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

    Unions as insurance: Workplace unionization and workers' outcomes during COVID-19

    Braakmann, N. & Hirsch, B., 04.2024, In: Industrial Relations. 63, 2, p. 152-171 20 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  2. Published

    Institutional ownership and board governance. A structured literature review on the heterogeneous monitoring role of institutional investors

    Velte, P., 16.02.2024, In: Corporate Governance (Bingley). 24, 2, p. 225-263 39 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsScientific review articlesResearch

  3. Published

    Worlds Apart: Does Perceptual Congruence Between Leaders and Older Employees Regarding Age-Friendly Organizational Climate, Management, and Work Design Matter?

    Finsel, J., Venz, L., Wöhrmann, A. M., Wilckens, M. R. & Deller, J., 13.04.2024, In: Work, Aging and Retirement. 10, 2, p. 123-137 15 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  4. Published
  5. E-pub ahead of print

    The Manifold Impacts of Management Research

    Wenzel, M., Gylfe, P., Mantere, S. & Cornelissen, J., 14.05.2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Journal of Management Studies.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  6. Published

    Analyzing the Influence of Knowledge Graph Information on Relation Extraction

    Möller, C. & Usbeck, R., 2025, The Semantic Web. Curry, E., Acosta, M., Poveda-Villalón, M., van Erp, M., Ojo, A., Hose, K., Shimizu, C. & Lisena, P. (eds.). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland AG, p. 460-480 21 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksArticle in conference proceedingsResearchpeer-review

  7. Published

    Insight into the self-healing performance of dicalcium phosphate dihydrate coating on magnesium wires: Its damage and anti-corrosive behavior under deformation

    Zhang, Y., Nie, T., Chen, D., Jiang, G., Xu, W., Liu, H., Qian, K., Ju, J., Chu, C., Xue, F., Huang, Y., Hort, N. & Bai, J., 09.2025, In: Corrosion Science. 254, 17 p., 113051.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  8. Published

    Institutional logics and business models of digital niche marketplaces

    Reischauer, G., 2025, In: Information and Organization. 35, 2, 100575.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  9. Published

    Bridge-Generate: Scholarly Hybrid Question Answering

    Taffa, T. A. & Usbeck, R., 2025, Companion Proceedings of the ACM on Web Conference 2025, WWW 2025, Sydney, NSW, Australia, 28 April 2025 - 2 May 2025. Long, G., Blumestein, M., Chang, Y., Lewin-Eytan, L., Huang, Z. H. & Yom-Tov, E. (eds.). Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, p. 1321-1325 5 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksArticle in conference proceedingsResearchpeer-review

  10. Accepted/In press

    Friction stir welding of the dissimilar materials AA6082 and AISI316 for marine applications

    Bergmann, L., Mello Callil, V., Meirelles Azevedo Gomes, E. V., Igor Lourenço De Souza, M., Caprace, J. D., dos Santos, J. F., Bergmann, J. P. & Klusemann, B., 2025, (Accepted/In press) In: International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology. 14 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review