Our research is dedicated to the field of organizational and strategic management research as well as qualitative methodological research. In particular, we focus on the analysis of the effects of modern information and communication technologies, data and algorithms in organizations from a strategic and business ethics perspective.

We conceptualize these fields of research as discourses, practices, paradoxes and processes in the context of sophisticated empirical studies. For example, we look at how technologies are constructed in social or organizational discourses and to what extent such constructions are linked to strategic practices in organizations. Furthermore, we examine how the characteristics of modern communication technologies change strategic practices in organizations. Another focus concerns the investigation of the strategic significance of data and algorithms beyond efficiency effects: strategic risks such as algorithm-induced path dependencies or ethical aspects of data use (data responsibility) are exemplary topics that we are currently working on.

From a theoretical perspective, we draw on a broad spectrum of strategic and (post-)modern organizational theories as well as selected sociological approaches such as the sociology of knowledge and practice theory in particular. Our empirical research focuses on qualitative studies that involve sophisticated data collection methods (observation, interviews, documents, artifacts) and a variety of analytical methods (grounded theory, content analysis, discourse analysis, hermeneutics).

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