Research priorities
The Competence Centre for Accounting and Corporate Finance supports companies through applied research. We attach great importance to close links with practice, so that our research findings are directly incorporated into business practice.
Research project
Holistic risk management for inpatient care facilities
A well-known megatrend is the demographic development in society. People are getting older. However, this is also accompanied by an increasing demand for support in old age. Outpatient and inpatient care services will become even more important than they already are. Currently, care costs in Germany amount to around 40 billion…
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Integrated Risk Management for care facilities
Due to demographic trends, the importance of outpatient and inpatient care facilities will continue to grow in the future and requirements, including infection prevention in inpatient care facilities, will increase. While the demands on the quality of services are increasing, the financial viability of care costs is increasingly…
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Entrepreneurial resilience to increase crisis capability
In times of crisis, it becomes clear which companies are resilient, survive the crisis or even use it as an opportunity for something new. Unfortunately, it also becomes clear that many companies fail to do so. The question arises as to what the former do differently or better. The Entrepreneurial Resilience research project…
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Future scenarios for communities - summary of the project and the project results
Was a municipality able to implement its legislative goals? How does it compare with socioeconomically and politically similar municipalities? Where does it want to go in the next ten years? These and similar questions are of concern to municipal councils and municipal presidents. The research project is developing a toolbox…
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Everyday art as an innovation and integration factor in companies in the Lake Constance region - an illustration using the example of music
In the planned research project "Everyday Art as a Factor of Innovation and Integration", the prerequisites, processes and results of the cooperation between business enterprises and art or artists in the Lake Constance region are to be determined using the example of music, and how the competencies of musicians can be implemented…
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«Intercultural Performance Management: Influence of country and corporate culture on business success using the example of Swiss companies in Russia
The aim of the project is to operationalize the national cultures of Switzerland and Russia as well as the corporate cultures of the application partners and to map them in a culture assessment tool. The consistent link between cultural behavior and the financial results of the companies is a novelty. The results of the project are…
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Health economics: costs and benefits of selected treatment pathways using breast cancer as an example
The research project aims to investigate and optimize treatment costs and pathways for a selected chronic disease. On this basis, recommendations for action are to be developed for the implementation partners involved and ideas for new business models are to be elicited. Cost-benefit aspects are to be taken into account and, in…
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Application of Fuzzy Cognitive Maps in the Strategic Performance Management of the Tourism Industry Graubünden
In the context of strategy development for organizations, the identification of relevant trends occupies a prominent position. The goal is to collect, quantify, structure and combine the diverse, mostly unstructured data from the Web in order to derive forecasts. In order to be able to assess relationships between extracted facts…
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Integrated financial management with the St.Gallen Financial Management Model (SFF)
Financial management is demanding. In increasingly volatile market environments, decisions have to be made in even more uncertain times. With the St.Gallen financial management model we support you in financial management. We analyze your financial statements and determine the annual performance according to a…