My research is focused on the analysis of organizational and strategic processes in and of firms. Understanding management as an interplay of deliberate and emergent forms of framing, rules, routines, and practices are analyzed in a longitudinal perspec-
Prof. Dr. Jochen Koch
Professor of Management and Organization, Faculty of Business Administration and Economics, European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder), Germany
tive. Thereby the notion of border and a broader understanding of the concept of border is at central stage. In this perspective the central managerial task, meaning the maintenance and development of system-environment-distinctions, is basically border management.