Professorship for Business Administration, in particular Entrepreneurship and Organization Studies

Organisational unit: Professoship

Main research areas

The Professorship for Business Administration, in particular Entrepreneurship and Organization Studies processes of organizational, institutional and societal change with a particular focus on the development of sustainable forms of value creation and capture. It addresses these topics in different contexts - from local creative scenes to digital platforms and global value chains - and by looking at different actor groups that try to promote such changes through entrepreneurial agency in and between organizations. While the Professorship draws on a variety of social theories, it has a particular focus on practices of organizing on the one hand and their embeddedness in societal, norms, values and collective understandings on the other. These are examined by drawing on practice and institutional theories as well as by using a mainly qualitative methodological approach.

  1. 2021
  2. Reviewing for the Academy of Management Conference (OMT)

    Fey, L. (Reviewer)

    20212023

    Activity: Other expert activitiesAcademic ConsultantResearch

  3. 2020
  4. Collective action on living wages

    Schüßler, E. (Speaker)

    05.11.2020

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  5. Momentum 2020

    Schüßler, E. (Organiser)

    16.10.2020

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  6. Podiumsdiskussion Klimawoche JKU

    Schüßler, E. (Speaker)

    21.09.2020

    Activity: Talk or presentationtalk or presentation in privat or public eventsResearch

  7. 2020 Virtual Doctoral-Postdoctoral Seminar on Social-Symbolic Work

    Fey, L. (Speaker)

    16.09.202002.10.2020

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

  8. SASE 2020 Annual Conference

    Schüßler, E. (Organiser)

    20.07.2020

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  9. Author Meets Critics: "The Social Meaning of Extra Money" by S. Naulin and A. Jourdain

    Schüßler, E. (Speaker)

    17.07.2020

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  10. Corona und Globale Lieferketten

    Schüßler, E. (Speaker)

    14.07.2020

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  11. Between standardization and creativity: The role of strategic temporal (dis-)entrainment in drug development processes

    Schüßler, E. (Speaker), Otto, B. (Speaker), Sydow, J. (Speaker) & Vogelgsang, L. (Speaker)

    03.07.202004.07.2020

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  12. Idea Greenhouses are made of glass. Tensions in experimental spaces for creative collaboration in front-end pharmaceutical research

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

    03.07.2020

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  13. 36th EGOS Colloquium - EGOS 2020

    Schüßler, E. (Organiser)

    01.07.202004.07.2020

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  14. 36th EGOS Colloquium - EGOS 2020

    Schüßler, E. (Organiser), Zilber, T. B. (Organiser) & Huber, C. (Organiser)

    07.2020

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  15. 36th EGOS Colloquium - EGOS 2020

    Schüßler, E. (Organiser), Schildt, H. (Organiser) & Reischauer, G. (Organiser)

    07.2020

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  16. SASE 2020 Annual Conference

    Schüßler, E. (Organiser)

    07.2020

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  17. 36th EGOS Colloquium - EGOS 2020

    Schüßler, E. (Organiser)

    30.06.2020

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  18. Sustainable Scholarship

    Schüßler, E. (Speaker)

    30.06.2020

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  19. 15th Organization Studies Summer Workshop 2020

    Schüßler, E. (Organiser)

    20.05.202022.05.2022

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  20. Organizing Sustainably

    Schüßler, E. (Speaker)

    20.05.2020

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  21. 8th Austrian Early Scholars Workshop in Management

    Schüßler, E. (Organiser)

    14.05.202015.05.2020

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  22. Interstitial spaces as garbage cans of early phase innovation processes

    Duffner, R. (Speaker), Schüßler, E. (Speaker) & Semper, D. (Speaker)

    14.05.2020

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  23. 7th Austrian Early Scholars Workshop in Management

    Schüßler, E. (Speaker)

    06.05.202007.05.2020

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  24. Organizing nimbus for collaborative creativity: A comparison of physical and virtual songwriting spaces

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

    18.03.2020

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  25. Arbeit und transnationale Solidarität

    Schüßler, E. (Speaker)

    09.01.2020

    Activity: Talk or presentationtalk or presentation in privat or public eventsResearch

  26. Business and Society (Journal)

    Schüßler, E. (Editor)

    2020 → …

    Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial workPeer review of publicationenResearch

  27. Organization Studies (Journal)

    Schüßler, E. (Editorial Board)

    2020 → …

    Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial workPeer review of publicationenResearch

  28. Schmalenbach Journal of Business Research (SBuR) (Journal)

    Schüßler, E. (Editor)

    2020 → …

    Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial workPeer review of publicationenResearch

  29. 2019
  30. Echte Verbesserungen oder Stückwerk? Der Impact von Nachhaltigkeitsinitiativen in Asien nach Rana Plaza

    Schüßler, E. (Speaker)

    19.11.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  31. Arbeits- und Menschenrechte in der Textilproduktion

    Schüßler, E. (Speaker)

    11.11.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  32. Momentum 2019

    Gegenhuber, T. (Organiser) & Schüßler, E. (Organiser)

    10.10.2019

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  33. Dealing with temporal tensions in drug development processes

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

    03.10.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  34. Organizing Mutual Awareness in Physical and Virtual Spaces

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

    03.10.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  35. Organizing ‘Safe Spaces’ for Creative Collaboration

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

    03.10.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  36. Digital Platforms and Grand Challenges

    Schüßler, E. (Speaker)

    19.09.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  37. Spillover Effects Across Transnational Industrial Relations Agreements

    Schüßler, E. (Speaker)

    05.09.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  38. VHB ProDok Seminar "Managing Interorganizational Relations: Process Views"

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

    16.08.201919.08.2019

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

  39. Exploring crowdworker participation on digital work platforms

    Ellmer, M. (Speaker), Schüßler, E. (Speaker) & Gegenhuber, T. (Speaker)

    12.08.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  40. Organized Creativity, Co-Presence and Temporality: The Role of Uncertainty

    Schüßler, E. (Speaker) & Grabher, G. (Speaker)

    11.07.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  41. International Conference: Organizing Creativity in the Innovation Journey

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

    10.07.201912.07.2019

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  42. Three steps forward, two steps backward: How distributed field governance causes incremental practice change in the case of integrated health care in Germany

    Schüßler, E. (Speaker) & Auschra, C. (Speaker)

    06.07.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  43. Framing Emerging Technologies in Interstitial Issue Fields: Insights from the Blockchain Technology

    Schüßler, E. (Speaker), Reischauer, G. (Speaker) & Lehner, J. (Speaker)

    05.07.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  44. Interstitial spaces as garbage cans of field transformation where problems and solutions meet: the case of blockchain and music cross-fertilization

    Semper, D. (Speaker), Duffner, R. (Speaker) & Schüßler, E. (Speaker)

    05.07.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  45. Organizing mutual awareness as a basis for collaborative creativity: A comparison of physical and virtual songwriting spaces

    Schüßler, E. (Speaker), Schiemer, B. (Speaker) & Theel, T. (Speaker)

    05.07.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  46. 35th EGOS Colloquium - EGOS 2019

    Schüßler, E. (Organiser), Ibert, O. (Organiser) & Otto, B. (Organiser)

    04.07.201906.07.2019

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  47. SASE 2019

    Schüßler, E. (presenter)

    27.06.2019

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  48. 19. Innovationsforum der Daimler und Benz Stiftung

    Schüßler, E. (Organiser), Minx, E. (Speaker), Sydow, J. (Speaker), Schüßler, E. (Speaker), Cericius, R. (Speaker), Dobusch, L. (Speaker), Ortmann, G. (Speaker), Ettl, M. (Speaker) & Rath, J. (Speaker)

    03.06.2019

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

  49. Kreativität, Innovation und Unsicherheit

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

    03.06.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsTransfer

  50. Praktiken des Umgangs mit Unsicherheit in kreativen Prozessen

    Schüßler, E. (Speaker)

    03.06.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsTransfer

  51. A Garbage Can Model of Institutional Innovation: Field Transformation through Issue Framing Processes in the Interstitial Space, where Problems and Solutions Meet

    Schüßler, E. (Speaker), Duffner, R. (Speaker) & Semper, D. (Speaker)

    25.04.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  52. Organized Creativity, Co-Presence and Temporality The Role of Uncertainty

    Grabher, G. (Speaker) & Schüßler, E. (Speaker)

    13.03.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  53. International Spring School

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

    12.03.201915.03.2019

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

  54. Podiumsdiskussion "A Plastic Ocean"

    Schüßler, E. (Speaker)

    06.03.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  55. The sustainable scholar - Leading by example

    Schüßler, E. (Speaker)

    04.03.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  56. Information, not Representation: Crowdworker Participation on Digital Work Platforms

    Schüßler, E. (Speaker), Gegenhuber, T. (Speaker) & Ellmer, M. (Speaker)

    14.02.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  57. Schmalenbach Journal of Business Research (SBuR) (Journal)

    Schüßler, E. (Editor)

    2019 → …

    Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial workPeer review of publicationenResearch

  58. 2018
  59. 18. Innovationsforum der Daimler und Benz Stiftung 2018

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

    13.11.2018

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

  60. Auftakt – Kreativität und Innovation

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

    05.11.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsTransfer

  61. Formen organisationsübergreifender kreativer Prozesse

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

    05.11.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsTransfer

  62. Kreative Offenheit durch Geschlossenheit?

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

    05.11.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsTransfer

  63. Offenheit und Geschlossenheit in kreativen Prozessen

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

    05.11.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  64. Mobilizing and organizing for transnational solidarity: the case of Exchains

    Schüßler, E. (Speaker)

    19.10.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  65. Why do Firms Support Transnational Industrial Relations Arrangements? A Processual Lens

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

    13.08.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  66. Challenging the functionality of audits: Examining the bureaucratization of risks with Franz Kafka

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

    12.08.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  67. Intraorganizational tensions around being good: Structures and practices or organizing purchasing and CSR in garment retailers and brands

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

    11.08.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  68. Conference - 78th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management: Improving Lives

    Schüßler, E. (Organiser)

    09.08.201810.08.2018

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  69. 34th EGOS Colloquium - EGOS 2018

    Cohendet, P. S. (Organiser), Schüßler, E. (Organiser) & Sydow, J. (Organiser)

    03.07.2018

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  70. Shared mobility business models - Trust building in the Sharing Economy

    Hartl, B. (Speaker), Penz, E. (Speaker), Schüßler, E. (Speaker) & Hofmann, E. (Speaker)

    28.06.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  71. 17. Innovationsforum der Daimler und Benz Stiftung 2018

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

    28.05.2018

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

  72. Möglichkeiten der Routinisierung kreativer Prozesse

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

    28.05.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsTransfer

  73. 6th Austrian Early Scholars Workshop in Management - 2018

    Auinger, M. (Organiser), Bauer, R. (Organiser), Delmestri, G. (Organiser), Finkbeiner, M. (Organiser) & Schüßler, E. (Organiser)

    24.05.201825.05.2018

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  74. Revitalizing the Script as a Concept to Understand Structure and Agency in Institutional Theory

    Schüßler, E. (presenter)

    24.05.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  75. Shifts in Institutional Infrastructure Configurations: The Case of Integrated Care in Germany

    Schüßler, E. (Speaker) & Auschra, C. (Speaker)

    24.05.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  76. Karl Polanyi and Interdisciplinary Commodity Studies

    Schüßler, E. (Speaker) & Langthaler, E. (Speaker)

    19.05.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  77. Workshop 5 Years After Rana Plaza: Consequences for Labor Standards Improvements in Garment Supply Chains

    Schüßler, E. (Organiser), Reinecke, J. (Organiser) & Lohmeyer, N. (Organiser)

    27.04.201828.04.2018

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  78. Revitalizing the script as a concept to understand structure and agency in institutional theory

    Igelsböck, J. (Speaker) & Schüßler, E. (Speaker)

    16.03.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  79. Collaborating for Creativity: An Online Songwriting Community in the Making

    Schüßler, E. (Speaker), Schiemer, B. (Speaker) & Sydow, J. (Speaker)

    15.02.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  80. 2017
  81. Garment Supply Chain Governance Project - First Results

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

    07.12.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  82. Arbeit und Solidarität in globalen Produktionsnetzwerken

    Schüßler, E. (Speaker)

    28.11.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  83. Chain of Fools? Sensemaking Dynamics regarding the Issue of the Blockchain Technology in the FinTech Field

    Schüßler, E. (Speaker), Lehner, J. (Speaker), Hartl, B. (Speaker) & Duffner, R. (Speaker)

    20.10.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  84. Ergebnispräsentation Stakeholderanalyse

    Schüßler, E. (Speaker)

    17.10.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  85. Path dependence: friend and foe for decision-making in organizations

    Schüßler, E. (Speaker)

    12.10.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  86. Revisiting the concept of the script in institutional theory

    Schüßler, E. (Speaker)

    28.09.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  87. Sozialer Wandel und Nachhaltigkeit in der Textilindustrie: Garment Supply Chain Governance

    Schüßler, E. (Speaker)

    17.07.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationtalk or presentation in privat or public eventsResearch

  88. Being there? The social construction of (physical and virtual) copresence

    Schüßler, E. (Speaker), Schiemer, B. (Speaker) & Melchior, A. (Speaker)

    07.07.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  89. Challenging the functionality of audits: Examining the bureaucratization of risks of industrial accidents through the eyes of Franz Kafka, novelist and auditor

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

    07.07.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  90. Fostering Creative Processes through „Challenge“ and „Collaboration

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

    07.07.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  91. Intraorganizational tensions around being good: Structures and practices of organizing purchasing and CSR in garment retailers and brands

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

    07.07.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  92. The Organization of Digital Competition: Unmasking the Role of Platforms as Market Organizers

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

    07.07.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  93. Virtual Songwriting. Fostering Creative Processes through „Challenge“ and „Collaboration“.

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

    07.07.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  94. Changing Governance Systems for Labour: Germany's Garment Supply Chains

    Schüßler, E. (Speaker)

    30.06.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  95. Music Collectives in Vienna’s Jazz Scene: Organizing and Perceiving Copresence to Make Music and Navigate Uncertainty

    Schüßler, E. (Speaker)

    29.06.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  96. SASE 2017

    Schüßler, E. (Organiser)

    28.06.201701.07.2017

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  97. Organizing temporary co-presence to induce and cope with uncertainty in creative processes

    Sydow, J. (Speaker), Schüßler, E. (Speaker), Melchior, A. (Speaker), Schiemer, B. (Speaker) & Grabher, G. (Speaker)

    26.06.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  98. Regulating Platform Capitalism: The Emerging Role of Digital Intermediaries

    Bauer, R. (Speaker), Gegenhuber, T. (Speaker), Kirchner, S. (Speaker) & Schüßler, E. (Speaker)

    23.06.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  99. Rana Plaza: A Threat to the Fast Fashion Model?

    Schüßler, E. (Speaker)

    19.06.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationtalk or presentation in privat or public eventsResearch

  100. Work and Solidarity in Global Production Networks: The Case of the Garment Industry in Bangladesh

    Schüßler, E. (Speaker)

    08.06.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer