Professors
26
Research
The LMU Munich School of Management conducts internationally competitive and excellent cutting-edge research within individual disciplines and in a transdisciplinary network. The focus is on answering overarching social questions.
Keyfacts
Status: April 2025
Post-Docs
24
Honorary professors
7
Research assistants and employees
167
Non-scientific staff and employees
29
Third-party funds 2022
2443
in T€ insgesamt von Bund, Industrie & Praxis, SFB und DFG.
In the five clusters, new research impulses are set across institutions and the competencies for future-oriented research are bundled in transdisciplinary cooperation. Two cross-cutting topics link the research fields through overarching socially relevant issues in the core areas of digital transformation and legitimacy & responsibility. The clusters work closely with the Centers of Excellence in research and teaching.
Management & Strategy
Scientific excellence through interdisciplinary research as well as success strategies and management expertise in the Management & Strategy and Human Resource Education & Management clusters.
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Finance & Insurance
Scientific excellence through interdisciplinary research and financial and insurance expertise in the Finance & Insurance cluster.
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Accounting & Taxation
Academic excellence through interdisciplinary research and expertise in accounting, auditing, corporate accounting and controlling as well as business taxation in the Accounting & Taxation cluster.
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Marketing & Innovation Management
Scientific excellence through interdisciplinary research as well as innovative strength and marketing expertise in the Marketing & Innovation cluster.
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Information Systems & Digital Business
Scientific excellence through interdisciplinary research on IT trends and digital business models in the Information Systems & Digital Business cluster.
Read moreResearch Centers
In addition to the clusters, cross-cutting themes and Centers of Excellence, the research centers at the LMU Munich School of Management offer a broad field for gaining knowledge and play an important role in the development of new technologies. They drive innovations from which society can benefit.
Higher education research
The research unit investigates the transformation process of the universities of the future from different perspectives (institutional and personnel) and formulates evidence-based recommendations for action for decision-makers from universities, politics and practice.
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Information, organization and management
The research center explores issues of information management, organization, and management from an interdisciplinary perspective.
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Entrepreneurship and innovation
The Research Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation is concerned with the study of entrepreneurial activities and innovative processes in various industries and fields.
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Selected research projects
LMU Munich School of Management conducts internationally competitive and excellent cutting-edge research. The research activities cover both established and cutting-edge areas of business administration, determined by overarching socially relevant issues. The research projects selected here provide an insight into the diversity of our research activities.
03/2023 Negativity drives online news consumption
Two international teams (including Prof. Dr. Stefan Feuerriegel, LMU Munich School of Management) are simultaneously researching the same topic with the same result: Negative headlines increase the consumption of online news.
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06/2022 Proximity to War: The stock market response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine
The study by Jonathan Federle (LMU Munich School of Management), André Meier (EUI alumnus), Gernot Müller (Uni Tübingen) and Victor Sehn (LMU Munich School of Management) shows that geographic proximity to Ukraine is a key factor in capital market reaction to the war.
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01/2022 Leadership matters in crisis-induced digital transformation: how to lead service employees effectively during the COVID-19 pandemic
Silke Bartsch, Ariane Huber (Institute of Marketing), Ellen Weber and Marion Büttgen (University of Hohenheim) investigated leadership behavior and its effects on employees in service companies during the corona crisis.
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