Organizing in Times of Crises

Established approaches to understanding and managing crises build on the idea that crises are temporary, seemingly enabling a return to a state of order. Yet, environmental catastrophes, health crisis, wars, and other disasters severely disrupt routines and infrastructures in both public and private spheres. Leuphana researchers develop transformation knowledge for understanding the nature of organizing in times of crisis as a multilevel, systemic phenomenon instead of a temporary condition. They foster research on organizational processes and practices as well as their impact on social change and, furthermore, propose new models of crisis management.

Spokespersons

Potential Research Areas

Possible topic areas and their potential supervisors:

Agency and actorhood in times of crisis

Corporate responsibility in times of crisis

Designing crisis-resilient organizations and institutions

Entrepreneurship, creativity and innovation in times of crisis

Future-making in times of crisis

Organizing spaces, collectives, and communities in times of crisis

Organizational communication in times of crisis

Strategizing in times of crisis