About the Author

Dennis Schlegel is a PhD candidate at Leeds Metropolitan University. In 2010 he was awarded the degree Master of Arts in Controlling, Finance & Accounting from Pforzheim University. From 2005 to 2008 he studied International Business Administration at the University of Cooperative Education (Berufsakademie) in Stuttgart. Furthermore, he spent one semester at the University of Sydney and one at the EWA Madrid funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and the Landesstiftung Baden-Württemberg. The author works as a management consultant for a Big Four auditing and advisory firm. In the past, he worked as a research assistant at Pforzheim University. During his undergraduate studies he completed a practical training at a German industrial company in Germany, Sweden and the USA.