Prof. Dr. Elke Schüßler

Prof. Dr. Elke Schüßler is Professor of Business Administration, in particular Entrepreneurship and Organization Studies at Leuphana University Lüneburg. From 2016 to 2023 she was Professor of Business Administration and Head of the Institute of Organization Science at Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria. Before that, she was Assistant Professor of Organization Theory at Freie Universität Berlin, where she also completed her dissertation at the Pfadkolleg Research Center.

Prof. Schüßler studies dynamics of organizational and institutional change with a focus on the development of sustainable forms of work and organizing. With a background in Psychology (BSc, University of Sussex) and Industrial Relations (MSc, London School of Economics) she takes an interdisciplinary approach to her research and frequently collaborates with colleagues from other disciplines, e.g. in the context of the Global Garment Supply Chain Governance Project funded by the Volkswagen Foundation, the DFG Research Unit Organized Creativity or the DFG Scientific Network Field Configuring Events.

Her research has been published in leading social science journals such as the Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Perspectives, Creativity and Innovation Management, Development and Change, Human Relations, Industrial and Corporate Change, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Industry and Innovation, Organization Science, Organization Studies, Regional Studies or Socio-Economic Review. She has received several awards, including the Academy of Management Journal Best Reviewer Award (2023), the Labor and Employment Relations Association Best International/Comparative IR Paper Award (2021), the Ideas Worth Teaching Award (2020), the Academy of Management Journal Best Article Award (2015) or the VHB Best Paper Award (2014).

Prof. Schüßler serves the national and international scientific community in various ways. She is an Associate Editor for Business & Society and a member of the editorial/review board of Organization Studies, Socio-Economic Review, the Weizenbaum Journal of Digital Society and the Academy of Management Journal. She is a member of the advisory board of the Weizenbaum Institute in Berlin and the Momentum Institute in Vienna. Between 2022 and 2024 she chaired the Wissenschaftliche Kommission Organisation in the German Academic Association for Business Research (VHB). Since 2020 she is a member of the Executive Board of the European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS).