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. E-pub ahead of print

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

    Meyer, V. & Tegtmeier, S., 14.05.2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Scandinavian Journal of Management. 6 p., 101427.

    Research output: Journal contributionsComments / Debate / ReportsResearch

  2. 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

  3. Published

    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

  4. Published

    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

  5. Published

    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

  6. Published

    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

  7. 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

  8. Published

    “Do as we say and you’ll be successful”: Accelerators as Organizations of Entrepreneurial Dressage

    Skade, L., Wenzel, M. & Koch, J., 01.08.2021, In: Academy of Management Proceedings. 2021, 1, 1 p., 10089.

    Research output: Journal contributionsConference abstract in journalResearch

  9. 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

  10. 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