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

    Incorporating Type Information into Zero-Shot Relation Extraction

    Möller, C. & Usbeck, R., 2024, TEXT2KG 2024 and DQMLKG 2024 : 3rd International workshop one knowledge graph generation from text. Data Quality meets Machine Learning and Knowledge Graphs 2024. Tiwari, S., Mihindukulasooriya, N., Osborne, F., Kontokostas, D., D'Souza, J., Kejriwal, M., Pellegrino, M. A., Rula, A., Labra Gayo, J. E., Cochez, M. & Alam, M. (eds.). Aachen: Sun Site Central Europe (RWTH Aachen University), 10 p. (CEUR Workshop Proceedings; vol. 3747).

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksConference contributionpeer-review

  2. Published

    Making the most out of timeseries symptom data: A machine learning study on symptom predictions of internet-based CBT

    Hentati Isacsson, N., Zantvoort, K., Forsell, E., Boman, M. & Kaldo, V., 12.2024, In: Internet Interventions. 38, 8 p., 100773.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  3. Published

    Insight into layer formation during friction surfacing: Relationship between deposition behavior and microstructure

    Hoffmann, M., Kallien, Z., Antunes Duda, E. & Klusemann, B., 12.2024, In: Materials Today Communications. 41, 13 p., 110337.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  4. Published

    Special Issue: What do social and environmental responsibilities mean in the ‘Global South’? Towards pluriversal perspectives in management studies

    Acosta, P., Banerjee, B. (Editor), Bothello, J. (Editor), Habersang, S. (Editor), Nkomo, S. (Editor) & Potočnik, K. (Editor), 2025, John Wiley & Sons Inc. (Journal of Management Studies)

    Research output: Books and anthologiesSpecial Journal issueResearch

  5. E-pub ahead of print

    Media Review: Extrapolations - A View from OS4F

    Acosta, P., Bothello, J., Delmestri, G., Habersang, S., Gutierrez, G. & Schüßler, E., 09.2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Organization Studies.

    Research output: Journal contributionsCritical reviewsResearch

  6. Published

    Use Cases for Artificial Intelligence in the Product Experimentation Lifecycle

    Stotz, N. & Drews, P., 2025, Product-Focused Software Process Improvement: 25th International Conference, PROFES 2024 Tartu, Estonia, December 2–4, 2024; Proceedings. Pfahl, D., Gonzalez Huerta, J., Klünder, J. & Anwar, H. (eds.). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland AG, p. 289-304 16 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; vol. 15452).

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

  7. In preparation

    Reporting and Analysing the Environmental Impact of Language Models on the Example of Commonsense Question Answering with External Knowledge

    Usmanova, A., Huang, J., Banerjee, D. & Usbeck, R., 2024, (In preparation) Sustainable AI Conference 2023: Sustainable AI Across Borders: Conference Proceedings. Vol. abs/2408.01453.

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

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    Do audit committees impact corporate social responsibility? A review of empirical quantitative research and research opportunities

    Velte, P., 01.2025, In: Corporate Governance (Bingley). 25, 8, p. 1-20 20 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsScientific review articlesResearch