Ass.Prof. Dr. Laura Dobusch

Laura Dobusch is an Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) at the Institute for Leadership and Strategic Change (ILSC). Before joining WU, she was a postdoctoral researcher at the Sustainable Transformation Management Lab at Johannes Kepler University Linz (AT) and an Assistant Professor at the Radboud Social Cultural Research Institute of Radboud University (NL). She earned her PhD at the Technical University of Munich (DE) with the support of a doctoral scholarship from the Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy (DE). She has spent extended research stays at the Department of Organization at Copenhagen Business School (DK) and at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University (US).

Research

In her research, Laura investigates how organizations can become both more inclusive/open and more sustainable, and how respective organizational change approaches interact; what opportunities, limitations, and unintended consequences are associated with these change approaches; and what transformative potential lies in cross-organizational and cross-sector collaborations (e.g., open social innovation initiatives) to address major societal challenges (e.g., the climate crisis).

She is a member of the editorial boards of the journals Business & Society and Organization. Furthermore, she is a founding member of the Standing Working Group “Pushing the Boundaries of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion: Theorizing Transformative Change in Organizations” of the European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS). Her work has been published in leading international academic journals, including Gender, Work & Organization, Human Relations, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Management Studies, Organization and Organization Studies.

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Teaching

Laura Dobusch teaches in bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral programs. Her courses focus, on the one hand, on understanding different organizational change approaches and their potential impact; and on the other hand, she teaches topics related to ethics and diversity in organizational contexts.