Inaugural Lecture with Professor Daniel Hjorth
Bridging Management and Humanities Inaugural Lecture Series
Organisational Creativity - Affirmation and Intensity
by Professor Daniel Hjorth
Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy, CBS invites you to join Professor Daniel Hjorth’s inaugural lecture on Wednesday, December 15 2010 at 15:00.
Daniel Hjorth is Professor in Entrepreneurship and Organisation at Copenhagen Business School since April 1, 2010, was Professor (mso) in Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management (also at CBS) between April 2006 and March 2010, and is adjunct Professor at the Linnäus University (Sweden). Via doctoral studies at Lund University, Växjö University, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, and University of Massachusetts, he completed his Doctor of Philosophy in Business Administration in 2001.
Organisational Creativity - Affirmation and Intensity
Oxymoronic, some would say, describes more precisely than many alternative adjectives the relationship between organization(s) and creativity. Indeed, high industrialisation’s craze for the Taylorite ‘agents of production,’ simultaneously meant a centering on the manager as guardian of such organizational order in which those agents should produce in predictable and efficient ways. Since those days (1900-1930), important for management, organization and entrepreneurship alike (Weber, Taylor, Mayo, and Schumpeter all publish at this time), something has perhaps occurred in the history of the concept and practice of organization that could be called a break. We may refer to this as postindustrialism and by this imply a de-centering of the manager, a loss of organizational foundations and a subsequent search for new organizational forms, and the dawn of the age of the entrepreneur.
Postindustrialism has emerged in an intellectual context where poststructuralism, in its polymorphic frailty and multitudinous strength, has urged us to learn how to think, focus, study and analyse process. This presents us with numerous challenges, especially when what we need to know – a conclusion shared by practitioners, publishing houses, and students alike – is how creativity, entrepreneurship and innovation are the stuff that organizations are made of.
In his lecture, Daniel Hjorth will shortly elaborate on the problematisation, sketched above, in order to focusing on the problem of creation as an organizational achievement. In a gesture towards the performative, actualization of this investigation itself necessitates an engagement with affirmation and intensity, key ingredients in making organizational creation (as well as analyses thereof) happen.
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Program: |
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15:00-15:10 |
Welcome by Head of Department, Professor Pierre Guillet de Monthoux, CBS |
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15:10-16:00 |
Inauguration lecture by Professor Daniel Hjorth |
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16:00-17:00 |
Reception at MPP |
MPP Inaugural Lecture Series: BRIDGING HUMANISM AND MANAGEMENT is set this autumn and winter with newly appointed professors:
22 September 2010 – Professor Pierre Guillet de Monthoux: ’Money – a bridge between management and the humanities?’
16 November 2010 – Professor Kurt Jacobsen: ’History matters’
1 December 2010 – Professor Daved Barry: ‘The New Organizational Design’
15 December 2010 – Professor Daniel Hjorth: ’Organisational Creativity- Affirmation and Intensity’
17 January 2011 – Professor Robert Austin: ‘Accidental Innovation – Supporting valuable Unpredictability in Creative Process’
3 February 2011 – Professor Sverre Raffnsøe: ’Critique Incorporated’
3 March 2011 – Professor Lotte Jensen: ‘Expenditure politics and welfare management’