Final theses

The Professorship for Entrepreneurship and Organization Studies supervises Bachelor and Master theses in the areas of entrepreneurship, organization studies, HRM and innovation and strategic management that are designed as conceptual papers, qualitative studies, or literature reviews. You can either come with a fixed topic idea or you can specify a broad area of interest out of which a research question will be developed in the course of the supervision.

The aim is to develop an independent piece of scientific work. This means that:

• Students are able to demonstrate how to transform entrepreneurial, organizational or strategic problems or questions into a scientific research process.
• Students develop the ability to formulate research questions, understand different research designs, search for and review academic literature, write in an academic style, and comply with ethical aspects of research.
• Students learn to apply at least one scientific method for answering their research question: a systematic literature review, qualitative research methods or a conceptual development.
• Students are able to communicate about their research project by presenting core arguments, applied methods, results and general/theoretical implications in written form.

Please refer to the examinations regulation for the general formal and procedural requirements.
The application deadline is communicated by the Study Dean’s Office, and selection decisions are communicated in keeping with the regulations by the Study Dean’s Office. In addition, please send an up-to-date performance record from QIS in addition to a brief explanation of your general interests and topic ideas using the "EN_Kick-off-page" form, that you can find in the downloads section. Please send an email to elke.schuessler@leuphana.de or laura.fey@leuphana.de with the required documents as one single PDF file. If the number of applications exceeds the available supervision capacities, decisions on acceptance/rejection are made based on your course performance in your entrepreneurship, organization, and strategy courses and seminars.

If we can find a common topic area for the supervision and you get selected, the process entails the following:

• First meeting based on your application
• Development of an exposé within 1 month, one additional meeting to guide this process
• Feedback on your exposé and resubmission after 14 days
• Formal registration of the thesis
• Completion of the thesis within the running semester

All of the above steps need to be completed on time so that your thesis can be completed within the running semester!