www.governancexborders.com
Let me point to two calls for papers for Special Issues relating to topics regularly covered on this blog that I am involved with as a guest editor. Creativity and copyright in the shadow of GenAI: Managing and organizing creative content in the digitalization frenzy in the journal Innovation: Organization Management, co-edited with Konstantin [ ]
Since the business school accreditation agency AACSB has recently renounced Diversity, Equity and Inclusive (DEI), it is high time that AACSB accredited business schools renounce their accreditations. Accreditations are questionable in themselves. Expensive, lots of bureaucracy, hardly any noticeable improvements for students or lecturers. Not much substance, mostly a legitimacy facade. I ve…
The title of Doctorow s “The Lost Cause” is not immediately understandable outside the USA. It refers to a revisionist historical narrative of the US Civil War, according to which the Southern states had honest motives for seceding from the Union beyond maintaining an economic system based on slavery and racial segregation. While the Lost Cause [ ]
The Berlin-based re:publica conference series deals with what Felix Stalder calls The Digital Condition of our society and attracts about 10.000 peopel each year. At this year s conference themed Who cares? I had the honor to meet UCLA Professor and Philantropist (Arcadia Fund) Peter Baldwin for a Fireside Chat. Under the headline Public Domain in [ ]
This week, my University of Innsbruck hosted the conference on Enhancing the voice of science on Wikipedia: How universities can collaborate with the online encyclopedia in science communication . I had the honor to deliver the opening keynote on Science (Communication) and Wikipedia: Potentials and Pitfalls . In this talk, I offer some thoughts on the following [ ]
Florian Überbacher (Montpellier Business School), Elke Schüßler (Leuphana University) and Arno Kourula (University of Amsterdam Business School) are calling for submissions to their 2024 EGOS Subtheme on Regulating Organizations: Re-Examining the Intersections between States and Businesses . In view of the grand environmental, political, and social problems we are facing, we would – perhaps more…
While there is a lot of discussion about new Twitter alternatives and the relevance of journalists and other critical groups of users, the potential of university-based Fediverse instances has hardly been addressed. It is high time for universities to get involved in the Fediverse. In fact, researchers from around the world are already there, as [ ]
As we have all experienced recently, to prevent pandemic outbreaks or mitigate an evolving pandemic crisis, it is of utmost importance to guarantee timely and global access to safe and effective vaccines. Through their pre-print, Milena Leybold (University of Innsbruck) and Konstantin Hondros (University of Duisburg-Essen) make a step towards opening a debate on “Increasing Vaccine Access in a…
In March 2021, Alek Tarkowski and Paul Keller published an essay on the Paradox of Open on the occasion of launching their Brussels-based Think Tank Open Future. While sketching an agenda for their adovacy work, the essay offered a more sober perspective on the promises previously associated with openness: While Open works as a strategic [ ]
Konstantin Hondros Milena Leybold Just over a year ago, Milena Leybold and Leonhard Dobusch asked, Why is there no open-source vaccine against Covid-19? and discussed arguments why open-source vaccines are difficult to achieve. In March 2022, The Financial Times published an article by Donato Paolo Mancini, Jamie Smyth, and Joseph Cotterill asking Will ‘open-source’ vaccines [ ]
I delivered this statement as a panelist at the RIPE@2022 conference Between the Fourth Estate and the Fifth Power: Conservation and Innovation in Public Service Media Journalism , September 19, 2022. Facing competition from large platform giants, from Facebook to TikTok, how should, how could nationally embedded legacy Public Service Media providers ever even hope to [ ]
In the article “ We Can’t Compete on Human Rights : Creating Market-Protected Spaces to Institutionalize the Emerging Logic of Responsible Management , which has just come out at the Academy of Management Journal, Nora Lohmeyer, Sarah Ashwin and myself argue that the protection of labor and environmental standards in the global economy relies on the construction of [ ]
Laudatio delivered by Leonhard Dobusch at the 38th EGOS Colloquium, July 7, 2022, at WU Vienna, Austria. How can we assess what a pioneering and lasting contribution to “the social sciences dealing with organization, organized and organizing” is, as is required for anyone receiving an EGOS Honorary Membership. To do so, as a proxy, let [ ]
Konstantin Hondros and myself had been invited to contribute to the great series of evidence summaries for the 21 for 2021 project, a CREATe project within the AHRC Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre (PEC). Specifically, we put together a synthesis on Three Faces of Openness in Organising Copyright : In this blog, focusing on copyright-related [ ]
In a recently published article in New Media Society, Nicholas John (2022) reports on the decline of the use of sharing in the self-presention of large social network sites (SNS) over the last decade: there is a clear reduction in the use of the terminology of “sharing” in the self-presentation of SNSs during the [ ]
This post is provided by Suela Simoni, Student Assistant at Innsbruck University While the concept of “open source” emerged as a radically open and transparent way of developing software, it is increasingly applied in other contexts as well. In pharmaceutical open source projects, for example, anyone can contribute at any time to the project, methods [ ]
Building upon a case study of the Medicines Patent Pool, this blogpost aims to set the Medicines Patent Pool/Merck License for Molnupiravir in a processual context. About the License Agreement Recently, on October 27, 2021, the Merck Co., Inc. Kenilworth NJ USA (MSD) and the Medicines Patent Pool (MPP) jointly announced the signing of a license [ ]
At this year’s Global Congress on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest, which takes place October 25th-29th 2021, Konstantin Hondros and myself presented a working paper titled Tinkering and Repurposing: How Open Source Vaccine Initiatives Alternatively Organize for Novelty . While the innovation brought forward by biotech and pharmaceutical companies was exceptional, many countries still…
In a recent blog post, Amy Thomas from the CREATe center at the University of Glasgow suggests that contractual provisions can have – not least detrimental – effects for creativity on digital platforms. She points to uncertainty of users generating content (UGC) on platforms as their creations are regulated by a complex and often confusing [ ]
We, that is Sigrid Quack, Konstantin Hondros, Katharina Zangerle and I, proudly present the article “Between Anxiety and Hope? How Actors Experience Regulatory Uncertainty in Creative Processes in Music and Pharmy”, which has recently been published in Research in the Sociology of Organizations (RSO) as part of a volume on “Organizing Creativity in the Innovation [ ]