Dr. Birke Otto

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21335 Lüneburg, Universitätsallee 1, C6.115
Fon +49.4131.677-2153, birke.otto@leuphana.de

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Vita

As a cultural sociologist, I am concerned with how societal discourses are reflected, created, and challenged in the everyday practices of organizations. Currently, I work as a postdoctoral researcher in the "Organised Creativity" research group, funded by the German Research Council and based at Free University Berlin and Leuphana University Lüneburg. In this role, I explore how notions of failure, time, and secrecy shape creativity and innovation processes. My research spans various organizational contexts, including digital media, scientific laboratories, and the healthcare industry, which I study through processual and practice-based lenses. I serve on the editorial team of ephemera: theory and politics in organization and am a guest researcher and External Lecturer at Copenhagen Business School, where I teach courses on organizational theory, innovation, alternative organizations, and sustainable futures.

Publications

Journal contributions

  1. Failure as a Process: Shaping What is Worth Doing in Creative Projects
    Birke Dorothea Otto (Author) , Benjamin Schiemer (Author) , Harry Sminia (Author) , Jörg Sydow (Author) , 01.01.2025 , in: Research in the Sociology of Organizations, 91, 1

    Research output: Journal contributions › Comments / Debate / Reports › Research

  2. Finding Creativity in Predictability: Seizing Kairos in Chronos Through Temporal Work in Complex Innovation Processes
    Birke Dorothea Otto (Author) , Elke Sybille Schüßler (Author) , Jörg Sydow (Author) , Lukas Vogelgsang (Author) , 01.09.2024 , in: Organization Science, 35, 5 , p. 1795-1822 , 28 p.

    Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review

  3. DON’T ASK, DO TELL: KNOWLEDGE WORK AND PUBLIC SECRECY IN ONLINE INNOVATION COMMUNITIES
    Birke Dorothea Otto (Author) , Lukas Vogelgsang (Author) , Ghita Dragsdahl Lauritzen (Author) , 01.08.2024 , in: Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings, 2024, 1

    Research output: Journal contributions › Conference article in journal › Research › peer-review

  4. The Novel as Affective Site: Uncertain work as impasse in Wait Until Spring, Bandini
    Birke Dorothea Otto (Author) , Anke Strauß (Author) , 01.12.2019 , in: Organization Studies, 40, 12 , p. 1805-1822 , 18 p.

    Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review

  5. Hidden in full view: the organization of public secrecy in Miéville’s The City and the City
    Birke Dorothea Otto (Author) , Justine Grønbæk Pors (Author) , Rasmus Johnsen (Author) , 15.03.2019 , in: Culture and Organization, 25, 2 , p. 91-103 , 13 p.

    Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review

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Contributions to collected editions/anthologies

  1. Saving (in) a common world: Cosmopolitical instances from a low-budget urbanities perspective
    Birke Dorothea Otto (Author) , Alexa Färber (Author) , 29.01.2016 , p. 25-43 , 19 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Chapter › Research › peer-review

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Activities

Teaching