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Dr. Sarah Stanske

Postdoctoral Researcher, Research Associate at the Professorship for Business Administration, in Particular Organization Studies at Leuphana UniversityLüneburg, Germany

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Research Interests

  • International Management
  • Institutional Theories
  • Leadership Processes
  • Organizational Learning & Development
  • Organizational Identity
  • Change Management
  • Entrepreneurship & Business Development

Dr. Sarah Stanske: Career Overview

since 01/2020
Postdoctoral Researcher at the Professorship for Business Administration, in Particular Organization Studies, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Germany

09/2012 – 09/2014
Student Research Assistant at the Berlin School of Economics and Law, Berlin, Germany

06/2012– 08/2012
Internship in the Department of Payroll Accounting at Gördes, Rhöse & Collegen Unternehmensberatung GmbH, Berlin, Germany

02/2012 – 07/2011
Internship in the Department of Business Development at KPMG, Germany

Dr. Sarah Stanske: Education

02/2016 - 01/2020
PhD in Strategy and Management - European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder) & German Graduate School of Management and Law Heilbronn (Dynamic Capabilities and Relationship Program), Germany

  • Dissertation on "Born out of Boredom: Tracing Identity-Challenging Innovations in an Established Organization"

06/2016
Global School in Empirical Research Methods, University St. Gallen, Switzerland

  • Qualitative Data Analysis (Paul Mihas) and Case Study Method (Andrew Bennett)

10/2013– 02/2016
Master of Science International Business Administration European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder), Germany

  • sponsored by a scholarship of the Federal Republic of Germany and a scholarship of the European University Viadrina

08/2014 – 12/2014
Exchange Semester at W.P. Carey School of Business (Arizona State University), USA

  • supported by a PROMOS scholarship

10/2008 – 03/2013
Bachelor of Arts International Business Management at the Berlin School of Economics and Law, Germany

09/2011 – 05/2012
Exchange Semesters at Ecole supérieure de Commerce de Rennes / Rennes School of Business, France

Dr. Sarah Stanske: Scholarships & Awards

  • Ph.D. Scholarship of the Dieter-Schwarz Foundation
  • St. Gallen scholarship for the ICPSR Summer Program at the University of Michigan
  • Scholarship of the Federal Republic of Germany (Deutschlandstipendium)
  • Scholarship of the European University Viadrina
  • Promos Scholarship for one semester in the U.S.

  • Best Paper Award from the 3rd online Workshop for Doctoral Students British Academy of Management, 2017 

Dr. Sarah Stanske: Conference Presentations and Attended Workshops

Conference Presentations

  • Stanske S. (Coauthor) (2019). Preventing the collapse of sensemaking in organizations: On legitimizing digital innovations in established organizations. Paper developmentworkshop related to a Special Issue if Organization Science: Emerging Technologies and Oganizing, Santa Barbara, United States. 
  • Stanske S. (Coauthor) (2019). The hidden power dynamics of organizing through enterprise social media. Paper developmentworkshop related to a Special Issue if Organization Science: Emerging Technologies and Oganizing, Santa Barbara, United States. 
  • Stanske S. (Coauthor) (2019). Kiling boredom: On the expansion and contraction of time in organizational transformation. Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management - AOM 2019: Understanding the Inclusive Organization, Boston, United States.
  • Stanske S. (Coauthor) (2019). Exploring organizational processes: A tension-based view. Paper presented at the 35th European Group for Organizational Studies Colloquium - 2019: Enlightening the Future: The Challenge for Organizations, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
  • Stanske S. (Coauthor) (2019). Kiling boredom: On the expansion and contraction of time in strategic change. Paper presented at the 35th European Group for Organizational Studies Colloquium - 2019: Enlightening the Future: The Challenge for Organizations, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
  • Stanske S. (Coauthor) (2019). Temporary organizing and organizing temporality: On the multilayered architecture of accelerators. Paper presented at the 35th European Group for Organizational Studies Colloquium - 2019: Enlightening the Future: The Challenge for Organizations, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
  • Stanske S. (Coauthor) (2019). Legitimizing digital transformation within an incumbent: How unaccepted leaders can initaite strategic changes. Paper presented at the 11th International Process Organization Studies Symposium - 2019: Understanding the Dynamics of Work, Innovation, and Collective Action. Crete, Greece.
  • Stanske S. (Coauthor) (2019). Organizing temporality: A practice perspective on the multilayered architecture of accelerators. Paper presented at the 11th International Process Organization Studies Symposium - 2019: Understanding the Dynamics of Work, Innovation, and Collective Action. Crete, Greece.
  • Stanske S., Söllner, A., Vodosek, M. (2018). Born out of boredom: The journey of a discontinuous idea in an incumbent organization. Paper presented at the 34th EGOSColloquium, Tallinn, Estonia. 
  • Stanske S., Söllner, A., Vodosek, M., Wagner, H.T. (2018). Innovating Innovation: Organizational Identities in the Age of Discontinuity. Paper presented at the Academy of Management Specialized Conference on Big Data and Managing in a Digital Economy, Surrey, United Kingdom.

  • Stanske, S. & Vodosek, M. (2017). From Being to Becoming: The Interplay Between Internal Network Dynamics and Organizational Identity. Paper presented at Conference of Collaborative Innovation Networks (COINs), Detroit, MI.
  • Stanske, S. (2017). Innovating the Innovation: From Organizational Identities in the Age of Disruptions. Paper presented at the SKM Symposium, Berlin, Germany.
  • Stanske, S., & Rauch, M. (2017). From Being to Becoming: the Continuous Transformation of an Organization in the Age of Disruption. Paper presented at the SKM Symposium, Berlin, Germany. 
  • Stanske, S., & Rauch, M. (2017). I Can, Therefore I Am: From the Interplay of Organizational Doing and Being Over Time. Paper presented at the 3rd online Workshop for Doctoral Students British Academy of Management, June, London, England.
  • Shuradze, G., Stanske, S., Vodosek, M. (2017). “Tracing Processes and Change: What is Quality in Qualitative Process Studies”. Workshop to be presented at the 77th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management August, Atlanta, GA.
  • Shuradze, G., Stanske, S., Vodosek, M. (2017). “From Being to Becoming: Understanding Quality in Qualitative Process Studies” Workshop to be presented at the 31st Annual Conference of the British Academy of Management, Warwick, UK.
  • Stanske, S. (2016) “Boundary Management on a Microlevel: From Personal Preferences and Others’ Attitudes” Paper presented at the 30th British Academy of Management, September, Newcastle, England.
  • Stanske, S. (2016) “From being to becoming: Observing Gazelles” Paper presented at the 2nd Online Workshop for Doctoral Students in Strategic Management, August, Bristol, England.

Attended Workshops

December 2017
Paper-a-thon with Karl-Heinz Kautz, International Conference on Information Systems, Seoul, South Korea.
 
August 2017
Workshop on “TIM doctoral student consortium” with Raghu Garud, Academy of Management, Atlanta, GA.
 
August 2017
Workshop on “Navigating Qualitative Dissertations” with Blake Ashforth, Academy of Management, Atlanta, GA.
 
August 2017
Class on "Statistics and Data Analysis 2" with Shane Singh, ICPSR Summer School, Ann Arbor, MI.
 
August 2017
Class on "Regression 2" with Brian Pollins, ICPSR Summer School, Ann Arbor, MI.
 
October 2016
Workshop on “Qualitative Research” with Jeffrey Martin at the German Graduate School of Management and Law, Heilbronn, Germany.​

September 2016
Workshop on “Forming and Framing Research Ideas - A Primer for New Doctoral Students”, British Academy of Management, Newcastle, England.​

April 2016
Workshop on “Publishing in Top-Tier Journals – Strategies and Pitfalls” with David Waldman, Leadership Symposia Potsdam, Germany.​​

    Dr. Sarah Stanske: Community Activities

    Organizer

    • Workshop on Qualitative Process Studies. 2017: Tracing Processes and Change: What is Quality in Qualitative Process Studies?. Annual Meeting of Academy of Management , Atlanta, GA (together with Giorgi Shuradze, Markus Vodosek, and Heinz-Theo Wagner)
    • Presenters: Raghu Garud and Benson Honig
    • Facilitators: Joep Cornelissen; Kevin G. Corley; Karen Golden-Biddle; Tor Hernes; Eric Knight; Curtis LeBaron; Jeffrey A. Martin; Sotirios Paroutis; Brian T. Pentland; Clive Smallman; Scott Sonenshein; Matthias Wenzel; Mirjam Werner

     

    • Workshop on Qualitative Process Studies 2017: From Being to Becoming: Understanding Quality in Qualitative Process Studies” Annual Conference of the British Academy of Management, Warwick, UK. (together with Giorgi Shuradze and Markus Vodosek)
    • Presenters: Robert Chia, Benson Honig
    • Facilitators: Christina Butler, Michael Hartmann, Sotirios Paroutis, Juliane Reinecke, David Mackay, Harry Sminia, Mike Zundel

     

    Reviewer

    • Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management

    Teaching

    Supervised Bachelor’s Theses:

    • Wascher, O. 2017. Active Participation instead of Resistance: Gamification as a Tool for Sensemaking during Organizational Change. European University Viadrina, Germany.
    • Corsepius, V. 2016. „Von 0 auf 100: die rapide Internationalisierung von Rocket Internet SE“. European University Viadrina, Germany
    • Friman, C. 2016. “The Importance of adapting to a changing business environment: The TomTom case”. European University Viadrina, Germany.