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Maja Lotz

Maja Lotz
Assistant professor , PhD
Maja Lotz

Department of Business and Politics

Steen Blichers Vej 22
DK-2000 Frederiksberg
Tel.: +45 3815 3596
Fax:+45 3815 3555
E-mail: ml.dbp@cbs.dk



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Affiliated with DanREGLO

My research seeks to understand how organizational members co-create and experiment with new ways to collaborate, learn and combine knowledge and practices across different groupings and contexts. I study firm dynamics by exploring the day-to-day work practices that enable such dynamics.
Rooted within the field of organizational sociology, I investigate the everyday interactions and collaboration patterns of organizational members that facilitate new forms of work organization, co-creation, learning, innovation and experimental governance within and across various collaborative organizational settings  - such as teams, units, and firms. In particular, I have studied the micro-dynamics of work roles, communities, and work-organizing practices enabling mutual learning and innovative co-creation in small and medium seized multinational manufacturing firms operating globally.
My work provides insights into the everyday work practices and collaborative encounters through which organizational members develop new organizational patterns of production, organizing and innovation in order to meet (and prosper from) the demands of the global economy.
My dissertation ” The Business of Co-creation and the Co-creation of Business” generates a micro-level understanding of co-creation as an organizational process in modern organizations.
Affiliated with the following research projects: GREEN (EU Framework 7), Making Innovation Global? (Tuborg Fondet) .

Primary research areas

  • Work organization
  • Co-creation as an organizational process
  • The (re-)shaping of work roles and communities in post-bureaucratic organizational forms
  • Distributed everyday innovation practices
  • Collaboration and rivalry as triggers for learning
  • Economic sociology
  • Organizational studies
  • Social theory


Selected publications

Journal Articles
Lotz, Maja and Peer Hull Kristensen (2011). Taking Teams Seriously in the Co-creation of Firms and Economic Agency. Organization Studies - (Forthcoming 2012).
Lotz, Maja (2010). Team Learning: Trough Relational Dynamics of Collaboration and Rivalry in Team Communities. International Journal of Lifelong Learning, 29(5): 593-612.
Lotz, Maja og Signe E. Olsen (2005). Teamarbejdets dannelsesdynamikker og menneskelige konsekvenser. Tidsskrift for Arbejdsliv, Vol. 1: 43-60.
Book/Dissertation
Lotz, Maja (2009). The Business of Co-creation – and the Co-creation of Business. PhD Series 15. 2009, Copenhagen Business School.
Book Chapters
Kristensen, Peer Hull, Maja Lotz & Robson Rocha (2011): ‘Tailoring Danish Flexicurity for Changing Roles in Global Games’, in Peer Hull Kristensen and Kari Lilja (eds): Nordic Capitalisms and Globalization: New Forms of Economic Organization and Welfare Institutions. Oxford University Press.
Lotz, Maja and Peer Hull Kristensen (2011). ‘Moving Organizations towards Employee Driven Innovation (EDI) in Work Practices and on a Global Scale: Possibilities and Challenges. - Exploring ’organizational moves’ towards EDI within the field of Danish multinationals. Chapter contribution accepted for an Anthology titled Employee Driven Innovation under preparation for Palgrave Macmillan (Forthcoming 2012).
Kristensen, Peer Hull, Maja Lotz & Robson Rocha (2010). ‘The Construction of the Firm in a Flexicurity Context’ (in Danish): ‘Virksomhedskonstruktion i en flexicurity-kontekst’, in Kaspersen et al (Eds.): Public or Private? (In Danish: Offentligt eller privat?), Jurist- og Økonomiforbundets Forlag.
Kristensen, Peer Hull, Maja Lotz & Robson Rocha (2009). ‘The Danish Case: Complementarities of Local and National Dynamics’, in Peer Hull Kristensen and Kari Lilja (eds): New Modes of Globalizing: Experimentalist Forms of Economic Organization and Enabling Welfare Institutions – Lessons from the Nordic Countries and Slovenia. Helsinki School of Economics, HSE Print 2009.


Last updated by Mette Grue Nielsen 01/06/2011