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| “Simply pushing harder within the old boundaries will not do.” (Karl Weick) |
| The Chair of Organization & Management is part of the Department of Business Administration at the University of Zurich. In our research and teaching we are concerned with different aspects of organization and management, which we examine using different theoretical and methodological approaches. More specifically, in our research we address questions concerning the practice of strategy, top management team dynamics, routine dynamics, organizational spaces and the relation between management research and practice. In our teaching we cover a wide range of topics such as organization theory, organization design, change management and strategy as practice. We are fully committed to excellence and responsibility across the entire range of our activities. |
Welcome back to HS23! We hope everybody had a lovely summer break and wish all students a good start to a new term full of interesting courses.
We are excited to see many of you in our lecture Change Management (Bachelor level) as well as in our Practice of Strategy and Case Study seminars (Master level). Next week, we offer a doctoral seminar with Tammar Zilber (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) on Theorizing and Writing Qualitative Work (PhD level). If you are interested in writing your bachelor's or master's thesis at our chair, please visit our online info event on September 29th and apply by October 31st by emailing Kalliopi Vagias. Our lectures will also be available online; our seminars will take place in class only.
We are looking forward to seeing you!
We are thrilled to announce that we will be co-hosting a workshop with Saïd Business School, University of Oxford on "Open Strategy: taking stock and moving forward" on July 01-02, 2024 in Zurich.
For the event, we are calling for extended abstracts of about 2000 words that fit the general workshop theme on open strategizing. The submission deadline is January 25, 2024. There will be no registration fee and we are planning a joint, direct train ride (about 3h) from Zurich to EGOS 2024 in Milan on Tuesday afternoon, to participate in the SAP Community Day on Wednesday.
We currently already have several leading experts in the field of Open Strategy who have confirmed their participation, including
We also invite Open Strategy practitioners to join us at the event.
If you want to download the PDF version of the call or save the event's date directly to your calendar you can find both here:
https://lnkd.in/eUkwTAQC
We are very excited to announce that we will be offering our Case Studies: Organizational Consulting seminar for master's students again this fall semester.
We will again visit leading management consultancies such as
You can find more information and the requirements for your application here:
https://lnkd.in/ehqv5rGN
The application deadline is August 20, 2023.
From Tuesday 4th to Saturday 8th of July, David Seidl, Violetta Splitter, and Robin Engelbach attended and contributed to the EGOS (European Group for Organizational Studies) Colloquium 2023 in Cagliari, Italy.
On Wednesday, Robin convened the Strategy-as-Practice Community Day with the theme "In Search of a Good Life: Strategizing Between Vision and Tradition," which included a panel discussion, presentations of special issues and a community project, as well as roundtables. Many thanks to David and Violetta, who each hosted a roundtable and facilitated the interactive community project session.
From Thursday on, Violetta convened Sub-theme 43: "Imagining Roles in New Forms of Strategizing and Organizing" where David also presented the forthcoming paper "Struggling with your subject position in the interplay between open and conventional strategy discourses" co-authored by Theresa Langenmayr and Violetta Splitter.
It was a great pleasure to see so many colleagues and friends in the community again and to enjoy the Italian food, drinks, and hospitality. We are already looking forward to the next EGOS Colloquium in Milan in combination with our University of Oxford & University of Zurich Open Strategy Workshop on July 1-2, 2024.
Community Project: Elgar SAP Encyclopedia :
https://lnkd.in/ehWHk4Ui
Oxford & Zurich Open Strategy Workshop:
https://lnkd.in/eUkwTAQC
Today we had the great pleasure to host an exchange on the topic of Open Strategy between the chairs of Julia Hautz, Leonhard Dobusch (both from Leopold-Franzens Universität Innsbruck), and Martin Friesl (from Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg) here at the University of Zurich.
We kicked off the exchange with lunch at the cafeteria with the opportunity to catch up on the latest news. The event's program was based on several short presentations by all the participants on their current Open Strategy projects. In active feedback and discussion sessions, each participant was then able to get inspiring input from the others on his or her data collection or paper project.
It was great to see that there are so many interesting papers to come and that some new opportunities for collaboration have emerged from this exchange.
We would like to thank Julia Hautz, Kristina Stoiber, Thomas Ortner, Christoph Brielmaier, and Milena Leybold once again for coming to Zurich, sharing their latest insights, and for their inspiring input on our research. We look forward to our next exchange, presumably in Innsbruck, and wish all participants the best for their projects.
It was a pleasure to welcome Prof. Martha Feldman from the University of California, Irvine - The Paul Merage School of Business again as a lecturer in our Distinguished Scholar Seminar Series here at University of Zurich.
During the three-day seminar, Martha provided the international PhD and post-doctoral students with valuable insights into the theories of power and empowerment. We started with theories that are relatively static and moved to theories that are more dynamic and relational. Throughout the course, we reflected on the difference between thinking about power as cause and power as consequence and the relationship between these two ways of thinking about power.
We would like to thank you, Martha, for the great time here in Zurich. It is always a great pleasure to welcome you at our chair and to engage in deep and insightful discussions. As a figurehead of the practice-shift in strategy research, we are honored to have the opportunity to learn from your profound insights and knowledge. We would be very happy to see you again soon in Zurich, Irvine or at one of the SAP-track's international conferences and meetings.
The last two days we had a very interesting and exciting academic and personal exchange in Zurich with Jochen Koch's Chair of Management and Organization at the Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder).
On Thursday we met in the Mensa of the University of Zurich and got to know each other over lunch. This was followed by paper presentations and discussion sessions on the urgency of acting on grand challenges, diversity and inclusion in Open Strategy, and multimodal communication processes. These inspiring and productive sessions were combined with short breaks to allow for further discussion. The day ended with a joint dinner at the Kunsthaus Zürich.
Today, we continued with more paper presentation and discussion sessions on interactions and strategic issues, microfoundations of knowledge integration, and creativity in effectual processes. Over lunch, we reflected on the ideas and outcomes of the exchange and outlined further avenues for exchange and collaboration.
We would like to thank Jochen Koch, Lorenzo Skade, Elisa Lehrer, and Paul Vetter once again for coming to Zurich, sharing their latest insights, and for their inspiring input on our research. We look forward to another exchange and wish them all the best for their papers.
After a long Covid break our new researcher in residence has arrived: Peter Smith from the University of Auckland, New Zealand, will be staying with us at the Chair of Organization and Management for the next three months. Peter is a lecturer and researcher in the University of Auckland’s Department of Management and International Business. His research interests are based on the practice of strategy; specifically, he is interested in how an individual’s practice of management and strategy, in an organization, makes a difference to the firm’s strategy. It is a pleasure to have Peter here, and we wish him an inspiring and productive time at our chair!
Welcome back from your holidays to FS23! We hope you all had a great start to the new year. We are looking forward to a fresh start on campus and to seeing many of you in our seminar Qualitative Forschungsmethoden and our lectures BWL II and Organisation und Führung (undergraduate level) as well as in Organization Theories (master level). If you are interested in writing your thesis at our chair, please register for the information event on March 24th, 2023 (14-15h) by sending an email to Kalliopi Vagias. On May 22nd, 24th, and 26th we offer a Distinguished Scholars Seminar with Martha Feldman (University of California, Irvine) on the topic „Power & Organization“.
Violetta Splitter, Leonhard Dobusch, Georg von Krogh, Richard Whittington, and Peter Walgenbach just published their special issue paper in Organization Studies.
Their article "Openness as Organizing Principle: Introduction to the Special Issue" has been published in the OS Special Issue: "Open Organizing in an Open Society? Conditions, Consequences and Contradictions of Openness as an Organizing Principle".
You can find the full article here
This weekend our annual Winter Magic Mountain took place in Arosa. During the offsite we combined workshops and creative sessions with great social activities. In the mornings we conducted workshops on our key topics for 2023 and in the afternoons seized the great weather for outdoor activities.
We all had a lot of fun and an unforgettable weekend on the ski and sled slopes, lunching together at the mountain hut or enjoying the traditional Swiss Raclette with the extended Chair Family in the evening.
We are happy to introduce our new semester assistant Gloria Pünchera, who recently started working for us at the chair.
We are very much looking forward to working with Gloria and wish her an interesting and exciting time at our chair! Gloria, who is currently studying Business Administration (major) with History, Society and Politics (minor) at UZH, will support our teaching and research activities in various ways.
The Chair of Organization and Management wishes you a peaceful holiday season and a happy, prosperous New Year! The festive season gives us the chance to look back on a year with numerous highlights - the last of which were gatherings within our team and with our colleagues of the faculty to celebrate and exchange on the successful year. We would like to thank everyone with whom we have been in contact and who helped us to jointly shape the year 2022.
We are very much looking forward to our new teaching portfolio and new forms of academic exchange in 2023!
We are proud to announce that our colleague Violetta Splitter joined the University of Arts Berlin (Germany) as a guest Professor in October 2022. We are very happy for Violetta and wish her all the best for this new chapter in her academic career while we are also very glad that Violetta continues to work at our Chair as Senior Research Associate (Oberassistentin).
It was a great and fun evening that started with an aperitif and then continued with a joint cheese fondue. During the dinner our "Schrottwichteln" provided some surprises and laughs.
Chantal Wey received the UZH spring term 2022 semester award with her outstanding bachelor's thesis: «Arbeitsumgebung und Produktivität: Analyse anhand der Covid-19 bedingten Homeoffice-Pflicht»
The thesis was supervised by Tania Weinfurtner and Chantal was specially nominated by David Seidl for her very good academic contribution. The award was presented to her by the rector of the university.
Am Lehrstuhl für Organisation und Management der Universität Zürich (Prof. David Seidl) ist derzeit eine Stelle für eine/n Semesterassistenten/-in ausgeschrieben. Bewerbungsschluss ist der 30. November 2022. Weitere Informationen finden Sie in der vollständigen Ausschreibung (PDF, 66 KB).
Welcome back to HS22! We hope everybody had a lovely summer break and wish all students a good start into a new term full of interesting courses. We are excited to see many of you in our lecture Change Management (Bachelor level) as well as in our seminar Case Studies (Master level). In November, we offer a doctoral seminar with Anne Smith (University of Tennessee) on Writing Qualitative Work (PhD level). If you are interested in writing your bachelor or master thesis at our chair, please apply by October 31 by emailing Kalliopi Vagias. This term, our lecture will be available online; our seminars will take place as usual (in class, at our institute).
Before the start of Fall Term, we attended the Annual Meeting of the Strategic Management Society in London under the theme „Innovative Strategies for an Open World“. Some members of the chair took a leading role in activities of the Strategy Practice IG: Violetta Splitter and Theresa Langenmayr acted as conveners of two sessions on Open Strategy; David Seidl, Violetta Splitter, Shenghui Ma and Benjamin Grossmann-Hensel were nominated for the Best Paper and Best PhD Paper Awards, respectively, and presented their papers.
In Mid-September, we traveled to London for this year’s „Summer Magic Mountain“ – the second of our biannual strategy workshops this year. As always, we used the retreat to discuss research, teaching and administration related topics concerning the future of the Chair of Organization and Management. Our reinvigorating retreat took place right before the Annual Meeting of the Strategic Management Society in London.
We are happy to welcome our new team member Robin Engelbach! As of today, Robin will support our chair as a research associate and PhD candidate. He holds a bachelor's degree from the EBS University and a master's degree from the University of St. Gallen. As part of our SNF-funded project he will have a special focus on the topic of „Open Strategy“. We wish Robin all the best for his PhD studies and a fruitful and exciting time at our chair!
David Seidl received the Mentoring Award 2021. This annual award recognizes supervisors of PhD candidates at UZH for outstanding mentoring and promotion of early-career researchers. The prize money is endowed with 5,000 Swiss francs.
See the interview with David Seidl on the Mentoring Award:
https://www.oec.uzh.ch/de/current/news/2022/mentoring-award-2021.html
We recently received a 4-year project grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) to study the impact of increased openness in strategy making on strategic roles. Within this project we can study how the inclusion of formerly excluded actors in strategy processes changes the traditional strategic role constellations.
The UZH Faculty of Business, Economics and Informatics presented the annual award for excellent scholarly work 2022 to Tania Weinfurtner for her PhD thesis. Entitled «The role of space in organising», it examines the role of physical and social spaces in organisational processes, such as coordination and strategy development. Tania’s dissertation contributes to establishing a spatial perspective in organisation studies.
After five years in office, Tania Weinfurtner, former director of CareerElixier, the GRC funded peer-mentoring group for women in academia, has handed over the group management to Theresa Langenmayr and colleagues. Starting with only 14 members, the group has grown to over 35 women today. The new leadership team, for its office term, strives to generate long-term funding for the group in order to provide stability and ensure the group’s existence in the long run.
Am Lehrstuhl für Organisation und Management der Universität Zürich (Prof. David Seidl) ist derzeit eine Stelle für eine/n wissenschaftliche/n Mitarbeiter/in für Forschung mit dem Ziel der Promotion sowie Lehre ausgeschrieben. Bewerbungsschluss ist der 31. Mai 2022. Weitere Informationen finden Sie in der vollständigen Ausschreibung (Link (PDF, 70 KB)).
In early March, we traveled to St. Moritz for this year’s „Winter Magic Mountain“ – the first of our biannual strategy workshops in 2022. As always, we used the retreat to discuss research, teaching and administration related topics concerning the future of the Chair of Organization and Management. In between discussions, we enjoyed the beautiful Alpine scenery of the Engadin. We spent a very fruitful strategy workshop and a great time with the team.
Welcome back from your holidays to FS22! We hope you’ve all had an enjoyable start into the new year. We are excited to see many of you back for a fresh term on campus without any restrictions apart from the (as of now) mandatory wearing of masks during courses. As in the previous terms, all of our lectures will be fully broadcasted via SWITCHcast. We are looking forward to seeing many of you in our seminar Qualitative Forschungsmethoden and our lectures BWL II and Organisation und Führung (undergraduate level) as well as in Organization Theories (master level). If you are interested in writing your thesis at our chair, please register for the information event on April 1st, 2022 (14-15h) by sending an email to Kalliopi Vagias. On May 11th-13th, we offer a Distinguished Scholars Seminar with Nils Brunsson (Uppsala University) on the topic „Organization Outside Organizations“.
