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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 me briefly sketch what is particular for organization studies as a discipline – and not just particular, but particularly great:
- Organization studies is truly transdisciplinary. At EGOS, Business scholars meet sociologists and political scientists and anthropologists and communications scholars and also the occasional economist.
- Probably because of its transdisciplinarity, organization studies is also characterized by great methodological openness and diversity. Organization studies was about mixed methods long before it was considered cool.
- And, related to both these features, organization studies is a field that sports theoretical pluralism.
And this triad of transdisciplinarity, methodological openness and theoretical pluralism is also, what Sigrid not just contributed to, but rather what she lived, what she exemplified, what she spearheaded.
Read the rest of this entry »We are proud to present our traditional end-of-year statistics below.
Top 5 blog posts 2015 (in terms of views):
- Open Access and the Power of Editorial Boards: Why Elsevier Plays Hardball with Deviant Linguists
- Copyright, Creative Commons and other Calamities in Scientific Publishing
- Out in June: “The Political Economy of Microfinance: Financializing Poverty”
- How religious leaders may influence climate change regulation: The success of the papal encyclical Laudato Sii
- Will the Real Anonymous Please Stand Up? German Facebook Page Free Rides on #OpISIS
Top 5 search terms guiding visitors to our blog in 2015:
- lawrence lessig organizations founded
- Andhra Pradesh microfinance crisis (also #1 in 2011, 2012 & 2014, #2 in 2013)
- Methodological nationalism
- cc
- g20 2009
Top 5 countries our visitors came from in 2015 (last year’s position in brackets):
- United States (1)
- India (2)
- Germany (3)
- United Kingdom (4)
- Australia (-)
Top series in 2015:
- Excerpts from “The Political Economy of Microfinance: Financializing Poverty” (9 out of 9 posts in 2015)
- Bordercrossing Books (2/14)
- The Series Series (1/10)
In total we published 29 new posts in 2015, almost as many as in 2014 (30 posts); nevertheless, this means that we failed our new year’s resolution from last year by two posts. The number of views grew compared to last year and reached a total of 36,283. Interestingly wordpress.com introduced a distinction between “visitors” and “views” in 2012; in terms of visitors, 2015 actually has been our most successful year ever with 25,355 visitors, beating the count of 24,983 visitors in 2013.
(leonhard)
After we had published the edited volume “Governance across borders: transnational fields and transversal themes“ based on a selection of blog posts in 2013 (the CC-licensed book is available as an on-demand-printed edition, as a PDF and as an Epub), we returned to blogging as usual in 2014. Please find our traditional end-of-year statistics below.
Top 5 blog posts 2014 (in terms of visitors):
- Measuring the “Adoption” of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRSs)*
- EU Commission’s Consultation Report Shows: Current Copyright is Unbalanced
- The State of IFRS in Africa: Is IFRS in Disarray?*
- The “invisible epidemic”: non-communicable diseases*
- In partial agreement with SKS on what caused the Indian Microfinance Crash
* also in the Top 5 of 2013
Top 5 search terms guiding visitors to our blog in 2014:
- Andhra Pradesh microfinance crisis (also #1 in 2011 & 2012, #2 in 2013)
- methodological nationalism
- feudal society trade map
- securitization (also #4 in 2013)
- google transnational
Top 5 countries our visitors came from in 2014 (last year’s position in brackets):
- United States (1)
- India (2)
- Germany (3)
- United Kingdom (4)
- Canada (5)
Top series in 2014:
- Algorithm Regulation (5 out of 10 posts in 2014)
- The Series Series (1/9)
- Wise Cartoons (1/6)
In total we published 30 new posts in 2014, which is only half of last year’s 61 and below our self-set goal of blogging about once a week on average. Seemingly, Phil completing his PhD (followed by an offline trecking tour) and myself becoming a father hurt our blogging statistics. Accordingly, we also received fewer comments and visitor numbers dropped, as well, but not too sharply, from over 40,000 in 2013 to about 34,000 in 2014. Our new year’s resolution is therefore to at least beat our 2014 numbers in 2015.
(leonhard)
The year 2013 has been our fifth year of blogging and its highlight was the publication of our blogbook “Governance across borders: transnational fields and transversal themes“. By selecting and thematically grouping the articles into an edited volume, we make it easier for potential readers to grasp lines of arguments and common themes that span single blog posts. We’ve also found that many of our posts had a more lasting effect than expected, evidently supplying information and insights worth preserving in a more structured format. The book is licenced under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Germany license and available as an on-demand-printed edition, as a PDF (10.1 MB) and as an Epub (1.1 MB) file.
Of course, we also continued blogging and, as every year, we are happy to present some statistics:
Top 5 blog posts 2013 (in terms of visitors):
- Measuring the “Adoption” of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRSs)
- In partial agreement with SKS on what caused the Indian Microfinance Crash
- The State of IFRS in Africa: Is IFRS in Disarray?*
- Copyright Implications of the Gangnam Style Phenomenon
- The “invisible epidemic”: non-communicable diseases
* also #1 in the Top 5 of 2012
A recurrent theme on this blog is how the seemingly global online world is still – and in some fields even increasingly – divided by barriers, which are still tied to national borders. In this context, about eight months ago our article “This Post is Available in Your Country” featured a painting by the Hungarian artist Paul Mutant that ironically addressed the omnipresence of blocked video content on the web. Actually, very recently a Berlin based copyright expert told me that, for example, in Germany the majority of videos on YouTube were blocked because of (alleged) copyright infringements.
In an exhibition in the Három Hét Galéria in Budapest, Mutant now takes his idea to the extreme, as is evidenced by the pictures below (all photos provided by the artist).
governancexborders.com 
