Conference – ConJunction

Researching Together: Innsbruck Organization Scholars convene at the 40th EGOS Colloquium in Milan

(from left to right: Sabine Bösl, Marilyn Poon, Richard Weiskopf, Aleksander Groth, Laverne Chore, Alwin Baumhöver, Julia Waldegger, Felix Schmid, Monica Nadegger, Anna Schneider, Milena Leybold, Leonhard Dobusch, Katharina Zangerle, Andrea Kastl, Bernadette Bullinger)

The motto of the 40th Colloquium of the European Group of Organization Studies (EGOS) in Milan was “Crossroads for Organizations: Time, Space and People.” To some degree, the group photo above is exactly the result of organizing time and space at a crossroads to gather all participants related to University of Innsbruck’s Department of Organization and Learning that were contributing to the event.

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Opening Keynote on ‘Science (Communication) and Wikipedia: Potentials and Pitfalls’

Recently I had the honor of providing the opening keynote to the conference “Enhancing the voice of science on Wikipedia: How universities can collaborate with the online encyclopedia in science communication”, taking place from April 9–11, 2024, at University of Innsbruck.

I seized the opportunity to reflect on the following questions:

How ‘scientific’ is Wikipedia?
How important is science for Wikipedia?
How important is Wikipedia for science?
How important is Wikipedia for our common knowledge?
What are potentials when science communication meets Wikipedia?
What are the pitfalls?
Is it worth it?

Please check out the video recording above and the slides below.

Science (Communication) and Wikipedia – Potentials and Pitfalls from Dobusch Leonhard

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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Talk and Short Paper on »Sharing Economy between Commons and Commodification«

The international conference “A Great Transformation? Global Perspectives on Contemporary Capitalisms” at Johannes Kepler University Linz is re-evaluating the importance of the works by Karl Polanyi for contemporary social theory and analysis. All submitted papers are openly available at the conference website.

My talk on “Sharing Economy between Commons and Commodification” (PDF of the paper) is scheduled for the session on Friday, January 12, 9.00 a.m. at Science Park 1, MT 132.