Organizational Adaptation to Cosmological Crises: Systematic Literature Reviews on the Resilience of Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) in Armed Conflicts and Natural Disasters

Adaptation to Cosmological Crises: Ukrainian Nature Parks Since 2022 – A Qualitative Study (Ukrainian or Russian Language Required)

Strategic Mobility Management: How Communal Political Leaders’ Characteristics Affect the Symbolic Representation of “Migration,” “Immigration,” and “the Foreigner” Displayed by Immigration Offices, Their Symbolic Communication Over the Past 25 Years – Developing a Research Methodology for a Panel of Migration Offices in Europe

Corporate (Social) Responsibility in the Context of the Climate Crisis: Roles and Challenges of Business Schools

Playing with Purpose: Integrating Creative Learning Methods in Management Education

• Play is a fundamental aspect of learning, particularly in the development of children, but also retains its value in adult learning. More and more universities and management scholars already use play as a means to convey their teaching.

• The goal of this thesis is to develop a systematic overview of the various ways how play is incorporated in management education.

• This is a literature review and qualitative analysis and contains data collection and analysis.

AI in Academia: The Risks and Opportunities of AI in Higher Education Institutions

• AI is increasingly adopted in general as well as in educational institutions. Yet, the opinions regarding the potential and risks of AI in this context differ. 
• The goal of this thesis is to examine role of artificial intelligence (AI) in university settings, focusing on its applications in teaching, learning, and administrative efficiency, benefits, and associated ethical challenges. 
• This is a literature review and qualitative analysis and contains data collection and analysis. 

Breaking Barriers to Ethics: How TMT Diversity Shapes Responses to Corporate Misconduct

• Organizational misconduct is a prevalent issue across many organizations, raising critical questions about how management responds to such unethical behavior. 
• This thesis aims to explore the impact of top management team (TMT) diversity on the attention and responsiveness to organizational misconduct, wrongdoing, and crime. 
• This is a literature review.

When Guardians Falter: Exploring the Causes of Social Control Agent Failures

• The failure of social control agents—such as compliance officers, auditors, and regulatory bodies—to effectively address and mitigate organizational misconduct, wrongdoing, and crime is a pervasive issue with profound implications for organizational governance and ethical standards. 
• This thesis is a literature review that critically examines the multifaceted factors contributing to these failures by synthesizing findings from organizational behavior, management, and criminology literature. 

For more details please contact Hendrike Werwigk directly

Between the Lines: Strategic Communication in Earnings Conference Calls

• Research on strategic communication in earnings calls is scattered across disciplines which leads to a lack of unified understanding.

• Goal of the Thesis: Conduct a systematic, integrative literature review to consolidate current research on strategic communication in earnings calls. Focus on coding and review of literature.

• Type of Thesis: An integrative literature review of peer-reviewed articles.

• Project Timeline: Prepare exposé (Feb-March 2025), conduct literature review / literature coding (Mar-Apr 2025), draft main sections (Apr–May), and submit by mid-June 2025

Broader research topics

• Strategic leadership (personality traits & cognition) in digital platform ecosystems
• Platform entrepreneurship and its socio-economic impact in Sub-Saharan Africa
• Business model innovation and corporate social responsibility in the fashion industry
• NewSpace (the space industry) as emerging hypercomplex entrepreneurial ecosystem.

For more details and concrete topics please contact Moritz Maier directly

There are currently no topics supervised by Anastasiya Shylina

Broader research topics

• Formal and informal institutions influencing digital platforms

• Social evaluations (legitimacy, stigma, reputation, status, …) in the context of digital platforms

• Stigma and legitimacy in tainted industries 

For more details and concrete topics please contact Verena Kummer directly 

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