This module serves manifold competences (see section 1.2): As a doctoral consortium it aims at deepening both, methodological and professional research skills of the students. In addition, it is designed to foster the international profile of their work.

By means of submitting their work to an internationally reknown doctoral consortium the students learn how to position themselves in a highly competitive environment.

Since successful applications are invited to be discussed by a selective academic committee the doctoral consortium also serves to further develop the communicative and social competences of the students.

Students' participating in a doctoral consortium arranged in the context of an internationally well-regarded information systems conference, therein share both the main contents of and progress in their own researches. Moreover, they benefit from listening to the other students' experiences and results and receive valuable feedback of the consortium chairs and student participants.

Students will be assisted by lecturers of the Institute of Information Sysetms at the University of Liechtenstein in preparing their proposal and application for the coctoral consortium. Accepted students will take part in the consortium. Also a reflection of the lessons learned at the consortium together with the lecturers at Liechtensetin is part of the module.

The primary objective of the doctoral consortium is to present and defend the PhD students' research in a competitive and international scientific environment.
Research Design, Theories of the Firm, Research Methods in Information and Process Management Science

The students will be assessed in this module through:

• Competitive Selection Process of the docotral consortium
• Research paper submitted to the doctoral consortium
• Assessment by the Professors discussing the proposal at the doctoral consortium

Module availability:
On application at an internationally reknown doctoral consortium, e. g. at ICIS, International Conference on Information Systms; ECIS, European Conference on Information Systems; AMCIS, American Conference on Information Systems or ACIS, Australatian Confernece on Information Systems.

This module serves manifold competences: As a doctoral consortium it aims at deepening both, methodological and professional research skills of the students. In addition, it is designed to foster the international profile of their work.

Students' participating in a doctoral consortium, therein share both the main contents of and progress in their own researches. Moreover, they benefit from listening to the other students' experiences and results and receive valuable feedback of the supervisors, consortium chairs and student participants.

The primary objective of the doctoral consortium is to present and defend the PhD students' research in a competitive and international scientific environment.

The students will be assessed in this module through:

• Competitive Selection Process of the doctoral consortium
• Research paper submitted to the doctoral consortium
• Assessment by the Professors discussing the proposal at the doctoral consortium

Module availability:
On application at an internationally reknown doctoral consortium.

• Review of relevant economic concepts focussing on financial topics
• Statistics
• Microeconomics
• Macroeconomics
• Investments
• Discussion of Case Studies

Interactive lecture, case studies

After completion of the module, the students are able to recognise and analyse challenges in the practice of corporate finance. They can explain suggestions for solutions and thereby integrate their theoretical knowledge. In discussions with instructors and fellow students they are able to assess basic approaches to solutions, to suggest their own solutions and to enlarge on concepts.

• Written exam with 60 minutes duration
• Assignment
• Obligatory class participation

Web-based online evaluation upon completion of module

International Accounting
> Basics of tax accounting
> Deferred Taxes: Deferred tax liabilities and deferred tax assets
> Tax accounting process
> Effective tax rate and tax reconciliation

The Economics of Taxation
> Theory of Optimal Taxation
> Taxation and Saving Decisions
> Taxation and Investment Decisions
> Taxes and Capital Structure

Interactive lecture, case studies.

The module International Accounting and Taxation introduces the issues of deferred taxes and an effective tax rate. Deferred taxes mean a future tax liability or asset, resulting from temporary differences between the accounting value of assets and liabilities and their value for tax purposes. Deferred taxes are used to calculate the effective tax rate, which shows the effective tax burden of a group of affiliated companies. After completion of the course on International Accounting, the students have at their disposal comprehensive knowledge of deferred taxes and the effective tax rate.

The course of International Taxation provides a comprehensive understanding of the impact of taxation on saving and investment decisions as well as the impact on capital structures. After completion of the course, the students are familiar with the fundamentals of the economics of taxation to the extent that they can explain the influence of taxation on investment and financing decisions.

The lecture materials, legal foundations, accounting standards and illustrations of facts relating to the exercises as well as possible further materials including selected literature are available on the Hochschulforum. Additionally, all the recommended literature is accessible at the library.

1 written exam with 90 minutes editing time (80% of module grade)
1 presentation (20% of module grade)

Web-based online evaluation upon completion of module.

• Financial Decision Theory
• Capital Market Models and Evaluation on Complete Markets
• Portfolio Management
• Critique of the Expected Utility Theory
• Prospect Theory
• Kinds and Consequences of Heuristic Distortion
• Framing
• Momentum und Contrarian Strategies
• Technical Analysis

Interactive lecture, exercises

After completion of the module, the students are able to evaluate assets by means of various models and to illustrate investment procedure. They thereby draw on current knowledge of capital market research and can show suggestions for solutions while integrating their theoretical knowledge. Events on the capital market are critically scrutinised in discussions with instructors and fellow students.

• Written examination with 120 minutes editing time

Web-based online evaluation upon completion of module

This course is designed to give first year PhD Students an aid for their academic endeavour. Just like in Research Design, the focus lies on methodological competences. At the same time, however, this course also aims at techniques rather than design strategies. The objective is to provide core compentences on how to craft a scientific text properly. Due to the concept of peer-monitoring applied in this course also social competencies will be trained.

During the first year students will be working on their academic writing style, they will be made familiar with normative writing styles and ways to publish tackling various kinds of genres, and they will help and learn from each other through peer-monitoring activities. As a base sample texts will be used and the texts students will be producing will be worked on. The course is built on four pillars:

• Text Coaching:
  How to write academically: spelling, grammar, academic vocabulary, numbers, abbreviations, tables, figures, etc.
• Knowledge Management:
  Working with databases, literature management softwares, etc.
• Publishing:
  How to write and publish various genres: abstracts, research papers, articles, data commentaries, reviews, project proposals, formatting, etc.
• Peer-Mentoring:
  Giving and receiving feed-back, presenting and reviewing, considering peer-feedback, joint writing activities, etc.

During the course, students will maintain a blog which they will be feeding with weekly entries about their research activities and they will comment on two other PhD Students' blogs. This way, they will structure their thoughts and ideas and it will stimulate transparency and exchange about what they individually and what peer-students are working on. This will help learning how to give and receive feed-back, and it will be monitored by supervisors helping in giving individualised feed-back.

At the end of the course students will hand in a portfolio containing all the texts they have written and the blog entries and comments they will have made.

During the course, plenary speakers will be invited from various fields organising a workshop with students on particular issues of academic writing in genre-specific areas.

Workshops, one-on-one and think-pair-share sessions, individual and guided e-learning.

Students will be acquainted with principles of academic writing, normative writing, publishing, and peer-mentoring.

By the end of the course they will be able to make use of academic vocabulary, they will be able to discuss texts, tables, charts, and figures, and they will be sensitised about their personal and academic command of the English language.

They will be familiar with reference management systems, working with databases, formatting written texts, and academic values.

They will know principles of certain academic genres, like abstracts, research papers, articles, data commentaries, reviews, project proposals, etc.

They will be able to give and consider peer-feed-back, present and review, and they will be able to carry out joint writing activities, etc.

Assessment modalities split up into the three parts "Text Discussion" (1), "Participation in Discussions" (2), "Regular Blog Updates" (3).

The parts are specified as follows:

1. Text Discussion:
Each participant engages actively into a 45-minute-text-discussion-phase about a text of a fellow student; Each participant delivers a text to be discussed jointly.

2. Each participant must at least take part into the discussion of five texts.

3. Each participant must blog once a week and deliver at least two peer-feedbacks on other fellow students' blogs once a week.

In the disputation the doctoral students prove whether they have fulfilled the requirements of the dissertation.

The disputation can take place when the acceptance of the dissertation has been recommended in the written assessment by the advisors and a grade of at least 4.0 has been recommended.

The disputation is passed if the grade assignment is at least a 4.0.

In the preliminary study, the dissertation project in the form of a research plan as well as the methodical approach are to be described (see Regulatory Statutes for the Doctoral Degree Programme).

In the colloquium on the preliminary study the doctoral students present their dissertation project and justify their approach.

The advisor and the co-advisor make a decision about accepting the preliminary study and recommend a grade assignment.

The preliminary study and the colloquium on the preliminary study are passed if the grade assignment is at least a 4.0.

Architektonisch konstruktiver Entwurf mit konkreter Aufgabenstellung aus dem Themenfeld der Modulgruppe D im Kontext der relevanten für die Umsetzung der Aufgabe wichtigen Parameter.
• Integrierende Themen der Modulgruppe D werden in der Entwurfsaufgabe bearbeitet und durch einen Fachdozenten aus dem Themengebiet der Modulgruppe D direkt begleitet.
• Prozessorientierte Vorgehensweise in der Analyse der Aufgabe und der Entwicklung von zukunftsweisenden Konzepten.
• Auseinandersetzung mit aktuellen Fragen aus dem Themenfeld der Konstruktion, Tektonik sowie Tragwerksplanung.
• Darstellung in Zeichnung und Modellen in dem für die Aufgabe nötigen Massstab.

Semesterunterricht
mit Projektstudio
Mögliche Methoden:
angeleitetes Praktikum, Brainstorming, Diskurs, Experiment, Exzerpieren, Fallstudie, Film, Foto, Impulsreferat, Lesen, Modell, Peerfeedback, Plan, Projektarbeit, Recherche, Reflexion, Schreiben, Skizze, Übung, Visualisierung, Vortrag, Zeichnung.

Entwurf mit Integration III

Modulnote = Lehrveranstaltungsnote die ermittelt wird aus:
Projektentwürfe mit Präsentation und Kritik sowie Mitarbeit im Unterricht ( 60%) ; Integrationsarbeit ( 20% ); Thesis – Portfolio (20%); Die Teilnote Projektentwürfe mit Präsentation und Kritik sowie Mitarbeit im Unterricht muss zwingend positiv sein um das Modul zu bestehen.

Architektonisch konstruktiver Entwurf mit konkreter Aufgabenstellung aus dem Themenfeld der Modulgruppe D im Kontext der relevanten für die Umsetzung der Aufgabe wichtigen Parameter.
• Integrierende Themen der Modulgruppe D werden in der Entwurfsaufgabe bearbeitet und durch einen Fachdozenten aus dem Themengebiet der Modulgruppe D direkt begleitet.
• Prozessorientierte Vorgehensweise in der Analyse der Aufgabe und der Entwicklung von zukunftsweisenden Konzepten.
• Auseinandersetzung mit aktuellen Fragen aus dem Themenfeld der Konstruktion, Tektonik sowie Tragwerksplanung.
• Darstellung in Zeichnung und Modellen in dem für die Aufgabe nötigen Massstab.

Semesterunterricht
mit Projektstudio
Mögliche Methoden:
angeleitetes Praktikum, Brainstorming, Diskurs, Experiment, Exzerpieren, Fallstudie, Film, Foto, Impulsreferat, Lesen, Modell, Peerfeedback, Plan, Projektarbeit, Recherche, Reflexion, Schreiben, Skizze, Übung, Visualisierung, Vortrag, Zeichnung.

Entwurf mit Integration III

Modulnote = Lehrveranstaltungsnote die ermittelt wird aus:
Projektentwürfe mit Präsentation und Kritik sowie Mitarbeit im Unterricht ( 60%) ; Integrationsarbeit ( 20% ); Thesis – Portfolio (20%); Die Teilnote Projektentwürfe mit Präsentation und Kritik sowie Mitarbeit im Unterricht muss zwingend positiv sein um das Modul zu bestehen.