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Topic Ideas for the Bachelor's Thesis

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 Anna 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?

    • Urban management & Institutional Persistence: What contemporary issues emerge concerning the long-term survival of historically established urban entities?

    Johanna Ayrault (Supervision only in English)

    • Transformation of urban infrastructures: How to govern the transformation of urban infrastructures (e.g., energy supply, waste management) facing new societal and environmental challenges? How are technical solutions and societal networks interlinked and with what effects on the system's transformation?

    • Climate change and organizations: How do organizations develop and implement instruments or practices to tackle climate change? How are different types of organizations cooperating and collaborating when it comes to climate change issues?

    Anna Katharina Grill

    • Social expectations: How do societal expectations influence decisions in organizations? Which actors are perceived as particularly relevant stakeholders? What does this reveal about power relations in organizations and their environment?

    • New organizational forms: Which new organizational forms are emerging as a result of the decentralization of the energy system? How do these differ from established energy supply companies? How is their cooperation coordinated?

    Thorsten Koch

    • Sport: How do actors in sport—such as clubs, leagues, federations, or commercial sports organizations—organize themselves, and what particular characteristics distinguish sport as an institutional field? Using examples of current developments, such as the use of digital technologies, changing forms of commercialization, or new participation models for fans and members, it is possible to examine how organizations in sport are evolving and what insights can be gained from this for organizational studies.

    • 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?

    Andreas Stocklasser

    • War and Democracy: Role and impact of private actors in core state functions (e.g. private military, defence and security actors, etc.); public opinion formation and its effects on democracy and society (e.g. private media concentration, social media, etc.); public perception and the role of / impact on organisations in the context of active war policies (USA, Russia, Israel, etc.) or mediation policies (India, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, etc.) in the EU/Austria; topics on democratic governance in organisations.

    • Market, State and Common Good: Organisational perspectives on marketisation, particularly of public services of general interest, and its effects on society, prices, etc. (e.g. food retail, construction and/or real estate sector, healthcare; international comparisons); organisational perspective on the role and effects of reindustrialisation; organisational perspective on lobbying and interest representation.