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
Lana Bartusch (Leuphana University of Lüneburg): “Becoming with Art Spaces: Threads of Organizing Otherwise”	Ongoing	Boukje Cnossen as 1^st supervisor, with Timon Beyes
Lilith Diringer (Leuphana University of Lüneburg): “Social Sustainability and New Work Practices in the Creative and Cultural Industries”	Ongoing	Boukje Cnossen as 1^st supervisor
Stephanie Heitmann (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena) “Investigating Agile Organizing from a Performative Angle”	Finished in 2025	Boukje Cnossen as 2^nd supervisor, with Stefan Strohschneider
Lena Kostuj (Leuphana University of Lüneburg and University of Groningen): “Organizing beyond the mainstream: How conspiratorial communities sustain themselves”	Ongoing	Boukje Cnossen as 1^st supervisor, with Hannah Trittin-Ulbrich, Marianne Franklin & Esteban Morales (UG)
Merle Larro (Leuphana University of Lüneburg): "Organising Ecovillages as Real-World Laboratories for Societal Transformation in Times of Crisis“	Ongoing	Boukje Cnossen as 1^st supervisor
Lillan Lommel (Leuphana University of Lüneburg): “Spatial perspectives on organizing with and for the future”	Ongoing	Boukje Cnossen as 2^nd supervisor, with Matthias Wenzel

Steffen Farny

Dissertation	Status	LOST Involvement
Alexa Böckel (Leuphana University of Lüneburg): "Entrepreneurship for the circular economy - unravelling the phenomenon"	Ongoing	Steffen Farny as 1^st supervisor
Josephine Führer (Leuphana University of Lüneburg): "Beyond beneficiaries – How work integration social enterprises shape social inclusion”	Ongoing	Steffen Farny as 1^st supervisor
Svenja Rehwinkel (Leuphana University of Lüneburg): “Tightrope Walking – Practices of Navigating Paradoxical Tensions between Social and Economic Demands"	Ongoing	Steffen Farny as 1^st supervisor
Charlotte von Wulffen (Leuphana University of Lüneburg): “Exploring the regenerative potentials of community-supported entrepreneurship"	Ongoing	Steffen Farny as 1^st supervisor

Stefanie Habersang

Dissertation	Status	LOST Involvement
Anneke Klein (Leuphana University of Lüneburg): “Strategic Change in the Oil and Gas Industry”	Ongoing	Stefanie Habersang as 1^st supervisor, with Markus Reihlen
Panida Nowa (Leuphana University of Lüneburg): “Responsible AI in Creative Industries”	Ongoing	Stefanie Habersang as 1^st 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 1^st supervisor; with Markus Reihlen

Markus Reihlen

Dissertation	Status	LOST Involvement
Christoph Seckler: “Error Cultures in Accounting Firms”,	Finished in 2014	Markus Reihlen as 1^st supervisor
Jill Küberling: “Corporate Irresponsibility”	Finished in 2019	Markus Reihlen as 1^st 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 1^st supervisor
Schwarting, Detlef: "Künstliche Intelligenz: Von der selbstverschuldeten Unmündigkeit zur Aufklärung und zurück“	Finished in 2023	Markus Reihlen as 1^st 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 2^nd 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 2^nd 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 2^ndsupervisor; with Andreas G. Scherer
Anna Stöber (CBS): “The emergence of new forms of organizing within established organizations”	Finished in 2024	Dennis Schoeneborn as 1^stsupervisor; with Markus Reihlen
Milena Leybold (University of Innsbruck): “A communication perspective on organizing membership”	Finished in 2024	Dennis Schoeneborn as 2^ndsupervisor; 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 1^stsupervisor; 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 2^ndsupervisor; with Dan Kärreman
Hannah Trittin (University of Zurich): “Transcending the organization: CSR communication in the network society”	Finished in 2016	Dennis Schoeneborn 2^ndsupervisor; with Andreas G. Scherer
Peter Winkler (University of Greifswald): “Eine PR der nächsten Gesellschaft: Ambivalenzen einer Disziplin im Wandel“	Finished in 2014	Dennis Schoeneborn 2^ndsupervisor; 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 1^stsupervisor; with Dennis Schoeneborn
Sara Maric (JKU): “Organization beyond organizations: The case of digital platform organization”	Ongoing	Elke Schüßler as 1^stsupervisor; 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 1^stsupervisor; 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 2^ndsupervisor; with Thomas Gegenhuber
Marco Steppe (FU Berlin): “Ansätze zur interorganisationalen Zusammenarbeit im Bereich Corporate Social Responsibility in Netzwerken des Einzelhandels”	Ongoing	Elke Schüßler as 2^ndsupervisor; with Jörg Sydow
Benjamin Schiemer (JKU): “Incompleteness and Closure as Drivers for Creative Processes in Digital-Physical Spaces”	Finished in 2020	Elke Schüßler as 1^stsupervisor; with Jörg Sydow

Hannah Trittin-Ulbrich

Dissertation	Status	LOST Involvement
Rudo Femuko (Leuphana University of Lüneburg): “Venture Creation and Strategies under Adversity: The Entrepreneurship of Afro-Germans”	Ongoing	Hannah Trittin-Ulbrich as 1^st 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 1^st supervisor, with Dagmar Lund-Durlacher

Ursula Weisenfeld

Dissertation	Status	LOST Involvement
Leonie Eising (Leuphana University of Lüneburg): “Entrepreneurship and systemic transformation”	Ongoing	Ursula Weisenfeld as 1^stsupervisor
Antoniya Hauerwaas (Leuphana University of Lüneburg): “Systemic innovations as mechanisms for systems transformations. Towards a better understanding of the impact of systems thinking, innovations and institutions for system change”	Finished in 2018	Ursula Weisenfeld as 1^stsupervisor
Sünje Helldorf (Leuphana University of Lüneburg): “Kompetenzentwicklung in kleinen und mittelständischen Unternehmen”	Finished in 2021	Ursula Weisenfeld as 1^stsupervisor
Thomas Maximilian Koll (Leuphana University of Lüneburg): “Zur Mikrofundierung von institutionellen Logiken Das Innovationsverhalten von Familienunternehmen während des Generationswechsels als Sinnbild für institutionelle Äquilibrationsprozesse”	Finished in 2021	Ursula Weisenfeld as 1^stsupervisor
Verena Meyer (Leuphana University of Lüneburg): “Critical Perspectives on Entrepreneurship - Challenging the Agent, the Discourse(s) and Dominant Assumptions”	Finished in 2021	Ursula Weisenfeld as 1^stsupervisor
Katarzyna Ewa Rollert (Leuphana University of Lüneburg): “Sustainability transition of the electricity system: Levels, actors and mechanisms”	Finished in 2021	Ursula Weisenfeld as 1^stsupervisor