• Warm breeze or burning firestorm: Framing of the global climate crisis in executive communication
• Corporate (social) responsibility in the context of the climate crisis: Roles and challenges of Business Schools
• Strategies for B-Schools: A comparative study of strategies and strategic discourse of German business schools, and strategy review of the WIWI-Faculty’s strategic discourse and positioning  
• Strategic mobility management: European immigration offices, their symbolic communication, and municipal political orientations over the past 25 years
• Adaptation to cosmological crisis: Ukrainian nature parks since 2022

For more details please contact Prof. Dr. König directly.

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

There are currently no Bachelor thesis topics supervised by Friederike Hawighorst

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

Qualitative Comparative Analysis in Management Research

• Qualitative Comparative Analysis, a research method combining qualitative and quantitative elements, has been gaining popularity across research disciplines. This configurational approach towards data analysis challenges the linear relationships proposed by quantitative studies, while adding qualitative nuance to the analyzed outcomes.

• The goal of the thesis is to summarize the usages of the QCA method in (strategic) management research published in A and A+ journals. This literature review should focus on the types of the research questions, collected data, outcomes, and the limitations that this methodology has.

• Literature review

For more details please contact Anastasiya Shylina directly

Stigma in the Digital World: A Literature Review

• Stigma is a negative social judgment or disapproval attached to a person, group, or entity often leading to discrimination or exclusion. The thesis should focus on the events that lead to the stigmatization of certain digital firms or even industries as well as the dimensions of “core stigma” related to these firms and industries. Furthermore, this thesis should consider the strategies that digital firms deploy to deflect stigma.

• This literature review aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the extant studies on stigma in the digital world, published in highly-ranked management journals.

For more details please contact Verena Kummer directly.

Please apply using the application form. The application window extends from November 08 - 18, 2024, 23:59.

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