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Research Associates


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Andrew Reek (M.Sc.)

T: 06421-28-24081
E:
A: Am Plan 1, 35032 Marburg

Office Hours: Appointment by email


  • Responsibilities

    - Management Accounting (B.Sc.)
    - Advanced Management Accounting III (M.Sc.)
    - Management Accounting with Excel (B.Sc. & M.Sc.)
    - Bachelor and Master Seminars
    - Bachelor and Master Theses
    - Maintenance of chair website

  • Research

    Research Interests:
    - Ownership Structures and Family Firms
    - Corporate Finance
    - Machine learning and Data Science

    Academic Presentations:
    - Coming soon

    Publications and Working Papers:
    - Rapp, M.S., et al. (2023). "Recent Developments in Ownership Structures of German Listed Firms: From Cross-Ownership to Common Ownership". Vom Wert guter Governance: Festschrift für Professor Christian Strenger zum 80. Geburtstag.

    -Gleissner, W., et al. (2025). "Playing It Safe: Financial Sustainability of European Listed Founding Family Firms". Working Paper. Available on SSRN. 

  • Curriculum Vitae

    Education:

    2021 – Current PhD student at Philipps-Universität Marburg | School of Business and Economics | Management Accounting Research Group
    2017 – 2020 Philipps-Universität Marburg | Economics and Institutions (M.Sc.)
    2013 – 2017 University of South Carolina | Business Administration (B.Sc.)

    Professional Experience:

    2021 – Current Research Associate | Philipps-Universität Marburg | School of Business and Economics | Management Accounting Research Group
    2020 – 2022  Philipps-Universität Marburg | Public Economics | Copy Editor/Student Assistant
    2017 Wedge, Columbia S.C., USA | Marketing Internship

    Awards:
    2021 MACIE Prize for Outstanding Thesis in Area of Institutional Economics


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Lion Fischer (M.Sc.)

T: 06421-28-23942
E:
A: Am Plan 1, 35032 Marburg

Office Hours: Appointment by email


  • Responsibilities

    - Controlling mit Kennzahlen (B.Sc.)
    - Advanced Management Accounting I (M.Sc.)
    - Bachelor and Master Seminars
    - Bachelor and Master Theses
    - Approval of International Studies

  • Research

    Research Interests:
    - Business transformation
    - Environmental, Social, Governance (ESG) implementation
    - Corporate governance

    Academic Presentations:
    - "Board-level Employee Representation and Digital Transformation", presented at the 23rd Workshop on Corporate Governance and Investment (WCGI). Aberdeen, Scotland (Sept, 2024).

    - "Board-level Employee Representation and Digital Transformation", presented at the 47th Annual Congress of the European Accounting Association. Rome, Italy (May, 2025).

    Publications and Working Papers:
    - Fischer, L., and M.S. Rapp (2024). “Digitalisierung, Governance und Unternehmensperformance - Eine empirische Analyse deutscher Unternehmen”. Corporate Finance. Issue 3-4. CF1458791 (March 2024).

    - Fischer, L., M.S. Rapp, and M. Roser (2024). “EU-Taxonomie, CO2-Emissionen und Transformationspotenzial - Eine Untersuchung der Prime-Standard-Unternehmen”. Corporate Finance. Issue 7-8. CF1462801 (July 2024).

  • Curriculum Vitae

    Education:

    2022 - Current PhD student at Philipps-Universität Marburg | School of Business and Economics | Management Accounting Research Group
    2020 - 2022 Philipps-Universität Marburg | Business Administration (M.Sc.)
    2017 - 2020 Philipps-Universität Marburg | Intercultural Business (B.Sc.)
    2014 - 2022 Philipps-Universität Marburg | Geography (B.Sc.)

    Professional Experience:

    2022 - Current Research Associate | Philipps-Universität Marburg | School of Business and Economics | Management Accounting Research Group
    2022 Student Assistant | Philipps-Universität Marburg | Management Accounting Research Group
    2018 - 2021 Student Assistant | Philipps-Universität Marburg | Fb Geography
    2014 - 2018 Working Student | Mercedes-Benz

External Doctoral Candidates

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Fanos Adams (M.Sc.)

  • Research

    Research Interests:
    - Gender differences in investment decisions
    - Risk preferences
    - Gender-sensitive investment products
    - Behavioral biases and female investors

    Academic Presentations:
    - Coming soon

    Publications and Working Papers:
    - Coming soon

  • Curriculum Vitae

    Education:

    2025 – current PhD student at Philipps-Universität Marburg | School of Business and Economics | Management Accounting Research Group
    2012 – 2015 Dortmund University of Applied Sciences | Degree in Risk and Finance (M.Sc.)

    Professional Experience:

    2015 – current

    Several employers within the Consulting and Advisory industry

    Currently: Director; Banking and Capital Markets Advisory at SKAD AG

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Marvin Kötting (M.Sc.)


  • Research

    Research Interests:
    - Corporate Governance Issues

    Academic Presentations:
    - Coming soon

    Publications and Working Papers:
    - Coming soon

  • Curriculum Vitae

    Education:

    2022 – current PhD student at Philipps-Universität Marburg | School of Business and Economics | Management Accounting Research Group
    2017 – 2020 Universität zu Köln | Economics (M. Sc.)
    2013 - 2017 Technische Universität Dortmund | Business Administration and Economics (B. Sc.)

    Professional Experience:

    2022 – current current Internal Auditor | IKB Deutsche Industriebank AG
    2020 – 2021 Trainee | IKB Deutsche Industriebank AG
    2017 - 2020 Student Assistant | International Economic Order and Business Cycle Research Unit | German Economic Institute 
    2017 Internship | Department of Internal Auditing, Department of Economics | IKB Deutsche Industriebank AG
    2014 Internship | Wirtschaftsprüfungskanzlei Franz Polz