New Handbook Chapter: »Open Strategy as a New Form of Strategizing«

Together with Julia Hautz and Thomas Ortner (both situated at the neighboring department of Strategic Management and Leadership), I had the honor to contribute to the most recent iteration of the Cambridge Handbook of Strategy as Practice with a chapter on “Open Strategy as a New Form of Strategizing”:

[W]e can observe an increasing trend towards more inclusive and transparent strategizing. From a practice perspective, this trend can be described as a shift in the practices of strategy-making. [We] describe the different practices of inclusiveness and transparency and show how they relate to each other. [We] then identify and review distinctive themes of strategy as practice research on Open Strategy. This includes the role of technologies and materiality in enabling openness, the discursive practices and processes underpinning openness, the temporal dynamics of open processes, the difference between controlled and uncontrolled forms of openness and the dialectic relationship between openness and closure.

Check out the article here – and please contact me to receive a personal copy in case your institution does not provide access to the handbook.

The Austrian Strategizing Activities & Practices Community met at Johannes Kepler Uni Linz

About two years ago, Austrian scholars researching Strategizing Activities and Practices (SAP), which is also a transnational Interest Group at the Academy of Management, had met for a first regional meeting in Innsbruck. Today, we convened for a second time at the Open Innovation Center at Johannes Kepler University (JKU) Linz.

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New Paper: “‘Your Very Existence Goes Against Our Community Guidelines’: Interrogating norms of contributorship through poetic speech acts on Instagram”

Digital platforms, like Instagram, offer various ways for self-expression, support, and community building, but their content moderation practices reveal deep-rooted biases that affect who gets to participate platform organizing. In our recent paper “‘Your Very Existence Goes Against Our Community Guidelines’: Interrogating norms of contributorship through poetic speech acts on Instagram” in Organization Studies, we – Monica Nadegger, Milena Leybold and Sean Kenney – explore how these platforms enforce norms through content moderation, shaping what contributions are deemed appropriate. Find out more in this blog post and in the full paper.

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International Research Project:
“Local Journalism and Municipal Communication in digital Transformation”

(from left to right: Urs Dahinden, Matthias Künzler, Ulla Autenrieth, Simon Gadras, Alwin Baumhöver, Johanna Burger, Caroline Dalmus, Malte Meyer)

The international research project “Local Journalism and Municipal Communication in Digital Transformation” brought together researchers from Switzerland, Germany, France, Italy, and Austria to explore the digital transformation of local journalism and municipal communication. 

Our team presented the findings at the 10th European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA) conference in Ljubljana, Slovenia, held from September 24 to 27. This year’s theme, “Communication & Social (Dis)order”, provided a platform for our panel presentation titled “Innovation as a Threat to Democracy? Effects of Local Communication’s Transformation on Democracies”. Here, we discussed the potential risks and opportunities of digital innovation in local communication, particularly the evolving interdependencies between municipalities and local media. 

For more information and access to project results, including practical recommendations for local media and municipalities, visit the project’s website where the results are available in German language.

Call for Applications: PhD Position and Student Assistant Position in Organization Studies

We are hiring:

Please do not hesitate to contact me in advance in case any questions arise.

New Paper: “Dear vulnerability … writing toget-her to escape and resist the neoliberal university”

I – Ellen, Milena, Monica – wrote toget-her, becoming the Collective I. It is not just a paper. It’s love, pain, struggle, courage, connection and togetherness, navigating the challenges of academic writing as early career scholars. It’s an intimate, personal encounter of my vulnerabilities, embraced in and through a collective letter diary. 

And it’s open access, open to all people interested in writing differently toget-her.

You can find it here.

New Book Chapter: »Searching for Transformative Potential: Comparing Conceptualizations of Open, Inclusive and Alternative Organizations«

Together with my sister Laura and Katharina Kreissl, we were given the opportunity to contribute a chapter to “The Handbook of Organizing Economic, Ecological and Societal Transformation”, edited by Elke Weik, Chris Land and Ronald Hartz. In our contribution entitled “Searching for Transformative Potential: Comparing Conceptualizations of Open, Inclusive and Alternative Organizations”, we analyze scholarly approaches that explicitly imagine organizations as capable of ‘doing good’ under the labels of “open”, “inclusive” or “alternative. Check out the abstract below:

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»Taking Stock of Open Strategy«: Opening Panel at Oxford & Zurich Open Strategy Workshop

Opening Panel “Taking Stock of Open Strategy” (from right to left: Fleur Deken, Alex Wilson, Basak Yakis-Douglas, Julia Hautz, Leonhard Dobusch)

Right before attending the EGOS Colloquium in Milano, University of Zurich’s David Seidl hosted an international workshop on Open Strategy (co-organized with Richard Whittington, Oxford University). Thanks to the great organizing team, the panel as well as the other plenary sessions were streamed and the video recordings are online available. I had the honor to kick-off the opening panel on “Taking Stock of Open Strategy”.

Neuer juridikum-Aufsatz: »Hört die Signa(le): rechtspolitische Fragen und Ableitungen aus dem Fall der Signa-Gruppe«

Auch wenn ich seit meiner Promotion in meiner Forschung immer wieder rechtswissenschaftliche Themen, vor allem im Bereich des Immaterialgüterreechts, bearbeitet hatte, habe ich kaum in rechtswissenschaftlichen Zeitschriften publiziert. Umso mehr freut es mich, dass kürzlich ein gemeinsam mit Jakob Sturn (Momentum Institut) verfasster, rechtswissenschaftlicher Beitrag in der Zeitschrift juridikum über “rechtspolitische Fragen und Ableitungen aus dem Fall der Signa-Gruppe” erschienen ist.

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