Professorship for Business Administration, in Particular Organization Studies

Organisational unit: Professoship

Organisation profile

The Professorship for Organization Studies examines contemporary organizational, strategic and entrepreneural practices as well as their societal implications. Being anchored in the broader social sciences, the professorship advances an interdisciplinary research program, that is embedded in contemporary discourses in management and organization research. In teaching, the team contributes an extensive portfolio of courses and seminars to the Leuphana College, the Graduate School, and the Professional School, and supervises final theses in the areas of organization, strategy, and entrepreneurship.

Main research areas

The research projects at the Professorship for Organization Studies aim to better understand contemporary organizational, strategic and entrepreneural practices and their social impact. The social-scientific, mostly practical-theoretical orientation of the research projects is decisive for this, as it sharpens the view for the subtle, partly profane, but nevertheless effective activities in organizations through which work is coordinated and strategies are produced.
The research activities of the team are not dogmatically bound to specific research methods. Nevertheless, the team has acquired specialized knowledge in the field of qualitative research, which also includes less conventional methods, e.g. in the areas of video analysis and discourse analysis.

  1. Organizing for innovation through accelerators: An introduction

    Wenzel, M., 2022, Organizing for Innovation: The Case of Accelerators. Wenzel, M. (ed.). Lüneburg: OS insights, p. 1-4 4 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksOtherResearch

  2. Organizing for innovation through accelerators: Concluding remarks

    Wenzel, M., 2022, Organizing for Innovation: The Case of Accelerators. Wenzel, M. (ed.). Lüneburg: OS insights, p. 123-126 4 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksOtherResearch

  3. Principles of Business Administration and Entrepreneurship: Concepts and cases

    Wenzel, M. (Editor), 2021, (Accepted/In press) Kindle Direct Publishing.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesCollected editions and anthologiesResearch

  4. Projectification without projects? Theorizing temporal structures of agile-based organizing

    Geraldi, J., Stjerne, I. & Wenzel, M., 11.2025, In: International Journal of Project Management. 43, 8, 13 p., 102786.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  5. Restoring reflection in management education

    Wenzel, M., 2023, Foundations of Management & Entrepreneurship: Courses and Cases. Wenzel, M. (ed.). 1 ed. Lüneburg: OS insights, p. 431-435 5 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksOtherResearch

  6. Reviewing is caring! Revaluing a critical, but invisibilized, underappreciated, and exploited academic practice

    Dobusch, L., Plotnikof, M. & Wenzel, M., 2025, (Accepted/In press) In: Organization. 17 p., 13505084251343672.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  7. Safer Spaces: Lernfähigkeit und Inklusion gestalten und fördern

    Kümper, J., Stanske, S. & Wenzel, M., 01.02.2022, In: Zeitschrift für Führung und Organisation. 91, 1, p. 30-34 5 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  8. SAP at SMS

    Wenzel, M., Canales, J. I., Splitter, V. & Langenmayr, T., 2024, (Accepted/In press) Elgar Encyclopedia of Strategy as Practice. Edward Elgar Publishing

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksChapter

  9. Schlussbemerkungen

    Wenzel, M., 2021, (Accepted/In press) Strategische Organisation: : Konzepte und Perspektiven . Kindle Direct Publishing, Vol. Vol. 1.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearch

  10. 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