This blog offers reflections on “Organizing in Times of Crisis” by professors and students.
Student wins thesis award for thesis associated with Times of Crisis course
In spring 2022, Pauline Mengede took part in a course called „Managing War“ by Prof. Dr. Guido Möllering at the University of Witten/Herdecke. This bachelor course was based on course material of the Times of Crisis course „The Case of War and Armed Conflict“, co-organized by Prof. Möllering. Inspired by this experience, Pauline then conducted…
Von der Krise zur Dauerkrise? Krise erklärt von Sascha Friesike (UDK Berlin)
In diesem Video erklärt Sascha Friesike, Professor für Design digitaler Innovationen an der Universität der Künste Berlin sowie Direktor des Weizenbaum-Instituts für die vernetzte Gesellschaft, was eine Krise eigentlich ist und warum wir das Gefühl haben, in einer Dauerkrise zu stecken. Die Antwort: Sogenannte “entgrenzte Krisen” nehmen zu, die zunächst ein besonderes Gefühl der Hilflosigkeit…
Open lecture series by Timothy Snyder (Yale): The Making of Modern Ukraine
Timothy Snyder, the Richard C. Levin Professor of History at Yale University, is a renowned expert on the history of Central and Eastern Europe. He is teaching a class on the history of Ukraine at Yale, which he has kindly made available as an open educational resource. You can find the syllabus here and follow…
Is it the primary responsibility of corporations to return money to shareholders?
This blog post was contributed by Jennifer Arosio, a student in the MSc Leading Innovative Organizations at JKU Linz, and is based on the lecture “CSR and Stakeholder Relations” by Prof. Dr. Nora Lohmeyer (class #8 of Course II) The concept of corporate social responsibility (CSR) emerged in the 1950s when Howard Bowen advocated for more ethical and…
Do digital platforms contribute as much to creating as to solving crises?
This blog post was contributed by Birgit Plöchl, a student in the MSc Leading Innovative Organizations at JKU Linz The Russian invasion in Ukraine has a lot of impact on day-to-day life all around Europe. Millions of Ukrainians are fleeing the country, infrastructure is being destroyed, and people are lacking basic needs, such as food…
Is CSR a market(ing) instrument to attract shareholders? A perspective from Austria
This blog post was contributed by Hannah Schneller and Mario Stich, both students in the MSc Leading Innovative Organizations at JKU Linz, based on class #8 of Course II, “CSR and Stakeholder Relations”. Discussing the shareholder vs. stakeholder approach in CSR strategies in class was great, and we concluded that Friedman’s shareholder value approach from…
Academic symposium: Organized violence in its contexts
Steffen Boehm from the University of Exeter Business School has put together an interesting academic symposium investigating the sources and consequences of organized violence – a phenomenon we find inside organizations, but also in society – as in the case of war. The symposium features a variety of experts on the topic such as Samer…
Teaching course II: The case of war and armed conflict – First impressions from Leuphana University
Today, I have started teaching the course Organizing in Times of Crisis: The Case of War and Armed Conflict at Leuphana Universität Lüneburg! The bachelor students will analyse the current Russian invasion of Ukraine through a management and organization theory lens, in order to better understand the impact of such a crisis on organizations, but…
New articles relevant to “Organizing in times of war and armed conflict”
The current volume of “Organization Studies” contains two studies that are highly relevant to our course contents. First, the article “Space and Sensemaking in High-Reliability Task Contexts: Insights from a maritime mass rescue exercise” links to classes 2 and 4 by examining the role of sensemaking in high reliability contexts. Second, the study “Precarity, Hospitality,…
Panel on “Corporate sanctions in Russia”
Fitting to the second part of our “Organizing in Times of War and Armed Conflict” course which contains four classes on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in crisis, leading CSR scholars are holding a panel reflecting on the corporate sanctions in Russia. The event is online and free of charge, you can register here.
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