Supervisors and exemplary areas of supervision

Topic ideas proposed by students will be further defined with a possible supervisor/examiner and developed into an exposé and research proposal.

We are happy to supervise bachelor’s theses in line with the respective topics listed below. Please note that supervision is contingent on supervisor/examiner availability.

Elisabeth Czischek

• Urban governance and management: What are current governance issues in the management of city shareholdings? What challenges arise?

• Urban change and transformation: What are relevant (current) issues regarding the change and transformation of cities?

Thorsten Koch

• Creative industries: How are creative industries changing in light of the increasing digitization of the production, distribution, and reception of creative content? To what extent do the characteristics of creative industries play a role in understanding broader organizational phenomena within the economy?

• Digital transformation: How do digital technologies impact the values, structures, and processes of organizations? What new forms of organization are emerging from the digital transformation, and how do these differ from established organizational models?

Stephan Leixnering

• Urban management and governance: What forms of management and governance are applied in cities?

• New public interest-oriented organizational forms: How are new public interest-oriented corporations established (e.g., after the model of the US B-corp?)