Research
Why just one discipline,
when so much is fascinating?
Research where work, organization and people are changing: New Work, the future of work, family businesses and self-organization.
New Work & Future of Work
How do new forms of work and organization change collaboration, leadership and human resource management?
Family businesses
Owner families, values and decisions: what holds family businesses together at their core.
Business succession
Selection processes, information asymmetries and roles in the succession of small and medium-sized enterprises.
Self-organization
Holacracy, Sociocracy and the shift to self-directed work, from the individual to the company.
Innovation
The innovative capacity of SMEs and family businesses across generations.
Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurial action as an attitude, within and beyond classic company boundaries.
The Institute for New Work at the Business School of Bern University of Applied Sciences researches how work is changing and what this means for people, organizations and society. I head the institute.
We shape a world of work in which people and organizations grow together and sustainably. So that work gives more than it takes.
Its focus areas are new forms of work and organization, human resource management in transition and the design of human-centred working worlds, in research, teaching and exchange with practice.
As a researcher, I stand for interdisciplinarity, methodological diversity, openness and scientific ethics.
- Dr. rer. pol. and habilitation in business administration
- Graduate business lawyer (Diplom)
- B.A./M.A. in literature, culture and media studies
- Systemic coach (INEKO, University of Cologne)
Memberships: Academy of Management (AOM) · International Family Enterprise Research Academy (IFERA) · European Academy of Management (EURAM)
From research to the stage
I share my insights as a speaker, panelist and consultant — grounded in research and translated for practice.
As an expert in New Work and family businesses, I am also a point of contact for the media: for interviews, background conversations and putting current developments into context.