BACHELOR THESIS
International Business
Submission Form for Topic Proposals
(step 1 of 2 in the admission process!)
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Training company:
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The following questions are intended to support you in the process of clearly delineating the topic and scope of your Bachelor thesis.
Answering them will require that you have already started to read up on the academic literature as well as to think about how to structure
your topic. Your initial efforts for both should become clear from the answers you provide to each of the aspects below.
I)
Problem Context:
Please describe the problem context in which your Bachelor thesis is situated.
What is the bigger picture to which your work is going to contribute?
(e.g. What are the objectives or intentions behind the project as a whole? / What about it represents
a problem for whom and why?)
Insert your description of the wider problem context here.
II)
Transfer:
How can you relate this problem context to the topic areas of your business studies?
(If several topic areas are relevant, which one is given priority in your thesis?)
(e.g.: Which search terms would you use to find suitable literature, concepts, or models?)
Insert the keywords to transfer your topic “from practice to theory” here.
III) Topic Delineation:
What is the working title of your Bachelor thesis?
(Provide a possible formulation of an informative headline, which delineates your topic as a specific
focus regarding the wider context described above. This need not be the final title of your Bachelor
thesis yet.)
Insert your working title here.
IV) Objective:
What the objective of your Bachelor thesis? What is to come out of it as a final result?
(e.g. What will you „produce“ through your work which was not available before?)
Insert the description of your thesis’ objective here.
V) How to achieve the objective:
What exactly are you actually going to do in order to achieve the objective described above?
Make sure that your scientific approach to the topic becomes clear here!
(e.g. Which data do you have to collect and analyze using which methods? Which criteria or models
found in the academic literature will you apply to approach your topic?
Describe the steps and methods in approaching your topic here.
BACHELOR THESIS
International Business
Submission Form for Topic Proposals
(step 1 of 2 in the admission process!)
Has the topic as described above been approved of by your training company?
☐ Yes.
☐ No.
VI) Preliminary Content Outline:
Please indicate or visualize how you will translate your topic approach into a logical structure for
your Bachelor thesis.
(e.g. draft a table of contents or a schematic model of the parts of your thesis)
Please indicate here how you will logically structure your thesis.
VII) Literature Screening:
Name at least five scientific (“quotable”) sources relevant for approaching your topic.
Provide their references according to the bibliography guidelines in the “IB Leitfaden”.
(You should refer mainly to articles in research journals! Textbooks and other sources should be the
absolute exception.)
Please indicate the sources you have used to research your topic so far.