Katharina Spraul

Katharina Stefanie Spraul (born February 5, 1980 in Lahr ) is a German business economist and university professor for business administration , especially sustainability management.

Career

After studying business administration at the University of Mannheim , Katharina Spraul received her diploma in 2003. In 2006 she received her doctorate from Peter Eichhorn on the subject of “return on education as a target for university management” at the Faculty of Business Administration at the University of Mannheim. For her dissertation she received the Prize for Language and Science from the University of Mannheim. With the cumulative habilitation thesis "Corporate, Public and Nonprofit Accountability - Empirical and Theoretical Examinations of an Evolving Concept", she also completed her habilitation in 2013 at the Faculty of Business Administration at the University of Mannheim (supervised by Bernd Helmig ) and received the venia legendi for business administration.

Since 2013, Katharina Spraul has headed the newly created department of Sustainability Management in the Department of Economics at the TU Kaiserslautern as a university professor . In 2014 she was offered a chair for “General Business Administration, especially Public Management” at the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Munich, which she did not accept.

Research priorities

Her research deals with the complex of topics of sustainability management in and between the three sectors of market, state and civil society. Current research focuses on cooperation for sustainability, sustainability strategies, sustainability in small and medium-sized companies as well as success factors of sustainability networks.

Awards

• Top Reviewer Award, Public and Nonprofit Division and Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Academy of Management Annual Conference (2014)
• Best Reviewer Award, Social Issues in Management Division, Academy of Management Annual Conference (2011)
• Teaching award for service learning from the University of Mannheim (together with Bernd Helmig, Vera Hinz, Stefan Ingerfurth) for the course "Nonprofit Management" (2011)
• State teaching award Baden-Württemberg . for the course "Service Learning in New Public Management" (2008)
• Prize for Language and Science from the University of Mannheim for the dissertation "Return on Education as a Target for University Management" (2007)
• Prize of the Barbara Hopf Foundation for the diploma thesis "School management in the field of tension between educational tasks and economic requirements" (2003)

Publications (excerpt)

Articles in scientific journals

• Thaler, J./Spraul, K./Helmig, B./Franzke, H . (2016): Satisfaction with and Success of Employee Training from a Public Service Motivation Perspective , in: International Journal of Public Administration
• Helmig, B./Spraul, K./Ingenhoff, D. (2016): Under Positive Pressure: How Stakeholder Pressure Affects Corporate Social Responsibility Implementation , in: Business and Society, Vol. 55, No. 2, pp. 151-187 [1]
• Thaler, J./Spraul, K./Helmig, B. (2013): Criticism of tasks of voluntary municipal tasks - On the emergence of acceptance for public-private partnerships , in: Journal for public and non-profit-making companies (ZögU), supplement 42 “Acceptance of the public Output Behavior ”, pp. 112–124
• Spraul, K./Scheefer, A./Helmig, B./Eckstein, B. (2012): Doppik and product budgets as instruments of strategic management in municipalities - a comparative case study , in: Zeitschrift für Betriebswirtschaft, 82nd year, issue 9 , Pp. 935-968
• Helmig, B. / Spraul, K./Tremp, K. (2012): Replication Studies in Nonprofit Research - A Generalization and Extension of Findings Regarding the Media Publicity of Nonprofit Organizations , in: Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly (NVSQ), Vol 41, no. 3, pp. 360-385
• Greiling, D./Spraul, K. (2010): Accountability and the Challenges of Information Disclosure, in: Public Administration Quarterly , Vol. 34, No. 3, pp. 338-377
• Helmig, B./Bürgisser, S./Lichtsteiner, H./Spraul, K. (2010): On the Relevance of Accreditations of Executive MBA Programs - The Perception of the Customers , in: International Review on Public and Nonprofit Marketing, Vol 7, no. 1, pp. 37-55
• Spraul, K. (2009): Service Learning in the context of special business administration “Public & Nonprofit Management” - A case study , in: Journal for Public and Public Sector Enterprises, 32nd year , no . 2, pp. 171–182
• Helmig, B./Michalski, S./Spraul, K. (2009): Value creation configurations in nonprofit organizations as a strategic competitive advantage ; in: Business research and practice, 61st vol., no. 1, pp. 94–114

Monographs

• Spraul, K. (2006): Return on Education as a Target for University Management, Berliner Wissenschaftsverlag, Berlin, Series: "Writings on Public Administration and Public Economy", Volume 194 (Ed. By Peter Eichhorn and Peter Friedrich), Dissertation [2]

Edited volumes

• Knoke, M./Merk, J./Schneider-Pföhler, M./Spraul, K. (2014): The Publicness Puzzle: Public Task Fulfillment Between State and Market , Jacobs Verlag, Lage (commemorative publication for the 75th birthday of Peter Eichhorn ) [3]

Teaching-oriented publications

• Spraul, K. (2009): Service learning - learning through engagement at universities , in: Berendt, B./Voss, HP / Wildt, J. (Ed.): New manual for university teaching, Berlin, Stuttgart, handle mark A 3.8 (p . 1–25)

Web links

• Literature by and about Katharina Spraul in the catalog of the German National Library
• Chair of Business Administration at the University of Kaiserslautern
• Publications

Individual evidence

1. ↑ https://mwk.baden-wuerttemberg.de/fileadmin/redaktion/m-mwk/intern/daten/pdf/Hochschulen/_Universit%C3%A4ten_ab1993.pdf