41st EGOS Colloquium „Creativity that goes a long way” at the American College of Greece in Athens, July 3-5, 2025

Mike Geppert, Lena M. Fischer, Andrea Dietl and Sarah Bützler of our chair attended this year’s EGOS conference presenting their recent research projects.

Lena Fischer presented a working paper titled “Changing relationship networks of repatriates” (written together with Daniel Pastuh, Jan Goldenstein and Prof. Mike Geppert) in sub-theme 31 “Network Agency and Creativity: The Mutual Interdependence between Network Actors and Social Structures”.

Andrea Dietl presented a working paper titled “Community versus Commerce: Ownership conflicts in organisations of public interestExterner Link” (written together with Andreas Hilger (University of Regensburg), Prof. Thomas Steger (University of Regensburg) and Prof. Mike Geppert in sub-theme 56 “Civic Wealth Creation: Building Multi-Stakeholder Coalitions to Co-Create Societal Impact”.

Sarah Bützler presented a working paper titled “Building social evaluations through conceptual metaphors: Public debates about organizational misconduct in the U.S. pharmaceutical industry” (written together with Jan Goldenstein) in sub-theme 5 “Positive and Negative Social Evaluations: Two Sides of the Same Coin, Two Peas in a Pod, Apples, and Oranges…?”.