Projects

Our research group works on a broad diversity of research topics and projects. Some of these projects are inspired by exploring new philosophical, theoretical, or methodological foundations, and others are the result of our close collaborations with partners from the industry, social movements, or civil society. While our research group has been particularly successful in attracting external funding for our research from the EU, the State of Lower Saxony, and other fundings agencies with over three Mill. Euro since 2016, we equally value non-funded research projects.

    Selected externally funded research projects

    • "EXIST Women Scale“ funded by the Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF); Habersang, S., 2024.
    • "TrICo - Transformation through Innovation and Cooperation in Communities" funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research and the German Joint Science Conference – Community Art & Culture;  Beyes, T., Cnossen, B., Kuchar, R., Bartusch, L., Schellmann, M. & Börner, S., 2023-2027.
    • "TrICo - Transformation through Innovation and Cooperation in Communities" funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research and the German Joint Science Conference – Community Social Innovation und Entrepreneurship; Hoyer, R., Wenzel, M., Reihlen, M., Farny, S., Cnossen, B., Hörisch, J., Weisenfeld, U., Penz, F. & Lommel, L., 2023-2027.
    • „Temporalität und Disruptive Innovationsprozesse: Eine neue Agenda für Forschung und Praxis“ funded by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG); Stanske, S. & Habersang, S., 2023-2025.
    • „Entrainment: Zeitliche Strukturierung kreativer Projekte“ funded by Austrian Science Fund FWF; Schüßler, E., Grabher, G. & Sydow, J., 2023-2024.
    • „LIONA: WIR! - Landvorteil - Verbundprojekt LIONA. Teilvorhaben 1: Innovationsökosysteme in ländlichen Räumen nachhaltig gestalten“ funded by Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF); Wenzel, M., 2023-2025.
    • “Time & temporality in sustainable innovation processes”, fellowship funded by the Joachim Herz Stiftung, Stefanie Habersang, 2022/23.
    • “Digit@l Entrepreneurship: Regionales Unternehmertum in der digitalen Ökonomie“, the European Regional Development Fund and the Ministry of Science and Culture of Lower Saxony, Markus Reihlen (PI) in collaboration with Paul Drews, Burkhardt Funk, Thomas Gegenhuber, and David Loschelder (all Leuphana), 2019-2022.
    • “RegInnB: Accelerating Regional Development and Innovation”, the European Regional Development Fund, Boukje Cnossen and Matthias Wenzel (PIs) with Jonathan Feddersen and Sarah Stanske (all Leuphana), 2020–2022.
    • ”Future ways of working in the digital economy“ (2018-2022; project lead: Professor Christian Fieseler, BI Norwegian Business School, Oslo), funded by the Research Council of Norway (RCN); Dennis Schoeneborn serves as associated member in the project.
    • “Sandbox Innovation Process“, the European Regional Development Fund and the Ministry of Science and Culture of Lower Saxony, Markus Reihlen, 2018-2021.
    • Tobacco as sustainable production platform of the natural biopolymer cyanophycin as co-product to oil and protein, Ursula Weisenfeld, 2018-2021
    • “Ethics management in the digital age: The role of processes, practices, and competencies”, fellowship funded by the Schöller Foundation, Hannah Trittin-Ulbrich, 2020/21.
    • „ERA CoBioTech (TP1): Tabak als nachhaltige Produktionsplattform für das natürliche Polymer Cynophycin als Beiprodukt zu Öl und Protein - Teilprojekt 1“ funded by Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF); Weisenfeld, U., 2018-2022.
    • „SaM: Stadt als Möglichkeitsraum“ funded by Niedersächsisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kultur (MWK); Kirchberg, V., Stoltenberg, U., Weisenfeld, U., Kagan, S., Holz, V. & Hauerwaas, A., 2015-2019.

    Selected non-funded research projects

    • The Epistemology of Management, edited book project to appear in The Springer handbook of philosophy of management, section epistemology of management, Springer: Berlin (Markus Reihlen and Dennis Schoeneborn)
    • Research on Qualitative Meta-Studies (Stefanie Habersang, Markus Reihlen)
    • Research on Temporality (Sarah Stanske, Matthias Wenzel)
    • Research on Organizational Identity (Sarah Stanske, Hannah Trittin-Ulbrich, Matthias Wenzel)
    • Research on Place-based Entrepreneurship and Community Development (Steffen Farny)
    • Research on Emotions in Entrepreneurial Processes (Steffen Farny)
    • Research on New Forms of Organizing and the Organizationality of Social Collectives (Dennis Schoeneborn)
    • CSR Communication in the Age of Disinformation and Digitalization (Hannah Trittin-Ulbrich, Dennis Schoeneborn)
    • Technology-driven innovation and strategy-making (Johanne Düsterbeck, Stefanie Habersang, Markus Reihlen)