Month: July 2025

Call for Papers: Special Issue in Business & Society on »Collective actorhood and organizationality: Recalibrating responsibility in business-society relations«

Logo of the journal "Business & Society"

Ten years after Dennis Schoeneborn and I had introduced the idea of ‘organizationality’ to conceptualize organization as a matter of degree in our joint article “Fluidity, Identity and Organizationality”, we have teamed up with Héloïse Berkowitz, Frank de Bakker and Consuelo Vásquez for a special issue on “Collective actorhood and organizationality: Recalibrating responsibility in business-society relations” (PDF of the Call) to be published in Business & Society. We will be supported in the editorial work by consulting editor Devi Vijay as well as Business & Society editor Colin Higgins. Deadline for submissions is September 30, 2026. Please check out the full call for papers below:

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Pre-Conference Post: The First Academy of Management Annual Meeting in Europe

Picture of a souvenir shop ft. "Hygge" in Copenhagen
The first word I encountered right out of the Metro is, of course, “Hygge”.

In previous years, I have only blogged after attending international conferences such as the Academy of Management Annual Meeting. However, to some degree, a pre-conference posting might be much more helpful for people who want to meet up. So, having already arrived in Copenhagen, let me briefly and chronologically list sessions and other occasions I will be involved in at this year’s Academy of Management Annual Meeting – the first ever to be hosted outside of North America:

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New Article in R&D Management: »Anticipating Knowledge Applicability in Open Science Through Recycling, Mimicking, and Shortcutting«

Figure 1: Model of anticipatory applicability throughout the R&D process.
Model of anticipatory applicability throughout the R&D process.

During the Covid-19 pandemic, several ventures tried to develop vaccines that are not protected by patents and could be fast and easily distributed acround the globe. In the course of the research project “Organizing Creativity under Regulatory Uncertainty: Alternative Approaches to Intellectual Property” (funded by the Austrian Science Fund FWF and the German Research Foundation DFG), we collected data on such alternative, more open approaches to pharmaceutical R&D.

It is with great pleasure that a paper comparing five such cases has now been published in the journal R&D Management. Check out the abstract of the article entitled “Anticipating Knowledge Applicability in Open Science Through Recycling, Mimicking, and Shortcutting” and co-authored with my former PhD student Milena Leybold and long-term collaborators Konstantin Hondros and Sigrid Quack below:

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