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Student sits at her desk and looks at the laptop. © Aliona Kardash​/​TU Dortmund

Award for Department's Best Theses

The photo shows 8 people - the four award winners Leonie Matejko, Lukas Grote, Cornelia Willers and JAn Schwiddessen, as well as the founder Christian Lützenrath and the university professors Anja Foscher, Andreas Hoffjan and Wolfgang Leininger. © Dr. Philipp Regelmann​/​TU Dortmund
Pictured are the award winners Leonie Matejko and Lukas Grote (1st/2nd row from bottom), Cornelia Willers and Jan Schwiddessen (3rd/4th row from bottom), the donor Christian Lützenrath (3rd row from top) and the supervising professors Anja Fischer, Andreas Hoffjan and Wolfgang Leininger.
From factory planning, innovation processes, ad blockers to church finance, TMC Turnaround Management Consult honored the department's best theses.

In July, TMC Turnaround Management Consult awarded the best final theses at the Faculty of Economics at TU Dortmund University. The selection fell on the two Bachelor graduates Lukas Grote and Leonie Matejko and the two Master graduates Jan Schwiddessen and Cornelia Willers. The award winners were selected from all students who wrote their final thesis at the Department of Business and Economics at TU Dortmund University in the academic year 2019/20. The award is linked to prize money of €1,000 each donated by TMC. TMC is a leading consulting firm for restructuring and reorganization consulting, insolvency-related consulting and interim management in the SME sector. With the prize, it would like to promote talent and support qualification in the field of business at the TU Dortmund University. The supervising professors Anja Fischer (Management Science), Tessa Flatten (Technology Management), Andreas Hoffjan (Corporate Accounting and Controlling) and Wolfgang Leininger (Microeconomics) are pleased with the award winners.

The award-winning papers dealt with a wide range of issues in business administration and economics. In his bachelor thesis addressed open Innovation as an approach to increase the innovative capacity of small and medium-sized enterprises, Lukas Grote formulated design options for an innovation process that is open beyond the boundaries of the company. Leonie Matejko examined the effects of adblockers on consumers, website operators and advertising companies in her bachelor's thesis. Jan Schwiddessen's master's thesis dealt with a factory planning issue, the single row facility layout problem. Here, a finite set of machines is to be arranged linearly such that the weighted sum of their pairwise distances is minimized. Ms. Willers examined the status quo of the application of the New Ecclesiastical Finance in the Protestant Church in the Rhineland in her master's thesis  on the chances and limits of the application of a comprehensive financial system in church districts of the protestant church in the Rhineland".

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