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Improving organizational learning through the COMPASS Self-Check Tool

December 4, 2020

Senior Researcher Dr. Katharina Jarmai and co-authors publish an article about the COMPASS Self-Check Tool, which was developed within the framework of a Horizon 2020 project to help companies improve their organizational learning through self-assessment. […]Read more on Improving organizational learning through the COMPASS Self-Check Tool

New lecture series “Responsible Management Lectures” successfully introduced

November 19, 2020

First round of the "Responsible Management Lectures: Ideas for Better Business" of the IBES successfully accomplished. […]Read more on New lecture series “Responsible Management Lectures” successfully introduced

Six Ways Companies Can Promote and Protect Human Rights

November 6, 2020

Prof. Dr. Markus Scholz (FHWien der WKW) published an article in MIT Solan Management Review with N. Craig Smith (INSEAD) demonstrating options companies can respond to a government’s human rights abuses. The extent to which corporations should react to human rights abuses by governments in their host and home countries has become one of the […]Read more on Six Ways Companies Can Promote and Protect Human Rights

IBES publishes new study “Sustainability Management in Austrian SMEs”

October 30, 2020

The practical study was carried out within the framework of the endowed professorship for Microeconomics of Competitiveness at the Institute for Business Ethics and Sustainable Strategy (IBES) of FHWien der WKW. The results of the project „City of Vienna Competence team for sustainable, strategic and opportunity-oriented management of SMEs“ funded by the City of Vienna […]Read more on IBES publishes new study “Sustainability Management in Austrian SMEs”

Research on Collective Action: First Josef Ressel Centre opens at FHWien der WKW

October 21, 2020

A research Centre on Collective Action and Responsible Partnerships is starting at the Institute for Business Ethics and Sustainable Strategy at the FHWien der WKW, the University of Applied Sciences for Management and Communication in Vienna. It examines what motivates companies to cooperate. […]Read more on Research on Collective Action: First Josef Ressel Centre opens at FHWien der WKW

Chatbots – The answer to (almost) every question?

October 16, 2020

In cooperation with Haaga Helia University, Helsinki, researchers and lecturers from FHWien der WKW’s Department of Communication are investigating the effect of chatbots on users from a communication science perspective. […]Read more on Chatbots – The answer to (almost) every question?

A tiny smile makes all the difference: Measuring emotions using the Web Analytics Lab

October 12, 2020

By using the latest technology the Communication Management and Marketing & Sales Management study programs at FHWien der WKW offer their students a unique opportunity to measure emotions in advertising and sales. […]Read more on A tiny smile makes all the difference: Measuring emotions using the Web Analytics Lab

Collective Action Initiatives in Response to the Digital Transformation

October 8, 2020

FH-Prof. Dr. Markus Scholz (FHWien der WKW) and Maria Riegler, MSc  (FHWien der WKW) published an article in the compendium “Digital Change and Ethics”, edited by Markus Hengstschläger and the Austrian Council for Research and Technology Development. In their chapter “Responsible Innovation: Corporate Responsibility and Collective Action”, the two IBES researchers examine how Collective Action […]Read more on Collective Action Initiatives in Response to the Digital Transformation

Markus Scholz at panel discussion of Zukunft Personal & Global Peter Drucker Forum

October 7, 2020

Leadership, operations and services in times of crisis IBES Director FH-Prof. Dr. Markus Scholz (FHWien der WKW) will participate in a panel discussion on “Leadership in times of crisis” at ZP EUROPE VIRTUAL. The panel takes place in cooperation with the Global Peter Drucker Forum. Continue everyday business as far as possible and lead it […]Read more on Markus Scholz at panel discussion of Zukunft Personal & Global Peter Drucker Forum