Contact
Prof. Dr. Adelheid Susanne Esslinger
Areas of Teaching and Research
- Corporate management (strategic management, organization and change management, personnel management and leadership) as well as strategic controlling in the healthcare and non-profit sector
- Fundamentals of Business Administration/Management (also case study-based and with (computer-aided) business games, also for related disciplines)
- Problem solving and communication
- Scientific work
- Number-oriented business administration (quantitative techniques, cost and performance accounting, bookkeeping)
- Various courses (health economic evaluations, payers and drugs, data seminar and methods seminar in healthcare)
Main research areas
- Cooperation management and sociological aspects of organizational interaction among actors, particularly in health care
- Health promotion and prevention against the background of demographic challenges in society and companies (diversity: ageing, gender aspects, migration)
- Planetary Health
- Ethical aspects of healthcare
- Strategic management, leadership and human resource management in companies, non-profit and healthcare organizations
- Service and university management
Courses
- Current trends in health promotion
- Labor market Health promotion
- Management basics in health promotion (accounting and financing, management overview, personnel management and leadership, quality management)
- Project management and reflection
- Project and research funding
- Scientific colloquium
- Corporate management in the Master of Business Administration
Features
Within the university:
- Program Director, Bachelor’s Program in Health Promotion and Prevention
- Academic Advising for the Bachelor’s Program in Health Promotion and Prevention
Outside the university:
- Expert/reviewer for the German Council of Science and Humanities 2016/2017, 2020/21
- Commission member of the Max Weber Program Bavaria of the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes e.V., since 09/2008.
- Member of the Interdisciplinary Center for Aging Research (ICA) at FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg (board member from 11/2008-03/2011), since 03/2008.
- Reviewer work for academic journals (Journal of Business Administration, Journal of Gerontology and Geriatrics, Journal of Higher Education Management, Journal of Logistics Research, Journal of HMD – Information Systems in Practice) and academic conferences (in the field of higher education management, the 72nd and 74th Annual Scientific Conference of the Association of University Professors of Business Administration (VHB Conference))
Brief Biography
- Since September 2021: Professor of Health Promotion and Prevention at Coburg University of Applied Sciences and Arts
- Since October 2010: Adjunct Lecturer at the Chair of Business Management at FAU
- September 2013 to August 2021: Professor of Health Care Management at Fulda University of Applied Sciences, Faculty of Nursing and Health
- October 2010 to August 2013: Professor of Business Administration in Healthcare at the Aalen University of Applied Sciences, Faculty of Economics and Management
- since April 2009: Lecturer at the Institute of Psychogerontology at FAU
- April 2008 to September 2010: Research Assistant/Academic Senior Councillor at the Chair of Corporate Management at FAU
- October 1997 to March 2008: Managing Assistant at the Institute of Business Administration at the FAU
- June 1996 to September 1997: Research assistant at the Chair of International Management at the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg FAU
- Since November 2008: Awarded the right to award doctorates at the Faculty of Law and Economics, Department of Economics at FAU
- November 2008: Awarded the Venia Legendi for the subject of Business Administration at FAU
- March 2003 to November 2008: Habilitation candidate and lecturer (until September 2010) at the Chair of Health Management at FAU
- October 1997 to February 2003: PhD student at the Chair of Operations Research, Health Economics Research Group (Dr. rer. pol.) at FAU
- December 2000: Earned a degree in gerontological psychology (postgraduate program in gerontological psychology at FAU)
- June 1996: Degree in Business Administration (Business Studies at FAU and Glasgow Business School, University of Glasgow)
Memberships
- German Society for Gerontology and Geriatrics (DGGG)
- German University Teachers’ Association (DHV)
- European Academy of Management (EURAM)
- European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS)
- Interdisciplinary Center for Aging Research (ICA) at FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg
- Association of University Professors of Business Administration (VHB)
