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Dr. Katharina Hug

21335 Lüneburg, Universitätsallee 1, C6.125b
Fon +49.4131.677-2161 (Sekr.), katharina.hug@leuphana.de
Wiss. Mitarbeiter*in, Professur für Betriebswirtschaftslehre, insbesondere Social & Sustainable Entrepreneurship
Assoziierte/r, Leuphana Center for Organization & Social Transformation

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Projekte

Publikationen

Beiträge in Zeitschriften

  1. A Bourdieusian perspective on internal activism and professional careers
    Katharina Hug (Autor*in) , Stefanie Gustafsson (Autor*in) , Katharina Chudzikowski (Autor*in) , 24.08.2026 , in: Human Relations , 34 S.

    Publikation: Beiträge in Zeitschriften › Zeitschriftenaufsätze › Forschung › begutachtet

  2. NAVIGATING PROFESSIONAL CAREERS AND INTERNAL ACTIVISM: A BOURDIEUSIAN LENS
    Katharina Hug (Autor*in) , Katharina Chudzikowski (Autor*in) , Stefanie Gustafsson (Autor*in) , 01.01.2025 , in: Academy of Management Proceedings, 2025, 1 , 6 S.

    Publikation: Beiträge in Zeitschriften › Konferenzaufsätze in Fachzeitschriften › Forschung › begutachtet

  3. When and how to engage with employee environmental activism: Lessons learned from a global service firm
    Katharina Hug (Autor*in) , Ling Eleanor Zhang (Autor*in) , 01.06.2024 , in: European Management Journal, 42, 3 , S. 288–294 , 7 S.

    Publikation: Beiträge in Zeitschriften › Zeitschriftenaufsätze › Transfer › begutachtet

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Impact

Aktivitäten

  1. Insider Change Agents, Strategies & Tools
    Katharina Hug (Sprecher*in)

    Aktivität: Gastvorträge und -vorlesungen › Transfer

  2. The Burden of Doing Good: Marginalised Professionals and the Reproduction of Inequality through Internal Activism
    Katharina Hug (Sprecher*in) , Stefanie Gustafsson (Ko-Autor*in) , Katharina Chudzikowski (Ko-Autor*in)
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    Aktivität: Konferenzvorträge › Forschung

  3. The Double Burden of Doing Good: How Employee Resource Groups reproduce Professional Inequalities.
    Katharina Hug (Ko-Autor*in) , Stefanie Gustafsson (Sprecher*in) , Katharina Chudzikowski (Ko-Autor*in)
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    Aktivität: Konferenzvorträge › Forschung

  4. Paradox Navigation Across Field Positions: A Case of Environmental Peacebuilding in Israel-Palestine.
    Ambreen Ben-Shmuel (Sprecher*in) , Katharina Hug (Ko-Autor*in)
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    Aktivität: Konferenzvorträge › Forschung

  5. Orchestration practices for an emerging ecosystem
    Alexa Böckel (Sprecher*in) , Katharina Hug (Ko-Autor*in) , Domenico Dentoni (Ko-Autor*in) , Steffen Farny (Ko-Autor*in)
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    Aktivität: Konferenzvorträge › Forschung

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Auszeichnungen

  1. Arnon Reichers Best Student Paper Finalist
    Katharina Hug (Empfänger/-in) ,

    Auszeichnung: Externe Preise, Stipendien, Auszeichnungen, Ernennungen › Forschung

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Lehrveranstaltungen

Activism in Organisations
Katharina Hug
Activism in organisations is becoming more and more prevalent. As we are living in a polycrisis world, employees increasingly seek to impact society and the environment positively either through aiming for a formal responsible career, e.g. as sustainability or CSR managers or becoming involved as an internal activist or social change agent. Recent examples are Microsoft employees protesting against military contracts over AI and cloud services provided to the Israeli military amid the Gaza conflict or Dutch university staff protests institution’s ties with Israeli entities.

However, activism can penetrate organisations from more angles. CEOs can be activistic and include a political dimension to their organisational practices. Here examples include Ben & Jerries‘ founders who from the onset included political messages in their marketing and setup of the company. Other forms of activism include shareholder activism, that tries to stir the organisation into a for the shareholder favoured direction or brand activism which at times can be used as a marketing stunt.

In this course we will dissect activism in organisations from all these different angles and discuss literature on responsible careers, employee activism/ internal social change agents, CEO, shareholder and brand activism. We will critically examine if activism always has to be for the greater social good or if there can also be a downside of activism for the wider public.

The students will learn about the broad set of activisms in organisations and critically distinguish different forms and their purposes. Presentations about current examples of each form and a final project work about this example will help students to link theory learned in class with the practical reality outside.
Nächster Termin:
Donnerstag, 19.11.2026 um 14:15 Uhr
Raum: C 14.102 b Seminarraum