Personal Statement
I am a management researcher with a focal interest in contemporary organizational landscapes and novel forms of organizing. My work highlights the crucial importance of socio-cultural environments for the dynamics of organizational forms and practices. Conceptually, I draw on institutional analysis to study the entanglement of organizations and the multi-leveled meaning structures that underlie them. I am particularly intrigued by the role of visual and multimodal forms of communication in the emergence of novel organizational ideas, forms, and practices. My current research engages with phenomena such as societal grand challenges, organizational and system resilience, institutional trust, and collaborative action across differences. Methodologically, my focus is on innovative qualitative and mixed methods approaches to textual and discourse analysis, including visual and multimodal analysis as well as semantic network analysis.

I am currently serving as senior editor for Organization Studies and as member of the editorial boards of Organization Theory and Journal of Management Studies. I am also an active member of the Academy of Management (OMT Division) and the European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS). For the latter, I co-led the local organizing committee of the 38th EGOS Colloquium 2022 in Vienna, Austria.