• You can apply to our chair at any time. Please note the procedure, our main topics and the miscellaneous section.

Procedure

• You apply to us with a summary of your grades and an exposé. In the exposé, you should tell us about your research project on approx. 2 pages. The exposé should make the research gap visible and clarify how you plan to close this research gap. Only applications sent to entrepreneurship@ovgu.de will be considered.
• We will discuss your idea in an individual interview. When we are sure that you can adequately work on the topic in the allotted time, your reading phase begins.
• After the reading phase, you will present your topic to us and the other participants of the seminar during the master seminar, which takes place once a month.After the presentation, you register your work.
• During the writing phase, regular attendance at the master seminar is compulsory. This gives you the opportunity once a month to ask questions regarding your work that cannot be answered using the FAQ.
• After submitting your Master's thesis, you have until the next Master's seminar to prepare your defence. If the dates are too close together or too far apart, we reserve the right to give you an individual date for your presentation.

Main Topics

• We are interested in empirical (quantitative as well as qualitative) and theoretical research that is in our areas of interest. These include:
  • Entrepreneurship (especially Social and Sustainable Entrepreneurship)
  • Business model development and innovation
  • Analysis and design of decision-making processes
  • Negotiation analysis
  • Steward-ownership

Miscellaneous

• Please refrain from contacting us with paper topics that you want to write on behalf of an company.
• You should be familiar with the research method and associated tools that you intend to use in your work. Experience shows that the time is too short to teach yourself the necessary knowledge and to write a successful thesis.