Doctorates awarded at the Faculty of Business and Economics in 2024: Ansgar Quint "Theoretic Essays in Public Economics - Profit Shifting in General Oligopolistic Equilibrium and the Role of Information in Career Concern Models" Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Robert Schwager, Chair of Public Economics Examination date: 10 January 2024 Luis Omar Herrera Prada "From Secondary School to the Labor Market in Colombia: Turning Barriers into Building Blocks" Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Inmaculada Martínez-Zarzoso, Ibero-America Institute for Economic Research, University of Göttingen Examination date: 2 February 2024 Daniel Hirschmann "The role of university-related intermediation in supporting sustainability transitions in regional innovation initiatives in Germany" Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Kilian Bizer, Chair of Economic Policy and SME Research Examination date: 1 March 2024 Michelle Lang "CEO Succession and Strategic Communication: An Empirical Analysis of the Interplay between CEOs, Boards, and the Capital Market" Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Michael Wolff, Chair of Management and Control Examination date: 8 March 2024 Tobias Blay "Navigating the Future of Work: New Perspectives on Virtual Collaboration" Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Fabian J. Froese, Chair of Human Resources Management and Asian Business Examination date: 8 March 2024 Till Ole Diesterhöft "Managing Informational Uncertainty in Customer Data Breaches: Empirical Insights into Understanding and Addressing Customer Needs in Healthcare Security Incidents" Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Lutz M. Kolbe, Chair of Information Management Examination date: 15 March 2024 Dominic Maier "The future of finance in times of climate change: An empirical analysis of climate-related risk awarness, sustainability action and CFO impact" Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Michael Wolff, Chair of Management and Control Examination date: 29 April 2024 Ann-Charline Weber "Aspects of restricted access to resources: Protest, numeracy skills, early childcare, nutrition supplementation" Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Sebastian Vollmer, Chair of Development Economics / Centre for Modern Indian Studies (CeMIS) Examination date: 10 June 2024 Melanie Dunger "Social Structures and Response to Misconduct: An Empirical Analysis of Economic, Social, and Psychological Factors in Norm Enforcement" Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Claudia Keser, Chair of Microeconomics Examination date: 14 June 2024 Laura Diniz Penteado de Barros "Socio-economic and political consequences of labor market shocks: Evidence from Brazil" Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Krisztina Kis-Katos, Chair of International Economic Policy Examination date: 27 June 2024 Fernanda Carneiro-Otto "Greening Consumption: Decoding the Influence of Vegan Label and 'Rescued' Claim" Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Yasemin Boztuğ, Chair of Marketing and Consumer Behavior Examination date: 28 June 2024 Fabian Engel "Better Banking Through Crises - Krisen als Innovationstreiber des Bankmarketings" (Better Banking Through Crises - Crises as Drivers of Innovation in Bank Marketing) Supervisor: Apl. Prof. Dr. Ingo Köhler, Institute for Economic and Social History Examination date: 2 July 2024 Sascha Lichtenberg "Working Digital - Shaping Motivation and Behavior by Information System Design Elements: Analyzing Pro-Task and Pro-User Effects Induced by Acknowledging Digital Work" Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Lutz M. Kolbe, Chair of Information Management Examination date: 23 August 2024 Gilian Kant "Social Media Insights through Advanced Natural Language Processing-Based Machine Learning" Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Thomas Kneib, Chair of Statistics Examination date: 16 September 2024 Anton Thielmann "Interpretable Probabilistic Machine Learning: On Topic Modeling and Tabular Deep Learning" Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Thomas Kneib, Chair of Statistics Examination date: 16 September 2024 Sebastian Leue "The Economics of Globalization: Migration, Trade, and Investment" Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Andreas Fuchs, Chair of Development Economics Examination date: 19 September 2024 Jana Wagner "Essays on the role of CSR information in capital markets: Evidence from stakeholders and information intermediaries" Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Jörg-Markus Hitz, Chair of Financial Accounting and Financial Analysis, University of Tübingen Examination date: 10 October 2024 Chris Gabriel Islam "Meta-research in times of data science - Using automation, machine learning, and modern econometrics to analyze open science in economics and related fields" Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Helmut Herwartz, Chair of Econometrics Examination date: 17 October 2024 Natascha Loth "Bounded Rationality in Compensation: An Empirical Analysis of Biases in Employee and Manager Decision Making" Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Michael Wolff, Chair of Management and Control Examination date: 25 October 2024 Ainslee Erhard "Nudging Plant-Based Food Choice" Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Yasemin Boztuğ, Chair of Marketing and Consumer Behavior Examination date: 25 October 2024 Jannes Menck "Understanding Virtual Reality as a Tool for Experimental Research in Information Systems - The Case of Application Strategies: Exploring the Why, How, and When of Utilizing Virtual Reality in Information Systems Research" Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Lutz M. Kolbe, Chair of Information Management Examination date: 15 November 2024 Ben Dalka "Executive Minds at Work: An Analysis of the Psychological Underpinnings of Top Management Decision Making" Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Michael Wolff, Chair of Management and Control Examination date: 22 November 2024 Philine Krebs "Die Entwicklung des politischen und wirtschaftsbürgerlichen Wissens in der kaufmännischen Ausbildung. Effekte der beruflichen Bildung auf den Wissenserwerb (The development of political and economic civic knowledge in commercial training. Effects of vocational training on the acquisition of knowledge)" Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Susan Seeber, Chair of Business Education and Human Resource Development Examination date: 27 November 2024 Malte Becker "Essays on inequality and discrimination in developing countries" Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Krisztina Kis-Katos, Chair of International Economic Policy Examination date: 27 November 2024 Jan Christian Bauer "Antecedents and Contingencies of Strategic Decision Making – An Empirical Analysis of Success Factors in Mergers & Acquisitions" Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Michael Wolff, Chair of Management and Control Examination date: 29 November 2024 Philipp Bäumle "Knowledge intermediaries in regional innovation systems" Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Kilian Bizer, Chair of Economic Policy and SME Research Examination date: 20 December 2024
Dissertations in 2024
