Monday, March 16, 2026

Time Event (+)
09:00 - 09:20 Arrival & Coffee - Arrival & Coffee  
09:20 - 09:55 Conference Opening & Plenary Presentation (H02 (Hörsaal 2)) (+)  
09:30 - 09:55 › What is the sociological in organizational sociology? - Nadine Arnold, University of Lucerne - Raimund Hasse, University of Lucerne - Hannah Mormann, Hochschule für Wirtschaft Zürich  
09:55 - 10:15 Coffee break  
10:15 - 11:10 Women in Male-Dominated Organizations I (H02 (Hörsaal 2)) (+)  
10:15 - 10:40 › “Do You Really Fly the Plane?” Gender, Power, and Petro-Masculinity in Commercial Aviation - Jericho Kristal, University of Galway  
10:40 - 11:05 › Understanding the Backlash against Diversity: Gendered Organization and Nerd Masculinity in the Gaming Industry - Julia Gruhlich, University of Göttingen - Nina Hossain, Hessian University of Applied Sciences for Public Management and Security (HöMS)  
10:15 - 11:10 German Armed Forces: digital culture & platform voices (S25) (+)  
10:15 - 10:40 › Leadership and the Development of Digital Culture in the German Armed Forces - Martin Elbe, Zentrum für Militärgeschichte und Sozialwissenschaften der Bundeswehr  
10:45 - 11:10 › Fit or Friction? Organizational and Influencer Voices about the Bundeswehr on TikTok - Cornelia Fedtke, Helmut Schmidt University, University of the Armed Forces Hamburg  
10:15 - 11:10 International governance & contested policy arenas (S26) (+)  
10:15 - 10:40 › EU relationships in conflict early warning and response: Cooperation, autonomy, and hierarchies - Alina Isakova, Universität Bielefeld = Bielefeld University  
10:45 - 11:10 › Organizaing the Whaling World: the IWC and Aboriginal Whaling - Jennifer Bailey, Norwegian University of Science and Technology  
10:15 - 11:10 SMEs, recognition & inclusion (S27) (+)  
10:15 - 10:40 › Growth-Related Conflicts of Recognition in SMEs: Social Orders Between Plurality and Inequality - Larissa Binder, Europa-Universität Flensburg  
10:45 - 11:10 › Organisational Resistance and Inclusion: Intersecting Gender, Digitalization and Social Inequality in Pakistani Export-Oriented SMEs - Aamir Sohail, Thal University Bhakkar  
10:15 - 11:10 Higher education: inclusion, work & emotion (S28) (+)  
10:15 - 10:40 › Constructing Disability in Higher Education: A European Comparative Discourse Analysis on Students with Disabilities - Robert Aust, Macromedia University of Applied Sciences (Campus Leipzig)  
10:45 - 11:10 › Emotional Labour in the Neoliberal University: Polycrisis and Intersectional Inequalities - Ayşegül Akdemir Son, Bahcesehir University [Istanbul]  
11:10 - 11:30 Coffee break  
11:30 - 12:25 Women in Male-Dominated Organizations II (H02 (Hörsaal 2)) (+)  
11:30 - 11:55 › Warriors against wokeness? Accepted, contested, and ignored diversity in military organizations - Heiko Biehl, Bundeswehr Center of Military History and Social Sciences (ZMSBw)  
11:55 - 12:20 › Male homosociality and the overrepresentation of men as leaders in sport organisations - Lucy Piggott, Norwegian University of Science and Technology  
11:30 - 12:25 Educational Organizations under GenAI pressure (S25) (+)  
11:30 - 11:55 › Deprofessionalisation and Loss of Control – The Adaptation of Schools to AI - Kim Kettner, Max Weber Institute of Sociology (Heidelberg University) - Leoni Kotwan, Max Weber Institute of Sociology (Heidelberg University) - Markus Pohlmann, Max Weber Institute of Sociology (Heidelberg University)  
12:00 - 12:25 › How ChatGPT Renews Old Practices: Democratizing Learning and Cheating Among University Students Through AI Chatbots - Svenja Hammer, Norwegian University of Science and Technology - Michael Grothe-Hammer, Norwegian University of Science and Technology  
11:30 - 12:25 Public arenas & societal values (S26) (+)  
11:30 - 11:55 › The Paris 2024 Olympics: An Arena for Institutional Actors and Civil Society Organizations - Sara Lancieri, Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza" = Sapienza University [Rome]  
12:00 - 12:25 › Organizations as Laboratories of Societal Value: Equal Opportunity and Sustainability as Experimental Fields - Hannah Mormann, Hochschule für Wirtschaft Zürich  
11:30 - 12:25 Transition from below I (S27) (+)  
11:30 - 11:55 › From Clean Streets to Sustainable Cities: Behavioural and Policy Pathways of Organizational Responsibility in Indore, India - Surbhi Dayal, Indian Institute of Management Indore  
12:00 - 12:25 › Shaping Socio-Technical Change: How Organizations Influence and Navigate Sustainability Transitions - Anna Skripchenko, Technische Universität Ilmenau  
11:30 - 12:25 Diversity at the Workplace (S28) (+)  
11:30 - 11:55 › Grist for the Mill: Confessional Labor, Inequality, and the Case of Hollywood Writers' Rooms - Julia Dessauer, Indiana University [Bloomington]  
12:00 - 12:25 › How Men Navigate Shifting Gender Norms: Uncertainty Regulation and Its Effects at Work and Beyond - Mona Algner, MSB Medical School Berlin  
12:25 - 13:30 Lunch  
13:30 - 14:55 Diversity in Academia I (H02 (Hörsaal 2)) (+)  
13:30 - 13:55 › Uneven Diversities in Universities: Institutionalization and Resistance Across Categories of Diversity - Matthias Schneider, Freie Universität Berlin = Free University of Berlin - Kathrin Zippel, Freie Universität Berlin = Free University of Berlin  
14:00 - 14:25 › Competitive Shocks and Educational Inequality: The Case of Swedish Schools - Stefan Arora jonsson, Uppsala Universitet [Uppsala]  
14:30 - 14:55 › Fixing academia? The creation and diffusion of a certification for gender equality in science - Tsamiyah Levi, Universidade Estadual de Campinas = University of Campinas  
13:30 - 14:55 Digital public administration and algorithmic rationalization (S25) (+)  
13:30 - 13:55 › The myth of algorithmic rationality. Rationalizing decision-making through digital information systems - Anne K. Krüger, Weizenbaum-Institut Berlin - Ingmar Mundt, Weizenbaum-Institut Berlin  
14:00 - 14:25 › From Paperwork to Prompts: How Chatbots Affect Organizational Performance in Public Administration - Eskil Gaasø Indrestrand, Norwegian University of Science and Technology [Trondheim]  
14:30 - 14:55 › Organizing the non-existent: The emergent organization of a digital voucher system - Uli Meyer, Johannes Kepler Universität - Stefanie Raible, Johannes Kepler Universität  
13:30 - 14:55 Quantification, accountability & justification in public institutions (S26) (+)  
13:30 - 13:55 › From Law to Affect: The Disassembly of Administrative Immunity in the Welfare State - Niels Åkerstrøm Andersen, CBS  
14:00 - 14:25 › Accounting for equity – what is at stake? Local public managers' accounts of equity in organizing local education systems. - Sigrunn Tvedten, University of South-Eastern Norway  
14:30 - 14:55 › Expectations of Research Transfer and the Quantification of Plural Organizational Practices in Germany - Walter Bartl, Institut für Hochschulforschung (HoF) Wittenberg - Robert Aust, Macromedia University of Applied Sciences - Olivia Laska, Institut für Hochschulforschung (HoF) Wittenberg  
13:30 - 14:55 Responsibility and legitimation (S27) (+)  
13:30 - 13:55 › Programmable Accountability and the Semantics of Sustainability - Margit Neisig, Roskilde University, Department of Social Sciences and Business  
14:00 - 14:25 › Bridging Strategies and Legitimation of New Collective Identities within Traditionalist Markets - Merve Gül Barut, University of St. Gallen  
14:30 - 14:55 › Rethinking the challenge of sustainability: Navigating the Paradox of Money and Gift in public organizations - Niels Thygesen, Copenhagen Business School [Copenhagen]  
14:55 - 15:15 Coffee break  
15:15 - 16:15 Plenary Session (H02 (Hörsaal 2)) (+)  
15:15 - 15:40 › Agricultural dis/connections – Farmer subjectivities and green transitions - Morten Knudsen, Copenhagen Business School [Copenhagen]  
15:45 - 16:10 › Structural and Institutional Factors in Work Transformation within Organizations Using Artificial Intelligence - FUJIMOTO Masayo, Doshisha University [Kyoto]  
16:15 - 19:00 Guided Potsdam City Tour - Registered Participants only!  

Tuesday, March 17, 2026

Time Event (+)
09:00 - 09:30 Arrival & Coffee - Arrival & Coffee  
09:30 - 10:40 Second Day Opening & Plenary Session (H02 (Hörsaal 2)) (+)  
09:40 - 10:05 › Organisation and Diversity: between Neo-Institutionalism and Functionalism - Maja Apelt, University of Potsdam - Ines Michalowski, University of Munster  
10:10 - 10:35 › Uncertain Knowledge, Precarious Agency and the Social Organisation of Women Self-Driven Transit Migrants in Morocco - Tjaša Cankar, IEDC - Bled School of Management - Jeanne Marie Attoungbre, Rabat Business School - ALBRECHT FRITZSCHE, IEDC- Bled School of Management  
10:40 - 11:00 Coffee break  
11:00 - 11:55 Diversity in the Corporate Sector I (S26) (+)  
11:00 - 11:25 › Organizational Classism and Gender Tokenism as Predictors of Inclusion Satisfaction among Female Employees of Corporate Sector in Pakistan - Muhammad Usman Arshad, University of the Punjab  
11:30 - 11:55 › Sexism in Silicon Slopes: Religion and Gendered Organizational Structures in the New Economy - Alyssa Calder Hulme, Alyssa Calder Hulme  
11:00 - 11:55 Interaction order, marginality & vulnerability (H02 (Hörsaal 2)) (+)  
11:00 - 11:25 › The Interaction Order of Organisational Order - Aksel Tjora, Norwegian University of Science and Technology - Gunhild Tøndel, Norwegian University of Science and Technology - Marius Vigen, Norwegian University of Science and Technology  
11:30 - 11:55 › Acting on the margins – conceptualising practices of the Other with vulnerability - Alice Neusiedler, Alice Neusiedler  
11:00 - 11:55 Influential Factors in Shaping Sustainability I (S28) (+)  
11:00 - 11:25 › Think Tanks as “Epistemic Influencing Organizations” in the German Energy Transition - Takis Jakob, Trier Universität = Trier University = Université de Trèves - Robert Jungmann, Trier Universität = Trier University = Université de Trèves  
11:30 - 11:55 › The leader and the already mobilized citizens: Three positions (plus a fourth alternative) on leadership and mobilization - Holger Højlund, VIA University College, Aarhus  
11:00 - 11:55 Diversity in Academia II (S27) (+)  
11:00 - 11:25 › Negotiating Merit and Inequality: Evaluations of worth in German student scholarship programmes - Insa Kriwall, Leibniz Universität Hannover  
11:30 - 11:55 › Individualization of Responsibility for Accessibility at Universities: When Disability Accommodations Do Not Compensate for Disadvantages - Yvonne Wechuli, University of Kassel  
11:00 - 11:55 Welfare state governance & collective relations (S25) (+)  
11:00 - 11:25 › Collective Relations in Governing the Welfare State – The Operational Turn and the (im)possibility of Collective Conflict? - Dorthe Pedersen, Copenhagen Business School  
11:30 - 11:55 › Localized Migration Governance and Educational Funding in Europe: Organizational Dynamics of (Child) Language Brokering in Germany and Spain - Benedikt Wirth, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin = Humboldt University of Berlin = Université Humboldt de Berlin, German Center for Integration and Migration Research (DeZIM e.V.)  
11:55 - 12:15 Coffee break  
12:15 - 13:10 Diversity in the Corporate Sector II (S26) (+)  
12:15 - 12:40 › From Compliance to Practice: DEI in Swedish Firms under CSRD-Driven Institutional Pressures - Jiyoung Han, Malmö Högskola = Malmö University  
12:45 - 13:10 › HR Managers in Russian Business Organizations: Role and Position in the Diversity and Inclusion Agenda - Victoria Antonova, National Research University Higher School of Economics [Moscow]  
12:15 - 13:10 Datafication and the human–machine boundary (S25) (+)  
12:15 - 12:40 › Datafication and Inter-Organizational Coupling: A Systems-Theoretical Perspective on Mutually Enforcing Dynamics - Laura Scheler, University of Passau  
12:45 - 13:10 › Humanness, generative AI, and slop. (Re-)constructing the human-machine boundary in organizations - Konstantin Hondros, Hemut Schmidt University Hamburg  
12:15 - 13:10 Education inequality & inequity (H02 (Hörsaal 2)) (+)  
12:15 - 12:40 › Disruptive partnerships? When corporate foundations provide answers to the desires of public education - and a little more... - Hanne Knudsen, Aarhus University, Department of education  
12:45 - 13:10 › What accounts for the failure or success of efforts to address childhood inequalities? - Hakon Leiulfsrud, Department of Sociology and Political Science. Norwegian University of Science and Technology  
12:15 - 13:10 Transition from below II (S28) (+)  
12:15 - 12:40 › Organizational innovation and collaborative governance in sustainability transitions: A case study of land stewardship and ecotourism development in Spain. - Victoria Sanagustín-Fons, Universidad de Zaragoza = University of Zaragoza [Saragossa University] = Université de Saragosse  
12:45 - 13:10 › Behind the Black Box in Organizations: Unsustainable Practices of Collegiality, Gossip, and Discrimination - Hanna Grauert, Helmut Schmidt University [Hamburg]  
12:15 - 13:10 Organizational Regulation of Diversity I (S27) (+)  
12:15 - 12:40 › Coordinating inclusion: How public administrations navigate between diversity, stability and organisational change - Jun Chu, Institut für Sozialinnovation (ISInova), Berlin  
12:45 - 13:10 › Reconceptualizing Intersectionality: Diversity and Social Inclusion at the British Broadcasting Corporation - Clifford Oswick, City St George's, University of London  
13:10 - 14:15 Lunch  
14:15 - 15:10 Organizational Regulation of Diversity II (S26) (+)  
14:15 - 14:40 › Lawful Discrimination: How Ambiguity Makes Inequality Legal - Joshua Hurwitz, University of Liverpool  
14:45 - 15:10 › Gendered Power Struggles: A Micropolitical Conceptualisation of Organisational Resistance - Lena Weber, GESIS; Center for Gender Relations in Academia - Riegraf Birgit, Paderborn University  
14:15 - 15:10 Quantification and financialization: numbers as governance (S25) (+)  
14:15 - 14:40 › Prison by Numbers: Measuring Security and Rehabilitation Between Gradual Change and Organizational Resistance - Marion Neunkirchner, Bertha von Suttner Private University  
14:45 - 15:10 › Algorithmic Investment. The Digitalization of Financial Organizations through Quant Hedge Funds - Marco Jöstingmeier, Helmut Schmidt University, University of the Armed Forces Hamburg  
14:15 - 15:10 Educational organizations & policy implementation (S27) (+)  
14:15 - 14:40 › Bureaucracy, Holocracy, Adhocracy – das (that) crazy. The Handling of Social Inequality in German Childcare Organizations - Ingo Bode, Institute of Social Work and Social Welfare - Johannes Eckstein, Institute of Social Work and Social Welfare  
14:45 - 15:10 › Coupling dynamics in policy implementation: Understanding organizational change and resistance in plurilingual education reform in Luxembourg's ECEC sector. - Kevin Simoes Loureiro, University of Fribourg  
14:15 - 15:10 Influential Factors in Shaping Sustainability II (S28) (+)  
14:15 - 14:40 › Problem and Solution Entrepreneurs: Organizations in a World of Competing Ideas - Marc Mölders, Johannes Gutenberg - Universität Mainz = Johannes Gutenberg University  
14:45 - 15:10 › Meta-organizations as Pathways to Sustainability? Opportunities and Challenges in the Transition towards an Ecosystem Approach - Kurt Rachlitz, Norwegian University of Science and Technology  
15:10 - 15:30 Coffee break  
15:30 - 16:30 Plenary Session (H02 (Hörsaal 2)) (+)  
15:30 - 15:55 › Does Artificial Intelligence Constitute a New Phase of Alienation in the Managerial University? - Yilmaz Ayca, Turkish German University - Ozan Tekin, Sabanci University [Istanbul]  
16:00 - 16:25 › Woes of an ‘Uncertain Giant': The Past, Present, (and Future) of Organization Studies - Leopold Ringel, Bielefeld University  
16:30 - 17:00 Closing (H02 (Hörsaal 2))  
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