Institut for Organisation

My main research interest concerns questions of organizational change management and the relationship of organizational change and time. As productivity increasingly becomes the dominant way to think about work performance, many change processes in organizations are initiated based on a conception of time as money. Since this conception is not necessarily shared by all organizational members, I am interested in how managers engage employees in organizational change and in the dynamics arising from differing conceptions of time. In extension, I am particularly interested in how managers and employees appropriate different narratives about the organizational past, present, and future and in how these narratives are influenced by the past. Theoretically, my work is inspired by the writings of Pierre Bourdieu and his construct of habitus in particular.