Communicating Transparency

With the CRC, not only do we contribute to research on transparency in accounting, but we also aim to publicize the work more broadly. Communicating Transparency (C03) makes the outcomes of the CRC accessible, easy to understand, and thus transparent for a diverse audience (regulators, policymakers, firms, stakeholders, the scientific community, and the general public). The project uses a broad mix of carefully selected communication channels, such as blogs, social media, outreach events, and visualizations. Additionally, it identifies cluster topics on which to focus communication. Beyond these communication services, the C03 team is dedicated to enabling the CRC researchers with trainings and service materials to independently communicate their findings to a nonscientific audience. All activities of C03 are regularly evaluated based on a comprehensive quality assurance concept.

C03 coordinates the following

Press

Social Media, including Twitter, LinkedIn and YouTube

Articles in applied journals

Blogs – make sure to sign up for our blog post updates!

Data visualizations

Researcher of the Month

Events

Newsletters

Project Information

Principal Investigators

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).

Sönke Sievers Paderborn University

Soenke 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.

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

Wanda Feldkamp LMU Munich

Julia Gördes Paderborn University

Research Fellows

Tobias Jenert Paderborn University

C03 coordinates the following

Participating Institutions