This blog offers updates on the course “Organizing in Times of Crisis”.
Blurring the line between social and economic imperative – an optimistic revaluation of social leadership in a crisis
This blog post is provided by Peter Gollowitsch, a student in the Master program Leading Innovative Organizations at the Johannes Kepler University Linz. Peter is (co-)founder of several start-ups and also Director Consulting and Concept at netural. Normally an organization’s environment … Continue reading →
Entrepreneurship in the age of coronavirus
Entrepreneurs can respond to opportunity in three ways: business-as-usual, pivoting, and new venture creation, write Ali Aslan Gümüsay and Pegram Harrison in LSE Business Review. The article can be found here.
“You haven’t learned anything about the plague. It will always come back”
A group of critical management scholars around my colleague Ronald Hartz from the University of Leicester has formed a virtual reading group on “The Plague – Diagnostics, Aesthetics and Politics of the Pandemic”, which I had the pleasure of joining … Continue reading →
New Article on Digital Platform Innovation in Times of Crisis
Numerous digital platforms have emerged as a go-to response to the Covid-19 crisis – building on conventional platform characteristics, but using alternative, more inclusive organisational models. By offering the innovations that people most need right now, more inclusive platform alternatives … Continue reading →
How to deal with COVID-19? A comparison between public and private organizations
This blog post is provided by Marlene Welzl, a student in the Master program Leading Innovative Organizations at the Johannes Kepler University Linz. Marlene has been working for the Austrian foreign ministry and is cofounder of the intergenerational housing platform … Continue reading →
How to maintain corporate ethics during a crisis?
In this podcast produced by the Nordic Business Ethics Network, business ethics professor Guido Palazzo from the University of Lausanne discusses the concept of ethical blindness, and explains why the conditions fostering ethical blindness are exacerbated during crisis situations. In … Continue reading →
Tackling COVID-19 as a Grand Challenge
In this blog post Ali Aslan Gümüsay and Patrick Haack explain how to tackle grand challenges and the interlinks between the pandemic and other grand challenges, such as climate change.
Wealth concentration and inequality after a pandemic: Lessons from the plague
Again I want to draw your attention to a great analysis of history in the light of the Covid-19 crisis, the article How pandemics past and present fuel the rise of mega-corporations by history scholar Eleanor Russell and organization scholar Martin … Continue reading →
New Article by Gümüsay and Dobusch: “This Is Not (Digital) Businss as Usual”
Ali Aslan Gümüsay and Leonhard Dobusch, both contributors to the collaborative open course “Organizing in Times of Crisis”, have have published a brief reflection piece on organizational coping-strategies with the Corona crisis from reactive to proactive in MIT Sloan Management … Continue reading →
Paul du Gay Podcast on Bureaucracy
Many students taking this course will already have passed through class 3 with the topic “Crisis Management and Bureaucracy“. On the background reading list, they will have found a reference to Paul du Gay’s book “The Values of Bureaucracy“. Bureaucracy … Continue reading →
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