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Chair of Business Administration, Public & Nonprofit Management

Prof. Dr. Bernd Helmig

Prof. Dr. Bernd Helmig

The scientists at the chair of Business Administration, Public & Nonprofit Management of professor Helmig, conduct research projects on different topics dealing with professional management in organizations, aiming at contributing to the public weal. 

The mission of the chair is to generate and transfer knowledge to management of organizations oriented to the public weal. This knowledge is generated by means of fundamental research, as well as applied research, and contract research. Furthermore, this knowledge is also transferred to the public by means of publications (articles in scientific journals, practitioner magazines, books), university courses (BA, MA, PhD), continuing education activities (MBA programs, executive programs, in-house programs, seminars, talks) and projects with practice partners. 

On the web pages of the chair, you will find information and news on our current research and publication activities. We appreciate your interest in our work. If you have any questions or suggestions please do not hesitate to get in touch with us by sending an email to: sekretariat@uni-mannheim.de.

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Teaching

Here you will find information about our lectures as well as about scientific works on the chair.

 

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Research

Here you will receive an overview about recent publications, conference contributions and research projects of the chair 

 

Team

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Job offers

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News

Research Study on Person-Environment Fit of Volunteers (Open Access)
The research study on person-environment fit of volunteers by Benedikt Englert and Bernd Helmig (in collaboration with Julia Thaler) has been published in „Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly”. The article is available Open Access via the following link: ...
Orientation Event of the Chair of Business Administration, Public & Nonprofit Management
Dear students, next Tuesday (September 3rd), 10:15 to 11:45 am, we host our this year's orientation evant in room O151. Here, we want to introduce the team of professor Helmig and assistants and present potential thematic focuses and contact points within your master studies. We are looking forward ...
Great presence of the Area Management at this year's Academy of Management conference in Boston, MA
Members of the Area Management of the University of Mannheim have presented their research to an international audience in numerous formats, from paper development workshops, to panel discussions and presentations, at the 76th annual meeting of the Academy of Management from 9 to 13 August 2019.
12th EIASM Workshop on the Challenges of Managing the Third Sector
Michaela Platz and Simon Thimmel presented their research projects „Organizational identity and innovation adoption in nonprofit organizations “and“ Nonprofit management research: state of the art and future directions” at this year’s EIASM Workshop on contemporary challenges in managing all kinds ...
Conference of the German Academic Association for Business Research (VHB)
This year’s conference of the German Academic Association for Business Research (VHB) was held from June 12th to June 14th at the University of Rostock. Dr. Benedikt Englert and Martin Sievert were invited to present their research projects on „Goal importance congruence in nonprofit organizations“ ...
Paper Presentation in CERMI-Seminar at the University of Mons
On 11 June 2019, Alexander Pinz presented the paper „Managing logics multiplicity in hybrid organizations“ in the CERMI-seminar at the University of Mons.
Alexander Pinz receives ABCD-Reviewer Award
Dr. Alexander Pinz received the ABCD (Above and Beyond the Call of Duty) Reviewer Award of the “Organization and Management Theory Division” of the Academy of Management for outstanding reviewer activities.
Dr. Alexander presents evaluation project at the fishbowl discussion event organized by FUSO.MA
On 4 April 2019, Dr. Alexander Pinz participated in the fishbowl discussion event organized by the student initiative FUSO.MA (Forum for Firms and Social Organizations in Mannheim e. V.). There, he presented the cooperation of the Chair for Public and Nonprofit Management with FUSO.MA with the ...
Guest lecture and coding workshop – Solange Hai, Program Manager, Care Netherlands
On Friday, 12 April 2019, Solange Hai, Program Manager at Care Netherlands, gave a guest lecture on the topic “Research in Practice: A Case from Care” in our research seminar MAN 710. In addition, she coached students during a coding workshop that aimed at making them familiar with qualitative data ...
Dr. Alexander Pinz gives kids lecture
On Wednesday, 20th of March 2019 Dr. Alexander Pinz gave a lecture for fourth grade children as part of the project “Uni-Cleverlinge”, a cooperation of the Mannheim Business School and the nonprofit organization “Kinderhelden”. Topic of the lecture was: “What is a business?”.