Dr. Jan Christoph Hennig

Kurzbiografie

2009 - 2013Bachelorstudiengang in Betriebswirtschaftslehre, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Schwerpunkt Unternehmensführung
2011 - 2012Auslandsstudium an der Universidad de Salamanca (Spanien)
2011 - 2015Diverse Tätigkeiten als studentische Hilfskraft (Lehre und Mitarbeit bei Industrieprojekten u.a. in den Bereichen E-Business und Sustainable Mobility)
2012 - 2013Ausgewählte studienbegleitende Praktika:

  • Advisory Services bei Deloitte Consulting GmbH
  • Controlling bei Volkswagen Immobilien
2013 - 2015Masterstudiengang in Unternehmensführung (Florenz Sartorius Preis für den besten Absolventen), Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
2014Auslandsstudium an der San Diego State University (Kalifornien)
2016 - 2019Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter und Promotion zum Dr. rer. pol. an der Professur für Management und Controlling
2019-2022Wissenschaftlicher Assistent und Habilitand an der Professur für Management und Controlling
seit 2022Tätigkeit im Anschluss: Assistant Professor of Accounting, University of Groningen

Interessenschwerpunkte

  • Strategic capital market communication
  • Equity-based incentive systems for executives and employees
  • Implications of board structure
  • Environmental performance and strategies
  • Digital transformation


Betreute Lehrveranstaltungen

  • Performance Management
  • Controlling im digitalen Zeitalter
  • Masterseminar "Management und Unternehmenssteuerung"


Publikationen (Researchgate)

  • Firk, S.; Hennig, J.C.; Wolff, M. (2021): „Conference Calls aktiv gestalten”, in: Controlling & Management Review, Vol. 65, No. 1, S. 30-38.
  • Firk, S.; Hennig, J.C.; Wolff, M. (2020): "Wertschaffungspotential von Earnings Conference Calls", in: Die Wirtschaftsprüfung (WPg), Vol. 13, S.762-767
  • Firk, S.; Hennig, J.C.; Wolff, M. (2020): "Can the Balanced Scorecard Help in Designing Conference Calls? The Effect of Balanced Information Composition on the Cost of Capital", in: European Accounting Review, Vol. 29, No. 1, S.115-146
  • Firk, S.; Hennig, J.; Wolff, M. (2019): “Das Wertschaffungspotenzial von Earnings Conference Calls”, in: GoingPublic, Vol. Juni, pp.38-39
  • Rapp, M.; Wolff, M.; Hennig, J.; Udoieva, I. (2018): “Mitbestimmung im Aufsichtsrat und ihre Wirkung auf die Unternehmensführung – Eine empirische Analyse vor dem Hintergrund der Finanz- und Wirtschaftskrise“, in: Study Reihe der Hans Böckler Stiftung, Vol. Juni, No. 424, S.1-86
  • Hennig, J.; Rapp, M.S.; Wolff, M. (2018): “Board-Level Employee Representation in Germany: Framework, Power and Priorities of Board-Level Employee Representatives”, in: European Board-Level Employee Representation, hrsg. v. J. Waddington


Konferenzbeiträge

  • 2021 - Jahrestagung der International Corporate Governance Society (ICGS), Groningen (Niederlande) - Substance in the Nomination Committee – How to oppose powerful CEOs in Audit Committee Appointments" (Hennig, J.; Kemmerich, K.; Wolff, M.)
  • 2021 - Jahrestagung der International Corporate Governance Society (ICGS), Groningen (Niederlande) - Walking a Tightrope - CEO Digital Emphasis and Dismissal" (Firk, S.; Hennig, J.; Meyer, H.; Wolff, M.)
  • 2021 - Jahrestagung der Strategic Management Society (SMS) “New CEOs Strategic Topic Setting – The Use of Impression Management in Capital Market Communication” (Hennig, J.; Lang, M.; Wolff, M.)
  • 2021 - Jahrestagung der American Accounting Association (AAA) - “Substance in the Nomination Committee - How to oppose powerful CEOs in Audit Committee Appointments” (Hennig, J.; Kemmerich, K.; Wolff, M.)
  • 2021 - Jahrestagung der Academy of Management (AoM) - “Too Good to Be True: Impression Management and Integrity's Self-Governing Mechanism in M&As” (Bauer, J.C..; Hennig, J.)
  • 2021 - Jahrestagung der American Accounting Association (AAA) - "Integrity's Self-Governing Mechanism in the Voluntary Disclosure around Mergers and Acquisitions” (Bauer, J.C..; Hennig, J.)
  • 2021 - Research Seminar am Department of Accounting der Groningen University
    "Walking a Tightrope - CEO Digital Emphasis and Dismissal" (Firk, S.; Hennig, J.; Meyer, H.; Wolff, M.)
  • 2021 - Research Seminar am Center for Corporate Governance, Copenhagen Business School
    "Walking a Tightrope - CEO Digital Emphasis and Dismissal" (Firk, S.; Hennig, J.; Meyer, H.; Wolff, M.)
  • 2021 - Jahrestagung der European Accounting Association (EAA)
    “Substance in the Nomination Committee - How to oppose powerful CEOs in Audit Committee Appointments” (Hennig, J.; Kemmerich, K.; Wolff, M.)
  • 2021 - Jahrestagung der European Accounting Association (EAA)
    "Walking a Tightrope - CEO Digital Emphasis and Dismissal" (Firk, S.; Hennig, J.; Meyer, H.; Wolff, M.)
  • 2020 - Jahrestagung der European International Business Academy (EIBA), virtuell - “Institutional determinants of competitive repertoire complexity: The influence of institutions in home countries of firms and foreign investors” (Heigermoser, J.; Hennig, J.; Oehmichen, J.; Steinberg, P.)
  • 2020 - Jahrestagung der Academy of Management (AoM), virtuell - “How to boost participation in employee ownership plans - A contextual analysis of profit sharing” (Hullmann, R.; Hennig, J.)
  • 2020 - Kelso Workshop, Institute for the Study of Employee Ownership and Profit Sharing, Rutgers University (USA) - “Boundaries to workplace peer influences in employee stock purchase plans” (Gregoric, A.; Hennig, J.; Hullmann, R.; Wolff, M.)
  • 2019 - Industry and Labor Economics Workshop/International Seminar, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University (Japan) - "Boundaries of peer effects: Culture, peers and employee ownership" (Hennig, J.; Hullmann, R.; Gregoric, A.; Wolff, M.)
  • 2019 - Jahrestagung der Academy of Management (AoM), Boston (USA) - "Peer effects in employees' decisions not to participate in beneficial ESOPs - a multilevel analysis" (Hennig, J.; Hullmann, R.; Wolff, M.)
  • 2019 - Jahrestagung der American Accounting Association (AAA), San Francisco (USA) - "Investor reactions to abnormal tone and the role of manager-specific linguistic context factors” (Firk, S.; Hennig J.; Wolff, M.)
  • 2019 - ERMAC 2019 Summer School and Research Conference, Wien (Österreich) - “Just wait and see? How to manage impressions around M&As” (Firk, S.; Hennig J.)
  • 2019 - Jahrestagung des Verbands der Hochschullehrer für Betriebswirtschaft (VHB), Rostock (Deutschland) - “Investor reactions to managers’ use of abnormal tone and the role of linguistic manager specific context factors” (Firk, S.; Hennig, J.; Wolff, M.)
  • 2019 - Jahrestagung der European Accounting Association (EAA), Paphos (Zypern) - “The analyst and investor environment as a governance mechanism and firms’ decision to hold M&A-related conference calls” (Hennig, J.)
  • 2018 - Jahrestagung der Academy of Management (AoM), Chicago (USA) - "Investors' misinterpretation of managers' tone - An anaysis of manager-specific context factors" (Hennig, J.)
  • 2018 - Jahrestagung der European Accounting Association (EAA), Mailand (Italien) - "Investor reactions to managers' use of abnormal tone and the role of linguistic manager specific context factors" (Hennig, J.)
  • 2018 - Jahrestagung des Verbands der Hochschullehrer für Betriebswirtschaft (VHB), Magdeburg (Deutschland) - "Balanced information composition in conference calls and the cost of capital" (Firk, S.; Hennig, J.; Wolff, M.)
  • 2017 - Jahrestagung der American Accounting Association (AAA), San Diego (USA) - "Information provision in conference calls and the cost of capital: An analyst-based perspective" (Firk, S.; Hennig, J.; Wolff, M.)
  • 2017 - Jahrestagung der European Accounting Association (EAA), Valencia (Spanien) - "Information provision in conference calls and the cost of capital: An analyst-based perspective" (Firk, S.; Hennig, J.; Wolff, M.)
  • 2016 - Jahrestagung der American Accounting Association (AAA), New York (USA) - "Think before you speak - The effect of conference call style on the cost of equity capital" (Firk, S.; Hennig, J.; Wolff, M.)
  • 2016 - Jahrestagung der Academy of Management (AoM), Anaheim (USA) - "Think before you speak - The effect of conference call style on the cost of equity capital" (Firk, S.; Hennig, J.; Wolff, M.)