As part of the DIRK workshop “Digital IR trends 2019” on 24 January 2019, Sandra Tietz discussed the results of the study “Digital Leadership in Investor Relations – How digital is Investor Relations in Germany?” with investor relations departments.

With its paper “Establishing a dialogue between the supervisory board and investors: Empirical insights” the team of the Center for Research in Financial Communication was contributing to the 7th Conference of European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA) which took place from October 31 to November 03, 2018 in Lugano.

On August 16-17, 2018, a joint doctoral colloquium with the Center for Research in Financial Communication and the Chair of Accounting, Auditing and Controlling at HHL was held as part of the fourth RIC conference.

At the DPRG Financial Communication Working Group meeting on July 5, 2018 in Leverkusen, Sandra Tietz gave an insight into the current research on the triangular relationship of the Supervisory Board, Management Board and Communications Department.

From September 5-7, 2018, the Hayek Summer Workshop provides an opportunity to selected students of economics and neighboring disciplines to discuss causes, consequences, and remedies of the current low-growth and high debt environment. In this context, Prof. Christian P. Hoffmann will hold a workshop.

At the MPM Corporate Reporting Conference on June 21, 2018 in Frankfurt am Main, Prof. Dr. Christian Hoffmann and Sandra Tietz presented the detailed results of the joint study “Cross media Annual Reporting” with MPM Media Process Management GmbH.

As part of the Geschäftsberichte-Symposium of the network partner CCR on 14 June 2018 in Zurich, Prof. Dr. Christian Hoffmann and Jennifer Moore-Braun (BASF) discussed the target group orientation in integrated reporting.

The Center for Research in Financial Communication was represented at the 21st conference of the DIRK – German Investor Relations Association with two presentations. For the first time, it provided insights into two completed research projects.

With its paper “Strategic Investor Relations Management: Insights on planning and evaluation practices among German Prime Standard Corporations” the team of the Center for Research in Financial Communication was contributing to the 68th annual conference of International Communication Association (ICA) which took place from May 24 – 28, 2018 in Prague.

As part of the DIRK general meeting on 23 February 2018 in Düsseldorf, Prof. Christian Hoffmann presented the results of the CRiFC study “Strategies in Investor Relations and Financial Communications” – a broad empirical study among companies listed in the Prime Standard.