Faculty of Business Studies and Economics

Stock market podcasts such as “Motley Fool Money” or “The Investors Podcast” reach ever larger audiences. On whether and in what form such formats influence capital markets, Janik Ole Wecks from the IFA at the University of Bremen was interviewed on the radio programme “Impuls” (SWR).

Students from the University of Bremen and the Hochschule Bremen worked in cross-university teams on practical projects related to city marketing, location development, retail, and tourism in Bremen.

As part of the University of Bremen’s Open Campus Day on June 13, 2026, the Retail and Logistics Management Research Group at the markstones Institute in Department 7 presented its work to a broad audience of prospective students, high school students, families, and other visitors.

In the upcoming Diginomics Brownbag Seminar, Burkhardt Funk from Leuphana University of Lüneburg will give a talk on “GUT-IS – Towards a Grand Unified Theory of Constructs in Information Systems”.

Practical Insights into Modern Supply Chain Management in the Retail Sector

In the upcoming Diginomics Brownbag Seminar, Christian Katzenbach from ZeMKI – University of Bremen will give a talk on “From Social Media to Generative AI: Controversies and Challenges in Platform Governance.”

On 15 June 2026, Prof. Bodo Lang from Massey University, New Zealand, will give a talk on “Low alcohol, high consumer confusion? How NOLO alcohol is presented online.”

At the upcoming Diginomics Brownbag Seminar on 3 June 2026, Lisa Handke from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg will give a talk on the topic “Navigating Team Dynamics in Hybrid Work”.

Wiwib e.V. and the Handelskammer Bremen have recognised three outstanding theses on SME research – ranging from digitalisation in the crafts sector to governance in family businesses.

At the upcoming Diginomics Brownbag Seminar on 27 May 2026, Sarah Stanske from the University of Bremen will give a talk on the topic “Futuphobia: How Fear of the Future Shapes Strategic Activity”.

The Bachelor’s program in Business Studies at the Faculty of Business Studies and Economics has achieved strong results in the CHE Ranking 2026, with multiple placements in the top tier.

On April 22, 2026, Professor Matthias Klumpp welcomed two industry experts as guest speakers in the lecture “Value Creation Processes”: Gerd-Wilhelm Brüning, Head of Logistics at REWE Nord, and Sarah Lemmermann, Operations Manager of the Sottrum warehouse site near Bremen.

At the upcoming Diginomics Brownbag Seminar on April 29, Julia Backmann from the University of Münster will give a talk on the topic “Beyond Self-Reports: Wearables in Germany’s 4-Day Workweek Study.”

At the upcoming Diginomics Brown Bag Seminar on April 22, Christoph Rosenkranz from the University of Cologne will give a presentation on the topic “Developers’ Job Crafting and Individual Work Outcomes in Artificial Intelligence-Augmented Information Systems Development.”

Im Rahmen der 85. Jahrestagung des Verbands der Hochschullehrerinnen und Hochschullehrer für Betriebswirtschaft gewann das Paper „Driving Mobile App User Engagement Through Gamification“ (Paschmann, Bruno, van Heerde, Völckner, Klein) den Best Paper Award der Wissenschaftlichen Kommission Marketing.

Im Rahmen der Kinder-Uni der Universität Bremen hielt Kristina Klein, Professorin für Marketing und Konsumentenverhalten, eine Vorlesung zu „Influencer Marketing“. Rund 100 Kinder waren aktiv dabei und diskutierten ihre eigenen Erfahrungen. Eine sehr schöne Initiative – bis zum nächsten Mal!

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A total of 8 doctoral positions (starting 1 October) are available. Are you interested in researching the topic ‘Still man-made? The ambivalence of automation and augmentation’ from different perspectives? Then apply now (application deadline: April 4th)!

Dr. Johannes Voshaar (Institute for Finance and Accounting) has been selected as a member of the Junge Akademie | Mainz. The four-year membership starts at the Academy’s meeting in April 2026.

On February 3, 2026, from 4:00 to 5:00 PM, Svenja Marsula, Interim Professor for Controlling at the University of Bayreuth, will present her research project titled “How Feedback Culture Shapes Managerial Feedback Across Employee Performance Levels” as part of the Accounting & Finance Research…

On January 20, 2026, from 4:00 to 5:00 PM, Janik Ole Wecks, PhD candidate at the Institute for Finance and Accounting (IFA) at the University of Bremen, will present his research project titled “Media Coverage and Job Entry in the Audit Profession” as part of the Accounting & Finance Research…

WiWiB e.V., the association supporting the Faculty of Business Studies and Economics, is calling for support for our partner universities in Kyjiw and Odesa (Ukraine). Donations will be collected via the WiWiB e.V. association account and then forwarded to the two partner universities. The…

Ab Januar wird Frau Prof. Dr. Kristina Klein, Professorin für Konsumentenverhalten, als neue Associate Editor des Schmalenbach Journal of Business Research (SBUR) agieren. Sie freut sich darauf, das Team zu unterstützen.

On December 9, 2025, from 4:00 to 5:00 PM, Sebastian Firk, Holder of the Chair of Management Control at the University of Duisburg-Essen, will present his research project titled “Does Artificial Intelligence (AI) Elevate or Undermine Strategic Distinctiveness? The Role of Organizational AI…

On November 25, 2025, from 4:00 to 5:00 PM, Jochen Pierk, Associate Professor and Section Head of the Accounting Group at the Erasmus School of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam, will present his research project titled “Disclosure Regulation and Legal Form Choice” as part of the Accounting &…

Der Fachbereich 7 trauert um seinen ehemaligen Honorarprofessor für Betriebswirtschaftliches Prüfungswesen, Herrn Professor Dr. Helge Bernd von Ahsen. Er starb im 81. Lebensjahr am 15.11.2025 in Verden (Aller).

On Wednesday, November 12, 2025, our 7th Faculty Career Day will take place in the WIWI1 building (Enrique-Schmidt-Str. 1).

From 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., we expect 15 companies to attend, offering a wide variety of job opportunities and looking to get to know our students.

Students can also book…

On October 28, 2025, from 4:00 to 5:00 PM, Benjamin Noordermeer, Assistant Professor in Accounting & Taxation at the University of Mannheim, will present his research project titled “Performance-Based vs. Risk-Based Peer Selection in M&A Fairness Opinions” as part of the Accounting & Finance…

Die Verbindung von Wissenschaft und Praxis stand im Mittelpunkt der Praxiskonferenz DERMARKENTAG  ein Ziel, das auch am markstones Institut eine hohe Relevanz besitzt. Wir freuen uns, dass wir mit mehreren Beiträgen aus unserem Haus zum lebendigen Austausch über Markenführung und Markensoziologie…

Welcome to the Faculty of Business Studies and Economics!

Perhaps you have already visited our homepage and the UNI-Start-Portal to get a first insight into your study program? In addition, you can find the schedule of the O-Woche (orientation week) of our faculty for our programs in Business…

Vom 17. bis 19.September 2025 war das markstones Institut im 35. Jubiläumsjahr zum dritten Mal Gastgeber der Forschungstagung Marketing. Diese wissenschaftliche Konferenz wird seit 1990 durchgeführt und geht auf die enge persönliche Beziehung zwischen Prof. Dr. Heribert Meffert von der Universität…

Am 23.09 trafen sich auf Einladung von Prof. Dr. Kristina Klein Expert:innen aus der Praxis, Bildungseinrichtungen und Non-Profit-Organisationen, um einen Tag über mögliche curriculare Verankerungen des Themas Künstliche Intelligenz (KI) zu sprechen.

In 2025, the University of Bremen was represented with three scientific contributions at the Annual Conference of the der European Association for Research in Industrial Economics (EARIE).

Der neue Podcast "dürfen die das?" auf Verbraucherzentrale.de widmet sich in mehrteiligen Reihen einem Verbraucherthema in aller Tiefe und aus mehreren Perspektiven. In den Episoden 5 und 6 ist Prof. Klein als Expertin u.a. zum Thema Influencer Marketing zu hören. Die entsprechende Folge finden Sie …

This year's PRAXIS Summer Camp will kick off on August 4, 2025, at the University of Bremen's Faculty of Business Studies and Economics. Since 2023, it has been a collaborative format with Bremen University of Applied Sciences. The kick-off event will take place at the International Graduate Center…

Der Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaft geht im neuen Bachelorstudiengang „Betriebswirtschaftslehre“ innovative Wege: Im zweisemestrigen Empiriepraktikum erwarben über 150 Studierende bereits zu Beginn ihres Studiums zentrale Kompetenzen in empirischen Methoden – Fähigkeiten, die beim Berufseinstieg…

Eine Vielzahl von Wissenschaftler:innen, Bediensteten und Studierenden folgte am 05.07.2025 der Einladung zu einer besonderen akademischen Feierstunde: der Antrittsvorlesung der Professur für Technologie und Management im Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaft zum Thema „Innovation and Technology as…

Professorin Lundan wurde zur neuen Präsidentin der Academy of International Business (AIB) gewählt. Die AIB ist die renommierteste Institution im Forschungsbereich International Business und Herausgeberin des Journal of International Business Studies (AJG 4*) sowie des Journal of International…

Gemeinsame Standards wie Wi-Fi oder 4G, häufig entwickelt von Organisationen wie dem ETSI, gewährleisten die Kompatibilität technischer Geräte. Unternehmen können ihre Patente als „standardessenziell“ deklarieren und sich dadurch wirtschaftliche Vorteile sichern. Doch nicht jedes als essenziell…

Forschungsvorträge der AG Logistik wurden angenommen für die hochrangigen Konferenzen CSCMP ERS Verona 2025 (Warehousing + Drone Logistics) und AOM Kopenhagen 2025 (Supply Chain Disruptions) der Academy of Management

Weitere Informationen zu den genannten Konferenzen finden Sie unter folgenden…

Der Faktor Mensch steht im Mittelpunkt aktueller Forschungsergebnisse zu Logistikprozessen in Transport und Lagerung

Weitere Informationen finden Sie unter folgenden Links:

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trf.2025.03.017

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jbl.12400

Das Konferenzpaper „Resilience & Disruption Management“ der AG Logistik gemeinsam mit der TU Darmstadt wurde auf der IFAC MIM 2025 in Trondheim mit dem Recommended Paper Award ausgezeichnet.

Weitere Informationen zu der genannten Konferenz finden Sie unter folgendem Link:

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Der pensionierte Professor des FB 7, Wolfram Elsner, wurde mit mehreren renommierten internationalen Preisen ausgezeichnet – darunter dem Veblen-Commons-Award für sein Lebenswerk.

In the summer semester of 2025, students in the Bachelor's project module "Applied Organizational Psychology" led by Dr. Julian Decius worked on a practice-oriented topic focused on the evidence-based development of work-related learning in organizations.

Frau Prof. Dr. Klein wurde als Expertin im Rahmen des WDR5 Dok 5 Feature „Mag ich, kauf ich, gönn ich mir – Wirtschaftsfaktor Shopping“ interviewt. Dieses Feature beschäftigt sich mit den Dingen, was unser Verhalten beim Einkaufen beeinflusst. Den vollständigen Beitrag kann man unter folgendem Link…

Prof. Dr. Kristina Klein, Marieke Schewe und Dr. Michael Schade waren auf der EMAC 2025 in Madrid vertreten. Die EMAC gilt als die bedeutendste Marketingkonferenz Europas und wurde von der ESIC University unter dem Leitthema „Human and Smart Marketing: Understanding and Enhancing Our Future“…

The Faculty of Economics at the University of Bremen fills two new logistics professorships - Senator Vogt visits the University of Bremen for the inaugural address of Prof. Dr. Matthias Klumpp's first professorship and emphasizes the importance of logistics for the state of Bremen

This year's FAST Conference of the Research Group for Applied Taxation will take place at WiWi1 on March 27. The topic of the event is: “Tax structuring and tax law structuring”. Participation in the conference is free of charge, but prior registration is required.

On February 25, 2025, from 4:00 to 5:00 PM, Christoph Sextroh, Professor in Accounting & Corporate Governance at the University of Oldenburg, will present a research project titled “Borrowing Attention? Piggyback Spam in Online Financial Chatter” as part of the Accounting & Finance Research Seminar.…

Preparations for this year's Career Camp are in full swing. This intensive career week will take place from March 24 - 28, 2025 and offers students from Faculties 1, 3, 4 and 7 the opportunity to gain valuable practical experience, network with companies ...

On January 20, 2025, students in the bachelor's module in organizational and business psychology, led by Dr. Julian Decius, were guests in Berlin at the transformation consultancy HRpepper. During the winter semester, the students had reviewed literature and conducted interviews with employees and…

On January 7, 2025, from 4:00 to 5:00 PM, Sebastian A. Tideman-Frappart, Assistant Professor in Accounting at Syracuse University, will present a research paper titled “Analysts and Recency Effects: The Case of Earnings Conference Calls” as part of the Accounting & Finance Research Seminar. The…

Studiendekan Professor Dr. Dr. h.c. André W. Heinemann konnte in der ersten Dezemberwoche eine Delegation der Odesa National Economic University (Ukraine) am Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaft willkommen heißen. Konrektor Assoc. Prof. Wolodymyr Shynkarenko, Prof. Dr. Maryna Slatvinska,…

Gastvortrag von Till Tietje, Head of E-Commerce Sales bei fritz-kola, am 11.12.

On December 10, 2024, from 4:00 to 5:00 PM, Sven Hartlieb, Professor of Auditing at the University of Innsbruck, will present a lecture titled “Spillover Effects of Joint Financial Statement Audit and Sustainability Assurance: Insights on Audit Efficiency” as part of the Accounting & Finance…

Experteninterview zu den dahinter liegenden Mechanismen von Black Friday Prof. Klein im Radio

Dr. Anna Sophie Hollstein, Dr. Michael Schade, Prof. Christoph Burmann (alle markstones Institute) und Prof. Christopher Kanitz (University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria) haben einen wissenschaftlichen Beitrag mit dem Titel „Identification as a Sword in the War for Talent: Understanding…

Am 29. Oktober 2024 von 16:00 bis 17:00 Uhr wird Yilong Xu, Assistant Professor of Finance an der Utrecht University, einen Vortrag zum Thema „Higher order risk preferences and economic decisions” im Rahmen des Accounting & Finance Research Seminars halten. Der Vortrag findet im WiWi1-Gebäude Raum…

For the show “Too good to be true?! “The scam with influencers” of NDR2, Prof. Klein was interviewed as an expert on influencer marketing. You can listen to the full piece here: https://www.ndr.de/ndr2/sendungen/ndr2spezial/NDR-2-Spezial-Das-Thema,sendung1471068.html

The article “Driving Mobile App User Engagement Through Gamification” by Jens Paschmann, Hernán A. Bruno, Franziska Völckner, Harald van Heerde and Kristina Klein can now be found online at the Journal of Marketing Research (VHB A+) . The article focuses on the question to which extent gamification…

In the winter semester 2024/2025, the "Accounting & Finance Research Seminar" will host international researchers at our faculty. This offers a unique opportunity to find out about their latest research and engage in personal discussions. Afterwards, there will be the opportunity for a personal…

In der Sendung von butenunbinnen war das markstones Institut gleich mit zwei Beiträgen vertreten. Zum Einen waren die Studierenden von Professor Christoph Burmann mit ihrer Plakatkampagne vertreten und zum anderen informierte Professorin Kristina Klein zu der "Trinkgeldtaste" in der Gastronomie.

On April 30, 2024 from 11:00 to 12:00, Stefan Zeisberger, Professor of Financial Economics at Radboud University Nijmegen and Associate Professor for Fintech and Experimental Finance at the University of Zurich, will give a talk on “Why Do People Invest Sustainably? Evidence From New Robo Advisor…

Prof. Aseem Kinra from the professorship of Global Supply Chain Management, Professor Ashish Verma from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore, and Dr. Meng Li from Tsinghua University have jointly launched a pioneering initiative to tackle the current sustainability and livability…

On April 16, 2024 from 11:00 to 12:00, Marco Ceccarelli, Assistant Professor of Finance at VU Amsterdam, will give a lecture on "Climate Transition Beliefs" as part of the Accounting & Finance Research Seminar. The lecture will take place in WiWi1 building room A1020.

Du möchtest dich für einen zukunftsweisenden Masterstudiengang bewerben? Dann ist jetzt deine Chance gekommen! Die Bewerbungsfrist für den Master in Wirtschaftspsychologie läuft noch bis zum 31. Mai 2024.

On April 9, 2024 from 11:00 to 12:00 Tobin Hanspal, Assistant Professor of Finance at the WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, will give a talk on "Educating Investors about Dividends" as part of the Accounting & Finance Research Seminar series. The talk will take place online.

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In the summer semester 2024, the "Accounting & Finance Research Seminar" will host international researchers at our faculty. This setting offers a unique opportunity to dive into their latest research and engage in personal discussions afterward. Afterwards, there will be the opportunity for a…

As part of the science communication strategy of the field of Organizational Psychology, Dr. Julian Decius gave a virtual lecture to students of the Gymnasium Nymphenburger Schulen (Munich). The invitation from the school was facilitated by the BMBF-funded networking project "Forschungsbörse". The…

Prof. Dr. Timo Kortsch, Dr. Julian Decius, and Dr. Hilko Paulsen authored the German book "Learning in companies – formal, informal, self-regulated" recently published in the renowned "Praxis der Personalpsychologie" book series from Hogrefe. The book transfers scientific findings on work-related…

Auf der 2024 Winter AMA Conference (23.02. – 25.02. in St. Pete Beach, FL, USA) wurden Dr. Michael Schade, Dr. Maik Dulle, Dr. Jan Wiezorrek und Stephan Buttgereit (alle markstones Institute of Marketing, Branding & Technology) gemeinsam mit Prof. Christopher Kanitz und Prof. Andreas Zehetner (beide…

Fabian Siekmann, PhD student at the Professorship for Global Supply Chain Management and member of the Diginomics Research Group, presented his research paper "Exploring the Role of Social Data in Resolving Paradoxes of Behavioral Visibility in Online Product Reviews for New Product Development" at…

Der Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaft der Universität Bremen freut sich, Prof. Dr. Achim Schlüter als neuen Honorarprofessor begrüßen zu dürfen. Mit Beginn des Sommersemesters wird Professor Schlüter das Gebiet der Institutionenökonomik und Ocean Governance am Fachbereich vertreten und sowohl in…

Das Paper „Pockets of Predictability: A Replication“ von Prof. Thorsten Poddig, Tobias Neumaier (beide Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaft) und weiteren Koautoren wurde zur Veröffentlichung im „Journal of Finance“ (VHB: A+) angenommen.

Am vergangenen Mittwoch fand das große Finale der diesjährigen WiWi Onboarding Challenge statt.

Der Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaft der Universität Bremen begrüßt zum 1. Dezember 2023 sein neues Dekanat, bestehend aus Prof. Dr. Maik Eisenbeiß als Dekan, Prof. Dr. Julia Kensbock als Prodekanin und Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. André Heinemann als Studiendekan.

Wir freuen uns, Konstantin Guericke, Co-Founder von LinkedIn, Mittwochabend begrüßen zu dürfen. Der Vortrag findet im Rahmen des Mastermoduls „Digital Marketing Management I: Strategie & Instrumente" von Prof. Dr. Maik Eisenbeiß statt.

Am 25. Oktober um 12 Uhr findet der Vortrag von Prof. Dr. Maren Becker von der ESCP Europe zum Thema "Indulge in Redemption? When and Why Customers Uptrade in Cashback Loyalty Programs" in Raum F4090 im WiWi2-Gebäude statt. Alle Interessierten sind herzlich eingeladen.

Professor Maik Eisenbeiß hat zusammen mit Manuel Berkmann, Werner Reinartz und Nico Schauerte einen Artikel im Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science veröffentlicht.

Debarshee Bhardwaj, Doktorand am Lehrstuhl für Global Supply Chain Management, präsentierte auf der World Conference on Transportation Research Society (WCTRS) 2023 in Montreal. Seine Forschungsarbeit mit dem Titel "How Do Managers Develop Hierarchies for Global Facility Location Country Selection…

Dr. Julian Decius (Organizational Psychology in Business Psychology) has published an article in the prestigious Journal of Vocational Behavior (IF = 11.1). Together with his co-authors Prof. Dr. Niclas Schaper (Paderborn University), Dr. Katharina Klug (University of Bremen) and Dr. Andreas Seifert…

Dr. Julian Decius, in cooperation with Dr. Peter Bleses from the Institute for Work and Economy (iaw), has acquired the BMBF-funded regional competence center for labor research "RessourcenEntwicklung in Dienstleistungsarbeit" (RessourcE) for a five-year period starting July 1, 2023. Twenty funded…

Prof. Dr. Vera Hagemann (Chair of Business Psychology and Human Resource Management) and her colleague Lara Watermann have published an article in Acta Astronautica. Together with Dr.-Ing. Christiane Heinicke (University of Bremen, Centre for Applied Space Technology and Microgravity) and Dr.…

On 05.07.2023, the students of the Bachelor project seminar "Applied Organizational Psychology" led by Dr. Julian Decius were guests of the Bundesliga football club Bayer 04 Leverkusen. During the summer semester, the students had researched literature and conducted interviews with Bayer 04…

Dr. Julian Decius (Head of Organizational Psychology) has published an article in the European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology (IF = 4.867). Together with Dr. Michael Knappstein (ISM Dortmund) and Dr. Katharina Klug (University of Bremen), he investigated the question of whether…

Ann Hipp has published an article in the international leading-edge journal „Research Policy“ (VHB: A) together with Thore Sören Bischoff und Petrik Runst (ifh Göttingen).

Am 19. Juni um 16 Uhr hält Prof. Dr. Lopo L. Rego von der Indiana University einen Vortrag zu "Boardroom Ethnic Diversity, Marketing Strategy, and Firm Performance". Alle Interessierten sind herzlich eingeladen.

Vom 23.05.2023 bis zum 26.05.2023 waren Prof. Dr. Christoph Burmann und Prof. Dr. Kristina Klein gemeinsam mit internen und externen Doktorand:innen des markstones Institut auf der EMAC Konferenz in Odense (Dänemark). Eines der Highlights der diesjährigen EMAC Konferenz war die feierliche Award…

Seit der ersten Auflage des Lehrbuches „Mathematik im Studium der Wirtschaftswissenschaften – Hinführung, Vorlesungen, Prüfung“ sind knapp über drei Jahre vergangen, und ich habe sehr viel positives Feedback erhalten. Gleichwohl gab es auch Hinweise, die mich auf diverse Tippfehler, Zahlendreher…

Am 28. April 2023 wurde Herr Dr. Ersen-Mert Kilincsoy für seine Dissertation mit dem Förderpreis der Nürnberger Steuergespräche 2022 ausgezeichnet. Die Dissertation trägt den Titel „Grundsätze und Methoden zur Abbildung von Prognosen im Bilanzsteuerrecht“ und wurde am Lehrstuhl für Allgemeine…

Am kommenden Mittwoch findet der Research Talk mit dem ehemaligen Doktoranden des markstones Institut Professor Dr. Thomas Scholdra zum Thema "Trick or Treat? The Stock Market Impact of Fake Reviews" statt. Alle Interessierten sind herzlich eingeladen.

Valentin J. Schmitt, Lothar Walter and Frank C. Schnittker from the IPMI published a new paper in the World Patent Information journal titled „Assessment of patentability by means of semantic patent analysis – A mathematical-logical approach“.

In the upcoming summer semester of 2023, Professor Sybille Heilbrunn will offer "Who are the Winners and the Losers of Technological Innovation and Entrepreneurship?" in English.

The article "The Injection of Resources by Transnational Entrepreneurs: Towards a Model of the Early Evolution of an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem," authored by Aki Harima, Jan Harima, and Jörg Freiling, was selected by the Editorial Board of the journal "Entrepreneurship & Regional Development".

On 16 Nov 22, the RENT Conference was held in Naples, Italy, under the heading "Re-thinking Entrepreneurship After the Crisis." This year, the focus was on exploring the impact of the COVID pandemic on start-up activity and the survival of start-ups and entrepreneurs.

Refugee entrepreneurs need to develop and maintain a high degree of resilience in pursuing an entrepreneurial path despite adversities.

Professor Aseem Kinra has joined the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Operations & Production Management (IJOPM). IJOPM is a leading journal in the field and is listed as a rank 4 (A) journal within Operations and Technology Management in the prestigious Academic Journal Guide (AJG).…

Aseem Kinra, together with Xavier Brusset, Davide La Torre and Morteza Javari have published a new article in the International Journal of Production Research (IJPR). In their article, the authors demonstrate the spatio-temporal spread of the Covid-19 pandemic along supply chain networks, visualize…

Ann Hipp, Michael Fritsch, Maria Greve, Jutta Günther, Marcel Lange, Christian Liutik, Beate Pfeifer, Mariia Shkolnykova und Michael Wyrwich published a research paper entitled „Comprehensive Patent Data of the German Democratic Republic 1949-1990“ in the Journal of Economics and Statistics.

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Lothar Walter and Jonas Frischkorn from the IPMI, together with Laura Johanna Karwehl and Simone Kauffeld from the TU Braunschweig, have published a new paper entitled „Identification of patent-based inventor competencies: An approach for partially automated competence retrieval in technological…

Lars Hornuf, Maik Eisenbeiß and Sven Hartmann have published a new article on "Social Media Marketing for Equity Crowdfunding: Which Posts Trigger Investment Decisions?" in Finance Research Letters.

Jessica Birkholz has published an article in the international peer-reviewed journal “Journal of Technology Transfer ” on the relation between narratives in business ideas, their degree of novelty and the foundation of a company.

On October 6 and 7, the first Congress of the German Society for East European Studies took place in Berlin. Prof. Dr. Michael Rochlitz co-organized the congress, and moderated the opening panel.

Jan-Matti Dollbaum and Michael Rochlitz organized a workshop at the Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg on the future of social science research in and about Russia and Ukraine.

Together with Boris Felgendreher from the Bremen Chamber of Commerce, Prof. Dr. Susanne Schattenberg and Prof. Dr. Michael Rochlitz discussed the impact of the war in Ukraine on economic relations in Europe.

David Karpa and Michael Rochlitz from the research group "Institutional Economics" gave a course at the European Summer Academy Vilnius of the German National Academic Foundation with the topic "Artificial Intelligence, Big Data and Political Regimes: Towards a New Systemic Competition?".

Michael Rochlitz spoke with Thomas Baier of the German-Russian Chamber of Commerce in Moscow about the impact of the sanctions on the Russian economy.

"Determinants of Consumers' attitudes towards digital advertising - A meta-analytic comparison across time and touchpoints" is the title of a new article published by the markstones members Maik Eisenbeiss and Maximilian Fiedler in the Journal of Business Research.

For this year's conference platform LABOR.A of the Hans Böckler Foundation on the topic of "Good Work in the Transformation", the Chair of Business Administration, especially Financial Services and Financial Technology has created a science podcast on the topic of data protection and data…

At the 2022 Summer Institute of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Ruben Enikolopov and Michael Rochlitz presented their paper "The Effect of Independent Online Media in an Autocracy."

Is Russia using its energy exports for political purposes? And which actors profit along the value chain of Russian energy exports? On Tuesday July 19 at 16:15, Margarita Balmaceda (Seton Hall and Harvard University), will present her new book on the topic.

Professor Andrei Yakovlev from the Higher School of Economics in Moscow has visited the Faculty of Business Studies and Economics at the University of Bremen for a short research stay on June 26-July 2, 2022.

Using two field experiments conducted in Russia, the paper – written by Ruben Enikolopov, Michael Rochlitz, Koen Schoors and Nikita Zakharov – examines the effect of independent media on political behavior in an autocracy.

Prof. Dr. Lars Hornuf and his former PhD student Dr. Kirsten Hillebrand received the «Best Paper Award» for their study of data philanthropy at the EURAM Conference.

In their paper «Social Dilemma of Big Data: Donating Personal Data to Promote Social Welfare» Dr. Kirsten Hillebrand and Prof. Dr.…

The EurOMA2022 conference focuses on the development and application of new knowledge in manufacturing and service operations. The prestigious EurOMA conference is one of the leading worldwide institutions extending the knowledge on operations management (OM) by bringing OM scholars together. This…

Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Hans-Dietrich Haasis and Hapsatou have published a new working paper entitled "Digital Transformation of Maritime Supply Chains Focusing on Ocean Shipping, Port Management and Hinterland Connection".

From May 16-19, 2022 Tobias Wendler visited on invitation the Oxford Martin School at the University of Oxford in the UK. The research visit served to continue a joint study on the innovation behavior of companies with regard to climate risks. In addition, Tobias Wendler presented a joint research…

Tobias Wendler has successfully obtained funding from the German Research Foundation (DFG) under the Walter Benjamin Program. This will enable him to implement a research project during a six-month stay at the "Tilburg Sustainability Center" with Professor Sjak Smulders.

The University of Bremen has awarded an honorary doctorate to Professor Caren Sureth-Sloane from the University of Paderborn

David Karpa, Prof. Dr. Torben Klarl and Prof. Dr. Michael Rochlitz have published a new working paper under the title "Artificial Intelligence, Surveillance, and Big Data".

Steffen Günther, Tobias Glas and Prof. Dr. Thorsten Poddig have published a new working paper entitled "Asset Pricing in Digital Assets".

Upon invitation of Sparkasse Bremen, Dr. Julian Decius, head of Organizational Psychology, participated in a panel discussion on "Sparkasse as a Network Organization" as part of the "Umdenkwerkstatt" on topics of "New Work" and "New Learning" on May 03, 2022. Together with Pranjal Kothari (Board…

Dr. Christian Fieberg, Matthies Hesse, Prof. Dr. Thomas Loy and Daniel Metko have published a new working paper entitled "Machine Learning in Accounting Research".

From April 20-22, 2022, the conference of the "Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, Europe Chapter" (HFES) was held in presence in Turin.

Dr. Lothar Walter, Nils Denter and Jan Kebel published a new paper in the World Patent Information journal titled “A review on digitalization trends in patent information databases and interrogation tools”.

Prof. Dr. Maik Eisenbeiss, Sven A. Hartmann and Prof. Dr. Lars Hornuf have published a new working paper entitled "Social Media Marketing for Equity Crowdfunding: Which Posts Trigger Investment Decisions?".

23 May 2022 from 9.00 a.m. (CET) The Department of Small Business, Entrepreneurship and Business Creation (LEMEX) invites interested scholars to participate in this workshop on Refugee Entrepreneurship on May 23, 2022.

Prof. Dr. Lars Hornuf and Dr. Sonja Mangold have published a new working paper entitled "Digital Dark Nudges".

The article “All that glitters is not gold: An investigation into the undesired effects of gamification and how to mitigate them through gamification design” by Prof. Kristina Klein, co-authored with Magdalena Bekk, René Eppmann und Franziska Völckner has been accepted at the International Journal…

Professor Dr. Lars Hornuf has published a new article in the Journal of Economics & Management Strategy under the title "The local bias in equity crowdfunding: Behavioral anomaly or rational preference?" The article emerged in collaboration with his PhD student Eliza Stenzhorn and former…

In order to contribute to a better understanding of the economic and political impact of the war in Ukraine, Michael Rochlitz, Professor of Institutional Economics at the Faculty of Business Studies and Economics, has analyzed the situation in Russia and Ukraine.

Prof. Dr. Jörg Freiling, Leon Marquardt and Tatevik Reit have published a new working paper entitled "Virtual Business Incubators: A Support for Entrepreneurship in Rural Areas?".

Prof. Dr. Michael Rochlitz discussed the implications of the war in Ukraine for entrepreneurs in Russia, Ukraine, Germany and Bremen with members of the Bremen Chamber of Commerce.

Prof. Dr. Michael Rochlitz gave an expert interview for the Spiegel TV documentary “The World of Russia’s oligarchs”.

The podcast "In der Wirtschaft" was founded by graduates of the degree program "Plural Economics" at the University of Siegen. In this special issue, Michael Rochlitz discusses with Julia Cremer and Martin Middelanis the economic impact of the war in Ukraine.

Michael Rochlitz gave an interview to InfoRadio Berlin on the consequences of the sanctions for Russia's economy. According to Michael Rochlitz, the negative effects are already massive, but could get substantially worse if the war in Ukraine continues.

Prof. Dr. Kristina Klein, Prof. Dr. Maik Eisenbeiss, Maik Dulle, Nastaran Taherparvar, Mirko Wiemann und Jan Wiezorrek have published a new working paper entitled "Marketing in a Digital World".

More than 40 (supra-)regional companies and institutions participate in Career Week. This year, from March 28 to April 01, 2022, mainly virtual, but with two career networking evenings in presence. Registration for single events is now possible ...

Dr. Denis Pijetlovic and Professor Dr. Georg Müller-Christ have published a new working paper under the title "HumanRoboLab: Experiments with Chatbots in Management Education at Universities".

The study, "Staying Out of Trouble: Criminal Cases Against Russian Mayors," written by Michael Rochlitz together with three co-authors, examines what factors protect Russian mayors from arrest.

Professor Dr. Vera Hagemann and Dr. Katharina Klug have published a new working paper entitled "Human Resource Management in a Digital Environment".

The article “How, why, and when disclosure type matters for influencer marketing” by Prof. Kristina Klein, co-authored with Zeynep Karagür, Jan-Michael Becker and Alexander Edeling is among the 25 most downloaded articles from the global International Journal of Research in Marketing in the last 90…

After 18 months, the Enquete Commission "Climate Protection Strategies for the State of Bremen" presented its final report of more than 350 pages on Friday, December 17, 2021. Jutta Günther participated as a scientific expert and member of the commission. In an interview with buten un binnen, she…

The paper "Artificial Intelligence, Surveillance, and Big Data" has been published by David Karpa, Torben Klarl and Michael Rochlitz on the arXiv server, which is specialized on topics related to AI and digitalization.

Katharina Friz, like a number of other members of the working group, is a regular user of the data and methods training courses at the University of Bremen. In an interview with up2date, she reports on the valuable offers made by the U Bremen Research Alliance for young scientists in the context of…

Prof. Aseem Kinra (Professorship of Global Supply Chain Management) in collaboration with Prof. Werner Rothengatter (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) and Prof. Füsun Ulengin (Sabanci University) have recently published a special issue (SI) and editorial in the Transport Policy journal.

The SI…

Ann Hipp receives a grant of 70.000,- Euro from the German Research Foundation for her scientific network on the topic "The Dynamics of Innovation Systems: Perspectives, Influences and Operationalization" for the period from 2022 to 2024.

The banking supervisory authority BaFin sets the online bank N26 a limit for further customer growth and accuses it of poor risk management. What are the consequences for the bank and the customers? Read Professor Hornuf's expert assessment here.

As part of the "H2B" project, a stakeholder workshop was held with representatives of Bremen's mobility industry on November 11, 2021. Scenarios for the potential of green hydrogen for the mobility industry were discussed and barriers on the way to the realization of the potentials were identified.

Together with its newly founded India Chapter, the Alumni Association of the University of Bremen held an online conference (in English) on November 12, 2021 under the topic " Exploring Ways to Sustainability - Learning Experiences from India and Germany". The conference focused on the exchange of…

On November 2-4, the European training on "Open Science and Open Access Publishing" started in order to enable young scientists to competently offer teaching units on Open Science and Open Access in the future.

Together with its newly founded India Chapter, the Alumni Association is organising an online conference on Friday, 12 November 2021 on the topic of "Exploring Ways to Sustainability – Learning Experiences and from Bremen and India". The three thematic blocks will focus on models of decentralised…

Today, Professor Lars Hornuf will present his research project „The Social Dilemma of Big Data“ at the Workshop on "AI & FINANCE“ at Goethe-University Frankfurt.

After being canceled last year due to the pandemic, DRUID was back this year in an offline format. The traditional conference on innovation, dynamic structural and institutional changes took place in Copenhagen, Denmark, from October 18th to 20th.

Professor Dr. Lars Hornuf has published a new article in the CESifo Working Paper Series under the title "Disclosure Deregulation of Quarterly Reporting." The article emerged in collaboration with Vanessa Behrmann and Professor Dr. Jochen Zimmermann.

After intensive preparations, the isolation phase of the 13th analogue Mars mission AMADEE-20 of the Austrian Space Forum (OeWF) started on 11th of October.

Professor Dr. Lars Hornuf has published a new article in the Journal of Technology Transfer under the title "Are sustainability-oriented investors different? Evidence from equity crowdfunding."

Why are some companies able to develop and implement disruptive business models, while others run into difficulties? The new publication "Open Strategy" answers this question.

Orientation week and events: All current information about orientation week and events in the winter semester 2021/22 will be collected here and updated as needed.

Professor Dr. Lars Hornuf has published a new article in the Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal under the title "Marketplace lending of small- and medium-sized enterprises." The article emerged in collaboration with Prof. Douglas Cumming from Florida Atlantic University.

Together with colleagues from the University of Hamburg, Christian Fieberg has been working on behalf of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA) over the last few months on the concept of a world equity index that makes the 17 SDG's investable. The concept will serve…

From September 27 to October 01, 2021, all young researchers of the working group "Innovation and Structural Change" presented and discussed their work in progress at the seminar "Dimensions of Knowledge and Technology Transfer" in Thiessow.

From June 26 to September 29, 2021, the annual conference of the German Economic Association took place as an online event. Tobias Wendler presented a recent research paper at this event.

Yesterday Professor Lars Hornuf presented his project Lock-in Effects in Online Labor Markets at the Research Seminar of the SKEMA Business School in Paris.

Lars Hornuf takes part as a podium guest at the event The bank in your pocket - fast, digital and young.

The working group of Business Psychology and Human Resource Management took part in the 12th conference of the division of Work, Organizational, Business, and Engineering Psychology of the German Society for Psychology in Chemnitz from September 22 to 24, 2021.

Disruptions in global supply chains lead to delivery bottlenecks that also affect customers in Bremen.

An article by Prof. Dr. Kristina Klein, together Franziska Völckner (University of Cologne) and Valentyna Melnyk (UNSW Syndey) has been accepted for publication at the journal Psychology & Marketing. The article deals with the effects of background music on the evaluation of visual stimuli.

Link to…

Green hydrogen is seen as a beacon of hope on the road to a climate-neutral economy, especially in the chemical industry and steel production. In the international Deutsche Welle news magazine, Jutta Günther talks about the technical and economic challenges.

To the broadcast (September 13, 2021): …

A screening of the Russian cult film “Brat” (Brother) from 1997 will take place on September 23 at 6:00 pm in the “Krokodil” cinema in Berlin. In the subsequent public discussion, Dr. Julia Langbein and Prof. Dr. Michael Rochlitz will discuss the film with the audience.

On September 16 and 17, 2021, the digital library meeting for subject librarians in economics was held under the title "Libraries - Support for Science", hosted this year by the Bremen State and University Library. Over 100 participants from university libraries throughout Germany attended.

Tobias…

The 12th Logistics Management (LM 2021) conference of the Scientific Commission for Logistics (WK-LOG) of the German Academic Association of Business Research (VHB) took place in Dresden from 15 to 16 September 2021. The biannual conference was organised by the TU Dresden.

We are pleased to share our new publication "The Impact of Telework and Closure of Educational and Childcare Facilities on Working People During COVID-19" in the German Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology (Zeitschrift für Arbeits- und Organisationspsychologie).

The conference “DerMarkentag2021” has become one of the leading platforms of discussing future brand management in the German speaking region and goes live on the 16th of September hosted by the Hochschule Mainz. Taking part in the conference will be Tjark Virkus, PhD student of the working group…

The Hans Böckler Foundation supports Prof. Dr. Lars Hornuf’s and Dr. Ass. Jur. Sonja Mangold’s new research project on "Platform work and data protection in a national and international perspective: market players, problem areas, regulatory requirements." The project, which is carried out in…

Today Professor Lars Hornuf presents his research project Do Retail Investors Value Environmental Impact? at the annual meeting of the IFABS-International Finance and Banking Society at the University of Oxford.

Are investors willing to give up a higher return if the investment generates positive…

The 33rd Annual EAEPE Conference (European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy | https://eaepe.org/) took place as an online event from September 02-04, 2021. The theme of the conference was „Recovery from the Covid-19 Pandemic: Re-thinking the role of the State towards safe, cohesive,…

On 17 September the University of Bremen hosts the 3rd Crowdworking Symposium, which provides an international and interdisciplinary forum for research on on-demand online labor. This year, we welcome John Horton (MIT Sloan School of Management) as keynote speaker.

If you would like to participate,…

An exhibition with pictures from Chernobyl will take place in the Haus der Wissenschaft from September 6th to October 15th, 2021. The exhibition, organized by a team from the Faculty of Business Studies and Economics, documents life in the exclusion zone, 35 years after the accident.

Scientists at the MARUM have succeeded in acquiring a project to investigate the potential of CO2 capture and storage (CCS) in the ocean together with a broad consortium, including the working group "Innovation and Structural Change" of the Faculty of Business Studies and Economics. The project has…

Green hydrogen is seen as a hope for climate-neutral steel production, also at the Bremen site.

From September 22 to 24 2021, the conference of the Division of Industrial, Organizational and Business Psychology (AOW) of the German Psychological Society (DGPs) will take place in Chemnitz. This year's motto is "Sustainable interaction with people and technology".

We are pleased to share our new publication “Automation as an equal team player for humans? - A view into the field and implications for research and practice” in the journal “Applied Ergonomics” (Q1 Journal).

Jessica Birkholz published, in collaboration with Jarina Kühn, a discussion paper titled “Entrepreneurship Perception during the first COVID-19 Shock: Mental Representations of Entrepreneurship and Preferences of Business Models during the Pandemic” in the discussion paper series of the ierp…

The 6th Colloquium on European Research in Retailing 2021 was held from 15 to 17 July 2021, hosted by SKEMA Business School in Sophia Antipolis, France and organised in a hybrid format.

Ekaterina Paustyan, postdoc in the research group of Michael Rochlitz, published a new paper in the journal “Russian Politics.” The paper shows how the authoritarian (re-)consolidation in Russia’s regions already started under president Boris Yeltsin during the 1990s.

The podcast “In der Wirtschaft“ was founded by students of the master program “Plurale Ökonomik” at the University of Siegen. The episode was dedicated to the transformation of the Russian economy during the last 30 years and was hosted by Rudolf Faininger and Martin Middelanis.

In the course of increasing digitalization, the collection, processing and analysis of data are becoming more and more a basis for technical progress and prosperity. Data has become the new “oil” of our digitized world, which enables new business models and innovations to flourish.

The 18th Conference of the International Joseph A. Schumpeter Society was held online from July 8-10, 2021, hosted by LUISS in Rome, Italy.

The research project aims to investigate the supply chain resilience for small and medium-sized manufacturing companies

The Bundesvereinigung Logistik (BVL) e.V., a network with over 11,000 members worldwide from industry, trade and logistics, regularly organizes online events on relevant topics, new technologies and exciting projects.

Philip Kerner published, in collaboration with Torben Klarl and Tobias Wendler, a discussion paper titled “Green Technologies, Environmental Policy and Regional Growth” in the discussion paper series of the ierp (Institute for Economic Research and Policy).

The Corona pandemic and its consequences are also a challenge for international supply chains.

From June 23 to June 25, 2021, the international European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE) Annual Conference took place as an online event. Philip Kerner and Tobias Wendler presented recent research papers.

Jutta Günther together with Muhamed Kudic, Matthias Müller, Tobias Buchmann and Andreas Pyka published a special issue in the new journal “Review of Evolutionary Political Economy”.

The 10th conference of the International Center for the Study of Institutions and Development (ICSID) of the Moscow Higher School of Economics will take place from June 7-10, 2021. This year, 4 research teams from the Faculty of Business Studies and Economics will present their work.

On May 20th, Michael Rochlitz presented his book „Federalism in China and Russia: Story of Success and Story of Failure?“, published jointly with Alexander Libman, in a seminar at the Centre for Baltic and East European Studies (CBEES) at Södertörn University.

Two new contributions of Prof. Dr. Michael Rochlitz were published in the Russian Analytical Digest. The articles discuss the recent development and future prospects of the Russian economy.

Prof. Dr. Michael Rochlitz was invited to join Dr. Fabian Burkhardt (IOS Regensburg) on the Roundtable Osteuropa Podcast by the Centre for East European and International Studies (ZOiS). The topic of the episode was “30 Post-Soviet years: Economic policy and regime stability in Belarus and Russia”.

This week Professor Lars Hornuf presented his paper "The Local Bias in Equity Crowdfunding: Behavioral Anomaly or Rational Preference?" at the Paris Webinar on Financial Technology and Crypto. The paper was written in collaboration with PhD student Eliza Stenzhorn and Dr. Matthias Schmitt.

Tobias Wendler, together with Judyta Lubacha (Jagiellonian University Cracow), has published an article in the international peer-reviewed journal "Industry and Innovation".

Professor Alexandre Bohas together with Professors Aseem Kinra, and Michael J. Morley have published a new study with the title "Perlmutter revisited: revealing the anomic mindset” in the Journal of International Business Studies.

Prof. Klein presents research project on androgyny at EMAC conference

On May 11th at 16:15, Alexander Libman, Professor of Russian and East European Politics at the Freie Universität Berlin, is going to present his paper "Legacies of Communist Modernization: Evidence from a Natural Experiment" at the seminar of the Institute for Economic Research and Policy (IERP).

On April 22nd, Michael Rochlitz took part in a panel discussion on the topic of the transition from socialist planning to a market economy. The discussion was organized by the German Historical Institute in Moscow (DHI), and the Center for East European and International Studies in Berlin (ZOiS).

On March 25th, Michael Rochlitz was invited to give the keynote opening lecture at the „International Conference on Federalism, State and Society“, organized by the Islamia University of Bahawalpur in Pakistan. The yearly conference is the biggest conference in the social sciences in Pakistan.

For his dissertation on "Green Technologies and their Role for Sustainability" Tobias Wendler received the "CAMPUS PREIS: Research for a Sustainable Future" of the Kellner & Stoll Foundation on April 15, 2021.

Time: 14. April 2021, 4 pm, via Zoom Speaker: Prof. Dr. Dong Jun Wu, Georgia Tech Title: IT Knowledge Spillovers, Absorptive Capacity, and Productivity: Evidence from Enterprise Software

Professor Dr. Lars Hornuf has published a new article in the Journal of Corporate Finance under the title "The relevance of investor rights in crowdinvesting." The article emerged in collaboration with Tobias Schilling and Prof. Dr. Armin Schwienbacher of Skema Business School.

The article deals with the importance of science for the state of Bremen. In view of the Corona pandemic, public revenues are declining and the resources for financing science are no longer available to the extent planned.

On March 20, 2021, Michael Rochlitz gave a four-hour guest lecture at the University of Zurich on the subject of “Russia's Economic Transformation”, for the module “World Perspectives: Russia” of the master program “Applied History”.

A new paper by Michael Rochlitz, Evgeniya Mitrokhina and Irina Nizovkina has just been published in the current issue of the European Journal of Political Economy. The study shows how entrepreneurs affiliated with the political opposition are discriminated against by Russia’s state bureaucracy.

Katharina Friz and Marcel Lange are co-authors of the open-access book "Indicators for measuring research, development and innovation: fact sheets with hints for application" published by Springer-Verlag.  The main author is Andreas Kladroba, further co-authors are Tobias Buchmann and Patrick Wolf.…

Mariia Shkolnykova and Muhamed have published an article in the international, peer-reviewed journal “Small Business Economics” on the diffusion of radical innovations of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).

Today, Professor Lars Hornuf will present his research project „The Social Dilemma of Big Data“ at the ITM Distinguished Guest Speaker Series at Georgia Tech Scheller College of Business. By implementing an online experiment among 1,696 US citizens together with his co-author Kirsten Hillebrand, he…

On March 10th, 2021 the official opening of the EU-funded ITN project "MARKETS" took place. At the University of Bremen, the project is coordinated by Michael Rochlitz (FB 7) and Heiko Pleines (Research Centre for East European Studies), with a budget of 505,576 euros over three years.

This year, an INNcentive workshop will take place again, giving all past and current grantees the opportunity to present their research results in compact formats, to exchange ideas and to network.

A special kind of project module: Together, lecturers and students at the chair of Business Psychology and Human Resources wrote a book on the subject of "Human Autonomy Teaming - The teamwork of the future".

Prof. Dr. Aseem Kinra at the Professorship of Global Supply Chain Management has been inducted into the Steering and Scientific Committees of the World Conference on Transport Research Society WCTRS.

On February 03, 2021, the conference on "Further Development of Indicators for Research and Innovation" hosted by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) took place.

On January 19th and January 28th, 2020, Matheus E. Leusin presented his working paper entitled “An evolutionary view on the emergence of Artificial Intelligence” in two distinct events.

Jessica Birkholz, Jutta Günther and Mariia Shkolnykova has published together, a discussion paper on "Using Topic Modeling in Innovation Studies" in the discussion paper series of the ierp - Institute for Economic Research and Policy.

INNcentive is a program jointly run by the Stifterverband and the Faculty of Business Studies and Economics at the University of Bremen to support young innovation researchers.

On Wednesday, January 19, Professor Dr. Lars Hornuf gave a talk about "Playing the Angel: Decomposing the Value of Early-Stage Investors" at the Finance Research Seminar at TU Munich.

On January 13, 2021, the Deputation for Economic Affairs and Labor met for a special session "Expert Hearing on Coping with the Economic Consequences of the Corona Crisis in Bremen".

One million euros in support from Volkswagen AG for a research project in the field of sustainable management

Not only exciting for robots: Denis Pijetlovic has published his PhD thesis as a monograph at Springer Verlag.

Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk (MDR) has published a podcast resulting from the panel discussion on "30 Years of Economic and Monetary Union: Successes and Mistakes" held on October 22, 2020.

On December 8, Jutta Günther, an innovation economist and expert on innovation policy, participated in the early morning hours in the "Wake-up Call", an innovative online event format of the VDI Technology Center Berlin.

Professor Dr. Lars Hornuf has joined the FIRM advisory board. The Frankfurt Institute for Risk Management and Regulation (FIRM) was founded in 2009 and is an important network in the financial and regulatory environment, in which almost all major credit institutions in Germany participate. FIRM…

Jutta Günther (University of Bremen) and Jan Wedemeier (Hamburg Institute of International Economics, HWWI) have jointly edited a study on the consequences of the Corona Pandemic for the economy in the Federal State of Bremen and presented it to the public at a press conference on November 18, 2020.…

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