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. Foundations of Management & Entrepreneurship: Concepts and Cases

    Wenzel, M. (Editor), 2022, 2 ed. Lüneburg: OS insights. 333 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesCollected editions and anthologiesResearch

  2. Foundations of Management & Entrepreneurship: Concepts and Cases

    Wenzel, M. (Editor), 2022, 1 ed. Lüneburg: OS insights. 390 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesCollected editions and anthologiesResearch

  3. Foundations of Management & Entrepreneurship: Courses and Cases

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

    Research output: Books and anthologiesCollected editions and anthologiesResearch

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

    Meyer, V. & Tegtmeier, S., 09.2025, In: Scandinavian Journal of Management. 41, 3, 6 p., 101427.

    Research output: Journal contributionsComments / Debate / ReportsResearch

  5. 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. Feedback on creative ideas: Toward a communicative and creative action perspective

    Hartmann, M., Koch, J. & Wenzel, M., 17.09.2021, Organizing Creativity in the Innovation Journey. Schuessler, E., Cohendet, P. & Svejenova, S. (eds.). Bingley: Emerald Publishing Limited, p. 267-287 21 p. (Research in the Sociology of Organizations; vol. 75).

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearchpeer-review

  7. Emerging market multinational enterprises should be taken more seriously, a recent SMS Collection argues

    Wenzel, M., 03.05.2022

    Research output: other publicationsArticles in scientific forums or blogsResearch

  8. Dynamic Capabilities: Celebrating the Plurality of Understandings of the Concept

    Wenzel, M., Rauch, M., Adegbile, A., Bogodistov, Y., Cénophat, S., Hartmann, M., Wagner, D. & Wohlgemuth, V., 2021, Dynamic Capabilities and Relationships: Discourses, Concepts, and Reflections. Bayón, T., Eisend, M., Koch, J., Söllner, A., Vodosek, M. & Wagner, H.-T. (eds.). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland AG, p. 1-28 28 p. (Contributions to Management Science).

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksChapterpeer-review

  9. Dynamic capabilities? Unleashing their dynamics through a practice perspective on organizational routines

    Wenzel, M., Danner-Schröder, A. & Spee, A. P., 10.2021, In: Journal of Management Inquiry. 30, 4, p. 395-406 12 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  10. "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