Jonas Friedrich
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Dr.
Last Name
Friedrich
First name
Jonas
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jonas.friedrich@unisg.ch
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+41 71 224 39 27
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Item type:Publication, Tending to the Particular: Navigating Tensions Around Principles of Alternativity Through an Ethics of CareAlternative organizations must continuously address conflicts that emerge regarding diverging prioritizations and interpretations of autonomy, solidarity, and responsibility. We explore how tensions around alternative moral principles can be navigated through relational processes that attune to others’ needs, emotions, and concerns. Building on an organizational ethnography of a cooperative campaign agency, we mobilize ethics of care as a research lens to trace and analyse how relational activities that are infused by an ethical attention to particular others assist the organization in dealing with these tensions. Our findings show that three relational activities – inquiring, deliberating, and responding – constitute a “relational tension-navigation circuit” that enables the alternative organization to evoke, map, and situatively settle tensions around alternative principles by embracing the vulnerability, plurality, and flourishing of others. We contribute to relational, ethical, and processual research in alternative organizing by showing how the particular and the general can be productively enfolded in alternative organizations. Furthermore, we conceptualize a broad, ethically and relationally grounded understanding of revisability that supports alternative organizations in finding targeted adaptations and provisional solutions to address conflicts and tensions.Type:journal articleJournal:Journal of Management StudiesScopus© Citations 4 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Emancipatory entrepreneuring as disidentification: A queer-feminist view of becoming a democratic cooperativeDemocratizing entrepreneurship itself is by far no guarantee for emancipation: the majority can (over)rule, masculinist dominance or regressive ideologies may flourish, and exclusions occur. By ethnographically following the transformation of a socially engaged agency into a diverse cooperative, we offer a processual study of emancipatory entrepreneuring that is undoing the paternal, family-like, and pseudo-democratic enterprise and creates a diverse cooperative with shared ownership, co-leadership, and queered sensitivities to gender, racism, and affective difference. Our analysis thereby relies on the political concept of “disidentification” and its process of queer worldmaking as developed by José Esteban Muñoz. On this conceptual basis, we redraw becoming democratic as an ongoing in-between process of “decomposing” heroic and patriarchally inclined entrepreneurship and ongoingly “recomposing” democratic entrepreneuring through revising interrelated layers of inequality. By introducing the theory of “disidentification”, we contribute with a queer-feminist conceptual vocabulary to analyze the intertwined political and processual nature of emancipation. Transformation is neither understood as a revolution nor a planned linear change but rather as an ongoing in-between process that subversively recycles former, habitual ways of interacting into undertaking different, more inclusive worldmaking.Type:journal articleJournal:Human RelationsVolume:78Issue:6Scopus© Citations 8 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Does Smart equal Sustainable? Selective Coupling and Sustainability Performance in 251 Smart City Initiatives understood as Hybrid OrganizationsThis paper depicts smart city initiatives as hybrid organizations that incorporate competing institutional logics. These logics are not equally pronounced across initiatives. The salience of the logics affects initiatives’ selective coupling with economic, social, and environmental sustainability and, hence, their triple-layered sustainability performance. We suggest that the performance-related selective coupling is driven by two mechanisms: leveraging experience and seeking legitimacy. An empirical analysis of 251 initiatives supports our arguments. In line with the theory of selective coupling, we further find that initiatives embedded in a market logic display better overall sustainability performance than those embedded in a social welfare logic.Type:journal articleJournal:Academy of Management Proceedings - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Startups versus incumbents in ‘green’industry transformations: A comparative study of business model archetypes in the electrical power sector(Elsevier, 2021); ; ; - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Startups versus incumbents in ‘green’ industry transformations: A comparative study of business model archetypes in the electrical power sector(Elsevier, 2021-04-29); ; ; Scopus© Citations 62 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Future European Alliance-Europe as a Flexible Democracy(2018) - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Understanding more-than-human ecologies for entrepreneurship research: advancing queer, feminist, and decolonial possibilities(2026-07-09); - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Beyond Rights and Rationality in Cooperative Governance: A Critique and Agenda(2026-07-31); Type:conference paper - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, The Anthropocentric Dilemma of Democracy: Posthuman Openings for Organizational Theory(2025-07)Organizational democracy is often bound to humanist assumptions—rational agency, procedural equality, and individual rights—while sidelining the ecological and material entanglements that sustain organizations and life itself. This article reimagines democratic organizing through reading Rosi Braidotti’s Posthuman feminist theory. Suggesting an “Anthropocentric Dilemma of Democracy,” the paper theorizes beyond the limitations of dominant, humanist models. A speculative vignette set in 2050—featuring posthuman democratic organizing with formerly ignored others, such as a heatwave, an extinct bee, or a future child—illustrates how organizations might explore material interfaces, embodied and affective attunement, and ethical responsiveness to and with forgotten kin. The paper theorizes three terrains of posthuman organizing that reorient the democratic subject into posthuman interdependence and vulnerability: (I) acknowledging “heterogeneous assemblages,” (II) attuning “zoe/geo/technobodies,” and (III) cultivating “affirmative relational ethics.” Moving beyond humanist equality and rights-based inclusion, it reconceives democracy as ecologically embedded, techno-materially entangled, and in a state of constant, yet asymmetrical, becoming. This contribution advances new materialist and posthuman organization theory by offering a decisively critical and feminist exploration of how democratic praxis can conceive itself as part of planetary fragility and answer to the ethical demands of naturecultural and technological interdependence.Type:conference paper - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
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