Team at EGOS 2023 in Cagliari

10. Juli 2023

Foto: EGOS2023

The European Group for Organizational Studies Conference took place from 6.-8. July in Cagliari. Under the theme “Organizing for the Good Life: Between Legacy and Imagination” 2200 scholars from more than 60 countries discussed their work on Organization Studies.

Daniel Geiger was one of three convenors, together with Maria Booth (University of Jönköping) and Waldemar Kremser (JKU Linz) at the Sub-Theme "Routines Dynamics: Enacting and Crossing Boundaries.” This group discussed how routines are enacted and transferred across different institutional, organizational and group boundaries. He also delivered a keynote on the methodological and ethical challenges of collecting data in extreme contexts based on his experiences of working with firefighters, doing studies in refugee camps and in the Ebola epidemic.

Iris Seidemann presented the paper "Nobody said it was easy – System level dynamics in the emergence and navigation of multi actor paradoxes", co-authored by Daniel Geiger und Lisa Harboth in the Sub-theme 34: Exploring Paradox’ Meta-Theoretical Potential for Theorizing. The paper explores how system level dynamics unfold paradoxical tensions which impede the adressing of grand challenges and result in stable, path-dependent equlibria.

Lisa Harborth was invited to present and discuss her paper “‘We borrow the earth from our children’: How organizations create desirable futures through imaginaries of sustainability” in the sub-theme “Shaping Desirable Futures – Imagining (Real) Utopias”. The paper elucidates how organizations use imaginaries of sustainability in order to create and evaluate visions of distant, sustainable futures, and illustrates how this evaluative process unfolds.

We are back from a week filled with stimulating intellectual discussion, lots of networking and the pleasure of being part of a vibrant community of scholars.