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

    Frames of systems change in sustainability transformations: Lessons from sociotechnical systems and circular economy case studies

    Eising, L., Savaget, P., Zomer, T. & Brophy, A., 10.11.2024, In: Journal of Cleaner Production. 479, 13 p., 143976.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  2. Published

    Bridging the Gap: Generating a Comprehensive Biomedical Knowledge Graph Question Answering Dataset

    Yan, X., Westphal, P., Seliger, J. & Usbeck, R., 16.10.2024, ECAI 2024 : 27th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 19-24 October 2024, Santiago de Compostela, Spain; including 13th Conference on Prestigious Applications of Intelligent Systems (PAIS 2024), Proceedings. Endriss, U., Melo, F. S., Bach, K., Diz, A. J. B., Alonso-Moral, J. M., Barro, S. & Heintz, F. (eds.). Amsterdam: IOS Press BV, p. 1198-1205 8 p. (Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications; vol. 392).

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

  3. Published

    Comparison between UKF and EKF in Sensorless Synchronous Reluctance Motor Drives

    Rigon, S., Haus, B., Mercorelli, P. & Zigliotto, M., 2024, In: IEEE Open Journal of Power Electronics. 5, p. 1562-1572 11 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  4. Published

    Institutional dual ownership and voluntary greenhouse gas emission disclosure

    Barg, J. A., Drobetz, W., Ghoul, S. E., Guedhami, O. & Schröder, H., 12.2024, In: Journal of Corporate Finance. 89, 22 p., 102671.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

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    Corporate social responsibility sophistication: Company-specific drivers among early and late adopters

    Kunkel, K., Wigge, K. & Lueg, R., 01.2025, In: Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management. 32, 1, p. 894-910 17 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  6. Published

    Analysis of the relevance of models, influencing factors and the point in time of the forecast on the prediction quality in order-related delivery time determination using machine learning

    Rokoss, A., Popkes, L. & Schmidt, M., 2024, Proceedings of the CPSL 2024. Herberger, D. & Hübner, M. (eds.). Hannover: publish-Ing., p. 415-431 17 p. (Proceedings of the Conference on Production Systems and Logistics; vol. 2024).

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

  7. Published

    Entity Linking with Out-of-Knowledge-Graph Entity Detection and Clustering Using Only Knowledge Graphs

    Möller, C. & Usbeck, R., 11.09.2024, Knowledge Graphs in the Age of Language Models and Neuro-Symbolic AI- : Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Semantic Systems, 17-19 September 2024, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Salatino, A. A., Alam, M., Ongenae, F., Vahdati, S., Gentile, A. L., Pellegrini, T. & Jiang, S. (eds.). Amsterdam: IOS Press BV, p. 88-105 18 p. (Studies on the Semantic Web; vol. 60).

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

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    Einfluss von sinterunterlagen auf den bauteilverzug im metal binder jetting-prozess bauteilverzug im metal binder jetting

    Blunk, H., Dettmar, B. F. & Seibel, A., 2024, In: WT Werkstattstechnik. 114, 6, p. 367-372 6 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

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    Visual Detection of Traffic Incident through Automatic Monitoring of Vehicle Activities

    Karim, A., Raza, M. A., Alharthi, Y. Z., Abbas, G., Othmen, S., Hossain, M. S., Nahar, A. & Mercorelli, P., 09.2024, In: World Electric Vehicle Journal. 15, 9, 19 p., 382.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review