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Dr. Laura Dobusch

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Since 2022 Laura Dobusch works as University Assistant at the Sustainable Transformation Management Lab of the Linz Institute of Technology (LIT). Main areas of her research are: how organizations can become both more inclusive and sustainable and how respective policy approaches interact with each other; which opportunities, limits and also unintended consequences are linked to organizational inclusion strategies; and how contemporary forms of organizing are connected to the creation of il-/legitimate subjectivities. Digital forms of organizing as well as the digitalization of work play an important role in the scope and quality of organizational change approaches towards becoming more inclusive and sustainable. Consequently, in her research Laura pays attention to the interrelatedness of the issues of inclusion/exclusion, sustainability and digitalization. Theoretically, she builds on practice theories, poststructuralist theories, inclusion/exclusion theories and a relational sociology perspective in general.

Laura received her Bachelor degree in Sociology and her Master degrees in Gender Studies and International Development Studies at the University of Vienna (AT). She was awarded a doctoral scholarship from the Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy and received her PhD at the Technical University of Munich (DE). She has been a visiting scholar at the Department of Organization at Copenhagen Business School (DK), the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University (US) and the Center for Transdisciplinary Gender Studies at Humboldt University Berlin (DE). After her Postdoc at the Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy she worked as an Assistant Professor of Gender & Diversity at Radboud University (NL).

Currently she has the pleasure to serve as Associate Editor of the journal Gender, Work & Organization as well as to be part of the editorial team of the Zeitschrift für Diversitätsforschung und -management.

Publications

  • van Eck, D., Dobusch, L., & van den Brink (2023). Creating inclusivity through boundary work? Zooming in on low-wage service sector work. Human Relations, https://doi.org/10.1177/00187267221145390, opens an external URL in a new window
  • Dobusch, L., & Dobusch, L. (2022). Wie offen sind „offene“ Online-Gemeinschaften? Inklusion, Exklusion und die Ambivalenz von Schließungen. Sonderheft „Internet, Big Data und digitale Plattformen: Politische Ökonomie – Kommunikation – Regulierung“. Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie, 74, 257-281.
  • Dobusch, L., Holck, L. & Muhr, S. L. (2021). The im-/possibility of hybrid inclusion: Disrupting the ‘happy inclusion’ story with the case of the Greenlandic Police Force. Organization, 28(2), 311-333.
  • Dobusch, L. (2021). The inclusivity of inclusion approaches: A relational perspective on inclusion and exclusion in organizations. Gender, Work & Organization, 28(1), 379-396.
  • van Eck, D., Dobusch, L., & van den Brink, M. (2021). The organizational inclusion turn and its exclusion of low-wage labor. Organization, 28(2), 289-310.
  • Dobusch, L., & Kreissl, K. (2020). Privilege and burden of im-/mobility governance: On the reinforcement of inequalities during a pandemic lockdown. Gender, Work & Organization, 27(5), 709-716.
  • Dobusch, L., Dobusch, L., & Müller-Seitz, G. (2019). Closing for the Benefit of Openness? The Case of Wikimedia’s Open Strategy Process. Organization Studies, 40(3), 343-370.
  • Dobusch, L. (2017). Diversity Discourses and the Articulation of Discrimination: The Case of Public Organizations. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 43(10), 1644-1661.
  • Dobusch, L. (2017). Gender, Dis-/ability and Diversity Management: Unequal Dynamics of Inclusion? Gender, Work & Organization, 24(5), 487-505.
  • Dobusch, L. (2014). How exclusive are inclusive organisations? Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: An International Journal, 33(3), 220-234.
  • Dobusch, L. (2014). Diversity-Diskurse in Organisationen: Behinderung als „Grenzfall“? Zeitschrift für Soziale Probleme und Soziale Kontrolle, 25(2), 268-285.

  • Dobusch, L. (2015). Diversity Limited – Inklusion, Exklusion und Grenzziehungen mittels Praktiken des Diversity Management. Wiesbaden: Springer VS. (based on PhD
    thesis)
  • Dobusch, L. (2009). „Eine Frau wird eine Frau bleibt eine Frau" – Geschlechterkonstruktionen in der öffentlichen Entwicklungszusammenarbeit Österreichs von 1995 bis 2005. Saarbrücken: VDM Verlag. (based on Master thesis)

  • Bührmann, A. D., Dobusch, L., & Weller, I. (2021). Klimakrise, Diversität und Ungleichheitsverhältnisse: Aktuelle Wechselwirkungen und Transformationen. Zeitschrift für Diversitätsforschung und -management, 1/2021.
  • Dobusch, L., Kreissl, K., & Wacker, E. (2020): Diversitätsforschung: Von der Rekonstruktion zur Disruption? Zeitschrift für Diversitätsforschung und -management, 1/2020.
  • Dobusch, L., Kreissl, K., & Siri, J. (2013). Parteien – Zur Analyse einer Organisationsform der Demokratie. Special Issue, Momentum Quarterly, 2(2).

  • Dobusch, L. (2022). Von der (Un-)Möglichkeit inklusiver Organisationen und der Bedeutung eines negativen Inklusionsverständnisses. In: O. König (Ed.), Inklusion und Transformation in Organisationen. Kempten: Verlag Julius Klinkhardt, 119-132.
  • Dobusch, L. (2022). Diversity Studies & Disability Studies. In: A. Waldschmidt (Ed.), Handbuch Disability Studies. Wiesbaden: Springer VS, 453-468.
  • Bührmann, A. D., Dobusch, L., & Weller, I. (2021). Editorial zum Schwerpunktthema: Klimakrise, Diversität und Ungleichheitsverhältnisse: Aktuelle Wechselwirkungen und Transformationen. Zeitschrift für Diversitätsforschung und -management, 6(1), 3-7.
  • Dobusch, L., & Wechuli, Y. (2020) Disability Studies. In: A. Biele Mefebue, A. D. Bührmann & S. Grenz (eds.), Handbuch Intersektionalitätsforschung. Wiesbaden: Springer VS, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-26613-43-1, opens an external URL in a new window.
  • Dobusch, L., Kreissl, K., & Wacker, E. (2020). Einleitung zum Schwerpunktthema Diversitätsforschung: Von der Rekonstruktion zur Disruption? Zeitschrift für Diversitätsforschung und -management, 5(1), 4-7.
  • Dobusch, L., & Dobusch L. (2019). The Relation between Openness and Closure in Open Strategy: Programmatic and Constitutive Approaches to Openness. In: D. Seidl, R. Whittington & G. Von Krogh (eds.), Cambridge Handbook on Open Strategy. Forms, Perspectives and Challenges. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 330-340.
  • Dobusch, L. (2019). Body-Sensitive Diversity Research Between Enablement and Disablement. In M. Fotaki & A. Pullen (eds.), Diversity, Affect and Embodiment in Organizing. Palgrave Macmillan, 69-89.
  • Dobusch, L. (2017). Von der Diversitäts- zur Inklusionsforschung? Zeitschrift für Diversitätsforschung und -management, 2(1), 59-63.
  • Crepaz, K. & Dobusch, L. (2017). Migration als Herausforderung und Chance für das deutsche Gesundheitswesen: Zur Abkehr vom „Norm(al)patienten”. Zeitschrift für Führung und Personalmanagement in der Gesundheitswirtschaft, 3 (2), 12-18.
  • Dobusch, L. (2015). Diversity (Management)-Diskurse in Deutschland und Österreich: Zwischen organisationaler Kontingenz und Sagbarkeitsspielräumen. In: E. Hanappi-Egger & R. Bendl (eds.), Diversität, Diversifizierung und (Ent)Solidarisierung. Eine Standortbestimmung der organisationalen Diversitätsforschung im deutschen Sprachraum. Wiesbaden: Springer VS, 55-72.
  • Dobusch, L., Kreissl, K., & Siri, J. (2013). Von Krisenerzählungen über Parteien zur Beobachtung von Praktiken der Exklusion. Eine programmatische Einführung. Momentum Quarterly, 2(2), 57-66.
  • Dobusch, L., Hofbauer, J., & Kreissl, K. (2012). Behinderung und Hochschule: Ungleichheits- und interdependenztheoretische Ansätze zur Erklärung von Exklusionspraxis. In: U. Klein & D. Heitzmann, D. (eds.): Hochschule und Diversity. Theoretische Zugänge und empirische Bestandsaufnahme. Weinheim: Beltz Juventa, 69-85.
  • Dobusch, L. (2009). Die Konstruktion des „Eigenen“ im „Anderen“ – Eine wissenschaftstheoretische Auseinandersetzung mit anthropologischer Sexualitätsforschung in Melanesien. In: Referat Genderforschung (ed.): Reader Körper – Geschlecht – Sexualität. University of Vienna.

Talks and awards

  • Dobusch, L. (2022). On the Relationship between Openness and Closure. 4th Research on Open Social Innovation meeting, November 18. (invited talk)
  • Dobusch, L. (2022). Inklusion und Exklusion als analytische Leitunterscheidung: Lösungsansatz für Paradoxien der Gleichstellungspolitik? Das Beispiel Wikipedia. Konferenz „Warum (wieder) Frauen* fördern?“, jointly organized by Arbeiterkammer Wien, Institut für Höhere Studien (IHS) & Vienna University of Economics and Business, October 25, Vienna. (invited keynote)
  • Dobusch, L. (2022). Gender, Intersectionality and Environmental Justice: A relational research approach towards organizations. Virtual panel on “Gender, Intersectionality and Environmental Justice” organized by the Gender in Management Special Interest Group of the British Academy of Management, July 4. (invited panelist)
  • Dobusch, L. (2022). Zum Verhältnis von Inklusion und der Organisierung von Arbeit. AK Oberösterreich-Sozialpolitik-Innovationstag, May 25, JKU Linz (AT). (invited talk)
  • van Eck, D., Dobusch, L., & van den Brink, M. (2022). Organizational Inclusivity as a Process: Modes of Boundary Work in Low-Wage Service Sector Work, their Interrelatedness and Consequences. 13th International Symposium on Process Organization Studies, Theme: Organizing on the Precipice: Process Studies in Extreme Contexts, June 25-28, Rhodos (GR).
  • van Eck, D., Dobusch, L., & van den Brink, M. (2021). The Co-Constitution of Inclusion and Exclusion and its Consequences for Organizational Inclusivity: The Case of an Aircraft Cleaning Company. Stream: “Boundaries as the Key: Organizing for Inclusion and Exclusion “, 37th virtual EGOS Colloquium, July 8-10.
  • Leybold, M., Dobusch, L., & Dobusch, L. (2020). The Google Memo Gate: Negotiating organizational exclusion under the banner of inclusion. Paper Session, Virtual Academy of Management Annual Meeting, August 10.
  • Leybold, M., Dobusch, L., & Dobusch, L. (2020). The Google Memo Gate: Negotiating organizational exclusion under the banner of inclusion. 82nd Online-VHB-Jahrestagung, March 18-20, 2020.
  • Dobusch, L. (2020). Participant of the panel closing discussion of the 34th Tagung der Integrations- und Inklusionsforscher*innen on the topic of „Grenzen.Gänge. Zwischen.Welten“, February 28, 2020, Vienna (AT). (invited statement)
  • Dobusch, L. (2019). Expert Workshop of the knowledge transfer project „Diversität, Teilhabe und Zusammenhalt in der Kommune: Wissenschaft und Praxis im Austausch für eine Zukunft in Vielfalt“, November 20, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen (DE). (invited statement)
  • Dobusch, L., Holck, L., & Muhr, S.L. (2019). Towards Fragmented Inclusion: Learning from the Case of Diverse Organizing in the Greenlandic Police. Paper Session, Academy of Management Annual Meeting, August 12, Boston (US).
  • Dobusch, L., & Kremser, W. (2019). Diversity as an Organizing Principle. Paper Session, Academy of Management Annual Meeting, August 12, Boston (US).
  • Dobusch, L., Dobusch, L. & Katharina Kreissl (2019). Potentially Performative Programs: Comparing Concepts of Inclusive and Open Organizing. Discussion Paper Session, Academy of Management Annual Meeting, August 11, Boston (US).
  • Dobusch, L. (2019). Inclusivity of inclusion approaches? Assessing the organizational ‘inclusion turn’ by its own standards. Paper Development Workshop: “Is the Organizational ‘Inclusion Turn’ an Exclusive Endeavor? – Potential Trajectories of Research “, Academy of Management Annual Meeting, August 9, Boston (US).
  • Dobusch, L., Dobusch, L., & Leybold, M. (2019). The Google Memo Gate: Negotiating organizational exclusion under the banner of inclusion, Stream: “Organization as Communication: Exploring the Communicative Incarnation of Organization“, 35th EGOS Colloquium, July 4-6, University of Edinburgh Business School, Edinburgh (UK).
  • Dobusch, L. (2019). Sowohl als auch oder weder noch? Diversitätsstrategien zwischen der Anerkennung von Unterschieden und Antidiskriminierung. Eröffnungsvortag im Rahmen der „Präsentation der mdw-Diversitätsstrategie”, June 17, Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst (AT). (invited talk)
  • Dobusch, L. (2018). Conceptualizations of organizational inclusion and their exclusionary side effects. December 12, University of Salzburg (AT). (invited talk)
  • Dobusch, L. (2018). Facets of Inclusion. Meeting about Diversity and Inclusion, December 5, Radboud University (NL). (invited talk)
  • Dobusch, L. (2018). Imagining the inclusive university: From fixing the individual to adjusting the organizational context, November 26, Radboud University (NL). (invited talk)
  • Dobusch, L. (2018). Behinderung und Geschlecht in diversitätsaffinen Organisationen: Ungleiche Inklusionsdynamiken. Ad-hoc Group: „Die Bearbeitung von Differenz in Organisationen”. 39. Congress of the German Society for Sociology, September 26, University of Göttingen (DE). (invited talk)
  • Dobusch, L. (2018). Organizational inclusion from the perspective of “transgressive bodies”. Paper Development Workshop: “Transforming Organizations from the Perspective of Transgressive Bodies.“, Academy of Management Annual Meeting, August 10, Chicago (US).
  • van Eck, D., Dobusch, L., & van den Brink, M. (2018). The Organizational Inclusion Turn and its Exclusion of Low-wage labor organizations, Stream: “Diversity and Diversity Management: Beyond the Familiar into the Unexpected“, 34th EGOS Colloquium, July 7, Estonia Business School, Tallinn (EE).
  • van Eck, D., Dobusch, L., & van den Brink, M. (2018). The organizational inclusion turn and its exclusion of low-wage labor organizations. Workshop: “(Per)formative Diversity: Critiques, Struggles, Possibilities”. Copenhagen Business School, May 8-9, Copenhagen (DK).
  • Dobusch, L., & Kremser, W. (2018). Diversity as an Organizing Principle. Conference on “Diversity Perspective on Management: Towards more complex conceptualizations of diversity in management studies”, Babson College, April 18-20, Massachusetts (US).
  • Dobusch, L., Dobusch, L., & Kreissl, K. (2018). Approaching the "Good Organization": Comparing Open, Inclusive and Alternative Organizations. 42. Workshop der WK ORG, Universität Hamburg, February 15-16, Hamburg (DE).
  • Dobusch, L. (2017). Dis-/ability and gender related categorizing: de-/constructing while comparing. Seminar Interdisciplinary Conversations: Gender Categorizing, Radboud University, October 26, Nijmegen (NL).
  • Dobusch, L., Dobusch, L., & Kreissl, K. (2017). Inklusiv, offen oder alternativ? Organisationale Ansätze zum Umgang mit Diversität. Fachtagung und wissenschaftliches Vernetzungstreffen der Diversity-Forschenden aus Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, September 13-14, Göttingen (DE).
  • Dobusch, L., Dobusch, L., & Kreissl, K. (2017). Approaching the "Good Organization": Comparing Open, Inclusive and Alternative Organizations, Stream: “Being Good or Looking Good? Interrogating the Contradictions and Tensions in Organizational Ethics“, 33rd EGOS Colloquium 2017, Copenhagen (DK).
  • Dobusch, L. (2017) Organizational inclusion and the need for a relational perspective. Stream: „The Quality of Equality: Critically Debating Inclusion in Organisations “, 10th International Critical Management Studies Conference, July 3-5, 2017, Liverpool (UK).
  • Dobusch, L., Holck, L., & Muhr, S. L. (2017). Towards fragmented inclusion: Diverse organizing in Greenland police. Workshop: “Diverse organizing/organizational diversity – Methodological questions and activist practices“, Copenhagen Business School, May 2-3, 2017, Copenhagen (DK).
  • Dobusch, L. (2017). Intersektionalität und Inklusion im Wissenschaftssystem, WorldCafé of the Dortmunder Profil für inklusionsorientierte Lehrer_innenbildung (DoProfil), February 16, Technical University of Dortmund (DE). (invited talk)
  • Dobusch, L. (2016). Inclusion and the exclusive setting of organizations: Irreconcilable or compatible? Seminar organized by the Public-Private Platform & the Cluster on Diversity and Difference, Copenhagen Business School, December 7, Copenhagen (DK).
  • Dobusch, L. (2016). Diversity Limited – Inklusion, Exklusion und Strategien der Grenzziehung mittels Praktiken des Diversity Management, Congress ConSozial, October 26, Nuremberg (DE).
  • Dobusch, L. (2016). Diversität und Inklusion: Zur theoretischen Annäherung eines unterbestimmten Verhältnisses. Network Meeting: „Vielfältige Differenzlinien in der Diversitätsforschung“, Leibniz Universität Hannover, September 10, Hannover (DE).
  • Dobusch, L. (2016). Sociological Relevance of the Diversity Concept(s)? For a More Careful Debate. Stream: “Filling the Gap(s): The Potential of Diversity for the Future of Sociological Theory“, Third ISA Forum of Sociology, University of Vienna, July 12, Vienna (AT).
  • Dobusch, L. (2016). Organized dis-/ability? On the relationship between embodiment, sociomateriality and diversity research. Stream: “Diversity, Embodiment and Affect“, 32nd EGOS Colloquium, July 8, Naples (IT).
  • Dobusch, L. (2016). Diversität, Inklusion und Organisation. Workshop: „Genealogie, Theorie und Kritik der Inklusion – Wechselwirkungen von soziologischen, pädagogischen und anderen Diskursen“, University of Cologne, June 18, Cologne (DE). (invited talk)
  • Dobusch, L. (2016). Limits of inclusion? Between normative requirements and organizational rationalities. 2nd Workshop on Leadership, Diversity and Inclusion, Copenhagen Business School, May 26, Copenhagen (DK).
  • Dobusch, L. (2015). Behinderung und Geschlecht im Fokus von Diversity Management: Ungleiche Inklusionsdynamiken?, Institut Mensch, Ethik und Wissenschaft, November 5, Berlin (DE).
  • Dobusch, L. (2015). The Rise of Diversity Rhetoric in Germany and its Complicity with the "Myth of Merit". Center for European Studies, Harvard University, October 21, Cambridge (US).
  • Dobusch, L., & Kreissl, K. (2015). Emancipation and Diversity Management: Contradiction or Opportunity? 8th Equality, Diversity and Inclusion International Conference, Tel-Aviv University, July 7, Tel Aviv (IL).
  • Dobusch, L. (2015). Diversity of subject positions? A dispositif analytical study of diversity management. 31st EGOS Colloquium, Stream: “Ethico-Politics and Organization“, ALBA Graduate Business School, July 3, Athens (GR).
  • Dobusch, L. (2015). Diversity management and its modes of subjectivation. Inclusive or exclusive subject positions? Fachtagung und wissenschaftliches Vernetzungstreffen der Diversity-Forschenden aus Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz, University of Hamburg, June 25, Hamburg (DE).
  • Dobusch, L., Kreissl, K., & Striedinger, A. (2015). Learning from each other: a comparative perspective on institutional theory and discourse. 11th Workshop on New Institutionalism in Organization Theory, Vienna University of Economics and Business, March 27, Vienna (AT).
  • Dobusch, L. (2015). Performance and the Legitimation to Perform Diversity Management. 3rd Equal is not Enough Conference: “Exploring Novel Theoretical and Empirical Approaches to Study the Shaping of (In)Equalities“, University of Antwerp, February 3, Antwerp (BE).
  • Dobusch, L. (2014). Diversity (Management)-Diskurse in Deutschland und Österreich – Zwischen organisationaler Kontingenz und Sagbarkeitsspielräumen. Network Meeting „Vielfalt, Diversifizierung, (Ent)Solidarisierung in der organisationalen Diversitätsforschung: eine Standortbestimmung im deutschen Sprachraum“, Vienna University of Economics and Business, November 14, Vienna (AT).
  • Dobusch, L. (2014). Diversity und Behinderung: Problemloses Passungsverhältnis oder ein Zuviel der Vielfalt? Congress Momentum14: Emanzipation, Track #7: „Herausforderungen der Geschlechter- und Diversitätsforschung“, October 17, Hallstatt (AT).
  • Dobusch, L. (2014). Discourses of Dis/ability, Gender and Diversity – Similarities and Differences. 8th Biennial International Interdisciplinary Conference of Gender, Work and Organization, Keele University, June 25, Keele (UK).
  • Dobusch, L. (2014). Diversity without borders? – As long as the performance is right. Workshop „When, why and how organizations respond to diversity“, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity and the Institute for Diversity Research (University of Göttingen) and the University of Kassel, February 7, Göttingen (DE).
  • Dobusch, L. (2014). Diversity-Diskurse in Organisationen – Behinderung als „Grenzfall“? Conference „Diversität und Inklusion – Umgang mit Vielfalt und Verschiedenheit bei Beeinträchtigung und Behinderung“, Max Planck Fellowship “Inclusion & Disability” and the DGS-Sektion „Soziale Probleme und soziale Kontrolle“ and the Technical University of Munich, January 31, Munich (DE).
  • Dobusch, L. (2013). Dis/ability and Gender in Diversity Management: The Discursive Legitimation of Different Forms of Inclusion/Exclusion. 6th Equality, Diversity and Inclusion International Conference, Athens University of Economics and Business, July 1, Athens (GR).
  • Dobusch, L. (2013). Von welcher Vielfalt ist die Rede? – Wie Ein- und Ausschlüsse legitimiert werden. Congress of the Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für Soziologie, University of Bern, June 27, Bern (CH).
  • Dobusch, L. (2012). Diversity of Dis/Ability? Dominant Discourses in Three Organizations. 5th Equality, Diversity and Inclusion International Conference, Toulouse Business School, July 25, Toulouse (FR).
  • Dobusch, L., Hofbauer, J., & Kreissl, K. (2012). Doing Gender, Producing Dis/Ability – An Intersectional Approach to Exclusion at Modern University. 7th Biennial International Interdisciplinary Conference of Gender, Work and Organization, Keele University, June 28, Keele (UK).
  • Bertmann, I., & Dobusch, L. (2011). Disability Mainstreaming in Academic Contexts. Workshop “Capacity Building. Higher Education and Corporate Social Responsibility" Max Planck Fellowship “Inclusion & Disability” and the Pwani University, June 20, Kilifi (KE).
  • Dobusch, L. (2011). Verfestigung, Flexibilisierung oder Erosion der Norm? Zum Beitrag von Diversity Management zu sozialer Inklusion. Research Workshop „Praktiken und Praxis – Methoden ihrer Analyse" of the Graduate School of Sociology, University of Münster, April 29, Münster (DE).

  2016

ConSozial Science-Prize from the Dr. Loew Foundation for the PhD thesis (4,000 €)

  2015

Academic Award from the Institut Mensch, Ethik und Wissenschaft (IMEW) for a scientific paper based on    the PhD thesis (2,000 €)

  2015

Diversity Prize from the Department for Sports and Health Sciences of the Technical University of Munich      for the PhD thesis (1,000 €)

  2009

Encouragement Award from the Austrian Catholic Women’s Movement for the master thesis (1,000 €)
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