I am a Professor for Ethics at the Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU Wien). After receiving my doctorate in philosophy from the University of Vienna in 2002 I worked and lived in Australia (University of Technology Sydney), Denmark (Copenhagen Business School), France (EM Lyon) and Edinburgh (University of Edinburgh).

With a background in the Humanities and an eclectic bookshelf behind me, my work explores how we organize and strategize collaboration and how alternative forms of collective action evolve. Theoretically this is relevant because my work develops a critical vocabulary to understand new forms of collective action. Practically it is significant because it provides tools to think and organize collective action differently. The aim of my work is to stretch the organizational imagination of practitioners and scholars. Or to paraphrase one of my favourite writers, Albert O. Hirschman, I am less interested in what is probable, and more concerned about what is possible.

My work has been published in across a range of disciplines including management and organization theory (Academy of Management Discoveries, Human Relations, Organization Studies); strategy (Strategic Organization, Long Range Planning); accounting (Accounting, Organization and Society); ethics (Journal of Business Ethics); security studies (Journal for Security Studies); urbanism (Urban Studies); sociology (Theory, Culture and Society; Sociological Review) and philosophy (Nietzsche Studien).

I also write textbooks (Managing and Organizations and Strategic Management, both with Sage) and monographs, including Brand Society (Cambridge University Press, 2011), Plan B (Murmann, 2015), and most recently, Strategies for Distributed and Collective Action: Connecting the Dots (Oxford University Press, 2022). Last but not least, I curate conversation around emerging themes through co-edited volumes on Business Ethics as Practice (Elgar, 2007); Urban Commons (Routledge, 2015); Making Things Valuable (Oxford University Press, 2015); Thinking Infrastructures (Research in the Sociology of Organization / Emerald, 2020) and a Special Issue on Collective Action in Crisis (in Organization Studies, 2022).