Being mobile despite the climate crisis, enjoying prosperity despite limits to growth – creative business leaders need to find innovative solutions to accommodate our everyday needs while addressing today’s immense societal challenges. The Master's degree program "Leadership and Innovation in Organizations (LIO)" provides you with the expertise you need to turn your ideas into responsible and sustainable new products, services, and processes.

Digitization and globalization are driving the search to find tomorrow's solutions. Successful business leaders understand these megatrends and work proactively to shape the future by taking bold decisions under a high level of uncertainty. We work together with you to hone your creative, entrepreneurial, leadership and analytical skills to successfully master, and even excel, in these kinds of situations.

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Required Study Material

Please note: These are the key course resources. Be sure to have a copy by the beginning of the course.

Foundations of Management

• Gerald A Cole, Phil Kelly (2015). Management Theory and Practice. 8th Edition. Cengage Learning (ISBN 978-1-4080-9527-0)

 In contrast to the Boot Camp, the Winter and Summer Terms are entirely on-site.

You are free to choose your elective courses. We recommend, however, that students in the LIO program choose electives that supplement their undergraduate education with the following basic pillars in the LIO program:

• Social theoretical foundations of management (psychology, sociology, economics)
• Business administration (finance, accounting, management)
• Business informatics, analytics and statistics
• English/German language skills

So if, for example, you have a biology or engineering background, you most likely have strong analytical skills but may want to expand on your knowledge of social theory and business administration beyond the basic courses in the LIO program which, for instance, do not have a strong emphasis on finance and accounting. Conversely, if you have an undergraduate degree in business administration, you may want to take elective courses in programming or business informatics to learn more about this field. If you have an academic background in social sciences or humanities, we recommend focusing on taking some basic business administration courses in addition to improving your understanding of statistics and mathematics. If you earned your undergraduate degree at a university of applied sciences, we recommend completing a few theory-oriented courses.

JKU offers a range of courses in all of these areas which students can attend. An overview of courses offered in English is available here:

Business and Economics courses in English

Computer Science Courses, opens an external URL in a new window

English-taught courses at the Catholic Private University Linz

Languages

At the start of lecture registration periods we also provide a specific list of available elective recommendations via email. You can also contact the LIO office if you have any questions about possible electives: lio@jku.at, opens an external URL in a new window