Ghita Drags­dahl Laur­itzen

My research focuses on collaborative forms of innovation and cross-sector partnerships. In particular, I am interested in how organizations navigate and negotiate paradoxes arising from conflicting demands between collaborating partners, such as between top-down and bottom-up; sustainability and business. Inspired by Niklas Luhmann’s systems theory, I am passionate about developing new frameworks for managing the complex dynamics arising from cross-boundary innovation projects. Empirical settings include user communities, crowdsourcing, university-industry collaboration, and partnerships between the public and civil sector. I teach in the fields of innovation, entrepreneurship, healthcare, and sociology.

Professional and/or academic experience

Primary research areas are innovation management, citizen participation/civil sector, digitalization, sustainability, IP management.

Selected publications:
Zundel, M., La Cour, A. & Lauritzen, G.D. (2021) Spencer Brown’s Paradox, chapter in Bednarek, R., M. Pina e Cunha, J. Schad & W. Smith (Eds.) Research in the Sociology of Organizations, vol. on Interdisciplinary Dialogues on Organizational Paradox: Investigating Social Structures and Human Expression, Part B

Onken-Menke, G. D., Lauritzen, J. N. Foege & S. Nüesch (2021) Organisational Attractiveness after Identity Threats of Crisis: How Potential Employees Anticipate Social Identity. European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology

Lauritzen, G.D. (2020). Looking beyond formal organization: How public managers organise voluntary work by adapting to deviance. Systems Research and Behavioral Science, 37(3), pp. 467-481

Lauritzen, G. D., & Karafyllia, M. (2019). Perspective: Leveraging Open Innovation through Paradox. Journal of Product Innovation Management, 36(1), 107-121

Foege, J. N., G. D. Lauritzen, F. Tietze & T. O. Salge (2019). Reconceptualizing the paradox of openness: How solvers navigate sharing-protecting tensions in crowdsourcing. Research Policy, 48(6), pp. 1323-1339

Lauritzen, G. D. (2017). The Role of Innovation Intermediaries in Firm-Innovation Community Collaboration: Navigating the Membership Paradox. Journal of Product Innovation Management, 34(3), pp. 289-314
 

Pedagogical experience/method skills/supervision                          

I supervise in the fields of sociology, innovation, and management.