Bachelor Thesis, Master Thesis or Project Study
📌 Key facts
Contents
- 💡 Background
- 🦾Who We Are
- 🎯 Goals
- 🎓 Profile
- 🧠Topics of Interest
- 📚 Further Reading
- 📄 Requirements to any Work
- 📬 How to Apply
💡 Background
There is an increasing radicalisation, frustration, and numbness in politics. Societal transformations seem to leave some groups of people behind, more extremist parties join the world's governments, all the while the rich become richer and the poor poorer. Our current political and economic systems are certainly not perfect and likely never will be but we want to at least discuss and present possible approaches.
Answer at least one of the following questions:
- How does the current transformation (digitization, globalisation/protectionism, corona etc.) affect good governance and social market economy? What is the cause? How is this reflected in organisations?
- Does the frustration with elite erode the democratic system? What can and must be done to stop this?
- Defining Good Governance as the positively lived rule obedience in social market economy, what role does it take in your opinion? How does this influence the organisation and strategy of governments? Which role do elites have in this concept?
- What should the social market economy look like in the future? Which parameters must be changed?
- What/Who are the essential drivers and hold-ups in this transformation process?
- Is the current pandemic a catalyst of the transformation process or will it, retrospectively, be seen as a temporary full stop?
- Do we need more rules for good governance? Will more rules slow our systems down even more?
🦾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
- Identify innovations in political and economic systems
- Research theories for new political systems
- Evaluate the benefits and drawbacks of different political systems
- Discuss alternative approaches and present own solutions
🎓 Profile
- Reliable and self-driven
- Enthusiasm for politics/ innovative technologies / economics
- Ability to do sophisticated internet and desk research
- Passion to learn more about the future and do research with impact
🧠Topics of Interest
- Quadratic voting
- Blockchain for Politics
- Radical markets
- Surveillance capitalism
- etc.
📚 Further Reading
Strauss, W. (1997). The Fourth Turning: An American Prophecy - What the Cycles of History Tell Us About America's Next Rendezvous with Destiny. Crown.
Sandel, M. J. (2020). Vom Ende des Gemeinwohls. Fischer.
Henderson, R. (2020). Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire.
Middelhoff, T. & Boersch, C. (2020). Zukunft verpasst?: Warum Deutschland die Digitalisierung verschlafen hat. Und wie uns die Krise hilft, den Anschluss doch noch zu schaffen. adeo Verlag.
Halpern, D. (2016). Inside the Nudge Unit: How Small Changes Can Make a Big Difference. Ebury Press.
Gartner Hype Cycle for Government: https://www.gartner.com/smarterwithgartner/top-trends-from-gartner-hype-cycle-for-digital-government-technology-2019/
Schäffler, F. (2020). Aufstieg: 16 Vorschläge für die Zukunft Deutschlands. FinanzBuch Verlag.
Heilmann, T. & Schön, N. (2020). NEUSTAAT: Politik und Staat müssen sich ändern. 64 Abgeordnete & Experten fangen bei sich selbst an – mit 103 Vorschlägen. FinanzBuch Verlag.
Mackey, J. & Sisodia, R. (2014). Conscious Capitalism, With a New Preface by the Authors: Liberating the Heroic Spirit of Business. Harvard Business Review Press.
Sunstein, C. R. (2013). Simpler: The Future of Government. Simon & Schuster.
Davidson, J. D. & Rees-Mogg, L. W. (2020). The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age. Touchstone.
Posner, E. A. & Weyl, E. G. (2019). Radical Markets: Uprooting Capitalism and Democracy for a Just Society. Princeton University Press.
Kai-Fu, L. (2018). AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
Derwing, T. M., Rossiter, M. J., & Munro, M. J. (2002). Teaching native speakers to listen to foreign-accented speech. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 23(4), 245-259.
Gilder, G. (2017). Life after Google: The Fall of Big Data and the Rise of the Blockchain Economy. Regnery Publishing.
Aral, S. (2020). The Hype Machine: How Social Media Disrupts Our Elections, Our Economy, and Our Health - and How We Must Adapt. Currency.
Mises, L. (2016). Der freie Markt und seine Feinde: Pseudowissenschaft, Sozialismus und Inflation. mises.at.
Sandel, M. J. (2014). Was man für Geld nicht kaufen kann: Die moralischen Grenzen des Marktes. Ullstein Taschenbuch.
Mazzucato, M. (2018). The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths. Penguin.
Strauss, W. (1997). The Fourth Turning: An American Prophecy - What the Cycles of History Tell Us About America's Next Rendezvous with Destiny. Crown.
Sandel, M. J. (2020). Vom Ende des Gemeinwohls. Fischer.
Henderson, R. (2020). Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire.
Middelhoff, T. & Boersch, C. (2020). Zukunft verpasst?: Warum Deutschland die Digitalisierung verschlafen hat. Und wie uns die Krise hilft, den Anschluss doch noch zu schaffen. adeo Verlag.
Halpern, D. (2016). Inside the Nudge Unit: How Small Changes Can Make a Big Difference. Ebury Press.
Gartner Hype Cycle for Government: https://www.gartner.com/smarterwithgartner/top-trends-from-gartner-hype-cycle-for-digital-government-technology-2019/
Schäffler, F. (2020). Aufstieg: 16 Vorschläge für die Zukunft Deutschlands. FinanzBuch Verlag.
Heilmann, T. & Schön, N. (2020). NEUSTAAT: Politik und Staat müssen sich ändern. 64 Abgeordnete & Experten fangen bei sich selbst an – mit 103 Vorschlägen. FinanzBuch Verlag.
Mackey, J. & Sisodia, R. (2014). Conscious Capitalism, With a New Preface by the Authors: Liberating the Heroic Spirit of Business. Harvard Business Review Press.
Sunstein, C. R. (2013). Simpler: The Future of Government. Simon & Schuster.
Davidson, J. D. & Rees-Mogg, L. W. (2020). The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age. Touchstone.
Posner, E. A. & Weyl, E. G. (2019). Radical Markets: Uprooting Capitalism and Democracy for a Just Society. Princeton University Press.
Kai-Fu, L. (2018). AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
Derwing, T. M., Rossiter, M. J., & Munro, M. J. (2002). Teaching native speakers to listen to foreign-accented speech. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 23(4), 245-259.
Gilder, G. (2017). Life after Google: The Fall of Big Data and the Rise of the Blockchain Economy. Regnery Publishing.
Aral, S. (2020). The Hype Machine: How Social Media Disrupts Our Elections, Our Economy, and Our Health - and How We Must Adapt. Currency.
Mises, L. (2016). Der freie Markt und seine Feinde: Pseudowissenschaft, Sozialismus und Inflation. mises.at.
Sandel, M. J. (2014). Was man für Geld nicht kaufen kann: Die moralischen Grenzen des Marktes. Ullstein Taschenbuch.
Mazzucato, M. (2018). The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths. Penguin.
📄 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!
👉 welpe@tum.de