Biographical sketch

• Current position: Chair in Organization Studies, University of Liverpool

• 2023-2024: Associate professor at the Institute for Organization Studies, WU Vienna

• 2021: Habilitation in business administration (Priv.-Doz.), WU Vienna

• 2016: SCANCOR Visiting fellow at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA

• 2016-2023: Assistant professor at the Institute for Organization Studies, WU Vienna

• 2014-2015: Post-doc researcher at the Department of Organization (IOA), Copenhagen Business School (CBS), Denmark

Research Interests

My research interests focus on contemporary organizational landscapes and novel forms of organizing as well as the crucial importance of socio-cultural environments for the dynamics of organizational forms and practices. Conceptually, I draw on institutional analysis to study the entanglement of organizations and the multi-leveled meaning structures that underlie them. I am particularly intrigued by the role of visual and multimodal forms of communication in the emergence of novel organizational ideas, forms, and practices. My current research engages with phenomena such as societal grand challenges, organizational and system resilience, and collaborative action across differences. Methodologically, my focus is on innovative qualitative and mixed methods approaches to textual and discourse analysis, including visual and multimodal analysis as well as semantic network analysis.

Keywords: Organization and management theory, organizational institutionalism, governance, visual and multimodal organization research, discourse and rhetoric, qualitative and mixed methods

Selected publications

• Höllerer, Markus, Jancsary, Dennis, Barberio, Vitaliano, Meyer, Renate. 2020. The interlinking theorization of management concepts: Cohesion and semantic equivalence in management knowledge. Organization Studies. 41 (9), 1284-1310.

• Höllerer, Markus, Jancsary, Dennis, Grafström, Maria. 2018. 'A picture is worth a thousand words': Multimodal sensemaking of the Global Financial Crisis. Organization Studies. 39 (5-6), 617-644.

• Meyer, Renate, Jancsary, Dennis, Höllerer, Markus, Boxenbaum, Eva. 2018. The role of verbal and visual text in the process of institutionalization. Academy of Management Review. 43 (3), 1-27.

• Jancsary, Dennis, Meyer, Renate, Höllerer, Markus, Barberio, Vitaliano. 2017. Toward a structural model of organizational-level institutional pluralism and logic interconnectedness. Organization Science 28 (6), 1150-1167.

• Höllerer, Markus, van Leeuwen, Theo, Jancsary, Dennis, Meyer, Renate, Andersen, Thomas, Vaara, Eero. 2019. Visual and multimodal research in organization and management studies. London & New York: Routledge.

Research and publications

A comprehensive list of research projects in which Dennis Jancsary is involved as well as a list of his publications can be found in the PURE documentation.