International Master's Thesis Research
Technical University of Munich · TUM School of Management
Markets are changing, and new opportunities rarely come with certainty. Take part in this TUM master's research study to receive feedback on your responses to risk, uncertainty, and possible failure, alongside a snapshot of the organizational conditions surrounding new initiatives.
First step: less than 1 minute. Share a few basic details. No account is created. With your permission, AI helps prepare the public background information for your questionnaire, so you have less to type.
What you'll receive
Receive feedback you can use to reflect on your own decision patterns and the conditions surrounding new initiatives in your organization. Each view is based on your responses.
Based on your questionnaire, see how your working environment balances improving existing activities with pursuing new opportunities, and how it supports testing ideas, learning, and raising concerns early. This reflects your experience of the organization.
Questionnaire requiredExplore how you approach decisions when the odds are known, when they are unclear, and when failure could have personal consequences. Your profile is based on your interview responses and, where the sample allows, includes relevant study averages.
Questionnaire + interview requiredThese are descriptive research snapshots. They do not rate company performance, rank individual companies, or prescribe changes. Relevant study averages are included only when enough comparable responses are available.
Multiple participants are especially valuable
When several people participate from the same company, division, or program, their responses can provide a richer aggregate view of that shared environment, including where perspectives align and where they differ. Individual responses remain confidential.
Who should take part
If your work involves proposing, evaluating, supporting, or leading initiatives whose outcomes are uncertain, your experience is relevant. Participants are welcome from different departments and organization sizes.
How it works
Sharing your details takes less than 1 minute and does not create an account. With your permission, the researcher uses AI assistance to prepare background information. Your questionnaire then arrives by email, and the interview can be scheduled separately. Participation remains voluntary throughout.
Today · less than 1 minute
Share your name, email, company, and LinkedIn profile, or use the manual option. This does not create an account. It lets us prepare your questionnaire and send you the link.
What the researcher and AI do
Researcher preparation · AI-assisted
With your permission, AI helps gather basic public information about your professional background and organization. You check it in the questionnaire and correct anything missing or out of date.
About 8–10 minutes
Tell us how new ideas are considered, supported, tested, and learned from in the part of the organization you know best.
Remote · about 10–20 minutes
Choose a convenient time for a conversation about decisions with known odds, unclear odds, and the possibility of failure. We will also discuss how your organization affects those decisions.
What you receive
After you participate
Once your responses have been analyzed, receive your organizational snapshot and, if you also complete the interview, your personal research profile.
First step · less than 1 minute
Start by sharing your contact details and a LinkedIn profile, or use the manual option. This takes less than 1 minute and does not create an account. With your permission, we prepare the public background information so you can focus on your experience when completing the questionnaire.
Your details
This takes less than 1 minute. We will email your questionnaire link when it is ready. This does not create an account, and no password is needed.
Research setting
Independent master's thesis research shaped by executive experience and situated within TUM's international innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem.
Academic institution
Technische Universität München
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Academic supervision
Professor of Economics of Innovation · TUM School of Management
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Program
A joint TUM–UnternehmerTUM program combining academic management education with hands-on innovation and venture creation.
Explore the programThis is an independently conducted master's thesis. These references describe its academic setting and supervision; they do not imply institutional or employer endorsement.
Practical questions
Sharing your details takes less than 1 minute. The questionnaire takes approximately 8–10 minutes, and the remote interview approximately 10–20 minutes. These happen separately, and no special preparation is required.
Your questionnaire responses provide a snapshot of how your working environment approaches new initiatives. If you also complete the interview, you receive a personal research profile covering decisions with known odds, unclear odds, and the possible consequences of failure. The feedback describes patterns in your responses rather than providing a company rating or consulting recommendations.
The interview is encouraged, and every step remains voluntary. The questionnaire provides the organizational snapshot. To receive your personal research profile, you also need to complete the interview.
Sharing your details lets us email you a questionnaire with basic background information already prepared. With your permission, AI helps gather public information about your professional background and organization. You check and correct it, saving you repeated typing. This does not create an account. Your Study ID is a reference number used to connect your study materials, not a password.
Yes. This is encouraged. With sufficient participation from the same company, division, or program, the study may provide a more detailed aggregate view of that shared environment while preserving individual confidentiality.
Your individual responses and profile will not be shared with any third party. Research findings will be reported only in aggregate or anonymized form.
No. This is independently conducted master's thesis research. The feedback is part of the research exchange, not a consulting assessment or sales offer.
Your information
This form collects the details needed to assess study fit, contact you, and, with your separate permission, prepare draft background information from public sources such as LinkedIn, company websites, and annual reports.
Your individual details, questionnaire responses, interview responses, and research profile will not be shared with third parties. Research findings will be reported only in aggregate or anonymized form. Sharing your details is not consent to the full study, and you may ask for this record to be corrected or deleted.
Researcher: Matthew Schwind · Master's thesis research supervised by Prof. Dr. Hanna Hottenrott at TUM School of Management, Technische Universität München. Questions about taking part or your information: leadership.risk.study@gmail.com.