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Item type:Publication, Access status: without files , Mandatory ambiguity: a hybrid human–AI analysis of impact reporting by benefit corporationsGovernments worldwide have increasingly established new legal forms intended to empower and govern hybrid organizations’ dual pursuit of economic and social value. Mandatory impact reporting is a centerpiece of these legal innovations, yet little is known about how hybrid organizations navigate the often-ambiguous reporting requirements these laws stipulate. Drawing on a unique dataset of all mandatory impact reports filed from 2016 to 2024 by the population of benefit corporations incorporated in Minnesota, we introduce a novel, human-derived scale of benefit report quality, encompassing five dimensions. Developing and applying a rubric-guided LLM scoring protocol to rate each report against the scale, we find that third-party certification by B Lab increases both the length and quality of benefit reports, thereby revealing a nuanced interdependence between state and private regulation. Our study highlights the limits and possibilities of mandatory disclosure regimes within hybrid legal forms while demonstrating the potential of rubric-guided LLMs to enhance content analysis.Publicationtype: Journal Article16 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Access status: with files , Opportunities, environment and entrepreneur interaction: exploring the entrepreneurial process - insights from Germany and Japan -(2026); This dissertation explores how entrepreneurial opportunities evolve into businesses through entrepreneur and environment interaction. It challenges the traditional view of opportunities, proposing that both discovery and creation are essential. With a multiple case-study design providing insights from German and Japanese start-ups, the research identifies four archetypical entrepreneurial processes based on the intensity and intention of interaction. The study contributes to entrepreneurship research by viewing the entrepreneurial process as an ongoing, iterative, and reciprocal relationship, with practical implications for policymakers and practitioners, especially in the context of demographic change.Publicationtype: Doctoral Thesis56 31 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Access status: without files , Exploring algorithmic assemblages through multimodal inquiryWe explore the increasing role of algorithms in organizational processes, conceptualized as “algorithmic organizing.” As algorithms move from being mere tools to embedded drivers of organizational processes, they redefine traditional boundaries in work practices. Drawing on the assemblage perspective, which treats algorithms as dynamic networks of human and non‐human actors, we emphasize the sociomaterial interactions that shape algorithmic organizing. While traditional approaches to studying algorithmic organizing focus on verbal communication, we advocate for a multimodal research design that incorporates multiple modes, including but not limited to verbal/textual, visual, material, emotional, embodied, and spatial. Such an approach uncovers how meaning is constructed through layered interactions within algorithmic assemblages where agency is distributed among technical and human elements. We provide a methodological framework for multimodal research and illustrate its utility for investigating evolving sociomaterial processes in organizational contexts using empirical examples from our ongoing research within an IT consultancy. Our findings contribute to management scholarship by offering insights into how algorithmic organizing can be studied as a continuous, multimodal process, enhancing the transparency and accountability of algorithmic systems in organizations.Publicationtype: Book Part62 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Access status: with files , Social enterprise referents: how social enterprises help organize nascent fields to address complex societal problemsAddressing societal challenges requires engaging diverse actors, but clashes between social and commercial interests often hinder coordination. In established fields, conflicting social interests can be integrated by challenging dominant commercial positions and rallying powerful actors. However, creating new fields without established actors and coordination mechanisms is more complex, especially when interests conflict. We explore this challenge through the development of reusable containers for takeaway food and beverages, where incompatible perspectives initially led to a field impasse. A pioneering social enterprise blending commercial and social interests emerged as a referent, facilitating collaboration and breaking the impasse. After initial field organizing succeeded, regulatory changes and increased demand exposed the shortcomings of early solutions, leading to setbacks. New social enterprises developed solutions to fill supply–demand gaps, anchoring new models in a market and driving both standardization and innovation. We introduce the concept of ‘social enterprise referents’ to highlight their essential role in organizing nascent fields to address complex societal issues. Without these referents, models for building new fields struggle to take hold. Successfully transitioning from an underorganized to an organized field requires sustained efforts from multiple social enterprise referents to anchor solutions in a market and uphold collaboration with field actors.Publicationtype: Journal Article30 28 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Access status: without files , The tasks and traps of sustainability certification organizationsAlthough sustainability certifications are widespread, the challenges confronting the sustainability certification organizations (SCOs) who develop, promote and administer such certifications have received less attention. We argue that SCOs face three task domains: legitimacy management, organizational learning, and stakeholder engagement. Critically, these domains are interdependent; a preoccupation with one domain poses limitations on the others. First, an emphasis on legitimacy management can inhibit organizational learning, leading to the advocacy trap. Second, an emphasis on stakeholder engagement can inhibit learning processes, leading to the inertia trap. Third, an emphasis on legitimacy management can inhibit stakeholder engagement, leading to the mobilization trap. Collectively, these challenges constitute the trap triangle. Building on our theoretical model, we develop propositions about how SCOs fall into these traps and how they can overcome them. Finally, recognizing SCOs vary in terms of their movement, market or mission orientations leads to propositions about the traps each type of SCO is most likely to fall into. We close the article by discussing our contributions to the literature on sustainability certifications and environmental governance.Publicationtype: Conference Presentation31 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Access status: without files , The tasks and traps of sustainability certification organizations(2025-06); Although sustainability certifications are widespread, the challenges confronting the sustainability certification organizations (SCOs) who develop, promote and administer such certifications have received less attention. We argue that SCOs face three task domains: legitimacy management, organizational learning, and stakeholder engagement. Critically, these domains are interdependent; a preoccupation with one domain poses limitations on the others. First, an emphasis on legitimacy management can inhibit organizational learning, leading to the advocacy trap. Second, an emphasis on stakeholder engagement can inhibit learning processes, leading to the inertia trap. Third, an emphasis on legitimacy management can inhibit stakeholder engagement, leading to the mobilization trap. Collectively, these challenges constitute the trap triangle. Building on our theoretical model, we develop propositions about how SCOs fall into these traps and how they can overcome them. Finally, recognizing SCOs vary in terms of their movement, market or mission orientations leads to propositions about the traps each type of SCO is most likely to fall into. We close the article by discussing our contributions to the literature on sustainability certifications and environmental governance.Publicationtype: Conference Presentation22 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Access status: without files , Eine praxistheoretische Analyse strategischer Beratungsprozesse: am Beispiel diskursiver Praktiken(2025); Publicationtype: Doctoral Thesis40 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Access status: without files , From Managing Tensions to Managing Thresholds: Microfoundations of Unfolding Hybrid Ambidexterity(Academy of Management, 2024-08); ; Ambidexterity is a highly tension-filled strategic concern that attempts to combine the fundamentally divergent logics of exploration and exploitation. While the present research is concerned with the management of these tensions, little consideration is given to effects that result from this unfolding process over time and are manifested in critical thresholds. In our study, we reveal the pivotal role of handling these thresholds for the direction in which ambi-dexterity processes develop. We build on a six-month ethnographic study of a company in the European energy market (EnergyCo) to investigate the process of building an incubator (IncuCo). We show changes between a phase of more control that promotes integration and inhibits progress and a phase of driving ambidexterity towards acceleration that promotes differentiation and creates counter-movements. Highlighting the within-phase tensions and between-phase thresholds, we contribute to research on the microfoundations of hybrid ambidexterity by highlighting the role of thresholds to manage the complex dynamics underlying hybrid ambidexterity and the multiple interests of actors, which we theorize as double faces of ambidexterity.Publicationtype: Journal Article31 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Access status: without files , Digital Puppet-Mastery: Power Practices of Strategists in Digital Strategy Workshops(Academy of Management, 2024-08); ; ; Digital communication technologies (DCT) have important implications for power relations in strategy work. Despite the pervasiveness of these technologies, the power effects of strategic practices performed in digital settings remain underexplored. Drawing on data from a nine-month ethnographic single-case study of digital strategy meetings and workshops, including interviews with strategists during and after the observation period, we investigate how strategists used DCT. Our findings reveal how strategists enacted the DCT for three purposes: (i) to construct the reality of the digital workshop setting, (ii) to exploit and (iii) to bypass this setting, ultimately resulting in staging effects of rationalization of workshop interactions and the reinforcement of existing power structures. Our process model of strategy and power in digital workshops contributes an understanding of power effects of DCT in strategy work to the strategy-as-practice (SAP) literature.Publicationtype: Conference Paper67 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Access status: without files , Predict or Create: Discussing the Different Understandings of the Future in the Context of AI(Academy of Management, 2024-08); ; ; 68