Bachelor Thesis, Master Thesis or Project Study
📌 Key facts
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💡 Background
Europe has been exporting its talents for a long time. The greatest benefactors are the United States. This is the result of a 2013 study by Miguelez and Fink. While the overall result might remain similar, we expect changes to the exact migration streams. Thus, we want you to create a renewed version of the study by collecting new data (LinkedIn dataset available as starting point). You should recreate the migration streams especially for Germany.
🦾Who We Are
The Chair for Strategy and Organization is focused on doing research with impact. This means we do not want to repeat old ideas and base our research solely on the research people did 10 years ago. Instead, we currently research topics that will shape the future. Topics such as Agile Organizations and Digital Disruption, Blockchain Technology, Creativity and Innovation, Digital Transformation and Business Model Innovation, Diversity, Education: Education Technology and Performance Management, HRTech, Leadership and Teams. We are always early in noticing trends, technologies, strategies and organizations that shape the future, which has its ups and downs.
🎯 Goals
Replicate the study by Miguelez and Fink (2013) at least for the import and export for Germany.
🎓 Profile
- Reliable and self-driven
- Enthusiasm for entrepreneurship / international exchange / globalisation
- Ability to do sophisticated internet, desk research, and connect with practitioners
- Passion to learn more about the future and do research with impact
📚 Further Reading
Measuring the International Mobility of Inventors: A New Database (wipo.int)
📄 Requirements to any Work
We do not want your research to gather dust in some corner of a bookshelf but make it accessible to the world. Thus, we warmly encourage you to create some or all of the following:
- Infograph - visually represent some of your work (find examples here)
- Slide Deck - summarize your research and possibly present it
- Extract most important sequences from podcasts, videos, and other media
- 3-4 Tweets about the most important findings and summarizing the topic
- optional: Medium Article - let people outside university know about your research and start your personal brand
📬 How to Apply
If you are interested, please contact Prof. Dr. Isabell Welpe (e-mail below) by submitting your CV and grade report. Please also briefly outline your tentative research idea (research question, data and methods, possible outcomes with a tentative outline all in word as *.docx)
We're greatly looking forward to hearing more about you!