Jörg Sydow

Biographic Data

ID349649
NAMEJörg Sydow
GIVEN NAMESJörg
FAMILY NAMESydow
SIGNATURESYDOW J
AFFILIATIONSFreie Universität Berlin
ORCID0000-0002-9359-7242
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS59
TOTAL CITATIONS135
AUTHOR COUNT45
EDITOR COUNT14
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1992
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX7

  • Introducing new technologies while maintaining high reliability: Comparison of two hospitals

    Open AccessCarolin Auschra, Jörg SydowARTICLESSM - Qualitative Research in…2026

    Introducing new technologies is a challenge to organizations that strive for reliability. With the help of practice theory and a special focus on resourcing practices, we conducted a qualitative case study on the introduction of two technologies in two German hospitals: one introducing a digital anesthesia documentation software, the other one a robot-assisted knee arthroplasty. Our findings illustrate that, to introduce such technologies, the or…

  • Inter-organisational human resource management and network orientation of worker representatives: A practice-based perspective

    Open AccessMarkus Helfen, Jörg Sydow et al.ARTICLETransfer European Review of…2024

    We develop a practice-based framework of inter-organisational human resource management that puts multi-employer work arrangements in inter-firm networks at its centre. By reinterpreting existing knowledge on multi-employer work arrangements and how they are managed, we delineate four processes in the assemblage of inter-organisational HR management. To illustrate the usefulness of our framework, we explore the question of whether and how an inte…

  • Organisation as Reflexive Structuration

    Open AccessGünther Ortmann, Jörg Sydow et al.ARTICLEJournal of Organizational Sociology2023Cited by: 7References: 3

    Our "Beacons of Organizational Sociology" series makes available, through first-time translations, texts that have shaped debates in organizational sociology in non-English-speaking countries, or presents reflections on such debates by established scholars. The first text in this series is a shortened English translation of the German article “Organisation als reflexive Strukturation” by Günther Ortmann, Jörg Sydow, and Arnold Windeler, published…

  • Resourcing Goal-directed Networks: Toward A Practice-based Perspective

    Open AccessCarolin Auschra, Jörg SydowARTICLEJournal of Public Administration…2023Cited by: 4References: 89

    This paper proposes a practice-based perspective on how managers resource goal-directed networks in the public sector, especially those governed by a network administrative organization. While previous literature shows that network managers need to acquire and allocate resources in order to achieve network goals, little is known about specific resourcing practices and related challenges to resourcing goal-directed networks. To shed light on these…

  • Netzwerke, Plattformen und Ökosysteme: Organisationstheoretische Klärungen

    Open AccessJörg Sydow, Carolin AuschraARTICLEKZfSS Kölner Zeitschrift für…2022References: 51

    Im Zuge der zunehmenden Digitalisierung gewinnen interorganisationale Netzwerke, Plattformen und Ökosysteme zunehmend an Bedeutung. Jedoch bleibt oft unklar, was mit diesen Konzepten gemeint ist und in welchem Verhältnis sie zueinander stehen. Dieser Beitrag hat daher das Ziel, diese Konzepte genauer zu fassen und die jeweiligen Verhältnisse zueinander zu klären. Dies geschieht mithilfe der in der Organisationsforschung prominenten Praxis- und In…

  • Wissensmanagement

    Helmut Drüke, Anke Hanft et al.BOOKWissensmanagement2021

  • Habitual Path Dependence of Interorganizational Relationships?—A Commentary on Sedgwick and Jensen

    Open AccessJörg SydowARTICLEPerspectives on Public Management…2021

    This is a commentary to a former paper by Sedwick and Jensen published in this very journal. On the one hand, the commentary praises the paper’s urgently needed focus on interorganizational relationships and empirical richness. On the other, the commentary questions habitual path dependence as a theoretically useful concept

  • Open innovation at the interorganizational network level – Stretching practices to face technological discontinuities in the semiconductor industry

    Open AccessJörg Sydow, Gordon Müller‐seitz et al.ARTICLETechnological Forecasting and…2020

  • Managing resource transposition in the face of extreme events: Fieldwork at two public networks in Germany and the US

    Open AccessOlivier Berthod, Michael Grothe‐hammer et al.ARTICLEPublic Administration2020Cited by: 1References: 23

    As administrations increasingly rely on interorganizational networks to organize public service provision, this article inspects the role resourcing plays in the way managers working in networks cope in the face of extreme events. Using comparative analyses of fieldwork in the context of two emergency service networks in two major cities in Germany and the US, we introduce the concept of resource transposition. This concept holds the potential to…

  • Temporary organizing and permanent contexts

    Open AccessJörg Sydow, Arnold WindelerARTICLECurrent Sociology2020Cited by: 9References: 47

    Temporary organizing in general and project-based organizing in particular are to be understood only in relation to more permanent contexts such as organizations, inter-organizational networks, industries/fields and society. In view of the ability of organizations to balance permanency and temporariness, they are unlikely to disappear due to temporary organizing. Rather, they will continue to change their form recurrently and, thereby, remain as …

  • Path constitution analysis

    Jörg Sydow, Arnold Windeler et al.BOOKUnconventional Methodology in…2018

    Jörg Sydow, Arnold Windeler, Gordon Müller-Seitz, and Knut Lange develop an unconventional analytic approach called path constitution analysis (PCA). This integrates the concepts of path dependence and path creation, which have attracted limited methodological attention although they are widely applied for explanatory purposes. Path dependence in particular highlights the role of small triggering events and self-reinforcing processes, leading to …

  • How can employment relations in global value networks be managed towards social responsibility

    Open AccessMarkus Helfen, Elke Schüßler et al.ARTICLEHuman Relations2018Cited by: 7References: 103

    Ensuring social responsibility is a continued challenge in value creation processes that are globally dispersed among multiple organizations. We use the literature on interorganizational network management to shed new light on the question of how employment relations can be managed more responsibly in global value networks (GVNs). In contrast to the structure-oriented global value chain perspective, a network management perspective highlights the…

  • From dualisms to dualities: On researching creative processes in the arts and sciences

    Open AccessJörg SydowARTICLEEnvironment and Planning A…2018Cited by: 2References: 23

    The papers accepted for publication in this themed issue reflect to a large extent the long-needed move toward recognizing the importance of a focus on tensions and contradictions as dualities. In this commentary, I will recap the tensions addressed not only in these papers but also in the commentary by Grabher and inquire into how they address them, for instance by unearthing the concepts these authors mobilize to theorize them. I will conclude …

  • From being there to being aware: Confronting geographical and sociological imaginations of copresence

    Open AccessGernot Grabher, Alice Melchior et al.ARTICLEEnvironment and Planning A…2018Cited by: 14References: 47

    In economic geography, the notion of copresence has been at the very center of the research agenda for decades. The elaboration of the benefits of colocation and physical proximity was (and still is) a chief aim of the disciplinary project to demonstrate that "geography matters". The geographical concern with colocation, proximity and distance, in fact, resonates with the sociological discourse on copresence. And yet, the relationship between cop…

  • Managing Inter-Organizational Relations

    Open AccessJörg Sydow, Elke Schüßler et al.BOOKManaging Inter-Organizational…2016

  • Managing Inter-organizational Relations

    Open AccessJörg Sydow, Elke Schüßler et al.CHAPTERManaging Inter-Organizational…2016

  • Organizational Path Dependence

    Open AccessJörg Sydow, Georg SchreyöggCHAPTERInternational Encyclopedia of the…2015

  • Arbeit – eine Neubestimmung: Managementforschung 24

    Open AccessJörg Sydow, Dieter Sadowski et al.BOOKArbeit - eine Neubestimmung2014

  • Organisation und Strukturation: Eine Fallbasierte Einführung

    Järg Sydow, Jörg Sydow et al.BOOKOrganisation und Strukturation2013

  • Management Interorganisationaler Beziehungen: Vertrauen, Kontrolle und Informationstechnik

    Jörg Sydow, Arnold WindelerBOOKManagement Interorganisationaler…2013

  • Organisation Von Netzwerken: Strukturationstheoretische Analysen der Vermittlungspraxis in Versicherungsnetzwerken

    Achim Loose, Arnold Windeler et al.BOOKOrganisation Von Netzwerken2013

  • Organisation und Strukturation: Eine fallbasierte Einführung

    Carsten Wirth, Jörg SydowBOOKOrganisation und Strukturation2013

  • Organizing Events for Configuring and Maintaining Creative Fields

    Open AccessElke Schüßler, Elke Schuessler et al.BOOKCreative Industries2013

    The Oxford Handbook of Creative Industries is a reference work, bringing together many of the world's leading scholars in the application of creativity in economics, business and management, law, policy studies, organization studies and psychology.

  • Theorien der Organisation: Die Rückkehr der Gesellschaft

    Günther Ortmann, Jörg Sydow et al.BOOKTheorien der Organisation2013

  • Kompetenz: Sozialtheoretische Perspektiven

    Arnold Windeler, Jörg SydowBOOKKompetenz2013