Vorlesungsverzeichnis

Digital Leadership (Seminar)

Inhalt: This course explores how digitalization shapes the nature and practices of managerial work. Digitalization & Management provides students with a comprehensive understanding of existing theories, applications and critical reflections of how managers and leaders use digital technologies for improving business processes and firm’s competitiveness. This involves key issues about leading people: How can leaders be most effective in a modern digitally connected work environment? To understand digital leadership best practices, the course is asking how leaders bring innovative technology and a people-oriented culture together. Students will work on different topics in groups.

Digital “X” – Tensions, Dilemmas, Paradoxes, and Navigation Approaches (Seminar)

Dozent/in: Matthias Werner

Inhalt: In this course, students examine tensions and paradoxes that need to be managed in the course of digitalization. At the highest level, the course content is divided into different blocks. On the one hand, students acquire broad knowledge of digital transformation, innovation, strategy, platforms, and infrastructure, as well as the types and management of tensions and paradoxes. On the other hand, students will work intensively in groups of 3 people to address specific tensions/paradoxes in the context of digitalization and apply their theoretical knowledge in practice (analysis of a scientific publication and and qualitative interviews). The results are then presented and summarized in a podcast format. Examplary topics include: - Meaning, differences, and triggers of digital “X” phenomena - Introduction and presentation of various concepts: digital transformation, digital innovation, digital innovation units, digital entrepreneurship, digital infrastructures, digital platforms - Introduction to the necessity of dealing with paradoxes in times of digitalization - Distinction from key terms such as paradox, dilemma, and trade-off - Factors that highlight paradoxes and tensions - Introduction to different types of paradoxes - Influential research trends that deal with navigating paradoxes (e.g., ambidexterity, duality, paradox) - Levels and types of navigating paradoxes - Introduction to tools for navigating paradoxes - Presentation of some paradoxes in the digital age

Digitalisierung: Aktuelle Themen (Seminar)

Dozent/in: Dirk von Schnakenburg

Termin:
wöchentlich | Montag | 08:15 - 09:45 | 13.10.2025 - 30.01.2026 | W 106

Inhalt: Ziel der Veranstaltung ist es, den Teilnehmerinnen und Teilnehmern, primär betrachtet aus der ökonomischen Perspektive, die aktuellen Herausforderungen der Digitalisierung des wirtschaftlichen und des gesellschaftlichen Lebens vor dem Hintergrund des damit einhergehenden Strukturwandels näher zu bringen. Darüber hinaus soll ein Verständnis der verfügbaren Marktoptionen aus der Unternehmensperspektive, ihrer inhaltliche Ausgestaltung und ihrer praktische Relevanz erreicht werden. Einzelne Aspekte zur Digitalisierung der beruflichen Bildung in der Schule sind Gegenstand der studentischen Transferleistung.

Startup - Lab 1 (Seminar)

Dozent/in: Tabea Brüning

Termin:
wöchentlich | Donnerstag | 14:00 - 16:00 | 13.10.2025 - 30.01.2026 | C 6.316 Seminarraum

Inhalt: STEP Sustainability is an action-oriented entrepreneurship training program with a focus an sustainable startups during which students learn practical skills in entrepreneurship and develop an entrepreneurial mindset over a period of 12 weeks. STEP is based on four core principles according to which action-oriented training programs should be designed (cf., Gielnik & Frese, 2013; Gielnik et al., 2015): • Students learn by taking action • Students learn evidence-based action principles • Students learn by receiving and giving feedback • Students learn through real entrepreneurial activities The Student Training for Entrepreneurial Promotion Sustainability (STEP S) will simultaneously be implemented at the Arab Open University (AOU) in Lebanon. As part of this initiative, two joint activities are planned: 1. A joint online STEP S session between October and December, enabling Lebanese and German students to develop ideas together and provide feedback to each other in a cross-cultural learning environment. 2. A visit by an AOU delegation to participate in the final STEP S event at Leuphana in person, which is scheduled to take place on December 18, 2025.

Vorlesungsverzeichnis

Lehrveranstaltungen

Digital Leadership (Seminar)

Digital “X” – Tensions, Dilemmas, Paradoxes, and Navigation Approaches (Seminar)

Digitalisierung: Aktuelle Themen (Seminar)

Startup - Lab 1 (Seminar)