Department of Business Administration
Welcome to the Department of Business Administration. Our department consists of professors, postdocs, and doctoral students from the main areas of business administration. Additionally, we are supported by excellent administrative staff and student research and teaching assistants.
Our course offerings consist of five bachelor’s and two master’s programs with various options for specialization for individual academic success. These include Market-oriented Management, Organizational Behavior and Ethics, Accounting and Finance, as well as Human Resources Management.
Our research focuses on empirical and applied business, addressing topics on governance, sustainability, and digital transformation. A selection of publications on these topics can be found below (link).
The department and our partners organize symposia, research seminars, and public lectures on current research questions in business (link). In addition, we offer workshops where doctoral candidates can present their work.
Current projects/focus
...coming soon
Current selective publications
A complete list can be found in the annual research report or on the homepages of the individual researchers.
Abfalter, D., Mueller-Seeger, J., & Raich, M. (2020). Translation decisions in qualitative research: a systematic framework. International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 24 (4), 469-486.
Behnke, M., Kirschstein, T., & Bierwirth, C. (2021). A column generation approach for an emission-oriented vehicle routing problem on a multigraph. European Journal of Operational Research, 288 (3), 794-809.
Corry, P., & Bierwirth, C. (2019). The berth allocation problem with channel restrictions. Transportation Science, 53 (3), 708-727.
Erhard, A., Jahn, S., & Boztug, Y. (2024). Tasty or sustainable? Goal conflict in plant-based food choice. Food Quality and Preference, 109, 105237.
Hartmann, F., & Schreck, P. (2018). Rankings, performance and sabotage: the moderating effects of target setting. European Accounting Review, 27 (2), 363-382.
Jahn, S., Elshiewy, O., Döring, T., & Boztug, Y. (2023). Truthful yet misleading: consumer response to ‘low fat’ food with high sugar content. Food Quality and Preference, 109, 104900.
Kirschstein, T., Heinold, A., Behnke, M., Meisel, F., & Bierwirth, C. (2022). Eco-labeling of freight transport services: design, evaluation and research directions. Journal of Industrial Ecology, 26, 801-814.
Kurzmann, A., Hoßbach, C., & Neyer, A.-K. (2024). Switching between different spaces of stimulation and focus - steering idea work in hybrid work settings. In Cohendet, P., Oliver, A. L., & Sydow, J. (Eds.), Research in the Sociology of Organizations. Spaces for Creativity and Innovation within and across Organizational Boundaries. Emerald Publishing Limited.
Mueller, J., Renzl, B., & Will, M. (2020). Ambidextrous leadership: a meta-review applying static and dynamic multi-level perspectives. Review of Managerial Science, 14, 37-59.
Müller-Seeger, J. (2023). Reflexionen zur qualitativen Forschung in einer pandemischen Situation. Qual.met / Journal, 1 (1), 1-11.
Roth, K., Rau, C., & Neyer, A.-K. (2023). Design thinking and dynamic managerial capabilities: a quasi- experimental field study in the aviation industry. R&D Management, 53 (3), 801-818.
Schreck, P., van Aaken, D., & Donaldson, T. (2013). Positive economics and the normativistic fallacy: bridging the two sides of CSR. Business Ethics Quarterly, 23 (2), 297-329.
Schreck, P., & Raithel, S. (2018): Corporate social performance, firm size, and organizational visibility- distinct and joint effects on voluntary sustainability reporting. Business & Society, 57 (4), 742-778.
Wirges, F., & Neyer, A.-K. (2022). Towards a process-oriented understanding of HR analytics: implementation and application. Review of Managerial Science, 17, 2077-2108.
Wolf, T., Jahn, S., Hammerschmidt, M., & Weiger, W. H. (2021). Competition versus cooperation: how technology-facilitated social interdependence initiates the self-improvement chain. International Journal of Research in Marketing, 38 (2), 472-491.