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. 2025
  2. Published

    RL4CO: An Extensive Reinforcement Learning for Combinatorial Optimization Benchmark

    Berto, F., Hua, C., Park, J., Luttmann, L., Ma, Y., Bu, F., Wang, J., Ye, H., Kim, M., Choi, S., Zepeda, N. G., Hottung, A., Zhou, J., Bi, J., Hu, Y., Liu, F., Kim, H., Son, J., Kim, H., Angioni, D., Kool, W., Cao, Z., Zhang, Q., Kim, J., Zhang, J., Shin, K., Wu, C., Ahn, S., Song, G., Kwon, C., Tierney, K., Xie, L. & Park, J., 03.08.2025, KDD 2025 - Proceedings of the 31st ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. Antonie, L., Pei, J. & Yu, X. (eds.). Association for Computing Machinery, p. 5278-5289 12 p. (Proceedings of the ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining; vol. 2).

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

  3. Published

    A path-centric account of action-oriented entrepreneurship training

    Gielnik, M., Blagoev, B. & Melyoki, L. L., 08.2025, In: Small Business Economics. 65, 2, p. 1241-1282 42 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  4. Published

    Navigating the dimensions of criticality: exploring reflective processes in critical entrepreneurship education

    Bohlayer, C., Timm, J. M. & Halberstadt, J., 08.2025, In: International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour and Research. 31, 8, p. 2072-2093 22 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  5. Published

    Techniques of Control for Energy Optimization in Actuators, Motors, and Power Generation Systems

    Mercorelli, P., 08.2025, In: Energies. 18, 15, 4 p., 4036.

    Research output: Journal contributionsOther (editorial matter etc.)Research

  6. Published

    Unemployment’s Life-Satisfaction Cost and Loneliness

    Friehe, T. & Pfeifer, C., 08.2025, In: Journal of Happiness Studies. 26, 6, 27 p., 102.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  7. Published

    DBLPLink 2.0 -- An Entity Linker for the DBLP Scholarly Knowledge Graph

    Banerjee, D., Taffa, T. A. & Usbeck, R., 30.07.2025

    Research output: other publicationsOtherResearch

  8. E-pub ahead of print

    Overcoming poverty and unemployment: The transfer dynamics of entrepreneurship training

    Peschmann, J., Gielnik, M., Frese, M. & Bischoff, K. M., 28.07.2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Journal of Applied Psychology. 2025

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  9. Published

    From the lab to the field and closer to the market: Production of the biopolymer cyanophycin in plants

    Huckauf, J., Weisenfeld, U. & Broer, I., 25.07.2025, In: New Biotechnology. 87, p. 29-38 10 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  10. E-pub ahead of print

    Kafka and Organization Studies

    Lohmeyer, N. & Schüßler, E. S., 20.07.2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Organization Studies. 15 p., 01708406251362926.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  11. Unpublished

    NECESSARY HRM PRACTICES FOR EXTENDED WORKING LIVES IN TIGHT AND LOOSE SOCIETIES: A COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE

    Oliveira, E., Finsel, J., Wöhrmann, A. M., Vignoli, M., Gu, X., Mykletun, R. J., Axelrad, H., Derous, E., Marzec, I., Pajic, S. & Deller, J., 19.07.2025, (Unpublished) In: Human Resource Management.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review