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

    Is the joke on you? The impact of sexist humour and gender dynamics on interpersonal work outcomes

    Bouckaert, Y., Vofrei, L., Jonczyk, N., Mertens, A., Soliman, M., Venz, L. & Loschelder, D. D., 01.2025, In: European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology. 34, 1, p. 144-159 16 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  3. Accepted/In press

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

    Hirschmann, M., Fisch, C. & Farny, S., 2025, (Accepted/In press) In: Small Business Economics.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  4. Accepted/In press

    A path-centric account of action-oriented entrepreneurship training

    Gielnik, M., Blagoev, B. & Melyoki, L. L., 2025, (Accepted/In press) In: Small Business Economics. 2025

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  5. Published

    Automatic Imitation

    Genschow, O. (Editor) & Cracco, E. (Editor), 2025, Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland AG. 355 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesCollected editions and anthologiesResearch

  6. Published

    Cultivating green innovation in established organisations and fields

    Reischauer, G., Biscaro, C. & Lefsrud, L., 2025, In: Industry and Innovation. 32, 1, p. 1-11 11 p.

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

  7. Published

    Decoding evidence-based entrepreneurship: A systematic review of meta-analytic choices and reporting

    Rauch, A., Saeed, S. & Frese, M., 2025, In: Journal of Small Business Management. 63, 4, p. 1783-1829 47 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  8. Published

    Digital technology and global mobility: Narrative review and directions for future research

    Bucher, J., Lazarova, M. & Deller, J., 2025, In: International Business Review. 34, 1, 18 p., 102294.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  9. Accepted/In press

    Emotional Dynamics of Social Comparisons: Nonlinear Relationships Between Comparison Extremity and Social Emotions, and Their Motivational Functioning

    Diel, K., Boecker, L., Lange, J., Hofmann, W. & Crusius, J., 2025, (Accepted/In press) In: Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. 17 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  10. Published

    Introduction to Automatic Imitation

    Genschow, O. & Cracco, E., 2025, Automatic Imitation. Genschow, O. & Cracco, E. (eds.). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland AG, p. 1-7 7 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksChapterpeer-review

  11. Published

    Media Review: Extrapolations - A View from OS4F

    Acosta, P., Bothello, J., Delmestri, G., Habersang, S., Gutierrez-Huerter O, G. & Schüßler, E., 2025, In: Organization Studies. 46, 3, p. 433-439 7 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsCritical reviewsResearch

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