Is your topic IB?

Interested students are encouraged to approach the Chair of International Business with their own proposed topic(s).

You need to make sure that your topic falls into one of the following subdomains of International Business:

·         the activities, strategies, structures and decision-making processes of multinational enterprises;

·         interactions between multinational enterprises and other actors, organizations, institutions, and markets;

·         the cross-border activities of firms (e.g., intrafirm trade, finance, investment, technology transfers, offshore services);

·         how the international environment (e.g., cultural, economic, legal, political) affects the activities, strategies, structures and decision-making processes of firms);

·         the international dimensions of organizational forms (e.g., strategic alliances, mergers and acquisitions) and activities (e.g., entrepreneurship, knowledge-based competition, corporate governance);

·         cross-country comparative studies of businesses, business processes and organizational behavior in different countries and environments;

·         industry 4.0 in IB (e.g., the profound effects that 4.0 technologies have on the governance, the stategies, the structures and the organizational functioning of internationally operating firms).

For previous examples of Master Theses supervised by the Chair of International Business please follow this link.