About the Department of International Business

The Department of International Business at the Faculty of Business and Economics at Tübingen University strives to generate internationally respected research in International Business and to disseminate relevant knowledge to scholars, students and the corporate world.

 

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Research

We focus on publications in internationally respected scholarly journals, next to more practitioner-oriented journals and edited books. In addition, we actively participate in conferences, workshops and research seminars and also regularly organize such events. We are proud to have received numerous prestigious research awards for publications and conference contributions.

 

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Corporate engagement

We are actively seeking contact with companies and individual practitioners who are interested in our expertise in cross-cultural management, international HRM and headquarter-subsidiary relations. We are particularly grateful to companies and individual practitioners who are willing to support us in our research; in our teaching; financially; or logistically.

 

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Teaching

We aim at delivering lectures, seminars and tutorials which our students find interesting, relevant and engaging. We employ innovative, interactive and hopefully stimulating teaching approaches such as case studies, simulation exercises and company projects. Furthermore, we produce regularly teaching related material such as case studies and are proud to have received prestigious awards in this area as well.

 

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How to find us

Business hours

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

09.00-12.00

09.00-12.00

09.00-12.00

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Address

Melanchthonstrasse 30 | 72074 Tübingen | Germany

 

+49 7071 29-78179
Fax: +49 7071 29-5534
ib@wiwi.uni-tuebingen.de

 

Arriving by train

Deutsche Bahn (DB) to Stuttgart Hauptbahnhof (Hbf)

DB from Stuttgart Hbf to Tübingen Hbf; cycle time: every hour, journey takes about one hour.

From Tübingen central station please use the TüBus-line 6 to station Mohlstrasse or use the TüBus-line 1 to station Lothar-Meyer-Bau, the way by foot to the chair is round about 5 minutes.
(The bus station is next to the central station.)

Travel information - Deutsche Bahn  

 

Timetable information - TüBus-Linien

Arriving by car

From motorway A8

→ Follow the four-lane Bundesstrasse B27 to Tübingen

→ 2. Exit - direction Böblingen/Lustnau

→ 3. junction go left on the Wilhelmstrasse

→ Follow this street. The street leads straight into Mohlstrasse, than into Hausserstrasse and finally into Hölderlinstrasse.

→ On the junction Sigwartstrasse go right. After round about 100 meter right again into Brunsstrasse and follow this street about 200 meter until Melanchthonstrasse. You will find the chair at the corner Brunsstrasse/Melanchthonstrasse.

Arriving by airplane

The nearest airports are Stuttgart (IATA code STR) and Frankfurt/Main (for intercontinental - IATA code FRA).

  • From airport Frankfurt with Deutsche Bahn (at least to change once in Stuttgart), the journey takes round about 2 to 3 hours
  • From airport Stuttgart with the bus 828 (Airport-Sprinter). Cycle time: twice per hour. The journey takes rount about 70 minutes.
  • From Tübingen central station with the TüBus-line 6 to station Mohlstrasse or with the TüBus-line 1 to station Lothar-Meyer-Bau, the way by foot to the chair is round about 5 minutes.

Travel information -  Deutsche Bahn        

 Timetable - 828 Airport-Sprinter

       Timetabel - TüBus-Linien