The field of competence "Applied Economics and International Economic Policy" provides international and application oriented research and teaching based on sound theoretical and methodological foundations. An internationally oriented knowledge transfer, inter alia through visits of international institutions (eg ECB, European Commission, OECD, WTO, ITU, IZA), characterizes this field of competence.

Prof. Dr. André Betzer
   ^{Chair of Finance and Corporate Governance}

Prof. Dr. Werner Bönte
   ^{Chair of Industrial Economics and Innovation}

Prof. Dr. Christian Bredemeier
   ^{Chair of Applied Economics}

Prof. Dr. Hans Frambach
   ^{Research Area Microeconomics and History of Economic Thought}

Prof. Dr. Hendrik Jürges
   ^{Chair of Health Economics}

Prof. Dr. Falko Jüßen
   ^{Chair of International and Regional Economics}

Prof. Dr. Uta Pigorsch
   ^{Chair of Econometrics}

„Entrepreneurship and Innovation“  is a field of competence that deals with the emergence of new and dynamic businesses and innovation processes. Research projects and study programs include methods from management, economics as well as educational science. In particular,  research activities focus on innovative entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial personality, social entrepreneurship, financing of new ventures, organization of innovation management, knowledge transfer between public research institutions and firms, research as well as evaluation of research and technology policy.

Prof. Dr. Werner Bönte
   ^{Chair of Industrial Economics and Innovation}

Prof. Dr. Ulrich Braukmann
   ^{Chair of Management Education, Entrepreneurship Education and Didactics}

Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Lambert T. Koch
   ^{Chair of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Transformation}

Prof. Dr. Peter Witt
   ^{Chair of Technology and Innovation Management}

Prof. Dr. Christine Volkmann
   ^{UNESCO-Chair of Entrepreneurship and Intercultural Management}

_{Jackstaedt Centre for Entrepreneurship and Innovation Research}

_{Institute for Entrepreneurship and Innovation Research}

The field of competence "Finance, accounting, controlling and taxes" discusses all the major issues of economic decisions, which are typically accruing in finance departments, eg the issues of corporate finance, the management and control sub-areas, accounting, taxation, asset management, controlling and auditing. In addition, the prevailing legal conditions as well as the observation, evaluation and further development of theoretical principles is focused.

Prof. Dr. André Betzer
   ^{Chair of Finance and Corporate Governance}

Prof. Dr. Nils Crasselt
   ^{Chair of Managerial Accounting}

Prof. Dr. Christian Lohmann
   ^{Chair of Managerial Accounting}

Prof. Dr. Kerstin Schneider
   ^{Chair of Taxation and Finance}

Prof. Dr. Stefan Thiele
   ^{Chair of Auditing and Accounting}

The field of competence “Health Economics and Management” focuses on current challenges in health and health care. It analyses health-related questions from a variety of vantage points: social and economic determinants, implications, and policy interventions. This includes the role of the education system in general and universities in particular providers of knowledge and research institutions. Contemporary challenges in health and health care sector require complex and innovative thinking. The field “Health Economics and Management” provides the much-needed cross-disciplinary methodological repertoire, which is geared towards the demands and needs of the regional and national health sector.

Prof. Dr. Nils Crasselt
   ^{Chair of Managerial Accounting}

Prof. Dr. Stefan Diestel
   ^{Chair of Labour and Organisational Psychology}

Prof. Dr. Hendrik Jürges
   ^{Chair of Health Economics}

Prof. Dr. Juliane Köberlein-Neu
   ^{Chair of Health Services Research and Health Economic Evaluation}

Prof. Dr. Christian Lohmann
   ^{Chair of Managerial Accounting}

Prof. Dr. Kerstin Schneider
   ^{Chair of Taxation and Finance}

Prof. Dr. Vera Winter
   ^{Chair of Management in Health Care}

The field of competence "Management and Marketing" is dedicated to the management of companies with a special emphasis on customer, market and employee orientetation. Increasing competition between companies requires the continuous development of new forms of marketing, customer services and Human Resource Management in order to survive.

Prof. Dr. Claus Ahrens
   ^{Chair of Private Law, esp. Private Business Law}

Jun.-Prof. Dr. Daniel Bruns
   ^{Junior professorship for Marketing}

Prof. Dr. Stefan Diestel
   ^{Chair of Labour and Organisational Psychology}

Prof. Dr. Michael J. Fallgatter
   ^{Chair of Human Resource Management and Organisation}

Prof. Dr. Ina Garnefeld
   ^{Chair of Service Management}

Prof. Dr. Tobias Langner
   ^{Chair of Marketing}

Prof. Dr. Dirk Temme
   ^{Chair for Empirical Economic and Social Research}

Prof. Dr. Stephan Zielke
   ^{Walbusch-Endowed Chair for Multi-Channel Management}

The field of competence "methods" deals with a comprehensive methodological training in the fields of mathematics, statistics, accounting and business informatics as well as an introduction to economics and related areas of law. Handling economic models and theories, as well as the application of necessary mathematical and statistical methods aim for modeling and solving industrial problems.

Prof. Dr. Claus Ahrens
   ^{Chair of Private Law, esp. Private Business Law}

Prof. Dr. Winfried Bausback
   ^{Chair of Public Economic Law}

Prof. Dr. Stefan Bock
   ^{Chair of Business Computing and Operations Research}

Prof. Dr. Sebastian Kluckert
   ^{Chair of Public Law, esp. Public Commercial Law and Social Law}

Prof. Dr. Marco Staake
   ^{Chair of Civil Law and Corporate Law}

Prof. Dr. Dirk Temme
   ^{Chair for Empirical Economic and Social Research}

Prof. Dr. Uta Pigorsch
   ^{Chair of Econometrics}

The field “Operations Management” deals with the management of production processes and of service operations. This comprises fulfilling all the necessary tasks of strategic, tactical, and operative planning as well as of real-time control in order to ensure an efficient execution of production processes and service operations.

For this purpose, various planning- and real-time control optimization problems have to be mathematically modeled, analyzed, and solved by specifically designed solution algorithms. By using modern information and communication technologies, these algorithms are able to plan and control real-world processes.

Due to its interdisciplinary character, this field integrates results obtained from related fields of research such as Business Administration, Economics, Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, and Operations Research.  

Prof. Dr. Stefan Bock
  ^{Chair of Business Computing and Operations Management}

Prof. Dr. Dirk Briskorn
   ^{Chair of Production and Logistics}

Prof. Dr. Nils Crasselt
   ^{Chair of Managerial Accounting}

Prof. Christian Lohmann
  ^{Chair of Managerial Accounting}

Prof. Dr. Uta Pigorsch
   ^{Chair of Econometrics}

The claim of the society as a whole for social, economical and ecological sustainability faces companies with enormous challenges. Their accomplishment requires on the economical level an enhanced contribution towards questions containing planning, structuring and controlling referring to the aspect of sustainability - their processes and structures.

Prof. Dr. André Betzer
   ^{Chair of Finance and Corporate Governance}

Prof. Dr. Ulrich Braukmann
   ^{Chair of Management Education, Entrepreneurship Education and Didactics}

Prof. Dr. Dirk Briskorn
   ^{Chair of Production and Logistics}

Prof. Dr. Manfred Fischedick
   ^{Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy}

Prof. Dr. Hans Frambach
   ^{Research Area Microeconomics and History of Economic Thought}

Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Lambert T. Koch
   ^{Chair of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Transformation}

Prof. Dr. Uwe Schneidewind
   ^{Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy}

Jun.-Prof. Dr. Philipp Trotter 
   ^{Junior professorship for Sustainability Management}