Teaching

The course offers an introduction into nonprofit management. You can find the course's syllabus here.

The course offers an introduction into public management. The course is expected to be held next in spring 2024.

Important note: All participants of this event have to register for the lecture in Portal² and on ILIAS to get access to script, lecture videos, exercise videos and other materials.

At the Chair of Business Administration, Public & Nonprofit Management we offer students in Business Administration and Business Education the opportunity to write their bachelor thesis at our chair. The topics fall in the area of organization, strategic management, personnel management and market-oriented management in public and nonprofit organizations but will not be offered in FSS 2023. The topics for the bachelor thesis in Business Education you will find here. Please find general information on how to write scientific papers in our regulations. The regulations in German you will find here.

The syllabus of the course you will find here.

The course is expected to be held next in spring 2024.

The syllabus of the course you will find here.

Case study seminar on challenges in public and nonprofit management. The course's syllabus can be found here.

This fall 2022 Professor Helmig offers this course for the first time. It deals with “grand challenges” of our world using the latest Management research. Language: English. You can find out more about the course here.  

This semester’s research seminar (fall term 2023) focuses on “Quantitative empirische Forschung im Public & Nonprofit Management”. A detailed syllabus can be downloaded here. You must register for this seminar via mail to Prof. Dr. Bernd Helmig (bernd.helmig(at)uni-mannheim.de) until September 6, 11:59 pm. Please provide the following information: Name, study program, student number, attended courses of the chair. Students studying in the master program Culture and Business have to personally hand in the form “Antrag auf Übertragung (Export) der Masterarbeitsbetreuung“, signed by Mr. Hempen until February 6 (currently via Scan to Bernd Helmig). Without this form, the registration cannot be processed. The course language is English in spring semster and German in fall semester.

Our chair offers a range of up-to-date topics for master’s theses. If you wish, you also can propose a topic yourself.  The formal requirements for writing a master’s thesis at the Chair of Busniess Adminstraiton, Public & Nonprofit Management are regulated in the module catalogue. Before writing your master’s thesis, please complete the checklist and submit it to the respective supervisor of master’s theses. Please find general information on how to write scientific papers in our regulations. The regulations in German you will find here.

Tuesday, 20th September, 10:15–12:30 (Kick-off)

Tuesday, 18th October, 10:15–11:45 (Q&A-session)

Tuesday, 22nd November, 10:15–12:30 (Presentation session)

The aim of the internal doctoral candidate's seminar is to give the opportunity to conferring a doctorate, to introduce the results of their research projects and to discuss. This happens mostly in the form of talk formats similar to conference which are taken as a base to question the actual state of the research critically and to develop.

The aim of the internal research seminar is to discuss topically of running projects in the team and to develop them. For this doctorates and Post-Docs present the actual state of their research projects with the objective to discuss concrete challenges in the team, to develop solutions and to agree on the next process steps.

During the paper development seminar current paper projects as well as the overall research strategy of the chair of business administration, public & nonprofit management are discussed and further developed by Prof. Helmig and his research team.

The seminar „Management Science“ is a annual three-day conference of chairs in the field of marketing, public and nonprofit management and sustainability management. Doctoral students and postdocs present and discuss research projects with an interdisciplinaly group of researchers.