About the University of Göttingen
Founded in 1737, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen is a research university of international renown with strong focuses in research-led teaching. The University is distinguished by the rich diversity of its subject spectrum particularly in the humanities, its excellent facilities for the pursuit of scientific research, and the outstanding quality of the areas that define its profile. From 2007 to 2012 Georg-August-Universität Göttingen was rewarded funding from the Initiative of Excellence of the German Federal and State Governments with its institutional strategy for the future entitled "Tradition - Innovation - Autonomy".
The Chair of Management & Control, which is the academic partner of the Global Equity Insights survey, is part of the Faculty of Economic Sciences and the University of Göttingen and is led by Prof. Dr. Michael Wolff. Based on state-of-art econometric methods several researchers of the Chair analyze the design and impact of incentive systems of executives and non-executives (e.g. the positive impact of equity compensation on long-term decision and performance). Results of these research activities are published in national and internationals journals with theoretical and practical orientation.
