Teaching

Bachelor

• Management of Digital Technologies (Vorlesung)

Doktorandenseminar

• Basic Readings of IS

General Information

As a student of the Faculty of Business Administration at LMU, you have the opportunity to write your bachelor's thesis at our professorship. We offer a range of research questions that are assigned to specific topics within the scope of our research and teaching.

Detailed information

• Applications are generally possible on March 1st and September 1st of each year.
• The allocation of the specific topic and the start of the processing period is at the beginning of the month following the respective application deadline.
• The number of supervised theses depends on the capacity of the professorship. If the number of applicants exceeds the capacity of the professorship, a selection will be made according to the academic achievements to date and the specialization subjects.
• Possible topics lie within the research areas of the professorship (see Research section on this website).

To apply, the following documents (bundled) must be submitted by e-mail (a.s.mayer@lmu.de) until the respective application deadline:

• Transcript of records (which, among other things, proves successful participation in a main seminar (Hauptseminar))
• Curriculum vitae
• Information about the preferred subject area or your own topic proposal
• If you would like to propose your own topic, please provide a detailed description of the topic, the methodology and the scientific literature to which your topic relates (maximum two pages).

Recommendation

• Prior participation in a main seminar of the professorship as well as successful attendance of the relevant courses in a specialization is recommended.

Formal requirements

• When writing the thesis, the requirements set out in the Guidelines for the Preparation of Academic Papers (in german) (PDF, 421 KB) of the Professorship must be observed.
• In addition, the Guidelines for the use of generative and other AI tools (PDF, 79 KB) must be observed.

Colloquium for Bachelor's theses

• The mandatory colloquium for Bachelor's theses takes place approximately six weeks after the start of work.
• In this colloquium, students present the status quo of their work, focusing on the structure and methodological approach.
• The presentation should be about 15 minutes long. A further 15 minutes are used for feedback and the opportunity to ask questions.

For a letter of recommendation, we need to be able to assess you personally. In addition to a GPA better than 2.5, at least one of the following criteria must also apply to you:

• Attendance of a seminar or project course at our professorhip
• Completion of your thesis at our professorship
• Employment as a student assistant at our professorship

Please note that attending our lectures is not sufficient to request a letter of recommendation.
Make sure to include all necessary documents with your request and send your application to a.s.mayer@lmu.de. Processing may take up to four weeks.