The Is and Ought of Business Ethics 2025

The conference will take place from October 8, 2025 until October 10, 2025. It will be held in person in Lutherstadt Wittenberg, Germany (40 minutes train ride from Berlin).

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On October 13, 2023, the graduation and inauguration ceremony of the PhD program "Ethics and Responsible Leadership" took place at the Wittenberg Center for Global Ethics (WCGE).

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• Doctoral Program

Behavioral Ethics – A Case for Reformation in Normative Business 2017

The conference took place in Lutherstadt Wittenberg from June 28 until June 30, 2017.

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WIBEC 2019

The conference took place in Lutherstadt Wittenberg from November 13 until November 15, 2019.

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Wittenberg Business Ethics Conferences 

The Wittenberg Center for Global Ethics in cooperation with the Friede-Springer Endowed Chair of Business Ethics and Management Accounting (bema) at the Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg regularily organizes international conferences with renowned scholars on the topic of business ethics. The Wittenberg Business Ethics Conference series started in 2017, continued in 2019 and is now back in 2023.

Title of Dissertation: Reframing Compliance – investing in enabling conditions

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Andreas Suchanek
University: HHL – Handelshochschule Leipzig
Scholarship: sdw – Stiftung der Deutschen Wirtschaft
Cohort: 8th Cohort, since 2021
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• Short Abstract

  For corporations, complying with the law is an essential prerequisite to do business: It signals trustworthiness to clients and can be a competitive edge, whereas non-compliance threatens severe sanctions. For the corporations’ workforce, complying is not equally rational but puts the entire company at risk: typically, an employee perceives compliance with the rules as an (unattractive) refrain. This often corresponds with a low probability of detection in the event of a compliance violation and hence a low risk of suffering drastic (personal) consequences.

  Considering existing legal efforts, I intend to provide employees with (rational) orientation, why to behave in compliance with the rules through complementary ethical means.

  In this conceptual work I use a transactional ethics with economic method i.e., facilitating game theory to examine (un-)ethical interactions with normative concepts from ethics.

  Reframing compliance from cost to an investment in future collaboration offers employees to understand, why compliance is the right thing to do. Employees need to recognize compliance as a worthwhile self-restraint. Compliance (self-restraint) becomes the rational alternative and an enabling condition if otherwise the basis for business (cooperation) erodes.

  
  

• Research Interests

  • Corporate Compliance
  • Integrity
  • Behavioral economics
  • Normative business ethics

• Education

  • 2017, Master of Laws, International Business and Company Law, SRH Hochschule Heidelberg, Germany
  • 2015, Bachelor of Laws, Business Law, Universität Kassel, Germany

• Professional and Academic Career

  • 2018-2021, Compliance Officer, Allianz Global Investors GmbH, Frankfurt a.M., Germany
  • 2017-2018, Trainee Compliance Management, DZ BANK AG, Frankfurt a.M., Germany
  • 2015-2016, Student Employee, Allianz Global Investors GmbH, Frankfurt a.M., Germany
  • 2015, Intern Governance, Risk & Compliance, PricewaterhouseCoopers WPG AG, Frankfurt a.M., Germany
  • 2013-2015, Student Assistant, Universität Kassel, Kassel, Germany

• Publications

  • Petrushevska, M. & Gebauer, S. (2022), Nudging Corporate Compliance und Integrität – Auf der Grundlage des ethischen Kompasses. comply 7(3), 14-16.

• Conference Contributions: Talks

  • Normal 0 21 false false false DE X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 ComplianceNet 2023, Washington, D.C., USA, Paper: "Rules alone are not enough – Why corruption prevention needs integrity"

• Conference Contributions: Posters

  • Poster from sdw-Promovierendenforum „Reframing Compliance – investing in enabling conditions”, summer 2022

• Memberships

  • Bundesverband der Compliance Manager (BCM) e.V.