Master Thesis

DEADLINES and Master thesis seminar

1. Proposal:When you register for the master thesis seminar, you have to submit a signed proposal at the first meeting of the master conversatorium.

2. All candidates under my supervision have to attend my master thesis seminar in WS or SS.

3. Deadline for the master thesis:
I want to inform all master thesis candidates that all accepted topics have to be completed within 12 months after registration!

Rules for Scientific Writing
When you are in the process of submitting the final version of the master thesis, I want to remind you of submitting a final version that consistently applies the formal rules of writing a research paper.  Here are two references for preparing the thesis:

  • Karmasin, M., R. Rainer, Die Gestaltung wissenschaftlicher Arbeiten, , 2015, UTB Facultas
  • Skern, T., Writing Scientific English, 2015, UTB Facultas

Defense of Master Thesis (IM and Organisation & Personal)

(I) INTERNATIONAL MANAGEMENT

For the DEFENSE, the presentation of the thesis should not take longer than 20 minutes and the examination will consist of 5 questions; 3 questions from the thesis and 2 questions from the "Theory of International Firm" or "International Market Entry".

BOOKS:

Mats Forsgren, 2018, Theories of the Multinational Firm: A Multidimensional Creature in the Global Economy., Edward Elgar Publishing

OR

Welch, L. S., Benito, G. R., & Petersen, B., 2018, Foreign operation methods: Theory, analysis, strategy, Edward Elgar Publishing (Chapter: 1 - 4, 6, 8, 9, 10)

Examination in the Specialization "International Management" and "Organisation & Personal"

This examination part will consist of 4-5 questions and take about 20-30 minutes.

Examination Literature

For the MINOR, you have to learn (A); in addition, (B) or (C). Please inform me in advance which topic and book of (B) and (C) you will choose.

(A) Mandatory
Theory of the International Firm

Relevant Literature

M. Forsgren, 2018, Theories of the Multinational Firm: A Multidimensional Creature in the Global Economy., Edward Elgar Publishing, (Chapter: 1 - 4, 6, 8, 9, 10); AND the additional papers on the different theories of the multinational firm uploaded on ucloud in the folder "MASTER EXAM"! (please choose 6 theories and inform me two days before the exam via email which topics you have prepared!)

(B) or (C): For the MINOR choose ONE of the following two options
(B) International Market Entry(C) Global Strategy
Book:
  • Welch, L. S., Benito, G. R., & Petersen, B., 2018, Foreign operation methods: Theory, analysis, strategy, Edward Elgar Publishing (Chap. 1 - 10)
Books:
  • Alain Verbeke, Ian Lee, 2021, International Business Strategy, Cambridge University Press, OR
  • M. W. Peng (2022), Global Strategic Management, South-Western, Cengage Learning, Chapter 2,3,4, 6,7,9, 10, 12.

 

                                                 (II) MINOR - Organisation & Personal

 

Students in Organisation & Personal have to prepare the following literature for the master exam:

R.L. Daft, J. Murphy, H. Willmot, (2020) Organization Theory and Design, Cengage
and
Picot, A., Dietl, H., Franck, Fiedler, M., Royer S. (2020) Organisation: Theorie und Praxis aus ökonomischer Sicht. Schäffer-Poeschel Verlag, Kapitel 1, 2, 5, 6.