Professor of Business Administration, in particular People, Work & Management

Prof. Dr Jana Costas

We deal with people, work, organisations and their management. The meanings and experiences of work and organisation play a central role in our research. We are also interested in the design of working environments and organisations through leadership and the influence of social, cultural, technological and economic trends such as digitalisation, flexibilisation, increasing mobility and the demands for social responsibility from organisations. Our conceptual starting point is an interdisciplinary view that draws on the theoretical range of organisational and management research, sociology, philosophy, social anthropology and psychoanalysis. We work with the methods of qualitative social research. We are particularly interested in ethnographic approaches in order to capture the complexity and diverse shades of organisational life and the world of work.