On July 15th, 2020 Dr. André Schmidt successfully completed his habilitation procedure at the Faculty of Management and Economics.

The Faculty of Management and Economics granted Dr. André Schmidt the teaching qualification for the field of business administration due to his habilitation thesis “Institutionen der deutschen Corporate Governance” and his habilitation lecture “Vermögens-, Informations- und Herrschaftsrechte in Publikumsgesellschaften – Ergebnisse einer Aktionärsbefragung“. Dr. Schmidt, who has worked as a research assistant at the Chair of “Internationale Unternehmensrechnung” (Prof. Dr. Bernhard Pellens) since his doctoral phase, discusses various questions of corporate constitution in the areas of auditing, financial reporting and shareholder rights in his habilitation thesis. In doing so, he uses normative as well as qualitative (surveys, interviews) and quantitative methods of data collection and data analysis.

The habilitation certificate was presented by the dean, Prof. Dr. Michael Roos. The members of the Faculty of Management and Economics sincerely congratulate Dr. Andre Schmidt!

The photo shows the dean of the faculty Prof. Dr. Michael Roos and Dr. André Schmidt during the awarding of the habilitation certificate on August 26, 2020.