Introduction to the field of International Management.
Basic introduction to: internationalization process and -environment, reasons for internationalization, actors in the international environment, the role of culture, instruments for the identification and evaluation of markets, market entry strategies, international human resource management, international marketing, organizational structures, and the leadership and management of international companies.

The following conditions need to be met prior to registering for the module:

• successful completion of English I
• successful completion of additional first year programme modules amounting to at least 45 credit points.

Exception for SS 13: only 39 additional credits.

The course covers fundamental frameworks, models, and methods with regard to innovation. Topics include managing innovation within firms, process innovation, innovation decision-making, open innovation and technology transfer, and innovation culture. A real-life case which is set up in cooperation with a company partner serves to apply knowledge on innovation management in a practical project. The developed solution should be scientifically sound and applicable in practice.

Voraussetzung für die Anmeldung zum Modul:

• erfolgreicher Abschluss von English I
• erfolgreicher Abschluss von weiteren Modulen des 1. Regelstudienjahres im Umfang von weiteren 45 Credits.

Grundlagen und Berufsbilder der Wirtschaftsinformatik, E-Business, E-Commerce, Collaborative Systems, Informationssysteme und -strategie, Enterprise Resource Planning, Geschäftsprozessmanagement, Informationsmanagement, Wissensmanagement, Benutzergerechte Gestaltung von Informationssystemen, IT-Projektmanagement, Nachhaltige Informationssystemgestaltung, Fallstudien zum Informationsmanagement

Introduction (e.g., Data, Information and Knowledge; Tasks of Information Management); Information Economics; Managing Information Demands (e.g., Information Requirements Analysis; Information Overload) Managing Information Supply (e.g. Information Quality; Meta-Data Management); Information Management Systems (e.g., Databases, Data Warehousing; Data Mining); Managing Information and Communication Technology (e.g., Predicting ICT Trends and Developments); Information Management Case Studies

The following conditions need to be met prior to registering for the module:

• successful completion of English I
• successful completion of additional first year programme modules amounting to at least 45 credit points.

Finanzwirtschaftliche Modelle, Finanzmathematik, Investitionsrechnung, Finanzierung, Finanzinstitutionen, Derivative Finanzinstrumente, Unternehmensfinanzierung, Unternehmensbewertung

• Entwicklung des Organisationsverständnisses und der damit einhergehenden Konzeptionen von Management und Führung

(Organisationstheorien und -konzepte; Führungstheorien, Führungsmodelle)

• Zusammenhang von Organisationsgestaltung und Führungsverhalten (Zusammenhänge von Taylorismus, Verhaltenswissenschaftlichen Ansätzen und Systemtheorie auf die Konzeption von Organisation)
• Die Auswirkungen der verschiedenen Menschenbilder auf die Konzeptionen der Rollen der Mitarbeiter, der Ansätze zu Mitarbeiterführung, Motivation, , etc.
• Zusammenspiel von Person (psychisches System) und Organisation (soziales System)
• Der Kreislauf im Personalwesen: Von der Aufnahme bis zum Ausscheiden eines Mitarbeiters.
• Organisationsentwicklung und -gestaltung als ein Feld zwischen geplanten und emergenten Zugängen
• Konstruktivismus und Soziale Systemtheorie
• Kommunikation als zentraler Faktor der systemtheoretischen Konzeptionen, Kommunikationsmodelle
• Neue Formen der Konzeption von Organisationen: Lernende Organisation, Resiliente Organisation, High Reliability Organization,
• Konzeption von Organisation als komplizierte und komplexe Systeme; die Folgen daraus für das Führungsverständnis, den Umgang mit Unsicherheit und Nicht-Entscheidbarkeit, usw.
• Instrumente und Methoden zur Darstellung und Modellierung komplexer Systeme
• Grundlagen des Change Management
• Konzepte zu Management und Leadership
• ZR-Teil: Zusammenhänge zwischen verschiedenen Lehrinhalten des Curriculums erkennen und nutzen lernen

The research proposal must include a description of the dissertation as a research agenda and of the methodical approach. In the colloquium on the research proposal, doctoral students shall present their dissertation project and provide reasons for their chosen approach.

Details are listed in the Implementing Provisions concerning the Doctorate Regulations

The supervisor and the co-supervisor decide on the acceptance of the research proposal and recommend a grade.

Basics of financial accounting, stocktaking and inventory, modes of accounting (stock accounts, income statement accounts, private accounts, goods and inventory accounts, payment accounts in due consideration of reconsignments) reductions and discounts, income calculations, documentary evidence, system of value added tax and its accounting, accounting of further cases in trading firms and production companies, accounting of wages and salaries, accounts receivables, accounts payables, accounting problems of fixed assets (depreciation, amortization, revaluation, special forms of depreciation and index to appendices) accounting problems of current assets(calculation of goods and materials employed and its accounting, cases of valuation of receivables, inventory changes), accruals and deferrals, accrued liabilities, liabilities, problems of hidden reserves (creation and disclosure).

• Benefits of Enterprise Systems
• Life-Cycle of Enterprise Systems (esp. design and implementation, success factors, knowledge transfer, and training)
• Enterprise Resource Planning Systems (especially in the area of Financial Accounting, Management Accounting, Procurement, Manufacturing, and Sales and Distribution).
• Customer Relationship Management (esp. Strategies in CRM, Tools and Methods, components of CRM systems).
• Supply Chain Management (Logistics, Warehousing)
• Latest technological developments (esp. In-Memory-Computing, Cloud-Computing, Mobile Devices)
• Case Study: Enterprise Processes in SAP

The following conditions need to be met prior to registering for the module:

• successful completion of English I
• successful completion of additional first year programme modules amounting to at least 45 credit points.

Exception for SS 13: only 39 additional credits.

See course description.