Blagoy Blagoev is Professor of Organization Studies and Director at the Institute for Work, Organization, and Transformation (FAA-HSG) at the University of St. Gallen (Switzerland). His research draws on a temporal lens to examine the interplay of people, organizations, and society in the context of current technological, ecological, and cultural transformations. His main research interests include (1) organizing and managing for sustainability, (2) emerging technologies and organizing, (3) new and distributed forms of working and organizing, and (4) organizational change, innovation, and persistence. His work has appeared in leading international journals, such as Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Journal of Management, Journal of Management Studies, Organization Studies, Organization and Scandinavian Journal of Management.
Blagoy regularly works with practice partners on topics such as: (1) leadership development and leadership capabilities for the digital world, (2) organizational structure and design, (3) diversity and inclusion, as well as (4) organizational agility and ambidexterity.
Prior to his appointment at the University of St. Gallen, he served as Professor of Business Administration, especially Organization at Technische Universität Dresden (Germany) and as Lecturer in Management and Organization at Leuphana University of Lüneburg, where he was a founding member of LOST, the Leuphana Center for Organization and Social Transformation. Internationally, he lectured at the Antwerp Management School (Belgium) as well as Radboud University Nijmegen (The Netherlands) and was a visiting scholar at Copenhagen Business School (Denmark) and the University of Graz (Austria). Blagoy holds a doctoral degree (summa cum laude) from Freie Universität Berlin (Germany).
He has received multiple awards, grants, and fellowships, including the Ernst Reuter Prize, two DFG project grants, the Governing Responsible Business Fellowship at Copenhagen Business School, as well as scholarships by DFG and DAAD. He has been a member of the DFG research network "Temporary Organizing”, an associate member of the DFG research network "Grand Challenges & New Forms of Organizing”, and a founding member of the international research network “Routine.Research.Community.” Since 2023, Blagoy co-coordinates the DFG research network „A Temporal Lens on Disruptive Innovation processes.”
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