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Research at the Faculty of Business Studies
The self-image of the Faculty of Business Studies includes applied research in very different facets in addition to professionally sound and practice-oriented teaching. The spectrum ranges from empirical studies and scientific publications to practice-oriented knowledge transfer or from quantitative methods to the moderation of change processes. The form, methods and results vary accordingly.
The research performance of the faculty is differentiated according to four target groups and in very different ways:
The different research target groups
A) Companies
- Qualified documented contacts to representatives of business practice in the form of references for existing, planned or potential projects, e.g. in research proposals.
- Diverse cooperation partners and projects
- Study projects with subsequent formal review
- Final theses, if applicable, with subsequent employment
- Reports in the daily press and in in-house journals
C) Scientific community
- Publication of final theses
- Preparation of qualified reference books
- Editorship of qualified anthologies/proceedings
- Contributions to national and international journals
- Contributions to national and international conferences
- Organisation of national and international conferences
- Acting as referees for journals and conferences
- Prizes / awards from national and international bodies
Research areas
Business Studies
- General Business Studies, Procurement, Production and Logistics Management (Prof. Dr. Focke)
- Business Taxation with Company Succession (Prof. Dr. Knüppel)
- Entrepreneurship (Prof. Dr. Chwallek)
- Financial Services (Prof. Dr. Schmitz)
- International Studies (Prof. Dr. Mackenstein)
- International Financial Management (Prof. Dr. Stephan)
- International Sales and Service Management (Prof. Dr. Pietsch)
- Management Training (Prof. Dr. Weßling)
- Marketing (Prof. Dr. Call)
- Marketing (Prof. Dr. Hoepner)
- Organisation and Project Management (Prof. Dr. Schulte-Zurhausen)
- Accounting and Controlling (Prof. Dr. Stippel)
- Accounting and Auditing (Prof. Dr. Schneider)
- Business Information Systems (Prof. Dr. Jacobs)
Economics
- Empirical Innovation Research (Prof. Dr. Janz)
- International Economic Development (Prof. Dr. Müller-Oestreich)
- Economic Policy and Development Economics (Prof. Dr. Fredebeul-Krein)
Business Law
Quantitative Methods
Research topics
VII Corporate Taxation
A. Taxation of partnerships, corporations and groups of companies
B. Effects of taxation on choice of legal form and financing
C. Optimisation of legal form for tax purposes and comparison of tax burdens
D. Transfer of productive assets
E. Reorganisation tax law
F. Balance sheet tax law and tax accounting
G. Education costs for income tax purposes
H. International Tax Law
I. Transfer of functions abroad
XI Organisational Development
A. Behavioural and communication management
B. Change management
C. Coaching of managers
- Experiential Learning' as a didactic approach to intercultural behavioural training for tomorrow's managers
- Management training - imparting company-related social competence to managers and management trainees
E. Team development - theoretical concepts and practical application in human resource management
Aachener Online-Schriften Wirtschaft und Recht
The "Aachener Online-Schriften Wirtschaft und Recht" offer academically interested students of the Faculty of Business Studies the opportunity to publish outstanding final theses (Bachelor's and Master's theses) in the fields of business studies, business informatics and business law online. Academic publications make the work accessible to a broad specialist public and thereby raise the author's profile. This is an open-access publication that can be read free of charge, whereby the copyright remains with the author.
Read more about the Aachener Online-Schriften here.
