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Semester Assistant Wanted
We are currently looking for a student semester assistant (Bachelor or Master), starting in September 2025. For more detailed information please have a look at the following job description.
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Goodbye Christian Bruck
Today was Christian Bruck’s last day at our office. For the past three months, Christian, originally from the Institute for Strategic Management at WU (Vienna University of Economics and Business), has visited our Chair as researcher in residence.
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Guest Lecture Patrick Rademacher
Last week, David had the pleasure of welcoming Dr. Patrick Rademacher, Chief Strategy & Innovation Officer Ringier Media Switzerland, to his course on Strategic Management in the Executive MBA University of Zurich program.
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Guets Lecture Claudine Clerc
Three days ago, David welcomed Claudine Clerc (agile coach at Swisscom and founder of monum GmbH) for a practitioner input to his course on organization in the CAS Leadership offered by the Executive Education Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät at the University of Zurich.
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Guest Lecture Felix Langenmayr
Last week, we had the pleasure of welcoming Dr. Felix Langenmayr, Head of Business Transformation at 20 Minuten (TX Group AG), to our Organization and Management lecture.
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Guest Lecture Peter Werder
Last week, we had the great pleasure of welcoming Dr. Peter Werder, CEO of Kantonsspital Obwalden (KSOW), to our lecture on “Change Management” within the CAS Medical Leadership program.
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Strategy-as-Practice Community Day – Call for applications
Call for Applications: Join us for this year's special Strategy-as-Practice Community Day on July 2nd at EGOS2025 in Athens!
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Welcome Mathias!
Welcome Mathias! We are excited to welcome Mathias Bienz to our Chair, where he will support us as a semester assistant in both our teaching and research activities.
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Welcome back to the spring term!
Welcome back to Spring Term 2025 at the University of Zurich!
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The Cambridge Handbook of Strategy as Practice
The Cambridge Handbook of Strategy as Practice (3rd Edition) is now online! Co-edited by David Seidl, this edition features revised chapters and new contributions, offering an updated overview of this growing field and outlining future research directions.
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Welcome Christian Bruck
We are delighted to share that our newest researcher in residence has arrived: Christian Bruck from the Institute for Strategic Management at WU (Vienna University of Economics and Business), Austria, will be staying with us at the UZH Chair of Organization and Management for the next three months.
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Happy New Year
Happy New Year from the Chair of Organization & Management!
The Chair team and our extended Chair family warmly wish you a happy, healthy, and successful New Year! We hope 2025 has started off well for you and that perhaps you’ve already ticked off one of your resolutions — like submitting to one of the exciting conferences coming up. -
Merry Christmas
The Chair of Organization and Management wishes you a peaceful holiday season and a joyful, prosperous New Year!
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Call for Extended Abstracts
Call for Extended Abstracts to participate in the 2nd Open Strategy Workshop at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford on June 25-26, 2025.
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Teaching Skills Certificate Beni & Robin
Congratulations to Benjamin Grossmann-Hensel and Robin Engelbach on receiving the Teaching Skills Certificate from the President of the University of Zurich at today’s Dies Academicus!
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SMS Istanbul
It was a great pleasure to reconnect with many familiar faces and meet new colleagues at the The Strategic Management Society Conference in Istanbul over the past few days. The conference provided an inspiring mix of academic insights, engaging discussions, and the wonderful opportunity to meet many people of the community again in person!
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OMTF 2025
In late September, members of the Chair of Organization and Management attended the OMTF 2025 conference at the KPM Center for Public Management, University of Bern.
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Seminar with Jennifer Howard-Grenville
It was an honour to host Professor Jennifer Howard-Grenville from the University of Cambridge at our Distinguished Scholar Seminar Series here at the University of Zurich.
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Robin in Oxford
Our chair member, Robin Engelbach, has just arrived at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, where he will be spending the next year as a Recognised DPhil student in management.
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Publication in Strategic Management Journal
We are excited to share the latest publication in the Strategic Management Journal by David Seidl, Shenghui Ma, and Violetta Splitter.
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Publication in Organization Theory
We are pleased to share the latest publication in Organization Theory by our chair member Theresa Langenmayr, former chair member Violetta Splitter, and their co-authors Janne Tienari and Mikko Vesa, in which they write about how to theorize diversity and inclusion for Open Strategy research.
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Welcome Back!
Welcome to the Fall Term 2024! We hope everyone enjoyed a wonderful summer break and wish all students a great start to a new term filled with exciting courses.
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2nd Open Strategy Workshop
We are very excited to announce the 2nd Open Strategy Workshop, dedicated to bringing together scholars and practitioners to explore and discuss the evolving landscape of Open Strategy. The workshop serves as a collaborative platform to share insights, discuss ongoing and future research projects, and foster new collaborations in the field.
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New Publication
Exciting news! We are delighted to share the latest Chair publication: In a new article that was just published in Organization Theory Tania Räcker, Daniel Geiger, and David Seidl propose a spatial perspective on coordination and introduce a configurational approach to analyzing the role of space in organizing.
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Welcome Jing!
We are delighted to share that our new researcher in residence has arrived: Jing You from the School of Management at Fudan University, China, will be staying with us at the UZH Chair of Organization and Management for one year.
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AOM Symposium
Great ending of AOM2024 with the symposium around equity, diversity and inclusion in strategy.
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Open Strategy Meeting at AOM
It was a great pleasure for us to meet and chat with so many Open Strategy scholars at this year’s Academy of Management.
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PDW on Spatial Approaches
Our PDW at AOM2024 Academy of Management in Chicago on "Spatial approaches to address grand challenges" was great. We delved into how spatial approaches can play a pivotal role in addressing some of the most pressing global issues of our time—like climate change, inequality, and the refugee crisis.
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Joan Martin Trailblazer Award 2024
We are happy to share the fantastic news that David Seidl received the Joan Martin Trailblazer Award 2024 at the Academy of Management conference in Chicago today – together with his great friends and colleagues Julia Balogun, Paula Jarzabkowski, and Richard Whittington.
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Final SAP symposium
The final symposium of Strategizing Activities and Practices (SAP) Interest Group during AOM2024 aims to stimulate a critical dialogue on diversity, equity, and inclusion in strategy-making.
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Paper development workshop on spatial approaches
We are really excited for this paper development workshop on spatial approaches to grand challenges that will take place at the upcoming Academy of Management Meeting in Chicago, on Saturday, 10th of August. It is co-organized by our Chair member Tania Räcker, and David Seidl will be one of the esteemed panelists.
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Are you interested in Open Strategy?
Are you interested in Open Strategy? Meet other researchers at the Open Strategy Coffee Meet-up organized by Theresa Langenmayr. With Julia Hautz, Fleur Deken, Anna Plotnikova, David Seidl, Richard Whittington and Martin Friesl.
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David in Innsbruck
David Seidl and Andreas König were welcomed in Innsbruck, to discuss their latest research project together with Kristina Stoiber.
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Colloquium 2024 in Milan
From Tuesday until today, our entire Chair and the extended Chair Family, including David Seidl, Tania Räcker, Theresa Langenmayr, Benjamin Grossmann-Hensel, Robin Engelbach, Yalan Yang, Violetta Splitter, Shenghui Ma, Peter Smith, and Christoph Brielmaier attended and contributed to the EGOS (European Group for Organizational Studies) Colloquium 2024 in Milan, Italy.
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SAP Community Day 2024
Today, our chair successfully co-organized the Strategy-as-Practice Community Day 2024 on “Practicing Strategy at the Crossroads: Navigating Transformation Through Time, Space, and People” at EGOS2024.
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Happy Summer!
As the spring term and exams have come to a close, we wish everybody a happy summer and a relaxing break full of sunshine, swimming, and ice-cream.
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Open Strategy Workshop
Just now, we wrapped up the inspiring first Oxford & Zurich Open Strategy Workshop, hosted by David Seidl and Richard Whittington. The event brought together a diverse group of scholars and practitioners to explore the dynamic field of Open Strategy.
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Summer Magic Mountain
This week, our annual Summer Magic Mountain took place at a beautiful monastery in Stans (NE). The location provided a very cozy atmosphere and offered a great view of the Bürgenstock, where the international Peace Conference will be held in about two weeks.
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Guest Lecture by Fabienne Sigg
In the penultimate session of our course "Organization Theories“, we had the great pleasure to welcome Fabienne Sigg, Programme Manager at UN Global Compact Network Switzerland & Liechtenstein, to our lecture hall at the University of Zurich.
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Distinguished Scholars Seminar Series
It was an honor to host Professor Davide Nicolini from University of Warwick - Warwick Business School at our Distinguished Scholar Seminar Series here at the University of Zurich.
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Guest Lecture Dr. Patrick Rademacher
Last week we had the great pleasure to welcome Dr. Patrick Rademacher, Chief Strategy and Innovation Officer at Ringier in our lecture on Organization & Management.
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Contribution to the Strategic Management Society Explorer
Have you seen Violetta Splitter's, David Seidl's, and Richard Whittington's contribution to The Strategic Management Society Explorer already? It is called "Cultivating Inclusion: The Road To Effective Open Strategy In Modern Organizations."
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Kick-Off BWL II
Just moments ago, we kicked-off the first session of the "Betriebswirtschaftslehre II" (business administration II) lecture and are excited to welcome all students to the "Organization" part presented by David Seidl.
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Congratulations Zoe
We are very proud to announce that our colleague, Dr. Zoe Jonassen, received a call from the University of St.Gallen (HSG) to join the School of Management and School of Medicine as an assistant professor.
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Exchange at European-University Viadrina
Earlier this week, we engaged in a stimulating academic and personal exchange in Frankfurt (Oder) with Jochen Koch's Chair of Management and Organization at European-University Viadrina.
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SAP Community Day 2024
Call for Applications: Strategy-as-Practice Community Day 2024 on "Practicing Strategy at the Crossroads: Navigating Transformation Through time, space and people" at EGOS2024
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Guest Lecture by Felix Langenmayr
Just before Easter we had the great pleasure to welcome Dr. Felix Langenmayr, Head of Business Transformation at 20 Minuten Group, to our Lecture «Organisation und Führung» (“Organization and Leadership”) at the University of Zurich.
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Second Publication in SMJ
It is fantastic news that within just one week another article by our (former) chair members Violetta Splitter's and David Seidl's, in collaboration with Richard Whittington, has been published in the Strategic Management Journal. Make sure to dive into this open access article during the Easter holidays!
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Publication Strategic Management Journal
Exciting news! Theresa Langenmayr’s, David Seidl’s, and Violetta Splitter’s latest academic article has been published in the Strategic Management Journal!
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Semester Start
Welcome back from your holidays to FS24! We hope you all had a great start to the new year.
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Welcome Zoe
Just in time for the new year, our new postdoc arrived at the chair: Dr. Zoe Jonassen.
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Goodbye Christoph
Today was Christoph Brielmaier’s last day at our office. For the past four months, Christoph, originally from the Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg, has visited our Chair as researcher in residence.
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Winter Magic Mountain Offsite
Last weekend, we held our cherished annual Winter Magic Mountain offsite, this year set against the picturesque backdrop of Meiringen.
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Time to celebrate!
What an eventful day at the office yesterday! Not only did we successfully conduct our Change Management exam, but we also had the pleasure of welcoming back our esteemed former chair member, Shenghui Ma for a visit.
- Semester Assistant Wanted
- Goodbye Christian Bruck
- Guest Lecture Patrick Rademacher
- Guets Lecture Claudine Clerc
- Guest Lecture Felix Langenmayr
- Guest Lecture Peter Werder
- Strategy-as-Practice Community Day – Call for applications
- Welcome Mathias!
- Welcome back to the spring term!
- The Cambridge Handbook of Strategy as Practice
- Welcome Christian Bruck
- Happy New Year
- Merry Christmas
- Call for Extended Abstracts
- Teaching Skills Certificate Beni & Robin
- SMS Istanbul
- OMTF 2025
- Seminar with Jennifer Howard-Grenville
- Robin in Oxford
- Publication in Strategic Management Journal
- Publication in Organization Theory
- Welcome Back!
- 2nd Open Strategy Workshop
- New Publication
- Welcome Jing!
- AOM Symposium
- Open Strategy Meeting at AOM
- PDW on Spatial Approaches
- Joan Martin Trailblazer Award 2024
- Final SAP symposium
- Paper development workshop on spatial approaches
- Are you interested in Open Strategy?
- David in Innsbruck
- Colloquium 2024 in Milan
- SAP Community Day 2024
- Happy Summer!
- Open Strategy Workshop
- Summer Magic Mountain
- Guest Lecture by Fabienne Sigg
- Distinguished Scholars Seminar Series
- Guest Lecture Dr. Patrick Rademacher
- Contribution to the Strategic Management Society Explorer
- Kick-Off BWL II
- Congratulations Zoe
- Exchange at European-University Viadrina
- SAP Community Day 2024
- Guest Lecture by Felix Langenmayr
- Second Publication in SMJ
- Publication Strategic Management Journal
- Semester Start
- Welcome Zoe
- Goodbye Christoph
- Winter Magic Mountain Offsite
- Time to celebrate!