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. Published

    Future work: Toward a practice perspective

    Wenzel, M., Krämer, H., Koch, J. & Reckwitz, A., 2023, Organization as time: Technology, Power and Politics. Vaujany, F. X. D., Holt, R. & Grandazzi, A. (eds.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. 136-155 20 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksChapter

  2. Published

    Imagining ways forward

    Wenzel, M., 2023, Imagination and Organization Studies: Insights and Reflections. Wenzel, M. (ed.). Lüneburg: OS insights, p. 43-46 4 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksOtherResearch

  3. Published

    Imagination and organization studies: An introduction

    Wenzel, M., 2023, Imagination and Organization Studies: Insights and Reflections. Wenzel, M. (ed.). Lüneburg: OS insights, p. 1-5 5 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksOtherResearch

  4. Published

    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

  5. Published

    Why study International Business Administration and Entrepreneurship?

    Wenzel, M., 2023, Foundations of Management & Entrepreneurship: Courses and Cases. Wenzel, M. (ed.). 1 ed. Lüneburg: OS insights, p. 1-6 6 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksOtherResearch

  6. Published

    Foundations of Management & Entrepreneurship: Courses and Cases

    Wenzel, M. (Editor), 2023, Lüneburg: OS insights. 435 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesCollected editions and anthologiesResearch

  7. Published

    Imagination and Organization Studies: Insights and Reflections

    Wenzel, M. (Editor), 2023, Lüneburg: OS insights. 46 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesCollected editions and anthologiesResearch

  8. Published

    Das Streben nach Sicherheit in Organisationen: Zwischen Reflex und Reflexion

    Koch, J. & Wenzel, M., 10.2023, In: Zeitschrift für Führung und Organisation. 92, 5, p. 273-275 3 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  9. Published

    "Do as we say and you’ll be successful": Mundane power in corporate entrepreneurship

    Skade, L., Wenzel, M. & Koch, J., 05.2024, In: Journal of Product Innovation Management. 41, 3, p. 623-643 21 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  10. Published

    Challenging the status quo of accelerator research: Concluding remarks

    Wenzel, M., 2022, Accelerators and Organization Studies: Problematizing the Status Quo . Wenzel, M. (ed.). Lüneburg: OS insights, p. 47-50 4 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksOtherResearch