Institute of Management and Organization

Organisational unit: Institute

Organisation profile

Organizations play a key role in our society. People create organizations to implement their plans and attain their goals. Organizations provide the structure that allows people to work towards common goals in a collaborative manner. Such collaborative efforts take place in for-profit or non-profit as well as in governmental or non-governmental organizations.

What We Do and Why

At the Institute of Management and Organization (IMO), we see it as a great responsibility to help people create, manage, and develop organizations. This includes the management and development of people working in organizations. Moreover, we believe that the management and development of organizations and people must comprehensively feature economic, ecological, social, and psychological aspects. Only such a comprehensive perspective allows to develop organizations and enrich people's lives in a meaningful manner.

Three activities are central to manage and develop organizations and the people in organizations. First, we need to understand key drivers and processes of an effective and sustainable development of people and organizations. Second, we need to incorporate this understanding of key drivers and processes in our training of future leaders and managers. Our aim is to equip students with the latest scientific know-how about managing and developing people and organizations. Third, we need to inform current practitioners about new scientific insights to continuously improve the practices implemented in organizations. Therefore, the IMO equally emphasizes the three activities: research to better understand, teaching to better train, and transfer to better inform.

The IMO combines the areas of strategy, organizational behavior, work & organizational psychology, and entrepreneurship. Furthermore, the institute integrates the fields of business administration and psychology to take an interdisciplinary perspective. Such an interdisciplinary perspective is important to fully embrace the dynamics of people and organizations. State-of-the-art approaches emphasize a close integration of both disciplines. Furthermore, the members of the institute understand themselves as an active part in the global context incorporating a strong international orientation in their research, teaching, and transfer activities.

 

Main research areas

At IMO, we want to achieve a better understanding. Specifically, we want to advance the theoretical understanding of managing and developing organizations and the people in the organizations by conducting research on strategy, management, entrepreneurship, innovation, and HR management. Furthermore, we believe that only research in line with the highest academic standards leads to scientific advancements that are meaningful for developing people and organizations.

Therefore, the institute is dedicated to research that is excellent with regard to the theoretical, conceptual, and methodological approach. We regard publishing in international top tier journals and conferences as a benchmark of excellence in research. Furthermore, we consider quantitative and qualitative research as complementary in identifying the drivers and processes of successfully managing and developing organizations and the people in organizations.

The members of the institute are widely acknowledged as internationally high profile scholars and prolific experts in the areas of strategy, entrepreneurship, innovation, organizational behavior, and (international) HR management. They combine expertise from the domains of business administration and psychology. They have published their research in international top tier entrepreneurship and management journals.

At IMO, we engage in collaborative initiatives and joint research projects. We bundle resources and foster a climate of permanent (formal and informal) exchange of ideas. The results are large research projects, for example on entrepreneurship and entrepreneurship trainings, entrepreneurial learning from failures, global mobility, and integrating refugees into the workforce.

The research projects of the institute have a strong international orientation. The research collaborations of the institute span universities from countries across the globe (e.g., USA, East and West Africa, Asia). For example, the institute conducts research projects on:

  • entrepreneurship and entrepreneurship trainings in several countries in East and West Africa, Asia, and Latin America;
  • global leadership, selection, and development in collaboration with several international universities;
  • topics of international business, in particular questions of global mobility, expatriate management, and international HR practices in countries around the globe.
  1. 2025
  2. Published

    Wissen für eine sozial-ökologische Transformation: Perspektiven der Geschlechterforschung auf Klima- und Umweltkrisen

    Brückner, M., Kreissl, K., Reitter, V. & Sardadvar, K., 12.2025, In: Osterreichische Zeitschrift fur Soziologie. 50, 1, 27 p., 11.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  3. Published

    Comparing Basic Psychological Need Satisfaction in Temporary and Permanent Nurses: A Propensity Score Matching Approach

    Kößler, F., Gahrmann, C. & Klumb, P. L., 05.09.2025, In: Occupational Health Science. 2025

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  4. Published

    Cultivating dispersed collectivity: How communities between organizations sustain employee activism

    Stöber, A. & Girschik, V., 09.2025, In: Human Relations . 78, 9, p. 1093-1122 30 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  5. Published

    Future Making: Towards a Practice Perspective

    Wenzel, M., Cabantous, L. & Koch, J., 09.2025, In: Journal of Management Studies. 62, 6, p. 2426-2451 26 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  6. Published

    Concession patterns in dyadic negotiations: Empirically contrasting sunk cost, loss aversion, and rationality predictions

    Escher, Y. A., Petrowsky, H. M., Boecker, L., Stöckli, P. L. & Loschelder, D. D., 22.08.2025, In: Negotiation and Conflict Management Research. 18, p. 165–203 3.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  7. Published
  8. E-pub ahead of print

    Unpacking olfactory marketing: initial evidence for the positive effects of scented parcels on post-order consumer responses in e-commerce

    Oberwegner, N., Cantner, F., Imschloss, M. & Zürn, M. K., 06.08.2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Marketing Letters. 14 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  9. 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

  10. 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

  11. 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

  12. 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

  13. 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

  14. 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

  15. E-pub ahead of print

    Development and Validation of the Short Form of the Later Life Workplace Index (LLWI-SF): A Study Across Ten 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.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  16. Published

    Navigating (In)Visibility: Exploring Political Dynamics in Future-Making

    Düsterbeck, J., Habersang, S. & Reihlen, M., 01.07.2025, In: Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings. 2025, 1

    Research output: Journal contributionsConference article in journalResearchpeer-review

  17. Published

    Navigating the Family Support Paradox in Female Entrepreneurship – A Developing Country Perspective

    Hundera, M., Mensmann, M. & Habersang, S., 07.2025, In: Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings. 2025, 1

    Research output: Journal contributionsConference article in journalResearchpeer-review

  18. Published

    Toward Holistic Stakeholder Engagement: Integrating Participation, Inclusion, and Democracy

    Wenzel, M., Trittin-Ulbrich, H., Edinger-Schons, L. M., Castelló, I. & de Bakker, F. G. A., 07.2025, In: Business and Society. 64, 6, p. 1055-1076 22 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearch

  19. E-pub ahead of print

    The Past, Present and Future of the Corporate Actor: Ontological, Epistemological and Theoretical Considerations

    Haase, M., Schuessler, E., Schmiel, U., Ortmann, G., Suchanek, A. & Schoeneborn, D., 16.06.2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Schmalenbach Journal of Business Research.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  20. Published

    An extended active learning framework of entrepreneurship education and training

    Gielnik, M. & Glosenberg, A., 10.06.2025, In: Foundations and Trends in Entrepreneurship. 21, 8, p. 828-918 91 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsScientific review articlesResearch

  21. E-pub ahead of print

    Politicized Framing of the Future: Encouraging Innovation in Mature Ecosystems in the Face of Asymmetric De Alio Entrants

    Reischauer, G., Engelmann, A. & Hoffmann, W. H., 08.06.2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Journal of Management Studies. 33 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  22. Published

    Maladaptive working time strategies and exhaustion: A Daily Diary Study on Violating Breaks, Working Faster, and Working Overtime

    Venz, L. & Wöhrmann, A. M., 06.06.2025, In: Sozialpolitik.ch. 2025, 1, 27 p., 1.2.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  23. E-pub ahead of print

    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., 04.06.2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Group Decision and Negotiation. 26 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  24. Published

    Biodiversity loss and entrepreneurship: Empirical evidence on threat perceptions among primary-sector entrepreneurs in 28 European countries

    Hirschmann, M., Fisch, C. & Farny, S., 06.2025, In: Journal of Business Venturing Insights. 23, 12 p., e00529.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  25. Published

    Institutional logics and business models of digital niche marketplaces

    Holzmann, P., Gregori, P., Bohn, S., Reischauer, G., Friederici, N. & Lehdonvirta, V., 06.2025, In: Information and Organization. 35, 2, 16 p., 100575.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  26. Published

    Neither Employment nor Self-Employment: Avenues Towards Functional Platform-Mediated Work Systems

    Maric, S., Schüßler, E. & Thäter, L., 06.2025, In: British Journal of Industrial Relations. 63, 2, p. 287-304 18 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  27. Published

    Working conditions and organizational practices to support well-being of multiage workforce in Germany, USA, Japan, and South Korea

    Deller, J., Gu, X., Choi, S.-J. & Wöhrmann, A. M., 28.05.2025, In: Public Administration and Policy. 28, 1, p. 88-100 13 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  28. Published

    An attention‑based perspective on how climate impact affects opportunity entrepreneurship

    Hirschmann, M., Fisch, C. & Farny, S., 16.05.2025, In: Small Business Economics.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  29. E-pub ahead of print

    Forms of theorising in entrepreneurship – The case of effectuation as a theory

    Meyer, V. & Tegtmeier, S., 14.05.2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Scandinavian Journal of Management. 6 p., 101427.

    Research output: Journal contributionsComments / Debate / ReportsResearch

  30. E-pub ahead of print

    The Manifold Impacts of Management Research

    Wenzel, M., Gylfe, P., Mantere, S. & Cornelissen, J., 14.05.2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Journal of Management Studies.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  31. Published

    Social identity and place-based dynamics in community resilience building for natural disasters: an integrative framework

    Farny, S. & Dentoni, D., 05.2025, In: Ecology and Society. 30, 2, 14 p., 12.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  32. Published

    Work Design and Performance

    Ohly, S. & Venz, L., 05.2025, Transformative Work Design: Synthesis and New Directions. Parker, S. K., Klonek, F. E., Knight, C. & Zhang, F. (eds.). Oxford University Press, p. 147-174 28 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksChapterpeer-review

  33. Published

    Family, Work, and the Retirement Process: A Review and New Directions

    Finsel, J., Matthews, R. & Fisher, G., 22.04.2025, The Oxford Handbook of Retirement. Wang, M. (ed.). Second Edition ed. Oxford University Press

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksChapter

  34. Published

    Sensing the room: The role of atmosphere in collective sensemaking

    Knight, E., Lok, J., Jarzabkowski, P. & Wenzel, M., 01.04.2025, In: Academy of Management Journal. 68, 2, p. 326-356 31 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  35. Published

    Advancing Qualitative Meta-Studies (QMS): Current Practices and Reflective Guidelines for Synthesizing Qualitative Research

    Habersang, S. & Reihlen, M., 04.2025, In: Organizational Research Methods. 28, 2, p. 210-244 35 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  36. Published

    Inequality Regimes in Coworking Spaces: How New Forms of Organising (Re)produce Inequalities

    Knappert, L., Cnossen, B. & Ortlieb, R., 04.2025, In: Work, Employment and Society. 39, 1, p. 43-63 21 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  37. Published

    Trust in scientists and their role in society across 68 countries

    Author Collaboration of " Trust in scientists and their role in society across 68 countries", Cologna, V., Mede, N. G., Berger, S., Besley, J., Brick, C., Genschow, O. & Westfal, M., 04.2025, In: Nature Human Behaviour. 9, 4, p. 713-730 18 p., e2108576118.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  38. E-pub ahead of print

    Composing with the terra fluida of interaction: new paths for CCO research as relational practice

    Mallette, S., Nathues, E., Cnossen, B. & Brummans, B. H. J. M., 25.03.2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management. 19 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesEducationpeer-review

  39. Published

    Multimodality in Strategy-as-Practice Research

    Knight, E. & Wenzel, M., 11.03.2025, Cambridge Handbook of Strategy as Practice. Golsorkhi, D., Rouleau, L., Seidl, D. & Vaara, E. (eds.). 3 ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. 729-739 11 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksChapterpeer-review

  40. Published

    An entrepreneurial roadmap for the future of workplace learning

    Glosenberg, A., Gielnik, M. & Steffens, P., 07.03.2025, In: Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Perspectives on Science and Practice. 18, 1, p. 162-166 5 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsComments / Debate / ReportsResearch

  41. Published

    Shape-shifting: How boundary objects affect meaning-making across visual, verbal, and embodied modes

    Nathues, E., van Vuuren, M., Endedijk, M. D. & Wenzel, M., 03.2025, In: Human Relations. 78, 3, p. 279-311 33 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  42. Published

    Imitation as social influence

    Genschow, O. & Oomen, D., 28.02.2025, Research Handbook on social influence. Prislin, R. (ed.). Edward Elgar Publishing, p. 227-242 16 p. (Research Handbooks on Social Psychology series).

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksChapterpeer-review

  43. E-pub ahead of print

    The Mission (Im)possible of Climate Action through Quixotic Institutional Work

    Delmestri, G. & Schüßler, E. S., 22.02.2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Journal of Management Studies. 21 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  44. Published

    Bearing fruit: Interpersonal competency development in sustainability education

    Konrad, T. & Freeth, R., 20.02.2025, The Routledge Handbook of Global Sustainability Education and Thinking for the 21st Century. John, M. (ed.). Taylor and Francis Inc., p. 420-435 16 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksChapterpeer-review

  45. Published

    Later Life Workplace Index (LLWI): Handbuch und Fragebogen zu betrieblichen Maßnahmen für ältere Beschäftigte

    Finsel, J., Skib, V., Wilckens, M., Deller, J. & Wöhrmann, A. M., 19.02.2025, 1. Auflage ed. Dortmund: Bundesanstalt für Arbeitsschutz und Arbeitsmedizin. 162 p. (baua: Praxis)

    Research output: Books and anthologiesBook

  46. Published

    Meeting the Challenges of Flexible Work Designs: Effects of an Intervention Based on Self-Regulation on Detachment, Well-being, and Work-Family Conflict

    Althammer, S. E., Woehrmann, A. M. & Michel, A., 01.02.2025, In: Journal of Happiness Studies. 26, 2, 28 p., 18.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  47. Published

    A Configurational Approach to Investigating the Relationship Between Organizational Culture and Organizational Effectiveness Using Fuzzy-Set Analysis

    Puppatz, M., Wang, M. & Deller, J., 02.2025, In: Group and Organization Management. 50, 1, p. 3-40 38 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  48. Published

    Validation of an online imitation-inhibition task

    Westfal, M., Cracco, E., Crusius, J. & Genschow, O., 02.2025, In: Behavior Research Methods. 57, 2, 24 p., 80.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  49. Published

    Self-Control Following Prior Exertion: An Empirical Test of the Motivational Shift and Compensatory Effort Hypotheses

    Mlynski, C., Roth, L., Loschelder, D. D., Gieseler, K., Job, V. & Friese, M., 30.01.2025, In: Collabra: Psychology. 11, 1, 14 p., 128616.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  50. Published

    Perceptions of science, science communication, and climate change attitudes in 68 countries - the TISP dataset

    Author Collaboration for "Perceptions of science, science communication, and climate change attitudes in 68 countries - the TISP dataset", Mede, N. G., Cologna, V., Berger, S., Besley, J., Genschow, O. & Westfal, M., 20.01.2025, In: Scientific data. 12, 1, 27 p., 114.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  51. Published

    Creating a trusting environment in the sharing economy: Unpacking mechanisms for trust-building used by peer-to-peer carpooling platforms

    Hartl, B., Penz, E. & Schuessler, E., 15.01.2025, In: Journal of Cleaner Production. 489, 10 p., 144661.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

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