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Dr. Dennis Jancsary

Dennis Jancsary

Biographical Sketch

  • Current position: Assistant Professor at the Institute for Organization Studies at WU Vienna

  • 2011-2013: Assistant Professor at the Institute for Public Management at WU Vienna

  • 2005-2010: Research and Teaching Assistant at the Institute for Public Management at WU Vienna

  • 2004-2005: Project Assistant at the Institute of Public Management at WU Vienna

  • PhD in Social and Economic Science (Dr.rer.soc.oec., WU Vienna), Degree at Master level in Economics (lic.oec.HSG, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland; majoring in Management of Social Processes

Research Interests

My research interests focus on contemporary organizational landscapes and novel forms of organizing as well as the crucial importance of socio-cultural environments for the dynamics of organizational forms and practices. Conceptually, I draw on institutional analysis to study the entanglement of organizations and the multi-leveled meaning structures that underlie them. I am particularly intrigued by the role of visual and multimodal forms of communication in the emergence of novel organizational ideas, forms, and practices. My current research engages with phenomena such as societal grand challenges, organizational and system resilience, and collaborative action across differences. Methodologically, my focus is on innovative qualitative and mixed methods approaches to textual and discourse analysis, including visual and multimodal analysis as well as semantic network analysis.

Keywords: Organization and management theory, organizational institutionalism, governance, visual and multimodal organization research, discourse and rhetoric, qualitative and mixed methods

Research and Publications

A comprehensive list of research projects in which Dennis Jancsary is involved as well as a list of his publications can be found in the FIDES documentation