Leuphana Center for Organization & Social Transformation

Organisational unit: Institute

Organisation profile

The Leuphana Center for Organization & Social Transformation (LOST) is a dynamic research community dedicated to the study of organizational phenomena and their impact on social change. The members of the research center share a special interest in the organization of entrepreneurship, sustainability and digital transformation. We theorize and empirically study the intricacies of organizational phenomena, seeking to understand their fluid and evolving nature, and their impact on social transformation.

What sets the research center apart is its aim to foster contributorship (rather than formal membership) to the LOST community, a community of practice. The center serves as the institutional vessel for this research community that reaches beyond the formal boundaries of Leuphana University of Lüneburg. Through its activities, the center encourages all LOST members to contribute to a collaborative research environment and to shape our understanding of organizing and organizations in society with their unique perspectives, knowledge, and skills. Societal impact is a central concern of the research center, which is reflected, among other things, in numerous collaborations with practitioners such as business enterprises, civil society organizations, as well as arts and cultural institutions. 

The research center aims to continue opening up spaces for collaboration between established and emerging scholars through regular meetings and interactive workshop formats, thus contributing to its excellence. Likewise, it promotes the exchange on teaching formats, aiming at the creation of a dedicated LOST PhD program for young researchers, to further strengthen its profile. The overarching goal of the center is to raise the profile of the research community and to position its work even more strongly nationally and internationally, for example, by inviting internationally renowned guest scholars.

  1. 2025
  2. Dimo Dimov

    Schüßler, E. (Host) & Wenzel, M. (Host)

    19.05.202521.05.2025

    Activity: Hosting a visitorHosting an academic visitor

  3. Entrepreneurs of Chaos?

    Galligo, I. (Organiser), Schüßler, E. (Organiser), Wenzel, M. (Organiser) & Hörl, E. (Organiser)

    19.05.202520.05.2025

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  4. Session "The technological cause of entropy"

    Schüßler, E. (Speaker), Krzykawski, M. (Speaker) & Dimov, D. (Speaker)

    19.05.2025

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  5. Navigating Object Ambiguity for Creativity in Artistic and Scientific Experiments

    Schüßler, E. (Speaker), Hoop, M. (Speaker), Schiemer, B. (Speaker) & Grabher, G. (Speaker)

    13.05.2025

    Activity: Talk or presentationPresentations (poster etc.)Research

  6. “When the Drugs don’t Work” - How Paradigmatic Rigidities Constrain Innovation in the Case of Antimicrobial Resistance

    Schüßler, E. (Speaker) & Otto, B. (Speaker)

    13.05.2025

    Activity: Talk or presentationPresentations (poster etc.)Research

  7. 3rd Transalpine Organizing Creativity Paper Development Workshop

    Schüßler, E. (Organiser) & Sydow, J. (Organiser)

    12.05.202513.05.2025

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsResearch

  8. Charline Monin

    Schüßler, E. (Host)

    04.202506.2025

    Activity: Hosting a visitorHosting an academic visitor

  9. Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Symposium 2025

    Schüßler, E. (Speaker) & Große, N. (Speaker)

    25.03.2025

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  10. I Am Behind the Screen: Understanding the Invisible Work of Content Moderators on Digital Platforms

    Schüßler, E. (Speaker) & Maric, S. (Speaker)

    14.03.2025

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  11. Things Take Their Times: Coordinating Individual and Material Eigenzeiten in Creative Work

    Schüßler, E. (Speaker), Schiemer, B. (Speaker), Hoop, M. (Speaker), Grabher, G. (Speaker) & Sydow, J. (Speaker)

    14.03.2025

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

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