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Daniel Hjorth

Professor

Subjects
Organisation Entrepreneurship Creativity Qualitative methods Culture Philosophy

Primary research areas

Organizational Creativity & Entrepreneurship

This research is focused on the organizational conditions for creativity and entrepreneurship in the context of the already organized. The tension between organizing the existing (management) and creating the becoming (entrepreneurship) is of particular interest.

Philosophy & Business

This research develops the relationships between philosophy and business. Partly, philosophy provides a basis for an analytical strategy used in processing empirical data, and partly it provides a conversational plateau for imagining the future of business in society.

Craft and Emerging forms of Organizing

Craft is researched as a practice where aesthetics and economy are related. It is also studies as a way of organizing business that provides a more meaningful and existentially sustainable form of business.

Reimagining business from an aesthetics – economy dialogue

My research seeks both to craft an educational dialogue with existing organizations and businesses in order for new knowledge to emerge, and to challenge existing practices. The latter relies on innovation in thinking and is inspired both from problems in practice and from theory, philosophy and literature/art. 

Serving as Editor-in-Chief for the Financial Times top-50 listed journal Organization Studies for several years deepened the intimate conversation between organization- and entrepreneurship studies that has for long been central to my work.  

Presently, aesthetics and business creativity are central to my research and it tackles the motivational crisis and what I see as challenges with building more existential sustainable organizations/businesses. Here, craft represents an interesting example to learn from. 

Links

Centre for Aesthetics and Business Creativity - ABC

The ABC-centre explores the ‘conversation’ between aesthetics and economy in the context of organizations.
ABC-centre website

Outside activities

Adjunct Professor, Graduate School of Management, Kyoto University, Japan, 2018–present

Collaborate with Graduate School of Management, Kyoto University, on craft, design, and philosophy and organizations.
Link to Kyoto University Faculty page.

Member of Swedish Riksbank Research foundation, scientific assessment committee (economics, business administration, political science, statistics, economic history), 2012–2016, 2017

Assessing research applications on a yearly basis.