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02.09.20 - Best Critical Paper Award 2020 AOM

For their paper "Doing Violence: Suffering bodies in a refugee arrival centre" sind Philipp Arnold and Jana Costas have been awarded the Best Critical Paper Award 2020 by the Academy of Management. The award is sponsored by the journal Organization.
In their paper, Philipp Arnold and Jana Costas examine the use of private security forces and their practices of physical violence in facilities for asylum seekers and refugees. An abridged version of the paper was published in the Academy of Management Proceedings and is freely available at the following link: Doing Violence: Suffering Bodies in a Refugee Arrival Centre.
A video presentation of the paper can be found on the Academy of Management's Critical Management Studies Division YouTube channel.

22.10.19 - Successful completion of Wadim Djatschenko's PhD

The Dean Prof. Ingo Geishecker, PhD, presents Dr. Wadim Djatschenko's PhD certificate and congratulates him on his success. His PhD thesis is about "Fixed Coupon Bond Valuation Allowing for Irregular Coupon Periods and Various Day Count Conventions - Methodology, Implementation and Application". Dr. Djatschenko was supervised by Prof. Ingo Geishecker, PhD.

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Uebergabe_Melanie-Hecht ©Frank Rudovsky

18.06.19 - Successful completion of Melanie Hecht's PhD

The Dean Prof. Dr. Christian Almeder presents Dr. Melanie Hecht's PhD certificate and congratulates her and her doctoral supervisor Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Peters on their success. Her PhD thesis is about "Climate and trade policy when countries behave strategically: The role of border adjustments in international carbon price competition".

22.05.19 - Successful completion of Mona Florian's PhD

The Dean Prof. Dr. Christian Almeder presents Dr. Mona Florian's PhD certificate and congratulates her and her doctoral supervisor Prof. Dr. Jana Costas on their success. Her PhD thesis is about "Volunteering during the 'refugeee crisis'. Ethnographic insights from a German volunteer organization".

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Uebergabe_Agata-Nagel ©Frank Rudovsky

21.05.19 - Successful completion of Agata Nagel's PhD

The Dean Prof. Dr. Christian Almeder presents Dr. Agata Nagel's PhD certificate and congratulates her and her doctoral supervisor Prof. Dr. Christina Elschner on their success. Her PhD thesis is about "Essays on Taxes and Organizational Form Choice: Evidence from Poland".

20.05.19 - Interview with Prof. Dr. Sven Müller

A timetable for the devil's stoning. How quantitative methods help to solve one of the biggest pedestrian problems in the world.
The interview can be found at Deutschlandfunk.

Uebergabe_Fanny-Hein ©Frank Rudovsky

08.05.19 - Successful completion of Fanny Hein's PhD

The Dean Prof. Dr. Christian Almeder presents Dr. Fanny Hein's PhD certificate and congratulates her on her success. Her PhD thesis is about "Solving (integrated) lot sizing problems heuristically with genetic programming". Dr. Hein was supervised by Prof. Dr. Christian Almeder.

12.12.18 - Successful completion of Tom Vogel's PhD

The Dean Prof. Dr. Christian Almeder presents Dr. Tom Vogel's PhD certificate and congratulates him on his success. His PhD thesis is about "Vertical and horizontal integration in mid and short-term production planning". Dr. Vogel was supervised by Prof. Dr. Christian Almeder.

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06.11.18 - Successful completion of Katarzyna Mroz's PhD

The Dean Prof. Dr. Christian Almeder presents Dr. Katarzyna Mroz's PhD certificate and congratulates her and her doctoral supervisor Prof. Dr. Stephan Kudert on their success. Her PhD thesis is about "Betriebsaufspaltung im nationalen und internationalen Kontext".

01.09.18 - Appointment as Junior Professor of Dr. Philipp Otto

Dr. Philipp Otto has been appointed as Junior Professor for Big Geospatial Data at the Institute of Cartography and Geoinformatics at the Leibniz University Hannover. Congratulations! Philipp Otto received his PhD degree in 2016 at the European University Viadrina where he worked as a research assistant at the Chair of Quantitative Methods, esp. Statistics.

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16.05.18 - Successful completion of Madeleine Rauch's PhD

The Dean Prof. Dr. Christian Almeder presents Dr. Madeleine Rauch's PhD certificate and congratulates her and her doctoral supervisor Prof. Dr. Jochen Koch on their success. Her PhD thesis is about "Heuristics and strategic decision-making: An empirical investigation from different theoretical perspectives".

16.05.18 - Successful completion of Lukas Wiafe's PhD

The Dean Prof. Dr. Christian Almeder presents Dr. Lukas Wiafe's PhD certificate and congratulates him and his doctoral supervisor Prof. Dr. Albrecht Söllner on their success. His PhD thesis is about "Strategische Praktiken: Eine empirische Untersuchung in einem Technologieunternehmen".

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17.04.18 - Successful completion of Annemarie Conrath-Hargreaves' PhD

The Dean Prof. Dr. Christian Almeder presents Dr. Annemarie Conrath-Hargreaves' PhD certificate and congratulates her and her doctoral supervisor Prof. Dr. Sonja Wüstemann on their success. Her PhD thesis is about "Public sector accounting in Germany and the European Union. Past experiences, present challenges and future prospects".

12.03.18 - Successful completion of Sophie Dunsch's PhD

The Dean Prof. Dr. Christian Almeder presents Dr. Sophie Dunsch's PhD certificate and congratulates her and her doctoral supervisor Prof. Dr. Georg Stadtmann on their success. Her PhD thesis is about "(Youth) Unemployment in Europe".

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08./09.02.2018 - "Entscheidungsunterstützung unter Unsicherheit: Modelle, Verfahren und Systeme"

The joint meeting of the AG Wirtschaftsinformatik der Gesellschaft für Operations Research e.V. (GOR) and the WK Operations Research des Verbands der Hochschulehrer für Betriebswirtschaft e.V. (VHB) will take place at the European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder) on February 8-9, 2018. The aim of the conference is to discuss current research approaches in Operations Research and Business Informatics to support business decision and planning problems under uncertain conditions.

10.01.18 - Successful completion of Philipp E. Otto's habilitation

The Dean Prof. Dr. Christian Almeder presents Dr. habil. Philipp E. Otto's habilitation certificate and congratulates him and his supervisor Prof. Dr. Friedel Bolle on their success.

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12.2017 - Inauguration of the Center for Market Communications

Communication between companies and its potential customers is no longer a one-directional process limited to advertising, but has become an interactive exchange between various market actors. To investigate the dynamic processes surrounding online and offline market communications as well as the related consumer behavior, the Center of Market Communications was founded during the winter term 2017/2018. The Center, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Martin Eisend, Chair of Marketing, is the first of its kind in Germany. Two of the research projects at the Center are currently funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG).
For further information about ongoing research projects as well as the team members of the Center, see: http://marketcommunications.de/

25.11.17 - Successful completion of Giorgi Shuradze'S, Silke Penner's, Dawid Nowak's und Falk Flade's PhD

The President, Prof. Dr. Alexander Wöll, and the Dean, Prof. Dr. Christian Almeder, presents Dr. Giorgi Shuradze's, Dr. Silke Penner's, Dr. Dawid Nowak's and Dr. Falk Flade's PhD certificate and congratulates on their success. There PhD thesis's are about:
"Strategic Capabilities for Innovation in the Digital Economy: A Data Analytics Perspective" (Dr. Giorgi Shuradze; supervisor: Prof. Dr. Jochen Koch),
"Virtuelle Wirtschaftsgüter - ein Ansatz zur einkommensteuerlichen Erfassung von Einkünften aus virtuellen Welten" (Dr. Silke Penner; supervisor: Prof. Dr. Stephan Kudert)
"Systematisierung und Bewertung der Customizing- und Modifikationsmöglichkeiten von cloudbasierten ERP-Systemen" (Dr. Dawid Nowak; supervisor: Prof. Dr. Karl Kurbel),
"Energy infrastructures in the Eastern Bloc. Transnational electricity, oil, and gas transmission systems and their short- and long-term implications for Poland" (Dr. Falk Flade; supervisor: Prof. Dr. Dagmara Jajesniak-Quast).
An overview of all successfully completed PhD procedures at the Faculty of Business Administration and Economics can be found on the websites of the PhD admission board of the faculty.

Uebergabe Graduation Day 2017 ©Heide Fest
Uebergabe_Danny-Pajak ©Frank Rudovsky

27.09.17 - Successful completion of Danny Pajak's PhD

The Dean Prof. Dr. Jochen Koch presents Dr. Danny Pajak's PhD certificate and congratulates him and his doctoral supervisor Prof. Dr. Albrecht Söllner on their success. His PhD thesis is about "'Auf Wiedersehen' - Von Verlagerern und Rückverlagerern: Auswirkungen eines fairen transaktions­kosten­senkenden Trennungs­managements auf die organisationale Verbundenheit".

25.09.17 - Successful completion of Michael Hartmann's PhD

The Dean Prof. Dr. Jochen Koch presents Dr. Michael Hartmann's PhD and congratulates him on his success. His PhD thesis is about "Kritik in Organistationen: Episoden, Wirkungen und Paradoxien". Dr. Hartmann was supervised by Prof. Dr. Jochen Koch.

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21.08.17 - Dr. Philipp Otto attend the 6th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting

Once a year, around 30 Nobel Prize winners and young researchers meet in Lindau: students, doctoral students and postdocs from all over the world. Dr. Philipp Otto, a young researcher from the Faculty of Business Administration and Economics at the European University Viadrina, will also be taking part in this year's event. During the conference, Dr. Otto will have the opportunity to exchange ideas and experiences with the participants with his presentation on "Modelling Conditional Spatial Autoregressive Heteroscedasticity - Theory and Applications".

13.07.17 - Successful completion of Falk Flade's PhD

The Dean Prof. Dr. Jochen Koch presents Dr. Falk Flade's PhD certificate and congratulates him and his doctoral supervisor Prof. Dr. Dagmara Jajesniak-Quast on their success. His PhD thesis is about "Energy infrastructures in the Eastern Bloc. Transnational electricity, oil, and gas transmission systems and their short- and long-term implications for Poland".

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Uebergabe_Giorgi-Shuradze ©Frank Rudovsky

31.05.17 - Successful completion of Giorgi Shuradze's PhD

The Dean Prof. Dr. Jochen Koch presents Dr. Giorgi Shuradze's PhD certificate and congratulates him and his doctoral supervisor Prof. Dr. Albrecht Söllner on their success. His PhD thesis is about "Strategic Capabilities for Innovation in the Digital Economy: A Data Analytics Perspective".

30.05.17 - Successful completion of Patrick Vetter's PhD

The Dean Prof. Dr. Jochen Koch presents Dr. Patrick Vetter's PhD certificate and congratulates him and his doctoral supervisor Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schmid on their success. His PhD thesis is about "Spatio-Temporal Statistical Assessment of CO2 Sources and Sinks".

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30.05.17 - Successful completion of Tobias Böing's PhD

The Dean Prof. Dr. Jochen Koch presents Dr. Tobias Böing's PhD certificate and congratulates him and his doctoral supervisor Prof. Dr. Georg Stadtmann on their success. His PhD thesis is about "Essays on Macroeconomic Adjustment Processes".

23.-26.03.17  - 4th Congress of Polish Studies: Borders in Flux

The interdisciplinary research congress will take place from March 23rd till 26th, 2017 in the university buildings in Frankfurt (Oder) and Słubice. More information is available online.

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Übergabe Liubov Rabyk ©Frank Rudovsky

06.03.17 - Successful completion of Liubov Rabyk's PhD

The Dean Prof. Dr. Jochen Koch presents Dr. Liubov Rabyk's PhD certificate and congratulates her and her doctoral supervisor Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schmid on their success. Her PhD thesis is about "Design of EWMA Control Schemes for Long-Memory Processes".

30.01.17 - Appointment as Junior Professor of Dr. Florian Ziel

Dr. Florian Ziel has been appointed as Junior Professor of Environmental Economics, esp. Economics of Renewable Energies at the University of Duisburg-Essen. Congratulations! Florian Ziel received his PhD degree in 2016 at the European University Viadrina where he worked as a research assistant at the Chair of Finance and Capital Market Theory.

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25.01.17 - Successful completion of Tobias Hagemann's PhD

The Dean Prof. Dr. Jochen Koch presents Dr. Tobias Hagemann's PhD certificate and congratulates him and his doctoral supervisor Prof. Dr. Stephan Kudert on their success. His PhD thesis is about "Rechtsformübergreifende Fragestellungen zur internationalen Steuerplanungssicherheit und Steuerrechtskritik".

14.12.16 - Successful completion of Daniel Ambach's PhD

The Dean Prof. Dr. Jochen Koch presents Dr. Daniel Ambach's PhD certificate and congratulates him and his doctoral supervisor Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schmid on their success. His PhD thesis is about "New Statistical Modelling Approaches for Short-to Medium-Term Wind Speed and Wind Power Forecasting".

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14.12.16 - Successful completion of Helene Samyshew's PhD

The Dean Prof. Dr. Jochen Koch presents Dr. Helene Samychew's PhD certificate and congratulates her and her doctoral supervisor Prof. Dr. Karl Keiber on their success. Her PhD thesis is about "International Asset Pricing and Sentiment".

30.11.16 - Funds raised from DFG

Prof. Dr. Martin Eisend successfully solicited external funding from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) to support the research projects "Effects of Persuasion Knowledge" and "Sexual Orientation and Consumer Behavior".

Prof. Dr. Achim Koberstein successfully solicited external funding from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) to support the research project "Stochastic Optimization for the Liner Shipping Fleet Repo­sitioning Problem".

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28.11.16 - New research groups

Two research groups of the faculty are supported by the Viadrina Center B/ORDERS IN MOTION for seed money funding for project development within the thematic framework of the university’s research area “B/Orders in Motion” during the period 2017-2018.

  • Detection and Surveillance of Spatial and Spatiotemporal Clusters
    (Head of project: Dr. Philipp Otto, Viadrina, and Prof. Dr. Raid Amin, University of West Florida, Pensacola)
  • European Challenges: Technological Change and Re-Arrangements of Work, Migration and Resource Use
    (Head of project: Prof. Dr. Dagmara Jajeśniak-Quast, Viadrina, and Prof. Dr. Aristotle Tympas, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)

19.11.16 - Successful completion of Magdalena Brzeskot's, Philipp Otto's, Natalie Senf's and Aneta Ufert's PhD

The President, Prof. Dr. Alexander Wöll, and the Dean, Prof. Dr. Jochen Koch, presents Dr. Magdalena Brzeskot's, Dr. Agnieszka Kopec's, Dr. Philipp Otto's, Dr. Ninja Natalie Senf's and Dr. Aneta Ufert's PhD certificate and congratulates on their success. There PhD thesis's are about:
"Ökonomische Aspekte zum Klimaschutz" (Dr. Magdalena Brzeskot; supervisor: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Peters),
"Steuerliche Gestaltungen durch Nutzung hybrider Rechts­formen und Finanzinstrumente im internationalen, insbesondere im deutsch-polnischen Kontext – eine normative und qualitativ-empirische Analyse" (Dr. Agnieszka Kopec; supervisor: Prof. Dr. Stephan Kudert)
"Spatial and Spatiotemporal Stochastic Processes - Modelling and Detection of Spatial Structural Breaks with Applications in Economics and Biometrics" (Dr. Philipp Otto; supervisor: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schmid),
"Organisationale Anspruchsniveaus. Eine empirische Exploration im Rahmen der Spitzengastronomie" (Dr. Ninja Natalie Senf; supervisor: Prof. Dr. Jochen Koch),
"Reciprocity in Climate Change Policy - How to Solve the Social Dilemma of Climate Protection" (Dr. Aneta Ufert; supervisor: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Peters).
An overview of all successfully completed PhD procedures at the Faculty of Business Administration and Economics can be found on the websites of the PhD admission board of the faculty.

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09.06.16 - Successful completion of  Florian Ziel's PhD

The Dean Prof. Dr. Jochen Koch presents Dr. Florian Ziel's PhD certificate and congratulates him and his doctoral supervisor Prof. Dr. Sven Husmann on their success. His PhD thesis is about "Electricity Price Modelling and Forecasting Using High-dimensional Time Series Analysis".

09.06.16 - Workshop  "New Approaches in Environmental Statistics"

The workshop "New Approaches in Environmental Statistics" of Chair in Statistics will take place on June 9th 2016 at Viadrina.

Uni-Gebäude Auditorium Maximum mit Fahnen Siftung Europa-Universität Viadrina (Foto Heide Fest, Pressestelle)
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28.-30.04.16 - Conference of the standing field committee for Environmental and Resource Economics

The conference of the standing field committee for Environmental and Resource Economics of Vereins für Socialpolitik will take place from April 28th till 30th 2016 at Viadrina. Further information.

21.04.16 - Successful completion of  
Daniela Blaudow's and Christian Kahlenberg's PhD

The Dean Prof. Dr. Jochen Koch presents Dr. Daniela Blaudow's and Dr. Christian Kahlenberg's PhD certificates and congratulates both and there doctoral supervisor Prof. Dr. Stephan Kudert on their success. Dr. Blaudow's PhD thesis is about "Gibraltar, Zypern, Malta: die neuen Holding­standorte?". Dr. Kahlenberg's PhD thesis is about "Hybride Finanzinstrumente und Gesellschaften im Lichte der BEPS‐Reforminitiativen von EU und OECD".

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Übergabe Agnieszka Kopec ©Frank Rudovsky

08.03.16 - Successful completion of Agnieszka Kopec's PhD

The Dean Prof. Dr. Jochen Koch presents Dr. Agnieszka Kopec's PhD certificate and congratulates her and her doctoral supervisor Prof. Dr. Stephan Kudert on their success. Her PhD thesis is about "Steuerliche Gestaltungen durch Nutzung hybrider Rechtsformen und Finanzinstrumente im internationalen, insbesondere im deutsch-polnischen Kontext – eine normative und qualitativ-empirische Analyse".

01.02.16 - Appointment as Professor of Dr. Susanne Enke (née Schmidt)

Dr. Susanne Enke (née Schmidt) has been appointed Professor of International Management at the Otto von Guericke University in Magdeburg. Congratulations! Susanne Enke received her PhD degree in 2012 at the European University Viadrina where she worked as a research assistant at the Chair of Marketing since 2008. Her PhD thesis that dealt with the optimal number of advertising repetition has just recently been published at the Journal of Advertising. After finishing her PhD, she worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Chair of Management at the Technical University Dortmund.

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19./20.02.15 - RECAP15 International Conference

Recommendations for COP21 (Paris 2015)

10.06.14 - Online-platform launched

Pol-Int offers interdisciplinary exchange for Polish Studies

01.02.13 - Heisenberg-Stipendium

Yves Breitmoser awards Heisenberg-Stipendium.

29.10.12 - Nachwuchswissenschaftlerpreis des Landes Brandenburg 2012

Yves Breitmoser awards the Nachwuchswissenschaftlerpreis des Landes Brandenburg in 2012.

15.08.11 - Funds raised from the Federal Ministry for Education and Research

Norma Schmitt, research assistant at the Chair of Economic and Social Policy, successfully solicited external funding from the Federal Ministry for Education and Research to support a research project within the program “Women at the Top”. This is a collaborative project between the HWR Berlin and the EUV. The part to be performed at the EUV is funded until September 2013 from federal resources and resources from the European social Fund.

08.03.11 - EUV starts new Post Graduate Program "Dynamic Capabilities and Relationships"

On April 1, 2011, the European University Viadrina (EUV) and the German Graduate School of Management and Law (GGS) are starting a joint Doctoral Program in Dynamic Capabilities and Relationships sponsored by the Dieter Schwarz Foundation.

02.03.11 - Excellence Initiative by the German Government: Big Success for Viadrina University

The European University Viadrina has reached the final round in the excellence initiative competition.

24./25.06.11 - 10th International Conference on Research in Advertising (ICORIA)

The 10th ICORIA was held in Berlin, on 24/25 June 2011. The ICORIA is an annual conference of the European Advertising Academy (EAA). Every year, over 90 papers on various topics related to advertising and brand communications are presented during the two days of the conference. Chair: Martin Eisend & Tobias Langner. For further information please look here.

24.11.08 - Nachwuchswissenschaftlerpreis des Landes Brandenburg 2008

Yarema Okhrin und Taras Bodnar award the Nachwuchswissenschaftlerpreis des Landes Brandenburg in 2008.