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Professorship for Organization and Management

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Research

Completed projects

  • Digital Transformation – Process Optimization in Public Administration 
    Experimental studies of bureaucratic processes and their effects on people |
    PhD dissertation: Dr. Janne Kalucza (2021): Bureaucratic Red Tape, Administrative Burden, and the Digitalization of Bureaucratic Encounters

  • Work 4.0 – Generating New Ideas in Organizations
    Research project in a public authority and an automotive corporation |
    PhD dissertation: Dr. Friederike Redlbacher (2021): The Organizational Practice of Meeting: How Agile Meetings Trigger Idea Generation

  • Between Agility and Hierarchy: Evolution of Rules in Cooperations
    Research collaboration with an automotive corporation | in cooperation with Prof. Dr. Günther Ortmann and Prof. Dr. Guido Möllering at Witten/Herdecke University |
    PhD dissertation: Dr. Marcel Volland (2020): Regel und Entscheidung: Imitation, Substitution und Selbstorganisation (Rule and Decision: Imitation, Substitution, and Self-Organization)

  • Performance Evaluations in Science
    Collaborative project IndiKon, funded by the BMBF (grant no.: 01PY13014A/B) | in cooperation with Prof. Dr. Rick Vogel, University of Hamburg, and Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Alfred Kieser, Zeppelin University Friedrichshafen | Project team members: Dr. Fabian Hattke, Dr. Jessica Petersen and Dr. Hendrik Woiwode |
    PhD dissertation: Dr. Hendrik Woiwode (2019): Governance in pluralstic organizations. Perspectives from the field of higher education

  • Absorptive and Desorptive Capacity in Collaborative Innovation Processes
    Research project in automotive and chemical industry companies |
    PhD dissertation: Dr. Moritz Schellenberger (2018): Wissensemission und -absorption: Boundary Management in F&E-Kooperationen (Knowledge Emission and Absorption: Boundary Management in R&D Collaborations)

  • Compliance and Non-Compliance with Rules: The Case of Corruption and Anti-Corruption Measures 
    Research project in German companies, law enforcement agencies, and audit firms |
    PhD dissertation: Dr. Sarah Tischer (2016): The Interdependencies between Rules, Rule-Breaking and Rule-Following: Corruption and Anticorruption in German Firms

  • The Influence of Change Initiatives in Organizations on Employee Behavior
    Research project in universities, public organizations, and semi-public organizations |
    PhD dissertation: Dr. Julia Weiherl, née Brockmann (2015): Change initiatives and their influences on individuals' behaviours in organisations

  • Communication as Organization
    Research project in alliances, companies, and universities |
    Habilitation dissertation: Prof. Dr. Steffen Blaschke (2014): Organizations as Communication

  • Multi-Level Governance of Universities 
    Joint project RePort, funded by BMBF (grant no.: 01PW11018A/B) | in collaboration with Prof. Dr. Markus Reihlen at Leuphana University Lüneburg | Project team members: Prof. Dr. Steffen Blaschke, Dr. Fabian Hattke, Dr. Ferdinand Wenzlaff und Dr. Hendrik Woiwode |
    PhD dissertation: Dr. Fabian Hattke (2013): Governing Universities - Communication and Resource-Based Perspectives

  • Innovation Capability and the Organization of Research and Development
    Research project in international companies in the pharmaceutical industry |
    PhD dissertation: Dr. Heidi Günther (2013): Innovationsfähigkeit und die Organisation der Forschung und Entwicklung (Innovation Capability and the Organization of R&D)

  • Corporate Social Responsibility as a Component of Corporate Strategy 
    Research project in DAX  and M-DAX companies |
    PhD dissertation: Dr. Yvonne Glock (2013): Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR): CSR als Bestandteil der Unternehmensstrategie (Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR): CSR as a Component of Corporate Strategy) 

  • Exploitation and Exploration in Organizations 
    Research project in corporations, public administrations, and research institutions |
    Habilitation dissertation: Prof. Dr. Rick Vogel (2011): Essays on Exploration and Exploitation

  • Organizational Learning Processes in Asymmetric Alliances 
    Research project in the Nigerian oil industry |
    PhD dissertation: Dr. Okechukwu Okonkwo (2011): Asymmetric Alliances between Foreign and Indigenous Companies in the Nigerian Oil Industry

  • Interdependencies of Governance, Collective Action, and Value Creation in Corporations 
    Research collaboration with a corporation in the high-tech sector | Project team members: Prof. Dr. Rick Vogel, Dr. Khaled Bagban und Dr. Claudia Queisser |
    PhD dissertations: Dr. Khaled Bagban (2010): Kombination und Wechselwirkung der Steuerung: Eine relationale Analyse der Mehrwertschaffung im Konzern (Combination and Interaction of Governance: A Relational Analysis of Value Creation in the Corporation); Dr. Claudia Queisser (2010): Die Koordination der Kooperation: kollektives Handeln in Konzernen (The Coordination of Collaboration: Collective Action in Corporations)