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The Professorship for Digital Transformation supervises bachelor's and master's theses in the fields of digitalization and sustainaility (digital-ecological transformation), organization theory but also in the field of (female) entrepreneurship. These theses can be conceptual papers or qualitative studies. You can either work on a predefined topic (see current offerings in materials folder) or propose an area of interest, including relevant literature, from which a research question can be developed during supervision. You can either come with a fixed topic idea or you can specify a broad area of interest out of which a research question will be developed in the course of the supervision.

(1) Application and selection
The selection procedure is inseparably connected with the formal procedure for coordinating supervision places at the School of Management & Technology. The application deadline is communicated by the Study Dean’s Office, and selection decisions are communicated in keeping with the regulations by the Study Dean’s Office.
For an application to be complete, please upload an up-to-date performance record in the folder “applications” on myStudy and short description of your field of interest (e.g. by filling out the Kick-Off Page, see here: https://www.leuphana.de/en/institutes/imo/digital-transformation/final-theses.html)

If the number of applications exceeds available supervision capacities (3 supervisions per semester), decisions on acceptance/rejection are made based on your performance in courses and seminars of the Professorship for Digital Transformation.

(2) Topic Development
You can either develop a topic on your own or you look at the materials folder as I have 1-2 topics as a suggestion uploaded.

(3) Registration process
If we can find a common area for supervision and you are selected, the process will be as follows:
- Initial meeting based on your application.
- Preparation of an exposé within one month; another meeting will be held to support this process.
- Feedback on your exposé and resubmission after 14 days.
- Registration of the thesis. Please note: the latest date for registering your thesis in the summer term is the following date: Master thesis: April, 30 // Bachelor thesis: May, 30. The lastest date for registering your thesis in the winter term is the following date: Master thesis: Oct, 30 // BAchelorthesis: Nov, 30). In case the deadline is not met, I cannot supervise your thesis anymore!!!
- Completion of the thesis within the current semester. After registering your thesis, up to two more meetings for further coordination can be scheduled.

All the steps mentioned above must be completed on time to ensure your thesis is finished within the current semester!

(4) Proposal details
You have to compose a proposal (max. six pages) for your final thesis. This proposal should explicate the following aspects:
-Cover sheet including the title of your thesis and research question (also: name, matriculation number, etc)
-Relevance: Why is it interesting to address this research question or topic?
-Positioning: In which stream of literature is the topic embedded? What do we know? What do we not know or what is the problematic assumption that you would like to challenge? What is the research question that emerges out of your problematization/gap-spotting in the literature?
-Methodological approach: If your intend to conduct an empirical study, please specify your research design and your aspired data collection procedures. Please note that conceptual theses are eligible as well. If so, elaborations on methodical procedures are not required.
-Abstract description of expected findings: When developing your ideas, you might already have ideas about the direction that your analysis might take.
-References

The aim is to develop an independent piece of scientific work. This means that:
- Students are able to demonstrate how to transform entrepreneurial, organizational or strategic problems or questions into a scientific research process.
- Students develop the ability to formulate research questions, understand different research designs, search for and review academic literature, write in an academic style, and comply with ethical aspects of research.
- Students learn to apply at least one scientific method for answering their research question: a systematic literature review, qualitative research methods or a conceptual development.
- Students are able to communicate about their research project by presenting core arguments, applied methods, results and general/theoretical implications in written form.

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