Like everywhere, the teaching for our Master's program Leading Innovative Organizations, öffnet eine externe URL in einem neuen Fenster had to be moved online in this semester. Elke Schüßler was scheduled to teach a course on "Organizing and Leading for Innovation" with a focus on different organizational forms such as strategic alliances, innovation networks or regional clusters and their role in innovation processes. Faced with the new situation, Elke Schüßler teamed up with Leonhard Dobusch from the University of Innsbruck to get innovative themselves: they designed an open access course for master programs in management and organization studies that would be available for use for everyone faced with the same challenge of rapidly moving teaching online. In terms of contents, they compiled a set of lectures and assignments around different facets of crisis management and organizing in crisis, combining basic organization theoretical knowledge on decision making, leadership, bureaucracy, digital and open organizing or inequality in organizations with the current Covid19 crisis. They drew on their international research network from Europa University Viadrina, Freie Universität Berlin, Leuphana University Lüneburg and University of Hamburg, öffnet eine externe URL in einem neuen Fenster to rapidly compile a set of 12 lectures, öffnet eine externe URL in einem neuen Fenster on the following topics:

• Class #1: Organizational Decision-Making in Crisis (Elke Schüßler, University of Linz)
• Class #2: Organizing in and for the Unexpected (Daniel Geiger, University of Hamburg)
• Class #3: Crisis Management and Bureaucracy (Leonhard Dobusch, University of Innsbruck)
• Class #4: Dynamics of Network Governance in the Face of Emergency (Jörg Sydow, Freie Universität Berlin)
• Class #5: Leading, Sensemaking and the Future (Jochen Koch, European University Viadrina)
• Class #6: Organizational Crisis Communication and Social Media (Hannah Trittin-Ulbrich, Leuphana University Lüneburg)
• Class #7: New and Alternative Organizations to Counter Crisis (Thomas Gegenhuber, Leuphana University Lüneburg)
• Class #8: Open Science, Data and Commons (Leonhard Dobusch, University of Innsbruck)
• Class #9: Entrepreneurship and Innovation for the Common Good (Ali Aslan Gümüsay, University of Hamburg/HIIG Berlin)
• Class #10: Organizing for Resilience in the Global Economy (Elke Schüßler, University of Linz)
• Class #11: Inequality, Organizations and Covid-19 (Hannah Trittin-Ulbrich, Leuphana University Lüneburg)
• Class #12: How Grand Challenges Link Together (Ali Aslan Gümüsay, University of Hamburg/HIIG Berlin)

All course materials, readings, assignments and video lectures are available open access at timesofcrisis.org, öffnet eine externe URL in einem neuen Fenster and the corresponding YouTube channel, öffnet eine externe URL in einem neuen Fenster. The course materials such as lecture slides and the standard syllabus, öffnet eine externe URL in einem neuen Fenster are available in open, changeable formats to make decentralized adaptation as easy as possible.