Research focus

Corporate governance (understood as a regulatory framework for the structures, processes and persons involved in the management and supervision of companies)

• Top management and organisation of management in companies of different legal forms
• Determinants and consequences of the acceptance of international standards of good corporate governance
• Corporate governance of newly listed companies (IPOs)

Organisation design (understood as the development, assessment and selection of appropriate forms of organisation)

• Action-theoretically based studies on the structural alternatives of the management organisation of companies
• Behavioural studies on the interaction within and between the management bodies of companies
• Structural and strategic measures to increase the organisational adaptability of companies

Business ethics (understood as the justification and assertion of moral norms in business practice)

• Norm- and organisation-theory-based studies on the implementation of business ethics
• Design dimensions and behavioural effects of corporate ethical codes
• Corporate ethics and social responsibility of global companies