Assistant Professor Dominika Wruk and Sahin Dündar win the EURAM Conference Best Paper Award

Assistant Professor Dominika Wruk and Sahin Dündar received the Best Paper Award from the ‘Business for Society’ Strategic Interest Group for their submission to this year’s European Academy of Management (EURAM) Conference.

The paper examines how societal values are translated into concrete and durable organizational forms. Among other aspects, it explores how platform organizations differ in their ownership and authority structures, modes of value creation, and governance and infrastructure arrangements, as well as how these characteristics combine into recurring organizational configurations.

On this basis, the study not only identifies the organizational forms currently observable in the platform economy, but also provides a systematic perspective on alternative configurations and potential future developments. In doing so, the paper makes a theoretical and conceptual contribution to research on alternative organizational forms while also offering practical insights for the design of platform organizations.

The presentation and subsequent discussion also received positive and constructive feedback. Among those in attendance was Professor Anna Grandori, Co-Editor-in-Chief of the European Management Review. The next step will be to submit the paper to an academic journal.