Ongoing and completed theses

Startups and Self-employment

• Success Factors in Founding Music Schools

Medical Care: Establishing an Own Practice as an Entrepreneurial Event

• The impact of entrepreneurial self-efficacy and entrepreneurial attitudes on medicine students' intentions to get employed or run their own practice
• Regional Attachment in the Labor Market: Which Medical Students Are More Likely to Establish a Practice in a Rural Region?
• Quantitative Analysis of Physician Density and Admission of Applicants to Medical Schools in Germany: A Spatial Econometrics-Extended Replication and Alternative-Specific Modeling of Admissions.
  (Awarded “Best Master’s Thesis 2023” by Faculty 5 at BTU)
• Entrepreneurial Intentions Among Medical Students in Germany: An Extended Theory of Planned Behavior Approach

Transformation processes

• Socially Relevant Personality Traits of Innovators in the Transformation Toward Sustainable Nutrition
• Digitalization in Health Care: Effects on the Happiness of Physicians, Dentists, and Pharmacists in Lusatia
• Human Resource Management: A Vignette Study on the Influence of Organizational Culture on the Willingness to Allow Working from Home
• Sustainability-Oriented Decision-Making Among Entrepreneurs and small businesses: A Stakeholder Influence Perspective

Data Science Methods and Artificial Intelligence

• Trust in Artificial Intelligence: A Practical Application for Increasing Explainability Through Shapley Additive Explanations. (Awarded “Best Master’s Thesis 2024” (tied for first place) by Faculty 5 at BTU)
• Agentic AI in Practice: A Comparative Study of the Prototypical Implementation of AI Agents Based on a Specific Use Case
• Heteroskedastic Returns: How Risk-Taking Creates Performance Heteroskedasticity and Biases Selection Models in Entrepreneurship Research  (Awarded “Best Master’s Thesis 2025” (tied for first place) by Faculty 5 at BTU)
• Multicollinearity in Data Science Practice: A Monte Carlo Simulation on the Informative Value and Limitations of the Variance Inflation Factor in the Presence of Omitted Variable Bias

Wirtschaftspsychologie

• What Is Competition, and in Which Occupations Is It Particularly Intense? A Vignette Study Differentiating Between Competence-Based and Distributional Competition
• Intercultural Teamwork: Language as a Success Factor for Global Organizations — Findings and Implications from a Public Goods Game
• Types of Competition: Perceptions, Intensity, and Preferences, with a Particular Focus on Differentiating Between Competence-Based and Structural Competition
• Measuring Curiosity in Change Agents: A Methodological Review of Trait, State, and Behavioral Approaches in Management Research
• Performance Goal Orientation, Competitive Orientation, and Curiosity — Relationships and Differences: A Gender-Specific Analysis in a Higher Education Context

[ Note: Previous average grade = 1.6 ]