Professur für Soziologie der Organisation und der Kultur

Organisational unit: Professoship

Organisation profile

The research field Sociology of Organization and Culture is dedicated to the interdependency of organization and culture. Organization is conditioned by culture. Forms and processes of organizing are based on cultural dispositions of experiencing, feeling, thinking and acting, and therefore on material, media-technological, spatial, and affective ordering modes and power relations. At the same time, the study of cultural practices and orders requires an organizational perspective. Culture is made manifest and changes on the level of organized and organizing interaction, cooperation and struggle.

Understanding organization through cultural theory (and culture through organization theory) thus denotes a broad approach to the ordering and disordering of the social. This approach is positioned in and at the margins of organizational and cultural sociology and the field of Organization Studies; and at the intersections with cultural theory, literary and media studies, art theory, human geography, and cultural anthropology.

The main research areas include:

  • old and new forms and processes of organizing art and culture
  • artistic engagements with, and reflections of, modes of organization (in literature, theatre, and the visual arts)
  • urban culture and organization: the spatial and urban constitution and contestation of organizational processes
  • the affective and atmospheric constitution of organization
  • colour as force and medium of organizing
  • the interdependency of organization and technology in and before the age of "digital cultures"
  • publics, counterpublics and politics of organizing
  • ethnographic, experimental and performative approaches to social and cultural research
  • the reorganization of university teaching and learning

Main research areas

Die kulturwissenschaftlich verstandene Organisationsforschung (bzw. die organisationstheoretisch verstandene Kulturwissenschaft) bezeichnet damit eine breit gefasste Herangehensweise an die Ordnung und Unordnung und an das alltägliche Geordnet-Werden des Sozialen. Sie arbeitet in und an den Rändern der Organisations- und Kultursoziologie sowie der internationalen Organization Studies; und an den Schnittstellen zu Kulturtheorie, Literatur- und Medienwissenschaft, Kunsttheorie, Humangeographie und Kulturanthropologie.

Die Schwerpunkte des Forschungsbereichs Soziologie der Organisation und der Kultur umfassen:

  • das Wechselverhältnis von Organisation und Medientechnik in und vor der Epoche „digitaler Kulturen“ und ihre gesellschaftlichen und politischen Konsequenzen
  • alte und neue Formen und Prozesse der Kunst- und Kulturorganisation sowie die künstlerische Bearbeitung und Reflexion von Organisationsweisen und Organisationskomplexen insb. in Literatur, Theater und bildender Kunst
  • die räumliche und städtische Konstitution und Umkämpftheit von Organisationsprozessen
  • die affektive und atmosphärische Konstitution und Kraft von Organisationsweisen
  • die Farbe als Kraft und Medium des Organisierens
  • alte und neue Ansätze ethnographischer, experimenteller und performativer Sozial- und Kulturforschung
  • die Reorganisation universitären Lehrens und Lernens, insb. hinsichtlich der Erkundung von Räumen und Atmosphären der Lehre
  1. artistic events
  2. Symposion/Exhibition - Proof of Stake

    Denny, S. (Speaker), Beyes, T. (Speaker) & Steinbrügge, B. (Speaker)

    03.09.202104.09.2021

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventartistic eventsTransfer

  3. Presentations (poster etc.)
  4. The Sap of Organizational Life

    Conrad, L. (Speaker)

    05.07.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationPresentations (poster etc.)Research

  5. talk or presentation in privat or public events
  6. Aesthetics, Affect and the Good Organization

    Beyes, T. (Speaker)

    07.07.2017

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

  7. Annäherung an eine Soziologie der Entnetzung - Analognostalgie und Räumlichkeit

    Wieghorst, C. (Speaker)

    27.11.2018

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

  8. Art/Activism

    Beyes, T. (Speaker)

    20.10.201621.10.2016

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

  9. Intendanz vs. kollaborative Leitungsmodelle

    Beyes, T. (Speaker)

    16.11.2017

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

  10. Luftrummets organisering

    Jorgensen, L. (Speaker)

    08.11.2024

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

  11. Medienorganisationstheorie

    Beyes, T. (Coauthor)

    18.05.2018

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

  12. Michael Warner,Publics and Counterpublics (2002)

    Beyes, T. (Speaker)

    17.01.2018

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

  13. Organize: Satin Island.

    Beyes, T. (Speaker)

    19.04.2017

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

  14. Philosophy, Technology and Organization Studies

    Beyes, T. (Panel participant)

    07.07.201609.07.2016

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

  15. Situation, envelopment, attunement: A critique of organizational atmospherics

    Beyes, T. (Speaker)

    23.09.2022

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

  16. The work of disconnection

    Beyes, T. (Keynote Speaker)

    21.06.201822.06.2018

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

  17. Work and Organization in the Digital Age

    Beyes, T. (Speaker)

    18.05.2017

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

  18. Conference Presentations
  19. Academic Space

    Beyes, T. (Speaker)

    25.02.201626.02.2016

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  20. ‘Critical Atmospheres'

    Jorgensen, L. (Speaker)

    21.04.2023

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  21. Enterprise Resource Planning Systems: New transparency, new opacity

    Conrad, L. (Speaker)

    27.07.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  22. Going adrift in dystopian conditions: Organizing protest and resistance in present-day Russia

    Kalinina, A. (Speaker) & Beyes, T. (Speaker)

    18.05.202320.05.2023

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  23. Imaginaries of Disconnection

    Wieghorst, C. (Speaker)

    02.10.2020

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  24. Imagining 'Off the Grid'

    Wieghorst, C. (Speaker)

    07.05.2021

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  25. It’s all method – Schmitz and Neo-phenomenology

    Jorgensen, L. (Speaker)

    20.04.2023

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  26. Kafka’s bestiary of organizing

    Holt, R. D. (Coauthor) & Beyes, T. (Coauthor)

    06.07.201708.07.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  27. Kafka’s bestiary of organizing

    Holt, R. D. (Coauthor) & Beyes, T. (Coauthor)

    10.11.201612.11.2016

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  28. Lives of the secret: Rimini Protokoll’s Top Secret International (State 1)

    Beyes, T. (Coauthor)

    08.06.201711.06.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  29. Paper, pegboard, software: Elements of a media theory of organization

    Conrad, L. (presenter) & Beyes, T. (Coauthor)

    06.07.201708.07.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  30. Presenting paper 'Writing Organization Atmospherically'

    Jorgensen, L. (Speaker)

    06.07.2021

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  31. Prototyping sustainable futures

    Jorgensen, L. (Speaker)

    23.09.2024

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  32. Squirreling myself away from the world: Silence and fieldnotes

    Conrad, L. (Speaker)

    10.04.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  33. sub-theme convenor: Digital Capitalism: Grappling with Silicon Valley

    Beyes, T. (Speaker), Beverungen, A. (Speaker) & Bialski, P. (Speaker)

    07.07.202209.07.2022

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  34. The distribution of the insensible: Organizational aesthetics in the age of digital reproduction

    Beyes, T. (Coauthor)

    06.07.201708.07.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  35. Peer review of publicationen
  36. Architecture and Culture (Journal)

    Jorgensen, L. (Editorial Board)

    01.06.202128.05.2022

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

  37. Human Relations (Journal)

    Jorgensen, L. (Editorial Board)

    01.09.2023 → …

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

  38. Management Communication Quarterly (Journal)

    Jorgensen, L. (Reviewer)

    01.10.202407.11.2024

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

  39. Management Learning (Journal)

    Jorgensen, L. (Editorial Board)

    16.04.202130.03.2022

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

  40. Organization (Journal)

    Jorgensen, L. (Editorial Board)

    27.06.202230.09.2023

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

  41. Organization Studies (Journal)

    Jorgensen, L. (Reviewer)

    16.05.202527.06.2025

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

  42. Visiting an external academic institution
  43. Université Paris-Dauphine

    Beyes, T. (Visiting lecturer)

    2018

    Activity: Visiting an external institutionVisiting an external academic institutionResearch

  44. Leuphana academic councils and committees
  45. Centre for Digital Cultures (Organisational unit)

    Beyes, T. (Office)

    01.201310.2021

    Activity: MembershipLeuphana academic councils and committeesLeuphana Academic Committees

  46. Centre for Digital Cultures (Organisational unit)

    Pias, C. (Chair) & Beyes, T. (Chair)

    2012 → …

    Activity: MembershipLeuphana academic councils and committeesLeuphana Academic Committees

  47. Copenhagen Business School (External organisation)

    Beyes, T. (Office)

    04.201310.2016

    Activity: MembershipLeuphana academic councils and committeesLeuphana Academic Committees

  48. Digital Cultures Research Lab (Organisational unit)

    Pias, C. (Chair), Bachmann, G. (Chair), Beyes, T. (Chair) & Leeker, M. (Chair)

    20132018

    Activity: MembershipLeuphana academic councils and committeesLeuphana Academic Committees

  49. Institute of Sociology and Cultural Organization (Organisational unit)

    Beyes, T. (Office)

    10.2018 → …

    Activity: MembershipLeuphana academic councils and committeesLeuphana Academic Committees

  50. Leuphana Universität Lüneburg (Organisational unit)

    Beyes, T. (Office)

    11.201012.2012

    Activity: MembershipLeuphana academic councils and committeesLeuphana Academic Committees

  51. School of Culture and Society (Organisational unit)

    Beyes, T. (Member)

    10.2020 → …

    Activity: MembershipLeuphana academic councils and committeesLeuphana Academic Committees

  52. School of Culture and Society (Organisational unit)

    Beyes, T. (Member)

    04.201803.2022

    Activity: MembershipLeuphana academic councils and committeesLeuphana Academic Committees

  53. Senat (Organisational unit)

    Beyes, T. (Member)

    04.2020 → …

    Activity: MembershipLeuphana academic councils and committeesLeuphana Academic Committees

  54. University of St. Gallen (External organisation)

    Beyes, T. (Member)

    10.200610.2010

    Activity: MembershipLeuphana academic councils and committeesLeuphana Academic Committees

  55. University of St. Gallen (External organisation)

    Beyes, T. (Member)

    10.200604.2007

    Activity: MembershipLeuphana academic councils and committeesLeuphana Academic Committees

  56. University of St. Gallen (External organisation)

    Beyes, T. (Member)

    10.200412.2005

    Activity: MembershipLeuphana academic councils and committeesLeuphana Academic Committees

  57. Learned societies and special interest organisations
  58. Centre for Digital Cultures (Organisational unit)

    Wieghorst, C. (Member)

    2018

    Activity: MembershipLearned societies and special interest organisationsResearch

  59. Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie (External organisation)

    Wieghorst, C. (Member)

    2019

    Activity: MembershipLearned societies and special interest organisationsResearch

  60. European Group of Organizational Studies (External organisation)

    Beyes, T. (Chair)

    2017 → …

    Activity: MembershipLearned societies and special interest organisationsResearch

  61. Consultancy
  62. advice on red tape

    Jorgensen, L. (Consultant)

    2024 → …

    Activity: Consultancy

  63. Teach the teachers program

    Jorgensen, L. (Consultant)

    01.09.202430.05.2025

    Activity: Consultancy

  64. Guest lectures
  65. Art, aesthetics and organization: a research seminar

    Beyes, T. (Speaker)

    12.02.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  66. Colour is as colour does: Green and social ordering

    Beyes, T. (Speaker)

    19.05.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  67. Critical Socio-Political-Organization in Digital Cultures

    Beyes, T. (Speaker)

    11.01.201812.01.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  68. Flat, intense and shiny: The colour chart’s aesthetics of organizing

    Beyes, T. (Speaker)

    08.03.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  69. Organisation im soziotechnischen Gemenge

    Conrad, L. (Oral presentation)

    16.05.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  70. Organization theory and the politics of space

    Beyes, T. (Speaker)

    15.02.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  71. Social atmospherics and the question of organization

    Beyes, T. (Coauthor)

    10.05.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  72. Surveillance Capitalism. Überwachen und unterhalten

    Beyes, T. (Speaker)

    14.12.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  73. Szenen und Imaginäre der Entnetzung

    Wieghorst, C. (Speaker)

    13.01.2020

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  74. Transparency and Secrecy

    Beyes, T. (Coauthor)

    26.01.201627.01.2016

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  75. Workshop "Theoretische und empirische Grundlagen einer soziologischen Digitalisierungsforschung" - TU Berlin

    Conrad, L. (Lecturer)

    18.05.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  76. External workshops, courses, seminars
  77. 8th Organizations, Artifacts and Practices Workshop - OAP 2018

    Conrad, L. (Participant)

    21.06.201822.06.2018

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

  78. After the Revolution: On Digital Cultures

    Beyes, T. (Organiser)

    07.04.2017

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

  79. BA Seminar: Aesthetics and Marketing - 2016

    Beyes, T. (Organiser)

    01.04.201615.07.2016

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

  80. BA Seminar: Cultural Entrepreneurship - 2016

    Beyes, T. (Organiser)

    01.04.201615.07.2016

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

  81. BA Seminar "Strategische Herausforderungen in Nonprofit-Organisationen" - 2005

    Beyes, T. (Organiser)

    01.04.200415.07.2005

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

  82. BA Seminar: Theories of Contemporary Society II

    Beyes, T. (Organiser)

    01.04.201615.07.2016

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

  83. Cities and Creativity: Urban Ethnographies MA Seminar - 2018

    Beyes, T. (Speaker)

    01.04.200515.07.2018

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

  84. Colloquium social critique - 2017

    Beyes, T. (Organiser)

    15.10.201701.02.2018

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

  85. Conference - Stanford-Leuphana Summer Academy 2022

    Beyes, T. (Organiser) & Pias, C. (Organiser)

    20.06.202224.06.2022

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

  86. Conference - Stanford-Leuphana Summer Academy 2023:

    Beyes, T. (Speaker) & Pias, C. (Speaker)

    25.06.202330.06.2023

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

  87. Conference - Stanford-Leuphana Winter Academy 2021 - Technologies of Bureaucracy

    Beyes, T. (Speaker) & Pias, C. (Speaker)

    13.12.202117.12.2021

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

  88. Course/Conference - European Summer Academy 2019 - Be creative!

    Beyes, T. (Organiser)

    26.05.201931.05.2019

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

  89. Course/Conference - European Summer Academy 2020 - Don't be evil.

    Beyes, T. (Speaker), Schellmann, M. (Speaker), Schulz, F. (Speaker) & Calcagno, M. (Speaker)

    24.05.202029.05.2020

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

  90. Course/Conference - European Summer Academy 2021: Mapping Entrepreneurial Neighbourhoods

    Beyes, T. (Speaker), Steyaert, C. (Speaker), Schellmann, M. (Speaker), Calcagno, M. (Speaker), Blanc, A. (Speaker) & Joergensen, L. (Speaker)

    17.05.202121.05.2021

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

  91. Course/Conference - European Summer Academy 2022

    Beyes, T. (Speaker), Steyaert, C. (Speaker), Schellmann, M. (Speaker), Calcagno, M. (Speaker) & Holt, R. (Speaker)

    29.05.202203.06.2022

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

  92. Course/Conference - European Summer Academy 2023

    Beyes, T. (Speaker), Steyaert, C. (Speaker), Schellmann, M. (Speaker) & Calcagno, M. (Speaker)

    29.05.202303.06.2023

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

  93. Course/Conference - European Winter Academy 2021 - Organizing Museums in Digital Cultures.

    Beyes, T. (Speaker), Steyaert, C. (Speaker), Schellmann, M. (Speaker), Schulze, J. (Speaker) & Joergensen, L. (Speaker)

    07.11.202112.11.2021

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

  94. Creativity and Social Organization MA Seminar - 2018

    Beyes, T. (Organiser)

    01.04.201815.07.2018

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

  95. Data & Drama - 2019

    Conrad, L. (Speaker), Heinrichs, R. (Speaker) & Cnossen, B. (Speaker)

    10.04.2019

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

  96. Digital Cultures MA Seminar - 2019

    Beyes, T. (Organiser)

    15.10.201701.02.2019

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

  97. Im Kreativitätsdispositiv

    Beyes, T. (Organiser)

    06.10.201607.10.2016

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

  98. Knowing Colour - 2018/19

    Beyes, T. (Organiser)

    15.10.201801.02.2019

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

  99. Kurs - Organizing Culture

    Beyes, T. (Speaker), Steyaert, C. (Speaker) & Schulze, J. (Speaker)

    11.04.202315.04.2023

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

  100. MA Seminar: The Politics of Organization - WiSe 2014/2015

    Beyes, T. (Organiser)

    15.10.201401.02.2015

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

  101. New Forms of Organizing Culture MA Seminar - 2017/18

    Beyes, T. (Organiser)

    15.10.201701.02.2018

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

  102. Organization Studies Workshop: Technology and organization - 2019

    Beyes, T. (Organiser)

    23.05.201925.05.2019

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

  103. Ouvroir de recherche potentielle

    Jorgensen, L. (Speaker)

    22.03.2024

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

  104. Oxford Handbook of Media, Technology and Organization Studies Writing Workshop

    Beyes, T. (Organiser)

    19.10.201720.10.2017

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

  105. Rethinking Management Education: Theories, Practices, Interventions 2017

    Beyes, T. (Organiser)

    01.04.201715.07.2017

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

  106. Rethinking Management Education? The Role of the Humanities

    Beyes, T. (Organiser)

    15.05.201416.05.2014

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

  107. Sloterdijk’s Plural Spherology and its potential for Organization Studies - 2018

    Beyes, T. (Organiser)

    15.10.201701.02.2018

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

  108. Stanford-Leuphana Summer Academy 2019

    Beyes, T. (Organiser), Pias, C. (Organiser) & Pinkrah, N. Y. (Organiser)

    24.06.201928.06.2019

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

  109. Stanford-Leuphana Winter Academy 2021

    Wieghorst, C. (Participant)

    13.12.202115.12.2021

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

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