Team

Dr Sebastian Barth

Dr Sebastian Barth has been a scholarship holder in the "High Performance Boards" research project at the Reinhard Mohn Institute for Corporate Management & Corporate Governance at Witten/Herdecke University since November 2008. His dissertation on "The nomination of supervisory board members: An empirical investigation of the selection processes in the supervisory board and its commissions" was supervised by Professor Dr Till Talaulicar. After graduating from high school and founding a company, he began studying economics at the University of Witten/Herdecke in October 2003, graduating with a degree in economics in 2008. His studies were accompanied by internships in Germany and abroad, specialising in international economic relations, strategy development and corporate governance at the University of Witten/Herdecke and the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. His research and work focuses on the areas of corporate governance, in particular the selection processes of supervisory boards, as well as group theory.

Dr Christian Dietrich

Dr Christian Dietrich studied economics at the University of Witten/Herdecke and graduated with distinction. Subsequently, he was a research employee of Professor Dr Talaulicar at the Chair of Corporate Governance & Board Dynamics at the University of Witten/Herdecke. Mr Dietrich successfully completed his dissertation as an external doctoral candidate on the topic of "Corporate governance from the perspective of institutional investors: The context-dependent importance of standards of good corporate governance for the foundation of investment decisions". The work was funded by a private foundation.

Sebastian Dozel

Sebastian Dozel studied business administration at the Avans Hogeschool in the Netherlands and at the Open University Business School in the UK. He has worked for several years in various management functions in commercial enterprises and currently works for K+S AG in Kassel. As an external doctoral candidate at Professor Talaulicar's Chair of Organisation and Management, Mr Dozel is investigating the influence of the CEO and the effect of interaction within the board of directors on the strategic change capability of companies.

Dr Marcus Fiedler

As an external doctoral candidate at the Chair of Organisation and Management,Dr Marcus Fiedler is working on the influence of the labour director on the development of entrepreneurial human capital resources and is supervised by Professor Dr Till Talaulicar. Mr Fiedler studied Business Administration and Business Management at the University of Applied Sciences Erfurt. His studies focussed on personnel management, corporate management and market research. His bachelor's and master's theses, which were both graded "very good", were among the best theses of his year. In his master's thesis, Mr Fiedler developed a requirements profile for operational shift planning based on legal, collective bargaining and operational framework conditions.

Dr Martin Hirsch

Dr Martin Hirsch studied Industrial Management at the European University of Applied Sciences in Brühl in cooperation with Aalberts Surface Treatment GmbH. There, Mr Hirsch was subsequently entrusted with the development of central HR management and completed a part-time Master's degree in Management with a focus on HR at the FOM University of Applied Sciences for Economics and Management in Cologne. Mr Hirsch is currently employed by JCB Deutschland GmbH and is responsible for the professionalisation of HR Management. As an external doctoral candidate at Professor Talaulicar's Chair of Organisation and Management, Martin Hirsch is investigating possible forms of strategic HRM architecture in medium-sized companies and start-ups.

Dr Isabel Kleb

Isabel Kleb studied the interdisciplinary Economics, Law and Social Sciences - Law concentration with a focus on economics and law at the University of Erfurt. She wrote her master's thesis on the topic of "Regulatory approaches to a separation banking system: fundamentals, forms, criticism". As an external doctoral candidate at Professor Talaulicar's Chair of Organisation and Management, Isabel Kleb is investigating CSR communication in the German banking sector before, during and after the global financial crisis. At the same time, she has been working at Erfurter Bank eG, a medium-sized credit co-operative, since October 2014.

Dr Dominic Kreismann

• Personnel management, personnel development/training/teaching, competence models
• Training and methods
• Communication, dialogue techniques, conflict management & guided tours
• Organisational structures & change, CSR
• Labour and contract law
• Psychology

Dr Rene Mannsberger

Dr Rene Mannsberger studied International Business at the Baden-Württemberg Cooperative State University in cooperation with Gardena GmbH. He also completed his Master's degree in Accounting, Controlling and Taxation at the Baden-Württemberg Cooperative State University in cooperation with Gardena GmbH. As an external doctoral candidate at Professor Talaulicar's Chair of Organisation and Management, Rene Mannsberger is investigating the influence of the CEO, CFO and Chairman of the Supervisory Board on the portfolio communication of companies. In addition, Rene Mannsberger continues to work for Gardena GmbH as a controller in product management and development.

Dr Jakob R. Müller

Dr Jakob R. Müller was a doctoral candidate with Professor Dr Till Talaulicar and Professor Dr Markus Hanisch (Humboldt University of Berlin) on the topic: "The emergence of the governance of hybrid organisational forms: An empirical investigation using the example of energy cooperatives in Germany".

His work was nominated by the Faculty of Economics, Law and Social Sciences for the 2019 Christoph Martin Wieland Doctoral Prize of the University of Erfurt.

From 2004 to 2007, Jakob Müller completed a dual degree in business administration (Berufsakademie Mannheim) in the services marketing programme in cooperation with Deutsche BP AG. He wrote his diploma thesis on the topic "Effects of the change in central subsidy components of the EEG on the attractiveness of the photovoltaic market using the example of BP Solar". The thesis was honoured as the best diploma thesis of the Mannheim University of Cooperative Education in 2007. Jakob Müller was also awarded a Bachelor of Arts with First Class Honours in Business Administration by the Open University.

From 2007 to 2010, Jakob Müller was a student at Witten/Herdecke University, where he completed a Master's programme in General Management. He wrote his master's thesis on "Control of and in groups" with Professor Dr Rudolf Wimmer. Jakob Müller was also a guest student on the Master of Science in Energy and Finance programme at the University of Duisburg-Essen from 2008 to 2010.

Jakob Müller's work and research focus is on hybrid forms of organisation and their governance mechanisms. In particular, his research focusses on the performance effects of the governance of cooperatives on the German electricity market.

Dr Carine Tober

Dr Carine Tober completed her Master's degree in Human Resources Management at the Université Saint Joseph, Beirut, Lebanon. Her 140-page master's thesis, awarded with distinction, designs and applies "A personalised training project for managers of World Vision Lebanon" based on a methodology of 360° degree assessment of company employees. Ms Tober worked for more than six years for international non-governmental organisations in Lebanon in project management and coordination (Caritas, World Vision). As an external doctoral candidate, she completed her doctorate on the topic "How Do Work Characteristics Influence Attributions of Moral Responsibility? An Explorative Study at a University in Lebanon" in November 2022.

Dr Jutta Trögel

Dr Jutta Trögel studied Business Administration and International Business Administration at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt and the Universidad de Salamanca. She was recognised for her academic achievements by the city of Ingolstadt and honoured as the top graduate of her year. She was also a scholarship holder of the Cusanuswerk and the Bavarian Elite Academy.

Ms Trögel wrote her doctorate on the topic of "Possibilities and limits of the chairman's influence on the supervisory board - an empirical study" at the Reinhard Mohn Institute for Management and Corporate Governance at Witten/Herdecke University, where she was a member of the research project "High Performance Boards - Quality and Efficiency in Supervisory Boards" and was supervised by Professor Dr Till Talaulicar.

Her research foci include the distribution of power and influence in supervisory boards, decision-making processes and discussion culture in supervisory boards, strategy-as-practice, in particular strategic planning processes in companies and capturing the green consumer - sustainable management in the consumer goods industry.

Jutta Trögel has been working as a strategic management consultant at the Boston Consulting Group since 2006.

Dr Demian Wilhelm

Dr Demian Wilhelm has been an external doctoral candidate with Professor Dr Till Talaulicar since April 2015, focusing in particular on the influence of company management on the organisational change capability of family businesses. The dissertation project explored the theoretical and empirical questions of whether and to what extent the design of company management has a positive effect on organisational change capability and how these capabilities relate to the success of the company.
At the same time, Demian Wilhelm has been working as a Management Consultant at Accenture's Munich office since August 2012. He accompanies business transformations of leading companies end-to-end with a focus on change management, HR, training and project management.
Mr Wilhelm studied Business Administration (Diploma) at the University of Trier and Aston Business School (UK). His studies focused on strategic management, organisation, work psychology and change management.