Prof. Dr. Harry Müller

• Basics of business administration
• Scientific work
• External accounting
• Cost and performance accounting
• Controlling
• Investment Management
• Change Management

• Empirical balance sheet research
• Sustainability controlling and CSR reporting (participant of the DFG project academy "Sustainability in global value chains")
• Performance Measurement
• University Management

Journal articles with peer review

• "Accounting Policies in Municipal Enterprises," co-authored with David Boll and Marcus Sidki, in Journal of Public and Nonprofit Enterprises (ZögU) 43, Issue 4/2020, pp. 479-505.
• "The 'non-semester' is not a solution. Why the KMK's Decision to Implement the 2020 Summer Semester is to be Welcomed," with Peter Mudra, in: Hochschulmanagement - Zeitschrift für die Leitung, Entwicklung und Selbstverwaltung von Hochschulen und Wissenschaftseinrichtungen 15, issue 1/2020, pp. 18-21.
• "Do Public Enterprises Manage Earnings? Evidence from Germany," co-authored with Marcus Sidki and David Boll, in Proceedings of the^24th International Conference: Curent Trends in Public Sector Research, Brno 2020, pp. 106-114.
• "How Research Focus Influences Citation Success: An Empirical Investigation for German-Language Business Studies," with Alexander Dilger, Betriebswirtschaftliche Forschung und Praxis (BFuP) 68 (1), 2016, pp. 36-52.
• "Scholars' Physical Appearance, Research Performance, and Feelings of Happiness," co-authored with Laura Lütkenhöner and Alexander Dilger, Scientometrics 104, issue 2/2015, pp. 555-573.
• "On the Ethics of Rankings in Higher Education: A Consideration from an Economic Perspective," in Higher Education Management - Journal for the Management, Development and Self-Governance of Higher Education and Scientific Institutions 8, Issue 2+3/2013, pp. 41-46.
• "A Citation Based Ranking of German-speaking Researchers in Business Administration with Data of Google Scholar," co-authored with Alexander Dilger, in: European Journal of Higher Education 3, Issue 2/2013, pp. 140-150.
• "A Research Performance Ranking Based on Google Scholar," co-authored with Alexander Dilger, in: Journal of Business Administration (ZfB) 82, Issue 10/2012, pp. 1089-1105.
• "Towards Objectivity in Rankings: Using Citation Data to Assess the Research Performance of Higher Education Institutions," in Journal of the World Universities Forum 5, issue 2/2012, pp. 49-58.
• "Citations as the Basis of Research Performance Rankings - Conceptual Considerations Using the Example of Business Administration," in: Contributions to Higher Education Research 34, issue 2/2012, pp. 68-92
• "How valid is the Handelsblatt BWL ranking? Journal- and citation-based personal rankings in comparison", in: Betriebswirtschaftliche Forschung und Praxis (BFuP) 62, Heft 2/2010, pp. 152-166.

Book chapters

• "Sustainability Controlling in Integrated Value Chains," to appear in: Henke, Michael/Kohl, Holger (eds.): "Sustainability in Global Value Chains. Measures, Ethics and Best Practices for Responsible Businesses", Kogan Page, London 2021
• "Output Analysis of Business Administration Departments: A Citation-Based Ranking of German-Language Universities," co-authored with Alexander Dilger, in Ahn, Heinz/ Clermont, Marcel/Souren. Rainer (eds.): "Sustainable Decision Making: Contributions to the multi-perspective performance management of value creation processes - Festschrift on the occasion of the 65th birthday of Univ.-Prof. Dr. rer. pol. Harald Dyckhoff", Springer Gabler, Wiesbaden 2016, pp. 405-425.

Discussion Papers

• "What gets measured gets managed!!! Measurability problems of performance controlling using the example of higher education," Working Paper of Ludwigshafen University of Applied Sciences No. 5, Ludwigshafen 2017.
• "Work groups and their determinants: An empirical investigation in German mechanical engineering," Discussion Paper of the Institute of Organizational Economics 9/2014, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, 2014.
• "Citation frequency as a quality indicator in the context of research performance­measurement," Discussion Paper of the Institute of Organizational Economics 1/2012, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, 2012
• "A ranking of universities and (federal) states using the example of business administration­teaching", together with Alexander Dilger, Discussion Paper of the Institute of Organizational Economics 8/2011, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, 2011

Review

• Review "Sander, Kai J.: Behavioral Contract Theory. Influence of Social Preferences on the Control of Decentralized Organizational Units", in: Betriebswirtschaftliche Forschung und Praxis (BFuP) 61, Issue 1/2009, pp. 127-128.

• Alumnus of the German National Academic Foundation and the Konrad Adenauer Foundation
• Ulrich Teichler Prize of the Society for Higher Education Research (2011)