Communicating Transparency (Public Relations)

Schanz, Sievers, and Sureth-Sloane aim at facilitating bi-directional multichannel exchanges between the CRC and its target audience groups, i.e., regulators, politicians, firms and their stakeholders, the scientific community, and the general public. The project will incorporate feed-back from these exchanges into the CRC’s research program and, supported by the Open Science Data Center, evaluate the dissemination of TRR 266 based on a comprehensive quality assurance concept. To reach these objectives, they will use a variety of communication channels and events .

Project Information

Principal Investigators

Prof. Dr. Deborah Schanz
LMU Munich

Deborah Schanz is Professor of Taxation and Accounting at Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU) of Munich. Her research interests include the influence of taxation on investment and financing decision-making, tax accounting and international taxation. She is member of the executive committee of the German Academic Association for Business Research (VHB). In addition, she is head of the working group “taxes” of the Schmalenbach- Gesellschaft and member of arqus, working group quantitative business taxation. Her work is published in leading refereed and professional journals such as the Contemporary Accounting Research, European Accounting Review, Review of Managerial Science and the German Zeitschrift für Betriebswirtschaftliche Forschung (ZfbF).

Prof. Dr. Sönke Sievers
Paderborn University

Sönke Sievers is Professor for Business Administration, especially International Accounting at Paderborn University. His research has been published in leading journals such as the Management Science, Journal of Banking & Finance, Contemporary Accounting Research and European Accounting Review. In addition, he holds editorial responsibility at Accounting and Business Research and Management Review Quarterly.

Prof. Dr. Caren Sureth-Sloane
Paderborn University

Caren Sureth-Sloane is Professor for Business Administration, especially Business Taxation at Paderborn University and visiting professor at the Vienna University of Economics and Business. Her research focus is on the effects of taxation on corporate decisions, especially on the effects of taxes on risky investments, as well as on international business taxation and on tax complexity. She is founding member of arqus, working group quantitative business taxation, as well as member of the working group “taxes” and “transfer prices” of the Schmalenbach-Gesellschaft, of which she is the vice president. She is also full member of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts.

Research Staff

Wanda Feldkamp
LMU Munich

Julia Gördes
Paderborn University

Vivienne Kannengießer
Paderborn University

Astrid van Kimmenade
Paderborn University

Transparent Research

Jun. 2019

Prof. Dr. Joachim Gassen

Prof. Dr. Caren Sureth-Sloane

The initiators and spokespersons of the TRR 266, Caren Sureth-Sloane and Joachim Gassen, look back at how the project came to life, and explain why transparency is not only the subject of their research but also central to their work philosophy. Read More

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