bobhl
Department of Business Humanities and Law
- Entrepreneurship, Ethics & Leadership Unit
Birke
Otto
External lecturer
,
guest researcher
Room:
POR/18.B-3.149
Tel:
+4538153766
E-mail:
bo.bhl@cbs.dk
523496
Presentation
As a cultural sociologist, I am concerned with how societal discourses are reflected, created, and challenged in the everyday practices of organizations. Currently, I work as a postdoctoral researcher in the "Organised Creativity" research group, funded by the German Research Council and based at Free University Berlin and Leuphana University Lüneburg. In this role, I explore how notions of failure, time, and secrecy shape creativity and innovation processes. My research spans various organizational contexts, including digital media, scientific laboratories, and the healthcare industry, which I study through processual and practice-based lenses. I serve on the editorial team of ephemera: theory and politics in organization and teach courses on organizational theory, innovation, alternative organizations, and sustainable futures.
Primary research areas
- Failure and time in creativity and innovation discourses and practices
- Transparency, secrecy, ignorance as organising principles
- Online communities and digital media
- Grand challenges (water governance, antimicrobial resistance) and alternative organizing
- Organization theory
- Cultural sociology
Links
Link to this homepage
www.cbs.dk/en/staff/bobhl
Courses
- Organizing for Desirable Futures (coordinator)
- Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship (coordinator)
- The Organization of Health Care Innovation
- Theories of Contemporary Society
- Minor: Building Organizations for Sustainable Futures: Business and Economics in Transformation
- PhD course: Social and Organizational Theories of Transformation
Selected publications
- Birke Otto; Benjamin Schiemer; Harry Sminia: Failure as process – shaping what is worth doing in creative projects, Research in the Sociology of Organization (forthcoming)
- Birke Otto; Elke Schuessler; Joerg Sydow; Lukas Vogelgsang: Finding Creativity in Predictability: Temporal Work in Complex Innovation Processes, Organization Science (2024)
- Birke Otto; Anke Strauss: The Novel as Affective Site: Uncertain Work as Impasse, Organization Studies (2019)
Publications sorted by:
2024
Lukas Vogelgsang; Birke Otto; Ghita Dragsdahl Lauritzen / Don't Ask, Do Tell : Knowledge Work and Public Secrecy in Online Innovation Communities.
Abstract from 84. Wissenschaftliche Jahrestagung des Verbandes der Hochschullehrerinnen und Hochschullehrer für Betriebswirtschaft e.V., 2024
Abstract from 84. Wissenschaftliche Jahrestagung des Verbandes der Hochschullehrerinnen und Hochschullehrer für Betriebswirtschaft e.V., 2024
Conference abstract for conference > peer review
Birke Otto; Elke S. Schuessler; Jörg Sydow; Lukas Vogelgsang / Finding Creativity in Predictability : Seizing Kairos in Chronos Through Temporal Work in Complex Innovation Processes.
In: Organization Science, Vol. 35, No. 5, 9.2024, p. 1795-1822
In: Organization Science, Vol. 35, No. 5, 9.2024, p. 1795-1822
Journal article > peer review
Lukas Vogelgsang; Birke Dorothea Otto; Ghita Dragsdahl Lauritzen / If I Need Help, I Can’t Be Quiet : Secrecy, Openness, and Knowledge in Online Innovation Communities.
In: Proceedings of the Eighty-fourth Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management. ed. /Sonia Taneja. Valhalla, NY : Academy of Management 2024, 6 p. (Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings)
In: Proceedings of the Eighty-fourth Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management. ed. /Sonia Taneja. Valhalla, NY : Academy of Management 2024, 6 p. (Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings)
Conference abstract in proceedings > peer review
2023
Birke Otto; Benjamin Schiemer; Harry Sminia; Jörg Sydow / Failure is not Quitting : The Unravelling Expectations in Creative Projects.
Paper presented at 39th EGOS Colloquium 2023, 2023
Paper presented at 39th EGOS Colloquium 2023, 2023
Paper > peer review
Lukas Vogelgsang; Birke Otto; Ghita Dragsdahl Lauritzen / Working With a Naked Emperor : Managing Public Secrecy in Open Innovation.
Paper presented at 39th EGOS Colloquium 2023, 2023
Paper presented at 39th EGOS Colloquium 2023, 2023
Paper > peer review
2022
Birke Otto; Elke Schuessler; Jörg Sydow; Lukas Vogelgsang / Abductive Timing in Pharmaceutical Innovation
Paper presented at 83. Wissenschaftliche Jahrestagung des Verbandes, 2022
Paper presented at 83. Wissenschaftliche Jahrestagung des Verbandes, 2022
Paper > peer review
Birke Otto; Harry Sminia; Jörg Sydow / Continously Failing Creativity in Context : Project Trajectories in Antibiotics Development.
Paper presented at 23rd International Continous Innovation Network Conference. CiNet 2023, 2022
Paper presented at 23rd International Continous Innovation Network Conference. CiNet 2023, 2022
Paper > peer review
Birke Otto / The Generative Properties of Secrecy : A Case Study of Pharmaceutical Innovation.
Paper presented at The 7th Global Conference on Transparency Research 2022. GCTR 2022, 2022
Paper presented at The 7th Global Conference on Transparency Research 2022. GCTR 2022, 2022
Paper
2021
Birke Otto / Book Review: The Conversational Firm: Rethinking Bureaucracy in the Age of Social Media
In: Organization, Vol. 28, No. 4, 7.2021, p. 709-712
In: Organization, Vol. 28, No. 4, 7.2021, p. 709-712
Book review > peer review
Birke Otto; Elke Schüßler; Katharina Zangerle / Greenhouses are Made of Glass : Tensions in Experimental Spaces for Creative Collaboration in Front-end Pharmaceutical Research.
In: Collaborative Spaces at Work: Innovation, Creativity and Relations. . ed. /Fabrizio Montanari; Elisa Mattarelli; Anna Chiara Scapolan. Abingdon : Routledge 2021, p. 238-251 (Routledge Advances in Management and Business Studies)
In: Collaborative Spaces at Work: Innovation, Creativity and Relations. . ed. /Fabrizio Montanari; Elisa Mattarelli; Anna Chiara Scapolan. Abingdon : Routledge 2021, p. 238-251 (Routledge Advances in Management and Business Studies)
Book chapter > peer review
2021
Birke Otto; Benjamin Schiemer / Noticing and Ignoring Ideas in Creative Journeys in Arts and Science
Paper presented at 37th EGOS Colloquium 2021, 2021
Paper presented at 37th EGOS Colloquium 2021, 2021
Paper > peer review
Birke Otto; Christian Garmann Johnsen; Emil Husted; Justine Grønbæk Pors; Jette Sandager; Lena Olaison; / Pasts, Presents and Futures of Critical Publishing
In: Ephemera: Theory & politics in organization, Vol. 21, No. 4, 2021, 21 p., p. 1-21
In: Ephemera: Theory & politics in organization, Vol. 21, No. 4, 2021, 21 p., p. 1-21
Editorial > peer review
Laura Kemmer; Annika Kühn; Birke Otto; Vanessa Weber / Standby : Organizing Modes of In|Activity.
In: Ephemera: Theory & politics in organization, Vol. 21, No. 1, 2021, 20 p., p. 1-20
In: Ephemera: Theory & politics in organization, Vol. 21, No. 1, 2021, 20 p., p. 1-20
Editorial > peer review
Birke Otto / The Power to Ignore and the Power to Hide
In: Journal of Cultural Economy, Vol. 14, No. 3, 2021, p. 361-363
In: Journal of Cultural Economy, Vol. 14, No. 3, 2021, p. 361-363
Book review > peer review
Birke Otto; Elke Schuessler; Jörg Sydow; Lukas Vogelgsang / Tolerating and Inducing Temporal Asynchronicity in Complex Innovation Journeys
Paper presented at The Academy of Management Annual Meeting 2021, 2021
Paper presented at The Academy of Management Annual Meeting 2021, 2021
Paper > peer review
2020
Birke Otto; Elke Schüßler; Jörg Sydow; Lukas Vogelgsang / Creativity and Temporal (Dis-)entrainment in Drug Development
Paper presented at 36th EGOS Colloquium 2020, 2020
Paper presented at 36th EGOS Colloquium 2020, 2020
Paper > peer review
Laura Kemmer; Annika Kühn; Birke Otto; Vanessa Weber / Standby : On Sociomaterial Modes of Organizing.
Abstract from Annual Meeting of the Society of Social Studies of Science (4S), 2020
Abstract from Annual Meeting of the Society of Social Studies of Science (4S), 2020
Conference abstract for conference > peer review
2019
Birke Otto; Jana Costas / "We Did not Pay Any Attention to Them" : Practices and Implications of Deliberate Ignorance in Creative Processes in Pharmaceutical Innovation.
Paper presented at 35th EGOS Colloquium 2019, 2019
Paper presented at 35th EGOS Colloquium 2019, 2019
Paper > peer review
Justine Grønbæk Pors; Lena Olaison; Birke Otto / Ghostly Matters in Organizing
In: Ephemera: Theory & politics in organization, Vol. 19, No. 1, 2019, 29 p., p. 1-29
In: Ephemera: Theory & politics in organization, Vol. 19, No. 1, 2019, 29 p., p. 1-29
Editorial
Birke Otto; Justine Grønbæk Pors; Rasmus Johnsen / Hidden in Full View : The Organization of Public Secrecy in Miéville’s The City and the City.
In: Culture and Organization, Vol. 25, No. 2, 15.3.2019, p. 91-103
In: Culture and Organization, Vol. 25, No. 2, 15.3.2019, p. 91-103
Journal article > peer review
2019
Birke Otto; Floriane Clement; Binayak Das; Hari Dhungana; Lotte Feuerstein; Girma Senbeta; Jasmina Van Driel / Social Accountability and Water Integrity : Learning from Experiences with Participatory and Transparent Budgeting in Ethiopia and Nepal.
Bergen : Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI) 2019, 60 p. (U4 Issue, No. 2019:11)
Bergen : Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI) 2019, 60 p. (U4 Issue, No. 2019:11)
Report
Birke Otto / The Generative Properties of Secrecy in Idea Development : A Case Study in Pharmaceutical Innovation.
In: Proceedings of the Seventy-ninth Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management. ed. /Guclu Atinc. Briarcliff Manor, NY : Academy of Management 2019, 1 p. (Academy of Management Proceedings)
In: Proceedings of the Seventy-ninth Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management. ed. /Guclu Atinc. Briarcliff Manor, NY : Academy of Management 2019, 1 p. (Academy of Management Proceedings)
Conference abstract in proceedings > peer review
Birke Dorothea Otto; Anke Strauß / The Novel as Affective Site : Uncertain Work as Impasse in Wait Until Spring, Bandini.
In: Organization Studies, Vol. 40, No. 12, 12.2019, p. 1805-1822
In: Organization Studies, Vol. 40, No. 12, 12.2019, p. 1805-1822
Journal article > peer review
2018
Jana Costas; Birke Otto / Modes of Secrecy Influencing Creativity in Innovation Processes. Examples from the Danish Pharma Industry
Abstract from The 4th Israel Organization Behaviour Conference, 2018
Abstract from The 4th Israel Organization Behaviour Conference, 2018
Conference abstract for conference > peer review
Birke Otto / Performative Secrecies. Unfolding the Process of Idea Development : A Case Study in Pharmaceutical Innovation.
Paper presented at The 34th EGOS Colloquium 2018, 2018
Paper presented at The 34th EGOS Colloquium 2018, 2018
Paper > peer review
Birke Otto / The Generative Properties of Secrecy in Idea Development : A Case Study in Pharmaceutical Innovation.
Berlin : Freie Universität Berlin 2018, 18 p. (Organized Creativity Discussion Paper, No. 18/3)
Berlin : Freie Universität Berlin 2018, 18 p. (Organized Creativity Discussion Paper, No. 18/3)
Working paper > peer review
2017
Birke Otto / Secrecy and Creativity : The Functions of Discretionary Spaces in Science-based Innovation.
Paper presented at The 33rd EGOS Colloquium 2017, 2017
Paper presented at The 33rd EGOS Colloquium 2017, 2017
Paper > peer review
Binayak Das; Floriane Clement; Hari Dhungana; Aránzazu Guilán Montero; Lotte Feuerstein; Birke Otto; Nils Taxell; Jasmina Van Driel / Social Accountability in the Water Sector : The Impact of Participatory and Transparent Budgeting Practices. Preliminary Findings from Multiple Case Studies: Nepal, Ethiopia, Philippines.
Abstract from XVI Biennial IASC Conference 2017, 2017
Abstract from XVI Biennial IASC Conference 2017, 2017
Conference abstract for conference > peer review
2016
Alexa Färber; Birke Otto / Saving (in) a Common World : Cosmopolitical Instances from a Low-budget Urbanities Perspective.
In: Urban Cosmopolitics: Agencements, Assemblies, Atmospheres. . ed. /Anders Blok; Ignacio Farías. Abingdon : Routledge 2016, p. 25-43 (Questioning Cities)
In: Urban Cosmopolitics: Agencements, Assemblies, Atmospheres. . ed. /Anders Blok; Ignacio Farías. Abingdon : Routledge 2016, p. 25-43 (Questioning Cities)
Book chapter > peer review
Birke Otto / Selbstorganisierte Infrastrukturen in der Stadt
In: Urbane Infrastrukturlandschaften in Transformation: Städte - Orte - Räume. . ed. /Antje Matern. Bielefeld : Transcript Verlag 2016, p. 189-210
In: Urbane Infrastrukturlandschaften in Transformation: Städte - Orte - Räume. . ed. /Antje Matern. Bielefeld : Transcript Verlag 2016, p. 189-210
Book chapter > peer review
2015
Paula Bialski; Heike Derwanz; Birke Otto; Hans vollmer / ‘Saving’ the City : Collective Low‐budget Organizing and Urban Practice.
In: Ephemera: Theory & politics in organization, Vol. 15, No. 1, 2.2015, p. 1-19
In: Ephemera: Theory & politics in organization, Vol. 15, No. 1, 2.2015, p. 1-19
Journal article > peer review
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2015
John Urry; Paula Bialski; Birke Otto / Collective Low-budget Organizing and Low Carbon Futures : An Interview with John Urry.
In: Ephemera: Theory & politics in organization, Vol. 15, No. 1, 2015, p. 221-228
In: Ephemera: Theory & politics in organization, Vol. 15, No. 1, 2015, p. 221-228
Journal article
2021
New minor urges students to reimagine organizations, corporations, capitalism - the entire economy!
21/04/2021 // Cbswire.dk // Anne M. Lykkegaard