The Business and Management department seeks to contribute to a better understanding of up-to-date issues in business and management that are of theoretical and practical relevance. We are committed to high-quality academic research, bridging theory and practice, an international perspective, and the achievement of a strong integration of teaching and research. In particular we strive for highly interdisciplinary research. We are oriented on the standards of the international scientific community. It is our objective to be engaged in international research collaborations and to publish our results in leading journals and conferences.
While the department covers the whole area of business and management topics in its programs, we place a more narrow focus in our research. Based on the expertise of the faculty, our department is concentrating its research interests on the following areas within the field:

• Human resource management
• Management information systems
• Marketing
• Strategic management
• Supply chain management

Within these areas we seek to achieve practically relevant findings by addressing research objectives associated with high practical benefits and constant collaboration with companies. Largely committed to behavioristic research we put a strong focus on empirical research.

Dr. Luba Habodaszova’s research focuses on empirical research of labor markets, human capital, individual attitudes with the concentration on the former centrally planned economies.

Dr. Arno Haslberger’s research focuses on international human resource management with a particular emphasis on expatriates. He has published peer-review articles on expatriate families, adjustment and careers, as well as differences between male and female expatriates. He has collaborated with researchers in various countries in Europe and North America

Dr. Maria Madlberger’s research interests cover the areas of supply chain management, information systems, marketing, and electronic commerce. Maria has authored more than 60 publications in academic journals, conference proceedings, book chapters, and books. Besides that she presents her research at renowned practitioner congresses, among them the ECR Europe Annual Conference and the ECR D-A-CH Conference. Maria is an Associate Editor of the Electronic Commerce Research Journal and a regular reviewer of several scholarly journals.

Dr. Hanno Poeschl’s research interests include: Value based strategic management (Stakeholder vs. Shareholder Value and Value Innovation Strategies), and Financial  Strategy (Capital Structure, Cost of Capital and KPI)