How can companies better reach customers, promote innovation or manage risks effectively? This year’s winners of the UGO Prize have addressed these and other questions. Every year, the Unternehmergruppe Ostwestfalen e.V., in collaboration with Paderborn University, honours outstanding Bachelor’s and master’s theses from the Faculty of Business Administration and Economics that combine academic excellence with high practical relevance.
The award,…
Misperceptions in the tax area influence political decisions
Tax systems around the world are extremely dynamic. Tax regulations change frequently: national tax reforms as well as initiatives at European, OECD[1] or UN level, which have an impact on national legislation, constantly give rise to new ambiguities. The effects and interactions of these national and international regulations are anything but self-explanatory. However, the acceptance…
Analysis reveals hurdles to use in everyday working life
Many companies expect enormous productivity gains from the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in everyday working life, so-called workplace AI (WKI), especially in knowledge-intensive areas such as consulting, administration, risk analysis, market research and customer acquisition. Although applications such as ChatGPT or Microsoft 365 Copilot have arrived in everyday office life, their…
Personal support, modern study conditions and practical teaching: Paderborn University's Business Administration and Economics study programmes achieve numerous top ratings from their students in the latest university ranking by the Centre for Higher Education Development (CHE). The study programmes Business Informatics, International Business Studies, Business Administration and Economics as well as Sports Economics were evaluated. The results…
The "NRWTalente - Region OWL" scholarship programme for committed students is entering its next round of applications. The programme is funded by the Ministry of Schools and Education of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia and is run by Paderborn University together with Bielefeld University, Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences and OWL University of Applied Sciences. The aim of the programme is to open up valuable prospects for the…
Professor Dr Tobias Bornemann taught and researched in Vienna for almost 15 years. In his work, he investigated how tax rules change the behaviour of global companies. Now he is returning to the place where his own academic career began: since the summer semester, the newly appointed Professor of International Corporate Taxation is at Paderborn University.
"It feels a bit like coming home - but with a different perspective," says Bornemann. His…
