Lorenzo Skade

Home sweet home 🖤 #berlin

A heartfelt thank you to Design, Grafik & Print in Copenhagen, and especially to Gitte, the incredibly kind owner. As she helped me print the postcards, she laughed and said “We’ve had so many poster orders lately – what’s going on?” Turns out AOM already has effects well beyond the conference walls

After the lovely feedback last year, we're bringing back our SAP postcards designed by Elisa Lehrer at this year’s AOM. You’ll find them at our SAP social events – just grab a card, write a quick note to a colleague, and hand it back to us. We’ll make sure it gets sent their way! 📨

📬 They're back: Strategizing Activities and Practices (SAP) Postcards at AOM 2025!

Tina Miedtank, Stephanie Raible, and Marleen Wierenga challenge the idea that academic impact must wait until tenure. Instead, they argue that early-career researchers (ECRs) can – and should – pursue meaningful contributions from day one.

Impact starts small – and early! 👶🏽

In this interesting essay on “Unleashing the Impact Potential of Early-­Career
Researchers: Recognizing the Value of Micro-­Level Impact” (lnkd.in/es_97xz7) in Journal of Management Studies.

It challenges the tidy narratives of the kindly, honest, and unobtrusive researcher, showing how self-deception and selective storytelling shape both our public personas and private field practices.

This thought-provoking piece explores the moral compromises and methodological illusions often necessary to sustain the image of the “ideal” ethnographer.

"We ethnographers cannot help but lie, but in lying, we reveal truths that escape those who are not so bold.” 🤥

Great classic on “Ten lies of ethnography - Moral dilemmas of field research” (lnkd.in/e8sDz8km) by Gary Alan Fine in Journal of Contemporary Ethnography

Has anyone heard anything about the #2025AOMParties schedule? 😬💃🏼

Short research day at @viadrina.bsky.social 🖤

Juneteenth: How cities are scaling back celebrations after Trump-era DEI rollbacks | CNN Despite Juneteenth’s status as a federal holiday, celebrations across the country are being scaled back or canceled, as organizers cite safety problems and mounting resistance to diversity, equity and...

The fact that so many people think celebrating the end of slavery in the US is “DEI” is actually clarifying of what they mean when they use DEI. amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/06/...

Beautiful Nairobi 🇰🇪

#equity #naturaldisaster #socialconstruction #vulnerability

by Paula Jarzabkowski, Katie Meissner, Tyler Riordan, and Rosie Gallagher in the newly established Journal of Practice Theory

Disaster is not the exception; it is the consequence of how we live and reflects the subtle patterns of everyday life. 🌪️

"What’s ‘Natural’ About Disasters? Practice Theory as an Emancipatory Lens for Reconceptualising the Social Construction of Disasters” (👉🏾 ojs.library.lancs.ac.uk/jpt/article/...)

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📣 The SAP July newsletter is coming—spotlighting AoM Copenhagen! Got a PDW, meetup, new publication, CFP, or research to share? Send your update (1 page max, Word) to skade@europa-uni.de by June 15!

Celebrating this conditional acceptance! 🥳

"The Manifold Impacts of Management Research" 💡 (👉🏾 lnkd.in/eP-8D7dW)

Maybe impact isn’t missing from management research—maybe we’ve just been looking in the wrong places. 📏 Matthias Wenzel, Philip Gylfe, Saku Mantere, & Joep Cornelissen discuss how theory influences practice in indirect but powerful ways, from classrooms to consulting rooms.

Tempelhofer Feld Liebe 🖤

From Isolation to Impact: Tackling the Emotional Toll of Ethnographic Research in Business and Society - Social Science Space In this article, Lorenzo Skade discusses the emotional difficulties encountered by early-career researchers involved in ethnographic studies within the business and society […]

Short summary of my commentary on #loneliness, #emotions, and #ethnographies in Business & Society

www.socialsciencespace.com/2025/04/from...

The Trump regime is now using US Attorneys to intimidate academic journals by sending them letters demanding they explain how they ensure ‘viewpoint diversity.’ Journal editors should be public about this and coordinate to refuse to comply with these fascist tactics.

Schlechter Ruf: Die Zumutungen deutscher Berufungsverfahren Der Aufwand: irrsinnig, die Chancen: gering. Berufungsverfahren in Deutschland sind von diesem Missverhältnis geprägt. Ein Plädoyer dafür, die Zeit von Wissenschaftler_innen nicht weiter zu verschwend...

Wer sich in D schon mal um 1 Professur beworben hat, weiß es: Der irrsinnige Aufwand steht in eklatantem Missverhältnis zur winzigen Chance, dass es klappt. Oft vergehen 2 Jahre, bis Bewerber_innen mal 1 Info zum Verfahren erhalten. Meine Erfahrungen dazu: Heute in #ArbeitInDerWiss! #IchBinHanna

Why is making a theoretical contribution so tricky for qualitative research?
Editorial on "Making a Theoretical Contribution with Qualitative Research" 🔎 (lnkd.in/e2TDJ_SU) by Elizabeth Rouse, Juliane Reinecke, Davide Ravasi, Ann Langley, Matthew Grimes & Marc Gruber in Academy of Management Journal

Library views today

Accessing and Collecting Data in Difficult Research Sites YouTube video by New Scholars

Also, highly recommend this insightful talk by the author for the New Scholars Network (RRBM Responsible Research in Business and Management) 📺: www.youtube.com/watch?si=nNH...

This thought-provoking book explores how fields react to outsiders and what their pushback can reveal. It is a must-read if you’re interested in field research, power, and the unexpected ways knowledge is shaped.

What happens when a researcher enters a world that doesn’t want to be studied? Often, resistance emerges—doors close, evidence disappears, and silence prevails. ✋🏾 But as Michel Anteby in "The Interloper" argues, sometimes resistance itself is the key to understanding the field. 🔑

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