Professor Markus Hoellerer

Professor Markus Hoellerer

Professor
Business School
School of Management and Governance

Markus A. Höllerer is Professor in Organization and Management at UNSW Sydney Business School, currently also serving as Deputy Head of School (Research) in the School of Management and Governance, as well as Senior Research Fellow at WU Vienna, Austria. His scholarly work focuses on the study of shifting institutional arrangements, social change, collective action in crisis situations, novel forms of organization and governance, digital sustainability, as well as institutions as multimodal accomplishments. His research has been published in leading outlets such as Academy of Management Annals, Academy of Management Discoveries, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Management Studies, Organization Science, Organization Studies, Public Administration, Strategic Organization, and Urban Studies. He served as the President of the European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS) between 2017 and 2020 and is currently Editor-in-Chief of Organization Theory. Among other awards, he won the 2022 Joanne Martin Trailblazer Award of the Academy of Management OMT Division for his scholarly achievements.

  • Books | 2023
    Ravelli L; Vanleeuwen T; Höllerer MA; Jancsary D, 2023, Organizational Semiotics: Multimodal Perspectives on Organization Studies, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003049920
    Books | 2019
    Hoellerer M; Van Leeuwen T; Jancsary D; Meyer R; Hestbæk Andersen T; Vaara E, 2019, Visual and multimodal research in organization and management studies, Routledge, New York, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315455013
    Books | 2014
    Höllerer MA, 2014, Global themes and local variations in organization and management: Perspectives on glocalization, Drori GS; Höllerer MA; Walgenbach P, (eds.), Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
    Books | 2013
    Seiwald J; Meyer RE; Hammerschmid G; Egger-Peitler I; Höllerer MA, 2013, Neue Wege des Haushaltsmanagements: Internationale Erfahrungen, Herausforderungen und Trends, Original, edition sigma, Berlin
    Books | 2012
    Höllerer MA, 2012, Between creed, rhetoric facade, and disregard: Dissemination and theorization of corporate social responsibility in Austria, Original, Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al.
  • Book Chapters | 2023
    Jancsary D; Höllerer MA; Ravelli L; Vanleeuwen T, 2023, 'Social semiotics and organization studies: Building an effective bridge', in Organizational Semiotics: Multimodal Perspectives on Organization Studies, pp. 25 - 53, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003049920-2
    Book Chapters | 2023
    Ravelli L; Vanleeuwen T; Höllerer MA; Jancsary D, 2023, '‘Organizational semiotics': Toward an integrated research agenda', in Organizational Semiotics: Multimodal Perspectives on Organization Studies, pp. 1 - 24, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003049920-1
    Book Chapters | 2021
    Meyer RE; Jancsary D; Höllerer MA, 2021, 'Neoinstitutional theory and nonprofit governance research', in Research Handbooks in Business and Management seriesResearch Handbook on Nonprofit GovernanceFront MatterCopyrightContentsFiguresTablesContributorsPrefaceAbbreviationsDeepening and broadening the field: introduction to Research Handbook on Nonprofit Gover, pp. 141 - 164
    Book Chapters | 2017
    Höllerer MA; Meyer RE; Lounsbury M, 2017, 'Constructing domains of corporate social responsibility: A politicization of corporations at the expense of a de-politicization of society?', in New Themes in Institutional Analysis: Topics and Issues from European Research, pp. 194 - 223
    Book Chapters | 2017
    Höllerer MA; Meyer RE; Lounsbury M, 2017, 'Politicization of corporations at the expense of de-politicization of society', in New themes in institutional analysis: Topics and issues from European research, https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/new-themes-in-institutional-analysis
    Book Chapters | 2017
    Höllerer MA; Walgenbach P; Drori GS, 2017, 'The consequences of globalization for institutions and organizations', in Greenwood R; Oliver C; Lawrence T; Meyer R (ed.), SAGE Handbook of Organizational Institutionalism, SAGE, http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781446280669.n9
    Book Chapters | 2017
    Jones C; Meyer RE; Jancsary D; Höllerer MA, 2017, 'The material and visual basis of institutions', in Greenwood R; Oliver C; Lawrence T; Meyer R (ed.), SAGE Handbook of Organizational Institutionalism, Sage Publications Ltd, https://au.sagepub.com/en-gb/oce/the-sage-handbook-of-organizational-institutionalism/book243619#contents
    Book Chapters | 2017
    Lok J; Hwang H; Hoellerer MA, 2017, '"Managers to the Rescue!" Evaluating the Legacy of Stewardship Theory from an Institutional Perspective', in Qiu JX; Luo B; Jackson C; Sanders K (ed.), ADVANCING ORGANIZATIONAL THEORY IN A COMPLEX WORLD, ROUTLEDGE, pp. 116 - 131, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000458357600009&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
    Book Chapters | 2016
    Jancsary D; Höllerer MA; Meyer RE, 2016, 'Critical analysis of visual and multimodal texts', in Wodak R; Meyer M (ed.), Methods of critical discourse studies, edn. 3rd, SAGE, London et al., pp. 180 - 204
    Book Chapters | 2016
    Lok J; Hwang H; Höllerer MA, 2016, '‘Managers to the rescue!’: Evaluating the legacy of stewardship theory from an institutional perspective', in Qiu JXJ; Luo BN; Jackson C; Sanders K (ed.), Advancing organizational theory in a complex world, Taylor & Francis, New York, pp. 132 - 143, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315677293
    Book Chapters | 2016
    Walgenbach P; Drori GS; Höllerer MA, 2016, 'Between local mooring and global orientation: A neo-institutional theory perspective on the contemporary multinational corporation', in Lounsbury M (ed.), Between Local Mooring and Global Orientation: A Neo-Institutional Theory Perspective on the Contemporary Multinational Corporation, Emerald Publishing Limited, pp. 99 - 125, http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/S0733-558X20160000049004
    Book Chapters | 2015
    Höllerer MA; Meyer RE; Jancsary D, 2015, 'Der institutionelle Rahmen der Organisation', in Mayrhofer W; Furtmüller G; Kasper H (ed.), Personalmanagement - Führung - Organisation, edn. 5th, Linde, Vienna, pp. 445 - 477, http://www.lindeverlag.at/titel-305-305/personalmanagement_fuehrung_organisation-6236/
    Book Chapters | 2014
    Drori GS; Höllerer MA; Walgenbach P, 2014, 'The glocalization of organization and management: Issues, dimensions, and themes', in Drori GS; Höllerer MA; Walgenbach P (ed.), Global themes and local variations in organization and management: Perspectives on glocalization, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, New York, pp. 3 - 23, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203139486
    Book Chapters | 2013
    Hollerer MA; Jancsary D; Meyer RE; Vettori O, 2013, 'Imageries of corporate social responsibility: Visual recontextualization and field-level meaning', in Lounsbury M; Boxenbaum E (ed.), Research in the Sociology of Organizations, EMERALD GROUP PUBLISHING LTD, pp. 139 - 174, http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/S0733-558X(2013)0039A&B018
    Book Chapters | 2012
    Meyer RE; Seiwald J; Polzer T; Höllerer MA, 2012, 'Manifestationen von Verwaltungsparadigmen im österreichischen Haushaltsrecht', in Hilgers D; Schauer R; Thom N (ed.), Public Management im Paradigmenwechsel: Staat und Verwaltung im Spannungsfeld von New Public Management, Open Government und bürokratischer Restauration, edn. Original, Trauner, Linz, pp. 89 - 103
    Book Chapters | 2010
    Meyer RE; Höllerer MA, 2010, 'Ziele und Strategien von Organisationen', in Mayrhofer W; Meyer M; Titscher S (ed.), Praxis der Organisationsanalyse: Anwendungsfelder und Methoden, edn. Original, facultas WUV, Wien, pp. 47 - 62
  • Edited Books | 2017
    Höllerer M; Daudigeous T; Jancsary D, (eds.), 2017, Multimodality, meaning, and institutions
  • Journal articles | 2023
    Beveridge A; Höllerer MA, 2023, 'Theorizing Organizational Benevolence', Organization Science, http://dx.doi.org/10.1287/orsc.2022.1646
    Journal articles | 2023
    Fourie J; Hoellerer M; Dwyer G; Spee P, 2023, 'Insights for Organizational Scholarship from Documentaries on the Australian ‘Black Summer’ Bushfires', Organization Studies, pp. 017084062311827 - 017084062311827, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/01708406231182766
    Journal articles | 2022
    Creed D; Gray B; Höllerer MA; Karam C; Reay T, 2022, 'Organizing for social and institutional change in response to disruption, division, and displacement', Organization Studies, pp. 017084062211222 - 017084062211222, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/01708406221122237
    Journal articles | 2022
    Criado-Perez C; Shinkle GA; Höllerer MA; Sharma A; Collins C; Gardner N; Hank Haeusler M; Pan S, 2022, 'Digital Transformation in the Australian AEC Industry: Prevailing Issues and Prospective Leadership Thinking', Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 148, http://dx.doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)CO.1943-7862.0002214
    Journal articles | 2022
    Höllerer MA; Geiger D, 2022, 'Academia in the Post-Pandemic World: Leapfrogging into the Unknown – Tales from Organizing EGOS 2020', Journal of Management Studies, 59, pp. 843 - 850, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/joms.12704
    Journal articles | 2022
    Leixnering S; Höllerer M, 2022, '‘Remaining the same or becoming another?’ Adaptive resilience versus transformative urban change', Urban Studies, 59, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0042098021998923
    Journal articles | 2021
    Cornelissen J; Höllerer MA; Seidl D, 2021, 'What Theory Is and Can Be: Forms of Theorizing in Organizational Scholarship', Organization Theory, 2, pp. 263178772110203 - 263178772110203, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/26317877211020328
    Journal articles | 2021
    Kornberger M; Meyer RE; Höllerer MA, 2021, 'Exploring the long-term effect of strategy work: The case of Sustainable Sydney 2030', Urban Studies, 58, pp. 3316 - 3334, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0042098020979546
    Journal articles | 2021
    Meyer RE; Jancsary D; Höllerer MA, 2021, 'Zones of meaning, leitideen, institutional logics – and practices: A phenomenological institutional perspective on shared meaning structures', Research in the Sociology of Organizations, 70, pp. 161 - 186, http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/S0733-558X20200000070005
    Journal articles | 2021
    Quattrone P; Ronzani M; Jancsary D; Hoellerer M, 2021, 'Beyond the visible, the material, and the performative: Shifting perspectives on the visual in Organization Studies', Organization Studies, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/01708406211033678
    Journal articles | 2020
    Cornelissen J; Höllerer MA, 2020, 'An Open and Inclusive Space for Theorizing: Introducing Organization Theory', Organization Theory, 1, pp. 263178771988798 - 263178771988798, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2631787719887980
    Journal articles | 2020
    Hoellerer M; Schneiberg M; Thornton P; Zietsma C; Wang MS, 2020, 'Rediscovering the Power of Institutions: The macrofoundations of institutional analysis', Research in the Sociology of Organizations, 68, pp. 221 - 234, http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/S0733-558X20200000068010
    Journal articles | 2020
    Hwang H; Höllerer MA, 2020, 'The COVID-19 Crisis and Its Consequences: Ruptures and Transformations in the Global Institutional Fabric', Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, 56, pp. 294 - 300, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0021886320936841
    Journal articles | 2020
    Höllerer MA; Jancsary D; Barberio V; Meyer RE, 2020, 'The Interlinking Theorization of Management Concepts: Cohesion and Semantic Equivalence in Management Knowledge', Organization Studies, 41, pp. 1284 - 1310, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0170840619856033
    Journal articles | 2020
    Meyer R; Kornberger M; Hoellerer M, 2020, 'How cities think: Thought style, thought collective, and the impact of strategy', Research in the Sociology of Organizations, http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/S0733-558X20200000068004
    Journal articles | 2020
    Vith S; Hoellerer M, 2020, '‘Turning the sharing economy into a fair economy’: Strategic issue work in the Vienna City Administration', Research in the Sociology of Organizations, 66, pp. 187 - 213, http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/S0733-558X20200000066009
    Journal articles | 2019
    Gehman J; Höllerer MA, 2019, 'Venturing into the cultural future: research opportunities at the nexus of institutions, innovation and impact', Innovation: Organization & Management, 21, pp. 229 - 248, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14479338.2018.1552520
    Journal articles | 2019
    Höllerer MA, 2019, 'Celebrating 40 Years of Organization Studies', Organization Studies, 40, pp. 1785 - 1786, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0170840619891503
    Journal articles | 2019
    Vith S; Oberg A; Höllerer MA; Meyer RE, 2019, 'Envisioning the ‘Sharing City’: Governance Strategies for the Sharing Economy', Journal of Business Ethics, 159, pp. 1023 - 1046, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10551-019-04242-4
    Journal articles | 2018
    Gümüsay AA; Höllerer MA; Meyer RE, 2018, 'Organizational Scent', Management (France), 21, pp. 1424 - 1428
    Journal articles | 2018
    Hoellerer M; Barberio V; Meyer RE; Jancsary D, 2018, 'Organizational Boundaries in Fluid Forms of Production: The Case of Apache Open-source Software', Research in the Sociology of Organizations
    Journal articles | 2018
    Höllerer MA; Jancsary D; Grafström M, 2018, '‘A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words’: Multimodal Sensemaking of the Global Financial Crisis', Organization Studies, 39, pp. 617 - 644, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0170840618765019
    Journal articles | 2018
    Kornberger M; Meyer R; Leixnering S; Höllerer M, 2018, 'Rethinking the sharing economy: The nature and organization of sharing in the 2015 refugee crisis.', Academy of Management Discoveries, 4, pp. 314 - 335, http://dx.doi.org/10.5465/amd.2016.0138
    Journal articles | 2017
    Höllerer M; Daudigeous T; Jancsary D, 2017, 'Multimodality, meaning, and institutions: Editorial', Research in the Sociology of Organizations, 54A, pp. 1 - 24, http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/S0733-558X2017000054A016
    Journal articles | 2017
    Jancsary D; Meyer R; Höllerer M; Barberio M, 2017, 'Toward a structural model of organizational-level institutional pluralism and logic interconnectedness', Organization Science, 28, pp. 1150 - 1167, http://dx.doi.org/10.1287/orsc.2017.1160
    Journal articles | 2017
    Jancsary D; Meyer R; Höllerer M; Boxenbaum E, 2017, 'Institutions as multimodal accomplishments: Towards the analysis of visual registers', Research in the Sociology of Organizations, 54A, pp. 87 - 117, http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/S0733-558X2017000054A004
    Journal articles | 2017
    Kornberger M; Leixnering S; Meyer R; Höllerer M, 2017, 'Rethinking the sharing economy: The nature and organization of sharing in the 2015 refugee crisis', Academy of Management Discoveries, http://dx.doi.org/10.5465/amd.2016.0138
    Journal articles | 2017
    Meyer R; Jancsary D; Höllerer M; Boxenbaum E, 2017, 'THE ROLE OF VERBAL AND VISUAL TEXT IN THE PROCESS OF INSTITUTIONALIZATION', Academy of Management Review, 43, pp. amr.2014.0301 - amr.2014.0301, http://dx.doi.org/10.5465/amr.2014.0301
    Journal articles | 2017
    Walgenbach P; Drori G; Höllerer M, 2017, 'Between local mooring and global orientation: A neo-institutional theory perspective on the contemporary multinational corporation', Research in the Sociology of Organizations, 49, http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/S0733-558X20160000049004
    Journal articles | 2016
    Brandtner C; Höllerer MA; Kornberger M; Meyer RE, 2016, 'Enacting governance through strategy: A comparative study on governance configurations in Sydney and Vienna', Urban Studies: an international journal for research in urban studies, 54, pp. 1075 - 1091, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0042098015624871
    Journal articles | 2016
    Kornberger M; Meyer RE; Brandtner C; Höllerer MA, 2016, 'When bureaucracy meets the crowd: Studying ‘open government’ in the Vienna City Administration', Organization Studies, 38, pp. 179 - 200, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0170840616655496
    Journal articles | 2016
    Meyer RE; Höllerer MA; Leixnering S, 2016, 'A question of value(s): Political connectedness and executive compensation in public sector organizations', International Public Management Journal, Published online: 29 Oct 2015, pp. 477 - 500, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10967494.2015.1094162
    Journal articles | 2016
    Meyer RE; Höllerer MA, 2016, 'Laying a smoke screen: Ambiguity and neutralization as strategic responses to intra-institutional complexity', Strategic Organization, 14, pp. 373 - 406, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1476127016633335
    Journal articles | 2016
    Polzer T; Meyer RE; Höllerer MA; Seiwald J, 2016, 'Institutional hybridity in public sector reform: Replacement, blending, or layering of administrative paradigms', Research in the Sociology of Organizations, 48B, pp. 69 - 99, http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/S0733-558X201600048B003
    Journal articles | 2014
    Drori GS; Höllerer MA; Walgenbach P, 2014, 'Unpacking the glocalization of organisation: From term, to theory, to analysis', European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology, 1, pp. 85 - 99, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23254823.2014.904205
    Journal articles | 2014
    Meyer RE; Egger-Peitler I; Höllerer MA; Hammerschmid G, 2014, 'Of bureaucrats and passionate public managers: Institutional logics, executive identities, and public service motivation', Public Administration: an international quarterly covering public administration throughout the world, 92, pp. 861 - 885, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9299.2012.02105.x
    Journal articles | 2014
    Meyer RE; Hoellerer MA, 2014, 'Does institutional theory need redirecting?', Journal of Management Studies, 51, pp. 1221 - 1233, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/joms.12089
    Journal articles | 2014
    Meyer RE; Höllerer MA, 2014, 'Does institutional theory need redirecting?', Journal of Management Studies, 51, pp. 1221 - 1233, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/joms.12089
    Journal articles | 2013
    Höllerer MA; Jancsary D; Meyer RE; Vettori O, 2013, 'Imageries of corporate social responsibility: Visual recontextualization and field-level meaning', Research in the Sociology of Organizations, 39, pp. 139 - 174, http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/S0733-558X(2013)0039B018
    Journal articles | 2013
    Höllerer MA, 2013, 'From taken-for-granted to explicit commitment: The rise of CSR in a corporatist country', Journal of Management Studies, 50, pp. 573 - 606, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/joms.12029
    Journal articles | 2013
    Meyer RE; Höllerer MA; Jancsary D; Van Leeuwen T, 2013, 'The visual dimension in organizing, organization, and organization research: Core ideas, current developments, and promising avenues', The Academy of Management Annals, 7, pp. 487 - 553, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19416520.2013.781867
    Journal articles | 2010
    Meyer RE; Höllerer MA, 2010, 'Meaning structures in a contested issue field: A topographic map of shareholder value in Austria', Academy of Management Journal, 53, pp. 1241 - 1262, http://dx.doi.org/10.5465/amj.2010.57317829

Involvement in various large-scale research projects funded by the ARC and international funding bodies, including as national project lead for EU Horizon 2020 grant #693529 PERCEIVE and as project lead for ARC DP210103780 Collective Action and Collaborative Governance in Crisis Situations.