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We are sorry to announce that, after careful consideration, we have decided to delay the Network for Business Sustainability Sustainability Centres Community Workshop to summer 2021 because of the corona virus. Please stay tuned to updates in the next few months regarding the 2021 date. We are sad about the circumstances but happy that the […]Read more on Sustainability Centres Community Workshop postponed to 2021

In the just published April issue 2020 of the magazine “Controller Magazin” a practical article by Clemens Löffler (Senior Researcher, FHWien der WKW) has been published. In the article entitled “International transfer pricing in the area of conflict between taxation and control” Clemens Löffler shows that the conflict of objectives of international transfer pricing (between […]Read more on Clemens Löffler published an article on transfer pricing

The first Strategy Morning 2020 on the topic of “Digitization in the Health Care System” took place on March 3, 2020. Anita Rieder (Vice Rector MedUni Vienna), Matthias Lichtenthaler (Federal Computing Centre) and Christine Stadler-Häbich (Roche) presented interesting approaches to the digital transformation in the health care system. The digital transformation of the health care […]Read more on Strategy Morning ” Digitalization in the Health Care System

Ann-Christine Schulz (FHWien der WKW), together with Martin Gersch, Stefan Güldenberg, Wolfgang H. Güttel, Gordon Müller-Seitz and Birgit Renzl, has written an article about “Design Challenges of Digital Transformation: Recognizing, Designing or Leaving Paths?. In this article, the researchers describe how the digital transformation is embedded in corporate strategies: Digital transformation describes the current change […]Read more on Article about Design Challenges of Digital Transformation

Dr. Markus Scholz (Head of Center for Corporate Governance & Business Ethics) was guest editor of a special issue of “Review of Managerial Science”. The special issue is dedicated to the topic of third-party funding of universities. The introduction to the special edition, written by Matthias Fink (Johannes Kepler University Linz), Isabella Hatak (University of […]Read more on Markus Scholz as guest editor of the special issue Review of Managerial Science

Business and human rights: How can companies deal with countries that do not have sufficient human rights protections in place? One year after the murder of journalist Jamal Kashoggi in a Saudi embassy, Markus Scholz (Head of Center for Corporate Governance & Business Ethics) reflects on corporate reactions to this case and discusses how corporations […]Read more on Business and Human Rights

This theme is supporting FHWien der WKW’s efforts to implement the United Nations SDGs into the curricula. “As a university of applied sciences for management and communication, we recognize the importance of the SDGs in the training of future managers,” says Beater Huber, Head of Department and Chair of the Academic Board at FHWien der […]Read more on Bringing the sustainable development goals to life

Although properly designed advisory boards offer an opportunity to make a positive contribution to the success of a company, they are still not very present in the Austrian SME sector. Why companies in Austria have nevertheless set up an advisory board, what role it plays and what influence it has on business success, is answered […]Read more on Advisory boards: Unused opportunities for Austrian SMEs – Article in “Aufsichtsrat aktuell”

Clemens Löffler recently published an article in the prestigious journal „Management Accounting Research“ on the topic of international transfer pricing. The OECD established its international transfer pricing guidelines to prevent tax avoidance. However, these guidelines constitute an intervention in a multinational’s internal control system as transfer prices also enable coordination in divisionalized firms. The paper […]Read more on New publication in leading accounting journal

How are changes in companies initiated and implemented in detail? How are resistances dealt with? To answer questions such as these, five small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) took part in a business program run by FHWien der WKW. A workshop at the end of the project provided impulses and offered an arena for the exchange of experience and knowledge. […]Read more on Strategic Innovation and Change Capability of SMEs