Examples of topics for theses

In the following, more specific questions are listed by way of example, but the specific choice of topics is made in consultation with the students:

Transformation, foundation and innovation processes

• Part-time start-ups: What motivates founders to keep an employment relationship?
• When would employers support part-time start-ups by employees (see a published article)?
• How can start-up funding and start-up policy promote part-time start-ups?
• How can part-time start-ups be used in the context of corporate entrepreneurship and innovation management?
• Machine Learning: A Different Kind of Standardization?

Medical Care

• Application of start-up theory to medical practice
• Training of medical professionals and practice management
• Regional differences in care and the origin of medical professionals
• Training and motivation of rural doctors

Business psychology

• What role does hope play in the context of modern decision theory?
• Are there cultural differences in the meaning of hope?
• Are social people less internationally mobile?
• How do women and men differ in their approach to competition?
• Do you make different decisions when you work in a foreign language (see a published article)?
• Are there cultural differences in the perception and handling of competition?
• Where in the organizations of our economy can we find the more or less social people?
• How are career decisions influenced by attitudes towards competition (enjoying competition, personal development in competition and the will to win) (see an article that has been published)?
• Curiosity and learning in company founders
• How can you measure people's curiosity?
• Learning and unlearning as complementary skills

Artificial intelligence in practice and research

• Causality in deep learning
• Good and bad control variables: Implications for deep learning
• Large language models in counseling
• Large language models in qualitative text analysis