I am interested in understanding how social inequalities unfold from organizational perspectives and focus on collective change efforts towards more social justice. With an established research focus on intersectional gender inequalities at the interface of individual, organization, and society, I especially emphasize the ways in which resistance can emerge from vulnerabilities and enable collective forms of organizing.
From 01/11/2022 Habilitation (habil.) in Business Administration, WU Vienna, Austria
Habilitation Committee: Wolfgang Mayrhofer, t.b.d.
01/10/2018 – 19/10/2022 Doctorate (Dr.) in Social and Economic Sciences, WU Vienna, Austria
Doctoral Committee: Wolfgang Mayrhofer, Sara Louise Muhr, Renate Meyer
Thesis title: Intersectional Inequality in Careers: A Feminist Perspective on the Role of Social Class
01/09/2016 – 11/06/2018 Master(MSc.) in Business, Language and Culture, Concentration Diversity and Change Management, CBS, Denmark
Supervisor: Sara Louise Muhr
Thesis title: Homosexual Identities at KPMG: An Exploration of the Contextual Navigation of Employees’ Homosexual Identities in the KPMG Work Environment
01/10/2011 – 28/07/2016 Bachelor(BSc.) in Business, Economics and Social Sciences, Concentrations Diversity Management and Change Management, WU Vienna, Austria
Supervisor: Anett Herrmann
Thesis title: Integration of Refugees into the Austrian Labor Market and the Management of Cultural Diversity
30/01/2015 – 22/07/2015 Exchange student in International Business, Universidad de Valencia, Spain
From 01/01/2025 Post Doc Researcher, Research Institute for Organizational Psychology, HSG University of St. Gallen, Switzerland
From 01/01/2024 Post DocResearcher & Lecturer, Interdisciplinary Institute for Management and Organizational Behavior, WU Vienna, Austria
01/01/2024 – 31/12/2024 Post DocResearcher & Lecturer, Department of Organization, CBS, Denmark
01/11/2022 – 31/12/2023 Assistant Professor (Post Doc), Interdisciplinary Institute for Management and Organizational Behavior, WU Vienna, Austria
01/08/2021 – 31/10/2021 Visiting PhD Scholar withSara Louise Muhr, Department of Organization, CBS, Denmark
15/03/2019 – 31/10/2022 PhD Fellow (Research and Teaching Associate), Interdisciplinary Institute for Management and Organizational Behavior, WU Vienna, Austria
QUEER SPACE: COLLECTIVE ORGANIZATION OF RESISTANCE THROUGH QUEERING SPATIAL PRACTICES
This research project entitled “Collective Organization of Resistance through Queering Spatial Practices” (QueerSpace) inquires how collective resistance emerges from queering spatial practices in creative industries. In the last decades, queer perspectives and inquiries of resistance have received increasing attention in studies of organizations and organizing. However, research on the organization of resistance through queer collective practice is rare. QueerSpace therefore raises the research question: "How does collective resistance emerge from queering spatial practices in creative industries?". The study builds on theories of resistance, space, and affect and draws on qualitative ethnographic data collected with queer collectives in the creative industries of Zurich and Vienna. Investigations include different kinds of queer collectives (drag performance collectives, queer music collectives, and queer contemporary art collectives) in the two cities, highlighting the role of the urban space context and the collectives’ embeddedness in the different art scenes. Focusing on organizational forces of resistance, QueerSpace emphasizes collectives that dedicate themselves to challenge dominant norms of gender and sexuality by creating spaces of resistance in which minority experiences are validated. In investigating these spaces, the study applies an affective ethnographic approach and draws on queer affective methodologies to investigate how affect becomes communal as it emerges from collective encounters in the form of atmospheres with organizational forces. By studying queering spatial practices through an affect-theoretical lens, QueerSpace contributes to existing research on the organization of resistance with a queer perspective and insights into the collective aspect of organizing resistance.
Since 2024 EGOS Feminist Network, Network Co-lead
Since 2022 Queer Feminist Research Network, Network Co-lead
Since 2020 EGOS Member, Co-organizer Conference Social Organizing Team EGOS Conference 2022, Vienna, Austria
Since 2019 Academy of Management Member, Divisions and Interest Groups: Careers, Gender and Diversity in Organizations
Member of the Cross-Cultural Collaboration on Contemporary Careers (5C), an international research network that studies careers around the globe
2019 - 2023 WU Department Conference, Institute Representative for center section
2024 Great Minds Fellowship fellow, Basic Research Fund of HSG University of St. Gallen, Switzerland
2023 Stephan Koren Prize winner, WU Vienna, Austria
Research Grant recipient for the Queer Feminist Research Network, Gender, Work and Organization, Wiley
2022 WU Dissertation Research Prize winner, WU Vienna, Austria
Finalist for 2022 Arnon Reichers Best Student Paper Award, Academy of Management Annual Meeting 2022, Seattle, USA, WA
2021 International Research Fellow, WU Vienna, Austria
Research Grant awardee, Special grant for social and economic research on topics related to the Covid-19 pandemic, Kaiserschild-Stiftung, Hieflau, Austria
2019 WU Merit Scholarship fellow, WU Vienna, Austria
Selected Conference & Workshop Activities
2025 Embodied creativity in queer worldmaking, Sub-theme, Convener, European Group of Organization Studies (EGOS) Annual Meeting, Athens, Greece
2024 Time to create queer spaces: Queering organization studies, Sub-theme, Convener, European Group of Organization Studies (EGOS) Annual Meeting, Milan, Italy
Queering bodies and desires: An intersectional approach to gender and sexuality, Stream, Convener, Gender, Work and Organization (GWO) Annual Meeting, Cape Breton, Canada
Writing Dreams, Dreaming to Write, Organizer & Convener, 2nd Queer Feminist Writing Workshop of the Queer Feminist Research Network, Ascona, Switzerland
Re-thinking responsible management: Exploring the ethics and politics of organizing and researching, Presenter, Workshop at Aalto University, Espoo, Finland
2023 Shaping desirable futures: Imagining (real) utopias, Paper Session, Presenter, European Group of Organization Studies (EGOS) Annual Meeting, Cagliari, Sardinia
Queer(ing) activism in organizations: Voicing experiences of queer bodies, allyship, and alliances across intersectional marginalization, Stream, Convener, Gender, Work and Organization (GWO) Annual Meeting, Cape Town, South Africa
Utopias and dystopias: Organization studies in a brave new world? Paper Session, 17th Organization Studies Workshop, Athens, Greece
Bodies to words - Words to bodies, Organizer & Convener, 1st Queer Feminist Writing Workshop of the GWO Queer Feminist Research Network, Vienna, Austria
Community, Democracy, and Organizations, Paper Session, Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE) Conference (virtual), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Where work/life happens: Spaces and Places in Flux, Roundtable Session, Presenter, Space Workshop Aalto University, Espoo, Finland
2022 Diversity & Inclusion, Paper Session, Presenter, XII International Workshop on Human Resource Management (IHRM), Cádiz, Spain
Queer vs. Heteronormative Research Track Session & Incubator, PDW Sessions, Presenter & Discussant, 7th CBS Workshop on Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion, Copenhagen, Denmark
Embodied Gender in Economics, Paper Session, Presenter, Annual Meeting of the Austrian Society for Gender Research (ÖGGF), Salzburg, Austria
Career Agency, Identity and Social Class Factors, Paper Session, Presenter, Academy of Management Annual (AoM) Meeting, Seattle, WA
Gender and Careers, Paper Session & Social Movements and Organizations, PDW Session, Presenter & Discussant, 38th European Group of Organization Studies (EGOS) Annual Meeting, Vienna, Austria
Feminisms and Intersectionalities in/at Work, Employment and Organizations, Paper Session & Vulnerable Relational Praxis in Organizations, Paper Session, Presenter & Discussant, Gender, Work and Organization (GWO) Conference, Bogota, Colombia
Translating Research into Practice: Interrupting Bias to Promote Diversity, Podium Discussion, Panelist, CBSEvent of the International Women’s Day, Copenhagen, Denmark
AMR Workshop on theorizing time, Paper Development Workshop, Participant, Academy of Management Review (AMR) Workshop (virtual)
Diversity, Diversity Management and Intersectionality in a Global Context - Dynamics and Realignments, Paper Session, Presenter, WU Gender and Diversity Conference (virtual)
Challenging Communication, Presenter, Conference Kaiserschild Foundation, Covid-19-related research grant program (virtual)
2021-2022 Conference Social Organizing Team, Co-organizer, 38th European Group of Organization Studies (EGOS) Annual Meeting, Vienna, Austria
2021 Gender and Class-based Inequalities and Identities at Work, Paper Session, Presenter, Gender, Work and Organization (GWO) Conference (virtual)
Social Class and Gender in Working Lives across the Globe, Symposium, Organizer, Academy of Management (AoM) Annual Meeting (virtual)
Workplace Inclusion, Symposium, Co-organizer, Human Rights Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark
Intersectionality: Social Inequalities, Marginalization, Power, Paper Session, Presenter, Standing Conference on Organizational Symbolism (SCOS) (virtual)
2020 Inclusive Careers, Paper Session, Presenter, Academy of Management (AoM) Annual Meeting (virtual)
Time is of the Essence: Reviving the Temporal Perspective on Careers, Paper Session, Panelist, European Group of Organization Studies (EGOS) Annual Meeting (virtual)
Teaching about Careers in Turbulent Times, PDW Session, Panelist, 1st Careers Division Community Conference (CarCon), Vienna, Austria
2019-2020 Conference Organizing Team, Co-organizer, 1st Careers Division Community Conference(CarCon), WU Vienna, Austria
2019 Equal Opportunities, Good Work and Careers, Paper Session, Presenter, AKempor Annual Meeting, Hamburg, Germany
Grounded Theory Method Working Group, Participant, Vienna Autumn School of Methods, Vienna, Austria
On-Boarding Diversity in Corporate Boards Research, PDW Session, Co-organizer, Academy of Management (AoM) Annual Meeting, Boston, MA
Since 2024 Reviewer for Work, Employment and Society
2023 - 2024 Special IssueGuestEditor of SI “Queer Troublemakers and Intersectional Solidarity in Times of Anti-Queer Backlash” for Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management
Since 2023 Reviewer for the International Journal of Human Resource Management
Since 2022 Reviewer for the Journal of Business Ethics
Reviewer forOpen Gender Journal
2022 - 2024 Editorial Review Board Member of Gender, Work & Organization
2021 - 2024 Reviewer for Gender, Work & Organization
2020-2021 Special IssueEditor of SI “Unconscious Bias in Organizations”, Women, Gender & Research
Since 2020 Reviewer for Organization
Reviewer for Academy of Management Conference