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. 2016
  2. Kafka’s bestiary of organizing

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

    10.11.201612.11.2016

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  3. Art/Activism

    Beyes, T. (Speaker)

    20.10.201621.10.2016

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

  4. Im Kreativitätsdispositiv

    Beyes, T. (Organiser)

    06.10.201607.10.2016

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

  5. 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

  6. Unpacking Organization: Cybernetics, Logistics, Labour

    Beyes, T. (Organiser)

    28.06.201629.06.2016

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

  7. The Business of Teaching - 2016

    Beyes, T. (Organiser)

    20.06.201624.06.2016

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

  8. 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

  9. 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

  10. 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

  11. Academic Space

    Beyes, T. (Speaker)

    25.02.201626.02.2016

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  12. Transparency and Secrecy

    Beyes, T. (Coauthor)

    26.01.201627.01.2016

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  13. 2014
  14. 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

  15. 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

  16. Social atmospherics and the question of organization

    Beyes, T. (Coauthor)

    10.05.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  17. The Aesthetic Turn - SoSe 2014

    Beyes, T. (Organiser)

    01.04.201415.07.2014

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

  18. 2013
  19. Copenhagen Business School (External organisation)

    Beyes, T. (Office)

    04.201310.2016

    Activity: MembershipLeuphana academic councils and committeesLeuphana Academic Committees

  20. Centre for Digital Cultures (Organisational unit)

    Beyes, T. (Office)

    01.201310.2021

    Activity: MembershipLeuphana academic councils and committeesLeuphana Academic Committees

  21. 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

  22. 2012
  23. Centre for Digital Cultures (Organisational unit)

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

    2012 → …

    Activity: MembershipLeuphana academic councils and committeesLeuphana Academic Committees

  24. 2010
  25. Leuphana Universität Lüneburg (Organisational unit)

    Beyes, T. (Office)

    11.201012.2012

    Activity: MembershipLeuphana academic councils and committeesLeuphana Academic Committees

  26. 2006
  27. Universität St. Gallen (External organisation)

    Beyes, T. (Member)

    10.200610.2010

    Activity: MembershipLeuphana academic councils and committeesLeuphana Academic Committees

  28. Universität St. Gallen (External organisation)

    Beyes, T. (Member)

    10.200604.2007

    Activity: MembershipLeuphana academic councils and committeesLeuphana Academic Committees

  29. 2005
  30. 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

  31. 2004
  32. Universität St. Gallen (External organisation)

    Beyes, T. (Member)

    10.200412.2005

    Activity: MembershipLeuphana academic councils and committeesLeuphana Academic Committees

  33. 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

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