Research Interests

• Organizational, Institutional Change, Digital Transition                                             

• CSR, Sustainability, Energy Transition, Electromobility, Music Industry and Disruptive Technologies

• Digital Humanities, Big Data Methods & Topic Modeling 

• Institutional Theories, Legitimacy & Institutional Complexity 

Recent talks & publications

Bohn, S., & Gümüşay, A. A. (2023). Growing Institutional Complexity and Field Transition: Towards Constellation Complexity in the German Energy Field. Journal of Management Studies, http://doi.org/10.1111/joms.13004

Bohn, S., Gümüşay, A. A., von Richthofen, G., & Reischauer, G. (2023). Digital organising. IPR - Concepts of the digital society, 12(4), 1-15. https://policyreview.info/articles/analysis/digital-organising

Bohn, S., & Rogge, JC. (2022). The framing of green innovations—a comparative topic modeling study on the public frames of the electric vehicle in Germany and UK. Journal of Cleaner Production. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2022.132499

Risi, D., Vigneau, L., & Bohn, S., & Wickert, C. W. (2022). Institutional theory-based research on Corporate Social Responsibility: Bringing values back in. International Journal of Management Reviews, 1-74. https://doi.org/10.1111/ijmr.12299

Bohn, S., & Braun, T. (2021). Field-configuring projects: how projects shape the public reflection of electric mobility in Germany. International Journal of Project Management. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijproman.2021.04.006

Scheuermann, B., & Bohn, S. (Eds.) (2021). encore. The annual Magazine on Internet and Society Research, 2020/2021. Berlin: Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society.

Bohn, S., Lohmeyer, N., Kumar, H. Jha and Reinecke, J. (2021). Hostile frame takeover: Co-opting the security frame in the German nuclear energy debate. Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings, 2021(1), 6. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5465/AMBPP.2021.198

Bohn, S., Friederici, N., & Gümüşay, A. A. (2020). Too big to fail us? Platforms as systemically relevant. Internet Policy Review.

Sminia, H.; Sydow, J.; Bohn, S. (2019): Path creation as contestation, competition, and collaboration: How digital distribution of music came about. 35st EGOS Colloquium, Edinburgh, July, 4-6.

Lehre & Praxis (Auszug)

WS 2019/2020: Seminar; Machine Learning, Digitalisierung und Managementforschung

2018: Eine Stakeholderperspektive auf das Scheitern von Großprojekten 2018/12 (Timo Braun, Stephan Bohn, L.M. Gaschler) https://www.gpm-ipma.de/know_how/publikationen/projektmanagement_aktuell/probelesen.html

SS 2018: Projektmanagement: Gescheiterte Großprojekte und der Flughafen BER (Timo Braun & Stephan Bohn)

WS 2017/2018: Field Configuring Projects und Elektromobilität_Forschungsseminar zur Frage wie Projekte die Entwicklung sowie öffentliche Wahrnehmung der Elektromobilität prägen? (Stephan Bohn & Timo Braun)

WS 2015/2016: Vorlesung Organisation I

Academic Positions  

Education and Academic Degrees

Additional Work Experience

Publications

• Bohn, S., & Rogge, JC. (2022). The framing of green innovations—a comparative topic modeling study on the public frames of the electric vehicle in Germany and UK. Journal of Cleaner Production. DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2022.132499
• Risi, D., Vigneau, L., & Bohn, S., & Wickert, C. W. (2022). Institutional theory-based research on Corporate Social Responsibility: Bringing values back in. International Journal of Management Reviews, 1-74. DOI: 10.1111/ijmr.12299
• Bohn, S., Lohmeyer, N., Kumar, H. Jha and Reinecke, J. (2021). Hostile frame takeover: Co-opting the security frame in the German nuclear energy debate. Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings, 2021(1), 6. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5465/AMBPP.2021.198
• Bohn, S., & Braun, T. (2021). Field-configuring projects: how projects shape the public reflection of electric mobility in Germany. International Journal of Project Management. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijproman.2021.04.006
• Scheuermann, B., & Bohn, S. (Eds.) (2021). encore. The annual Magazine on Internet and Society Research, 2020/2021. Berlin: Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society.
• Bihr, P., Bohn, S., & Send, H. (2021). Freie Technologien für die Gesellschaft. In M. Gibson-Kunze, C. Golbeck, A. Halfmann, & T. J. Smith, Die Große Transformation in Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, 36. Berlin: UVG-Verlag.
• Bohn, S., Friederici, N., & Gümüşay, A. A. (2020). Too big to fail us? Platforms as systemically relevant. Internet Policy Review.
• Bohn, S., & Walgenbach, P. (2019). Is CSR Crowding Out Charity? A case Study of CSR Implementation in a German Company. In A. Sales (Eds.), Corporate Social Responsibility and Corporate Change. Ethical Economy (Studies in Economic Ethics and Philosophy), vol. 57 (pp. 259-270). Cham, Bavaria: Springer
• Bohn, S. (2018). Komplexität, Heterogenität und big data – (oder) Wie Machine Learning Algorithmen die explorative Analyse institutioneller Vielfalt erlauben. Nano-Paper.

• Bohn, S.; Walgenbach, P. (2018): Refusing, connecting and playing off conflicting institutional demands. A longitudinal study on the organizational handling of the end of nuclear power, climate protection, and the energy turnaround in Germany. In: Mazza, Carmelo; Meyer, Renate E.; Krücken, Georg; Walgenbach, Peter (eds.) New Themes in Institutional Analysis: Topics and Issues from European Research. 

• Bohn, S.; Walgenbach, P. (2018): Does CSR terminate charity? – A case study of CSR-implementation in a German company. In: Beschorner, T. und Sales, A. (eds.) Corporate Social Responsibility. Institutional and Organizational Perspectives. (in press)

• Bohn, S. (2018): Neoinstitutionalismus und Gesellschaftliche Verantwortung. In: Backhaus-Maul, H.; Kunze, M., Nährlich, S. (eds.) Gesellschaftliche Verantwortung von Unternehmen in Deutschland. Springer. (in press)

• Bohn, S.; Galander, A.; Walgenbach, P. (2015): The creativity of organizations in the taking of management panaceas – On the implementation of CSR in German high-tech firms. In: Ortenblad, Anders (eds.) Handbook of Research on Management Ideas and Panaceas: Adaptation and Context. 259-284.

• Beyer, S.; Bohn, S.; Grünheid, T.; Händschke S.; Kerekes, R.; Müller J.; Walgenbach P. (2015): Die Kommunikation von Verantwortung – Eine explorative Studie der Internetkommunikation von drei DAX30 Unternehmen. In: Alwart, H. (eds.): Freiheitsverluste in Rechtsregime, Gesellschaft und Wissenschaft. Tübingen. Mohr Siebeck, 129-152.

• Bohn, S. (2014): Die Implementierung von CSR in High-Tech Unternehmen. Zum organisationalen Umgang mit divergierenden institutionalisierten Erwartungen. Springer-Gabler. 

• Beyer, S.; Bohn, S.; Grünheid, T.; Händschke S.; Kerekes, R.; Müller J., Walgenbach P. (2014): Wofür übernehmen Unternehmungen Verantwortung? Und wie kommunizieren sie ihre Verantwortungs­übernahme? – Eine explorative Studie. In: Zeitschrift für Wirtschafts- und Unternehmensethik, 15(1): 57-80.

Conferences/ Invited talks

• Bohn, S.; Gümüsay, A.A. (2022): Digital organizing in open-source IoT companies. The mutual relationship between datafication and connectification. 38th EGOS Colloquium, Vienna.

• Epp, J.; Bohn, S. (2021): Imaginaries between pessimism and future. A topic modeling study about the Hydrogen and Fuel Cell debate in Germany. Energy Futures - Emerging Pathways in an Uncertain World, Berlin.

• Bohn, S., Lohmeyer, N., Jha, H. K. & Reinecke, J. (2021): Hostile frame takeover: Co-opting the security frame in the German nuclear energy debate. Academy of Management Conference.

•  Bohn, S.; Rogge, C. (2020): Like a phoenix from the ashes or how innovations struggle for legitimacy – A comparative machine learning study on the framing of the electric vehicle in Germany and the UK. Academy of Management, Vancouver.

• Hassan, M; Send, H.; Hölzner, H.; Bohn, S. (2020): Curation and control in open innovation processes. How individuals organize collaborative knowledge creation in IoT hardware companies. 36th EGOS Colloquium, Hamburg.

• Soppe, B; Bohn, S. (2020): Transiting toward greener solutions? A comparative study of the e-mobility discourse in Norway and Germany during times of change (2000-2018). 36th EGOS Colloquium, Hamburg.

• Sminia, H.; Sydow, J.; Bohn, S. (2019): Path creation as contestation, competition, and collaboration: How digital distribution of music came about. 35st EGOS Colloquium, Edinburgh, July, 4-6.

• Bohn, S.; Kunze, M.; Günther, M. (2018): Stressed and shattered: Field-level change and consequences of high degree complexity in the German energy market. 78th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Chicago, August 10-14.

• Bohn S.; Braun,T. (2018): Field-configuring projects? How projects shape the meaning of electronic mobility in Germany. 34st EGOS Colloquium, Tallinn, July, 5-7.

• Bohn, S.; Perendija, A;, Jha, H. K. (2018): Topic modeling and Management Research. Mapping fields with big data. AOM Big Data and Managing in a Digital Economy. April 18-20.

• Risi, D., Vigneau, L; Bohn, S. (2018): Literature review of new institutionalist research on corporate social responsibility: A current and future research agenda. 14th New Institutionalism Workshop. Mailand, March 16-17.

• Bohn, S.; Kunze, M.; Günther, M. (2017): Stressed and shattered: Field-level change and consequences of high degree complexity in the German energy market. 33st EGOS Colloquium, Copenhagen, July 6-8.

• Bohn, S.; Kunze, M.; Günther, M. (2017): Stressed and shattered: Field-level change and consequences of high degree complexity in the German energy market. 13th New Institutionalism Workshop. Jerusalem, March 19-20.

• Bohn, S.; Walgenbach, P. (2017): Living with tensions. Paradoxical strategies in the organizational handling of CSR implementation processes. 41th Workshop of the commission organization, Hamburg, February 16-17.

• Bohn, S. (2016): Topic modeling – From exploration to evidence the case of the German energy transition, WZB Big Data Brown-Bag Seminar, Berlin, December 15.

• Bohn, S. (2016): Because of security…  Dynamic frames, and vocabularies in the debate over the German energy transition (1997–2011). 32st EGOS Colloquium, Neaples, July 7-9. 

• Bohn, S.; Walgenbach, P. (2016): Living with tensions. Paradoxical strategies in the organizational handling of CSR implementation processes. EGOS Pre-Colloquium, Neaples, July 4-5.

• Bohn, S.; Galander, A.; Walgenbach, P. (2015): The creativity of organizations in the taking of management panaceas – On the implementation of CSR in German high-tech firms. 75th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Vancouver, August 7-11.

• Bohn, S.; Walgenbach, P. (2015): Refusing, connecting and playing off conflicting institutional demands. A longitudinal study on the organizational handling of the end of nuclear power, climate protection, and the energy turnaround in Germany. 31st EGOS Colloquium, Athens, July 2-4.

• Bohn, S.; Walgenbach, P. (2014): Refusing, connecting and playing off conflicting institutional demands. A longitudinal study on the organizational handling of the end of nuclear power, climate protection, and the energy turnaround in Germany. 10th New Institutionalism Workshop. Rom, March 20-21.

• Bohn, S.(2014): Rhetorik, Entkopplung und Ambivalenztoleranz. Eine qualitative Studie zum Umgang von Unternehmen mit Konflikten zwischen divergierenden institutionalisierten Erwartungen. 38th Workshop of the commission organization, Jena, February 26-28.

• Bohn, S. (2013): Handling complexity. 8th Campus-Thuringia, Plankstetten, October 25-26. 

• Bohn, S.; Kerekes, R.; Walgenbach, P. (2013): Antagonistic Logics: On the Justifying Accounts for the Adoption of CSR by German DAX Corporations, 8th Transatlantic Doctoral Academy on Corporate Responsibility, University of Toronto, January 28 to February 2.

• Bohn, S.; Galander, A.; Walgenbach, P. (2012): Mastery of bricolage or lost in translation? WU Wien, December 17-18. 

• Bohn, S.; Walgenbach, P. (2012): Tolerance for ambivalence: The creativity of organizations as reaction to conflicting institutional demands, 7th Transatlantic Doctoral Academy on Corporate Responsibility, Berlin, April 30 to May 5. 

• Bohn, S.; Walgenbach, P. (2012): Tolerance for ambivalence: The creativity of organizations as reaction to conflicting institutional demands, 8th New Institutionalism Workshop, ESADE Business School Barcelona, March 15-16.

• Bohn, S. (2011): The implementation process of CSR: 6th Transatlantic Doctoral Academy on Corporate Responsibility, HEC Montreal, October 11-16.

• Bohn, S.; Kerekes, R.; Walgenbach, P. (2011): Antagonistic Logics: On the Justifying Accounts for the Adoption of CSR by German DAX Corporations, 7th New Institutionalism Workshop, EMLYON Business School, March 17-18. 

• Bohn, S.; Walgenbach, P. (2010): Zum Mikroprozess der Reaktion von Organisationen auf ambivalente institutionalisierte Erwartungen, Workshop Akteure und Institutionen in Interaktion. Determinanten von Nachhaltigkeit und Stabilität, Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg, November 19-20.

• Bohn, S. (2009): Zur Ursache und Entstehung von Entkopplungen zwischen organisationalen Strukturen und Organisationspraxis, 1. Forum Kritische Organisationsforschung, Technischen Universität Chemnitz, May 8-9.