New Essay in »Digital Responsibility: Building Bridges Between Organization Theory and Information Systems« in SBUR

Cover of SBUR journal

In the wake of a workshop on “Digital Responsibility” at the Annual Meeting of the Association of Professors of Business Administration (VHB) at Leuphana University Lüneburg that brought together scholars and perspectives from organization studies (OS) and information systems (IS), the workshop organizers Hannah Trittin-Ulbrich, Markus Zimmer and Stefanie Habersang edited a curated essay collection to be published in Schmalenbach Journal of Business Research (SBUR).

Together with Elke Schüßler and Maren Gierlich-Joas, I contributed one such essay offering “Interdisciplinary Theoretical Reflections On Digital Responsibility”. It is summarized in the introducation as follows:

Essay 1 situates the first and second fault line in OS and IS scholars ongoing discourses on theory. The authors distinguish three views of theorizing that we can find in both disciplines. They highlight that OT and IS scholars often draw on the same theories, which provides a basis for interdisciplinary research into digital responsibility. Offering a vantage point, they present avenues for such research by their three views of theorizing.

The whole essay collection is available open access over at SBUR.

Innsbrucker Organisationsforschung bei WKOrg in Münster

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Zum vorläufig letzten Mal hatte die Wissenschaftliche Kommission Organisationsforschung (WKOrg) im Verband der Hochschullehrer für BWL (VHB) im Februar zu einem eigenen Workshop nach Münster geladen. Im nächsten Jahr wird der Workshop Teil einer neugestalteten VHB-Jahrestagung sein. In Münster jedenfalls war die Innsbrucker Organisationsforschung stark vertreten. Nicht nur durfte ich als aktueller Nachwuchsbeauftragter der WKOrg den Nachwuchsworkshop gestalten, mit folgenden Beiträgen waren wir im Hauptprogramm vertreten:

  • Arnold, N., & Soppe, B.: The waltz of the flowers: How material devices buttress the formation of organizational fields
  • Dobusch, L., & Heimstädt, M.: Predatory Publishing in Management Research: A Call For Open Peer Review
  • Leybold, M.: A Communication Perspective on Organizing Openness: Analyzing the Case of the Medicines Patent Pool in the Field of the Pharmaceutical Industry
  • Weiskopf, R.: Algorithmic decision-making and the “spectogenic” process of profiling.