Leonhard Dobusch

Awards and honors

• 2022: Best Paper Award, Strategy Practice Interest Group, Strategic Management Society (SMS) for the paper "Taking individual choices seriously: Self-selection and the coordination of strategy work" (with Christoph Brielmaier and Martin Friesl)
• 2020: Ideas Worth Teaching Award, Business & Society Program, Aspen Institute, for the open course "Organizing in Times of Crisis: The Case of Covid19"
• 2020: LehrePlus! Award, Universität Innsbruck, for the course "Organizing in Times of Crisis: The Case of Covid19"
• 2019: Special recognition, Bert-Donnepp-Preis für Medienpublizistik, for the media series "Neues aus dem Fernsehrat"
• 2016: LehrePlus! Award, Universität Innsbruck (e-learning category), for the course "Open Organizations and Organizing Openness"
• 2016: 1st Runner-up, Best Published Paper in 2015, Organizational Communication & Information Systems (OCIS) Division, Academy of Management, for the article "Fluidity, Identity, and Organizationality: The Communicative Constitution of Anonymous" (with Dennis Schoeneborn)
• 2016: Outstanding Reviewer Award, Strategizing Activities and Practices (SAP) Interest Group, Academy of Management
• 2014: Zeitschriftenpreis, Verein der Freunde und Ehemaligen des Max-Planck-Instituts für Gesellschaftsforschung (MPIfG), for the article "Framing Standards, Mobilizing Users: Copyright versus Fair Use in Transnational Regulation" (with Sigrid Quack)
• 2013: Carolyn Dexter Best International Paper Award, Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Orlando, Florida (see blog post at governance across borders)
• 2013: Egon-Matzner-Preis für Sozioökonomie, for the article „Heterodox United vs. Neoclassical City: Sketching a Paradigm for Interested Pluralism in Economics“ (with Jakob Kapeller)
• 2010: Wolfgang-Heilmann-Preis für humane IT-Nutzung, Integrata-Stiftung, for the edited volume “Freie Netze. Freies Wissen.” (1st Prize)
• 2009: Dissertationspreis, Alcatel-Lucent-Stiftung für Telekommunikationsforschung

Academic background

• since 2016/02: Full Professor of Business Administration with a focus on Organization, University of Innsbruck, Department of Organisation and Learning
• 2012/08–2016/01: Junior Professor of Management, with a focus on organization theory, Freie Universität Berlin, Management-Department
• 2014/06–2014/09: Visiting scholar at the Institut für Nonprofit Management, Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien
• 2009/04–2012/07: Freie Universität Berlin, Lehrstuhl für Unternehmenskooperation, Postdoc
• 2011/11–2012/07: Fellow of stiftung neue verantwortung, head of the research group "The Business Web"
• 2011/07–2011/10: Visiting scholar at Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin, department: Kulturelle Quellen von Neuheit
• 2008/11–2009/01: Research stay at the Center for Internet & Society, Stanford Law School
• 2008/06–2009/03: Postdoctoral fellow at the Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung, Köln
• 2008/05: Doctorate in Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Freie Universität Berlin; dissertation: „Weg vom Windows-Pfad? Vier Städte zwischen Markt, Technologie und Organisation“
• 2005/10–2008/05: Doctoral fellow in the DFG Graduiertenkolleg „Pfade organisatorischer Prozesse“ at the Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Freie Universität Berlin
• 2004/11–2005/08: Judicial clerkship (Gerichtspraxis) in the district of the Higher Regional Court (Oberlandesgericht) Linz
• 1999/10–2004/05: Degree in Law (Magister iur.), Johannes Kepler University Linz
• 2003/06–2004/07: Policy advisor for economic affairs at the Austrian National Union of Students (Österreichische HochschülerInnenschaft, ÖH)
• 1998/10–2003/10: Degree in Business Administration (Magister rer. soc. oec.), Johannes Kepler University Linz

Contributions in peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings

• Dobusch, L., Plotnikof, M., & Wenzel, M. (2025). Reviewing is Caring! Revaluing a Critical, but Invisibilized, Underappreciated, and Exploited Academic Practice. Organization, in press, PDF
• Dobusch, L. & Heimstädt, M. (2024). The Structural Transformation of the Scientific Public Sphere: Constitution and consequences of the path towards Open Access. Philosophy & Social Criticism, 50(1), 216-238, PDF
• Zangerle, K., Dobusch, L., & Weiskopf, R. (2024). Barracudas, Piranhas and Crowds: Making ideas valuable in pharmaceutical innovation through opening and closing practices of valuation. Innovation: Organization & Management, 1-18, PDF
• Friesl, M., Brielmaier, C., & Dobusch, L. (2023). Taking individual choices seriously: A process perspective of self-selection in strategy work. Organization Theory, 4(2), 1-19, PDF
• Splitter, V., Dobusch, L., Krogh, G., Whittington, R., & Walgenbach, P. (2023). Openness as Organizing Principle: Introduction to the Special Issue. Organization Studies, 44(1), 7-27, PDF
• Dobusch, L., & Dobusch L. (2022). Wie offen sind ‚offene’ Online-Gemeinschaften? Inklusion, Exklusion und die Ambivalenz von Schließungen. Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie, 74, 257–281, PDF
• Dobusch, L., Koester, N., Schäfer, E., Seckler, C. (2022). Open About Organizational Failure: A Communication Perspective on Postmortem Impression Management. Long Range Planning, 55(6), 102176, PDF
• Dobusch, L., Koester, N., Schäfer, E., Seckler, C. (2022). Fehlschläge offen einräumen: Über das Nachleben gescheiterter Startups. zfo - zeitschrift führung + organisation, 224-231, PDF
• Beck, S., Bergenholtz, C., Bogers, M., Brasseur, T. M., Conradsen, M. L., Di Marco, D., Distel, A.P., Dobusch, L., ... & Fecher, B. (2022). The Open Innovation in Science research field: a collaborative conceptualisation approach. Industry and Innovation, 29(2), 136-185, PDF
• Friesike, S., Dobusch, L., Heimstädt, M. (2022). Striving for societal impact as an early-career researcher: Reflections on five common concerns. Research in the Sociology of Organizations, 79, 239–255, PDF
• Dobusch, L., & Heimstädt, M. (2021). Strukturwandel der wissenschaftlichen Öffentlichkeit: Konstitution und Konsequenzen des Open-Access-Pfades. Leviathan, 49, Sonderband 37, 425-453, PrePrint-PDF
• Dobusch, L., Hondros, K., Quack, S., & Zangerle, K. (2021). Between Anxiety and Hope: How Actors Experience Regulatory Uncertainty in Creative Processes in Music and Pharma. Research in the Sociology of Organizations, 75, 137-160, PDF
• Heimstädt, M., & Dobusch, L. (2021). Riskante Retweets: „Predictive Risk Intelligence“ und Interessenvertretung in globalen Wertschöpfungsnetzwerken. Industrielle Beziehungen, 28 (2), 194-211, PDF
• Heimstädt, M., & Dobusch, L. (2020). Transparency and Accountability: Causal, Critical and Constructive Perspectives. Organization Theory, 1(4), 1-12, PDF
• Dobusch, L. (2019). Dynamics of the Sharing Economy between Commons and Commodification. Momentum Quarterly, 8 (2), 109-115, PDF
• Dobusch, L., & Heimstädt, M. (2019). Predatory publishing in management research: A call for open peer review. Management Learning, 50(5), 607-619, PDF
• Dobusch, L., Dobusch, L., & Müller-Seitz, G. (2019). Closing for the Benefit of Openness: Lessons from Wikimedia's Open Strategy Process. Organization Studies, 40(3), 343-370, PDF
• Dobusch, L., & Kapeller, J. (2018). Open Strategy-making with Crowds and Communities: Comparing Wikimedia and Creative Commons. Long Range Planning, 51(4), 561-579, PDF
• Heimstädt, M., & Dobusch, L. (2018). Politics of disclosure: Organizational transparency as multi-actor negotiation. Public Administration Review, 78(5), 727-738, PDF
• Botzem, S., & Dobusch, L. (2017). Financialization as Strategy: Accounting for Inter-Organizational Value Creation in the European Real Estate Industry. Accounting, Organizations and Society, 59, 31-43, PDF
• Dobusch, L., Kremser, W., Seidl, D., & Werle, F. (2017). A Communication Perspective on Open Strategy and Open Innovation. Managementforschung, 27(1), 5-25, PDF
• Dobusch, L., Lang, M., & Quack, S. (2017). Open for Feedback? Formal and Informal Recursivity in the Transnational Standard-Setting of Creative Commons. Global Policy, 8 (3), 353–363, PDF
• Gegenhuber, T., & Dobusch, L. (2017). Making an Impression Through Openness: How Open Strategy-Making Practices Change in the Evolution of New Ventures. Long Range Planning, 50 (3), 337–354, PDF
• Seiffert-Brockmann, J., Diehl, T., & Dobusch, L. (2017). Memes as games: The evolution of a digital discourse online. New Media and Society, 20(8), 2862-2879, PDF
• Dobusch, L., & Schoenborn, D. (2015). Fluidity, Identity and Organizationality: The Communicative Constitution of Anonymous. Journal of Management Studies, 52 (8), 1005-1035, PDF
• Dobusch, L., & Gegenhuber, T. (2015). Making an Impression with Open Strategy: Transparency and Engagement on Corporate Blogs. Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings, (Vol. 2015, No. 1, p.11154), doi: 10.5465/AMBPP.2015.196, PDF
• Dobusch, L., & Schüßler, E. (2014). Copyright Reform and Business Model Innovation: Regulatory Propaganda at German Music Industry Conferences. Technological Forecasting & Social Change, 83, 24-39, PDF
• Schüßler, E., Dobusch, L., & Wessel, L. (2014). Backstage: Organizing field-configuring events as institutional work in a transforming creative industry. Schmalenbach Business Review, 415-437, PDF
• Dobusch, L., & Kapeller, J. (2013). Breaking New Paths: Theory and Method in Path Dependence Research. Schmalenbach Business Review, 65(2): 288-311, SSRN
• Dobusch, L., & Schüßler, E. (2013). Theorizing Path Dependence: A Review of Positive Feedback Mechanisms in Technology Markets, Regional Clusters and Organizations. Industrial and Corporate Change, 22 (3), 617-647, PDF
• Dobusch, L., & Quack, S. (2013). Framing standards, mobilizing users: Copyright versus fair use in transnational regulation. Review of International Political Economy, 20 (1), 52-88, SSRN-Preprint
• Botzem, S., & Dobusch, L. (2012). Dienstleister der Finanzialisierung: Fragmentierte Organisation und kalkulierte Profite in der Immobilienwirtschaft. Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie, 64, 673-700, PDF
• Botzem, S., & Dobusch, L. (2012). Standardization cycles: A process perspective on the formation and diffusion of transnational standards. Organization Studies, 33 (5-6), 735-760, SSRN
• Dobusch, L. (2012). The Digital Public Domain: Relevance and Regulation. Information & Communications Technology Law, 21 (2), 179-202, PDF
• Dobusch, L., & Kapeller, J. (2012). A Guide to Paradigmatic Self-Marginalization: Lessons for Post-Keynesian Economists. Review of Political Economy, 24 (3), 469-487, PDF
• Dobusch, L., & Kapeller, J. (2012). Heterodox United vs. Mainstream City? Sketching a Framework for Interested Pluralism in Economics. Journal of Economic Issues, 46(4), 1035-1058, pre-print
• Dobusch, L., & Kapeller, J. (2012). Regulatorische Unsicherheit und private Standardisierung: Koordination durch Ambiguität. Managementforschung, Band 22: Steuerung durch Regeln, 43-81, pre-print
• Dobusch, L., & Müller-Seitz, G. (2012). Serial Singularities: Developing a Network Organization by Organizing Events. Schmalenbach Business Review, 64, 171-196, PDF
• Dobusch, L., & Müller-Seitz, G. (2012). Strategy as a Practice of Thousands: The Case of Wikimedia. Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings, (Vol. 2012, No. 1, p. 15572), doi: 10.5465/AMBPP.2012.43, PDF
• Dobusch, L., Pawel, S., Pomberger, G., & Riedl, R. (2012). Open Government Data: eine Initiative der Open-Commons-Region Linz. HMD - Praxis der Wirtschaftsinformatik, 283, 49. Jahrgang, 74-83, PDF
• Dobusch, L., & Quack, S. (2012). Organisation und strategisches Framing privater Regulierung: Urheberrecht zwischen Kreativität und Verwertung. Politische Vierteljahresschrift, Sonderheft 46, 273-318, PDF
• Dobusch, L., & Quack, S. (2011). Interorganisationale Netzwerke und digitale Gemeinschaften: Von Beiträgen zu Beteiligung?. Organisation und Umwelt: Managementforschung 21, Band 21: Organisation und Umwelt, 21, 171-213, PDF
• Dobusch, L. (2010). Kaskaden der Komplementarität: Pfadabhängigkeit organisationaler und technischer Strukturen. zfbf, 62 (Juni 2010), 422-451, PDF-Preprint
• Dobusch, L., & Kapeller, J. (2009). „Why is Economics not an evolutionary science?“ – New answers to Veblen’s old Question. Journal of Economic Issues, 43 (4), 867- 898, pre-print

Articles in journals and anthologies (selection)

• Dobusch, L., Hautz, J., & Ortner, T. (2025). Open Strategy as a new form of strategizing. In: Golshorki, D., Rouleu, L., Seidl, D., Vaara, E. (eds.), Cambridge Handbook of Strategy as Practice, Cambridge University Press, 674-693, PDF
• Dobusch, L. (2025). Signa ist kein Einzelfall. Neue Gesellschaft / Frankfurter Hefte, 3/25, 6-9, online
• Dobusch, L. (2025). Digitalisierung als Demokratisierung: Zur Rolle öffentlich-rechtlicher Medien in einer demokratischen Gesellschaft. UFITA – Archiv für Medienrecht und Medienwissenschaft 2/2024, 254-272, in press
• Buschow, C., & Dobusch, L. (2025). Kompetitiv und kooperativ: Zur Neuordnung des Verhältnisses von privaten und öffentlich-rechtlichen Medien im Digitalzeitalter. Wirtschaftsdienst, 105(3), 1-5, PDF
• Dobusch, L. (2024). Von Sendern zum offenen Ökosystem. Zur Reform und Zukunft des öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunks. Journalistik. Zeitschrift für Journalismusforschung, Heft 1/2024, 97-110, PDF
• Dobusch, L., & Sturn, J. (2024). Hört die Signa(le): Rechtspolitische Fragen und Ableitungen aus dem Fall der Signa-Gruppe. juridikum - Zeitschrift für Kritik, Recht Gesellschaft, 2024, 181-191, PDF
• Klausner, L., Heimstädt, M., Dobusch, L. (2023). "Schöne neue Lieferkettenwelt": Workers' Voice und Arbeitsstandards in Zeiten algorithmischer Vorhersage. In: Haipeter, T., Helfen, M., Kirsch, A. (Hrsg.): Soziale Standards in globalen Lieferketten: Internationale Richtlinien, unternehmerische Verantwortung und die Stimme der Beschäftigten. transcript, 97-114, PDF
• Schoeneborn, D., Blagoev, B., & Dobusch, L. (2022). The Communicative Constitution of Organizationality. In: Basque, J., Bencherki, N., & Kuhn, T. (Eds.): The Routledge Handbook of the Communicative Constitution of Organizations. Routledge, PDF
• Müller, B., Diefenbach, S., Dobusch, L., & Baer, K. (2021). From Becoming to Being Digital: The Emergence and Nature of the Post-Digital. i-com, 20(3), 319-328, PDF
• Dobusch, L. (2021). Freie Lizenzen und öffentlich-rechtliche Medien: Wettbewerbspolitische Dimensionen. In: Budzinski, O., Haucap, J., Stöhr, A. & Wentzel, D. (Hrsg.): Zur Ökonomik von Sport, Entertainment und Medien: Schnittstellen und Hintergründe. De Gruyter, 261-272, Preprint-PDF
• Dobusch, L., Heimstädt, M., Mayer, K., & Ross-Hellauer, T. (2020). Defining predatory journals: no peer review, no point. Nature, 580(7801), 29, PDF
• Dobusch, L., & Dobusch, L. (2019). The Relation between Openness and Closure in Open Strategy: Programmatic and Constitutive Approaches to Openness. In: Seidl, D./von Krogh, G./Whittington, R. (Eds.): The Cambridge Handbook of Open Strategy. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 326-336, PDF
• Schoeneboren, D., & Dobusch, L. (2019). Alternating between Partial and Complete Organization: The Case of Anonymous. In: Ahrne, G./Brunsson, N. (Eds.): Organization outside Organizations: The Abundance of Partial Organization in Social Life. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 318-333, PDF
• Dobusch, L. (2015). Digitales Update für die Freiheit? In: Krell, C./Moerschel, T. (Hg.): Werte und Politik, Wiesbaden, Springer VS, 61-72, PDF-Preprint
• Schüßler, E., & Dobusch, L. (2013). Musikevents als Bühnen für den Urheberrechtsdiskurs. In: Lange, B./Bürkner, H.-J./Schüßler, E. (Hg.): Akustisches Kapital: Wertschöpfung in der Musikwirtschaft. Bielefeld, transcript, PDF
• Dobusch, L. (2012). Wesen und Wirken der Wissensallmende. In: juridikum - Zeitschrift für Kritik, Recht Gesellschaft, 2/2012, 215-223, PDF-Preprint
• Dobusch, L., & Gollatz, K. (2012). Piraten zwischen transnationaler Bewegung und lokalem Phänomen. In: Bieber, C./Leggewie, C. (Hg.): Unter Piraten: Erkundungen in einer neuen politischen Arena. Transcript, Bielefeld, 25-40, PDF-Preprint
• Dobusch, L., Quack, S. (2011). Auf dem Weg zu einer Wissensallmende? In:Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte, APuZ, 61(28-30/2011, 41-46, Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung, PDF
• Dobusch, L. (2010). Creative Commons’ Privates Urheberrecht: (k)eine Lösung? In: Kurswechsel, 04/2010, 37-47, PDF-Preprint
• Dobusch, L., & Kapeller, J. (2010). Institutionalisierung zivilgesellschaftlicher Partizipation: Zwischen Ignoranz, Integration und Invasion. In: Blaha, B./Weidenholzer, J. (Hrsg.): Momentrum09: Freiheit: Beiträge für eine demokratische Gesellschaft. Wien, Braumüller, 201-217, PDF-Preprint
• Dobusch, L., & Quack, S. (2010). Urheberrecht zwischen Kreativität und Verwertung: Transnationale Mobilisierung und private Regulierung. In: Politische Vierteljahresschrift, Köln, MPIfG Discussion Paper 10/6, PDF
• Dobusch, L., & Kapeller, J. (2009). Diskutieren und Zitieren: Zur paradigmatischen Konstellation aktueller ökonomischer Theorie. Intervention, Heft 2, PDF-Preprint
• Dobusch, L., & Quack, S. (2009). Internationale und nicht-staatliche Organisationen im Wettbewerb um Regulierung: Schauplatz Urheberrecht. In: Dingwerth, K./Kerwer, D./Nölke, A. (Hrsg.): Die Organisierte Welt: Internationale Beziehungen und Organisationsforschung. Baden-Baden, Nomos, PDF
• Dobusch, L. (2009). Von Open Access zu Free Knowledge: Erste Schritte zu freiem wissenschaftlichen Wissen. In: Blaha, B./Weidenholzer, J. (Hrsg.):gerechtigkeit. Beiträge zur Wirtschafts-, Bildungs- und Sozialpolitik. Wien, Braumüller, 115-138, PDF-Preprint
• Dobusch, L./Quack, S. (2008). Epistemic Communities and Social Movements: Transnational Dynamics in the Case of Creative Commons. Köln, MPIfG Discussion Paper 08/8, PDF
• Dobusch, L. (2008). Ohnmacht trotz technologischer Potenz: Pfade informationstechnologischer Selbstentmachtung. In: Gumm, D./Janneck, M./Langer, R./Simon, E. (eds.): Mensch - Technik - Ärger? Zur Beherrschbarkeit soziotechnischer Dynamik aus transdisziplinärer Sicht. Münster, Lit-Verlag, 103-118, PDF-Preprint
• Dobusch, L. (2007). Von der Kommune zur Community: Freie Netze und freies Wissen auf der lokalpolitischen Agenda. In: Lutterbeck, B./Bärwolff, M./Gehring, R.A. (Edts.): Open Source Jahrbuch 2007 – Zwischen freier Software und Gesellschaftsmodell. Berlin, Lehmanns Media, 523-530, PDF

Books

• Djordjevic, V., & Dobusch, L. (Hg., 2014). Generation Remix: Zwischen Popkultur und Kunst. Berlin, iRights.Media, full-text
• Dobusch, L./Mader, P./Quack, S. (Hg., 2013). Governance across borders: Transnational fields and transversal themes. A blogbook. Berlin, epubli, PDF/ePub
• Dobusch, L., Forsterleitner, C., & Hiesmair, M. (Hg., 2011). Freiheit vor Ort: Handbuch kommunale Netzpolitik. München, Open Source Press, PDF
• Dobusch, L. (2008). Windows versus Linux: Markt - Organisation - Pfad. Wiesbaden, VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 
• Dobusch, L., & Forsterleitner, C. (Hg., 2007). Freie Netze. Freies Wissen. Ein Beitrag zum Kulturhauptstadtjahr Linz 2009. Wien, Echomedia, PDF

Other publications (selection)

• Dobusch, L., Seidl, D., & Werle, F. (2015). Opening Up the Strategy-Making Process: Comparing Open Strategy to Open Innovation. UZH Business Working Paper No. 359, SSRN
• Dobusch, L., Quack, S. (2012). Transnational Copyright: Misalignments between Regulation, Business Models and User Practice. Osgoode CLPE Research Paper Series, 8 (4), Research Paper No. 13, SSRN
• Dobusch, L., & Sydow, J. (2011). Path Dependent Platforms: A Process Perspective on Enterprise Ecosystem Governance, In: ES Working Paper, No. 2, Universität Mannheim, PDF
• Dobusch, L. (2008). Book-Review: Langlois, Richard N. 2007. The Dynamics of Industrial Capitalism. Schumpeter, Chandler and the New Economy. London, Routledge. In: European Journal for the History of Economic Thought, 15 (2): 359-361, PDF
• Dobusch, L. (2008). Migration Discourse Structures: Escaping Microsoft's Desktop Path. In: Russo, B./Damiani, E./Hissam, S./Lundell, B./Succi, G. (eds.): Open Source Development, Communities and Quality, Series: IFIP International Federation for Information Processing, Vol. 275, 223-235, PDF

Teaching Cases

• Wikimedia: Managing the International Network Organization behind Wikipedia. In: Sydow, J., Schüßler, E., Müller-Seitz, G. (eds.): Managing Inter-Organizational Relations Debates and Cases. London, Palgrave. 

Ongoing research project

Organizing Creativity under Regulatory Uncertainty: Alternative Approaches to Intellectual Property

The FWF-funded research project is being carried out under the joint leadership of Prof Dr Sigrid Quack, University of Duisburg-Essen.

Brief description:

Critiques of dominant approaches towards the legal protection of creative outputs through patent and copyright law have led to the emergence of alternative approaches such as open licensing models. These alternative approaches have in common the goal of fostering creative recombination based on broader access to knowledge and products (in the sense of a “public domain”) through private regulation. Research on alternative regulatory approaches has been dominated by legal and economic studies with a focus on the macro level. So far, however, little attention has been given to the theoretical and empirical study of the creativity-shaping effects of alternative approaches at the level of organizational and professional practices. Synthesizing practice and institutional theories from business and organization studies, the project will develop a regulation-as-a-practice meso-level approach through a comparative analysis of the fields of pharma (studying alternatives to patents) and music (studying alternatives to copyright). This project will thus investigate how organizational actors understand, structure and use alternative regulatory approaches and how the organization of creative processes differs in such cases from those operating under dominant approaches to intellectual property rights. In so doing, this project aims to provide (1) an empirical mapping of alternative approaches, their perceived impacts on regulatory uncertainty, and the ways they are enacted through practices in creative processes; (2) a comparative analysis of creative practices and ways of dealing with regulatory uncertainty under dominant and alternative intellectual property regimes; and (3) developing a conceptual model of the interrelationship between regulatory uncertainty and creative processes from a regulation-as-practice meso-level perspective. The results of the project will contribute to a better theoretical and empirical understanding of the implications of dominant and alternative approaches for reducing and inducing regulatory uncertainty in creative processes.

Project start and duration:

- Project start: 01 February 2021
- Duration: three years

Completed research projects

Organizing Creativity under Regulatory Uncertainty: Challenges of Intellectual Property

The research project is part of an interdisciplinary DFG research group on ‘Organised Creativity’ under the joint leadership of Prof. Dr. Sigrid Quack, University of Duisburg-Essen.

Brief description:

Regulatory uncertainty related to intellectual property (IP) rights has become ubiquitous in creative and innovative processes. IP rights, which originally sought to promote creativity by granting copyrights and patents to creators, and thereby allowing them to form reliable expectations about future returns, are increasingly portrayed as a source of uncertainty. In this study, we examine how actors cope in practice with IP-related uncertainty throughout the creative process, thereby providing an empirical and conceptual micro-foundation of these countervailing forces.

Project start and duration:

- Project start: 01 June 2016
- Duration: three years

award-winning courses

The module "Open Organizations and Organizing Openness" in the Master's program Organization Studies was awarded the biannual teaching prize LehrePlus! of the University of Innsbruck in 2016 in the category of e-learning:

• Article on the award ceremony
• OS Conjunction blogpost on "Open Organizations and Organizing Openness"
• Background on the course at governance across borders (English)

The module "Organizing in Times of Crisis: The Case of Covid-19" in collaboration with Elke Süßler in the Master's program Organization Studies, was awarded the LehrePlus! teaching prize of the University of Innsbruck and the Aspen Institute’s Ideas Worth Teaching Award in 2020:

• OS Conjunction Blog post on "Organizing in Times of Crisis: The Case of Covid-19"
• OS Conjunction Blog post on the "Lehre Plus!" award ceremony
• OS Conjunction Blog post on the  "Ideas Worth Teaching Award"

Regular courses

• Module "Approaches to Organization Studies"  in the Master's programm Organization Studies (together with Richard Weiskopf)
• Module "Methods of Qualitative Social Science" in the Master Organization Studies
• Das Modul "Open Organizations and Organizing Openness" in the Master Organization Studies
• Lecture "Grundlagen des Managements: Organisation und Organisieren, Personalpolitik" in the Bachelor program Management & Economics (together with Manfred Auer)
• Lecture "Betriebswirtschaftliches Denken und Management" (together with Jürgen Huber)
• PhD Course "Theorizing the Digital" (together with Andrea Hemetsberger)

Previous courses

• Module "Organizational Dynamics and Change" in the Master's program Organization Studies (together with Richard Weiskopf)
• Management, Marketing und Informationssysteme (course content available as Open Educational Resources, OER)
• Denkschulen und aktuelle Kontroversen der Ökonomik (course overview PDF; lecture series organized by students of Kritischen WirtschaftswissenschaftlerInnen Berlin)

Research Blog: governance across borders

The research blog governance across borders is conducted in Englisch as an  iinterdisciplinary community blog and can also be subscribed to via Twitter under @govxborders. 

Momentum-Kongress 

Connecting and changing science, politics and practice - that is the aim of the annual Momentum-Kongresses held in the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Hallstatt (Upper Austria). Every autumn, around 250 scientists, political activists, students and people working in different areas of society meet to discuss social progress on the basis of pre-submitted contributions. Ongoing updates on the congress are provided by @Momentum_Kon sowie die Momentum-Facebook-Seite.

Momentum Quarterly

Momentum Quarterly is a transdisciplinary, scientific and reviewed journal with the aim of establishing a closer discursive and substantive link between science and politics.

Momentum Research Blog

The Momentum Research Blog, and Momentum Quarterly are flanked by the Momentum Research Blog, which provides regular updates on calls for papers, conference announcements, information on panels and other announcements that may be of interest to the research-oriented part of the Momentum community.