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The Business of Co-creation and the Co-creation of Business

PhD defence: Maja Lotz

The Business of Co-creation and the Co-creation of Business
In order to obtain the PhD degree Maja Lotz has submitted her PhD thesis.
Danish manufacturing companies collaborate and compete in a global environment characterized by relentless change and high ambiguity. In response firms have developed increasingly complex collaborative interdependencies within and among organizations. These collaborations call for (and enable) organizational members to engage in ongoing distributed search for co-creative innovations. The dissertation studies this poorly understood process, exploring how people in Danish manufacturing companies co-create new work practices, roles, communing relationships and products in experimental ways.
The dissertation contributes to a micro-level understanding of the dynamics of co-creation in modern organizations asking: what and who co-create(s), and how does this operate in contemporary organizational life? It seeks to analyze and understand these firm dynamics of co-creation by focusing on the level of everyday work roles, "communing" and "work organizing practices" that generate a constant sense of belief and doubt thus helping organizational members to redefine existing work practices, learn and improve.
By illuminating the inner mechanisms (or relational dynamics) of these work organizing practices and how they allow for human and organizational growth, the study gives content to the notion of the so-called "learning organization" and offers some promising routes towards co-creating such organizational forms. It thus casts light on the Danish transformation process towards new organizational patterns of production, organizing and innovation able to meet (and prosper from) the demands of the global economy and the rising competitive pressures it brings.
Supervisors:
Professor Peer Hull Kristensen, CBS
Professor Lars Bo Kaspersen, CBS
Assessment Committee:
Associate Professor Peter Kjær (chairperson)
Department of Organization
Copenhagen Business School
Professor Charles Heckscher
Rutgers University
Professor Gary Herrigel
University of Chicago
Everyone is welcome to attend the defence, which will take place in English.
After the defence there will be a reception at the International Center for Business and Politics, Steen Blichers Vej 22, 2000 Frederiksberg
Peter Kjær
Head of department
Department of Organization
The thesis will be available from www.cbs.dk/ioa
approx. one week before the defence

Time: 12.06 14.00 -16.00


Place: Copenhagen Business School
Kilevej 14 A
2000 Frederiksberg


Room: Ks48




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