Prof. Dr. Jana Costas,
Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder)

Jana Costas is Professor of Business Administration, in particular People, Work and Management at the European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder). She holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge, and has been awarded with the EU Marie Curie Fellowship. She conducted the fellowship at the Copenhagen Business School. Jana has also been Assistant Professor (Juniorprofessorin) for Qualitative Methods in Management Research at Freie Universität Berlin. Her research interests lie in the area of organization studies, in particular secrecy, creativity, control, identity, culture, leadership, tech lobbying, violence, and new work and organizational arrangements. She has published in and reviews for various journals, such as Organization Studies, Journal of Management Studies, Human Relations. Jana is Associate Editor of Organization and acts on the Editorial Board of Organization Theory. She has published the monograph  Secrecy at Work: The Hidden Architecture of Organizational Life (with Chris Grey), Stanford University Press. Her ethnographic book Dramas of Dignity: Cleaners in the Corporate Underworld of Berlin published by Cambridge University Press won the EGOS book award 2023.

Prof. Blagoy Blagoev
Technische Universität Dresden

Blagoy Blagoev is Professor of Organization Studies at Technische Universität Dresden (Germany). His research draws on a temporal lens to examine the interplay of people, organizations, and society in the context of current technological, ecological, and cultural transformations. His main research interests include (1) organizing and managing for sustainability, (2) emerging technologies and organizing, (3) new and decentralized forms of working and organizing, and (4) organizational change, innovation, and persistence. Blagoy holds a doctoral degree from Freie Universität Berlin (Germany) and has previously served as a Lecturer at Leuphana University Lüneburg (Germany) and a postdoctoral researcher at Freie Universität Berlin (Germany) and Europa Universität Viadrina (Germany). Furthermore, Blagoy was a visiting scholar and lecturer at the Antwerp Management School (Belgium), Copenhagen Business School (Denmark), Radboud University in Nijmegen (The Netherlands), and the University of Graz (Austria).  His work has appeared in leading international journals, such as Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Management, Journal of Management Studies, Organization Studies, Organization, and Scandinavian Journal of Management.

Prof. Dan Kärreman,
Copenhagen Business School

Dan Kärreman is Professor in Management and Organization Studies at Copenhagen Business School, and Professor in Business Administration at Lund University. His research interests include critical management studies, knowledge work, identity in organizations, leadership, organizational control and research methodology.  He received his PhD, based on an organizational ethnography, in 1997, and has held position at Gothenburg University, Lund University, Copenhagen Business School and Royal Holloway, University of London. His contributions to organizational methodology includes articles and books on organizational discourse analysis, mystery as method, theory creation and critical inquiry. He has contributed to more than 40 journal articles in peer review publications and has published in most top ranked journals in organization studies.