9 January at 5:00PM (on-site) | Leonhard Dobusch (University of Innsbruck) will present the paper “Openness as an Organizing Principle: Between Inclusionary and Exclusionary Practices?“ in the upcoming PLUS Economics Research Seminar. The presentation will take place in HS 212 (CHU1OG2.286). Looking forward to seeing you in the seminar!

Abstract: ‘Openness’ is increasingly propagated as an organizing principle, across more and more organizational domains – from open innovation and open data to open strategy and open science -, promising both gains in both efficiency and inclusivity. Revisiting practices of openness from a constitutive rather than a programmatic perspective, highlights the fact that those practices exhibit both inclusive and exclusive effects, questioning the straight-forward diversity promise of openness. Specifically, we can distinguish between (1) imported, (2) created, and (3) path-dependent diversity deficits in organizational contexts explicitly labelled as “open”. While some form of exclusion is unavoidable, a more constitutive understanding of openness as an organizing principle points to the inherently normative aspects of any form of open organizing.