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Discussion event with Professor Monika Schnitzer: The annual report of the German Council of Economic Experts

Monika Schnitzer is a professor of Economics, in particular Comparative Economics at LMU Munich and Chair of the German Council of Economic Experts. On January 16, 2025, she will be guest at our Faculty and present the annual report of the German Council of Economic Experts.

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Online discussion 60 minutes “Migration: How to manage immigration and facilitate integration?”

On November 13, 2024, Professor Panu Poutvaara (Director of the ifo Center for Migration and Development Economics and Professor of Economics, in particular Comparative Institutional Economics, LMU Munich) and Professor Hans Vorländer (Director of the Center for Constitutional and Democratic Research and the Mercator Forum Migration and Democracy) will discuss migration issues in a new edition of “60 Minutes”.

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Assistant Professor Tristan Becker honored with GOR Young Researchers Award

Tristan Becker, Assistant Professor in Business Administration, in particular Management Science, was honoured with the GOR Young Researchers Award during the opening ceremony of OR 2024. The award recognizes the overall scientific achievement of the awarded persons, whereby the excellence in research must be demonstrated by a publication in a EURO or GOR journal.

           

Several TOP publications published

Since the last newsletter in July, several researchers at the Faculty have succeeded in publishing papers in top-ranked journals, which are ranked A according to JOURQUAL. The article by Lars Hornuf Token-Based Crowdfunding: Investor Choice and the Optimal Timing of Initial Coin Offerings has been published in Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice. The journal is listed in the FT50 ranking. Learn more

The publication Controllership Effectiveness and Digitalization: Shedding Light on the Importance of Business Analytics Capabilities and the Business Partner Role, authored by Xenia Börner, Martin Wiener and Thomas Günther, was published in Management Accounting Research.
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The paper Exploring the Duality of Formal and Informal Controls in Driving Eco-Innovations, written by Valeria Knels, Marc Janka and Thomas Günther, has been published in European Accounting Review. Learn more

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New holder of the Chair of Business Administration, in particular Organization and Management: Professor Stefan Raszinskas

Professor Stefan Razinskas has been holding the Chair of Business Administration, in particular Organization and Management, since October 1, 2024. He is moving to the Faculty from the FU Berlin, where he worked as an Assistant Professor in Management since 2020. In this interview, he talks about the topics that particularly interest him in research and teaching.    

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New Assistant Professor in Business Administration, in particular Strategy and Business Ethics: Ignas Bruder

Since August 1, 2024, Ignas Bruder has been working at the Faculty as an Assistant Professor in Business Administration, in particular Strategy and Business Ethics. In his research and teaching, Ignas Bruder deals with social entrepreneurship, corporate sustainability, democratic organizing, practice theories and integrative business ethics, among other things.

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Postdoc support at the Chair of Quantitative Methods, in particular Econometrics: Dr. Andreas Leibing

Since May 2024, Dr. Andreas Leibing has been working as a research associate and postdoc at the Chair of Quantitative Methods, in particular Econometrics with Professor Kamila Cygan-Rehm. With his research, he aims to contribute to a better understanding of the factors that influence individual educational decisions and educational success.

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After more than 30 years at the Faculty: Evelyn Krug retires

On September 26, 2024, many colleagues bid farewell to Evelyn Krug on her retirement. Evelyn Krug worked at the Faculty for more than 30 years and provided highly competent and dedicated secretarial support to the Chairs of Business Administration, in particular Industrial Management and Business Information Systems, in particular Information Systems in Industry and Trade.

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Presentation of student research and Best Paper Award at the AOM

At the 84th Academy of Management (AOM) conference in Chicago, Sarah Müller-Sägebrecht (Chair of Entrepreneurship and Innovation; pictured right) and Laura Melzer (pictured left), a Master's student in Business Administration, presented research findings. It was Laura Melzer's first visit to an international conference. She presented a paper that emerged from her Bachelor's thesis on business model innovation. Sarah Müller-Sägebrecht was co-author of this paper and also received the Best Paper Student Award for a paper co-authored with Isabell Lippert (Chair of Business Information Systems, in particular Business Engineering). In the interview, both report on their experiences at the AOM and in Chicago.

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OR 2024 Munich with broad participation from the faculty

The faculty was well represented at this year's OR conference in Munich, which attracted almost 700 participants. Maximilian Hubmann, a student of Industrial Engineering and Management was among the speakers. In his co-authored paper with Markus Höfling, he investigated the potential of lot streaming in scheduling and developed a powerful optimization algorithm for this purpose. This is the output of the Funds for Student Research (FOSTER) program, which was carried out at the Chair of Business Administration, in particular Industrial Management.

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Best Student Contribution Award of the SAP Academic Community Conference for Anja Rogas and Marko Ott

Anja Rogas and Marko Ott received the Best Student Contribution Award at the SAP Academic Community Conference in Vienna for their paper Berufliche Handlungskompetenz gut erzählt: Vorstellung und Wirksamkeit verschiedener Ansätze zur Einführung in SAP S/4HANA.

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Habilitation Prize of the FAU University Association for Professor Kamila Cygan-Rehm

Professor Kamila Cygan-Rehm was awarded this year's Habilitation Prize of the University Association of the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU). In her cumulative habilitation thesis, Kamila Cygan-Rehm devoted herself to the econometric evaluation of various political interventions.

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Dr. Leyla Azizi joins the Gronen leadership team and the Impact Scholar Community Mentorship Program

Dr. Leyla Azizi (Chair of Business Administration, in particular Sustainablity Management and Environmental Accounting) has been an official member of the leadership team of the Group for Research on Organizations and the Natural Environment (GRONEN) since June 2024. Among other things, she will support the GRONEN workshop team and thus further strengthen the Group's commitment to promoting scientific exchange and professional development.

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Professor Remmer Sassen appointed to working group of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina e.V.

Professor Remmer Sassen (Chair of Business Administration, in particular Sustainability Management and Environmental Accounting and Chair of Business Administration, in particular Environmental Management, IHI Zittau) has been appointed as a member of the working group “Exploring and shaping interactions between humans and the Earth system - strategies for transdisciplinary research, teaching and communication” of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina e.V.

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Selina Schulze-Spüntrup on her dissertation on organ donation

Selina Schulze-Spüntrup works as a research assistant at the Dresden branch of the ifo Institute and is doing her doctorate externally with Professor Marcel Thum (Chair of Economics, in particular Public Economics). You can find out more about her doctoral project, which deals with organ donation, in a short interview.   

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Kulondwa Safari on his work on “Fintech and Financial Inclusion in Sub-Saharan Africa”

Kulondwa Safari is doing his doctorate externally at the Chair of Business Administration, in particular Finance and Financial Technology with Professor Lars Hornuf on “Fintech and Financial Inclusion in Sub-Saharan Africa” and is funded by a scholarship from Bread for the World. In a short interview, he talks about the motivation for his topic and the research questions to be investigated.

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InnoTeam project „ReCAIcle“ started

The project “ReCAIcle” - Towards Circular Economy: AI-based Conversational Agent for Sustainable Behavior Change - started at the Chair of Business Administration, in particular Marketing on October 1, 2024. In cooperation with ITEXA GmbH and the Chair of Industrial Design Engineering, the aim of the project is to investigate if an AI-supported conversational agent can convince users of an asset management software to adopt sustainable behavior.

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Blended mobility project between TU Dresden and EPOKA University successfully completed

TU Dresden and EPOKA University from Albania are continuing their successful collaboration within the Virtual Collaborative Learning Module (VCL) and are demonstrating with their innovative blended mobility approach how academic exchange and intercultural collaboration can be optimized through the combination of virtual and physical mobility.

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Call for Applications: Distinguished Research Fellows 2025

The fifth round of our Distinguished Research Fellowship Program has started. Internationally renowned researchers can once again apply for a research stay at the Faculty until December 15, 2024. 

Since the start of the program in winter semester 2021/22, 14 outstanding international researchers have already been guests. They have worked on specific projects together with their hosts, given insights into their research in public lectures at the Faculty and held courses for doctoral candidates.

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Professor Rodrigo Lozano visits the Faculty as a Dresden Fellow

Professor Rodrigo Lozano is a renowned scientist in the field of organizational sustainability and one of the Dresden Fellows 2024. From September 5 to October 10, 2024 and May 1 to May 31, 2025, he is a guest at the Chair of Business Administration, in particular Sustainability Management and Environmental Accounting of Professor Remmer Sassen.   

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Professor Dominik Möst and Lisa Lorenz visit the University of Edinburgh

As part of a research stay funded by the International Centre for Mathematical Sciences (ICMS), Prof. Dr. Dominik Möst and Lisa Lorenz (both Chair of Business Administration, in particular Energy Economics) were guests at the University of Edinburgh from the end of August to mid-September. Together with Professor Miguel Anjos and one of his doctoral candidates, they worked on the joint project “Uncertainty modeling in the context of storage and flexibility needs in an electricity system with high intermittent renewables”.

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Dr. Ianina Scheuch and Stefan Albers spend research stays in London

Dr. Ianina Scheuch (Chair of Business Education and Management Training) and Stefan Albers (Chair of Business Administration, in particular Finance and Financial Technology) have returned from their research stays in London. These were made possible by the TransCampus program, a cooperation between TU Dresden and King's College London.

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The Faculty on LinkedIn and Instagram

The Faculty now also has its own channels on LinkedIn and Instagram. The social networks provide insights into events and activities within and outside the faculty, inform students and prospective students and present the faculty's latest research findings.  

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LABOR.A® 2024: Discussion on job crafting in the age of algorithmic management

On September 19, 2024, the LABOR.A® conference of the Hans Böckler Foundation took place under the motto “fill_the_gap”. The event focused on the many gaps that accompany the transformation of our society, whether in political discourse or in social issues. In this context, Isabell Lippert (Chair of Business  Information Systems, in particular Business Engineering) participated as a speaker in the session “Job Crafting in the Era of Algorithmic Management: Worker Driven Improvements Towards Meaningful Work within Q-Commerce”.

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Ready to rethink East Germany?: N5 Symposium 2024 on November 8 & 9, 2024

At the N5 Symposium students come together to break down stereotypes, tell powerful stories and actively shape the future of the region under the motto “Democratic. Courageous. East.”. Interactive workshops and exciting discussions will focus on providing fresh impetus for democracy and strengthening East German perspectives. Maria Schwerdtner (Chair of Business Administration, in particular Responsible Management, IHI Zittau) is involved in the organization of the event.

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Bright minds have no gender

Charlotte Bickhardt was the first woman to complete a doctorate in Economics at TU Dresden. She is the face of the month for September in the calendar “Bright minds have no gender - historical female doctoral candidates at TU Dresden”. Charlotte Bickhardt is introduced in a short video by Jantke de Boer who worked as a research associate at the Chair of Economics, in particular International Monetary Economics and successfully completed her doctorate on the topic of “Essays on Exchange Rates”. Jantke de Boer's academic career continues. Since April, she has been an Assistant Professor in International Monetary Macroeconomics at the Ruhr University Bochum.

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PASST?! The early warning system of the TU Dresden

PASST?! is the TU Dresden's early warning system that helps students to keep an eye on their course of study and academic success! As part of the program, the course of studies is checked for certain criteria that could jeopardize academic success. If a criterion applies, students benefit from suggestions for free and tailored support services from TU Dresden. Use of these is of course voluntary.

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Apply now for the Femtec | Career-Building Program 2024

The Femtec Network invites committed female students from the STEM field to participate in the Femtec Career-Building Program. The scholarship offers students many opportunities for personal development and growth, access to a large network of like-minded women and the chance for a seamless transition into a successful career.

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Unbox Your Future! Discover the new workshops, livestreams and events of the Career Service

The new semester is here - and with it a wealth of opportunities! The Career Service offers a varied program to support students in their professional orientation and personal development. Whether exciting livestreams, practical workshops or inspiring events - everyone will find a suitable offer here.

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StufoExpo 2024 "Creative Minds – Ethical Research": Experience student research up close!

Wondering what students are currently researching? Then the StuFoExpo 2024 is the right place for you! The event will take place on November 7, 2024 from 2:30 to 7:30 p.m. in the Dülfersaal at TU Dresden. Students will present their research projects either as a two-minute pitch and poster or in an entertaining science slam followed by an audience discussion. The motto of this year's event is “Creative Minds - Ethical research” and is dedicated to scientific ethics.

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Research colloquium: Program in winter semester 2024/25

In the Research Colloquium, we will again have many exciting guests and formats in the winter semester 2024/25, including a new edition of our “60 Minutes” online series on migration.

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PHD Regulars' Table in winter term 2024/25

In the winter semester 2024/25, our doctoral students will once again have the opportunity to exchange ideas in a relaxed atmosphere at the regulars' table. The regulars' table takes place on the 2nd Wednesday of each month at 6 pm in the Campus Bar & Restaurant.

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Internationale excite Summer School "Patents in Search of News Business"

From August 26-30, 2024, 1st International TUD I excite Summer School took place in Hoyerswerda under the direction of Professor Andreas Pinkwart. A total of 30 entrepreneurial inventors and doctoral candidates from TU Dresden and other universities from all over the world experienced an intensive program with workshops, entrepreneurial impulses and creative work and were also able to explore Hoyerswerda and gain impressions of the transformation region of Lusatia.

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50 years of the future - paradigms, positions and perspectives: Vocational and business educationists met in Dresden

The Chair of Business Education and Management Training, together with colleagues from the Institute of Vocational Education and Vocational Didactics at the Faculty of Education, organized this year's conference of the Vocational and Business Education Section of the German Educational Society. This is the largest conference for the scientific community of researchers in vocational and business education. More than 400 participants attended the conference in Dresden from September 16-18.

Dialog event

UN-Day Dresden 2024
Prospects for growth

Neues Rathaus Dresden

Online Discussion

60 Minuten
Prof. Dr. Hans Vorländer and Prof. Panu Poutvaara, PhD discuss with Prof. Dr. Christian Leßmann on the topic of migration

Zoom

Conference

18th ifo Dresden Workshop on Political Economy

ifo Institute, Dresden

Information event

Doing a doctorate: Is that something for me? - Information event for students interested in a doctorate

Festsaal & online

Lecture and discussion event

Discussion event: The annual report of the German Council of Economic Experts
with Prof. Dr. Monika Schnitzer and Prof. Dr. Christian Leßmann

Lecture hall HÜL S 386