Doctoral Research Group Entrepreneurship, Management & Innovation
Our doctoral programme is designed for future researchers in entrepreneurship, management and organization studies. Our goal is to train doctoral students for research positions at leading universities or advanced research careers in consulting, government, or industry. As a doctoral student, you receive training in state-of-the-art research and build a profound knowledge base in entrepreneurship, management, and organization studies. Doctoral students learn to advance theory, develop scientifically sound research designs, and publish their research in international top-tier journals. This is the stepping stone for becoming an independent researcher and contributing to academic debates in the field.
This doctoral programme involves the six compulsory modules of the Leuphana doctoral courses: Engaging With Research Ethics, Discussing Research Methods, Discussing Research Perspectives, Research Forum I, Research Forum II and Practicing Research for Science and Society.
Additionally, the training includes further development options to enhance the doctoral experience and provide a kick-start for the academic career, such as the doctoral summer school of the European University Network on Entrepreneurship (ESU) and the winter school of the Leuphana Conference on Entrepreneurship (LCE), research workshops with international guest researchers, doctoral conferences involving intensive writing workshops, a research stay at an international partner university, and a mentoring programme. Furthermore, doctoral candidates receive financial support by the Qualification Fund of Leuphana Graduate School for attending scholarly conferences, summer schools, short-term research visits, and workshops.
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Areas of Research
Our research projects aim at enhancing our theoretical understanding of entrepreneurship, management and innovation in order to support entrepreneurs and managers in their entrepreneurial and organizational undertakings. We conduct research projects from entrepreneurial, organizational-, and strategic perspectives. We believe that only an integration of the different perspectives leads to a comprehensive understanding of the phenomena of entrepreneurship, management, and innovation. Our research projects cover various areas, such as corporate and professional entrepreneurship, international business, strategy as process and practice, organizational paradoxes, power, creativity, time and temporality, space, new technologies, and organizational communication.
Doctoral Degrees
In this doctoral research group, the Faculty Management and Technology usually confers the doctoral degree of “Dr. rer. pol.”.
Spokesperson
- Prof. Dr. Elke Schüßler
Doctoral Supervisors
- Prof. Dr. Sigrid Bekmeier-Feuerhahn
- Prof. Dr. Boukje Cnossen
- Prof. Dr. Paul Drews
- Prof. Dr. Steffen Farny
- Prof. Dr. Michael Frese
- Prof. Dr. Michael Gielnik
- Prof. Dr. Stefanie Habersang
- Prof. Dr. David Loschelder
- Prof. Dr. Markus Reihlen
- Prof. Dr. Sabine Remdisch
- Prof. Dr. Reinhard Schulte
- Prof. Dr. Elke Schüßler
- Prof. Dr. Hannah Trittin-Ulbrich
- Prof. Dr. Laura Venz
- Prof. Dr. Ursula Weisenfeld
- Prof. Dr. Matthias Wenzel
Associates
- Prof. Dr. Marcus Pietsch
Activities
Recently Completed Dissertation Projects
- Elena Eckert: Assessing Sustainability and Resilience in Tourism Destinations
- Sebastian Johannes Norman Franzke: Kompetenzentwicklung in kleinen und mittleren Produktionsunternehmen - Forschungsgeleitete Entwicklung einer Vorgehensweise zur Erstellung eines strategischen Kompetenzmodells
- Katrin Kizilkan: Understanding User Behavior and Communication Strategies for Successful Crowdfunding Campaigns - Insights from Platform Dynamics and Social Media Engagement
- Arne Kuder: Offene Innovation in kleinen, familiengeführten Hotelunternehmen - Ein integratives Modell unter Berücksichtigung des Promotorenmodells, Dienstleistungsdominanter Logik, Unternehmerischer Orientierung und Organisatorischen Verhaltens
- Verena Meyer: Critical Perspectives on Entrepreneurship - Challenging the Agent, the Discourse(s) and Dominant Assumptions
- Hannes Marwin Petrowsky: First-Offer Effects in Negotiations-A Meta-Analytical Synthesis of Experimental Research & Investigation of 26 Million Real-World-Negotiations
- Aileen Schlömer-Jarvis: Unused Potential? The Implementation (Gap) of Inclusion-Promoting Practices for People With Disabilities - An Empirical Analysis
- Lennart Seitz: Social Actor or Technology? Experimental Studies on the Perception of Chatbots Versus Humans and Their Implications for Anthropomorphic Chatbot Design
- Berenike Wiener: Nachhaltige Geldanlage in Stiftungen, Eine Mehrebenenbetrachtung von Faktoren der Veränderungsbereitschaft
Doctoral Courses
As a doctoral candidate at Leuphana, you not only write your dissertation, but also participate in the interdisciplinary doctoral courses to the extent of 30 credit points, which include (inter)disciplinary colloquia (Research Forum I and Research Forum II) and furthermore comprises four interdisciplinary modules on research ethics, research methods, scientific practice and current perspectives on science. Please find more information about Leuphana's doctoral courses here.
Doctoral Topics, Positions and Scholarships
Here you will find current open positions in research and teaching at Leuphana.
Here you will find the lastest call for applications for a scholarship in the “Embracing Transformation” Program.
Admission
If you wish to pursue your doctorate at Leuphana, you must be enrolled as doctoral student. Information about admission to the doctorate at Leuphana and the application procedure can be found here.
Leuphana Graduate School offers advice and coaching to academics in the qualification phase. The Graduate School's advisor will be happy to support you in questions of decision-making, challenges in the course of your doctorate, and career planning and development. You can find more information about the counselling and coaching services here.
Testimonials
We would like to introduce Lillan Lommel. She is a doctoral student in organisational sciences with a background in sociology and general social sciences and is actively involved in our LOST activities. Here you will find a short interview with Lillan in which she tells us about her research work and her connection to LOST.