Degree theses

Department X: General Business Management and Operations Management

Here you can find additional information about degree theses at the Chair of Operations Management at the University of Stuttgart.

It is possible to write final theses (bachelor thesis / master thesis) in cooperation with department X. An in-depth understanding of the contents, which are conveyed within our courses, is presumed.
Furthermore, Bachelor theses (regardless of the language used for the example topics below) can be written in German or English; Master theses should be written in English.

Topic suggestions for degree theses

Bachelor theses:

  • Development of a model of the paper reviewing process
  • Modelling and simulating group consensus building 
  • The dynamics of unintended consequences – literature and conceptual study

Project study:

  • Using Lego Serious Play in the courses of the department
  • Ramp-down of production capacity: necessities and implications of circular business models (conceptual/modelling study)
  • Existence and strength of a discrete delay bias: experimental evidence (experimental study)
  • “The 1972 experiment” – a counterfactual comparison based on the IPAT concept (statistical analysis)
  • “Factory Physics” using system dynamics – a teaching intervention
  • Running the Beer Distribution Game on simple heuristics
  • The effect of judgemental forecasts on forecasting quality in B2B-contexts (statistical analysis; case study)

No suitable topic for your thesis?

Please note that the list does not claim to be complete. If you don´t find a suitable topic for your bachelor or master thesis here, please get in touch with our research assistants working in the various fields.

Contact persons

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Julian Wiesner

M.Sc.

Research Associate

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Ivan Ðula

Dr.

Research assistant

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