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. 2022
  2. Published

    Organizing for Innovation: The Case of Accelerators

    Wenzel, M. (Editor), 2022, Lüneburg: OS insights. 126 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesCollected editions and anthologiesResearch

  3. Published

    Organizing for innovation through accelerators: An introduction

    Wenzel, M., 2022, Organizing for Innovation: The Case of Accelerators. Wenzel, M. (ed.). Lüneburg: OS insights, p. 1-4 4 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksOtherResearch

  4. Published

    Organizing for innovation through accelerators: Concluding remarks

    Wenzel, M., 2022, Organizing for Innovation: The Case of Accelerators. Wenzel, M. (ed.). Lüneburg: OS insights, p. 123-126 4 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksOtherResearch

  5. 2021
  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

    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

  8. Published
  9. 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

  10. Published

    Stakeholder engagement: Toward an understanding of stakeholders’ participation, inclusion, and democracy in organizational activities

    Wenzel, M., Trittin-Ulbrich, H., Edinger-Schons, L. M., Castello, I. & de Bakker, F., 21.04.2021, Thousand Oaks : SAGE Publications Inc.

    Research output: other publicationsArticles in scientific forums or blogsResearch

  11. Published

    Heuristics-in-use: Toward a practice theory of organizational heuristics.

    Wenzel, M. & Stjerne, I. S., 01.03.2021, In: Technological Forecasting and Social Change. 164, 9 p., 120517.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  12. Published

    Strategic responses to crisis

    Wenzel, M., Stanske, S. & Lieberman, M. B., 01.02.2021, In: Strategic Management Journal. 42, 2, p. O16-O27 12 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsComments / Debate / ReportsResearch