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

    Accelerators and organization studies: An introduction

    Wenzel, M., 2022, Accelerators and Organization Studies: Problematizing the Status Quo. Wemzel, M. (ed.). Lüneburg: OS insights, p. 1-4 4 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksOtherResearch

  2. Published

    Imaginary practices as the nexus between continuity and disruptive change

    Stjerne, I. S., Buch, A. & Wenzel, M., 03.10.2023, A Research Agenda for Organisational Continuity and Change. Hernes, T. & Feuls, M. (eds.). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, p. 127-145 19 p. (Elgar research agendas).

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksChapterpeer-review

  3. 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

  4. Accepted/In press

    Multimodality

    Lehrer, E., Wenzel, M. & Knight, E., 2024, (Accepted/In press) Elgar Encyclopedia of Strategy as Practice. Edward Elgar Publishing

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksChapter

  5. Accepted/In press

    Foresight

    Gattringer, R. & Wenzel, M., 2024, (Accepted/In press) Elgar Encyclopedia of Strategy as Practice. Whittington, R., Kratochvil, R., Jarzabkowski, P., Spee, P. & Seidl, D. (eds.). Edward Elgar Publishing

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksChapterpeer-review

  6. Published

    Foundations of Management & Entrepreneurship: Courses and Cases

    Wenzel, M. (Editor), 2023, 2 ed. Lüneburg: OS insights. 455 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesCollected editions and anthologiesResearch

  7. Accepted/In press

    Sensing the room: The role of atmosphere in collective sensemaking

    Knight, E., Lok, J., Jarzabkowski, P. & Wenzel, M., 2024, (Accepted/In press) In: Academy of Management Journal.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  8. Published

    CSR Communication and the Polarization of Public Discourses: Introduction to the Special Issue

    Schoeneborn, D., Golob, U., Trittin-Ulbrich, H., Wenzel, M. & O’Connor, A., 11.2024, In: Management Communication Quarterly. 38, 4, p. 751-774 24 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  9. 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

  10. Published

    Opportunity or burden? Shifting femininities and women’s experiences in a pre-professional business leadership setting

    Lommel, L., 02.2024, In: European Journal of Women's Studies. 31, 1, p. 121-133 13 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review