PhD defence: Andreas Kamstrup

Innovations and innovative ways of organising seem to be in constant demand in contemporary organisations. In the architectural world, such demands are reflected in new ways of organising interactions between the different actors in the building industry. On the basis of ethnographic studies, this dissertation examines two different ‘organizational technologies’ used to organize such interactions – a crowdsourcing platform and a dialogue-based architectural competition. The dissertation finds that introducing collaboration (in forms of dialogue and communication) to interactions that traditionally are competition-based, raises questions concerning – for instance – the role of openness and the facilitation of such collaboration. The dissertation is article-based.
 
Primary Supervisor:
Associate Professor Ursula Plesner
Department of Organisation
Copenhagen Business School
 
Assessment Committee:
Associate Professor Lise Justesen
Department of Organisation
Copenhagen Business School
 
Professor Torben Elgaard Jensen
Department of Education, Learning and Philosophy
Aalborg University
 
Associate Professor Anne-Laure Fayard
Dept. of Technology Management and Innovation
New York University (NYU)

Thesis:
The thesis is available here
 
Reception:
The Doctoral School of Organisation and Management Studies will host a reception, which will take place immediately after the defence in the kitchen at IOA on the 4th floor.