Degree theses

Bachelor theses:

• Conceptualizing hybrid approaches between trade-offs and "everything goes"
• Development of a model of the paper reviewing process
• Degrowth and capacity ramp-down in Forrester’s market growth model 
• Synthesizing criticisms against the circular economy concept (literature study) 
• Modelling and simulating group consensus building 
• Counter-intuitive effects of ride-hailing services on traffic congestions: a teaching case-study in modelling (WSJ)

Project study:

• Using Lego Serious Play in the courses of the department

• “Factory Physics” using system dynamics--a teaching intervention
• Endogeneous demand (e.g. based on service-level) in a dynamic production model
• Occurrence of overconfidence bias in the Beer Distribution Game (experiment)
• Modelling and evaluating resource-based and market-based strategies in stagnating markets using system dynamics
• Implementing a circular economy module in the Limits-to-Growth model (and running simulations)
• Ramp-down of production capacity: necessities and chances from circular business models (conceptual/modelling study)
• Existence and strength of a discrete delay bias: experimental evidence (experimental study)
• Negative footprint illusion in operations: an experimental approach (experimental study)
• The effect of circularity on the resiliency of supply networks (conceptual/modelling/empirical study)
• "The 1972 experiment" - a counterfactual comparison based on the IPAT concept (statistical analysis)
• Simulating altruistic and egoistic considerations of fairness in supply chains (modelling study)