Nissan Chair for Corporate Strategy and International Competitiveness
Holder: Martin Jacob
The Nissan Chair of Corporate Strategy and International Competitiveness develops and promotes research and teaching methods affecting business management from an international perspective and from a general management standpoint.
Its research centers on the study of the interrelationship between the competitiveness of countries and companies.
For nearly 20 years, the Chair, together with the Center for Globalization and Strategy, has been the Spanish member of the Global Competitiveness Report, the annual report of the World Economic Forum.
Research lines
- The process of globalization. The origins of international competitiveness.
- Competitiveness and profitability in the Spanish financial sector. The impact of information technology in general, and the internet in particular, on the financial services sector.
- Integration in merger and acquisition processes.
- Analysis of competitiveness of sectors, states and regions.
Chair.
Martin Jacob is Professor in the Accounting and Control Department and Nissan Chair for Corporate Strategy and International Competitiveness. Previously, he held the adidas endowed Chair of Finance, Accounting and Taxation at WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management since 2019 and was a full Professor of Business Taxation since 2013. He received his doctoral degree from the University of Tübingen, Germany in 2010.
His research focuses on the economic effects of taxation on business decisions. His research covers corporate and income taxes, but also emission taxes and their effects on investments, sustainability and the environment.
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