This blog offers reflections on “Organizing in Times of Crisis” by professors and students.
Covid-19 – not just a crisis of leadership, but also followership?
LIO master student Peter Gollowitsch has already reflected about the Special Issue “Leadership and the coronavirus crisis” in the journal “Leadership”. Here, Yiannis Gabriel, professor of leadership at the University of Bath, already reflected about the relationship between leaders and … Continue reading →
Too big to fail (us)? Platforms as systemically relevant during crisis
In a new article, Stephan Bohn, Nicolas Friederici and Ali Aslan Gümüsay argue that some platforms become systemically relevant in a crisis, so we need regulation that takes this into account before and during the next crisis. The short piece … Continue reading →
Reflections on the pandemic as a chance to collaboratively modernize higher education
Hannah Trittin, Assistant Professor of Business Ethics at Leuphana University Lüneburg and organizer of the classes 6 (social media) and 11 (inequality), has reflected on her experience in participating in our “Times of Crisis” course in a Story for Future … Continue reading →
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.
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