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Always in the first week of July, management and organization scholars from around the world meet for the European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS) Colloquium to discuss their research. While the last two Colloquia were held online, this year the Colloquium was held in a partly hybrid format at WU Vienna. As usual, JKU BUS researchers were very active in presenting their papers, convening subthemes, or participating in sub-plenaries and other events.
As an EGOS Executive Board member, Elke Schüßler (Institute of Organization Science) co-organized the EGOS Phd Workshop with 120 participants, among them Kathie Musil and Maria Farkhondeh from JKU. She also acted as a mentor in a Pre-Colloquium Development Workshops (PDWs) on "Organization Studies in the Anthropozene" and presented the "That's Interesting Award" winners at the opening ceremony. Several members of the Institute of Organization Science presented papers in different subthemes, and Georg Reischauer co-organized the PDW “Strategizing for Sustainability". Sara Maric presented results from the JKU BUS project DIGIAPP in the SWG "Digital Capitalism: Grappling with Silicon Valley". Robert Bauer also presented a study in the same subtheme. Benjamin Schiemer presented a paper on the temporality of creative projects in the SWG "Organization and Time: Time as X and X as Time". Georg Reischauer contributed with co-authored papers in the sub-themes "Organizing for Interdisciplinarity to Tackle Grand Challenges“, “Digitalizing Strategy and Societal Challenges”, and “Opportunities for Path Creation: Practices and Processes of Interorganizational Collaboration”. Elke Schüßler presented a paper on "What if civilization collapses? How management scholarship acts as a barrier to radical adaptation during the climate emergency" in the SWG "System-level Barriers to an Effective Response to Climate Change".
From the Department of International Management, Henriett Primecz presented two papers, a conceptual paper co-authored with Anna Laura Hidegh titled "The dialectics of postsocialist gender fatigue" in Subtheme 38, and an emprirical paper co-authored with Beata Nagy titled "Good number in the middle, almost no women on top positions. A Central Eastern European Paradox. Post-Socialist Legacy" in subtheme 40. Almina Bešić presented jointly with Theresa Füreder (Institute for Strategic Management) first results of their research project titled "On the way to open strategy: Challenges and lessons learnt in a B2B context" in the sub-theme "Digitalizing Strategy and Societal Challenges".
The Institute of Leadership and Change Management was also fully represented. Claudio Biscaro presented a paper on creative barriers in a subtheme on "Creativity and Imperfection" (ST19) and, together with Kathie Musil a paper, another one on constructing legitimacy. Kathie also presented a paper she is working on together with Barbara Müller on agency, power and identity construction in the standing working group on paradox theory, where Barbara also chaired a session with interesting new insights on paradoxical leadership. Maria Farkhondeh presented a paper with data she gathered through the BUS Applied Research Project on "new forms of organizing and organizational identity development" in a subtheme on the imperfection of perfect organizational narratives. Nicole Lettner presented her work on the leaders' central role for digital transformation in the subtheme "AI & Leadership". Sebastian Rätze participated in the Post-Doctoral & Early Career Scholars Workshop and presented a paper on team resillience in the subtheme "Learning from Imperfect Projects". Roja Ratzinger had her first on-site conference experience by participating in the subtheme on "Creativity and Imperfection". Barbara also represented the Scandinavian Journal of Management in the "Meet the Editors" session.
Finally, Waldemar Kremser (Institute for Strategic Management) presented his paper on radical innovation at CEWE, the European market leader in photoproducts.
Gemeinsam mit Nora Lohmeyer (Radboud University) und Sarah Ashwin (London School of Economics) hat Elke Schüßler (Institut für Organisation) Ergebnisse aus dem von ihr geleiteten „Garment Supply Chain Governance“-Projekts im renommierten Academy of Management Journal publiziert. In dem Text „We Can’t Compete on Human Rights’: Creating Market-Protected Spaces to Institutionalize the Emerging Logic of Responsible Management“ argumentieren die Autorinnen basierend auf einer umfassenden Analyse von CSR Aktivitäten in der globalen Bekleidungsindustrie, dass es in wichtigen sozialen und ökologischen Fragen Bereiche braucht, die vom Marktdruck geschützt werden. Wenngleich zwar viele Unternehmen in freiwillige CSR Maßnahmen investieren und dadurch beispielsweise lokale Sozial- und Umweltprojekte fördern, reichen diese Maßnahmen nicht aus, um komplexe Probleme wie moderne Sklaverei oder die fortschreitende Umweltzerstörung zu adressieren. Anhand des Beispiels des „Brandschutzabkommens“ für Bangladesch sowie der ACT-Initiative für existenzsichernde Löhne entwickeln die AutorInnen einen Mechanismus, mit dem auch in transnationalen Räumen „market-protected spaces“ geschaffen werden können, um komplexe Probleme zu adressieren. Das Academy of Management Journal ist die wichtigste wissenschaftliche Zeitschrift in der internationalen Management-Forschung.
Aufgrund ihrer Publikationen und Review Services für das Academy of Management Journal, das führende internationale Journal im Bereich Management, ist Elke Schüßler eingeladen worden ab Juli 2022 dem Editorial Review Board beizutreten. Wir freuen uns, eine Vertreterin der JKU Business School in solch einer wichtigen Funktion zu haben.
Georg Reischauer published the paper “Unmanaged Transparency in a Digital Society: Swiss Army Knife or Double-edged Sword?” in Organization Studies (VHB A [ABWL]). The paper examines the organizational consequences of following a ‘hands-off’-approach to information disclosure, also known as unmanaged transparency. We identify how organizational members make this kind of transparency happen on a day-to-day basis and how other members respond to these practices. We also identify negative consequences of unmanaged transparency. Our study suggests that in a digital society, unmanaged transparency is more of a double-edged sword rather than a Swiss army knife: organizations might profit from its positive effects on the audience’s support, but they also make themselves vulnerable by the high levels of dissonance they put on display.
The paper is available in open access here: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/01708406221106329
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