainable Management Systems and Reporting Standards (e.g. GRI Standards)
• External Audit of Sustainability Reports
• Implementation of Company-wide Guidelines and Processes in the Area of Sustainability
• Influence of Sustainability Activities on Company Value

Accounting and Auditing

• Possible Factors Influencing the Pricing of Auditing Services (e.g. Big 4 Bonus)
• Influence of Auditor Changes on Audit Fees
• Consideration of Financial Risk Factors and their Development over Time

Digital Analysis and Fraud Detection

• Detection of Irregularities in Mass Data Sets
• Illegal Price Fixing and Cartel Formation

Chair of Business Administration, Finance & Banking

• Regulation of Financial Institutions
• Capital Market Research
• Risk Measurement and Management
• Applied Ecocnometrics
• Empirical Banking and Finance

Assistant Professorship for Digital Finance

Digital Transformation of Capital Markets

• Digital Technologies in Investment Advice and Management
• Novel Digital Information Sources (e.g., User-generated Articles)
• Crypto Currencies

Digital Transformation of Corporate Finance Tasks and Processes

• Modern Analysis and Prediction Methods

Chair of Civil Law, German & International Trade & Business Law

• Civil Law
• German and International Trade
• Business Law

Chair of Economics, esp. Microeconomics

• Individual Behavioral Responses to Changes in Institutional Settings and Economic Incentives, in Industrialized Countries and in Developing and Emerging Economies
• How Individuals and Households Respond to Shifts in Income Levels and Income Variability
• Estimation of Causal Effects of Policy Interventions and Environmental Disasters
• Household and Labor Force
• Poverty and Labor Market Issues

Chair of Economic Ethics & Social Policy

• Meaning of Solidarity in Pluralistic and Cosmopolitan Societies
• Future of the Welfare State in Demographic and Economic Change
• Microsimulation of Welfare Reform Programs
• Energy Transition and Energy Poverty

Chair of Christian Social Ethics & Social Policy

• Sustainability Management
• Corporate Citizenship and CSR
• Practical Wisdom in Management,
• Christian Social Ethics and Business Practice

Chair of Business Ethics, esp. Corporate Governance

• Business Ethics
• Management, Supervision and Regulation of Companies
• Design of Internal Control Systems

Assistant Professorship for Operations Management

• Urban Logistics
• Network and Tour Planning
• Production Planning

Chair of Business Administration, Supply Chain Management & Operations

• Supply Network Planning
• Advanced Planning and Scheduling
• Inventory Management
• Performance Analysis of Production Systems
• Logistics in Retail and Consumer Goods Industries
• Automotive Industry

Chair of Business Administration & Business Informatics

• Analytical Models for Forecast Combination
• Hybrid Recommender Systems
• Reduction and Orthogonalization of High Dimensional Combinatorial Problems
• Reflective decision Support Systems
• Robust Churn Prevention Management in CRM
• Sequential Pattern Analysis and Predictive Maintenance

Chair of Business Administration, Distribution Management & Marketing

Customer Base Analysis and Dynamics:

• Bayesian Methods in Marketing
• Stochastic Modeling of Consumer Behavior
• Covariate Effects
• Customer Value
• Customer Satisfaction
• Focus: Predictive Performance

Marketing Efficiency:

• Data Envelopment Analysis
• Response Analysis

Retailing:

• Consumer Behavior at the Point of Sale
• Experimental Research

Innovation Management:

• Customer Integration

Chair of Business Administration & International Management

• Automated Agents in Marketing
• Cross-cultural Marketing & Management
• Management of Product Recalls
• Service Failure and Recovery

Chair of Business Administration & Service Management

• Customer Experience Management
• Return on Service
• Transformative Services
• Complaints Management
• Optimization of Customer Integration Processes
• Industrial Services and Solutions

Chair of Business Administration, Innovation & Creativity

• Consumers’ Inductive and Deductive Inferences
• Branding and Brand Extensions
• Stereotypes in Consumer Behavior
• Financial and Physical Well-being
• Services Marketing and Management
• Innovation and Creativity

Assistant Professorship of Digital Marketing

Sales Management

• Networks and Networking Behavior
• Recruiting and Women in Sales
• Digital Technologies in Sales

Customer Relationship Management

• Customer Win-back Management
• Customer Engagement (Value)

Marketing-Finance Interface

• Marketing in Financial Market Communication
• Marketing from a Financial Market Perspective

Chair of Business Administration & Business Taxation

• Taxation of Domestic and Multinational Corporate Enterprises
• Taxation of Multinational Corporate Groups and Tax Planning of these Entities
• Multinational Channels of Profit Shifting
• Impact of Tax Reforms on the Tax Revenue and the Tax Burden of Companies
• Impact of Tax Reforms on Corporate Decisions

Chair of Economics, esp. Public Finance

• International Taxation
• Tax Avoidance and Tax Evasion
• Company Taxation
• Multinational Companies