| Dissertation | Status | LOST Involvement |
| Maria Farkondeh (JKU Linz): “Beyond the hype: Theoretical underpinnings and consequences of forms of organizing “new work”” | Completed in 2023 | Elke Schüßler as 2ndsupervisor; with Barbara Müller |
| Nina Füreder (JKU): “Managing Organizational Resilience in Healthcare” | Completed in 2025 | Elke Schüßler as 1st supervisor; with Barbara Müller |
| Hanna Pauline Boerries (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 |
| Nora Große (Leuphana University of Lüneburg): “Towards network responsibility in global value chains: Changing intra- and inter-organizational structures and practices in the light of emerging human rights due diligence” | Ongoing | Elke Schüßler as 1st supervisor |
| Andreas Kaiser (Leuphana University of Lüneburg): “Crisis-resilient German government organizations: Bureaucratic decision-making in the management of (poly-)crisis in the 2020s and the institutionalization of resilience” | Ongoing | Elke Schüßler as 1st supervisor |
| Lukas Klasen (Leuphana University of Lüneburg): “Public administration and climate change – how to address wicked problems through organisational processes and practices” | Ongoing | Elke Schüßler as 1st supervisor |
| Sara Maric (JKU): “Organization beyond Organizations: The Front- and Backstage of Digital Platforms” | Completed in 2025 | Elke Schüßler as 1st supervisor; with Robert Bauer |
| Tim Möhlenkamp (Leuphana University of Lüneburg): “From Crisis to Polycrisis: Rethinking the Resilient Organization from a Temporal Perspective” | Ongoing | Elke Schüßler as 1st supervisor |
| Fenja Nolting (Hertie School of Governance): “Organizations, Institutions, and Societal Challenges A study of organized efforts addressing institutional pathologies” | Completed in 2026 | Elke Schüßler as 2nd supervisor; with Johanna Mair |
| Carolin Puhl (FU Berlin): "How to do things with texts – Essays on the transformative potential of research on global value networks“ | Completed in 2024 | Elke Schüßler as 2nd supervisor; with Jörg Sydow |
| Ferdinand Revellio (JKU Linz): “Managing Product Circularity: The interplay of vertical integration, collaboration in service ecosystems, and product design” | Completed in 2021 | Elke Schüßler as 2nd supervisor; with Erik Hansen |
| Eva-Maria Spreitzer (Leuphana University of Lüneburg): “Another world is possible? Researching futurestransforming approaches toward societal renewal” | Ongoing | Elke Schüßler as 2nd supervisor; with Matthias Wenzel |
| Marco Steppe (FU Berlin): “Ansätze zur interorganisationalen Zusammenarbeit im Bereich Corporate Social Responsibility in Netzwerken des Einzelhandels” | Completed in 2025 | Elke Schüßler as 2nd supervisor; with Jörg Sydow |
| Benjamin Schiemer (JKU): “Incompleteness and Closure as Drivers for Creative Processes in Digital-Physical Spaces” | Completed in 2020 | Elke Schüßler as 1st supervisor; with Jörg Sydow |
| 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” | Completed in 2026 | Elke Schüßler as 2nd supervisor; with Robert Bauer |
| Constantin Treuleben (Leuphana University of Lüneburg): “Zwischen Pfadabhängigkeit und Pfadbruch: Transformation der industriellen Buchherstellung am Standort Leipzig” | Ongoing | Elke Schüßler as 1st supervisor |
| Yuka Yanagawa (LUISS Rome): “Toward a more-than-human organizing: the evolution of regeneration as an emerging management model” | Ongoing | Elke Schüßler as 2nd supervisor; with Giuseppe Delmestri |
