Violetta Splitter

2017-2018
Academic Vistior at Said Business School, University of Oxford (funded by the Swiss National Foundation)

Since 2016
Senior Research Associate (Oberassistentin), Chair of Organization and Management, Prof. David Seidl, University of Zurich

June 2016
PhD in Business Administration (summa cum laude), University of Zurich

2013
Academic visitor at HEC Montréal, Ann Langley (funded by the SNF)

2009-2016
Research Associate, Chair of Organization & Management, University of Zurich

2006 - 2009 Junior Consultant, Organizational Development, Feld M, Munich

2008 Diploma (MSc) on the topic "The sociology of Pierre Bourdieus and its implications for Strategy as Practice research", University of Munich

2007
Exchange student (grant from DAAD), Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels

2000 - 2008 Studies in Business Administration, Munich School of Management

Publications:

Dobusch, L., Splitter, V., von Krogh, G., Walgenbach, P., Whittington, R. forthcoming. Open Organizing in an Open Society? Conditions, Consequences and Contradictions of Openness as an Organizing Principle, Speciale Issue in Organization Studies.

Splitter, V.,Seidl, D. and Whittington, R. 2019. Practice-based approaches to Open Strategy. Implications of a strong programme, in: The Handbook of Open Strategy (1st edition), Seidl D., Whittington R., and von Krogh, G. (Eds.), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Loscher, G., Splitter, V. and Seidl, D. 2018. Theodore Schatzki's theory and its implications for Organization Studies, in: Management, Organizations and Contemporary Social Theory (1st edition), Clegg, S. and Pina e Cunha, M. (Eds.), Routledge

Splitter, V. and Seidl, D. 2018. Open Strategy - die neue Offenheit, Die Volkswirtschaft - Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftspolitik, 112, S. 35-41.

Splitter, V., and Seidl, D. 2015. Practical relevance of practice-based research on strategy (2nd edition), Golsorkhi D., Rouleau L., Seidl, D., and Vaara, E. (Eds.), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Splitter, V. and Dittrich, K. 2014. MOMBI im Seminar Führung von Familienunternehmen: Ein Beispiel aus der Betriebswirtschaftslehre. in Tübinger Beiträge zur Hochschuldidaktik. Lehrveranstaltungen lernförderlich gestalten (Band 10/2), Hanke, U., Winandy, S. (Eds.), Tübingen: Universität Tübingen

Aaken D., Splitter V., Seidl, D. 2013. Why do Corporate Actors engage in Pro-social Behaviour? A Bourdieusian Perspektive on Corporate Social Responsibility, Organization, 20(3): 349-371

Splitter, V. and Seidl, D. 2011. Does practice-based research on strategy lead to practically relevant knowledge? Implications of a Bourdieusian perspective, Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, 47(1): 98-120

Research Interests:

• Organizational openness
• Open Strategy
• Digital strategy making
• Practice theories
• Strategy as Practice