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

    D2R2 2024: Linked Data-driven Resilience Research 2024: Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Linked Data-driven Resilience Research (D2R2'24) co-located with European Semantic Web Conference 2024 (ESWC 2024), May 27, 2024

    Holze, J. (Editor), Tramp, S. (Editor), Martin, M. (Editor), Auer, S. (Editor), Usbeck, R. (Editor) & Krdzavac, N. (Editor), 2024, Aachen: Rheinisch-Westfaelische Technische Hochschule Aachen. (CEUR Workshop Proceedings; vol. 3707)

    Research output: Books and anthologiesConference proceedingsResearch

  2. Published

    Scholarly Question Answering Using Large Language Models in the NFDI4DataScience Gateway

    Babaei Giglou, H., Taffa, T. A., Abdullah, R., Usmanova, A., Usbeck, R., D’Souza, J. & Auer, S., 2024, Natural Scientific Language Processing and Research Knowledge Graphs - 1st International Workshop, NSLP 2024, Proceedings. Rehm, G., Dietze, S., Schimmler, S. & Krüger, F. (eds.). Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland, p. 3-18 16 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); vol. 14770 LNAI).

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

  3. Published

    Master of Disaster: A Disaster-Related Event Monitoring System From News Streams

    Huang, J. & Usbeck, R., 2024

    Research output: other publicationsOtherResearch

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    Sustainability performance measurement – a framework for context-specific applications

    Damtoft, N. F., van Liempd, D. & Lueg, R., 02.01.2025, In: Journal of Global Responsibility. 16, 1, p. 162-201 40 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

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    Social Actor or Technology? Experimental Studies on the Perception of Chatbots Versus Humans and Their Implications for Anthropomorphic Chatbot Design

    Seitz, L., 27.05.2024, Lüneburg: Medien- und Informationszentrum, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg. 275 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesDissertations

  6. Published

    How Founders Harness Tensions in Hybrid Venture Development

    Munoz, P., Farny, S., Kibler, E. & Salmivaara, V., 11.2024, In: Business and Society. 63, 8, p. 1842-1886 45 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  7. Published

    Mainstreaming regenerative dynamics for sustainability

    Fischer, J., Farny, S., Abson, D. J., Zuin Zeidler, V., von Salisch, M., Schaltegger, S., Martín-López, B., Temperton, V. M. & Kümmerer, K., 08.2024, In: Nature Sustainability. 7, 8, p. 964–972 9 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  8. Published

    Feasibility study of friction stir joining of aluminium with carbon fibre reinforced thermoplastic composite

    Malaske, L., Blaga, L. A., Bermann, L., Ahmad, B., Zhang, X. & Klusemann, B., 07.2024, In: Journal of Composite Materials. 58, 17, p. 1987-2003 17 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  9. Published

    Low Resource Question Answering: An Amharic Benchmarking Dataset: An Amharic Benchmarking Dataset

    Taffa, T. A., Assabie, Y. & Usbeck, R., 2024, The Fifth Workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Languages @LREC-COLING-2024 (RAIL): Workshop Proceedings. Mabuya, R., Matfunjwa, M., Setaka, M. & van Zaanen, M. (eds.). Paris: European Language Resources Association (ELRA), p. 124-132 9 p. (LREC proceedings)( International conference on computational linguistics).

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

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    How perfect is (too) perfect? Illuminating why the perfectionism-performance-relationship is (non-)linear

    Nols, T., Kohlenberg, S. A., Klein, S. B., Boecker, L., Cross, A. E. & Loschelder, D. D., 01.10.2024, In: Personality and Individual Differences. 228, 9 p., 112725.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review