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. 2018
  2. 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

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

    Beyes, T. (Office)

    10.2018 → …

    Activity: MembershipLeuphana academic councils and committeesLeuphana Academic Committees

  4. Internationa Conference Digital Cultures

    Vehlken, S. (Speaker) & Beyes, T. (Organiser)

    19.09.201822.09.2018

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

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

    Conrad, L. (Speaker)

    27.07.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  6. Conference of the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology - EASST 2018

    Conrad, L. (Organiser)

    25.07.201828.07.2018

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  7. The Sap of Organizational Life

    Conrad, L. (Speaker)

    05.07.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationPresentations (poster etc.)Research

  8. 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

  9. The work of disconnection

    Beyes, T. (Keynote Speaker)

    21.06.201822.06.2018

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

  10. Workshop: Organizing Digital Cultures: Histories, Ethnographies, Materialities

    Conrad, L. (Organiser), Beyes, T. (Organiser) & Apprich, C. (Organiser)

    07.06.201808.06.2018

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

  11. Medienorganisationstheorie

    Beyes, T. (Coauthor)

    18.05.2018

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

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

    Conrad, L. (Lecturer)

    18.05.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  13. 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

  14. Ephemera: Theory & Politics in Organization (Journal)

    Conrad, L. (Editorial Board)

    01.04.2018

    Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial workEditor of journalsResearch

  15. Urban Atmospheres BA Seminar - 2018

    Beyes, T. (Organiser)

    01.04.201815.07.2018

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

  16. School of Culture and Society (Organisational unit)

    Beyes, T. (Member)

    04.201803.2022

    Activity: MembershipLeuphana academic councils and committeesLeuphana Academic Committees

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

    Beyes, T. (Speaker)

    08.03.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  18. Organization theory and the politics of space

    Beyes, T. (Speaker)

    15.02.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  19. Art, aesthetics and organization: a research seminar

    Beyes, T. (Speaker)

    12.02.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  20. Michael Warner,Publics and Counterpublics (2002)

    Beyes, T. (Speaker)

    17.01.2018

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

  21. Critical Socio-Political-Organization in Digital Cultures

    Beyes, T. (Speaker)

    11.01.201812.01.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  22. Centre for Digital Cultures (Organisational unit)

    Wieghorst, C. (Member)

    2018

    Activity: MembershipLearned societies and special interest organisationsResearch

  23. Université Paris-Dauphine

    Beyes, T. (Visiting lecturer)

    2018

    Activity: Visiting an external institutionVisiting an external academic institutionResearch

  24. University of Minnesota Press (Publisher)

    Beyes, T. (Editorial Board), Chun, W. (Editorial Board), Bachmann, G. (Editorial Board) & Bunz, M.-S. (Editorial Board)

    2018 → …

    Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial workEditor of seriesResearch

  25. University of Minnesota Press (Publisher)

    Beyes, T. (Editor)

    2018 → …

    Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial workEditor of seriesResearch

  26. University of Minnesota Press (Publisher)

    Beyes, T. (Editorial Board), Bunz, M. (Editorial Board) & Kyong Chun, W. H. (Editorial Board)

    2018 → …

    Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial workEditor of seriesResearch

  27. 2017
  28. Surveillance Capitalism. Überwachen und unterhalten

    Beyes, T. (Speaker)

    14.12.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  29. Niklas Luhmann am OVG Lüneburg.

    Beyes, T. (Speaker)

    05.12.201706.12.2017

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  30. Intendanz vs. kollaborative Leitungsmodelle

    Beyes, T. (Speaker)

    16.11.2017

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

  31. 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

  32. 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

  33. 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

  34. 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

  35. 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

  36. Aesthetics, Affect and the Good Organization

    Beyes, T. (Speaker)

    07.07.2017

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

  37. 33th EGOS Colloquium - EGOS 2017

    Beyes, T. (Organiser)

    06.07.201708.07.2017

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  38. Kafka’s bestiary of organizing

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

    06.07.201708.07.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  39. 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

  40. 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

  41. 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

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

    Beyes, T. (Speaker)

    19.05.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  43. Work and Organization in the Digital Age

    Beyes, T. (Speaker)

    18.05.2017

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

  44. Organisation im soziotechnischen Gemenge

    Conrad, L. (Oral presentation)

    16.05.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  45. Organize: Satin Island.

    Beyes, T. (Speaker)

    19.04.2017

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

  46. 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

  47. 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

  48. Was sind digitale Kulturen? MA Seminar

    Beyes, T. (Organiser)

    01.04.201715.07.2017

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

  49. 33th EGOS Colloquium - EGOS 2017

    Beyes, T. (Organiser)

    2017

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  50. European Group of Organizational Studies (External organisation)

    Beyes, T. (Chair)

    2017 → …

    Activity: MembershipLearned societies and special interest organisationsResearch

  51. Organization Studies (Journal)

    Beyes, T. (Editorial Board)

    2017 → …

    Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial workEditor of journalsResearch