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. 2020
  2. Podiumsdiskussion Klimawoche JKU

    Schüßler, E. (Speaker)

    21.09.2020

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

  3. 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

  4. SASE 2020 Annual Conference

    Schüßler, E. (Organiser)

    20.07.2020

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  5. 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

  6. Corona und Globale Lieferketten

    Schüßler, E. (Speaker)

    14.07.2020

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  7. 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

  8. 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

  9. 36th EGOS Colloquium - EGOS 2020

    Schüßler, E. (Organiser)

    01.07.202004.07.2020

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  10. 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

  11. 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

  12. SASE 2020 Annual Conference

    Schüßler, E. (Organiser)

    07.2020

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  13. 36th EGOS Colloquium - EGOS 2020

    Schüßler, E. (Organiser)

    30.06.2020

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  14. Sustainable Scholarship

    Schüßler, E. (Speaker)

    30.06.2020

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  15. 15th Organization Studies Summer Workshop 2020

    Schüßler, E. (Organiser)

    20.05.202022.05.2022

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  16. Organizing Sustainably

    Schüßler, E. (Speaker)

    20.05.2020

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  17. 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

  18. 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

  19. 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

  20. 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

  21. Arbeit und transnationale Solidarität

    Schüßler, E. (Speaker)

    09.01.2020

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

  22. Business and Society (Journal)

    Schüßler, E. (Editor)

    2020 → …

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

  23. Organization Studies (Journal)

    Schüßler, E. (Editorial Board)

    2020 → …

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

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

    Schüßler, E. (Editor)

    2020 → …

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

  25. 2019
  26. Echte Verbesserungen oder Stückwerk? Der Impact von Nachhaltigkeitsinitiativen in Asien nach Rana Plaza

    Schüßler, E. (Speaker)

    19.11.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  27. Arbeits- und Menschenrechte in der Textilproduktion

    Schüßler, E. (Speaker)

    11.11.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  28. Momentum 2019

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

    10.10.2019

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  29. 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

  30. Organizing Mutual Awareness in Physical and Virtual Spaces

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

    03.10.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  31. Organizing ‘Safe Spaces’ for Creative Collaboration

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

    03.10.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  32. Digital Platforms and Grand Challenges

    Schüßler, E. (Speaker)

    19.09.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  33. Spillover Effects Across Transnational Industrial Relations Agreements

    Schüßler, E. (Speaker)

    05.09.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  34. 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

  35. Exploring crowdworker participation on digital work platforms

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

    12.08.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

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

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

    11.07.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  37. 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

  38. 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

  39. 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

  40. 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

  41. 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

  42. 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

  43. SASE 2019

    Schüßler, E. (presenter)

    27.06.2019

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  44. 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

  45. Kreativität, Innovation und Unsicherheit

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

    03.06.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsTransfer

  46. Praktiken des Umgangs mit Unsicherheit in kreativen Prozessen

    Schüßler, E. (Speaker)

    03.06.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsTransfer

  47. 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

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

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

    13.03.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  49. 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

  50. Podiumsdiskussion "A Plastic Ocean"

    Schüßler, E. (Speaker)

    06.03.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  51. The sustainable scholar - Leading by example

    Schüßler, E. (Speaker)

    04.03.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  52. 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

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

    Schüßler, E. (Editor)

    2019 → …

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

  54. 2018
  55. 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

  56. Auftakt – Kreativität und Innovation

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

    05.11.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsTransfer

  57. Formen organisationsübergreifender kreativer Prozesse

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

    05.11.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsTransfer

  58. Kreative Offenheit durch Geschlossenheit?

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

    05.11.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsTransfer

  59. Offenheit und Geschlossenheit in kreativen Prozessen

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

    05.11.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

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

    Schüßler, E. (Speaker)

    19.10.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  61. 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

  62. 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

  63. 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

  64. 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

  65. 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

  66. 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

  67. 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

  68. Möglichkeiten der Routinisierung kreativer Prozesse

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

    28.05.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsTransfer

  69. 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

  70. 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

  71. 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

  72. Karl Polanyi and Interdisciplinary Commodity Studies

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

    19.05.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  73. 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

  74. 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

  75. 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

  76. 2017
  77. Garment Supply Chain Governance Project - First Results

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

    07.12.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  78. Arbeit und Solidarität in globalen Produktionsnetzwerken

    Schüßler, E. (Speaker)

    28.11.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  79. 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

  80. Ergebnispräsentation Stakeholderanalyse

    Schüßler, E. (Speaker)

    17.10.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

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

    Schüßler, E. (Speaker)

    12.10.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  82. Revisiting the concept of the script in institutional theory

    Schüßler, E. (Speaker)

    28.09.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  83. 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

  84. 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

  85. 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

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

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

    07.07.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  87. 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

  88. 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

  89. 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

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

    Schüßler, E. (Speaker)

    30.06.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  91. 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

  92. SASE 2017

    Schüßler, E. (Organiser)

    28.06.201701.07.2017

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  93. 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

  94. 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

  95. 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

  96. 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

  97. Vortragsreihe: Von Krisen und Nutzen der Solidarität in Europäischen Wohlfahrtsstaaten und einer globalisierten Welt

    Schüßler, E. (Organiser) & Binner, K. (Organiser)

    22.05.201723.06.2017

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

  98. 5th Austrian Early Scholars Workshop - Discussant

    Schüßler, E. (Speaker)

    05.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  99. VHB ProDok Seminar "Organisationstheorie"

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

    04.04.201707.04.2017

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