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Master's Thesis (MaKuWi)

General Information

Lecturer	Prof. Dr. Laura Marie Edinger-Schons, Dr. Jenni Sipilä, Inken Blatt, Michael Verbücheln
Course Format	Master’s thesis
Credit Points	24 ECTS
Frequency	Every semester
Language	English or German
Grading	Research Paper
Pre-requisites	MAN 761

Currently offered topics for master theses:

Topic	Supervisor
Overcoming the stigma - Donations to stigmatized causes.	Inken Blatt or Jenni Sipilä
Donation allocation – A qualitative investigation of the decision-making process.	Inken Blatt or Jenni Sipilä
How Corporate Volunteers Become Internal Change Agents	Michael Verbücheln
Discrimination in the labor market – a field experiment.	Laura Marie Edinger-Schons
Methods in Sustainable Business Research - a Review and Analysis of Recently Published Work.	Laura Marie Edinger-Schons
Is this just Fantasy? Exploring the Hypothetical Brand Bias in a Scenario Experiment.	Laura Marie Edinger-Schons
Stakeholder Reactions to Corporate Social Responsibility – A Review and Analysis of Existing Measurement Instruments.	Laura Marie Edinger-Schons
Good intentions? An empirical investigation of stakeholder perceptions of corporate communications of motives for CSR.	Laura Marie Edinger-Schons
The perceived legitimacy of CEO pay	Laura Marie Edinger-Schons
Invisible giants – investigating the relationship between firm size, firm visibility, and (un-)ethical behaviors	Laura Marie Edinger-Schons
Between two worlds – finding the right organizational form for social startups	Laura Marie Edinger-Schons
Philanthropy and Democracy – a qualitative approach to understanding stakeholders attitudes	Laura Marie Edinger-Schons
Perceived price fairness and price transparency – a consumer perspective	Laura Marie Edinger-Schons
In the bubble – do activists overestimate public attitudes?	Laura Marie Edinger-Schons
Veganism social movements – a netnography of deliberation processes and systems change	Laura Marie Edinger-Schons
Companies as moral tribes – the role of identity orientation, moral identification, and corporate culture	Laura Marie Edinger-Schons
Leveraging the Business Model of Lifestyle Magazines Through Channel Integration	Laura Marie Edinger-Schons
Shared Leadership in Teams – a Lab Experiment in an Escape Room.	Laura Marie Edinger-Schons
Emergent Leadership in Teams – a Lab Experiment in an Escape Room.	Laura Marie Edinger-Schons
Improvisation in Teams - a Lab Experiment in an Escape Room.	Laura Marie Edinger-Schons
The Role of Influencers and Social Media for Sustainable Consumer Behavior	Laura Marie Edinger-Schons
The Collective Production of Transparency on Sustainability – A Critical Review of Institutions, Stakeholders, and the Status Quo of the Field	Laura Marie Edinger-Schons
Measuring and Mapping the Sustainable Development Impact of the Private Sector in the Rhine-Neckar Region	Laura Marie Edinger-Schons
Collective Impact Programs for Social Impact and how they are Perceived by Stakeholders	Laura Marie Edinger-Schons
Measuring the Social Impact of a Skills-Based Volunteering Program in a Developing Country	Laura Marie Edinger-Schons
Understanding Consumer Attitudes towards Circular Economy Business Models	Laura Marie Edinger-Schons
Testing how Stakeholders Perceive Varying Philanthropic CSR programs	Laura Marie Edinger-Schons
The Effect of Exchange Mechanisms in the Sharing Economy.	Inken Blatt
Image vs. Descriptive Appeals. An analysis of the effectiveness of different appeals to enhance pro-environmental behavior.	Inken Blatt
What’s the Impact? An investigation of the concept of social impact measurement	Inken Blatt
Appeals for veganism: A field experiment.	Jenni Sipilä
Win, Win, Win? - When do non-profit organizations also benefit from corporate volunteering?	Michael Verbücheln
Bringing Purpose to the Job - How employee engagement can increase job meaningfulness	Michael Verbücheln

Current master theses in cooperation with organizations:

Master thesis in cooperation with SAP. More information.
Master thesis in cooperation with vostel.de. More information.
Master thesis in cooperation with the FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg. More information.
Master thesis in cooperation with UEBERBIT. More information.
Two master theses with HeidelbergCement. More information.
Master thesis in cooperation with Impact Week. More information.

Guidelines

The time allowed for completing the master thesis is four months, beginning from the official registration of the thesis.

Feel free to use our title page template in English or German.

Before writing your thesis, please read these guidelines.

Please refer to the “Prüfungsordnung” of MaKuWis for further details.
Application

Please ask Mr. Hempen for the application form. (Please consult your “Prüfungsordnung” for more information.)
Contact

For any further questions, please contact Jenni Sipilä.

Dr. Jenni Sipilä

Universität Mannheim
Lehrstuhl für Unternehmensverantwortung
Schloss
Schneckenhof Ost – Raum SO 102
68161 Mannheim

Tel.: +49 621 181-1614
E-Mail: jsipilae(at)mail.uni-mannheim.de

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Updated: July 2018

Master's Thesis (MaKuWi)

General Information

Further Information

Topics

Guidelines

Application

Contact

Dr. Jenni Sipilä

Lehrstuhl für Unternehmensverantwortung