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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!
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!
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.
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.
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.
We are excited to share the latest publication in the Strategic Management Journal by David Seidl, Shenghui Ma, and Violetta Splitter.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Great ending of AOM2024 with the symposium around equity, diversity and inclusion in strategy.
It was a great pleasure for us to meet and chat with so many Open Strategy scholars at this year’s Academy of Management.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
David Seidl and Andreas König were welcomed in Innsbruck, to discuss their latest research project together with Kristina Stoiber.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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."
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.
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.
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.
Call for Applications: Strategy-as-Practice Community Day 2024 on "Practicing Strategy at the Crossroads: Navigating Transformation Through time, space and people" at EGOS2024
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.
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!
Exciting news! Theresa Langenmayr’s, David Seidl’s, and Violetta Splitter’s latest academic article has been published in the Strategic Management Journal!
Welcome back from your holidays to FS24! We hope you all had a great start to the new year.
Just in time for the new year, our new postdoc arrived at the chair: Dr. Zoe Jonassen.
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.
Last weekend, we held our cherished annual Winter Magic Mountain offsite, this year set against the picturesque backdrop of Meiringen.
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.
