Central Administrative Project

The Central Administrative Project Z contributes to the success of the CRC in three ways. First, it administers the CRC in terms of budgeting and organization. Second, it co-organizes (with a team at a CRC location) the annual CRC conference and, together with C03, an annual outreach event for the interested public (non-CRC academics, practitioners, regulators, politicians, and NGOs). Third, it monitors CRC output and evaluates the efficiency of its internal structure. The monitoring is based on insights from A02 on innovative teamwork structures and B03 on organizational transparency effects. In addition, it uses data provided by the Open Science Data Center (C02) to assess research output. Also, it regularly surveys CRC members about their views and cooperates with C02 to develop informative measures for research impact. We use these insights to enhance our inter-location communications and workflows, feeding back into project Z by improving the organizational infrastructure (including the CRC’s early career and gender measures). We also view the CRC as a case study of the effects of transparency on multilocational research management.

Project Information

Principal Investigators

Caren Sureth-Sloane Paderborn University

Prof. Caren Sureth-Sloane is Professor of Business Administration, especially Business Taxation at Paderborn University and is the spokesperson of the DFG-funded Collaborative Research Center TRR 266 Accounting for Transparency. She studies the effects of taxation on corporate decisions, especially on risky investments, as well as international business taxation and tax complexity. Since 2010, she has been Guest Professor at the Vienna University of Economics and Business and Principal Investigator of the FWF Doctoral Program in International Business Taxation (DIBT). She received offers from the University of Graz, the Humboldt University of Berlin, the Goethe University of Frankfurt, and the University of Cologne. She is a member of the working group “taxes” and “transfer prices” of the Schmalenbach-Gesellschaft, of which she has been vice president since 2019. In 2013 Caren Sureth-Sloane was appointed a full member of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts. She is also a member of the DFG-Senate since 2021. Sureth-Sloane received an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences at the University of Graz in 2021 and an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Business Studies and Economics at the University of Bremen in 2022.

Research Staff

Julia Gördes Paderborn University

Annika Mehrmann Paderborn University

Participating Institutions