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

    Augmented design automation: Leveraging parametric designs using large language models

    Schöfer, F. & Seibel, A., 01.08.2025, In: Proceedings of the Design Society. 5, p. 671-680 10 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsConference article in journalResearchpeer-review

  4. Published

    Driving circularity - An approach to identify potentials for circular design of automotive electronics

    Peitzmeier, H., Tebruegge, C., Bouattour, G. & Seibel, A., 01.08.2025, In: Proceedings of the Design Society. 5, p. 1395-1404 10 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsConference article in journalResearchpeer-review

  5. Published

    Functional decomposition of technical products based on large language models and Monte Carlo tree search

    Haddad, M. S. & Seibel, A., 01.08.2025, In: Proceedings of the Design Society. 5, p. 1913-1922 10 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsConference article in journalResearchpeer-review

  6. Published

    ReqGPT: a fine-tuned large language model for generating requirements documents

    Schiller, K. A., Haddad, M. S. & Seibel, A., 01.08.2025, In: Proceedings of the Design Society. 5, p. 2741-2750 10 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsConference article in journalResearchpeer-review

  7. 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

  8. Published

    Enhancing Invoice Recognition with LLM Embeddings in GAT Networks

    Thiée, L. W. & Funk, B., 08.2025, Americas Conference on Information Systems, AMCIS 2025. The Association for Information Systems (AIS), p. 4483-4492 10 p. (Americas Conference on Information Systems, AMCIS 2025; vol. 7).

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

  9. 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

  10. Published

    Optimizing counteroffers: How timing and magnitude shape sale prices and impasses in 26 million asynchronous online negotiations

    Teichmann, L., Petrowsky, H. M., Escher, Y. A., Lee, A. J. & Loschelder, D. D., 08.2025, In: Group Decision and Negotiation. 34, 4, p. 823-848 26 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  11. 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

  12. 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

  13. Published

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

    Banerjee, D., Taffa, T. A. & Usbeck, R., 30.07.2025, Industry, Doctoral Consortium, Posters and Demos at ISWC 2025: Joint Proceedings of Industry, Doctoral Consortium, Posters and Demos of the 24th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC-C 2025) Nara, Japan, November 2-6, 2025.. Celino, I., Hassanzadeh, O., Bernstein, A., Noy, N., Cheng, G., Wang, S., Ferrada, S., Kozaki, T., Takeda, H. & Gentile, A. L. (eds.). Aachen: Sun Site Central Europe (RWTH Aachen University), Vol. 4085. p. 435-440 6 p. (CEUR Workshop Proceedings; vol. 4085).

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

  14. 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

  15. 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

  16. 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

  17. Published

    Policy document 4: AGE AND DIGITALIZATION IN WORK: COST Action CA21107 “Work inequalities in later life redefined by digitalization” (DIGI-net), supported by COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology)

    Genkova, P., Rašticová, M., Tometten, L., Langmann, E., Deller, J., Wehage, M., Mosene, K., Kater, M., Stratmann, L., Gehring, L., Lang, F., von Redwitz, A. & Walwei, U., 18.07.2025, 20 p.

    Research output: Working paperWorking papers

  18. Published

    Strategiepapier 4: ALTER UND DIGITALISIERUNG IM ARBEITSKONTEXT: COST Action CA21107 “Work inequalities in later life redefined by digitalization” (DIGI-net), supported by COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology)

    Genkova, P., Rašticová, M., Tometten, L., Langmann, E., Deller, J., Wehage, M., Mosene, K., Kater, M., Stratmann, L., Gehring, L., von Redwitz, A. & Walwei, U., 18.07.2025, 20 p.

    Research output: Working paperWorking papers

  19. Published

    Automating SPARQL Query Translations between DBpedia and Wikidata

    Bartels, M. C., Banerjee, D. & Usbeck, R., 14.07.2025, Linking Meaning: Semantic Technologies Shaping the Future of AI: Cover 74617 Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Semantic Systems, 3-5 September 2025, Vienna, Austria. Spahiu, B., Vahdati, S., Salatino, A., Pellegrini, T. & Havur, G. (eds.). IOS Press BV, p. 176-193 18 p. (Studies on the Semantic Web; vol. 62).

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

  20. E-pub ahead of print

    Development and validation of the short form of the Later Life Workplace Index: a study across 10 countries

    Finsel, J., Axelrad, H., Choi, S. J., Derous, E., Gu, X., Guandalini, P., Ha, J., Kim, E. S., Marzec, I., Mykletun, R. J., Oliveira, E., Pajic, S., Schellaert, M., van der Heijden, B. I. J. M., Vignoli, M., Wöhrmann, A. M. & Deller, J., 12.07.2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Work, Aging and Retirement. 20 p., waaf006.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  21. E-pub ahead of print

    The Downward Spiral of Legitimacy Erosion: Lessons on Network Governance Failure During the German “Refugee Crisis”

    Seidemann, I., Weißmüller, K. S. & Geiger, D., 09.07.2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Public Administration Review . 17 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review