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. Introduction to the Special Issue "Understanding the Platform Economy"

    Schüßler, E. (Speaker)

    03.07.2021

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  3. 37th EGOS Colloquium - EGOS 2021

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

    07.2021

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  4. Globale Lieferketten - Von fairen Arbeitsbedingungen bis Klimaschutz

    Schüßler, E. (Speaker), Wölken, T. (Speaker) & Schieder, A. (Speaker)

    29.06.2021

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  5. Labour Governance Systems in Garment Global Supply Chains Since Rana Plaza: Effects and Potentialities

    Schüßler, E. (Speaker)

    22.06.2021

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  6. Rehabilitating the Sharing Economy

    Schüßler, E. (Speaker)

    15.06.2021

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

  7. Globale Lieferkettenungleichheit. Was kann ein Lieferkettengesetz bewirken?

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

    19.05.2021

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  8. Working Towards Decent Work on Online Platforms: Building and Maintaining an Institutional Infrastructure Based on the German Social Partnership Tradition

    Thäter, L. (Speaker), Reischauer, G. (Speaker), Schüßler, E. (Speaker) & Gegenhuber, T. (Speaker)

    18.05.2021

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  9. Platform Bureaucracy

    Schüßler, E. (Speaker)

    06.05.2021

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  10. Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft (Publisher)

    Heimstädt, M. (Editor), Hertwig, M. (Editor), Ruiner, C. (Editor), Schüßler, E. (Editor) & Wirth, C. (Editor)

    25.04.2021 → …

    Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial workEditor of seriesResearch

  11. Von einer Krise zur nächsten: Können wir aus Corona für die Klimakrise lernen?

    Schüßler, E. (Speaker)

    22.03.2021

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  12. Experiences with applying for and managing large DFG projects

    Schüßler, E. (Speaker)

    16.03.2021

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

  13. Business and Society (Journal)

    Schüßler, E. (Editor)

    2021 → …

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

  14. Organization Studies (Journal)

    Schüßler, E. (Editorial Board)

    2021 → …

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

  15. Reviewing for the Academy of Management Conference (ODC)

    Fey, L. (Reviewer)

    20212023

    Activity: Other expert activitiesAcademic ConsultantResearch

  16. Reviewing for the Academy of Management Conference (OMT)

    Fey, L. (Reviewer)

    20212023

    Activity: Other expert activitiesAcademic ConsultantResearch

  17. 2020
  18. Collective action on living wages

    Schüßler, E. (Speaker)

    05.11.2020

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  19. Momentum 2020

    Schüßler, E. (Organiser)

    16.10.2020

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  20. Podiumsdiskussion Klimawoche JKU

    Schüßler, E. (Speaker)

    21.09.2020

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

  21. 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

  22. SASE 2020 Annual Conference

    Schüßler, E. (Organiser)

    20.07.2020

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  23. 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

  24. Corona und Globale Lieferketten

    Schüßler, E. (Speaker)

    14.07.2020

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  25. 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

  26. 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

  27. 36th EGOS Colloquium - EGOS 2020

    Schüßler, E. (Organiser)

    01.07.202004.07.2020

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  28. 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

  29. 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

  30. SASE 2020 Annual Conference

    Schüßler, E. (Organiser)

    07.2020

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  31. 36th EGOS Colloquium - EGOS 2020

    Schüßler, E. (Organiser)

    30.06.2020

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  32. Sustainable Scholarship

    Schüßler, E. (Speaker)

    30.06.2020

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  33. 15th Organization Studies Summer Workshop 2020

    Schüßler, E. (Organiser)

    20.05.202022.05.2022

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  34. Organizing Sustainably

    Schüßler, E. (Speaker)

    20.05.2020

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  35. 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

  36. 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

  37. 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

  38. 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

  39. Arbeit und transnationale Solidarität

    Schüßler, E. (Speaker)

    09.01.2020

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

  40. Business and Society (Journal)

    Schüßler, E. (Editor)

    2020 → …

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

  41. Organization Studies (Journal)

    Schüßler, E. (Editorial Board)

    2020 → …

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

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

    Schüßler, E. (Editor)

    2020 → …

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

  43. 2019
  44. Echte Verbesserungen oder Stückwerk? Der Impact von Nachhaltigkeitsinitiativen in Asien nach Rana Plaza

    Schüßler, E. (Speaker)

    19.11.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  45. Arbeits- und Menschenrechte in der Textilproduktion

    Schüßler, E. (Speaker)

    11.11.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  46. Momentum 2019

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

    10.10.2019

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  47. 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

  48. Organizing Mutual Awareness in Physical and Virtual Spaces

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

    03.10.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  49. Organizing ‘Safe Spaces’ for Creative Collaboration

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

    03.10.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  50. Digital Platforms and Grand Challenges

    Schüßler, E. (Speaker)

    19.09.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  51. Spillover Effects Across Transnational Industrial Relations Agreements

    Schüßler, E. (Speaker)

    05.09.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  52. 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

  53. Exploring crowdworker participation on digital work platforms

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

    12.08.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

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

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

    11.07.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  55. 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

  56. 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

  57. 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

  58. 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

  59. 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

  60. 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

  61. SASE 2019

    Schüßler, E. (presenter)

    27.06.2019

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  62. 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

  63. Kreativität, Innovation und Unsicherheit

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

    03.06.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsTransfer

  64. Praktiken des Umgangs mit Unsicherheit in kreativen Prozessen

    Schüßler, E. (Speaker)

    03.06.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsTransfer

  65. 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

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

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

    13.03.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  67. 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

  68. Podiumsdiskussion "A Plastic Ocean"

    Schüßler, E. (Speaker)

    06.03.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  69. The sustainable scholar - Leading by example

    Schüßler, E. (Speaker)

    04.03.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  70. 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

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

    Schüßler, E. (Editor)

    2019 → …

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

  72. 2018
  73. 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

  74. Auftakt – Kreativität und Innovation

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

    05.11.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsTransfer

  75. Formen organisationsübergreifender kreativer Prozesse

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

    05.11.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsTransfer

  76. Kreative Offenheit durch Geschlossenheit?

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

    05.11.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsTransfer

  77. Offenheit und Geschlossenheit in kreativen Prozessen

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

    05.11.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

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

    Schüßler, E. (Speaker)

    19.10.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  79. 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

  80. 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

  81. 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

  82. 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

  83. 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

  84. 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

  85. 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

  86. Möglichkeiten der Routinisierung kreativer Prozesse

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

    28.05.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsTransfer

  87. 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

  88. 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

  89. 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

  90. Karl Polanyi and Interdisciplinary Commodity Studies

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

    19.05.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  91. 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

  92. 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

  93. 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

  94. 2017
  95. Garment Supply Chain Governance Project - First Results

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

    07.12.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  96. Arbeit und Solidarität in globalen Produktionsnetzwerken

    Schüßler, E. (Speaker)

    28.11.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  97. 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

  98. Ergebnispräsentation Stakeholderanalyse

    Schüßler, E. (Speaker)

    17.10.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer