Economics - Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt

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WIWI
Thinking beyond
business and borders
Faculty of Management and Economics
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How we can think
beyond business and borders
The Faculty of Management and Economics
at Klagenfurt University shows just how
enjoyable the experience of cultural diversity in
daily life can be, how interdisciplinary
research through regional and world-wide
exchanges can work, and how you can learn the
art of management to perfection at the heart
of a popular holiday destination.
Kornelia Kanyo
Matej Čertov
Sonja Grabner-Kräuter
A good place to study
Kornelia Kanyo is one of 3,500 students at the
Faculty of Management and Economics at the
Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt. Born in
Hungary and with Swabian ancestors, what
she particularly values about the university in
Klagenfurt is the way it «promotes problem-solving skills». She has already made an invention – a
file storage device carried in place of a bag – for
a competition in one of the courses that formed
part of her basic studies, and even holds a patent
for it. This smart little business accessory has
not yet gone into production, but she is devoting less time to this than to finishing her studies.
Ms Kanyo is very comfortable here, surrounded
by mostly Austrian fellow students and the
«very good and very many professors in this
faculty who have accompanied and motivated me
throughout my studies».
Students of Applied Business Administration (ABW) form the biggest student group
at Austria’s southernmost university – there are
currently approximately ten thousand students
Thinking beyond business and borders
enrolled on courses from across the university. Fifteen per cent of ABW students come from
abroad, and a large proportion from the local
area. Why is he studying in Klagenfurt? «Because
everything is right here: the location, the study
programme and the lecturers,» Matej Čertov
gets straight to the point. A native of Zell/Sele
in southern Carinthia, he has already completed
his Bachelor’s in ABW and is now studying for his
Master’s in International Management.
More than just dull theory
Sonja Grabner-Kräuter is responsible for developing new curricula. A graduate in business
studies, she describes the general concept behind
the study of management and economics at
Klagenfurt in the following terms: «Here we try
to impart well-substantiated basic knowledge
and to encourage structured analytical thinking.
Our aim is to teach our students the skills they
need to take a creative approach to problems.»
Her colleague, Gottfried Haber, who succeeded
the long-serving programme director Franz
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Ofner, is responsible for the degree programmes
for management and economics, that is to say
for converting the curricula into actual courses.
«You can only truly understand management
and economics if you have got to know every
subdivision of a business and the economy as a
whole, namely accounting, marketing, sociology, economics, law etc. The Applied Business
Administration degree programmes in Klagenfurt
are designed to be put into practice later, so we
have to train all-rounders, because, particularly
when dealing with small to medium-sized businesses, the demands are very high, and it requires
a broad base of knowledge and training.» He is
a university lecturer of Economics and Business
Management as well as being the Chairperson
of the «Wirtschaftspolitische Beirat der Kärnt
ner Landesregierung», (Economic Policy Advisory Board for the Carinthian Provincial Government), an external committee, which evaluates
the economic work of the Province and draws
up guidelines for the future. Another member of
this advisory committee is Paolo Rondo-Brovetto.
As a Professor of Public, Nonprofit and Health
Management, he focuses intensively on practices and management in health care organisations and current reform issues in the public
health care sector. The interlocking of theory
and practice in the public and nonprofit management spheres is also of great significance for his
colleague, Iris Saliterer, and is reflected in wideranging practice-oriented projects.
The WIWI faculty has a long tradition of developing and running postgraduate
programmes for people already working in the
field and for ongoing personal development. At
present, the WIWI is running eleven university
courses. The faculty is also heavily involved in
the Alpen-Adria-School of Management, Organizational Development and Technology M/O/T,
which was founded in 2008, and largely arose
out of the business sciences. It currently runs 16
courses here.
Neighbours near and far
International research into the business
sciences has been an indispensable feature of
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The Faculty of Management and Economics currently offers Bachelor’s degrees
in Applied Business Administration, Geography, Information Management, and Economics & Law, as well as Master’s degrees in Applied Business
Administration, Geography and Regional degrees, Information Management, and International Management. It also offers the teacher training
programme in Geography and Economics, and the doctoral programmes in the
Social Sciences and Economics or in the Natural Sciences.
the Department of Economics from the beginning. This is also demonstrated by the fact that
current issues in international economic policy
are included in the studies. Reinhard Neck and
Dmitri Blüschke have shown that a solution to
the current economic crisis in Europe could be
found by drawing up a common monetary and
fiscal policy, provided that cost-cutting measures are implemented, which would not unduly
burden the Eurozone economies. In collaboration
with an institute in Slovenia they have worked
out concrete scenarios for Slovenia. Oded Stark
and Marcin Jakubek are working on the economic
causes and consequences of migration. Professor
Stark has been named best Austrian economist
by the Handelsblatt newspaper on several occasions, and has been published in the top specialist journals world-wide. Students working on
dissertations are given intensive supervision at
the Department of Economics, and participate
in international projects, including projects in
collaboration with the Austrian National Bank,
the World Bank, and universities from across the
world.
Veronika Gustafsson describes her new
working environment enthusiastically: «It’s so
beautiful.» She comes from Russia and has spent
fifteen years conducting research at Sweden‘s
Jönköping University. «I want to combine my
research and my context», she says as she, herself
an immigrant, studies the differences between
entrepreneurship in Central Europe and in the
countries of Eastern Europe. Her wide-ranging
and inter-cultural knowledge is now being called
upon for a new Master’s degree, «International
Management». After a stringent selection process,
this started in the winter term of 2011/2012, with
28 students from various parts of the world. In all,
there were twice as many applicants for places.
Gottfried Haber
Paolo Rondo-Brovetto
Iris Saliterer
Reinhard Neck
Veronika Gustafsson
Ralf Terlutter
Karen Meehan
Wolfgang Nadvornik
Johannes Heinrich
Gerhard Baumgartner
Ralf Terlutter, programme director and current
incumbent of the Chair for Marketing and International Management describes the programme
in the following terms: «It prepares you for a
career in the international sphere, but focuses
on the Alps-Adriatic region. English is the only
language of instruction on this programme.» In
order to ensure the quality of
the informative texts issued
by the faculty, they frequently
turn to native speakers, such
as Brit Karen Meehan. She is
one of approx. twenty versatile colleagues, who work in the
administrative sector and deal
with the day-to-day management of academic life at the
university.
tance in general terms and then demonstrates the
need for specialised knowledge of the law using
the example of the legal regulations for accounting. A Master‘s programme focusing on finance,
taxation and commercial law is being developed;
after all, well educated legal experts are needed
in the field of accountancy, in the financial and
Time for the students
The Faculty of Management
and Economics currently boasts
fourteen chairs. As well as the Academic staff (left to right) Dmitri Blüschke, Veronika Gustafsson, Marcin Jakubek,
classic core subjects of the busi- Martin Waiguny, Fanny Dobrenova, Stephan Leitner, and student Kornelia Kanyo
ness sciences these include (standing).
economics, law, sociology and
geography. Eleven study programmes including banking sectors, in public enterprises and in
teacher training can be taken at the WIWI. Says NPOs. The teaching content is decided by HeinWolfgang Nadvornik, «Although our student rich or his colleagues, Gerhard Baumgartner and
numbers are relatively high, we don’t hold Johannes Zollner, based on current need. «We
mass classes». And it is important that adequate teach the students what is particularly relevant
space be given to individualised expert supervi- at the time.»
This claim is backed up by Claudia
sion outside of the courses too. It is possible to
contact the lecturers at any time, «if not in their Mischensky, managing director of the Federation
consulting hours, then via e-mail or Facebook». of Austrian Industry for Carinthia, who graduated
Nadvornik is Professor for Finance & Account- in Applied Business Administration at Klagening and also a specialist for business succession furt: «The Faculty of Management and Economics
in family businesses, among other things. «This at Klagenfurt scores points with its combination
is particularly interesting here in Carinthia», of the impressive quality of teaching and supervihe says, «because of the high level of tourism- sion, its sound links to the regional economy and
its integration in an international university and
related industries».
Since it is not possible to manage a business research network.»
However, other skills are also needed for
without some knowledge of the law, Johannes
Heinrich teaches it to the AWB students and management, namely a solid knowledge of media
students from the Economics and Law Bachelor’s management and communication. «Everything is
degree. «Every aspect of business life is heavily slowly coming together», says Matthias Karmainfluenced by the law,» Heinrich states the impor- sin of the Department of Media and Communi-
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Professors and staff with post-doctoral qualifications at the Faculty of Management
and Economics: Front row Wolfgang Nadvornik, Gottfried Haber, Heike Egner, Erich
Schwarz, Sabine Kanduth-Kristen, Diana Krause; 2nd row Gernot Mödritscher, Friederike Wall, Sonja Grabner-Kräuter; 3rd row Herwig Winkler, Ralf Terlutter, Gudrun FritzSchmied, Johannes Zollner, Norbert Wohlgemuth; 4th row Reinhard Neck, Gerhard
Pongratz, Johannes Heinrich, Guido Offermanns, Gerhard Baumgartner
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Johannes Zollner
Claudia Mischensky
Diana E. Krause
Guido Offermanns
Malgorzata Wdowiak
cation Sciences, and he is not only referring to
the inter and trans-disciplinary package Media
and Convergence Management. «We need people
who understand the interfaces that arise out of
this.» Telecommunication, IT, media, entertainment and security, TIMES for short, must mesh
seamlessly in a good business. And it is not just
in the teaching, but also in research that collaborations between the business and the cultural
sciences have been running for some time now.
A collaborative textbook, namely the «Handbook of Media and Convergence Management»,
which Mathias is producing with business economist, Sandra Diehl – also from the Department of
Media and Communication Sciences – is currently
in progress. This will be useful for the planned
«Media and Convergence Management» Master’s
programme.
Responsible research
Diana Krause has travelled the world. The native
of Berlin spent four years teaching and conducting research in the USA and Canada before taking
up the Chair for Business Administration with
a focus on organisation and the management of
human resources. Her research extends as far as
the USA, Canada, China, Germany, India and South
Africa, always with people as the focus. «This is
essential for a business to prosper.» She declares
that the «intrinsic motivation of the employees
[is] an important factor in the success of a good
company». This also applies to her own team,
who put their heart and soul into their research.
One of them is Guido Offermanns. For the business expert and health-care researcher, research
means «benefiting society». In his work, this is
demonstrated, for example, in a project developing public health objectives for Carinthia. «Maintaining health through preventive measures
will become increasingly important. All areas of
politics have to collaborate in this.» The issue of
health is also regarded as significant within the
university as a whole. Gunhild Sagmeister from
the Department of Sociology has established the
project «Workplace Health Promotion», which
has received numerous awards.
Peter Mandl
Having found the right place
«Working in an environment like this, you
cannot help but thrive», Malgorzata Wdowiak
affirms, after having spent seven years conducting research in the Department of Innovation
Management and Entrepreneurship. «Of course
it also makes a difference whether you always
stay in the place you were born, or whether you
leave it», or whether, like her, you have a veritable odyssey behind you. «Emigration brings high
social costs», the native of Poland knows, having
moved from one European border area to the next.
It has caused her to feel discouraged at times, but
constantly having to acclimatise to a new environment has driven her to great achievements.
She finds Carinthia interesting and hopes to stay
here for some time: «I find it fascinating to be
able to live, think and work in such an intercultural area.»
Living and working in Carinthia is something which Peter Mandl also values. The geographer, who was born in Klagenfurt, believes that
Geography is a «predestined field if you want to
understand the scientific value of being at home».
Thus local inhabitants provide important data for
a Volunteered Geographic Information project,
which then merely needs to be merged with
nationwide data using the appropriate web-based
tools. Mandl specialises in geographical information systems and has taught and conducted
research in this field not only here in Carinthia, but also in Salzburg, Bonn and Münster. At
present he is participating in EU projects on the
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harmonisation of the geodata infrastructure for
the whole of Europe.
For Robert Rossberger, member of the
academic staff in the department of Human
Resource Management, Leadership and Organizational Behavior (PFO), Carinthia is «like the Bavarian Forest», which is where the former businessman originates from. For many years he worked
for the family business in Bangkok and India, and
has got to know many different cultures. «Culture
is relevant for every area of business administration», he states, and he likes to bring this in
to his course «Intercultural human resources
management».
Bulgarian Fanny Dobrenova is a specialist in food marketing who travelled abroad and
finally to Carinthia through various international
programmes. She believes that «when you work
you have to be mobile if you want to develop as
an expert, whether you work in academia or in
industry».
Going beyond one’s own subject
Martin Waiguny of the Department of Marketing and International Management (MIM) insists
«MIM is automatically interdisciplinary – it
couldn‘t be anything else». The Carinthian native
is trying to «expand his thinking in a specific
way», and is studying entertainment theories
in advertising. When is something entertaining? Not only did he acquire the necessary basic
knowledge of social and cognitive psychology as
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a Visiting Scholar at the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign, but he also picked up suitable research methods there. Waiguny is soon to
leave Klagenfurt to continue his research at the
other end of the world, at Auckland University of
Technology.
Ralf Terlutter, Waiguny’s superior, values
the good work done by his team, and takes care to
create the best possible working
conditions for them. Links to
industry are very important
for the demanding researchers,
and are always in place. Large
companies in particular (most
recently a brewery, a fruit juice
producer and two banks) are
keen to profit from the latest
knowledge acquired by the
academics, and to use this to
determine their own marketing strategies. Companies want
to know specific details of their
customers, and MIM helps them
to »understand« their customers. «This interaction is ideal», says the stoic Terlutter, currently
President of the European Advertising Academy,
«We can apply our research to the most wideranging clientele and that is beneficial for both
partners – academia and industry».
The university also benefits from his levelheadedness and management experience: as
Vice Dean he works with Dean Erich Schwarz to
promote the development of the whole faculty,
which is currently undergoing a process of
transition.
Robert Rossberger
Fanny Dobrenova
Martin Waiguny
Erich Schwarz
«An entrepreneurial faculty»: From an idea …
This is partly to do with a massive generational
shift. A large number of those professors who
were involved in founding the institute for the
business sciences in 1984 have now entered their
emeritus years. In recent years seven chairs have
passed to new incumbents. Says Erich Schwarz:
«Rejuvenation by bringing in a new generation
has been successful, and obviously opens up
opportunities to explore new directions». Given
his job, Schwarz was virtually predestined to deal
Friederike Wall
Gernot Mödritscher
Stephan Leitner
with the restructuring that that entails: he has
been the incumbent of the first Chair for Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship in
Austria since 1999.
So where should the 120-strong faculty
team go now, and where do they want to go? «The
combination of business administration, geography and regional studies, law, sociology and
economics constitutes the unique selling point of
Klagenfurt’s WIWI. It enables us to think beyond
business and borders. This should be realised not
only through common research projects, but also
through interdisciplinary programmes» Thus in
the new ABW Master’s degree, students will also
have the opportunity to specialise in energy and environmental management. «The broad
content base will enable us
to become an entrepreneurial
faculty in the medium-term»,
says Schwarz and explains the
thinking behind the concept.
«Entrepreneurship is the logical
extension of our years spent
focusing on SMEs. With this
topic we are researching and
teaching a key theme in the
European Union, since entrepreneurship is seen as a driving
force for innovation, competitiveness and the creation of
jobs.»
A key task for an entrepreneurial faculty
is to provide students with the perfect qualifications for their professional life: «Here they learn
entrepreneurial thinking and behaviour, i.e. to
recognise and evaluate opportunities, to innovate
continually, to calculate risks and deal with them,
as well as to make good use of limited resources.»
So says Dean Schwarz, who is enthusiastic in his
responsibility for the faculty and works tenaciously on its further development.
… to a multifaceted implementation
Friederike Wall, Professor for Controlling, also
sees its diversity as one of the faculty’s strengths.
«Here a wide range of different subject areas
complement each other, and the huge complex
beast that is entrepreneurship can be illuminated
from many sides.» Added to this is a good strong
background in IT in many fields, including her
own. She has her roots not only in controlling,
but also in business information systems – both
in academic terms and through a practical
background of experience in SAP introduction
programmes. Together with her team, the current
Vice Rector for Research covers a core subject
area of the course, which profits greatly from her
own research with specific areas of focus.
Gernot Mödritscher has spent a long time
working on the topic of business strategy. How
can you really implement a strategy? «For that
you have to build a bridge directly between
thought and action and you have to make the
necessary tools available to the business», says
Mödritscher, who knows exactly what he is
talking about. He has spent over fifteen years
working directly with companies in his research
and also runs the «biztec», a research institute,
funded primarily by private companies, where
the necessary business technologies are being
developed.
His colleague Stephan Leitner also likes
to commute between practice and theory. After
studying Business Administration he spent a few
years working in private industry and values the
opportunity to be able to combine this experience
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with knowledge «and so be able to constantly
develop his own ability to think outside the
box». He is currently writing an interdisciplinary dissertation and feels that he is «being well
looked after» by mathematician Franz Rendl and
none other than Ms. Wall.
Fundamental support
With her systemic approach to research, Heike
Egner, Head of the Department of Geography and
Regional Studies, introduces carefully considered
views on enterprises, by conceiving of a business as a social system. «How it organises itself
is critical for the success of a business – and for
how a community draws its boundaries», says
Egner. Together with her assistant Kirsten von
Elverfeldt she conducts interdisciplinary research
into the processes in business systems. «Against
a background of the relationships that exist
between society, people and the environment we
are researching questions of self-organisation in
social and natural systems, by which we mean
social and physical geographic as well as biotic
systems.»
Dieter Bögenhold has been the incumbent of the Chair for Sociology at the department of the same name since October 2011. Born
in Oldenburg, he is an exponent of evolutionary
economics, and a follower of two classic sociologists, Josef Schumpeter and Max Weber. In
Klagenfurt, he hopes to convert his long years of
research into entrepreneurship, having already
taught in Jönköping, Saarbrücken, Trier, Vienna,
Bolzano and Turku. «An interesting coincidence»,
thinks Bögenhold and he believes «that two interesting perspectives will be united at the WIWI
Klagenfurt». Helmut Guggenberger from the
Department of Sociology focuses on research in
the sphere of Higher Education. At the «intersection where the education system meets the business system» he observes linkages between studying and the world of work. Amongst other things,
he endeavours to determine how «entrepreneurial thinking can become more firmly established»
among students.
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The Alpen-Adria-Universität is comprised of four faculties: Faculty of Humanities
(KUWI), Faculty of Management and Economics (WIWI), Faculty of Interdisciplinary
Studies (IFF), and Faculty of Technical Sciences (TEWI).
Aiming at long-term effects
Greater emphasis is to be placed on the themes of
energy and sustainability in the strategic development of the university. Doris Hattenberger,
Senior Assistant Professor and expert on environmental and commercial law at the WIWI is
one of a group of researchers and lecturers drawn
from all four of the university’s faculties who
are developing an optional course on sustainability. «Our motto is: living interdisciplinarity.»
Specialist colleagues from economics, mathematics, intervention research, teacher training, sociology and geography are approaching the topic
of sustainability in a variety of ways; a special
didactic concept ensures that the knowledge
acquired is also sustainable.
Economist Norbert Wohlgemuth is working
on possible structures for a future energy system.
Taking account of a sustainable and cheapest possible provision of energy services, the
most important aspect is the sensible combination of technologies to deal with both supply
and demand, that is to say, the trade-off between
sources of renewable energy and technologies to
improve energy efficiency.
For Herwig Winkler, head of the Department of Production Management and Business
Logistics, sustainable development is a major
trend at present, which will mean considerable changes for industrial production and logistics. Together with the Environmental Officer
for Klagenfurt, he has just submitted a logistics
project to the EU: electric vehicles for transportation, self-sufficient energy to drive them, and a
smart transportation concept could make Klagenfurt a model region in terms of economic and
environmental practices. «The university could
play its part in this by installing photovoltaic
systems on its large roof surface to help provide
electricity for the region», Winkler suggests.
Heike Egner
Kirsten von Elverfeldt
Dieter Bögenhold
Doris Hattenberger
Norbert Wohlgemuth
Herwig Winkler
Gudrun Fritz-Schmied
Alexander Brauneis
Friedrich Palencsar
A passion for teaching
Gudrun Fritz-Schmied from the
Finance & Accounting Department is passionate about teaching and a believer in trial and
error, which also promotes
problem-solving skills. «It is
better for the students to work
something out themselves and
make mistakes in doing so, than
to stupidly learn off by heart
something that is prescribed.»
Her specialist area is national
and international accounting,
and she finds it truly inspiring
when what she is researching
has practical relevance.
Her colleague Alexander
Brauneis also enjoys teaching:
«I am lucky enough to be able
to teach about what really interests me: securities and computational tools for the financial markets.» The economist A definite asset on the campus is the University’s Sports Institute.
«loves numbers» and loves to Not only does the USI offer indoor and outdoor (from Grossglockner to
lose himself in higher maths, Dalmatia) activities for students and university staff, but in collaborasuch as the ARIMA time series tion with the Faculty of Management and Economics it also offers a
models, when working on his university course in Sport, Health and Entrepreneurship.
post-doctoral thesis, «Riskbased, behavioural and statistical factors in the and Taxation but is also Vice Rector for Human
Resources and Women’s Advancement. In this
success of business strategies».
In didactic and methodological terms teach- role she tries to «create the necessary conditions
ing is constantly subject to new developments. to make the university more family and child
Friedrich Palencsar has been a specialist teacher friendly». She herself has two small children, one
in the Department of Geography and Regional of whom attends a crèche on campus. «Both there
and through the onsite Children’s Office, employStudies for two decades. He frequently conducts
field research, and enjoys interdisciplinary work. ees can develop good contacts, a real parent
He sees the revision of academic standards network for mutual support.» How does the busifollowing the Bologna process as an opportu- ness expert with a research focus on creating
nity to take on a new role: «Self-directed learn- appropriate legal forms organise her day? «Only
ing means that the role of the lecturer vis-à-vis with a great deal of discipline, and it is a question
his students is more that of a coach, a learning of good management – without the support of my
family it would not work.»
companion.»
More than just a job
Sabine Kanduth-Kristen has several roles. She not
only leads the Department of Business Finance
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The maintenance of
good relationships beyond
the campus brings us first of
all to the Lakeside Science
& Technology Park. There,
directly adjoining the university campus, we find both university institutes
and dozens of international companies, as well
as spin-offs from the AAU, including the «build!
Gründerzentrum», a true child of the business
sciences, where 15 young entrepreneurs are
taking their first steps towards independence.
They and other interested parties are given the
opportunity to take courses to gain a «certificate
in entrepreneurship». «This is a big advantage
of the Klagenfurt campus: everything is close at
hand», says Rector Heinrich C. Mayr, who was
also the dean of the faculty for over eight years, at
a time when the business sciences and information technology were still combined. He sees the
future development of the Business Faculty as
«promising and exciting – the research is pulsating and its international recognition is growing
accordingly. Thanks to constant redevelopment,
In the lecture series «The WIWI today» the faculty combines its own
expertise with that of international experts and passes it on to the
general public or throws it open for discussion. This is frequently done
in cooperation with partners such as the Karl-Popper-Foundation or the
Universitäts.club.
Living and working together
The foundations for this are built on relationships and trust. Thus the best collaborations have
usually unfolded over many years and in the
immediate surroundings. Links have developed,
and continue to develop, as a result of the faculty’s now traditional interdisciplinary approach.
This starts with the teaching of business administration, which collaborates with economics, sociology and geography – all within the same faculty.
The Economics and Law programme is offered in
collaboration with the Department of Law, Information Management is tackled with the Faculty
of Technical Sciences and a further combined
studies programme, «Business and Engineering», is being planned by Martin Hitz, the founding dean of the Faculty of Technical Sciences.
Until 2006 the computer scientists belonged to
the same faculty as the «economists», but everything started to change at the beginning of the
1980s, when it was decided, during the first phase
of expansion of the University for Educational
Sciences, as it was called then, to include business administration and business information
systems in the teaching programme. Since then
it is not only the field of business sciences that
has expanded; with seven different institutes, the
technical sciences have had their own faculty
since 2007. But collaboration has continued to be
a positive feature, both in the academic and in the
teaching fields.
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Sabine Kanduth-Kristen
Since as long ago as 1989 the «Society for the Promotion of the Business
Sciences» has particularly supported collaboration with other universities at
home and abroad, the continued scientific training of the lecturers and practice-based student projects. Managing director Alexandra Rausch works hard to
maintain good contacts between local businesses and the university.
the degree programmes in this faculty are totally
up-to-date, and give our students the best possible foundation for a successful career».
The Faculty’s international contacts
Australia
Korea
Brazil
Mexico
Canada
Nepal
China
New Zealand
India
South Africa
Indonesia
Tanzania
Israel
USA
Japan
Bulgaria
Romania
Croatia
Russia
Denmark
Slovakia
Finland
Slovenia
France
Sweden
Germany
Switzerland
Great Britain
Spain
Ireland
Czech Republic
Italy
Turkey
Latvia
Ukraine
Liechtenstein
Netherlands
Norway
Poland
Portugal
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Chairs and departments
Thinking beyond business and borders! – taxation planning
Thinking beyond business and borders! – systemic
Taxation
Geography and Regional
Studies – GEO
Head Associate Prof. Mag. Dr. Sabine Kanduth-Kristen
Core areas of research Choice and creation of legal form
from the point of view of taxation; optimising taxation
when founding a company, running a company and transferring or dissolving a company; business restructuring
and insolvency; setting tax limits and family taxation;
value added tax
Thinking beyond business and borders! – control
orientated
Controlling and Strategic
Management – CSU
Head Univ.-Prof. Dr. Friederike Wall
Core areas of research Agent-based simulation in managerial accounting; quality of information and validity of
management accounting systems; decision behaviour of
senior management; stakeholder-orientated managerial
accounting
Thinking beyond business and borders! – finance
Finance & Accounting – FIN
Head Full Univ.-Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Nadvornik
Core areas of research Corporate finance and business
appraisal; credit management; quantitative capital market
research; national and international accounting; international financial reporting
Thinking beyond business and borders! – financial
law aspects
Financial Law
Head Univ.-Prof. MMag. Dr. Johannes Heinrich
Core areas of research Corporate tax; taxation of business partnerships; taxation aspects of corporate and
property succession; international taxation law; value
added tax
Head Univ.-Prof. Dr. Heike Egner
Core areas of research Self-organisation and self-referencing of social and natural systems; environment and
ecosystems; geography teaching methodology; geographical information systems & geographic information
science; regional studies
Thinking beyond business and borders! – innovation
orientated
Innovation Management and
Entrepreneurship – IME
Leitung Univ.-Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Erich Schwarz
Core areas of research Open innovation management,
user co-creation; personal and organisational innovativeness; decision behaviour in businesses; business models;
factors influencing the success of technological and
growth-orientated businesses
Thinking beyond business and borders! – customer centred
Marketing and International
Management – MIM
Head Univ.-Prof. Dr. Ralf Terlutter
Core areas of research Advertising, business communication and media; customer behaviour; customer trust and
business ethics; branding; marketing for specific target
groups
Thinking beyond business and borders! – leadership
orientated
Human Resource Management,
Leadership and Organizational
Behavior – PFO
Head Univ.-Prof. Dr. Diana E. Krause
Core areas of research Management and innovation;
human resources selection and development; power, influence and trust in organisations; effects of management on
stress and health; intercultural human resources selection
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Thinking beyond business and borders! – public
Thinking beyond business and borders! – society related
Public, Nonprofit and Health
Management – PUMA
Sociology – SOZIO
Head Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Paolo Rondo-Brovetto
Core areas of research Municipal accounting systems;
the use and benefits of indicators; innovation and cooperation in healthcare; performance-related provision; public
service/public sector motivation
Thinking beyond business and borders! – under public law
Public Law
Head Univ.-Prof. Dr. Gerhard Baumgartner
Core areas of research Austrian and European public
commercial law; constitutional law and administrative
reform; environmental law; public right to information
Thinking beyond business and borders! – under private law
Private Law
Head Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Johannes Zollner
Core areas of research Corporate law; capital market
law; foundation law; law of corporate succession; company
law
Head Univ.-Prof. Dr. Dieter Bögenhold
Core areas of research Sociology and economics;
consumption and lifestyle; entrepreneurship, creation of
companies; regions and globalisation; research on higher
education; resources and organisation: health, work-life
balance; human and social capital
Thinking beyond business and borders! – economics
Economics – VWL
Head Full Univ.-Prof. Dr. Reinhard Neck
Core areas of research Money and fiscal policy; financial
management; applied econometrics; quantitative economic policy; theory of economic policy
Thinking beyond business and borders! – regional
economic aspects
Economics – VWL
Economic and Regional Policy
Head Univ.-Prof. Dr. Oded Stark
Core areas of research Migration; population control;
applied microeconomics; energy economics; social theory
Thinking beyond business and borders! – industrial
Production Management and
Business Logistics – PLM
Head Associate Prof. Dr. Herwig Winkler
Core areas of research Optimisation of production
systems; logistics/supply chain management; accounting and cost management in an incentive based system;
research into industrial flexibility; interface assessment
and management
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Firm foundation
Studying at Klagenfurt University provided me
with a valuable addition to my professional activities:
With my academic background I am able to
analyse market developments more precisely, and thereby base
my decisions on a much broader, firmer foundation.
Erlfried Taurer
Graduate in Business Management, Chairman of
Constantia Industries AG
Good opportunities
Klagenfurt’s WIWI is a young faculty, which has
made good use of its opportunities. It is innovative,
both with regard to its topics of research and in the
faculty‘s interesting structure. Here we see assembled a
productive and interesting mix of highly research-oriented and
very practice-oriented colleagues.
Ewald Nowotny
Economist, Governor of the Austrian National Bank,
Honorary Doctor of the Alpen-Adria-Universität
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