Dissertations
Ongoing Dissertations
Eva Dötschel
Chair of Corporate Management
Theme: Family Firms
Tobias Reif
Chair of Corporate Management
Theme: Search Funds, Family Firm Succession
Patrick Herold
Chair of Corporate Management
Theme: Search Funds, Entrepreneurship
Completed Dissertations
Dr. Dustin Bauer
Chair of Corporate Management
Theme: Examining funding and continuation decisions in small and medium sized enterprises (2022)
Dr. Verena Hossnofsky
Chair of Corporate Management
Theme: Establishing and maintaining organizational legitimacy among multiple audiences across time (2022)
Dr. Franziska Schlichte
Chair of Corporate Management
Theme: Analyzing individual and environmental factors influencing (new) venture success (2022)
Dr. Moritz Hagen
Chair of Corporate Management
Theme: Organizational and individual impact factors on corporate fraud (2021)
Dr. Christina Wittmann
Chair of Corporate Management
Thema: Managerial cognition in the context of environmental uncertainty (2021)
Dr. Christian Bschirrer
Thema: Adaptive Behavior of Organizations in the Context of Discontinuous Change – An Empirical Investigation of the Response of Bavarian Winter Sports Resorts to Climate Change (2020).
Dr. Sebastian Junge
Chair of Corporate Management
Theme: Environmental uncertainty and organizational ambidexterity as countermeasure (2017)
Dr. Ralf Meinhardt
Chair of Corporate Management
Themes: Environmental Uncertainty and Spin-off Divestitures – A Series of Essays (2017)
Dr. Christian Gudd
Chair of Corporate Management
Theme: The Influence of Credit Rating Agencies and Securites Analysts on Firms’ Strategic Decisions (2017)
Dr. Susanne Fleischhacker
Chair of Corporate Management
Theme: The Importance of Relatedness for Growth Strategies(2016)
Dr. Dominic Herrmann
Chair of Corporate Management
Theme: The Success Effect of Growth Strategies (2015)
Dr. Jan Mammen
Chair of Corporate Management
Theme: The Impact of Risk on Diversification Strategies (2013)
Dr. Ludwig Lütkes
Chair of Corporate Management
Theme: Diversification Motives and their Implementation (2012)
Dr. Christiane Zorn
The Boston Consulting Group
Theme: Diversification Strategies in the Automotive Industry(2012)
Dr. Matthias Wahrenberger
The Boston Consulting Group
Thema: Parenting Advantage in Private Equity Companies (2011)
Dr. Markus Röhrig
McKinsey & Company
Thema: The Influence of Private Equity Firms in Turnaround Buyouts (2011)
Dr. Tina Kleehaupt
McKinsey & Company
Theme: Success of Resource-related Diversification Strategies (2011)
Dr. Volker Brinkmann
The Boston Consulting Group
Theme: Internal Capital Markets of Diversified Companies – An Empirical Study on Design, Mode of Operation and Success Factors (2011)
Dr. Wolf-Christian Gerstner
McKinsey & Company
Theme: CEO-Narcissism and Incumbent Inertia – An Empirical Study in the Pharmaceutical Industry (2011)
Dr. Lorenz Graf
The Boston Consulting Group
Theme: Drivers of Positional Bias in Organizations (2010)
Dr. Ulli Wagner
Leipzig Consulting Group
Theme: Financing Strategies of Growth Companies(2010)
Dr. Christian Landau
Technische Universität Berlin
Theme: Value Creation by Private Equity Companies in Spin-off Buyout Investments (2010)
Dr. Dirk Schneider
Oliver Wyman
Theme: CEO characteristics and the impact on diversification strategies (2009)
Dr. Robert Gietl
Chair of Corporate Management
Theme: Value Creation by Private Equity Companies in European Secondary Buyout Investments (2009)
Dr. Felix Stellmaszek
The Boston Consulting Group
Theme: Real Options in Strategic Decisions – An Empirical Case Study Analysis of how Companies Integrate Real Options into Strategic Decisions (2009)
Dr. Martin Weiss
Chair of Corporate Management
Theme: Development of a Concept for the Resource-Oriented Measurement of the Degree of Diversification (2009)
Dr. Andreas König
Chair of Corporate Management
Theme: Cognitive Framing and Incumbent Inertia – A Replication and Extension of the Gilbert Model in the German Book Retailing Industry (2009)
Dr. Thomas Seemann
The Boston Consulting Group
Theme: Prediction Markets as Forecasting Tool in Decision Processes (2009)
Dr. Thomas Römer
Bayer MaterialScience AG
Theme: Determinants of Value Creation by Corporate Headquarters (2008)
Dr. Rainer Lenhard
Goldman Sachs
Theme: Success Factors of Mergers & Acquisitions in the European Telecommunications Industry(2008)
Dr. Martin Schulte
The Boston Consulting Group
Theme: The Role of Industry Associations in the Context of Technological Discontinuities(2008)
Dr. Markus Schöberl
McKinsey & Company, Inc.
Theme: Responses of Incumbent Firms in the Face of Disruptive Strategic Innovations (2007)
Dr. Simon Bockmühl
The Boston Consulting Group
Theme: Adaptation Behavior of Incumbent Firms in the Event of Technological Discontinuities(2007)
Dr. Carsten Hinne
Deutsche Bahn AG
Theme: In-house M&A management (2007)
Dr. Gerrit Karalus
Granville Baird
Theme: Growth Strategies in the Media Industry – An Investigation of the Resource-Oriented Development of New Business Areas in German Print Media (2007)
Dr. Björn Maack
Price Waterhouse Coopers
Thema: Führung von Minderheitsbeteiligungen an öffentlich-privaten Gemeinschaftsunternehmen (2007)
Dr. Matthias Jahncke
Hydraulik Nord
Thema: Internationalisierungsstrategien schnell wachsender Softwareproduktunternehmen (2007)
Dr. Philipp Mack
Siemens AG
Thema: Einführung und Verwendung strategischer Kontrollinstrumente an deutschen Hochschulen (2007)
Dr. Andrea Martin
Siemens AG
Thema: Strategische Personalplanung (2006)
Dr. Ingo Schamberger
PUTSCH GmbH & Co. KG
Holding of Keiper Recaro Group
Thema: Differenziertes Personalmarketing für High Potentials (2005)
Dr. Florian Gierke
o2/Telefonica
Thema: Leistungsmessung im Electronic Commerce (2005)
Dr. Jochen Stratmann
AT Kearney
Thema: Kerngeschäftsstrategien im internationalen Vergleich (2004)
Dr. Stephan Stubner
HHL – Handelshochschule Leipzig
Thema: Bedeutung und Erfolgsrelevanz der Managementunterstützung von Venture Capital Gesellschaften (2004)
Dr. Stefan Lackner
BÖWE SYSTEC AG
Thema: Voraussetzungen und Erfolgsfaktoren unternehmerischen Denkens und Handelns (2002)
Prof. Dr. Albrecht Enders
IMD – Lausanne
Thema: Einsatzmöglichkeiten des Internets in der wissenschaftlichen Aus- und Weiterbildung an deutschen Hochschulen (2001)
Dr. Johannes Dengler
Dallmayr GmbH
Thema: Strategische Unternehmensführung integrierter Telekommunikationsanbieter (2000)
Dr. Philipp Schmiedel-Blumenthal
MBB Capital GmbH
Thema: Entwicklung eines ganzheitlichen Wissensmanagements zur erfolgreichen Umsetzung von industriellen Innovationen (2000)
Prof. Dr. Torsten Wulf
HHL – Handelshochschule Leipzig
Thema: Verlauf und Einflussfaktoren der Entwicklung von Unternehmen im ostdeutschen Transformationsprozess (1999)
Dr. Michael von der Horst
Cisco Deutschland
Thema: Bewältigung von Unternehmenskrisen (1999)
Dr. Gert-Jan Huisman
Centrotec AG
Thema: Shareholder Activism at Institutional Investors in Germany (1999)
Dr. Alfred Oetker
Henkel KGaA
Thema: Stakeholderkonflikte in Familienkonzernen (1999)
Prof. Dr. Thomas Hutzschenreuter
Wissenschaftliche Hochschule für Unternehmensführung
Thema: Unternehmensverfassung und Führungssystem (1998)
Dr. Andreas Siemen
Kabel Deutschland Vertrieb und Service GmbH & Co. KG
Thema: Regulierungsmanagement während der Markt-Öffnung (1998)