Course Schedule
Lehrveranstaltungen
1. Phase WiSe 26/27 - Bekmeier-Feuerhahn: Kommunikation und Kulturmanagement (Belegung)
Dozent/in: Sigrid Bekmeier-Feuerhahn, Lea Jakob, Maik Riggers
Inhalt: Die Professur für BWL, insb. Kommunikations- und Kulturmanagement bietet interessierten Studierenden im WiSe 24/25 die Möglichkeit, ihre Abschlussarbeit in folgenden Themenbereichen anzufertigen: - Digitale Kommunikation/ Social Media - Markenkommunikation/Entrepreneurial Communication - Immersive Prozesse - Artitic Citizenship & Artistic Entreprenuership - Publikums-/Konzertforschung In den Abschlussarbeiten sollen aktuelle Fragestellungen unter Anwendung quantitativ- oder qualitativ-empirischer Verfahren bearbeitet werden.
1. Phase WiSe 26/27 - Betreuung von Abschlussarbeiten durch andere Erstprüfer*innen (Belegung)
Dozent/in: Sünje von Helldorff, Saskia Poth
Inhalt: Bei der Wahl eines „anderen Erstprüfenden“ sind die Vorgaben der Rahmenprüfungsordnung (RPO) zu beachten. Sollten Sie für Ihre betriebswirtschaftliche Abschlussarbeit eine Betreuungszusage von einem*r Erstprüfer*in erhalten haben, die nicht mit einer Veranstaltung in myStudy aufgelistet wird, bitten wir Sie, das ausgefüllte Formular „Betreuung von Abschlussarbeiten durch andere Erstprüfer*innen“ in den Materialordner dieser Veranstaltung hochzuladen. Das Formular finden Sie im Materialordner dieser Veranstaltung und der o.g. Webseite. Bitte laden Sie das ausgefüllte Formular als PDF in den Materialordner "Upload Form". ______________________________________________________ When choosing a " another first examiner", the requirements of the examination regulations (RPO) must be fulfilled. If you have received a commitment of supervision from a first examiner for your final thesis in business administration, which is not listed in myStudy with a course, we kindly ask you to upload the completed form "Supervision of final theses by other first examiners" to the material folder of this course. The form can be found in the material folder of this course and the above mentioned website. Please upload the completed form as a PDF to the material folder "Upload Form". ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- You can also write your thesis with Sünje in the area of - (shared) leadership - competencies - systemic thinking and - communities of practice. Please fill out the form provided and upload it to the "Upload Form" folder.
1. Phase WiSe 26/27 - Brockelmann: Marketing (Belegung)
Dozent/in: Kerstin Brockelmann
Inhalt: Themengebiete/ Forschungsschwerpunkte: Customer Relationship Management Marken- und Vertriebsmanagement (Online)-Handel und E-Commerce Markt- und Konsumentenpsychologie
1. Phase WiSe 26/27 - Deller: Wirtschaftspsychologie (Belegung)
Dozent/in: Jürgen Deller
Inhalt: Im Rahmen der Vergabe von Abschlussarbeiten biete ich zu folgenden Themenfeldern Arbeiten an: 1. Betriebliches Management alternder Belegschaften unter Anwendung des Later Life Workplace Indexes, Fallstudien 2. Zur Nutzung künstlicher Intelligenz bei der Analyse konstruktorientierter längsschnittlicher Datensätze The following topic is available for theses in English: None at the moment.
1. Phase WiSe 26/27 - Drews: Digitale Transformation und Informationsmanagement (Belegung)
Dozent/in: Paul Drews
Inhalt: As a professor of information systems, I mainly supervise master theses in the major Business Information Systems (Wirtschaftsinformatik) and the master program Management & Data Science. However, I also supervise a few theses in business administration (mainly in IBAE, BWL, Management & Engineering, Management & Entrepreneurship). If you are interested in writing a thesis in the area of digital transformation which is both research-driven and practice-oriented, you might like to apply for a thesis. Potential topics (selection, but not limited to): Digital Transformation, IT Governance / IT Management, Enterprise Architecture Management, IT Innovation Management, Agile Transformation / Scaling Agile, Data-driven / AI-driven business models, Management of AI / AI Transformation Preferred methods are qualitative-empirical and (action) design science. Language according to your preference / program DE or EN. If you are interested in writing your thesis with me, please book an appointment in my consultation hours via mystudy and/or contact me via mail. I will only accept students for this mystudy course after we have agreed on a topic and an exposé.
1. Phase WiSe 26/27 - Farny: Social Entrepreneurship (Belegung)
Dozent/in: Steffen Farny
1. Phase WiSe 26/27 - Gielnik: Psychology & Entrepreneurship (Belegung)
Dozent/in: Michael Gielnik
Inhalt: Topics for your thesis The psychology of entrepreneurship, in particular entrepreneurship training dynamic perspective: how cognition, motivation, emotions drives entrepreneurial performance, but also the other way around why and for whom entrepreneurship training has positive short- and long-term effects on entrepreneurial behavior and well-being theoretical foundation: self- and action regulation theory Literature Frese, M. & Gielnik, M. M. (2023). The psychology of entrepreneurship: Action and process. Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior, 10, 137-164. Frese, M., Gielnik, M. M., & Mensmann, M. (2016). Psychological training for entrepreneurs to take action: Contributing to poverty reduction in developing countries. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 25(3), 196-202. The nature and dynamics of self-efficacy self-efficacy is an important driver of performance, but it might also negatively relate to performance self-efficacy is fairly stable, but how do within-person variations in self-efficacy add to our understanding of the construct of self-efficacy and its motivational function theoretical foundation: self- and action regulation theory and process perspective Literature Gielnik, M. M., Bledow, R., & Stark, M. S. (2020). A dynamic account of self-efficacy in entrepreneurship. Journal of Applied Psychology, 105(5), 487-505. Bledow, R., Gielnik, M.M., et al. (under review). Integrating Within- and Between-Person Variability: A Process View on Self-Efficacy. Journal of Applied Psychology.
1. Phase WiSe 26/27 - Habersang: Digitale Transformation (Belegung)
Dozent/in: Stefanie Habersang
Inhalt: The Professorship for Digital Transformation supervises bachelor's and master's theses in the fields of digitalization and sustainaility (digital-ecological transformation), organization theory but also in the field of (female) entrepreneurship. These theses can be conceptual papers or qualitative studies. You can either work on a predefined topic (see current offerings below) or propose an area of interest, including relevant literature, from which a research question can be developed during supervision. 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. (1) Application and selection The selection procedure is inseparably connected with the formal procedure for coordinating supervision places at the School of Management & Technology. 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. For an application to be complete, please upload an up-to-date performance record in the folder “applications” on myStudy and short description of your field of interest (e.g. by filling out the Kick-Off Page, see here: https://www.leuphana.de/en/institutes/imo/digital-transformation/final-theses.html) If the number of applications exceeds available supervision capacities (3-4 supervisions per semester), decisions on acceptance/rejection are made based on your performance in courses and seminars of the Professorship for Digital Transformation. (2) Topic Development You can either develop a topic on your own or you look at my website for specific topics that I am supervising (see here:https://www.leuphana.de/fileadmin/user_upload/Forschungseinrichtungen/imo/personen/habersang_stefanie/files/Abschlussarbeiten_SoSe26.pdf) and for more general information please see here: https://www.leuphana.de/en/institutes/imo/digital-transformation/final-theses.html (3) Registration process If we can find a common area for supervision and you are selected, the process will be as follows: - Initial meeting based on your application. - Preparation of an exposé within one month; another meeting will be held to support this process. - Feedback on your exposé and resubmission after 14 days. - Registration of the thesis. Please note: the latest date for registering your thesis is the following date: Master thesis: 30th of April // Bachelor thesis: 30th of May). In case the deadline is not met, I cannot supervise your thesis anymore!!! - Completion of the thesis within the current semester. After registering your thesis, up to two more meetings for further coordination can be scheduled. All the steps mentioned above must be completed on time to ensure your thesis is finished within the current semester! (4) Proposal details You have to compose a proposal (max. six pages) for your final thesis. This proposal should explicate the following aspects: -Cover sheet including the title of your thesis and research question (also: name, matriculation number, etc) -Relevance: Why is it interesting to address this research question or topic? -Positioning: In which stream of literature is the topic embedded? What do we know? What do we not know or what is the problematic assumption that you would like to challenge? What is the research question that emerges out of your problematization/gap-spotting in the literature? -Methodological approach: If your intend to conduct an empirical study, please specify your research design and your aspired data collection procedures. Please note that conceptual theses are eligible as well. If so, elaborations on methodical procedures are not required. -Abstract description of expected findings: When developing your ideas, you might already have ideas about the direction that your analysis might take. -References
1. Phase WiSe 26/27 - Keller: Marketing (Belegung)
Dozent/in: Wiebke Ina Yvonne Keller
Inhalt: TOPICS The Professorship of Marketing supervises Bachelor and Master theses in the area of marketing that are based on quantitative empirical analysis. Topic wises a main focus is not pricing and retailing topics, as well as in interdisciplinary approaches linking marketing to other disciplines. However, in general although all other topics are welcome if they are linked to quantitative marketing research. I will give an overview of topics that you can work on especially for the Bachelor students during the information session. Master students can work with these topics as well but also can suggest their own topics. APPLICATIONS 1. You need to come to the information session. I will not take supervisees without a prior information session. *** Open information session *** Tue, 04.11. 8:30-9:30 (am) Tue, 18.11. 8:30-9:30 (am) Topic: Master Thesis Information Marketing https://zoom.us/j/97346290206?pwd=o2yWbNrX0RaSR23sapAXFhazrhA1qX.1 Meeting-ID: 973 4629 0206 Kenncode: 523900 2. Application via myStudy 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. For an application to be complete, it is indispensable to upload: • an up-to-date performance record from QIS/myCampus/the Leuphana app and • a 1-side proposal describing your topic, including a working title, research question, describing the data and method you want to use. Please use the folder “applications” on myStudy to do so. If the number of applications exceeds available supervision capacities, decisions on acceptance/rejection are made based on your proposal. MEETINGS The first meeting is to discuss directions of your research project and give advice in regarding the focus of your analysis. In the second meeting we will discuss the final outline of your theses and have room for Q&A. COLLOQUIUM/FORUM Based on current study regulations, Bachelor students are required to take a Bachelor Colloquium, and Master students a Master Forum. You may select any of the ones on offer. FORMAL REQUIREMENTS Final theses needs to follow the style guide for academic writing. You (will) find the style guide under “Material” on myStudy. The submission format is set by the current study regulations. DEFENSE (only for Bachelor Theses) After submission and assessment of your thesis, we will have a ZOOM meeting in which you defend your final thesis. This meeting will take maximum of 30 min. For this meeting, we ask you to prepare a 5-min summary of the key arguments of your final thesis (slides are optional).
1. Phase WiSe 26/27 - Kößler: Transformation der Arbeitswelt (Belegung)
Dozent/in: Franziska Kößler
Inhalt: This year, I supervise quantitative theses on the following topics: 1) The employment-health dilemma: We will conduct a quantitative diary study on the situation of workers who face two undesirable options - compromising their health or their economic situation. More specifically, we are going to study which factors contribute to this decision situation. 2) Passive and active aggression: We will work on the question how workers respond to passive and active aggression in the workplace applying a diary approach.
1. Phase WiSe 26/27 - Loschelder: Wirtschafts- und Sozialpsychologie (Belegung)
Dozent/in: David Loschelder
1. Phase WiSe 26/27 - Mody: Auditing & Tax (Belegung)
Dozent/in: Dörte Mody
Inhalt: Themenschwerpunkte: Internationale Rechnungslegung, Internationales Steuerrecht, Betriebliche Steuerlehre Themenabsprache nach Kontaktaufnahme
1. Phase WiSe 26/27 - Neumann: Marketing (Belegung)
Dozent/in: Meikel Neumann
Inhalt: Nachfolgende Themen betreue ich sehr gerne Happiness/Purpose Consumer Embarrassment Consumer Ethics Herangehensweise Grundsätzlich betreue ich quantitative/experimentelle und weniger qualitative Abschlussarbeiten. Zu den Formalia Sofern Sie bei mir Ihre Abschlussarbeit schreiben gelten sowohl die IMO-Guidelines als auch meine Hinweise zu der formalen Gestaltung, die ich Ihnen sehr gerne zukommen lasse. Zu der Bewerbung - Lebenslauf - Aktueller Notenauszug I am very happy to support the following topics Happiness/Purpose Consumer Embarrassment Consumer Ethics Approach Generally I supervise quantitative/experimental and less qualitative theses. Concerning the formalities If you are writing your thesis with me, the IMO guidelines apply, as well as my instructions on the formal design, which I will be happy to send you. To the application - curriculum vitae - Current transcript of grades
1. Phase WiSe 26/27 - Reihlen: Strategisches Management (Belegung)
Dozent/in: Markus Reihlen
Inhalt: The Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship professorship supervises conceptual and qualitative empirical theses in strategy, entrepreneurship, management, and organizational theory. Current areas of interest include: - Strategic Management - Organization theory and design - New forms of organization - Entrepreneurship (corporate, digital, social entrepreneurship) - Entrepreneurial Ecosystem - New forms of working and organizing (Agile, Holacracy, Coworking, etc.) - Integration of corporate and sustainability strategy - Digitalization and digital transformation In general, you can also contribute your own conceptual and empirical ideas as long as they roughly fall within the professorship's thematic areas and methodological orientations.
1. Phase WiSe 26/27 - Reinecke: Strategic Entrepreneurship (Belegung)
Dozent/in: Pauline Reinecke
Inhalt: If you are interested in supervising a thesis, - please add your name to the list in mystudy, - take a look at the available topics (https://www.leuphana.de/en/institutes/imo/strategic-entrepreneurship.html), and - contact pauline.reinecke@leuphana.de to arrange an initial consultation. Please note that thesis supervision can only be guaranteed if this procedure is followed. In addition, only topics officially offered by the chair can be supervised, and theses will only be supervised after a successful initial consultation. Wenn Sie sich für die Betreuung einer Abschlussarbeit interessieren, - setzen Sie sich bitte auf die Liste in mystudy, - schauen Sie sich die angebotenen Arbeitsthemen an (https://www.leuphana.de/institute/imo/strategic-entrepreneurship.html) und - melden sich gleichzeitig bei pauline.reinecke@leuphana.de für ein erstes Informationsgespräch. Bitte beachten Sie, dass eine Betreuung nur dann zugesichert werden kann, wenn dieses Verfahren eingehalten wird. Darüber hinaus werden ausschließlich Themen betreut, die von der Professur ausgeschrieben sind, und eine Betreuung erfolgt nur nach einem erfolgreichen Informationsgespräch.
1. Phase WiSe 26/27 - Remdisch: Personal- und Organisationspsychologie (Belegung)
Dozent/in: Sabine Remdisch
Inhalt: https://leadershipgarage.leuphana.de/ Teilnahmevoraussetzungen: Wenn Sie sich für die Betreuung einer Abschlussarbeit interessieren, senden Sie für ein erstes Informationsgespräch vorab Ihr Exposé von 1-2 Seiten plus den Gliederungsentwurf. If you are interested in being supervised for a thesis, please send us your exposé of 1-2 pages plus the draft outline in advance for an initial information meeting.
1. Phase WiSe 26/27 - Schröder: Finance (Belegung)
Dozent/in: Philip Dahrmann, Henning Schröder, Clemens Peter Tegetmeier
1. Phase WiSe 26/27 - Schulte: Gründungsmanagement und -finanzierung (Belegung)
Dozent/in: Reinhard Schulte
Inhalt: Der Lehrstuhl für Gründungsmanagement stellt einen Pool von Themen für die Erstellung von Abschlussarbeiten zur Verfügung. Dem Status des jeweiligen Themas können Sie entnehmen, ob ein Thema "frei" oder "reserviert" ist. Freie Themen können von Ihnen übernommen werden. Als "reserviert" gilt ein Thema, sobald ein Gliederungspapier bzw. Projektantrag in Bearbeitung ist oder mit der Erstellung der Arbeit begonnen wurde. Sobald Sie sich für ein Thema interessieren, können Sie gerne mit dem/der Ansprechpartner*in von unserem Lehrstuhl in Kontakt treten und das weitere Vorgehen besprechen. Bitte beachten Sie unsere Merkblätter, den "Leitfaden zum wissenschaftlichen Arbeiten" sowie einen Musterprojektantrag für Abschlussarbeiten im Materialordner.
1. Phase WiSe 26/27 - Schüßler: Organisation & Entrepreneurship (Belegung)
Dozent/in: Laura Fey, Elke Schüßler
Inhalt: The Professorship for Entrepreneurship and Organization Studies supervises Bachelor and Master theses in the areas of entrepreneurship, organization studies and management more broadly, mostly with a conceptual or qualitative orientation. 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.
1. Phase WiSe 26/27 - Trittin-Ulbrich: Unternehmen in der Gesellschaft (Belegung)
Dozent/in: Hannah Trittin-Ulbrich
Inhalt: Themengebiete/ Forschungsschwerpunkte - Corporate Digital Responsibility (CDR) - Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) - Corporate Social Responsibility and Communication - Digitale Ethik - Diversity Management - Female/Social Entrepreneurship - Responsible Management - Sustainability and Management
1. Phase WiSe 26/27 - Velte: Accounting, Tax, Sustainable Corporate Governance, Audit & Corporate Finance (Belegung)
Dozent/in: Patrick Velte
Inhalt: Wahl eines aktuellen Themas aus den Bereichen Accounting, Auditing, Tax oder Corporate Governance und empirische Bearbeitung einer nachhaltigkeitsorientierten Fragestellung. Die Bachelorarbeit ist in englischer Sprache im Journal-Style zu verfassen. Themengebiete/Forschungsschwerpunkte: Financial, Sustainability & Integrated Reporting, Audit & Sustainability Assurance, Tax Accounting, (Sustainable) Corporate Governance
1. Phase WiSe 26/27 - Venz: Arbeits- und Organisationspsychologie (Belegung)
Dozent/in: Laura Venz
Inhalt: +++PLEASE READ: "SONSTIGE HINWEISE"+++ Quantitative Fragebogenstudie zu Arbeitszeit- und Arbeitsortflexibilität, Arbeitsstress und Erholung Individuelle Abschlussarbeit unter Einbindung in eine Projektgruppe Abschlussarbeit kann auf Deutsch oder Englisch verfasst werden (je nach Prüfungsordnung) --- Quantitative survey study on working time and work location flexibility, work stress, and recovery Individual thesis with integration into a project group.
1. Phase WiSe 26/27 - Wenzel: Organisation (Belegung)
Dozent/in: Matthias Wenzel
Inhalt: TOPICS The Professorship for Organization Studies supervises Bachelor and Master theses in the areas of organization, strategy, and entrepreneurship that are designed as conceptual papers, qualitative studies, or literature reviews. Conceptual papers build on existing theoretical concepts, models, frameworks, and perspectives to theorize novel relationships between concepts. Qualitative studies rely on the collection and analysis of qualitative data. Literature reviews provide a systematic overview of prior literature to integrate fragmented streams of literature (integrative literature review) or surface problematic assumptions of a stream of literature (problematizing literature review). The approach of the Professorship for Organization Studies is to help students find and specify their topic in areas of organization, strategy, and entrepreneurship. Therefore, students do not apply for a supervision place with a fixed topic, nor are potential topics prediscussed in one-on-one meetings before the provision of supervision places. 1. APPLICATION AND SELECTION The selection procedure at the Professorship for Organization Studies is inseparably connected with the formal procedure for coordinating supervision places at the School of Management & Technology. 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. For an application to be complete, it is indispensable to upload an up-to-date performance record from QIS/myCampus/the Leuphana app. Please use the folder “applications” on myStudy to do so. If the number of applications exceeds available supervision capacities, decisions on acceptance/rejection are made based on your performance in courses and seminars of the Professorship for Organization Studies. For this purpose, we convert the grades achieved in these courses and seminars into points and rank received applications from the highest to lowest total number of points achieved; in case of point parity, the lot decides. For this, we use the following scheme: -1.0: 10 points -1.3: 8 points -1.7: 6 points -2.0: 5 points -2.3: 4 points -2.7: 3 points -3.0: 2.5 points -3.3: 2 points -3.7: 1.5 points -4.0: 1 point -5.0: 0 points For courses and seminars with (at least partial) written performance records, we concede the double amount of points. Students who submit an application after rejection in previous semesters receive five extra points. Please note that an acceptance notification is conditional upon meeting the deadlines specified below. 2. TOPIC DEVELOPMENT Once you receive an acceptance notification, your main task is to develop a topic for your final thesis. A final thesis is a piece of scientific work. As such, your final thesis is expected to extend theory debates—in our case, in organization, entrepreneurship, or strategy. Therefore, your next step is to read, read, read, … so as to embed your thesis in a stream of research that you would like to extend. This does not mean that you are not allowed to be interested in a certain organizational, strategic, or entrepreneurial phenomenon that is relevant for practitioners, quite the contrary. After all, a key question that we will ask you is in which ways your analysis of that phenomenon extends our understanding of extant debates in organization, strategy, or entrepreneurship research. The key currency in management and entrepreneurship are journal articles. Therefore, we recommend focusing your reading on journal articles. These lists provide you with an overview of journals in our field: https://www.vhbonline.org/en/services/vhb-rating-2024/rating-structure (the journals listed in the sections "Organization" and "Strategic Management", and "Technology, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship" tend to be particularly relevant). In the Forum (more on this below), we will discuss some merits and pitfalls of such rankings. However, as a rule of thumb, when searching for and specifying topics, you can typically ignore articles published in journals with a rating of C or lower; or you should be even more reflective about the use of articles published in lower-than-B journals. To provide you with more specificity: What we ask you to do is to identify a stream of literature that faces a certain gap/challenge that you would like to address with your final thesis. Among others, streams of literature could be: -Utopias and dystopias, real utopias -Future-making -Organizational identity -Strategy as practice -Open strategy: Participation, transparency, and inclusion in the strategy process -Care in and of organizations -Meaningful work -Discourse/narratives in strategy-making -Temporality -Path dependence -Strategic persistence -Tensions, dilemmas, dualities, dialectics, and paradoxes -Rigor/relevance, or the academic-practitioner gap -Boredom in organizations -Creative construction -Entrepreneurial/innovation ecosystems This is not a definite list. Zillions of other options are feasible as well. Your task is to position your final thesis in a stream of literature that you find interesting, and that deserves to be extended. 3. TOPIC SPECIFICATION Furthermore, we ask you to specify your topic while reading. Importantly, this work should lead you to a clearly articulated research question. Good research questions typically begin with “how” or “why”. Furthermore, when specifying your topic, please remember that the university system is dedicated to truth-seeking, not consulting (but of course, your can write a section on practical implications later on). Therefore, we are interested in understanding and explaining how things *are*, not in prescribing how things *can* or *should* be. As a stylistic example, a good research question is: How does the mobilization of utopias shape an organization's identity? In turn, a bad example is: How can actors mobilize utopias to shape an organization's identity? 4. PROPOSAL Based on these specifications, we ask you to compose a proposal (max. two pages) for your final thesis. This proposal should explicate the following aspects: 1. The working title 2. Research question: (as explained in the previous paragraph) 3. Relevance: Why is it interesting to address this research question? By relevance, we mean “theoretical relevance”: Why is it important to address the theoretical problem at hand? 4. Positioning: In which stream of literature is the topic embedded? What do we know? What do we not know or what is the problematic assumption that you would like to challenge? 5. Methodological approach: If your intend to conduct an empirical study, please specify your research design and your aspired data collection procedures. A literature review necessitates an overview of finding, filtering, and clustering prior literature as well. Given that conceptual theses do not build on data in the form of empirical data or prior literature, elaborations on methodical procedures are not required in this case. 6. Abstract description of expected findings: When developing your ideas, you might already have ideas about the direction that your analysis might take. If so, please sketch this direction here. Please use the respective upload folder on myStudy to hand in our proposal. 5. FEEDBACK MEETINGS AND REGISTRATION OF FINAL THESES In order to provide you with feedback and enable mutual learning, the minimum requirement for a supervision of your final-thesis project is to participate in two meetings in which we will discuss your proposal. The first meeting is meant to be a status report. We will use this meeting to discuss your initial ideas based on your proposals as well as a brief two-min pitch of your idea (no slides required). Neither your proposal nor your ideas have to be perfect at this stage. The key aim of this meeting is to provide you with constructive feedback. However, if we conclude after the first meeting that your topic is well-elaborated, and if you would like to immediately start working on your final thesis, we will register your final thesis immediately after the meeting. The working time specified in your study regulations will start at this day. If we conclude after the first meeting that the concept of your final thesis requires substantial revisions, we allow you to revise your proposal until the second meeting. The second meeting, then, serves as a further feedback platform for open questions, potential adjustments, and specifications. Your final thesis will be registered immediately after this meeting. 6. PROCEDURES AND DEADLINES -April 8, 2026: Proposal submission (upload to respective folder on myStudy) -April 8, 2026: Upload of your final-thesis registration form (only with your personal details, topic to be filled out after the meeting(s)); obtained from the Studierendenservice; upload to respective folder on myStudy, please rename the file by reference to your last name) -April 9, 2026, 4.15 pm: 1st feedback session and potential registration of your final thesis -April 23, 2026, 4.15 pm: 2nd feedback session and definite registration of your final thesis The two feedback sessions are part of the Bachelor Forum that Matthias Wenzel will offer in the Summer Term 2026. You find information on times and rooms here: https://mystudy.leuphana.de/veranstaltungInformation/show?veranstaltung_id=1149106 7. FORUM Based on current study regulations, Bachelor students are required to take a Bachelor Forum (also called "Colloquium"), and Master students a Master Forum. You may select any of the ones on offer. Yet, bear in mind that two feedback sessions highlighted above are part of the Bachelor Forum that Matthias Wenzel will offer in the Summer Term 2026, and that - in addition to the other dates and deadlines that are to be kept - the provision of supervision places is conditional upon candidates' participation in these two meetings. 8. SUPERVISION AND ASSESSMENT At the Professorship for Organization Studies, we offer to assess your final thesis internally; i.e., Matthias Wenzel serves as first examiner and another team member of the professorship serves as second examiner. Of course, you are free to look out for another second examiner. Upon registration, we will determine your primary point of contact for questions and feedback. Please note that we do not provide pre-corrections. Instead, we are happy to respond to your questions and provide help with fork-in-the-road decisions. 9. THE FINAL THESIS: STRUCTURE, FORMAL REQUIREMENTS, AND AI USE Final theses composed at the Professorship for Organization Studies adhere to the style guide of the Institute of Management & Organization. You find the style guide under “Material”. The submission format is set by the current study regulations. In addition to a "declaration of authorship" (https://www.leuphana.de/en/institutions/writing-center/resources/declaration-of-authorship.html), all final theses are to end with a statement on the use of artificial intelligence (AI). Under "Material", you find a document that specifies how to include this statement. There are legitimate uses of AI. For example, these include improvements of one’s spelling and grammar. Yet, AI does not replace one’s own reflections and analysis. In addition to “hallucinations” (the output of well-sounding but untrue statements), this technology reproduces biases of all sorts, including gender biases and political distortions. Hence, in scientific pieces of work such as final theses that are supposed to produce "claims to truth" in the form of understandings and explanations, the unreflected use of AI will lead to inferior outcomes. The general rule of AI use is that a final thesis stands on the author's own ideas and insights, rather than those generated by others (i.e., other people or technologies). You find more on the fair use of AI and its declaration in the related document on myStudy (the declaration table can be adjusted to one’s own use). All forms of academic misbehavior—whether plagiarism or prohibited uses of AI—will be diligently prosecuted. 10. DEFENSE (only for Bachelor Theses) Upon submission, we will begin to assess your final thesis. Once this is complete, we will set up a ZOOM meeting in which you will get to defend your final thesis. This meeting typically takes about 30 min. For this meeting, we ask you to prepare a 5-min summary of the key arguments of your final thesis (slides are optional). This summary will serve as a springboard the subsequent discussion.