Professorship of Business Management, in Particular Strategic Management

Organisational unit: Section

Organisation profile

The Otto Group Chair of Strategic Management directed by Prof. Dr. Markus Reihlen focusses its research and teaching activities on various areas of management, in particular strategic and international management, entrepreneurship, organization design, and the management of professional service firms. Our research and teaching agenda is best described as interdisciplinary embedded in various local, national, and international networks. We work with a broad range of theoretical frameworks from sociology, economics, and organizational psychology. Our teaching philosophy reflects the interests in situated and collaborative learning. Instead of applying the frontal teaching method, we prefer student-centered teaching that encourages critical reflection and learning by both students and instructors.
The Otto Group Chair contributes to various teaching programs for undergraduate, graduate, and doctorate students at Leuphana University of Lüneburg. Among others, the chair is in charge of the extra-occupational MBA in Strategic Management for future leaders at the Otto Group and is involved in various university-industry-cooperations with companies.

Topics

Der Forschungsansatz des Lehrstuhls basiert auf drei zentralen Grundpfeilern. Erstens basiert unser Forschungsansatz auf der Einsicht, dass wir die facettenreichen Phänomene der Unternehmensführung am besten erklären und verstehen können, wenn wir diese mit sehr unterschiedlichen „Denkwerkzeugen“ (Theorien und Methoden) untersuchen.Die Forschungsagenda ist deshalb interdisziplinär ausgerichtet und greift sowohl auf ökonomische als auch auf verhaltenswissenschaftliche Theorien zurück.

Zweitens ist unsere Forschung international ausgerichtet, indem Forschungsergebnisse des Lehrstuhls über Tagungen und Workshops innerhalb der internationalen Fachgemeinschaft kommuniziert und reflektiert werden.

Drittens sind viele bisherige Forschungsprojekte in unmittelbarer Kooperation mit der Praxis entwickelt worden und liefern damit die Möglichkeit, sowohl neue Praxisthemen aufzugreifen als auch neue Erkenntnisse aus der Forschung in der Praxis umzusetzen.

Anknüpfend an bisherige Forschungsarbeiten dienen folgende Themengebiete der exemplarischen Konkretisierung des Forschungsprogramms: Entrepreneurship, Lernen und Innovation, Strategischer Wandel, innovative, flexible Organisationsformen, Wissensmanagement sowie Internationalisierung von Unternehmen Gesellschaftliche Verantwortung von Unternehmen (Corporate Social Responsibility) und Unternehmensstrategie.

Continuing education products

The international MBA in Strategic Management - a programme for Professionals

Business Development, Corporate Development and Strategy are combined with one another in the MBA Programme in Strategic Management.

The programme will familiarise you with classic theories of business development and strategic management while teaching you how to successfully apply the methods and tools of a manager internationally. Within the context of your own career experience, you will be encouraged to adopt different points of view as you reflect on factors relevant to success in general management and strategic management in particular, together with corporate development. The MBA Programme in Strategic Management takes a targeted approach to developing your personal and substantive skills further, so that you can approach situations not as invariable givens but as opportunities in which to seize the initiative and actively take charge.

English-language instruction in the MBA Programme in Strategic Management was originally developed in co-operation with the Otto Group under academic supervision of Leuphana University and has been accredited by FIBAA as exceeding the relevant quality requirements. From April 2013, the MBA in Strategic Management will also be available for external applicants as well as for employees of other co-operation partners.

  1. 2013
  2. 73rd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management - AOM 2013

    Christoph Seckler (Speaker) & Sebastian Fischer (Speaker)

    08.2013

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  3. Quality Management in a Top Tier Accounting Firm: Towards a Socio-Cognitive Model

    Markus Reihlen (Speaker)

    08.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  4. 2nd International Meschede Summerschool in Economics - 2013

    Ferdinand Wenzlaff (Participant)

    22.07.201326.07.2013

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsEducation

  5. Parenting Practices and Advantage for Corporate Entrepreneurship

    Monika Lesner (Speaker)

    04.07.201306.07.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  6. Surviving in the wild: determinants and practices of strategic initiative development

    Monika Lesner (Speaker)

    04.07.201306.07.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  7. Institutional Change of the German Higher Education System and the Strategic Response of the Entrepreneurial University

    Ferdinand Wenzlaff (Speaker)

    26.06.201329.06.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  8. Transfer Leadership and Control in Organizational Practice Transfer

    Markus Reihlen (Speaker)

    26.06.201329.06.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  9. European Academy of Management - EURAM 2013

    Sebastian Göse (presenter)

    23.06.201325.06.2013

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  10. 10th International Conference of the European Society for Ecological Economics - ESEE 2013

    Ferdinand Wenzlaff (Coauthor)

    18.06.201321.06.2013

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  11. Workshop "Bedingungen einer stationären Ökonomie" - 2013

    Ferdinand Wenzlaff (Organiser)

    15.06.2013

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  12. 75. Wissenschaftliche Jahrestagung des - VHB 2013

    Anna Krzeminska (Speaker)

    25.05.2013

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  13. Higher Education Research Conference - EFMD 2013

    Ferdinand Wenzlaff (Speaker)

    23.05.201324.05.2013

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  14. Leveraging Error to Improve Audit Quality: Towards a Socio-Cognitive Model

    Markus Reihlen (Speaker) & Christoph Seckler (Speaker)

    05.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  15. Institutional Work and Organizational Transformation: A Case Study of a University Merger - 2013

    Ferdinand Wenzlaff (Speaker)

    14.03.201315.03.2013

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  16. Research Seminar at the Australian Centre for Entrepreneurship Research Exchange, Queensland University of Technology - ACERE 2013

    Anna Krzeminska (Speaker)

    13.03.2013

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsResearch

  17. Jahrestagung der Wissenschaftlichen Kommission Hochschulmanagement - VHB 2013

    Katrin Obermeit (presenter)

    22.02.201323.02.2013

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  18. 9. Wissenschaftlichen Tagung der Keynes-Gesellschaft 2013

    Ferdinand Wenzlaff (Participant)

    18.02.201319.02.2013

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  19. Australian Centre for Entrepreneurship Research Exchange Conference - ACERE 2013

    Anna Krzeminska (Speaker)

    07.02.2013

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  20. Research Seminar “Management and Microeconomics” - 2013

    Anna Krzeminska (Speaker)

    24.01.2013

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsResearch

  21. 38th workshop of the "Kommission Organisation" of the "Verband der Hochschullehrer für BWL" - 2013

    Markus Reihlen (Speaker) & Christoph Seckler (Speaker)

    2013

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  22. University of Queensland

    Christoph Seckler (Visiting researcher)

    2013

    Activity: Visiting an external institutionVisiting an external academic institutionResearch

  23. 2012
  24. 26th Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management Conference - ANZAM 2012

    Monika Lesner (Speaker)

    05.12.201207.12.2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  25. 9th Annual New York University Stern School of Business Conference for Social Entrepreneurship 2012

    Anna Krzeminska (Speaker)

    08.11.2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  26. Workshop Karrieresystem Hochschule 2012

    Ferdinand Wenzlaff (Participant)

    08.11.201209.11.2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  27. 16th FFM Conference 2012

    Ferdinand Wenzlaff (Coauthor)

    25.10.201227.10.2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  28. Workshop "Zinssystem" 2012

    Ferdinand Wenzlaff (Speaker)

    19.07.2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsResearch

  29. Abschlussworkshop Neue Steuerung von Universitäten 2012

    Ferdinand Wenzlaff (Participant)

    12.07.2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  30. Institutional Change of the German Higher Education System: From Professional Dominance to Managed Education

    Ferdinand Wenzlaff (Speaker)

    08.07.201210.07.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  31. Novak Druce Annual Conference on professional service firms 2012

    Markus Reihlen (Organiser)

    08.07.201210.07.2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  32. Organization-Turn in der Hochschulforschung? Bringing Organization Research back to Higher Education Research 2012

    Ferdinand Wenzlaff (Speaker)

    14.06.201215.06.2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  33. Auftaktveranstaltung Wissenschaftsökonomie 2012

    Ferdinand Wenzlaff (Participant)

    31.05.201201.06.2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  34. Presidential Committee (Organisational unit)

    Markus Reihlen (Member)

    01.05.201230.04.2016

    Activity: MembershipLeuphana academic councils and committeesLeuphana Academic Committees

  35. 28th European Accounting Association Doctoral Colloquium - EAA 2012

    Christoph Seckler (Speaker)

    05.2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  36. Conference on Entrepreneurial Universities 2012

    Johann Daniel Bronstein Bejarano (Speaker)

    25.04.201227.04.2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsResearch

  37. 7th International Conference on Higher Education Marketing 2012

    Katrin Obermeit (presenter)

    28.03.201230.03.2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  38. 1st EFMD Higher Education Research Conference - EFMD 2012

    Ferdinand Wenzlaff (Coauthor)

    14.02.201215.02.2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  39. 1st EFMD Higher Education Research Conference - EFMD 2012

    Johann Daniel Bronstein Bejarano (Speaker)

    14.01.201215.01.2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsResearch

  40. European Academy of Management Doctoral Colloquium 2012

    Christoph Seckler (Speaker)

    2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  41. University-Industry Interaction Conference 2012

    Johann Daniel Bronstein Bejarano (Speaker)

    201229.05.2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsResearch

  42. University of Oxford

    Christoph Seckler (Visiting researcher)

    2012

    Activity: Visiting an external institutionVisiting an external academic institutionResearch

  43. 2011
  44. 31st Annual International Conference of the Strategic Management Society - SMS 2011

    Anna Krzeminska (Speaker)

    08.11.2011

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  45. 25th Annual Conference On Professional Service Firms 2011

    Markus Reihlen (Speaker)

    03.07.201105.07.2011

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsResearch

  46. Management Consulting Divison Conference der Academy of Management

    Markus Reihlen (Speaker)

    03.06.2011

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsResearch

  47. National University of Singapore

    Christoph Seckler (Visiting researcher)

    2011

    Activity: Visiting an external institutionVisiting an external academic institutionResearch

  48. 2010
  49. University of Oxford (External organisation)

    Markus Reihlen (Member)

    01.12.2010 → …

    Activity: MembershipAcademic networks or partnershipsResearch

  50. Graduate School (Organisational unit)

    Markus Reihlen (Office)

    10.201004.2012

    Activity: MembershipLeuphana academic councils and committeesLeuphana Academic Committees

  51. Concurrent Reconceptualization of Concurrent Sourcing

    Anna Krzeminska (Speaker)

    09.08.2010

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  52. 70th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management - 2010

    Markus Reihlen (Organiser)

    08.2010

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsResearch

  53. Entrepreneurship in Professional Service Firms – Framing a Research Agenda

    Markus Reihlen (Speaker)

    08.2010

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  54. Governance of Professional Service Firms: A Configurational Theory

    Markus Reihlen (presenter)

    08.2010

    Activity: Talk or presentationPresentations (poster etc.)Research