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.
- 2025
Projectification without projects? Theorizing temporal structures of agile-based organizing
Geraldi, J., Stjerne, I. & Wenzel, M., 11.2025, In: International Journal of Project Management. 43, 8, 13 p., 102786.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
Organized Carelessness: De-ethicizing the Organization of Death
Wenzel, M., 01.10.2025, In: Business Ethics Quarterly. 35, 4, p. 675-705 31 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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 contributions › Comments / Debate / Reports › Research
Future Making: Towards a Practice Perspective
Wenzel, M., Cabantous, L. & Koch, J., 09.2025, In: Journal of Management Studies. 62, 6, p. 2426-2451 26 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
Toward Holistic Stakeholder Engagement: Integrating Participation, Inclusion, and Democracy
Wenzel, M., Trittin-Ulbrich, H., Edinger-Schons, L. M., Castelló, I. & de Bakker, F. G. A., 07.2025, In: Business and Society. 64, 6, p. 1055-1076 22 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research
The Manifold Impacts of Management Research
Wenzel, M., Gylfe, P., Mantere, S. & Cornelissen, J., 14.05.2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Journal of Management Studies.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
Sensing the room: The role of atmosphere in collective sensemaking
Knight, E., Lok, J., Jarzabkowski, P. & Wenzel, M., 01.04.2025, In: Academy of Management Journal. 68, 2, p. 326-356 31 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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/works › Chapter › peer-review
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 contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
Reviewing is caring! Revaluing a critical, but invisibilized, underappreciated, and exploited academic practice
Dobusch, L., Plotnikof, M. & Wenzel, M., 2025, (Accepted/In press) In: Organization. 17 p., 13505084251343672.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
- 2024
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 contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
"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 contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
Strategic Practice Drift: How Open Strategy Infiltrates the Strategy Process
Stjerne, I., Geraldi, J. & Wenzel, M., 05.2024, In: Journal of Management Studies. 61, 3, p. 820-856 37 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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 contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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 PublishingResearch output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Chapter › peer-review
Future-Making
Spreitzer, E.-M. & Wenzel, M., 2024, (Accepted/In press) Elgar Encyclopedia of Strategy as Practice. Edward Elgar PublishingResearch output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Chapter
Multimodality
Lehrer, E., Wenzel, M. & Knight, E., 2024, (Accepted/In press) Elgar Encyclopedia of Strategy as Practice. Edward Elgar PublishingResearch output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Chapter
SAP at SMS
Wenzel, M., Canales, J. I., Splitter, V. & Langenmayr, T., 2024, (Accepted/In press) Elgar Encyclopedia of Strategy as Practice. Edward Elgar PublishingResearch output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Chapter
- 2023
Agile: Mehr als nur eine Methode? Implikationen der Einführung von Agile für die Strategieentwicklung
Wenzel, M., Stjerne, I. S. & Geraldi, J., 29.11.2023, Austrian Management Review: Volume 13 | 2023. Güttel, W. H. (ed.). Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, p. 29-37 9 p. (Austrian Management Review; vol. 13).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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/works › Chapter › peer-review
