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Prof. Bedi visited the University of Passau from 12 to 14 May 2014.
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Dr. Alexander Bleier ist Assistant Professor of Marketing an der Carroll School of Business, Boston College. Seine Promotion mit dem Titel “Essays on Personalized Online Advertising” schloss er 2014 an der Universität zu Köln ab. In seiner Forschung beschäftigt sich Dr. Bleier primär mit Themen im Bereich Onlinemarketing, insbesondere der Personalisierung von Marketingkommunikation und dem Design von Onlinehandelskanälen. Seine Forschungsergebnisse wurden in führenden internationalen Fachzeitschriften (u.a. Marketing Science) veröffentlicht. Am Boston College unterrichtet Dr. Bleier Marketing Information Analytics für Bachelor- und MBA-Studenten.
Prof. Bleier visited the University of Passau from 07 to 12 March 2016.
Prof. Cogneau visited the University of Passau from 01 to 05 February 2016.
Daniel Dorn is an Associate Professor and Research Fellow at Drexel University’s LeBow College of Business where he has been since 2003. During the academic year 2011/12, he is visiting the University of Mannheim as the Wilhelm Mueller Foundation Professor of Finance. He studied business economics at WHU Koblenz, Trinity College Dublin, and EM Lyon, and earned a finance Ph.D. from Columbia University. His research, which focuses on investments and behavioral finance, has been supported by the BSI Gamma Foundation and the ECB’s Lamfalussy Fellowship program, and published in leading finance journals including Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Review of Finance, and Management Science.
Prof. Dorn visited the University of Passau from 17 to 20 June 2012.
Francisco H. G. Ferreira is a Lead Economist at the World Bank's Research Department and a Research Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA, Bonn). During his World Bank career, he has also served as Deputy Chief Economist for Latin America and the Caribbean, and as a co-Director of the World Development Report 2006, on Equity and Development. He has published widely in the fields of poverty, inequality, and the political economy of development, and serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Economic Inequality, the Review of Income and Wealth, the World Bank Economic Review and the Economic Analysis Review.
Francisco has been awarded the Adriano Romariz Duarte and the Haralambos Simeonides Prizes by the Brazilian Economic and Econometric Societies, and the Kendricks Prize by the International Association for Research in Income and Wealth. Between 1999 and 2002, he was an Assistant Professor of Economics at the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio). He was born and raised in São Paulo, Brazil, and holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the London School of Economics.
Prof. Ferreira visited the University of Passau from 01 to 07 December 2012.
Prof. Dr. L. S. Ganesh is professor and dean at the department of Management Studies at the IIT Madras. He graduated in 1977 in the BE (Hons.) programme in Mechanical Engineering of the Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS) at Pilani, Rajasthan. In 1979, he received the M. Tech degree in Maintenance Engineering and Management and a Merit Prize from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras. During 1980-84, he pursued the doctoral research programme in the Industrial Engineering and Management Faculty at IIT Madras. He received the Ph. D. degree in 1986.
He worked as an Assistant Professor in the Education Management Sector at the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Bangalore, during 1986-87. Since 1987, he worked in the Industrial Engineering and Management Faculty at IIT Madras, as Assistant Professor till 1993, then as Associate Professor till December 1996, and then as Professor until April 2004, when the Department of Management Studies was established in the Institute. Later, he served as the Head of the Department of Management Studies at IIT Madras from July 2004 till July 2008.
Prof. Ganesh visited the University of Passau from 23 November to 13 December 2013, and 2015.
Dr. M. P. Ganesh is member of the Department of Management Studies at the IIT Madras. He studied Psychology (B.A. and M.Sc.) at the Presidency College in Chennai and continued his studies (M.Phil.) at the Department of Psychology at Madras University. Afterwards, he did his PhD at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Bombay. Since 2008 Dr. Ganesh is Assistant Professor at the IIT Madras.
His teaching and research interests are Business Research Methods, Organizational Structure and Design, Organizational Behaviour, Managing Work Groups, Corporate Social Responsibility and Managerial Ethics, Principles of Management.
Dr. Ganesh visited the University of Passau from 11 to 12 June 2013.
Prof. Glewwe visited the University of Passau from 24 to 28 June 2014.
Daniel Halbheer studied economics with a major in econometrics at the University of Zurich, where he obtained his licentiate in 2002. After that he joined the research group of Armin Schmutzler at the University of Zurich and received his doctorate in economics in 2006. Before joining Ulrich Kaiser’s research group in 2008, he was a research associate at the Center for Quantitative Economics and Econometrics at the Secretariat of the Swiss Competition Commission. In 2009 he was awarded a SNSF Fellowship for Advanced Researchers to visit the Department of Economics at the University of Virginia. He mainly conducts research in Industrial Organziation and Business Strategy.
Dr. Halbheer visited the University of Passau from 07 to 10 November 2012.
Prof. Matthew Higgins is the Imlay Associate Professor of Strategic Management in the Departement of Management at the Georgia Tech. His research interests center primarily on firm responses to productivity changes (and challenges) and the performance implications of these decisions. In particular, he focuses on mergers and acquisitions; strategic alliances; and, the nature of the agreements underlying these relationships. Most of this research has been conducted within the context of the pharmaceutical industry. His research has been accepted for publication in a diverse range of leading journals including Science, Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Economics and Statistics and Strategic Management Journal.
Prof. Higgins was also the recipient of the National Science Foundation's Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship Fellowship (IGERT). In addition his research has received funding and support from the Georgia Research Alliance, Kauffman Foundation, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Science Foundation (NSF) and IMS Health, Inc.
Prof. Higgins was as Visiting Scholar at the University of Passau from 5 to 12 October 2011. In course of his stay he gave a lecture with the title: "Regulation and Welfare: Evidence from Paragraph IV Generic Entry in the Pharmaceutical Industry".
Prof. Higgins visited the University of Passau from 10 to 18 September 2012, from 13 to 16 June 2013 and also form 08 to 14 December 2013.
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To help understand the unconscious drivers of overeating, we examine the effect of health portrayals on people’s judgments of the fillingness of a food. An implicit association test and three consumption studies provide evidence that people hold an implicit belief that healthy foods are less filling than unhealthy foods. In settings where the fillingness of a food is important, participants order greater quantities of food and are less full after consumption when a food is portrayed as healthy as compared to unhealthy. Importantly, these effects occur even when consumers are provided with nutritional information. In response, we demonstrate a novel tactic for reversing consumers’ intuitions: highlighting the nourishing aspects of healthy foods mitigates the belief that healthy foods are less filling.
Prof. Hoyer visited the University of Passau in 2015.
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Prof. Kaur studied at the Indian Institute of Technology in Kharagpur and did her PhD at the IIT Delhi. Currently, she is working at the Departement of Management Studies of the IIT Madras. She published many papers in International Journals and received several prices (e.g. the 2008 Emerald / EFMD Outstanding Doctoral Research Award). Her research interests are Supply Chain Coordination, Supply Chain Contracts and Fuzzy Applications.
Prof. Kaur visited the Universtiy of Passau from 4 to 17 December 2011 and gave a lecture about Supply Chain Management.
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Dr. Patrizia Kokot is a Lecturer in Organisational Behaviour at Henley Business School. She is part of the School of Leadership, Organisation and Behaviour (LOB) and convenes the module People and Organisation. She is also an educator on Henley’s first MOOC Managing People.
In her current research, Patrizia studies women’s careers in Professional Service Firms (PSFs), focusing specifically on the career histories of executive women and female partners in PSFs in Germany and
the United Kingdom.
Dr. Kokot holds a PhD in Gender Studies from the London School of Economics. She completed a Master’s degree as well as her undergraduate studies in Economics at Maastricht University in the Netherlands. Before
pursuing an academic career, Patrizia worked as a financial journalist and correspondent for Thomson Reuters, dpa-AFX and the Swedish Wire reporting on European equities.
Her wider research interests encompass the study of elites; gender, race and class in the work place; and critical and feminist perspectives on accounting and finance. She welcomes applications from prospective
doctoral candidates with similar research interests.
Prof. Saji Mathew studied Applied Electronics and Instrumentation at the College of Engineering, Trivandrum, University of Keralaand. In 2005, he obtained his PhD in Information Technoloqy and Management from the Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management (IIITM), Gwalior. From 2004 to 2010 Prof. Saji Mathew worked as Associate Professor at the T A Pai Management Institute (TAPMI), Manipal. Since 2010 he is member of the Department of Management Studies at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai. His research interests are in Global sourcing of IT, performance, risks and methodological issues, Web mining and personalization and Media and technology in e-governance.
Prof. Saji Mathew visited the University of Passau from 24 June to 12 July 2013.
Dr. Mende visited the University of Passau from 11 to 14 May 2014.
Dr. Alexander Oettl joined the strategic management faculty in 2009. His research interests include technology strategy, the economics of innovation, knowledge spillovers, labor mobility, and human capital. His current work looks at the impact that high performing individuals, or "stars", have on the performance of their peers. Dr. Oettl's research has been published in Management Science (forthcoming), Journal of Urban Economics, the Journal of International Business Studies, profiled in the New York Times, and presented at top business schools around the world.
Dr. Oettl visited the University of Passau from 9 to 15 December 2012.
Prof. Ortmann studied Political Economy and Mathematics at the University of Bielefeld and Economics at the University of Georgia. He obtained his Ph.D. in Economics at the Texas A & M University in 2003. For a year each, he was a visiting scholar of the Program on Non-Profit Organizations at Yale University, the Max-Planck Institute for Psychological Research in Munich, the Max-Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin, and the Harvard Business School. Prof. Ortmann taught at Bowdoin and Colby College, Maine, USA and was the (Boston Consulting Group) Professor of Economics at CERGE-EI, a joint workplace of Charles University and the Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic. In 2009 he took up his current position as Professor of Experimental and Behavioural Economics at the Australian School of Business.
Prof. Andreas Ortmann visited the University of Passau from 15 to 23 July 2013 and from 07 to 14 July 2014.
Jade Wong, Andreas Ortmann, Alberto Motta, Le Zhang, University of New South Wales - Australian School of Business - School of Economics
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Policy-makers
world-wide have proposed a new contract – the “social impact bond” (SIB) – which they claim can allay the underperformance and underfunding afflicting not-for-profit sectors, by tying the private returns of (social) investors to the success of social programs (Bolton 2010; Bolton & Savell 2010; Mulgan et al. 2010a,b; Liebman 2011; Tierney & Fleishman 2011; Von Glahn & Whistler 2011). Given the high hopes governments on various levels in England, Australia, and New York have pinned on this contract format, the considerable amount of money that has recently been poured into this emerging market and the fact that serious are program evaluations cannot be expected any time soon (Disley et al. 2011; see also McKay 2013 and Pratt 2013), we test this new contract by way of experimental methods. We report an investigation of how SIBs perform in a first-best world, where investors are rational and able to obtain hard information about not-for-profits’ performance. To this end, we use a principal-agent multi-tasking framework to compare SIBs to inputs-based (IBs) and performance-based (PBs) contracts, which represent the most commonly used contracts governments and not-for-profits write. IBs contain a piece-rate mechanism, PBs contain a non-binding bonus mechanism, and SIBs contain a mechanism that, due to the presence of an investor, offers full enforceability. Although SIBs can perfectly enforce good behavior, they also require the principal (i.e. government) to relinquish control over the agent’s (i.e. not-for-profit’s) payoff to a self-regarding investor, which prevents the principal and agent from being reciprocal. In spite of these drawbacks, in our experiment SIBs outperformed IBs and PBs. We therefore conclude that, at least in our laboratory test-bed, SIBs can indeed allay underperformance and therefore possibly underfunding of not-for-profits.
Prof. Quigley visited the University of Passau from 29 June to 13 July 2014.
Prof. Stella Quimbo (1969) obtained her PhD in Economics in 2000 from the School of Economics of the University of the Philippines (Diliman, Quezon City). After spending a year as a post-doctoral fellow at Brown University in the US (Providence, Rhode Island) in 2002, she took up her current position as professor at the School of Economics of the University of the Philippines. Stella Quimbo is also the current holder of the Prince Claus Chair 2011/2013. In that position she is based at the International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University Rotterdam from May to July 2012 and June to July 2013. In her academic work, she focuses on Public Health, Health Economics and Development. Stella Quimbo has published widely on topics such as insurance design, provider incentives, equitable access to health care and health care demand, as well as child nutrition and cognitive development.
Prof. Stella Quimbo visited the University of Passau from 24 to 26 June 2013.
Prof. Rajendran is member of the Departement of Management Studies at the IIT Madras. He studied Mechanical Engineering (B.E.) at the University of Madras and continued his studies in Industrial Engineering (M.E.) at the Anna University. Afterwards, he did his PhD at the IIT Madras. Prof. Rajendran published many papers in International Journals and is currently ranked 15th among the top 20 h-index POM researchers (1959-2008) in the world with an h-index of 21.
His research interests are Scheduling in Supply Chain, Transportation Problems, Scheduling in Manufacturing Systems and Berth (Harbour), Inventory Optimization, Economic Lot Size Scheduling Problems and Total Quality Management & Service Quality.
Prof. Rajendran visited the University of Passau in January and in June 2012, in June and December 2013 and also from 26 May to 14 July 2014.
Dr. Henry Sauermann joined the Georgia Tech in 2008. His research examines the role of individuals’ pecuniary and nonpecuniary motives and incentives as drivers of innovative activities and performance in organizations. Dr. Sauermann’s current empirical work focuses on a comparative assessment of motives and innovative outcomes in different organizational contexts such as startups versus established firms or academic versus industrial R&D. His theoretical work considers the role of individuals’ incentives in shaping innovative capabilities of firms.
Taking a multi-disciplinary perspective, Dr. Sauermann draws on the literatures in economics, psychology, and sociology. His empirical methods include large sample econometric analyses, interviews, as well as human-subject experiments.
Prof. Sauermann visited the University of Passau from 20 to 29 July 2012 and from 02 to 04 October 2013.
Prof. Tabuchi is currently member of the Faculty of Economics at the University of Tokyo. After studying his bachelor and master in urban planning at the University of Tokyo, he did his doctorate at the Harvard University. His main research fiel is Urban Economics. Recent research themes Prof. Tabuchi is working on are theoretical analysis of economic roles of urban agglomerations, the existence and stability of spatial equilibrium and a microeconomic analysis of interregional differentials in per capita income, consumer price index, and land value.
Prof. Tabuchi visited the University of Passau from 19 to 31 July 2012.
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Prof. Dr. Marie and Jerry Thursby visited the University of Passau from 01 to 29 March 2016.
Prof. Richard Watson is the J. Rex Fuqua Distinguished Chair for Internet Strategy in the Departement of MIS at the University of Georgia's Terry College of Business and the Research Director for the Advanced Practices Council of the Society for Information Management.
Originally from Western Australia he moved to the U.S. in 1989. He was educated at the University of Western Australia (B Sc and Dip Comp), Monash University (MBA), and the University of Minnesota (Ph D). In Australia, he taught at Curtin University and Edith Cowan University, where he founded the Department of Information Systems. Prof. Watson is a visiting professor at Xi'an Jiaotong University, a visiting researcher at the Viktoria Institute in Sweden, and the international coordinator for the Addis Ababa University PhD in IS. In 2006, he was appointed a Fellow of the Association for Information Systems and in 2007 a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. In 2011, he received the Association for Information Systems' LEO award, which is given for exceptional life time achievement in Information Systems.
Prof. Watson published over 150 articles in leading academic and practitioner journals and wrote or edited more than 10 books. He served as a senior editor for MIS Quarterly and was co-conference chair for International Conference on Information Systems 2004. He has been President of the Association for Information Systems and co-leads the Global Text Project, which provides free electronic textbooks for students in the developing world.
His current research interests are ecological sustainability, enery informatics, and information systems leadership. He collaborates with researchers in several countries.
Prof. Watson visited the University of Passau from 20 to 26 May 2012 and from 31 May to 07 June 2014.
Prof. Zambon has published books and articles in international journals in the fields of management and reporting of intangibles, international and comparative financial reporting, public sector accounting standards, accounting history, and social and sustainability reporting.
In Italy he has previously taught at the Universities of Venice and Padua. Prof. Zambon is Coordinator of the Doctoral Programme in Economics and Management (2008-10) and Director of the “CFO Master Programme” at the University of Ferrara. He has been an invited key-note speaker at OECD, United Nations, European Parliament, European Commission, and Chinese and Japanese Governments’ events.
Prof. Zambon visited the Universtity of Passau from 20 to 21 November 2012 and 01 July 2014.
Dr. Zondag is Assistant Professor Food/CPG Marketing at Western Michigan University. His research, teaching, and consulting interests are sales and marketing management for the food and consumer packaged goods industry.
Specifically, Dr. Zondag research focuses on the marketing and supply chain aspects of Shopper Marketing, globalization of the consumer goods industry, and in-store execution issues; also described as the "last 50 yards" of the supply chain. The central theme of Dr. Zondag's work is demand-supply integration, a cooperative approach to marketing, supply chain management, and category management.
Dr. Zondag visited the University of Passau from 6 to 8 February 2013.
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