Prof. Dr. Harry Müller

• Fundamentals 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

• "Bilanzpolitik in kommunalen Unternehmen", together with David Boll and Marcus Sidki, in: Zeitschrift für öffentliche und gemeinwirtschaftliche Unternehmen (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", together with Peter Mudra, in: Hochschulmanagement - Zeitschrift für die Leitung, Entwicklung und Selbstverwaltung von Hochschulen und Wissenschaftseinrichtungen 15, issue 1/2020, p. 18-21
• "Do Public Enterprises Manage Earnings? Evidence from Germany", together with Marcus Sidki and David Boll, in: Proceedings of the ^24th International Conference: Curent Trends in Public Sector Research, Brno 2020, pp. 106-114
• "Wie der Forschungsschwerpunkt den Zitationserfolg beeinflusst: Eine empirische Untersuchung für die deutschsprachige BWL", together with Alexander Dilger, Betriebswirtschaftliche Forschung und Praxis (BFuP) 68 (1), 2016, pp. 36-52
• "Scholars' Physical Appearance, Research Performance, and Feelings of Happiness", together with Laura Lütkenhöner and Alexander Dilger, Scientometrics 104, issue 2/2015, pp. 555-573
• "On the ethics of rankings in higher education: Eine Betrachtung aus ökonomischer Perspektive", in: Hochschulmanagement - Zeitschrift für die Leitung, Entwicklung und Selbstverwaltung von Hochschulen und Wissenschaftseinrichtungen 8, Heft 2+3/2013, pp. 41-46
• "A Citation Based Ranking of German-speaking Researchers in Business Administration with Data of Google Scholar", together with Alexander Dilger, in: European Journal of Higher Education 3, Heft 2/2013, S. 140-150
• "Ein Forschungsleistungsranking auf der Grundlage von Google Scholar", together with Alexander Dilger, in: Zeitschrift für Betriebswirtschaft (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: Beiträge zur Hochschulforschung 34, Heft 2/2012, pp. 68-92
• "How valid is the Handelsblatt-BWL ranking? A comparison of journal and citation-based personal rankings", in: Betriebswirtschaftliche Forschung und Praxis (BFuP) 62, issue 2/2010, pp. 152-166

Book contributions

• "Sustainability Controlling in Integrated Value Chains", will be published 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 Departments: A citation-based ranking of German-speaking universities", together with Alexander Dilger, in: Ahn, Heinz/ Clermont, Marcel/Souren. Rainer (eds.): "Sustainable decision-making: Beiträge zum multiperspektivischen Performancemanagement von Wertschöpfungsprozessen - Festschrift zum 65. Geburtstag von 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 study in German mechanical engineering," Discussion Paper of the Institute for Organizational Economics 9/2014, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, 2014
• "The citation frequency as a quality indicator in the context of research performance measurement", Discussion paper of the Institute for Organizational Economics 1/2012, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, 2012
• "Ein Ranking von Hochschulen und (Bundes-)Ländern am Beispiel der Betriebswirtschaftslehre", together with Alexander Dilger, Discussion Paper of the Institute for Organization Economics 8/2011, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, 2011

Review by

• Review "Sander, Kai J.: Behavioral Contract Theory. Influence of social preferences on the management 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)