On April 11th 2025 our colleagues Theresa Füreder and Waldemar Kremser welcomed some Open Strategy scholars from the DACH region (Martin Friesl, Christoph Brielmaier, Robin Engelbach, Christian Bruck, Kristina Stoiber, Adriana Wacker) and colleagues from the JKU - Institut für Strategisches Management (Regina Gattringer, Sabine Reisinger, Johannes Winkler and Gülhan Arslaner) to their Open Strategy and Roles Workshop to discuss the relevance of role theory for open strategy research.
Together, they explored the meaning of different role concepts and gained insights into the work of Martin, Christoph and colleagues who introduced research where they apply a role theory lens. Afterwards a lively discussion emerged as we brainstormed what one could say about dynamics in an open strategy process by using a role theory lens by looking at recently collected data from an open strategy process.
The workshop was concluded with a conversation on how and why roles matter for open strategy, followed by a great dinner at Stiegl Klosterhof.
It was an insightful and inspiring day, thank you all for joining and coming to visit us at JKU Business School!
