Research Topics
Crime Prevention in corporations
The broad and rising pervasiveness of economic crime is counteracted especially by major enterprises through internal crime prevention and internal sanction of economic crime. This can be more effective as a criminal prosecution by the state and prevents business companies at the same time from unwanted publicity. The EconCrime Project addresses itself to in-house processes of innovation for the prevention and sanction of economic crime. The EconCrime Project has established four goals:
- Compilation of a scientific-quantitative basis on the distribution and suitability of applied prevention measures and sanction practices
- Elaboration of recommendations on practice-approved prevention measures and sanction practices – in the sense of „what works, what doesn’t work“
- Analysis of conditions the innovation process is subjected to
- Answering the question, if legal incentives can lead towards a strengthening of self-regulation and an aligned (voluntary) commitment of the economy
The project, funded by the Volkswagen Foundation , had a duration of 2 years and 4 months.
Market and social values
A cross national comparison between Great Britain (England/Wales) and Germany, conducted a new provision of the significance and the functionality of legal norms, specifically the norms of criminal law, in developed and distinctively different market-societal conditions. There is a special focus on context specific activated strategies of legitimization. Main goals of the research project are:
- Description and empirical survey of deviant conduct in the societal middle from the perspectives of offenders and victims
- Verification of the correlation between (moral) value- and (legal) norm orientations on the one side and illegal and illegitimate practices on the other side
- Cross national comparison of value attitudes and deviant behavior
The project was funded by the Volkswagen Foundation .
Location Factors
The project researches, on a national basis (Germany), the impacts of societal problems on entrepreneurial decisions – exemplified on right-wing extremist and xenophobic assaults. In various ways, entrepreneurial decisions can be strongly influenced by these incidences. We suggest the following measures to counter this behavior:
- Recruitment of highly qualified personnel, particularly those who are foreign born or with foreign family members
- Decisions on location in dependency from e.g. disfavoring regions with insofar a burdened image
- Required security measures for the protection of potentially targeted employees and their relatives
- Loss of image by a regionally percepted xenophobia and innovation adverseness
The Research Center complied a representative national questionnaire of 4.000 business companies.
The project is supported by the BDI and the IHK Halle- Dessau as well financially sponsored by several business companies of the county Saxony-Anhalt.