Research Fields and Projects

Focus of research and projects

Professors and Institutes of the Department of Strategy, Organization and Leadership cover a broad field of topics with their research activities. Amongst them are:

Strategic Management
Systemic approach to strategic corporate governance
Systems Theory
Constructivism and Strategy

Strategy and Organisation
The effectiveness of corporate governance mechanisms and their impact on firm performance
How to explain the variance in the allocation of ownership rights of firms: the relevant firm-, industry-, and country-specific factors
Strategic positioning in the German consulting market: strategic groups and performance
Complementarities and the organizational design of consulting firms
The impact of complementarities on the performance of law firms

Practical Philosophy
Wittgenstein Commentary
Reflective Intuitionism
Knowing and Condemning
Seeing what is good
Business Ethics ("The honourable businessman”)

Philosophy of Science
Book projects "Philosophy. An Introduction for Business Students” (with Stanislaw Flejterski) and "Processors and processes of thought", book about artificial intelligence (both in print)
Research Projects in the field of Logic and Philosophy of Science (causality, antitheses)
Further Research on topics of cognition science topics (decision making)

Organizational Behavior
Reciprocity in family firms
Social exchange theory (psychological contract)
Layoffs and their consequences for organizational behavior
Promotion of innovativeness and innovation

Services Management
Evolution of capabilities for global service delivery: A study of emerging economy software firms
Serializing exploration and exploitation for capability development: The balancing act of Indian software firms
Emergence of a global cluster through local and non-local ties: A case-study of Bangalore software cluster

Sustainable Logistics and Supply Chain Management
The impact of external and internal stakeholder groups on sustainability in organizations and their supply chains
Strategies to implement sustainability within organizations and their performance impact
Resource-Dependence Theory, Stakeholder Theory

Business Ethics (IfU)
CSR and the Business Case. Corporate Strategies and Best Practices
Ethics Management in Small and Medium Sized Companies
Ethics of Innovation
The Influence of Service Learning on the Development of Moral Competence
The UN Global Compact and the Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME) as instruments to foster sustainable developments
Towards an Ethics of Responsibility. Theology and corporate ethics

For our research projects we use the online platform of Statista (www.Statista.com).