Am 6. November 2025 fand in Berlin zum ersten Mal der #DigitalDemocracyDay2025 statt. Ich durfte mit einem kurzen Online-Impuls zum Thema “Von Wikipedia für Digitale Demokratie lernen” mit dabei sein (Slides). Bereits vorab hat Bernhard Seiler für SWR Aktuell Radio mit mir zum Thema gesprochen – das Interview findet sich hier zum Nachhören:
Location of the 3rd Open Strategy Workshop in Innsbruck (Credit: Leonhard Lenz, CC0)
After the first two workshops gathering Open Strategy scholars took place in Zurich (2024) and Oxford (2025), we are excited to announce the 3rd workshop will be hosted by University of Innsbruck on June 25-26, 2026. The call for extended abstractsis already live. Your extended abstract should align with the general theme of Open Strategy and must not have been previously published. Authors of accepted abstracts will have the opportunity to attend the two-day workshop in person and apply for poster presentations. To ensure high-quality exchanges and foster meaningful connections, on-site participation is limited.
It is not a coincidence that organizational efforts to support diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) are in the eye of the neofascist storm that is currently devastating US-based institutions and has already begun to reverberate globally. The hostility toward DEI results from the fact that such initiatives not only seek to broaden participation, but also unsettle entrenched hierarchies and cultural privileges. This makes them an obvious target for movements aiming to restore exclusionary orders under the guise of tradition, merit, or freedom of speech. Yet, despite their centrality to current political contestations, organizational approaches to DEI remain ill-prepared to address the growing intensity of diversity-hostile communication.
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:
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:
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:
For two days, scholars from around the world gathered for the 2nd Open Strategy Workshop hosted at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford. The local organizing team, spearheaded by Robin Engelbach and Winky Wu under the guidance of Eero Vaara, Richard Whittington and Violetta Splitter did a fantastic job. Looking back, I am still stunned how much program they managed to fit into just two days.
And a workshop full of highlights ended with a bang, when Julia Hautz, Thomas Ortner and I, representing Universität Innsbruck, met Benjamin Grossmann-Hensel, David Seidl and Theresa Langenmayr from UZH Chair of Organization and Management in an Oxford Union Style debate. As for the outcome of this battle, I let the pictures speak for themselves.
Given that the next iteration of the workshop will be hosted by University of Innsbruck, my colleagues and I were not just impressed, but also a bit intimidated by the standards established this year’s organizing team. A steep hill to climb – but luckily, climbing hills is what Tyroleans are best at.
Call for Papers for a Special Issue in Innovation: Organization & Management
Konstantin Hondros (HSU Hamburg), Astrid Mager (Austrian Academy of Sciences), Patricia Aufderheide (American University Washington), Patrick Cohedent (HEC Montréal) and myself are happy to announce a Call for Paper for a special issue on “Creativity and copyright in the shadow of GenAI: Managing and organizing creative content in the digitalization frenzy” to be published in “Innovation: Organization & Management”. Deadline for submission of full papers is September 30, 2026. Please do not hesitate to contact me or one of the other editors to discuss paper ideas.
In addition, we are planning an online paper development workshop to provide feedback on early-stage submissions on February 27, 2026. We encourage potential authors to submit an abstract of approximately 1,000 words describing their planned contribution, empirical material, and methodological approach (if applicable) by January 25, 2026, to konstantin.hondros@hsu-hh.de. Participation in the workshop is optional, and authors who do not attend are welcome to submit papers to the Special Issue.
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