Doing a Doctorate at ZU

Golnaz Sarkar Farshi, former doctoral candidate with Prof. Dr. Baecker at the chair for  Cultural Theory & Analysis:
„I am Iranian and learned about Niklas Luhmann's social systems theory as I was doing my Master's studies in drama. I knew that Germany, the land where the theory had developed, would offer me the optimal academic atmosphere where I could pursue my post-graduate studies. I am specialized in film and drama studies and sought a university which would support the interdisciplinary research that I was heading for: to study cinema as a social system. I corresponded with many universities in Germany, and Zeppelin University (and my supervisor, Prof Dr rer soc Dirk Baecker) was the only university that was open and welcoming to such diversity and interdisciplinarity. Having spent two semesters at ZU, I have enjoyed the kind and unconditional support of ZUGS staff who made it possible for me to stay here and focus on my research despite all the difficulties that I had as an international PhD student."

• Kay Hendrik Hofmann: Co-Financing Hollywood Film Productions with Outside Investors - An Economic Analysis of Principal Agent Relationships in the U.S. Motion Picture Industry

  Thesis defense: 14 June 2012

• Annette Horváth: Studies on Cross-Industry Innovation. Search, find and apply extra-industry knowledge 

  Thesis defense: 27 February 2013

• Linn Viktoria Rampl: Branding in complex markets – The role of emotions and trust 

  Thesis defense: 28 February 2013

• Inga Kristina Wobker: Emotions in economic exchange processes revisited: Systematization and further empirical evidence
  

  Thesis defense: 29 August 2013

• Florian Günter Mezger: Business Model Innovation – Empirical Studies from a Dynamic Capability Perspective
  

  Thesis defense: 09 December 2013

• Sandra Margraf: Organizational Learning in Innovation Networks: Exploring the Role of Cognitive Distance and Absorptive Capacity. An Agent-Based Model
  

  Thesis defense: 30 September 2014

• Sebastian Heil: Cross-industry innovation – A theoretical and empirical foundation on the concept of absorptive capacity
  

  Thesis defense: 23 April 2015

• Karoline Bader: Open Innovation – Empirical studies from a resource-based perspective
  

  Thesis defense: 28 April 2015

• Malte Christopher Doehne: Quality matters on markets: The use of screwcaps on fine wines, 1970 - 2010
  

  Thesis defense: 20 May 2015

• Eva Becker: Knowledge Capture in Financial Regulation. The Role and Nature of Data, Information, and Knowledge Asymmetries in Regulator-Regulatee Relationships in the Context of the US Financial Crisis
  

  Thesis Defense: 08.09.2015

• Silvia Eleonora Castellazzi: Employability and Further Training. An Economic-Ethics Contribution to the Implementation of Corporate Responsibility in the Labor Market
  

  Thesis Defense: 14.10.2015 

• Martin Navid Siddiqui: Essays on Selected Aspects of European Integration Thesis Defense: 11.12.2015
• Jiahui Li: Moderators of Automatic and Controlled Processes in Economic Decision Making
  

  Thesis Defense: 18.03.2016

• Johanna Rahn: Mindset Dynamics in Risk Taking – How Decision Making and Performance can Profit from Deliberative and Implemental States of Mind Thesis Defense: 08.06.2016
• Jana Hauck: Toward Understanding Heterogeneity among Family Firms: Studies on Innovation, Succession, and Non-Economic Goals
  

  Thesis Defense: 15.09.2016

• Jonas Kaiser: Spheres of Skepticism – The Integration of the Climate Skeptic Counterpublic Within the German Networked Public Sphere
  

  Thesis Defense: 05.10.2016

• Susanne Beck: The Family Firm Status as Part of the Brand: Relevance and Empirical Evidence for a Potential Competitive Advantage
  

  Thesis Defense: 05.10.2016

• Monika Hengstler: Radical innovation by means of open innovation: Empirical studies on ecosystems, capabilities and trust
  

  Thesis Defense: 06.12.2016

• Annika Kathrin Maria Dingler: A knowledge-based perspective on open innovation: The role of social integration
  

  Thesis Defense: 06.12.2016

• Tim Weiss: Behind the Scenes of Technology Entrepreneurship in Kenya:
  A Rich Microcosm for Contextualizing and Advancing Global Organization Studies
  

  Thesis Defense: 15.02.2017

• Aline Margaux Laucke: Cross-Sectoral Hybridization as a Strategy to Turn Institutional Voids Into Opportunity Spaces
  The Case of Hybrid Organizations Providing Health Care at the Base of the Pyramid
  

  Thesis Defense: 28.02.2017

• Johanna Christina Schindler: On Subjectivity and Synchrony in Artistic Research. Ethnographic Insights
  

  Thesis Defense: 18.09.2017

• Anne Sosna: A new approach to develop a decision-making process for corporations' internationalization and market exploitation strategies
  

  Thesis Defense: 05.10.2017

• Martin Hülsen: An experimental economic analysis of banker behavior
  

  Thesis Defense: 01.12.2017

• Manuel Molterer: Specialized Financial Intermediation – Stability Implications For Financial Systems and Real Estate Markets
  

  Thesis Defense: 15.06.2018

• Anja Höft | Structuring the Front-End of Innovation: An Empirical Analysis of the Role of Perceived Contextual Factors on Intended Applications and Proficiency of Innovation Fields
  

  Thesis Defense: 25.06.2018

• Katja-Maria Prexl: Contextualization of Individual Absorptive Capacity: Exploring Corporate Engagement Activities in Innovation and the Empirical Evidence of Individual Capabilities for New Knowledge and Innovation 
  

 Thesis Defense: 03.07.2018

• Michael Kusi Appiah: Promoting Small-Scale Mining Sector Businesses And The Role Of Institutions – A Conflict Prevention and Resolution Study In Ghana
  

  Thesis Defense: 17.07.2018

• Maximiliano Boada: On the Myth of Tax Neutrality
  A Study on the Appropriateness of the Usage of the Principle of Tax Neutrality in the OECD Framework
  

  Thesis Defense: 19.09.2018

• Maximilian Lude: The Family Firm Effect
  Unraveling the Effects of the Family Firm Signal on Various Stakeholders

  Thesis Defense: 19.09.2018

• Carla Rostásy: European Integration and Cross-Border Financial Governance in the Aftermath of the Global Financial Crisis
  Challenges and Prospects of Post-Crisis Policy Responses to Systemic Risk in the European Union
  

  Thesis Defense: 10.05.2019

• Katharina Steinbach: On the persistence of relationship banking within a bank-based financial system: Post-crisis evidence from German SMEs

  Thesis Defense: 24.05.2019

• Isabella Geis: Economic Essays on the Framework Conditions for the Deployment of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS)
  

  Thesis Defense: 06.06.2019

• Jennifer Willoh: Gender Differences in Self-Enhancement and Impression Management Strategies: Evidence From Field Studies in Female- and Male-Dominated Environments
  

  Thesis Defense: 20.08.2019

• Veronika Sagmeister: Strategic renewal through corporate entrepreneurship – empirical studies from a dynamic capabilities and absorptive capacity perspective
  

  Thesis Defense: 27.09.2019

• Laura Seibold: Family Businesses’ Growth: Unpacking the Black Box
  

  Thesis Defense: 30.09.2019

• Leticia Labaronne: (Re-)Presenting Artistic Performance: A Contextualized Framework for Evaluating Performance Arts Organizations
  

  Thesis Defense: 02.10.2019

• Angela De Martiis: Three Essays on the Financial Distress of Firms and Banks
  Thesis Defense: 19.10.2019
• Dominik Fischer: Governance as Strategy in Global Value Chains:
  Relationing Formal and Informal Mechanisms of Governance for Cooperation | Thesis Defense: 12.12.2019
• Jan Sebastian Zipp: Programming Creativity - Semantics and Perception of Creativity within the IT Sector
  

  Thesis Defense: 03.03.2020

• Anna Dorota Eckardt: Banking for a low carbon future: A multi-stage model of corporate climate change responses in a low-salience industry 
  

  Thesis Defense: 10.03.2020

• Simon Behrendt: Investigating New Sources of Information and Nonlinearities on Financial Markets
  

  Thesis Defense: 04.05.2020

• Jonas Ludwig: Motivation and Volition in Economic Decisions
  

  Thesis Defense: 13.05.2020

• Julia Felfeli: Confidence Judgments and Rational Decision Making: An Investigation of Cognitive Processes and Possible Interventions
  

  Thesis Defense: 25.06.2020

• Dinah Spitzley: The next Generation in Enterprising Families: Studies on Entrepreneurial Roles
  

  Thesis Defense: 07.10.2020

• Benedikt Federspiel: Investment asymmetries and corporate governance at company level - a European profile
  

  Thesis Defense: 22.10.2020

• Eva Katharina Zepp: Use school buildings. Space appropriation and its representations from 1968 to the present day
  

  Thesis Defense: 16.11.2020

• Neele Hiemesch-Hartmann: Factor Point of Sale influencing success:
  Product innovations in medium-sized companies in the food industry - an empirical analysis
  

  Thesis Defense: 08.12.2020

• Isabel Jandeisek: Corporate responsibility in supply and value chains
  A relational perspective
  

  Thesis Defense: 04.02.2021

• Philippe Oster: Three Essays on Contingent Convertible Bonds
  

  Thesis Defense: 12.02.2021

• Fabian Simmank: Reputation, Self-Concept, & Profit: Neural Value Representation and Bounded Ethicality as Constituent Concepts in Moral-economic Relations
  

  Thesis Defense: 24.02.2021

• Swen Nadkarni: Organizational Transformation in the Context of Disruption: Studies on Digital Transformation, Identity Struggles and Disruption Sensitivities
  

  Thesis Defense: 07.04.2021

• Florian Keppeler: Perspectives on an Integrated Steering of Human Resources of Public Administration and State-Owned Enterprises
  

  Thesis Defense: 02.07.2021

• Sebastian Scheler: Economic Essays on Road Traffic Safety
  

  Thesis Defense: 14.09.2021

• Philipp Dirkx: Three Essays on Asset Pricing and Factor Investing

  Thesis Defense: 22.10.2021

• Henning Wirth: Managing Innovation in the Context of Corporate Entrepreneurship                                                                                       
  

  Thesis Defense: 15.02.2022

• Christina Edye: Strategic Analysis of an Accelerated Introduction of Cooperative, Connected and Automated Mobility (CCAM)

  Thesis Defense: 01.03.2022

• Natalie Rauschendorfer: Stereotype “family firm”?

  Studies on the judgement of family firms in different contexts                            Thesis Defense: 11.03.2022

• Christian Schmidt: Instrumental and Personnel Governance of Executive Directors in Corporatized Public Service Provision                                    
  

  Thesis Defense: 18.03.2022

| Sabine Wiesmüller: Forms and Interactions of Relational AI Governance

  Thesis Defense: 28.09.2022

| Fabio Franzoi: The Influence of Family Blockholders on the Financial Behavior
  of Listed Family Firms
  Thesis Defense: 14.10.2022

| Philipp Prange: Investigating Market linkages and investor behavior in times

  of turmoil and uncertainty

  Thesis Defense: 03.02.2023

• Caroline Heins: New Concepts for Efficient Consumer Response in Retail Influenced by Emerging Technologies and Innovations
  Thesis Defense: 16.02.2023
• Fabian Reck: Studies about the Role of Governance and Violent Conflicts in Society and Economics
  Thesis Defense: 22.02.2023

• Leander Kauschke: The transition to smart mobility. Acceptance and roles in future transportation.

  Thesis Defense: 18.04.2023

• Maximilian Lantelme: The Continuity and Discontinuity of the 250 Largest Enterprises in Germany. A History-Based Analysis of Family Influence, Corporate Development and Ownership Transactions                                Thesis Defense: 19.04.2023

• Jessica Geraldo Schwengber: Organizational Learning: A Conceptualization in the Framework of the Relational Economics Theory
  Disputation: 31.05.2023
• Francesca Brusa: Unveiling the Invisible. Artistic production and non-artistic labour in the works of Maria Eichhorn, Maja Bajevic, and Otobong Nkanga.
  Disputation: 27.06.2023