Category: ConJunction Day

ConJunction 2026: Organizing (Post-)Truth in the Era of AI

Dear Organization Studies community,

the OS ConJunction Day 2026 is just around the corner! This year’s theme, “Organizing (Post-)Truth in the Era of AI”, promises to spark inspiring discussions.

Event details:
•⁠ ⁠Date: November 27th, 2026, starting at 3 p.m.
•⁠ Location: Claudia-Saal, Claudiana, Herzog-Friedrich-Straße 3, 6020 Innsbruck
•⁠ Social get-together: Hopfmann & Söhne, Pfarrgasse 6, 6020 Innsbruck, starting at 6:30 p.m.

Our event offers an excellent opportunity to reconnect with fellow students and alumni of the Organization Studies master’s program. It’s a space to share experiences, forge new ties, and stay up to date on developments within the program and the Department of Organization and Learning.

If you plan to attend, please register here!

We are looking forward to reconnecting with you and reviving the spirit of our alumni network!

With best regards,
Your OS ConJunction Team

P.S. If you know fellow alumni who might not have received this message, please feel free to forward this post to them!

ConJunction 2022 Impressions

Below are some visual impressions from our 6th annual ConJunction, the OS Students and Alumni event. Prof. Weiskopf ceremoniously started the event. Next, Prof. Soppe shared her current work on the challenges faced by people working in the “increasingly stigmatized” oil and gas industry. The inspiring research talk was followed by a lively panel discussion hosted by Prof. Dobusch, with panel guests Julia Wolf (OS Alumna, GemNova), Alessia Zoppelleto (University of Trento), and Bernhard Staudt (BMW).

After the coffee break, Alwin Baumhöver, Niklas Hugot, and Milena Eberharter presented their master’s theses related to organizing (for) sustainability. Last but not least, Katharina Albertini gave the valedictorian speech on behalf of the graduating class.

The informal and best part of the event, the “eat and meet” was held at 6020. It was wonderful to meet again in person!

There is a newly created LinkedIn group for our ConJunction community. Spread the word!
https://www.linkedin.com/groups/9273317/


6th Annual ConJunction Day

Our master’s program Organization Studies Students and Alumni Day will take place on the 18th of November 2022. After a Covid interruption last year and the online event in 2020, we are very excited to meet in person again! The theme of ConJunction this year is “Organizing (for) Sustainability.”

Continue reading “6th Annual ConJunction Day” →

ConJunction 2020 NEXT Friday – Guest Panelists and presenters confirmed!

For the Organization Studies Students and Alumni Day taking place on Zoom next week, guests for the panel on “Organizing in Digital Times” are confirmed. They are alumni Josefin Brüning, currently HR Change & Transformation Manager at Viega Holding GmbH & Co. KG; Sarah Nobis, currently serving as People and Culture Manager at Swarm Analytics; and Hannah Schupfer, currently a doctoral research fellow at the University of Oslo.

For this fifth addition to ConJunction is something new to our format (aside from being held online). Three masters theses will be presented to inspire future research for current students, as well as generate discussion:

Elena Ruh – Corporate Health Programs between the Ethics of Care and Corporate Colonialization
Lukas Nagel – Spaces of responsibility in algorithmic decision-making. An explorative study illustrated by the avalanche risk assessment of Skitourenguru
Melissa Köhler – Ambivalences of spaces for ‘other’ organizing: A heterotopology on Virtual Spaces in a Large-Scale Corporation

The event will be hosted via Zoom by Prof. Richard Weiskopf, Prof. Leonhard Dobusch, and Dr. Birthe Soppe. Representing the graduating class is Alina Seebach, with a valedictory speech.

Who: Organization Studies (OS) community
What: “Organizing in Digital Times”
When: Friday, November 20, 4:00 p.m. – 06:30 p.m.
Where: Zoom

Please find the program under this link and register here.

The event can be accessed via this Zoom link.

We look forward to your online attendance.

Save the Date: ConJunction Students and Alumni Day on November 20, 2020

The 5th annual ConJunction Students and Alumni Day of the Organization Studies (OS) community of the University of Innsbruck will take place online.

The theme this year is “Organizing in Digital Times”. The event will take place on November 20, from 4:00 p.m. to 06:30 p.m. on Zoom.

Register for the event here.

The complete program can be access here.

4th Annual OS ConJunction Day

Last Friday, the 4th OS ConJunction Students and Alumni Day took place at the Kaiser Leopold Saal at the University of Innsbruck. The theme for this year’s event was “Organizing Creativity and the Creativity of Organizing”.

After an introduction by Richard Weiskopf and Leonhard Dobusch, Birthe Soppe gave a talk on “How organizations make creativity valuable”. She provided insights from her empirical research on game development in the creative industry. She raised the topic of competing logics of market and creativity. This topic was revisited in a lively panel discussion, with five invited panelists, moderated by Katharina Zangerle.

blog_image-1120614

Continue reading “4th Annual OS ConJunction Day” →

Program of the 4th OS ConJunction Day: »Organizing Creativity and the Creativity of Organizing«

color-2413936_1920

It’s that time of the year again. The winter semester just started, the trees are turning from green to yellow, and, most importantly, the annual OS ConJunction Day is coming up! This year, it’s all about creativity and organizing. How is creativity organized? What role does creativity play in organizations? How do organizations make creativity valuable? These and many more questions will be explored in talks and a panel discussion. After the formal part, we look forward to nice conversations over food and drinks at Brennpunkt Coffee Competence.

Date:

November 29th 2019 at 3:00 p.m.

Kaiser Leopold Saal, Faculty of Theology

Karl-Rahner-Platz 3, 6020 Innsbruck

Program:

3:00 p.m. Meet and Greet

3:15 p.m. Welcome

Prof. Leonhard Dobusch & Prof. Richard Weiskopf

3:30 p.m. Research 1: How organizations make creativity valuable

Prof. Birthe Soppe

4:00 p.m. Panel Discussion: Creativity at work

5:00 p.m. Coffee break

5:30 p.m. Research 2: How creativity is organized

Prof. Elke Schüssler, University of Linz

6:00 p.m. Crossing Genealogies

                  Graduation speech and welcoming fresh(wo)men

6:30 p.m. Concluding Thoughts

7:00 p.m. Eat and Meet

                 Food, drinks, and conversation at Brennpunkt Coffee Competence

 

We kindly ask you to register for the OS ConJunction Day before November 15th 2019 under the following link. We are looking forward to your participation and hope to welcome many of you!