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Current Courses

Prof. Dr. Markus Reihlen

Management

Much of our professional and private life today is shaped by management and organizations. Management matters to all of us. We have to manage ourselves, manage others in student working groups, and after graduation, manage within firms. This course will take you on a trip through some main roads, a few backstreets, and several exciting places to explore management thinking and practice. Mary Parker Follett once stated: “Management is the art of getting things done through people.” We do so by infusing organizations with a purpose, developing strategies to anticipate the future, organizing people’s work, making organizational decisions, managing digital technology, shaping daily routine operations, and, among other things, facilitating innovation. Throughout these topics, you will learn to combine state-of-the-art scientific knowledge with practical applications and reflections.

Ziel: The objective of this module is to give students a thorough introduction to the topic of Management. This course aims to provide a basic understanding of the following topics:

1. Managers and Management

2. Managing Purpose

3. Managing Strategy

4. Managing Structures

5. Managing Decision-Making

6. Managing Digital Technology

7. Managing Routine Operations

8. Managing Expertise

9. Managing Innovation

Management Theory and Practice

Much of our professional and private life today is shaped by management and organizations. Management matters to all of us. We have to manage ourselves, manage others in student working groups, and after graduation, manage within firms. This course will take you on a trip through some main roads, a few backstreets, and several exciting places to explore management thinking and practice. Mary Parker Follett once stated: “Management is the art of getting things done through people.” We do so by infusing organizations with a purpose, developing strategies to anticipate the future, organizing people’s work, making organizational decisions, managing digital technology, shaping daily routine operations, and, among other things, facilitating innovation. Throughout these topics, you will learn to combine state-of-the-art scientific knowledge with practical applications and reflections.

Ziel: The objective of this module is to give students a thorough introduction to the topic of Management. This course aims to provide a basic understanding of the following topics:

1. Managers and Management

2. Managing Purpose

3. Managing Strategy

4. Managing Structures

5. Managing Decision-Making

6. Managing Digital Technology

7. Managing Routine Operations

8. Managing Expertise

9. Managing Innovation

Doctoral Research Group "Entrepreneurship, Management & Innovation"

We'll have:

- a kick-off session

- two streams (quant and qual)

- the EMI conference day

- regular input sessions on general research-related topics

- guest speakers

In the kick-off session, we will assign presentation slots for the two streams. The kick-off session will be hybrid.

We will have the quant and qual streams in which you can present research that is in a preliminary stage. The purpose of the streams is to help you improve your research project. Therefore, please prepare a presentation of max. 10 minutes and conclude by asking questions and raising issues that help you advance your research project. Consider the participants of the streams as a resource that you can use to improve your work. The streams will be online or hybrid. The dates will be fixed by Markus Reihlen for qual and Laura Venz for quant and will be announced in the kick-off session.

We will have the EMI conference day at the end of the semester. During the EMI conference day, you can present research that is in a more mature stage. Prepare a presentation of max 15 minutes including all parts of a paper. You find material on Moodle on what to keep in mind when preparing and giving a presentation. Another participant will take the role of a discussant for your presentation. The discussant should receive the paper two weeks before the presentation and provide in-depth and constructive feedback. This advances your skills in interpreting and providing research-oriented feedback. The EMI conference day will take place in person on campus.

Organization, Strategy and Innovation

COURSE DESCRIPTION

Managing organizations in today’s competitive and societal environment is complex and challenging. Think about the newspaper industry, which is undergoing one of its most fundamental changes triggered by the rise of digital technology. Firms are seeking salvation in a declining industry by creating new business models and defensive cost cutting strategies. The key issue we address in this course is how managers orchestrate the interplay between strategy, organization, and innovation for navigating their organizations through complex economic, cultural, political, and ecological demands. This course is built upon the premise that students of management should learn to combine state of the art scientific knowledge with practical applications and reflections. Instead of regarding the student as a passive memorizer of predefined knowledge, participants will reflect upon theories and become active inquirers themselves.

COURSE STRUCTURE

We will use a flexible teaching style mixing lectures, case discussions, and multimedia presentations whenever appropriate. It is imperative for you as a student to have read the required book chapters, articles, and cases before coming to class. Class discussion will be used to explore theoretical as well as practical business implications from an interdisciplinary perspective.

Philosophy of Social Science (Complementary Studies)

This course provides you with insights into how to do more engaging and useful research. So what can philosophy contribute to social science? The answer is straightforward: it helps to construct more interesting research problems by challenging taken-for-granted assumptions. The philosophy of social science raises fundamental questions relevant to the practicing researcher, such as what is the nature of social phenomena? Should we see organizations as accumulations of autonomous individuals, collective actors with goals of their own, or systems embedded into society? What is the appropriate form of investigation? Should we rely on empirical facts, on our reason, on action, or on intuition? Can we investigate society by studying individuals or via their social structures? What values and norms of social actions are appropriate? Should we see the individual's freedom (maximization of individual benefit) or his/her responsibility to the community at large (maximization of collective benefit) as the primary goal of social action?

This course blends specific perspectives from the philosophy of social science with controversies in social studies. Our use of the term social studies is broad; it includes all disciplines that study social systems of different kinds and of different levels such as economics, sociology, political science, culturology, social psychology, and the respective socio-technologies such as management. This course will enable students to explain how philosophy could contribute to the improvement and interestingness of social research. More specifically, students will be made familiar with general philosophical controversies in social science such as individualism versus holism, idealism versus materialism, the positivism versus postmodernism debates. Finally, we address the relation between science and praxis and reflect upon the different statuses of science and technology.

Ziel: This course is designed as a seminar, which requires preparation by students before each session and dynamic interaction in the class room. Students are encouraged to debate their particular views, philosophical problems underlying their research, and research issues in class.

You will find all readings and my manuscript (including all slides used in class) on the Leuphana learning platform myStudy.

Prof. Dr. habil Ullrich Wegner

Management - Managing Enterprises in a volatile Environment

The seminar will cover the following aspects:

1. Agility and Flexibility

2. Szenario Planning

3. Risk Management

4. Digital Transformation

5. Stakeholder Management

6. Resilience

Ziel: The seminar has main goals:

1. You learn about the significance of digitization for different business models and how to manage it.

2. You improve your communication skills.

3. You improve your writing skills.