Dissertations

2020

• Christina Lüthy: Towards alternative ecologogies of encounter: crafting a vital materialist perspective of cultural entrepreneurship (Ref. Prof. C. Steyaert PhD, Co-Ref. Prof. Dr. M. Müller)

2019

• Dominik Mösching: Coloniality in practice: Tracing power struggles in marginal entrepreneurship (Ref. Prof. C. Steyaert PhD, Co-Ref. Prof. Dr. T. Eberle)
• Carolina Borra: Hybridität und Homogenität: wissenschaftliche Karrieren zwischen einer hybriden universitären Organisation und einem homogenen Bild des idealen Nachwuchswissenschaftlers (Ref. Prof. Dr. Julia Nentwich, Co-Ref. Prof. Dr. Kuno Schedler)
• Katharina Molterer: Fürsorge(n) im Alten- und Pflegeheim - organisationale Ambivalenzen: ein praxistheoretischer Beitrag zur Fürsorgeethik (Ref. Prof. C. Steyaert PhD, Co-Ref. Prof. Dr. Julia Nentwich)
• Bernhard Resch: UNBOSS! On paradox, passion, and power in decentralized work (Ref. Prof. C. Steyaert PhD, Co-Ref. Prof. Dr. Timon Beyes)

2018

• Ines Hartmann: Cultural Diversity in Spitälern - Inklusion von Mitarbeitenden unterschiedlicher Herkunft (Ref. Prof. Dr. Vincent Kaufmann, Co-Ref. Prof. Dr. Julia Nentwich)
• Verena Witzig: Gemeinsam Haushalten. Arbeitsteilung und Praktiken von Mütterlichkeit und Väterlichkeit in getrennten Familien (Ref. Prof. Dr. Franz Schultheis, Co-Ref. Prof. Dr. Julia Nentwich)
• Wiebke Tennhoff: Symbolische Väter, junge Wilde und professionelle Pädagogen. Diskursive Konstruktionen männlicher Geschlechtsidentität in Kindertageseinrichtungen (Ref. Prof. Dr. Julia Nentwich, Co-Ref. Prof. C. Steyaert PhD)

2017

• Tim Lehmann: Leaky Matters: Organizing Water Infrastructure in Nairobi (Ref. Prof. C. Steyaert PhD, Co-Ref. PhD Tanja Schneider) => Special topics doctoral theses

2016

• Bruno Deckert: The Discovery of the Cosmos - Autoethnography of an Urban Intervention (Ref.: Prof. C. Steyaert PhD, Co-Ref. Prof. S. Grand)
• David Risi: An institutional theory perspective on the implementation of corporate social responsibility within large firms: Empirical and conceptual consideration. (Ref. Prof. Th. Beschorner, Co-Ref. Prof. C. Steyaert PhD)

2015

• Ursula Offenberger: Geschlecht und Gemütlichkeit. Paarentscheidungen über das beheizte Zuhause (Ref. Prof. J. Strübing, University of Tübingen, Co-Ref. Prof. J. Nentwich)
• Claudine Gaibrois: Power at work: The discursive construction of power relations in multilingual organizations (Ref. Prof. C. Steyaert PhD, Co-Ref. Prof. J. Nentwich)
• Björn Müller: Oranizational creativity as taste-making - towards a pragmatics of contemporary dance theater production (Ref. Prof. C. Steyaert PhD, Co-Ref. Prof. R. Weiskopf) => Special topics doctoral theses

2014

• Patrizia Hoyer: Careers in Transition: Continuity, Complexity and Conflicting Desires in the Discursive Identity Construction of Ex-Consultants (Ref. Prof. C. Steyaert PhD, Co-Ref. Prof. M. Janssens)

2013

• Kim Poldner: Un-dress! Stories of Ethical Fashion Entrepreneuring
  (Ref. Prof. C. Steyaert PhD, Co-Ref. Prof. M. Veenswijk)
• Florian Schulz: The Psycho-Managerial Complex at Work: A Study of the Discursive Practices of Man-agement Coaching (Ref. Prof. C. Steyaert PhD, Co-Ref. Prof. C. Jacobs)

2011

• Silke Verena Bucher: Das Konzept Episodische Strategiearbeit. Eine vergleichende Studie zu episodischen Praktiken in Krankenhäusern (Ref. J. Rüegg-Stürm, Co-Ref. Prof. C. Steyaert PhD)

2010

• Christoph Michels: Räume der Partizipation - Wie man ein Kunstmuseum inszeniert
  (Ref. Prof. C. Steyaert PhD, Co-Ref. Prof. T. Beyes)

2009

• Claudio Cometta: Unternehmerische Subjektivität und Arbeit (Ref. Prof. D. Thomä, Co-Ref. Prof. C. Steyaert PhD)
• Roland Pfyl: Formality at work - organizational discourses of formality in everyday management practices in a Swiss private bank (Ref. Prof. C. Steyaert PhD, Co-Ref. Prof. T. Eberle)

2008

• Anna-Katrin Heydenreich: Organising a multi-stakeholder process - Creating a paradoxical collaborative identity (Ref. Prof. C. Steyaert PhD, Co-Ref. Prof. R. Bouwen)
• Susan Müller: Encouraging Future Entrepreneurs: The Effect of Entrepreneurship Course Characteristics on Entrepreneurial Intention (Ref. Prof. T. Volery, Co-Ref. Prof. C. Steyaert PhD)
• Ella Roininen: Doing gender / doing profession: analysis of discursive constructions of gender and professionalism by Finnish ICT engineers and primary school teachers
  (Ref. Prof. C. Steyaert PhD, Co-Ref. Prof. U. Landfester)
• Heiko Spitzeck: Moralische Organisationsentwicklung (Ref. Prof. P. Ulrich, Co-Ref. Prof. C. Steyaert PhD)
• Michael Neugarten: Noticing noticing: the role of noticing in the praxis of Competitive Intelligence
  (Ref. Prof. C. Steyaert PhD, Co-Ref. Prof. M. Hilb)
• Daniel Bartl: The Nature of Strategy Capacity: Paradox, Paterns and Preconditions of Strategic Action under Uncertainty (Ref. Prof. J. Rüegg-Stürm, Co-Ref. Prof. C. Steyaert PhD)

2007

• Pascal Dey: On the Name of Social Entrepreneurship, Business School Teaching, Research, and Development Aid (Ref. Prof. C. Steyaert PhD, Co-Ref. Prof. U. Stäheli)
• Dominik Battiste Domnik: Business unit buy-in on cost-cutting issues: Selling exposure and attention allocation from an intermediate perspective. A case from the German automobile industry
  (Ref. Prof. G. Müller-Stewens, Co-Ref.  Prof. C. Steyaert PhD)
• Martina Keller Minh-Triet: Der Corporate Entrepreneur als Fremdkörper im Konzern - Eine Fallstudie aus der pharmazeutischen Industrie (Ref. Prof. E. Walter-Busch, Co-Ref. Prof. C. Steyaert PhD)
• Sabina Tacheva: Top management Team Diversity: A Multilevel Exploration of Antecedents and Consequences (Ref. Prof. W. Ruigrok, Co-Ref. Prof. C. Steyaert PhD)

2006

• Renate Grau: Die Verbreitung belletristischer Titel im Literaturbetrieb - soziale Strategien und Praktiken zur Werk- und Wertschöpfung fiktionaler Bücher (Ref. Prof. M. Hilb, Co-Ref. Prof. C. Steyaert PhD)
• Dörte Resch: Soziales Miteinander in Organisationen. Diskurse und Funktionen zwischen individueller Kompetenz und organisationaler Metapher
  (Ref.  Prof. A. Bangerter, Co-Ref. Prof. F. Tschan, Prof. C. Steyaert PhD, Prof. A. Kluge)
• Matthäus Urwyler: Opportunity Identification and Exloitation: A Case Study of three Swiss-Based Software Companies (Ref. Prof. G. v. Krogh, Co-Ref. Prof. C. Steyaert PhD)
• Anja Ostendorp: Human resource and corporate social responsibility concepts between fashionable luxury, old conflicts of interests, and new lines of flight (Ref. Prof. F. Stoll, Co-Ref. Prof. C. Steyaert PhD)