Bachelor Thesis

Writing a thesis is mandatory in our bachelor program, and by writing a  thesis you will earn 10 ECTS points towards your bachelor degree.

The application for supervision places is centralized for all study programs. If you plan to write your thesis in the administrative period of the coming semester, you should already apply via the corresponding WueCampus course in the current semester. Here you will find both the application procedure and the relevant deadlines.

Once you are allocated a bachelor thesis slot at our chair, the next step is to find a suitable topic. You are expected to write on a topic that falls in the research area of the chair, namely strategy and competition, or more formally, industrial economics. We welcome and encourage students suggesting their own research topic, as we believe that the students are more productive when they work on topic that interest them.

Nevertheless, as an inspiration in your topic search, we have prepared a list of topics that are currently of interest to members of the team at our chair. In this list, you will find some references already for each topics which gives a better idea about the research questions that are interesting to us. In addition you can also find a list of topics for seminar papers, bachelor and master thesis which were completed at our chair previously below. You can use this list for inspiration as well. The final topic for your research project and seminar paper will be determined once you meet with a member of our team at the chair.

It is very beneficial if you already wrote a seminar paper at this chair, as you can build up on your previous research and further analyse a topic you are already familiar with.

After choosing the topic, the thesis must be registered, which starts the eight-week processing period. The registration date can be coordinated flexibly with the chair. The necessary file can be found at the website of the Prüfungsamt and is filled out with the supervisor and submitted to the examination office after the supervisor's approval.

If you have any questions regarding the procedure or topics, you can of course contact the staff of the chair at any time.

List of possible topics

Guidelines for writing scientific papers and theses