Talks & Presentations – Page 2

Innsbruck goes Boston – the Academy of Management 2023 experience in a nutshell

The 83^rd annual meeting of the Academy of Management took place in Boston this year. Under the theme “Putting the Worker Front and Center”, more than 10.000 scholars and practitioners joined the conference’s professional development workshops (PDW), paper sessions, symposia, keynotes, and very importantly, its socials. Leonhard Dobusch and Milena Leybold were two of these attendees, who, among other scholars representing the University of Innsbruck, had the pleasure of enjoying a great program and Boston as a fantastic conference site. In this blog entry, they share some of their highlights. As Leonhard is this year’s chair of the Strategy-as-Practice (SAP) Interest Group (IG) and Milena part of the Social Media Committee of the Interest Group, they were both actively engaged in events organized by and for the IG.

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Inspiring input, exhausting heat, and dolce vita! A short summary of the 39th EGOS Colloquium 2023 in Cagliari

Last week, Monica Nadegger, Katharina Zangerle, and Milena Leybold (University of Innsbruck, Department for Organization and Learning) traveled to the beautiful island Sardegna to meet for four days with around 2000 people at the Colloquium of the European Group of Organization Studies.

From the left: Monica Nadegger, Milena Leybold, Katharina Zangerle

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Re:publica 2023: Rundfunkbeitragsdebatte und Predictive Risk Analysis entlang von Lieferketten

Die jährlich in Berlin stattfindende re:publica ist wahrscheinlich eine der spannendsten und inklusivsten Digitalkonferenzen und für mich jedes Jahr ein Highlight in meinem Konferenzkalender. Dieses Jahr war ich mit einem Vortrag und als Teil eines Panels im Programm vertreten.

In meinem Vortrag habe ich versucht, den Bogen von der – auch in Österreich im Zuge der Einführung einer Haushaltsabgabe gerade aktuellen – Rundfunkbeitragsdebatte hin zur Vergesellschaftungsdebatte zu spannen, indem ich öffentlich-rechtliche Medien als wichtiges Beispiel für vergesellschaftete Organisationsformen unserer Zeit in den Blick genommen habe (Slides als PDF-Download).

Außerdem war ich gemeinsam mit Sabrina Zajak, Akhil C S und Lisa Basten Teil eines Panels zum Thema “Global Supply Chains – Digital Tools Between Empowerment And Control” und habe dort vor allem über den problematischen Einsatz von Predictive Risk Analysis-Tools zur Überwachung und Steuerung von globalen Lieferketten gesprochen – das Thema eines von der Hans-Böckler-Stiftung geförderten Forschungsprojekts.

Coffee – PuB – Peers and Beverages: Academic Writing as an Early Career Scholar

Join us for an open conversation on academic writing, its beauty and challenges, and the pressure of “you should be writing” as early career scholars over a coffee on March 14th!

Academic writing can be a fulfilling but also challenging and overwhelming experience for early career scholars. On March 14th from 13.00 to 14.30, please join us for an honest exchange on our struggles and great moments in writing. Daniela Rothe (Writing Center, University of Innsbruck) will talk about the practice of journalling in academia, the tinkering between the scientific object itself and writing, and the re-(production) of gender stereotypes in scientific writing. Monica, Milena, and Ellen (early career researchers at the University of Innsbruck & Leuphana University Lüneburg) will share their writing experiences based on a collective letter diary they wrote to each other over a couple of months to reflect on their writing practices.

We would love to hear about your experiences, too, and together question and discuss the norms and ways of academic writing.

Key Information

When? Tuesday, March 14, 2023 – 1 – 2.30 pm
Where? Marketing Spitz (SOWI, 3^rd floor, East)

You can find further information a bout the event here.

Title image: Victor Freits via Pexels

Guest Lecture at the DiSCourse Seminar: “Openness as Organizing Principle: Dilemmas across Domains” [Updates]

The Digital Science Center (DiSC) at the University of Innsbruck invited me to give a talk in their lecture series “DiSCourse Seminar” on Thursday, January 12, 2023, at 13:15. Please check out the abstract of my talk on “Openness as Organizing Principle: Dilemmas across Domains”:

‘Openness’ has become an organizational leitmotif of our time, spreading across a growing set of organizational domains. However, most discussions within these specialized domains (e.g. open data, open innovation or open strategy) pursue openness as a program, focusing on challenges specific to the particularities of those domains. Conceptualizing openness as a dynamic organizing principle along dimensions of transparency/opacity and inclusion/exclusion allows theorizing and potentially addressing dilemmas associated with programmatic approaches to openness across these various domains.

Participants are invited to join the event at the Digital Science Center, Innrain 15, Open Space Area (1st floor) or online via Big Blue Button.

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Vortrag beim Philosophischen Café Innsbruck: “Welchen Fakten kann man noch trauen?”

Am 7. Dezember durfte ich im Philosophischen Café Innsbruck zum Thema “Welchen Fakten kann man noch trauen?
Zur Glaubwürdigkeitskrise von Wissenschaft und Journalismus im Zeitalter digitaler (Des-)Information” vortragen und diskutieren. Die Slides meines Vortrags finden sich auf Slideshare, es gibt auch eine per Smartphone improvisierte Audio-Aufzeichnung.

Inhaltlich hat mein Vortrag auf meinem in Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte (APuZ) erschienen Beitrag “Objektivität unter Anführungszeichen: Über Wissenschaft und Aktivismus” aufgebaut.

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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.”

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Panel beim Journalismusfest Innsbruck: “Blogs, Wikis & Co – Zwischen journalistischer Prekarität und Glaubwürdigkeit”

Von 13. bis 15. Mai 2022 findet das Journalismusfest Innsbruck statt und ich freue mich außerordentlich, ein Panel gemeinsam mit Markus Beckedahl, Gründer und langjähriger Chefredakteur des Blogs netzpolitik.org, sowie Claudia Garád, Geschäftsführerin von Wikimedia Österreich, moderieren zu dürfen. Aus der Ankündigung:

Blogs, Wikis oder Videoportale wie YouTube oder TikTok übernehmen mittlerweile journalistische Funktionen und definieren diese teils neu. Der Blog netzpolitik.org etwa publiziert immer wieder tiefergehende Recherchen. Wikipedia bringt auch zu strittigen Themen aktuelle und oft quellenkritisch geprüfte Informationen. Trotzdem bleibt der journalistische Charakter von Blogs, Wikis und Co. prekär. Gleichzeitig zögern traditionelle journalistische Angebote bei der Übernahme von Praktiken wie etwa der Veröffentlichung oder Verlinkung von Quellen.

Das Panel steigt am Freitag, 14. Mai, um 17 Uhr im Haus der Musik. Schaut vorbei!