Dr. Jan Christoph Hennig

CV

2009 - 2013 B.Sc. in Business Administration, Georg-August-University Goettingen, specialization in management
2011 - 2012 Exchange semester at the Universidad de Salamanca (Spain)
2011 - 2015Several jobs as student assistant for Chairs in the field of E-Business and Sustainable Mobility
2012 - 2013 Study-related internships:

  • Advisory Services at Deloitte Consulting GmbH
  • Controlling at Volkswagen Real Estate
2013 - 2015 M.Sc. in Management (Florenz Sartorius award, best graduate), Georg-August-University Goettingen
2014 Exchange semester at the San Diego State University (California)
2016 - 2019 Research assistant at the Chair of Management and Control
2019-2022 Postdoc and Assistant Professor at the Chair of Management and Control
since 2022Assistant Professor of Accounting, University of Groningen

Major areas of interest

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


Supervised courses

  • Performance Management
  • Controlling in the Digital Age
  • Masters seminar "Management and Controlling"


Publications (Researchgate)

  • Firk, S.; Hennig, J.C.; Wolff, M. (2021): „Conference Calls aktiv gestalten”, in: Controlling & Management Review, Vol. 65, No. 1, pp. 30-38
  • Firk, S.; Hennig, J.C.; Wolff, M. (2020): "Wertschaffungspotential von Earnings Conference Calls", in: Die Wirtschaftsprüfung (WPg), Vol. 13, pp.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, pp.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, pp.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, issued by J. Waddington



Conference papers

  • 2021 - Annual meeting of the International Corporate Governance Society (ICGS), Groningen (Netherlands) - Substance in the Nomination Committee – How to oppose powerful CEOs in Audit Committee Appointments" (Hennig, J.; Kemmerich, K.; Wolff, M.)
  • 2021 - Annual meeting of the International Corporate Governance Society (ICGS), Groningen (Netherlands) - Walking a Tightrope - CEO Digital Emphasis and Dismissal" (Firk, S.; Hennig, J.; Meyer, H.; Wolff, M.)
  • 2021 - Annual meeting of the 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 - Annual Meeting of the 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 - Annual Meeting of the 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 - Annual Meeting of the 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 at the Department of Accounting, Groningen University
    "Walking a Tightrope - CEO Digital Emphasis and Dismissal" (Firk, S.; Hennig, J.; Meyer, H.; Wolff, M.)
  • 2021 - Research Seminar at the Center for Corporate Governance, Copenhagen Business School
    "Walking a Tightrope - CEO Digital Emphasis and Dismissal" (Firk, S.; Hennig, J.; Meyer, H.; Wolff, M.)
  • 2021 - Annual Meeting of the 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 - Annual Meeting of the European Accounting Association (EAA)
    "Walking a Tightrope - CEO Digital Emphasis and Dismissal" (Firk, S.; Hennig, J.; Meyer, H.; Wolff, M.)
  • 2020 - Annual Meeting of the European International Business Academy (EIBA), virtual - “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 - Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (AoM), virtual - “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 - Annual Meeting of the 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 - Annual Meeting of the 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, Vienna (Germany) - “Just wait and see? How to manage impressions around M&As” (Firk, S.; Hennig J.)
  • 2019 - Annual Meeting of Verband der Hochschullehrer für Betriebswirtschaft (VHB), Rostock (Germany) - “Investor reactions to managers’ use of abnormal tone and the role of linguistic manager specific context factors” (Firk, S.; Hennig, J.; Wolff, M.)
  • 2019 - Annual Meeting of the European Accounting Association (EAA), Paphos (Cyprus) - “The analyst and investor environment as a governance mechanism and firms’ decision to hold M&A-related conference calls” (Hennig, J.)
  • 2018 - Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (AoM), Chicago (USA) - "Investors' misinterpretation of managers' tone - An anaysis of manager-specific context factors" (Hennig, J.)
  • 2018 - Annual Meeting of the European Accounting Association (EAA), Milan (Italy) - "Investor reactions to managers' use of abnormal tone and the role of linguistic manager specific context factors" (Hennig, J.)
  • 2018 - Annual Meeting of Verband der Hochschullehrer für Betriebswirtschaft (VHB), Magdeburg (Germany) - "Balanced information composition in conference calls and the cost of capital" (Firk, S.; Hennig, J.; Wolff, M.)
  • 2017 - Annual Meeting of the 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 - Annual Meeting of the European Accounting Association (EAA), Valencia (Spain) - "Information provision in conference calls and the cost of capital: An analyst-based perspective" (Firk, S.; Hennig, J.; Wolff, M.)
  • 2016 - Annual Meeting of the 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 - Annual Meeting of the 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.)