Research focuses of the Business School

Prof. Dr. Jannis Bischof

Chair of Business Administration and Accounting

• Financial Reporting and Disclosure
• Accounting for Financial Instruments
• Fair Value Accounting
• Bank Accounting
• Bank Regulation
• Securities Regulation
• International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS)
• German GAAP
• Financial Statement Analysis
• Auditing
• Management behavior in corporate reporting

Prof. Dr. Holger Daske

Chair of Accounting and Capital Markets

• Financial Reporting and Disclosure
• International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS)
• U.S. GAAP
• Standard Setting
• Capital Market Communication
• Investor Relations and Corporate Valuation
• Financial Statement Analysis
• Financial Analysis
• Accounting of Financial Institutions

Prof. Dr. Philipp Dörrenberg

Chair of Business Administration and Taxation

• Behavioral Effects of Taxes
• Tax Effects on Financial Markets
• Tax Evasion and Tax Fraud
• Behavioral Economic Aspects of Taxation

Prof. Stefan Reichelstein, Ph.D.

Endowed Chair in Business Administration

• Cost and Profitability Analysis
• Decentralization
• Internal Pricing
• Performance Measurement

Prof. Dr. Davud Rostam-Afschar

https://www.bwl.uni-mannheim.de/rostam-afschar/

Prof. Dr. Dirk Simons

Chair of Accounting

• International Accounting
• Theory of Accounting and Auditing
• Corporate Disclosure
• New Institutional Economics

Prof. Dr. Christoph Spengel

Chair of Business Administration and International Taxation (Taxation II)

• International Taxation and Tax Planning
• Tax Accounting
• Harmonization of Company Taxation in Europe
• Measurement of Effective Tax Burdens
• Taxation and Innovation
• Taxation in the Digital Economy

Prof. Dr. Johannes Voget

Chair of Taxation and Finance

• Corporate Finance
• International Taxation
• Financial Science
• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Applied Econometrics

Prof. Dr. Jens Wüstemann

Chair of Accounting and Auditing

• Financial Accounting
• Normative Accounting Research
• Institutional Economics
• Behavioral Law and Economics
• Business Valuation
• Corporate Governance and Auditing

Prof. Dr. Felix Fritsch

Assistant Professorship in Accounting & Taxation

• Controlling
• Performance Measuring and Forecasting
• Disclosure and Transparency
• Data Analytics & Machine Learning
• ESG and Climate Change

Prof. Dr. Gunther Glenk

Assistant Professor at the Mannheim Institute for Sustainable Energy Studies

• Cost and Profitability Analysis
• Economics of Decarbonization
• Carbon Accounting

Prof. Dr. Katharina Nicolay

Assistant Professorship of Accounting & Taxation, especially Business Taxation

• Taxation and the Decision Behavior of Multinational Firms
• Tax Reform Analysis
• Empirical taxation impact analysis
• Tax Accounting

Prof. Felix W. Vetter, Ph.D.

Assistant Professorship of Accounting & Taxation

• Regulation
• Audit markets
• Labor economics
• Real effects of disclosure and transparency in financial and labor markets

Prof. Dr. Carmela Aprea

Chair of Economic and Business Education – Instructional Systems Design and Evaluation

• Financial and Economic Literacy Education for the 21st Century
• Connectivity of Vocational Learning and Teaching in the Era of Digital Transformation
• Resilience in Learning and Professional Contexts
• Curriculum and Lesson Development in Business and Economics Education
• Design Thinking in Business and Economics Education

Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. Dirk Ifenthaler

Chair of Economic and Business Education, Learning, Design and Technology

• Digital Technologies for Schools
• Learning Analytics
• Organizational Learning
• First-year Students
• Game-based Learning
• Change Management
• Technology Integration
• Automated Assessment and Feedback
• Adaptive and Personalized Learning
• School Development

Prof. Dr. Andreas Rausch

Chair of Economic and Business Education – Workplace Learning

• Learning at the Workplace
• Evaluation of Professional Competences
• Process analysis of domain-specific problem solving and learning
• Quality of Education and Training
• Evaluation of Vocational Education and Training (VET) and further education
• Simulation-based training

Prof. Dr. Jürgen Seifried

Chair of Economic and Business Education – Professional Teaching and Learning

• Teacher Education Research
• Development and Measurement of Economic Competence
• Workplace Learning

Prof. Dr. Tabea Bucher-Koenen

Chair of Business Administration, Financial Systems and Development Finance

• Household Finance
• Economic consequences of demographic change
• Private and public pension systems
• Impact of long-term financial decisions

Prof. Ernst Maug, Ph.D.

Chair of Corporate Finance

• Corporate Governance
• Executive Compensation
• Mergers and Acquisitions
• Shareholder Voting and Board Structures
• Behavioral Finance
• Corporate Bankruptcy
• Corporate Finance

Prof. Dr. Alexandra Niessen-Ruenzi

Chair of Corporate Governance

• Gender Differences on Capital Markets
• Corporate Governance
• Behavioral Finance
• Corporate Finance
• Asset Management
• Empirical Banking

Prof. Dr. Stefan Ruenzi

Chair of International Finance

• Asset Management
• Mutual Funds
• Hedge Funds
• Empirical Asset Pricing
• Advertising & Capital Markets
• Media & Capital Markets
• Ethical Investing
• Gender and Finance
• Textual Analysis
• Diversity & Team Management
• Liquidity
• Entrepreneurship
• Experimental Finance
• Financial Analysts

Prof. Dr. Oliver Spalt

Chair of Financial Markets and Financial Institutions

• Behavioral Finance
• Corporate Governance
• Financial Market Institutions

Prof. Dr. Erik Theissen

Chair of Finance

• Empirical Research in Financial Markets
• Market Microstructure
• Corporate Finance
• Corporate Governance
• Blockchain applications and crypto currencies

Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. Martin Weber

Chair of Senior Professor Weber

• Banking
• Empirical Research on Capital Markets
• Experimental Economics
• Decision Theory
• Behavioral Finance
• Market Efficiency
• Household Finance

Prof. Dr. Simon Rother

Assistant Professor of Finance

• Financial intermediation
• Financial stability
• Financial institutions

Prof. Dr. Armin Heinzl

Chair of General Management and Information Systems

• Information Systems Outsourcing, Governance and Cloud Computing
• Digital Innovation (Platform Ecosystems, Agile Methodologies, and Conversational Agents)
• Human-Computer-Interfaces and Anthropomorphism
• Information Systems in Healthcare (Mobile Health Applications, AI-driven Decision Automation and Augmentation)
• Platform Ecosystems
• Agile Software Development and Multi-Team Coordination
• Digitalization
• Block Chain
• Open Source Communities
• Human Information Behavior (Technology Use and Adoption, Social Identity and User Resistance)

Prof. Dr. Hartmut Höhle

Chair of Enterprise Systems

• Design, Implementation und Use of Enterprise Systems
• Management of Enterprise Systems Security
• Information Systems Outsourcing and Governance
• Agile Software Development and Multi-Team Coordination
• Human Information Behavior
• Information Systems in Healthcare
• Platform Ecosystems

Prof. Dr. Markus Strohmaier

Chair of Data Science in the Economic and Social Sciences

• Computational Social Science
• Social and Economic Data Science
• Network Science
• Text Mining

Prof. Dr. Kevin Bauer

Assistant Professorship of E-Business and E-Government

• Human-Machine Interaction
• Human-centered Machine Learning
• eXplainable AI
• Applied Machine Learning

Prof. Dr. Jana-Rebecca Rehse

Assistant Professor for Management Analytics

• Applications of artificial intelligence in business process management
• Process mining & Process analytics
• Machine Learning for process prediction
• Domain-specific process assistance systems
• Process automation

Prof. Dr. Jan-Philipp Ahrens

Head of the Interdisciplinary Research Group Family Firms at University of Mannheim

• Strategic and International Management
• Sustainability & Sustainable Management
• Leadership
• Family Business Research
• Entrepreneurship & Innovation Management
• Crisis Management

Prof. Dr. Torsten Biemann

Chair of Business Administration, Human Resource Management and Leadership

• International Human Resource Management
• Dynamics of human resource management systems
• Leadership and leadership success
• Careers and career patterns
• Effectiveness of HR practices
• Team processes and team performance
• Methods of management research

Prof. Dr. Matthias Brauer

Chair of Strategic and International Management

• Corporate Governance and Compliance: Responsibly Managing Business Groups
• Strategic Corporate Transformation and Restructuring (i.e. M&A, Divestitures)
• Managing Growth
• Effectiveness of Management “Tools” and Practices in Strategy Formulation and Implementation
• Strategic Decision-Making

Prof. Dr. Bernd Helmig

Chair of Business Administration, Public & Nonprofit Management

• Societal Oriented Service Management in Public and Nonprofit Organizations

Prof. Dr. Karin Hoisl

Chair of Organization and Innovation

• Creativity and inventiveness (e.g., Organizational learning and creativity)
• Knowledge management (e.g., knowledge acquisition and knowledge recombination, open innovation)
• Labor Market Mobility
• Intellectual property strategies
• IP strategy (e.g., protection and commercialization of innovations)
• Teams
• Management and sociology of science
• Entrepreneurial finance
• Innovation under Extreme Conditions
• Women in STEM

Prof. Dr. Michael Woywode

Chair of SME Research and Entrepreneurship

• Entrepreneurship
• Family Business Research
• Industry Life Cycles
• Organizational Design
• Digitization
• New Self-Employment

Prof. Dr. Marc Lerchenmüller

Assistant Professorship of Technological Innovation & Management Science

• Economics of innovation
• Technology and innovation management
• Science policy and translational science

Prof. Dr. Dominika Wruk

Assistant Professor of Sustainable Entrepreneurship

• Sharing Economy and Platform Economy
• Sustainable Entrepreneurship, sustainable organizational forms
• Emergence and diffusion of management concepts and organizational forms
• Organizatoin theories, in particular neo-institutional theory

Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. mult. Christian Homburg

Chair of Business-to-Business Marketing, Sales & Pricing

• Market-oriented Management
• Customer Relations Management
• Distribution Management
• Price Management
• International Marketing
• Product and Innovation Management
• Innovation and Technology Marketing
• Marketing Strategy
• Consumer Behavior

Prof. Dr. Florian Kraus

Dr. Werner Jackstädt Endowed Chair of Sales & Services Marketing

• Distribution Management
• Service Marketing
• Direct Distribution
• Distribution of Solutions
• Hybrid Combinations of Products and Services
• Personal Sales

Prof. Dr. Sabine Kuester

Chair of Marketing & Innovation

• Marketing of Innovations
• Marketing Strategy
• Marketing Management
• International Marketing
• Digital Marketing

Prof. Dr. Florian Stahl

Chair of Quantitative Marketing and Consumer Analytics

• Advertising and Sales Promotion
• Big Data Analytics
• Brand Appearance and Brand Management
• Consumer Behavior
• Consumer Choice Models and Demand Estimation
• Consumer Psychology of Product Consumption and Usage
• Customer Management – Understanding the Impact of Marketing and Branding on Customer Acquisition and Customer Loyalty
• Digital Marketing and Digital Business Models
• Pricing and Price Strategies for Digital Products and Digital Services
• Social Listening
• Social Media Communications
• Social Networks in Marketing

Prof. Dr. Arnd Vomberg

Chair of Digital Marketing and Marketing Transformation

• Omnichannel strategies
• Online pricing
• Marketing automation
• Agile transformation
• Marketing-technology
• Governance instruments
• Brand management
• Marketing-HRM interface
• Socially responsible Marketing concept

Prof. Dr. Christoph Bode

Endowed Chair of Procurement

• Customer-Supplier-Relations
• Innovation in Inter-Company Networks
• Procurement and Distribution Management
• Risks and disruptions in the Value Chain
• Sustainability
• Strategies and performance

Prof. Dr. Moritz Fleischmann

Chair of Supply Chain Management

• Supply Chain Management and Inventory Management
• Revenue Management and Demand Fulfillment
• E-Fulfillment and Omni-Channel Distribution
• Closed-Loop Logistics and Sustainability in Logistics
• Incentive Conflicts und New Product Development, R&D and Innovation Management

Prof. Martin Glanzer, Ph.D.

Assitant Professorship in Operations Management

• Risk-averse Stochastic Optimization
• Distributionally Robust Optimization
• Revenue Management
• Sustainable Operations Management

Prof. Dr. Cornelia Schön

Chair of Service Operations Management

• Integrative Optimization Approaches for Service Design
• Quantitative Decision-Making Support in Service Operations Management
• Optimization Approaches for Product Line Design
• Revenue Management: Capacity Control & Dynamic Pricing, Stochastic Dynamic Models, Assortment Optimization
• Sustainable Value Adding (e.g. Servicizing) & Green Product/Operations Design

Prof. Dr. Raik Stolletz

Chair of Production Management

• Quantitative Decision-Making Support
• Methods in Operations Research
• Analysis of Time-Dependend Queue Systems
• Performance Analysis and Optimization of Dynamic Stochastic Systems
• Design of Lean Production Systems
• HR Planning
• Planning of Production Processes
• Fields of Application: Automotive Production, Distribution Centers, Call Centers, Airports

Prof. Dr. Eunji Lee

Assistant Professor in Supply Chain Management

• Information Sharing
• Asymmetric Information
• Game Theory
• Pricing
• Inventory Management
• Stochastic Optimization