Lecturer in Organisation Studies

Contact Details

• Tel: +44 (0) 116 252 5318
• Email: e.weik@le.ac.uk
• Office: Room 329B, Level 3, Ken Edwards Building
• Office Hours: By appointment

Biography

Elke has a double degree from the University of Mannheim, Germany, in Business Studies, Philosophy, and Spanish Literature. Working at Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany, since 1993, she completed her PhD in organisation studies on theories of time, change and transformation in 1997 and her habilitation on structure, agency and novelty in organisation theory in 2008. She joined the School of Management in 2007.

Research Interests

Due to her multidisciplinary background, Elke is interested in a broad range of topics and in multifaceted approaches. Basically, she can be interested for anything as long as it can be translated into a theoretical problem. In her own work, she employs organisation theories, social theories, and philosophical work on ontology and epistemology. Her most recent research projects include work on institutional theory, economic sociology and process theories in organisation studies.  She has conducted empirical research on institutional logics in perinatal healthcare, the reconstitution of the German wine market and the establishment of the market for academic knowledge in the Middle Ages.

Teaching

MN2113 Organisational Change (BA Management Studies)
MN2119 Organisational Teamwork and Communication (BA Management Studies)

Administrative Responsibilities

Director of Distance Learning

Most Recent Publications

Journal Articles

Weik, Elke (2011): "Institutional Entrepreneurship and Agency". Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour 41(4). 461-488.

Weik, Elke (2011): "Die Entstehung organisationaler Sachzwänge. Eine institutionensoziologische Analyse zum Anstieg der Kaiserschnittrate in Deutschland".  Managementforschung. Band 21. 133-169.

Weik, Elke (2011): "In Deep Waters. Process Theory Between Scylla and Charybdis". Organization 18(5). 655-672.

Weik, Elke (2011): "The Emergence of the University. A Case Study of the Founding of the University of Paris from a Neo-Institutionalist Perspective". Management and Organizational History 6(3). 287-310.

Weik, Elke (2010): Mediated Dualisms. A Research Note on Bourdieu and Leibniz. The Sociological Review. 58(3).

Weik, Elke (2009): "Birthing" versus "Being delivered": Of Bodies, Ideolgies and Institutions. Research in the Sociology of Organizations. Vol. 27. 171-201.

Hernes, Tor/Weik, Elke (2007): Organization as Process: Drawing the Line between Endogeneous and Exogeneous Views. Scandinavian Journal of Management 23(3). 251-264.

Weik, Elke (2006): Working Relationships. A Meta-View on Structure and Agency. Theory & Science. 7(1).

Book Chapters

Weik, Elke (2008): Feminism. In: Thorpe/Holt: The Sage Dictionary of Qualitative Management Research. Sage. London. Pp. 96-97.

Hernes, Tor/ Weik, Elke (2007): Towards a Theory of Organizational Becoming, Lang, R./Schmidt, A.: Individuum und Organisation. Deutscher Universitätsverlag, Wiesbaden, Pp. 73-96.

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