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Would you like to pursue a doctorate at the Research Institute for International Management (FIM-HSG)?

The ultimate objective of FIM research is to contribute to leading international academic journals and, as an intermediary step, to present findings at prominent international academic conferences (e.g. Academy of Management, Academy of International Business). All FIM researchers, including doctoral students, are expected to contribute to this objective. This ambition guides the choice of dissertation topics at FIM and has major implications for the choice of research methods.

Research at FIM is mostly of an empirical nature. Doctoral researchers typically collect data on Swiss and/or German firms in order to identify the determinants and/or consequences of specific international strategic or organisational choices, corporate governance features, or performance patterns. Most of the research conducted at FIM is of a quantitative nature, using advanced statistical techniques to analyse large datasets, although in selected cases qualitative approaches may be followed.

Doctoral researchers at FIM are expected to function as a team. This means that doctoral students are expected to interact closely, comment on each others’ research design and progress, and contribute to the wider FIM research agenda. This way, by the time a doctoral student starts to write his/her thesis, (s)he will have gained substantial research experience. This approach implies that doctoral students are not expected to carry out fully independent projects. Most doctoral researchers at FIM at the same time have a position as an assistant.

Ultimately, a dissertation project at FIM may take somewhat longer than at certain HSG Institutes. The average duration at FIM is three years.

We are receiving many requests to act as a thesis supervisor. As a result, acceptance of new doctoral students will be based on the following criteria: overall quality of the candidate; proximity of research interests to FIM research; potential to publish results in leading (especially academic) journals; and potential to build up promising new areas of competence.

If the above sounds interesting to you, we look forward to hearing from you.

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Campus - 21.09.2021 - 00:00 

73 new PhDs at the University of St.Gallen

"Today we celebrate your success," President Prof. Dr. Bernhard Ehrenzeller stated, congratulating the new PhDs on their graduation. "But with your scientific activity you have also have been introduced to success’s dark twin: failure." With this statement "Successful failure" became the theme of the Rector’s address.

Regardless of a doctoral student's motivation, work-ethic or creativity, there is never a guarantee of success in a dissertation project, Bernhard Ehrenzeller said. "Last year, for example, the pandemic thwarted the plans of many researchers. Experiments had to be postponed, redesigned, field research visits cancelled and archive visits postponed,” he elaborated.

Bernhard Ehrenzeller urges graduates to see setbacks as opportunities, "this, I believe, is the secret to success. Learning from past failures allows one to move forward.”

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At the University of St.Gallen, more than 100 full professors, around 30 associate professors, over 60 assistant professors, and more than 40 permanent lecturers teach and conduct research. They thus form one of the largest faculties at a Central European business university.

The gallery below shows our faculty. Further details about the research activities of our faculty can be found on our research portal  Alexandria . There you will find studies, publications and profiles.

Manuel Ammann

Reto Föllmi

Vice President and Professor of International Economics

Dietmar Grichnik

Vice President and Full Professor of Entrepreneurship and Technology Management

Klaus Möller

Vice President and Full Professor of Performance Management/Controlling

Barbara Weber

Vice President and Full Professor for Software Systems Programming and Development

Christine Abbt

Full Professor of Philosophy

Petrit Ademi

Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurial Finance

Konrad Adler

Assistant Professor of Corporate Finance

Stephan Aier

Professor, Senior Lecturer

Björn Ambos

Full Professor of Strategic Management

Marc Arnold

Associate Professor

Omid Aschari

Patrik Aspers

Full Professor (Chair) of Sociology

Francesco Audrino

Professor of Statistics

Andrea Back

Full Professor of Management with special focus on Business IT

Veronica Barassi

Professor in Media and Communications Studies

Andrea Barbon

Assistant Professor

Ingrid Bauer-Hänsel

Assistant professor of IT Management

Ulrike Baumöl

Senior Lecturer of Business Transformation

Professor of Chinese Culture and Society

Heiko Bergmann

Interim Chair of Management of Small- and Medium-Sized Enterprises, Professor and Senior Lecturer of Entrepreneurship

Pietro Beritelli

Professor, Senior Lecturer in Management with special focus on Tourism

Thomas Berndt

Full Professor of Accounting

Urs Bertschinger

Professor of Private, Commercial and Business Law

Eri Bertsou

Thomas Beschorner

Professor of Business Ethics

Paula Bialski

Associate Prof. Sociology of Digitisation

Thomas Bieger

Full Professor of Management with special focus on the Tourist Industry

Christian Biener

Associate Professor of Behavioral Risk Management

Christa Binswanger

Johannes Binswanger

Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy

Blagoy Valentinov Blagoev

Full Professor of Organizational Studies

Associate Professor of Information Management with special focus on Business Analytics

Vanessa Boanada Fuchs

Assistant Professor for International Development and Sustainability

Stephan Alexander Böhm

Associate Professor of Diversity Management and Leadership

Timo Boppart

Professor for International Economics

Damian Borth

Full Professor for Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Alexander Braun

Associate Professor für Insurance and Capital Markets

Heike Bruch

Professor in Ordinary for Leadership and Director at the IFPM-HSG

Claudia Franziska Brühwiler

Political Theory & American Studies

Stefan Bühler

Professor of Applied Microeconomics

Miriam Buiten

Assistant Professor of Law and Economics

Thomas Burri

Associate Professor of International Law and European Law

Roman Capaul

Senior Lecturer für Betriebswirtschaftslehre mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Wirtschaftspädagogik, Professor, Senior Lecturer in Management with special focus on Business Education

Bruno Caprettini

Assistant Professor in Trade and Development

Tomas Casas Klett

Senior Lecturer in International Management with focus on China

Andrei Ciortea

Assistant Professor in Interaction and Communication based Systems

Guido Cozzi

Professor of Macroeconomics

Raphaela Cueni

Assisteat Professor für Verwaltungsrecht

Daniel Cuonz

Academic Director Center for Languages and Transcultural Communication

James Warren Davis

Professor of Political Science with special focus on International Relations

Emanuel de Bellis

Associate Professor of Empirical Research Methods

Enrico Giovanni De Giorgi

Professor of Mathematics

Daniel Dietrich

Senior Lecturer of Qualitative Research Methods

Bernadette Dilger

Full Professor of Business Education and Educational Management

Klaus Dingwerth

Professor of Political Science with special focus on the Political Theory of the Globalizing and Digital Society

Marta Dominguez Diaz

Part-time Lecturer

Philipp Alexander Ebel

Assistant Professor of Business Administration with special focus on Business and Information Systems Engineering

Tobias Ebert

Assistant Professor of Behavioral Science & Technology

Martin Eggel

Full Professor for Private Law, Focus: Civil Code

Patricia Egli

Sabrina Eisenbarth

Associate Professor Environmental Economics

Martin Eling

Vice-Dean/Professor of Insurance Management

Florian Elliker

Senior Lecturer in Sociology

Anna Elsner

Associate Professor of French Studies & Medical Humanities

Patrick Emmenegger

Professor of Public Policy and Comparative Political Economy

Suzanne Enzerink

Assistant Professor of American Studies

Martin Eppler

Full Professor of Media and Communication Management

Beatrix Eugster

Professor of Economics

Florian Eugster

Associate Professor of Auditing

Simon Evenett

Professor of Foreign Trade and Development

Bardo Fassbender

Chair in Public International Law, European Law and Public Law

Dennis Fehrenbacher

Associate Professor of Management Accounting

Matthias Reginald Fengler

Professor of Econometrics with special focus on Financial Econometrics

Michael Geronimo Festl

Permanent Lecturer

Elgar Fleisch

Full Professor of Technology Management with special focus on Operations

Karolin Frankenberger

Full Professor of Executive Education

Karl Frauendorfer

Professor of Management with special focus on Operations Research

Christoph Frei

Professor, Senior Lecturer with special focus on International Relations

Tina Margarete Freyburg

Professor of Comparative Politics

Thomas Friedli

Professor, Senior Lecturer of Management with special focus on Production Management

Urs Fueglistaller

Full Professor of Corporate Management with special focus on Small Dynamic Enterprises

Nils Fürstenberg

Assistant Professor of Organizational Culture, Leadership and Colla­boration

Roland Füss

Dean / Professor of Real Estate Finance

Alexander Fust

Senior Lecturer of Business Administration

Assistant Professor of Asset Pricing

Oliver Gassmann

Full Professor of Technology Management with special focus on Innovation Management

Assistant Professor of Political Science

Alexander Geissler

Full Professor of Health Care Management

Jamie Gloor

Assistant Professor of Diversity and Leadership Science

Johanna Franziska Gollnhofer

Associate Professor of Marketing

Simon Grand

Professor and Senior Lecturer of Strategic Management and Management Innovation

Lyudmila Grigoryeva

Associate Professor Quantitative Economics

Thomas Grisold

Assistant Professor for Organizational Design and Business Process Management

Lukas Gschwend

Professor of Legal History, Sociology of Law and Criminal Law

Ali Asker Gündüz

Assistant Professor of Business Administration with special focus on Digital Government

Georg Guttmann

Assistant Professor of International Corporate Governance

Naomi Haefner

Assistant Professor of Technology Management

Samuel Häfner

Assistant Professor of Economics

Siegfried Handschuh

Full Professor for Data Science

Isabella Hatak

Full Professor of Management of Small- and Medium-Sized Enterprises

Vivianna Fang He

Associate Professor of Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation

Andreas Hein

Andreas Herrmann

Full Professor of Management with special focus on Research Methods

Erwin Hettich

Assistant Professor of Business Administration with special focus on Strategic Management

Peter Hettich

Full Professor für öffentliches Recht

Christian Alexander Hildebrand

Full Professor of Marketing

Caspar Hirschi

Professor of History

Roland Hodler

Florian Hohmann

Senior Lecturer of Financial Management

Peter Hongler

Professor of Tax Law

Anna-Lena Horlemann

Associate Professor of Foundations of Computation

Markus Huggenberger

Assistant Professor of Risk Management and Insurance

Ralf Imstepf

Assistant Professor of Tax Law

Anna Jasinenko

Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior

Affiliate Professor of Diversity Management

Valentin Jentsch

Assistant Professor of Corporate Law

Reinhard Jung

Full Professor of Business Engineering, Director

Anastasia Kartasheva

Felix Keller

Rita Kesselring

Associate Professor of Urban Studies

Christian Keuschnigg

Professor of Economics with special focus on Public Finance

Professor for British Cultures

Winfried Koeniger

Professor of Economics with special focus on Macroeconomics

Julian Kölbel

Martin Kolmar

Professor of Economics with special focus on Applied Microeconomics

Markus Kondziella

Assistant Professor of Quantitative Economics

Monika Kurath

Director Research and Faculty

Kathleen Kürschner Rauck

Johanna Kutz

Assistant Professor of Econometrics

Tomi Laamanen

Christian Laesser

Professor, Senior Lecturer of Management with special emphasis on Tourism and Service Management

Ulrike Landfester

Professor for German Language and Literature

Christoph Lechner

Full Professor of Management with special focus on Strategic Management

Michael Lechner

Professor of Economics with special focus on Applied Microeconometrics

Dirk Lehmkuhl

Professor of Political Science with special focus on European Politics

Peter Leibfried

Full Professor of Auditing and Accounting

Jan Marco Leimeister

Director, Director

Giedre Lideikyte Huber

Melinda Florina Lohmann

Assistant Professor of Business Law with special emphasis on Information Law

Moritz Loock

Professor, Senior Lecturer of Energy and Sustainability Management

Mariana Lopes da Fonseca

Assistant Professor for Economic Policy

Federico Luisetti

Associate Professor of Italian Culture and Society

Ola Mahmoud

Assistant Professor for Quantitative Economics

Despoina Makariou

Jana Mareckova

Assistant Professor for Econometrics

Nora Markwalder

Full Professor of Criminal Law, Law of Criminal Procedure and Criminology with special emphasis on Commercial Criminal Law

Elsa Clara Massoc

Assistant Professor in Political Science

Ulrich Matter

Simon Mayer

Full Professor in Interaction and Communication based Systems

Miriam Meckel

Full Professor of Corporate Communication

Jörg Metelmann

Senior Lecturer Kultur- und Medienwissenschaft

Assistant Professor of Strategic Management

Katerina Mitrokotsa

Full Professor in Cyber Security

Matthias Mitterlechner

Professor, Senior Lecturer of Service Performance Management

Martina Montauti

Assistant Professor of Strategic and International Management

Stefan Morkötter

Professor of Finance

Markus Müller-Chen

Professor of Private Law, International Private and Commercial Law as well as Comparative Law

Michèle Müller-Itten

Assistant Professor of Microeconomics

J. Peter Murmann

Julia Nentwich

Assistant Professor of Organizational Psychology

Martin Nerlinger

Christina Niklaus

Vitaly Orlov

Maximilian Palmié

Professor, Senior Lecturer of Business Management with special focus on Energy and Innovation Management

Christoph Peters

Assistant Professor of Business Administration with special focus on Information Systems

Simon Pfister

Senior Lecturer in Managerial Finance

Paolo Giovanni Piacquadio

Associate Professor of Applied Economics

David Preinerstorfer

Associate Professor for Econometrics

Vesa Pursiainen

Manuel Rach

Assistant Professor of Risk Management and Insurance, Assistant Professor Risk Management and Insurance

Stefano Ramelli

Angelo Ranaldo

Full Professor

Sven Reinecke

Associate Professor of Management with special focus on Marketing

Nina Reiser

Associate Professor of Financial Markets Law

Vito Roberto

Professor of Private, Trade and Business Law

Thomas Rudolph

Full Professor of Marketing and International Retail Management

Johannes Rüegg-Stürm

Full Professor of Organizational Behaviour

Winfried Ruigrok

Full Professor of Management with special focus on International Management

Arnold F. Rusch

Senior Lecturer in Private and Commercial Law

Dominik Sachs

Professor for Macroeconomics and Public Finance

Guido Salvaneschi

Associate Professor of Programming

Gudrun Sander

Professor, Senior Lecturer of Business Administration with a special emphasis on Diversity Management

Senior Lecturer in Business Education and Educational Management

Dirk Schäfer

Associate Professor of Financial Management

Kuno Schedler

Full Professor of Management with special focus on Public Management

Christine Scheef

Assistant Professor of Business Administration with special emphasis on Family Business and Entrepreneurship

Benjamin Schindler

Professor of Public Law

Hato Schmeiser

Full Professor of Risk Management and Insurance Economics

Markus Schmid

Professor of Corporate Finance

Stefan G. Schmid

Ulrich Schmid

Vice-President, External Relations | Professor of East European Studies

Maël Schnegg

Assistant Professor of Digital Performance Management

Marcus Schögel

Johannes Schöning

Full Professor in Human-Computer Interaction

Florian Schui

Ronny Seiger

Assistant Professor for Computer Science with focus on Software Engineering Methods and Techniques

Sabine Seufert

Full Professor of Management of Educational Innovations

Mohammed Shafiullah

Senior Lecturer in Communicative Psychology

Amanda Shantz

Full Professor of Management

Monika Simmler

Assistant Professor of Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure and Criminology with Tenure Track

Charlotta Siren

Associate Professor of Management

Hannah Smidt

Assistant Professor of Political Science - International Organization and Governance

Paul Söderlind

Evangelos Souitaris

Full Professor for Entrepreneurship and Innovation

Clemens Stachl

Associate Professor of Behavioral Science

Katarina Stanoevska

Professor, Senior Lecturer in Business Administration with Special Emphasis on Digital Communication

Chris Steyaert

Full Professor of Organizational Psychology

Silvia Stroe

Assistant Professor for Entrepreneurship and Innovation

Judith Ströhle

Assistant Professor for Sustainability Governance

Matthias Tietz

Assistant Professor for Entrepreneurship and SME Management

Torsten Tomczak

Full Professor of Business Administration with Special Emphasis on Marketing

Jelena Tosic

Harald Tuckermann

Professor, Senior Lecturer in Management of Pluralistic Organizations

Tereza Tykvová

Mariana Valente

Assistant Professor of International Business Law

Arnau Valladares-Esteban

Benjamin van Giffen

Assistant Professor of Business Informatics

Karl Joakim Jerry Vincent

Judith Louise Walls

Full Professor for Sustainability Management

Matthias Weber

Antoinette Weibel

Full Professor for Human Resource Management

Florian Wettstein

Isabelle Wildhaber

Professor of Private and Commercial Law with Special Emphasis on Labor Law

Robert Winter

Andreas Wittmer

Permanent Lecturer in Business Administration with Special Emphasis on Aviation

Martin Wolf

Assistant Professor of Monetary Economics

Felix Wortmann

Professor, Senior Lecturer in Information and Operations Management

Rolf Wüstenhagen

Full Professor for Renewable Energy Management

Thomas Zellweger

Full Professor of Business Administration with Special Emphasis on Family Businesses

Alexander Zimmermann

Professor, Senior Lecturer in Organizational Development

Ann-Kristin Zobel