Corporate Governance - Strategic Leadership
In a broad definition, corporate governance generally refers to the institution of institutions and the organisation and control of corporate management in such a way that the welfare of other individuals and institutions with an interest in the continued existence of the company (e.g. employees, local authorities) is safeguarded. Our research and teaching work is based on business ethics as well as personnel, organisational and behavioural economics. Depending on the research question and the information available, various types of data are analysed, including data from our in-house economics experimental laboratory BaER-Lab.
Our research
Our research issues include compliance, ethical corporate decisions, sustainable corporate governance, responsibility in the digitalised society and human-machine interaction. We conduct research on a wide variety of projects and our chair is responsible for the scientific and organisational management of the BaER-Lab, the experimental research laboratory of the Faculty of Business Administration and Economics.
Our teaching
Our Chair of Corporate Governance offers a broad spectrum of teaching and deals with comprehensive mechanisms for ensuring good corporate governance. A basic understanding of the subject matter is conveyed in our chair's foundation courses. Building on this, the in-depth courses analyse differentiated economic issues with a focus on sustainability, business ethics or empirical management research.
Our network
The Chair of Corporate Governance maintains numerous collaborations with companies, organisations and research institutions in order to continuously optimise the quality of its teaching. Our Chair attaches great importance to practical relevance: Projects in cooperation with Weidmüller Interface GmbH & Co KG and PwC provide students with exciting insights into practice-oriented sustainability strategies, sustainability reporting and the fields of compliance management and corruption prevention.
Further information can be found here.
Co-operations
Application-orientation is a top priority in the specialist group:
Projects in these collaborations provide students with exciting insights into practice-oriented sustainability strategies, sustainability reporting and the fields of compliance management and corruption prevention.
| Weidmüller Interface GmbH & co. KG |
| PwC |
| Foundation Economy for the Common Good NRW: Cooperation in the seminar "Applied Economy for the Common Good (ECG)" |
| Weidmüller Interface GmbH & Co. KG |
| Frauenhofer Institute for Mechatronic Design Technology IEM |
| dSPACE GmbH |
| Miele & Cie. KG |
| WAGO GmbH & Co. KG |
| Paderborn district |
| Paderborn/Lippstadt Airport GmbH |
| Aerosoft GmbH Aviation data technology |
Impulses - Discussions - Exchange
The Business Ethics Forum is organised around a different business ethics topic each year. The half-day event offers you space for reflection together with experts and opens up new perspectives on business ethics issues. Paderborn University and the Paderborn Faculty of Theology have been cooperating in the field of business ethics since 2013. The initiators, Prof Dr René Fahr and Prof Dr Günter Wilhelms, regularly invite students and interested citizens to joint events. You can find more information here.
"You can't be sustainable on your own. No individual, no company and no state can do it, only all of us can."
Prof Dr René Fahr in a laudatory speech at the award ceremony for the Reineccius Medal to Christian Felber, the initiator of the Economy for the Common Good, 2017.
Our team
You can find a detailed list of all scientific employees of our chair and the research area Behavioural Economic Engineering & Responsible Management on the website of the Heinz Nixdorf Institute.
News about current vacancies can be found on the Heinz Nixdorf Institute website as well as on the Paderborn University website.
Kontakt
Behavioral Economic Engineering and Responsible Management / Heinz Nixdorf Institute
Department 1: Management
Fürstenallee 11
33102 Paderborn