Organisation profile

EMPOWERING MINDS. INSPIRING INNOVATIONS. SHAPING TRANSFORMATIONS.

As part of Leuphana University, the School of Management and Technology is a dynamic and innovative community of students and faculty with high-level expertise in the fields of organization studies, responsible management, entrepreneurship, product development process, digital transformation and data science, and psychology and societal transformation. Our core aspiration is driving innovation in management and technology to shape responsible and sustainable transformations. In our research, we pioneer understandings of and solutions to the core challenges of our time, such as digitalization and sustainable production. In our teaching, we challenge conventional wisdom and inspire entrepreneurial thinking and responsible action. In business and society, we team up with local and international partners to contribute to the regional development of northern Germany. We value the interrelationships between disciplines, which is reflected in our interdisciplinary degree programs and collaboration in research.

 

The School of Management and Technology is home to the disciplines of Accounting and Finance, Business Psychology, Business Information Systems, Engineering, Management and Marketing. We support the respective identities and profile development of the disciplines, while also promoting interdisciplinary research and teaching in the shape of programs of study and research centers. This interdisciplinary approach is characterized by a commitment to responsibility and helping meet societal challenges.

Main research areas

The School of Management and Technology is the academic and professional home to 1,500 bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral students, more than 50 professors, more than 70 research associates and research assistants, 36 professional staff members.

The main themes of the school are reflected in its study programs: The 3 major and 7 minor programs at the College, 5 master's programs and 4 doctoral programs at the Graduate School provide academic training. The doctoral programs focus on (1.) Entrepreneurship, Management and Innovation (EMI), (2.) Information Systems and Data Science, (3.) Engineering and (4.) Management, Finance and Accounting.

In total, we offer 16 programs of study in the disciplines of Business Administration (in particular Accounting and Finance), Business Information Systems, Business Psychology, Engineering and Management.  

  1. Published

    What Provides Justification for Cheating-Producing or Observing Counterfactuals?

    Bassarak, C., Leib, M., Mischkowski, D., Strang, S., Glöckner, A. & Shalvi, S., 10.2017, In: Journal of Behavioral Decision Making. 30, 4, p. 964-975 12 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  2. Published

    What’s Hot: Machine Learning for the Quantified Self: On the Art of Learning from Sensory Data

    Hoogendoorn, M. & Funk, B., 28.09.2017

    Research output: other publicationsArticles in scientific forums or blogsResearchpeer-review

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    What's on in Arts Marketing Research?

    Holst, C., Myers, E. M. & Bekmeier-Feuerhahn, S., 01.12.2021, In: Journal of Cultural Management and Cultural Policy. 7, 2, p. 201-214 14 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

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    What workers want: job satisfaction in the U.S.

    Humpert, S., 03.2016, In: Management Research and Practice. 8, 1, p. 39-45 7 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

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    When and how does anger during goal pursuit relate to goal achievement? The roles of persistence and action planning

    Schmitt, A., Gielnik, M. M. & Seibel, S., 01.04.2019, In: Motivation and Emotion. 43, 2, p. 205-217 13 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

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    When capital does not matter: How entrepreneurship training buffers the negative effect of capital constraints on business creation

    Bischoff, K. M., Gielnik, M. M. & Frese, M., 01.09.2020, In: Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal. 14, 3, p. 369-395 27 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

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    When I'm sixty-four... Unterschiede der früheren beruflichen Tätigkeit zur Aktivität im Ruhestand

    Maxin, L. & Deller, J., 2011, Arbeit - Organisation - Wirtschaft: Wissenschaft für die Praxis : 7. Tagung der Fachgruppe Arbeits-, Organisations- und Wirtschaftspsychologie der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie. Nerdinger, F. W. & Curth, S. (eds.). Universität Rostock, p. 35 1 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksArticle in conference proceedingsResearch

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    When passions collide: Passion convergence in entrepreneurial teams

    Uy, M. A., Jacob, G. H., Gielnik, M. M., Frese, M., Antonio, T., Wonohadidjojo, D. M. & Christina, C., 01.06.2021, In: Journal of Applied Psychology. 106, 6, p. 902-920 19 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

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    When the petting zoo spawns into monsters: open dialogue and a venture’s legitimacy quest in crowdfunding

    Gegenhuber, T. & Naderer, S., 02.01.2019, In: Innovation: Organization & Management. 21, 1, p. 151-186 36 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  10. Published

    Where Are the Organizations? Accounting for the Fluidity and Ambiguity of Organizing in the Arts

    Cnossen, B., 07.04.2022, The Routledge Handbook of the Communicative Constitution of Organization. Basque, J., Bencherki, N. & Kuhn, T. (eds.). New York: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, p. 453-465 13 p. (Routledge studies in communication, organization, and organizing).

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearchpeer-review