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. “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

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. Crowdfunding in Italy - an exploration of chances and challenges for women entrepreneurs

    Pakura, S., Raiti, F. M. & Meyer, V., 08.2022, In: International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business. 46, 4, p. 483-504 22 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  5. Concluding remarks: Moving forward in management education

    Wenzel, M., 2022, Foundations of Management & Entrepreneurship: Concepts and Cases. Wenzel, M. (ed.). 2 ed. Lüneburg: OS insights, p. 329-333 5 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksOtherResearch

  6. Concluding remarks: Meet the future—with International Business Administration and Entrepreneurship

    Wenzel, M., 2022, Foundations of Management & Entrepreneurship: Concepts and Cases. Wenzel, M. (ed.). 1 ed. Lüneburg: OS insights, p. 387-390 4 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksOtherResearch

  7. Concluding remarks

    Wenzel, M., 2021, (Accepted/In press) Principles of Business Administration and Entrepreneurship: : Concepts and Cases . Kindle Direct Publishing, Vol. Vol. 1.

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

  8. Concluding remarks

    Wenzel, M., 2021, (Accepted/In press) Organizing for Innovation: The Case of Accelerators . Vol. Vol. 1.

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

  9. Commitment to grand challenges in fluid forms of organizing: The role of narratives’ temporality.

    Stjerne, I. S., Wenzel, M. & Svejenova, S., 29.03.2022, In: Research in the Sociology of Organizations. 79, p. 139-160 22 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  10. 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