"If we truly want to understand organizations, we have to examine how people accomplish their everyday work."
Research
#innovation
Innovating is a challenging activity, because actors face an unpredictable, chaotic and messy process. In my research, I explore how actors can deal with the typical challenges in innovating. Here, I examine how they use routines, artefacts, knowledge and skills, to generate novel ideas, concepts and solutions. As innovation usually is the product of the joint efforts of a variety of different people, I also strive to understand how the actions of different people are weaved together in practice in a way that promotes innovation.
#agility
Agility is the capability of an organization to adapt to unexpected changes. Hence, agility enables organizations to thrive in a dynamic environment. My research strives to explain how the everyday work of regular people contributes to organizational agility. On the one hand, I focus on how the skills and actions of those people contribute to agility. On the other hand, I examine how organizational contexts enable and constrain this process.
#process
In recent years, process organization studies have gained momentum. My research is grounded in such a processual approach, in which organization is seen as fleeting and ever-changing practical accomplishment. I am an active member of the Routines Research Community, which views routines as processes and examines how they can simultenously enact stability and change in organizations.
#methods
My research focuses on qualitative methods, such as ethnography and interviews, to generate new insights. I am particularly interested in product and software development in high-tech organizations. I mostly use processual appoaches and approaches that focus on discovery to analyze my data. Another passion lies in the analysis and visualization of sequentially ordered, digital trace data.
Vita
2008 - 2011
Bachelor of Business Administration and Economics at the "University of Hohenheim" in Germany.
2011 - 2015
Master of Business Administration and Business Psychology at the "Private University Seeburg Castle" in Austria.
2012 - 2015
Founder and Manager of the start-up "devega Steinboxen" and several internships in high-tech manufacturing companies.
2015 - 2019
Research Fellow and PhD-Student at the "University of Stuttgart" in Germany, including research stays at the "University of Zürich" and the "University of Warwick."
2020 - today
Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the "University of Stuttgart."
Publications
- Brakemeier, M., Mahringer, C.A. & Renzl, B. (forthcoming). Wie können organisationale Routinen Intrapreneurship nachhaltig fördern? In Kraus, R., Kreitenweis, T. & Jeraj, B. (Eds.). Intrapreneurship – Unternehmergeist, Systeme und Gestaltungsmöglichkeiten. Berlin: Springer.
- Mahringer, C.A., & Pentland, B.T. (2021). Sequence Analysis in Routine Dynamics. In Feldman, M.S., Pentland, P.T., D’Adderio, L., Dittrich, K., Rerup, C. & Seidl, D. (Eds.), Cambridge Handbook of Routine Dynamics (pp. 172-183). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Pentland, B.T., Mahringer, C.A., Dittrich, K., Feldman, M., & Wolf, J.R. (2020). Process Multiplicity and Process Dynamics: Weaving the Space of Possible Paths. Organization Theory, 1(3), 1-21.
- Rost, M., Peter, M., Mahringer, C.A., & Renzl, B. (2020). Rollen-Anforderungen zur Zusammenarbeit in Scrum Teams. Austrian Management Review, 10, 36-46.
- Mahringer, C.A. (2019). Exploring Routine Ecologies – A Characterization and Integration of different Perspectives on Routines. Dissertation. Stuttgart: University of Stuttgart.
- Mahringer, C.A., Dittrich, K. & Renzl, B. (2019). Interdependent Routines and Innovation Processes – An Ethnographic Study of Scrum Teams. Academy of Management Proceedings.
- Mahringer, C.A., Rost, M. & Renzl, B. (2019). How Individuals Perform Customer Knowledge Absorption Practices – A Contextual Approach to Open Innovation. International Journal of Technology Management, 79(3/4), 274-298.
- Mahringer, C.A., & Gabler, M. (2018). Wie können Wissensmanagementsysteme nutzerorientiert gestaltet werden? Die Rolle organisationaler Routinen. HMD – Praxis der Wirtschaftsinformatik, 55(4), 791-800.
- Mahringer, C.A., & Renzl, B. (2018). Entrepreneurial Initiatives as a Microfoundation of Dynamic Capabilities. Journal of Accounting and Organizational Change, 14(1), 61-79
- Mahringer, C.A. (2017). Scrum. WISU – Das Wirtschaftsstudium, 12, 1345.
- Mahringer, C.A., Gabler, M., & Renzl, B. (2017). Agilität in wissensintensiven Organisationen. Von der Produkt- zur Dienstleistungsorientierung. IM+io, 1, 38-42.
- Mahringer, C.A., & Renzl, B. (2016). Employer Branding 2.0 – Change Smart! Austrian Management Review, 6, 48-55.
- Gabler, M., Mahringer, C.A., Metzger, P., & Renzl, B. (2016). Medicus Adaptabilis – Wenn Fachwissen alleine nicht mehr ausreichend ist. Zeitschrift für Führung und Personalmanagement in der Gesundheitswirtschaft, 2(3), 48-56.
- Mahringer, C.A., & Renzl, B. (2015). Internationale Personalentsendungen als strategischer Erfolgsfaktor. In Urnik, S. & Pfeil, W. (Eds.). "Internationale Personalentsendungen": Chancen und Risiken aus Management- und Rechtsperspektive (pp. 1-26). Wien: Manz.
