Richard Weiskopf

Univ.-Prof. Dr.
Institut für Organisation und Lernen

Universitätsstraße 15
A-6020 Innsbruck

Sprechstunde: Montag, 10.30 - 12.00 Uhr und nach Vereinbarung

Tel. +43 512 507-71472

richard.weiskopf@uibk.ac.at

Richard Weiskopf

Position

  • Professor of Organization Theory
  • Associate Dean of Studies (Organization Studies)

Academic Qualifications

  • Mag. rer.soc.oec. (Magister der Sozial- und Wirtschaftswissenschaft) Universität Innsbruck 1989. (Business Education); Diplomarbeit (Soziologie): “Entwicklung einer organisationalen Kommunikationskultur. Eine Kritische. Darstellung auf der Grundlage der Theorie des Kommunikativen Handelns von Jürgen Habermas“
  • Dr. rer. soc. oec. (Doktor der Sozial- und Wirtschaftswissenschaften) Universität Innsbruck 1993. (Business Administration); “Personalproduktion und Menschenfertigung. Ideologiekritik von Personalentwicklung und Unternehmenskultur”; (Supervisor: Prof. Stephan Laske (Business administration) and Prof. Max Preglau (Soziologie) – Innsbruck)
  • Venia docendi in Business Administration; Habilitation: “Überschreitungen. Auf dem Weg zu einer ethisch-ästhetischen Konzeption von Organisation” Universität Innsbruck 2007; (internal referees: Prof. Ekkehard Kappler, Prof. Albrecht Becker – external referees external: Prof. Oswald Neuberger (Augsburg) und Prof. Günther Ortmann (Hamburg).

Employment

  • 1996-1998: Research Fellow at UMIST (University of Manchester, Institute of Science and Technology (Prof. David Knights und Prof. Hugh Willmott) (Erwin Schroedinger Research Grant)
  • 1999-2007: Assistant Professor at the Department of Organization and Learning (Innsbruck)
  • 2007-2015: Associate Professor at the Department of Organization and Learning (Innsbruck)
  • since 2015: Professor of organization theory at the Department of Organization and Learning (Innsbruck); Inaugural Lecture

External Research Assignments

  • 1996-1998: Visiting Research Fellow at UMIST (University of Manchester, Institute of Science and Technology (Prof. David Knights und Prof. Hugh Willmott) (Erwin Schroedinger Research Grant)
  • 2008: Visiting researcher at the UTS (University of Syndey, Prof. Stewart Clegg)
  • 2012: Visiting professor at the CBS (Copenhagen Business School, Prof. Pierre Guillet de Monthoux, Prof. Daniel Hjorth, Prof. Bent Meyer Soerensen, Prof. Kaspar Villadsen)

Research Grants / Third-Party Funding

  • 1996-1998: Erwin Schroedinger Research Grant for Project: “Personnel, Organization and Identity” at the University of Manchester, Institute of Science and Technology [UMIST] (Prof. David Knights and Prof. Hugh Willmott)

  • 2006-2010: Research project funded by the FWF, Vienna (Projectnr. P19086-G11); “Re-Creating Organization: Organizing work and the work of organizing as ethico-aesthetic practice.”; Principal Investigator: Dr. Richard Weiskopf; Members of the Project-team: Mag. Bernadette Loacker and Mag. Mario Vötsch; sum: € 210.000.-
  • 2012-2013: Project funded by BMWFJ (Österreichische Forschungsförderungsgesellschaft- Innovationscheck I (€ 5000.-) „Analysis of the innovative potential of the company Baumfried“)
  • 2012-2013: Project funded by BMWFJ (Österreichische Forschungsförderungsgesellschaft- Innovationscheck I (€ 5000.-) “Innovative Concept for Social Entrepreneurship ‘Lebensqualitätswerkstatt’)

Selected Articles

  • Loacker, B & Weiskopf, R. (2024) Being (ab)normal – be(com)ing other: Struggles over enacting an ethos of difference in a psychosocial care centre, in: Journal of Business Ethics.
  • Zangerle, K., Dobusch, L. & Weiskopf, R. (2024) Barracudas, Piranhas and crowds: making ideas valuable in pharmaceutical innovation through opening and closing practices of valuation, in: Innovation. Organization & Management.
  • Weiskopf, R. (2023) The practice of parrhesia and the transformation of managerial governmentality, in: Walters, W. & Tazzioli, M. (eds.) Handbook on Governmentality, 369-388. Cheltenham, Northhampton: Edward Elgar Press. [PDF]
  • Hansen H. K., & Weiskopf R. (2021) From Universalizing Transparency to the Interplay of Transparency Matrices: Critical insights from the emerging Social Credit System in China. Organization Studies, Vol. 42 (1), 109-128.
  • Weiskopf R. (2020) Algorithmic Decision-Making, Spectrogenic Profiling, and Hyper-Facticity in the Age of Post-Truth. Le foucauldien (2), 1-37.
  • Jeannes, E. & Loacker, B. & Sliva, M. & Weiskopf, R. (2015). Mobilities in contemporary worlds of work and organizing. Ephemera, 15(4), 705-723.
  • Weiskopf, R. (2013). Organisationale Demographie, Biomacht und Ethik. In H. Hoßfeld & R. Ortlieb (Eds.), Macht und Employment Relations, 199-206. München Mering: Rainer Hampp Verlag.
  • Weiskopf, R., & Willmott, H. (2013). Ethics as critical practice: The Pentagon Papers, Deciding responsibly, Truth-telling, and the Unsettling of Organizational Morality. Organization Studies, 34(4), 469-493.
  • Weiskopf, R. (2012). Von der Individualisierung und Vergemeinschaftung zur Politik der Vielheit. In R. Ortlieb & B. Sieben (Eds.), Geschenkt wird einer nichts - oder doch? Festschrift für Gertraude Krell, 175-182. [PDF]
  • Weiskopf, R., & Munro, I. (2012). Management of human capital: discipline, security and controlled circulation in HRM. Organization, 19(6), 685-702.
  • Vötsch, M., & Weiskopf, R. (2009). 'Thank you for your creativity'. Arbeit und Organisation im Diskurse der Creative Industries. In R. Diaz-Bone & G. Krell (Eds.), Ökonomie und Diskurs, 293-316.
  • Weiskopf, R. (2007). From becoming enterprising to Entrepreneurial becoming. Towards the study of entrepreneurship as ethico-aesthetic practice. In D. Hjorth & M. Kostera (Eds.), Entrepreneurship & the Experience Economy, 129-152. Copenhagen: Copenhagen Business School Press.
  • Weiskopf, R., & Loacker, B. (2006). 'A snake's coils are more intricate than a mole's burrow.' Individualization and Subjectification in Post-disciplinary Regimes of Work. Managment Revue, 17(4), 395-419.
  • Weiskopf, R. (2004). Management, Organisation und die Gespenster der Gerechtigkeit. Managementforschung 14. Gerechtigkeit und Management, 211-251. Wiesbaden: Gabler Verlag. [PDF]
  • Weiskopf, R. (2003). Management, Organisation, Poststrukturalismus. In R. Weiskopf (Ed.), Menschenregierungskünste. Anwendungen poststrukturalistischer Analyse auf Management und Organisation, 9-36. Wiesbaden: Westdeutscher Verlag. [PDF]
  • Krell, G., & Weiskopf, R. (2001). Leidenschaft als Organisationsproblem. In G. Schreyögg & J. Sydow (Eds.), Emotionen und Management. Managementforschung 11, 1-45. Wiesbaden: Gabler.
  • Kornberger, M., & Weiskopf, R. (2001). L'usage de Foucault. Moderne, Postmoderne und Organisation. In I. f. W. u. Kunst (Ed.), Demokratie. Selbst. Arbeit. Analysen liberal-demokratischer Gesellschaften im Anschluss an Michel Foucault, Vol. 56, 30-41. Wien: Institut für Wissenschaft und Kunst.

Recent Conference Papers (Selection)

  • Weiskopf, R. (2024) Between private and public use of reason: whistleblower ethics at the crossroad, EGOS Conference, Milano.
  • Waldegger, J., & Weiskopf, R. (2024) 'Write me, and I will tell you who you are': Algorithmic governmentality in predictive hiring, EGOS Conference, Milano.
  • Weiskopf, R. (2023) Organizing the ‘parrhesiastic game’: Truth-telling, whistleblowing and the transformation of managerial governmentality. WKOrg Workshop Linz.
  • Loacker, B., & Weiskopf, R. (2021) Be(com)ing other. Difference practices in a psychosocial care centre. SCOS (standing Conference of Organizational Symbolism).
  • Weiskopf R., & Hansen H. K. (2020). Metrics, algorithmic governmentality and the (shrinking) space of ethics: Paper presented at the EGOS Conference, Hamburg.
  • Weiskopf R., & Zimmermann P. (2020). Problematizing the ‘Transparency-fix’ in the Fight Against Corruption: The Example of Transparency International. Paper presented at the WKOrg (Wissenschaftliche Kommission Organisation).
  • Weiskopf R. (2019). Secret Organizers: Algorithmic decision-making Profiling Organizing Technologies. Paper presented at the Standing Conference of Organizational Symbolism, SCOS Conference, York.
  • Weiskopf R. (2018). „Dis/organizing visibility: Transparency between conduct and counter-conduct. Paper presented at the WK-Org (Wissenschaftliche Kommission Organisation), Münster.
  • Weiskopf R., & Zimmermann P. (2017). Problematizing Corruption as Moral Entrepreneurship. The example of Transparency International. Paper presented at the EGOS, Copenhagen.
  • Villadsen K., & Weiskopf R. (2016). Revisiting Foucault’s Technologies. From the power/knowledge regime to ‘topological’ analysis of organizations. Paper presented at the EGOS, Nepals.
  • Villadsen, K. & Weiskopf (2018) Foucault and ‘Over-Determination’: From the power/knowledge regime to the dispositional study of organizations, workingpaper. Copenhagen /Innsbruck.

Inaugural Lecture / Habilitation

  • Weiskopf, R. (2007). Überschreitungen: Auf dem Weg zu einer ethisch-ästhetischen Konzeption von Organisation (Synopse zur Habilitation), Innsbruck 2007.

Books

  • Krell, G., & Weiskopf, R. 2006. Die Anordnung der Leidenschaften. Wien: Passagen.
  • Weiskopf, R. (Ed.). 2003. Menschenregierungskünste. Anwendungen poststrukturalistischer Analyse auf Management und Organisation. Wiesbaden: Westdeutscher Verlag.

Special Issues

Recent Book Reviews

  • Weiskopf, R. (2020) Book Review: The Age of Surveillance Capitalism. The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power, in: Organization, Vol. 27 (6).

Organizing work and the work of organizing as ethico-aesthetic practice –

a theoretical and empirical study of new modes of organizing

Projekt gefördert von: FWF (Fonds zur Förderung von Wissenschaft und Forschung)  

Laufzeit: Juli 2006 – Juli 2010

Projektleitung: Richard Weiskopf

Projektmitarbeiter*in: Bernadette Loacker, Mario Vötsch

Homepage: Re-Creating

Abstract:

Currently we are witnessing fundamental changes in the organization of work, which are associated with far-reaching challenges to both individuals and organizations. The project aims to respond to these challenges on an empirical and on a theoretical-conceptual level. In particular the project aims to re-conceptualize “organization” in a way that goes beyond technical-instrumental views and treats questions of ethics and of creativity/aesthetics as immanent to organizational practices and processes. On a theoretical level, the project is mainly informed by poststructuralist philosophies.

Empirically the project focuses on practices of organizing in the important yet under-researched field of the so-called “creative industries“. In this field “culturepreneurs“ and the unfolding of their creativity are essential factors that determine both the success and the form of organizations. With respect to the organization of work, this field is seen as playing a precursor role. These forms are paradigmatic for a new, “post-disciplinary” mode of organizing work that is characterised by high levels of flexibility, mobility, creativity, self-responsibility and self-management. The analysis of the creative potentials as well as the limitations and demands associated with these forms of work, promises insights that go far beyond the narrower field of study.

The investigation of practices of organizing in the creative industries (in particular music industry, theatre and architecture branch) will firstly allow a deeper understanding of the effects that different forms of work and the associated modes of organizing have on the life-world of working people and the subjectivities of human beings.

Secondly, it will provide the empirical basis for a grounded theorizing that will lead to a re-conceptualization of management and organization of work as ethico-aesthetic practice. Besides this innovation on a theoretical-conceptual level, the investigation of this field will, thirdly, provide genuine insight into a sector to which a considerable prognostic potential is attributed. Therefore, a high degree of “cross-fertilization“ is to be expected.

* I’m Vice Dean of Studies for the Masterprogramme Organization Studies.

Teaching in the Masterprogramme Organization Studies:

Winterterm

  • Approaches to Organization Studies (with Leonhard Dobusch)
  • Corporate Communication and Governance
  • Philosophy of Social Science (Methods Course) (with Leonhard Dobusch)

Summerterm

  • Dynamics and Change
  • Organization and Ethics

PhD Management Programme:

I’m a faculty member of the doctoral college “Organizing the Digital”

I’m a member of faculty of the AIDEA Summerschool for PHD and young researchers in Capri

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