Completed and Ongoing Dissertations
This is a selection of PhD dissertations supervised by our LOST researchers (to be continued).
Boukje Cnossen
| Dissertation | Status | LOST Involvement |
| Lena Kostuj (Leuphana University of Lüneburg and University of Groningen): “Organizing beyond the mainstream: How conspiratorial communities sustain themselves” | Ongoing | Boukje Cnossen as 1st supervisor, with Hannah Trittin-Ulbrich, Marianne Franklin & Esteban Morales (UG) |
Stefanie Habersang
| Dissertation | Status | LOST Involvement |
| Anneke Klein (Leuphana University of Lüneburg): “Strategic Change in the Oil and Gas Industry” | Ongoing | Stefanie Habersang as 1st supervisor, with Markus Reihlen |
| Panida Nowa (Leuphana University of Lüneburg): “Responsible AI in Creative Industries” | Ongoing | Stefanie Habersang as 1st supervisor; with Markus Zimmer |
| Elske Ruge (Leuphana University of Lüneburg): “Tracing the Invisible: Understanding Corruption in Development Cooperation and the Professionalization of Economic Forensics” | Ongoing | Stefanie Habersang as 1st supervisor; with Markus Reihlen |
Markus Reihlen
| Dissertation | Status | LOST Involvement |
| Christoph Seckler: “Error Cultures in Accounting Firms”, | Finished in 2014 | Markus Reihlen as 1st supervisor |
| Jill Küberling: “Corporate Irresponsibility” | Finished in 2019 | Markus Reihlen as 1st supervisor |
| Stefanie Habersang: “Taking Stock and Moving Forward in Process-Research: Theoretical and Methodological Considerations for Studying Process Phenomena in Organization and Management Studies” | Finished in 2020 | Markus Reihlen as 1st supervisor |
| Schwarting, Detlef: "Künstliche Intelligenz: Von der selbstverschuldeten Unmündigkeit zur Aufklärung und zurück“ | Finished in 2023 | Markus Reihlen as 1st supervisor |
Dennis Schoeneborn
| Dissertation | Status | LOST Involvement |
| Maxine Mölgen (CBS): “The ‘Greenlash’: How pro- and anti-green coalitions shape the discourse around green governance” | Ongoing | Dennis Schoeneborn as 2nd supervisor; with Jacob Hasselbalch |
| Sebastian Lüpnitz (University of Innsbruck): "How to navigate polarization without further fueling it? Organizing for Grand Societal Challenges in polarized discourses" | Ongoing | Dennis Schoeneborn as 2nd supervisor; with Leonhard Dobusch |
| Bennet Schwoon (University of Zurich): “Organizing for a better world? Exploring normative and communicative dimensions of tackling grand societal challenges” | Finished in 2024 | Dennis Schoeneborn as 2nd supervisor; with Andreas G. Scherer |
| Anna Stöber (CBS): “The emergence of new forms of organizing within established organizations” | Finished in 2024 | Dennis Schoeneborn as 1st supervisor; with Markus Reihlen |
| Milena Leybold (University of Innsbruck): “A communication perspective on organizing membership” | Finished in 2024 | Dennis Schoeneborn as 2nd supervisor; with Leonhard Dobusch |
| Catarina Pessanha Gomes (CBS): “The art of occupying: A study on the influence of romanticism as political culture in French prefigurative politics” | Finished in 2022 | Dennis Schoeneborn as 1st supervisor; with Mitchell Dean |
| Arni J. Petersen (CBS): “Collective imaginary as residual fantasy: A case study of the Faroese oil bonanza“ | Finished in 2021 | Dennis Schoeneborn as 2nd supervisor; with Dan Kärreman |
| Hannah Trittin (University of Zurich): “Transcending the organization: CSR communication in the network society” | Finished in 2016 | Dennis Schoeneborn 2nd supervisor; with Andreas G. Scherer |
| Peter Winkler (University of Greifswald): “Eine PR der nächsten Gesellschaft: Ambivalenzen einer Disziplin im Wandel“ | Finished in 2014 | Dennis Schoeneborn 2nd supervisor; with Stefan Wehmeier |
Elke Schüßler
| Dissertation | Status | LOST Involvement |
| Hanna Pauline Gerland (Leuphana University of Lüneburg): “Corporate Sustainability (CS) communication in an age of polarization: Why business firms either engage in deliberative dialogue or retract to strategic silence” | Ongoing | Elke Schüßler as 1st supervisor; with Dennis Schoeneborn |
| Sara Maric (JKU): “Organization beyond organizations: The case of digital platform organization” | Ongoing | Elke Schüßler as 1st supervisor; with Robert Bauer |
| Nina Füreder (JKU): “Role of the leader for managing organizational resilience in health care - Lessons from COVID-19” | Ongoing | Elke Schüßler as 1st supervisor; with Barbara Müller |
| Laura Thäter (JKU): “Workers of the crowd unite: Collective action countering the traditional organization model in digital capitalism for a more sustainable and democratic platform economy” | Ongoing | Elke Schüßler as 2nd supervisor; with Thomas Gegenhuber |
| Marco Steppe (FU Berlin): “Ansätze zur interorganisationalen Zusammenarbeit im Bereich Corporate Social Responsibility in Netzwerken des Einzelhandels” | Ongoing | Elke Schüßler as 2nd supervisor; with Jörg Sydow |
| Benjamin Schiemer (JKU): “Incompleteness and Closure as Drivers for Creative Processes in Digital-Physical Spaces” | Finished in 2020 | Elke Schüßler as 1st supervisor; with Jörg Sydow |
Hannah Trittin-Ulbrich
| Dissertation | Status | LOST Involvement |
| Rudo Femuko (Leuphana University of Lüneburg): “Navigating Transnational Entrepreneurship in Digital Times: Exploring the Entrepreneurial Experience of Afro German Startups and the role of transnational entrepreneurial ecosystems” | Ongoing | Hannah Trittin-Ulbrich as 1st supervisor, with Steffen Farny |
| Elena Eckert (Leuphana University of Lüneburg): “Assessing Sustainability and Resilience in Tourism Destinations: Approaches for the development and implementation of destination sustainability and resilience assessment methodologies” | Finished in 2024 | Hannah Trittin-Ulbrich as 1st supervisor, with Dagmar Lund-Durlacher |