Newsarchiv: Business Ethics & Management Accounting
Jahr 2018
Job Advertisement: Research Assistant (75%)
25.06.2018: The Chair of Economic Ethics (Professor Pies) is looking for a research assistant (75% of the regular working time). Please apply until July 3, 2018.
Internship for Master students
25.06.2018: The Bertelsmann Foundation is looking for an intern as of August 1st (in German).
Paper published in Management Science
22.06.2018: Tassilo Sobotta coauthered the paper "Norm Uncertainty and Voluntary Payments in the Field", which was recently published (advance online publication) in Management Science.
In the field study the authors investigated behavioral reactions toward exogenous changes of implicit normrelevant information in a setting where customers are free to choose if and how much to pay for a service.
Wednesday: Talk by Rainer Michael Rilke
12.06.2018: Rainer Michael Rilke is Assistant Professor at the WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management. His research interests include Behavioral and Experimental Economics as well as Behavioral Business Ethics. In his talk, he will discuss his current research: "Leading by example—How image concerns guide leaders to reduce dishonesty in groups".
We are looking forward to seeing many of you there!
We are looking for a student research assistant
11.06.2018: We are looking for an undergraduate research assistant. The deadline for the application is Monday, June 18, 2018. For more details, please refer to the job advertisement (in German).
Talk by Agne Kajackaite cancelled
30.05.2018: Due to illness, today’s talk by Dr. Agne Kajackaite is cancelled.
CANCELLED: Wednesday; Talk by Agne Kajackaite—Lying About Luck Versus Lying About Performance
28.05.2018: We are looking forward to welcoming Dr. Agne Kajackaite Head of the Junior Research Group Ethics and Behavioral Economics at the Berlin Social Science Center. The talk is part of our workshop series "Reseach in Ethics and Accounting," and will be on Kajackaite`s current experimental research on Lying.
Everyone is invited to join the talk on Wednesday, at 6pm in room SR1.
Leiterin der NachwuchsgruppeEthics and Behavioral Economics
Word Template for Seminar Papers and Theses
02.05.2018: For everyone who writes their seminar paper or thesis with Microsoft Word, we made a template. It includes not only the layout, but also some tips on using Styles and automatically created tables of contents.
Philipp Schreck at the "International Business Ethics Colloquium" in South Africa
02.05.2018: What is the responsibility of companies and its managers in South Africa's transformation process? What are ethical opportunities and challenges? Philipp Schreck and Martin von Broock (WCGE) discussed these questions with 20 South African executives at the "International Business Ethics Colloquium" from April 15-19. The event was initiated by the WCGE, funded by the Friede Springer Foundation, and took place at the prestigious University of Stellenbosch Business School.
Lecture by Christoph Lütge on April 18 (Wednesday)
09.04.2018: We begin the semester with a talk by Christoph Lütge, who is chairholder of the Peter Löscher-Endowed Chair of Business Ethics and Global Governance at the TU Munich. The talk will be on Lütge`s research on experimental philosophy and ethics and is part of our lecture series "Research in Ethics and Accounting".
New semester
03.04.2018: As in previous years, the bema-Team retracted to a lonely place outside the city to discuss our research progress. Full of motivation and new ideas, we start the new semester!
To all Bachelor-students we recommend our award-winning lecture "Unternehmensethik" (in German, Tuesdays 4:15pm)!
Citavi style for theses at bema
05.03.2018: Students using Citavi can now download a style that includes bema's formal requirements for theses and seminar papers.