By unanimous decision of the jury, Ass. Prof. MMag. Dr. Jörg Paetzold was awarded the Hanns Abele Prize of WU Wien for the best PhD thesis of the last five years in the area of “scientific fundamentals of economic policy”.

Markus Ellmer BSc MSc, a university assistant in Human Resource Management, was awarded the Best PhD Paper Award in Milan at the International E-HRM Conference for the PhD paper, written jointly with Astrid Reichel, “An affordance approach to eHRM-based employee voice”.

For the 6th time, the AK Wissenschaftspreis was awarded in Salzburg on 3 December. Honored in the category of “Business and Law” was Thomas Kukla, LLM oec. with his Master’s thesis on “HR-Analytics in Business and Data Protection Context with Special Consideration of the General Data Protection Regulation” (Main Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Astrid Reichel, Supervisor: Markus Ellmer MSc).