News

EMBA Change Management Module

Tue, 12 May 2026 22:00:00 GMT

Great to see the participants of the Change Management module of the Executive MBA at the University of Zurich so actively engaged.

Challenge the Prof Winners

Wed, 29 Apr 2026 22:00:00 GMT

Congratulations to our winners Elia, Alexandra, Victoria, Nicoline, and Samuel who won the last round of our BWL II game "Challenge the Prof" (Module 3). Your prize is an exclusive tour of the Ringier AG Newsroom in Zurich with Roman Sigrist and a certificate awarded by David Seidl.

David in Glasgow

Fri, 17 Apr 2026 22:00:00 GMT

David MacSeidl spent a weekend (as you’ll see, his) at his home turf ahead of his research seminars at the University of Glasgow Adam Smith Business School.

Kick-Off BWL II FS26

Wed, 15 Apr 2026 22:00:00 GMT

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.

Visit from Prof. Waldemar Kremser

Thu, 09 Apr 2026 22:00:00 GMT

End of last week, we had the great pleasure of welcoming Prof. Waldemar Kremser from the JKU - Institut für Strategisches Management at the Johannes Kepler Universität Linz to the University of Zurich.

SAP Vlog "What Makes Activities Strategic"

Wed, 11 Mar 2026 23:00:00 GMT

In a new episode of the SAP Vlog, Jadwiga Supryn (University of Oxford) talks with David Seidl (University of Zurich) about their joint paper with Shenghui Ma (Fudan University) and Violetta Splitter (University of Oxford): “What makes activities strategic: Toward a new framework for strategy-as-practice research.”

Welcome Theresa & Emmy!

Tue, 24 Feb 2026 23:00:00 GMT

We are delighted to share that our newest researchers in residence have arrived: Theresa Füreder from the Institute of Strategic Management at Johannes Kepler Universität Linz, Austria, and Emmy Hjort-Enemark Topholm from the Danish Center for Social Science Research and Aalborg University, Denmark, are currently visiting us at the UZH Chair of Organization and Management.

The Spring Semester has begun

Sun, 22 Feb 2026 23:00:00 GMT

The spring semester has officially begun with the first session of our bachelor level course “Organisation & Führung” (Organisation & Leadership).

Winter Magic Mountain

Sun, 15 Feb 2026 23:00:00 GMT

This week our annual Winter Magic Mountain took place in Lenzerheide. It was a truly winterish Magic Mountain in the Swiss Alps, with a lot of snowfall, adventurous hikes, and a wonderfully cosy atmosphere.

Welcome Katharina!

Sun, 01 Feb 2026 23:00:00 GMT

A very warm welcome to our new Research Associate and PhD student, Katharina Sander!

Happy Holidays!

Wed, 17 Dec 2025 23:00:00 GMT

The Chair of Organization and Management wishes you a peaceful holiday season and a joyful, prosperous New Year!

Christmas Dinner

Tue, 09 Dec 2025 23:00:00 GMT

Tonight, our Chair members and our extended Chair family came together for our Christmas Dinner. In line with this year’s Greek theme, we enjoyed a wonderful Greek meal in Zurich and even continued the evening with some Greek-style partying right in the restaurant.

Call for Submissions

Wed, 26 Nov 2025 23:00:00 GMT

Join us for Sub-theme 38: “Open Strategy – Exploring Different Contexts, Actors, and Domains” at the 42nd EGOS Colloquium on July 9–11, 2026!

We warmly invite you to submit your short papers by Tuesday, January 7, 2026, at 12:00 CET here.

Distinguished Scholar Seminar

Wed, 19 Nov 2025 23:00:00 GMT

This week, we had the pleasure of welcoming Professor Joep Cornelissen (Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University) for our Distinguished Scholar seminar on Developing Theory.

Research Exchange in Stuttgart

Wed, 29 Oct 2025 23:00:00 GMT

This week, we had our annual Chair and Practice Theory Research Exchange, hosted by Birgit Renzl at the University of Stuttgart and wonderfully facilitated by her team.

OMTF Conference

Thu, 23 Oct 2025 22:00:00 GMT

A few days ago, part of our team participated in the annual Organizations, Management, and Theories of the Firm (OMTF) conference, this year hosted by USI Università della Svizzera italiana in beautiful Lugano.

Kick-off Change Management & Case Study Courses

Wed, 24 Sep 2025 22:00:00 GMT

The new semester has officially started, and with it, our lectures and seminars are now in full swing at the University of Zurich!

Welcome Back to the Fall Term

Mon, 15 Sep 2025 22:00:00 GMT

Welcome Back to Fall Term 2025

We are excited to welcome everyone back on campus and to kick off a new semester filled with inspiring learning opportunities, academic exchange, and new faces at the Chair of Organization and Management at the University of Zurich!

AOM Copenhagen

Thu, 31 Jul 2025 22:00:00 GMT

This year’s Academy of Management Conference in Copenhagen has been an absolute highlight!
Not only was it the first AOM held in Europe, but it also brought together a vibrant global community with inspiring sessions, new perspectives, and the joy of reconnecting with so many colleagues and friends.

Executive MBA

Sun, 27 Jul 2025 22:00:00 GMT

Just concluded three wonderful days with the Executive MBA cohort, diving deep into the opportunities and challenges of managing change.

AOM Organizing space and spatializing organization

Thu, 24 Jul 2025 22:00:00 GMT

Save the date & location!

Join us at AOM 2025 in Copenhagen for our presenter symposium:
"Organizing space and spatializing organization: Charting new territories of inquiry" (Session 16266)!

AOM Future of Strategizing and Organizing as Practice

Sun, 20 Jul 2025 22:00:00 GMT

Drop-in Welcome: Join us for an exciting Panel at the Academy of Management on:
The Future of Strategizing and Organizing as Practice: Extending to Under-represented Contexts.

Case Studies

Thu, 17 Jul 2025 22:00:00 GMT

We are very much looking forward to offering our Case Studies: Organizational Consulting seminar again this fall at the University of Zurich!

Strategy-as-practice Community Day

Sun, 13 Jul 2025 22:00:00 GMT

What a very special Strategy-as-Practice Community Day we had! On July 2, 2025, we celebrated several major milestones at EGOS (European Group for Organizational Studies) in Athens:
20 years of Strategy-as-Practice at EGOS, one decade of SAP Community Days, and the new Standing Working Group on Organizing as Practice.

Open Strategy Workshop 2025

Sun, 06 Jul 2025 22:00:00 GMT

This year Open Strategy Workshop took place at Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford. The workshop serves as a collaborative platform to share insights, discuss ongoing and future research projects, and foster new collaborations in the field.

Summer Magic Mountain 2025

Sun, 01 Jun 2025 22:00:00 GMT

Over the past week, we had the pleasure of combining two special events into one unforgettable experience: the 19th Organization Studies Summer Workshop (OSSW) and our Summer Magic Mountain strategy offsite, held in the stunning setting of Chania, Crete.

Organization Studies Summer Workshop

Fri, 16 May 2025 22:00:00 GMT

Our welcome reception was absolutely fantastic—a HUGE round of applause to our incredible conveners: Paula Jarzabkowski, Renate Kratochvil, Shenghui Ma, Linda Rouleau, and @David Seidl. You set the stage (and the bar!) for a truly memorable workshop ahead. We’re just getting started—the best is yet to come!

New AOM Collections Paper

Wed, 14 May 2025 22:00:00 GMT

Where are we with strategy-as-practice research? Check our Paula Jarzabkowski Jane Lê David Seidl Eero Vaara AOM Collections paper "Two decades of revolutionizing strategy research: How strategy-as-practice illuminates the complex, dynamic and consequential ways of doing strategy" including an agenda for future research.

Kick-off BWL II

Sun, 11 May 2025 22:00:00 GMT

Semester Assistant Wanted

Wed, 07 May 2025 22:00:00 GMT

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.

Goodbye Christian Bruck

Tue, 15 Apr 2025 22:00:00 GMT

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.

Guest Lecture Patrick Rademacher

Wed, 09 Apr 2025 22:00:00 GMT

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.

Guets Lecture Claudine Clerc

Sun, 06 Apr 2025 22:00:00 GMT

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.

Guest Lecture Felix Langenmayr

Wed, 02 Apr 2025 22:00:00 GMT

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.

Guest Lecture Peter Werder

Wed, 26 Mar 2025 23:00:00 GMT

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.

Strategy-as-Practice Community Day – Call for applications

Wed, 19 Mar 2025 23:00:00 GMT

Call for Applications: Join us for this year's special Strategy-as-Practice Community Day on July 2nd at EGOS2025 in Athens!

Welcome Mathias!

Sun, 09 Mar 2025 23:00:00 GMT

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.

Welcome back to the spring term!

Sun, 16 Feb 2025 23:00:00 GMT

Welcome back to Spring Term 2025 at the University of Zurich!

The Cambridge Handbook of Strategy as Practice

Fri, 14 Feb 2025 23:00:00 GMT

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.

Welcome Christian Bruck

Tue, 21 Jan 2025 23:00:00 GMT

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.

Happy New Year

Tue, 31 Dec 2024 23:00:00 GMT

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

Sun, 24 Nov 2024 23:00:00 GMT

The Chair of Organization and Management wishes you a peaceful holiday season and a joyful, prosperous New Year!

Call for Extended Abstracts

Thu, 19 Dec 2024 23:00:00 GMT

Call for Extended Abstracts to participate in the 2nd Open Strategy Workshop at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford on June 25-26, 2025.

Teaching Skills Certificate Beni & Robin

Thu, 21 Nov 2024 23:00:00 GMT

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!

SMS Istanbul

Tue, 19 Nov 2024 23:00:00 GMT

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!

OMTF 2025

Sun, 10 Nov 2024 23:00:00 GMT

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.

Seminar with Jennifer Howard-Grenville

Tue, 05 Nov 2024 23:00:00 GMT

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.

Robin in Oxford

Sun, 06 Oct 2024 22:00:00 GMT

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.

Publication in Strategic Management Journal

Sat, 28 Sep 2024 22:00:00 GMT

We are excited to share the latest publication in the Strategic Management Journal by David Seidl, Shenghui Ma, and Violetta Splitter.

Publication in Organization Theory

Fri, 20 Sep 2024 22:00:00 GMT

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.