CBS Library wants to celebrate and showcase early-career research at CBS. To that effect we have invited three PhD fellows from across CBS who will present and discuss their very different research projects, from quantum computing to the role of diagnoses in healthcare to sustainability in banking.

So if you want to make the most of your Thursday afternoon, CBS Library Forum is the place to be.     

Programme:  

14:00-14:30:

Organizing for Uncertainty in Healthcare by Johanna Rungholm, Department of Organization

Focusing on the increasing trend of patient-centered treatment, patient pathways, and treatment packages within contemporary healthcare systems, Johanna Rungholm seeks to go back to the roots of organizational theory and explore the central role of diagnoses in organizing treatment in healthcare. Here, her research aims to investigate how organizational structures and actors at a hospital level coordinate work when disconnecting the stable diagnosis' coordinating role, in absence of straightforward diagnoses, where diagnoses are not possible, or where treatment precedes diagnosis. This project seeks to investigate how two units in a hospital setting collaborate and coordinate work for patients without or with tentative diagnoses. In particular, Johanna seeks to explore how the systems work with and around the group of undiagnosed patients by using a qualitative-dominant research design employing ethnographic observations of work at the Emergency Department (ED) and the Diagnostic Clinic due to these departments coordinating nature. 

14:40-15:10

Sustainability in the Banking Sector by Thordis Bjartmarz, Department of Management, Society and Communication

There is a huge external pressure for companies to become more sustainable, and in Europe this pressure materializes itself in a wave of new sustainability regulations and directives, many of which are specially focused on the finance and banking sector. Thordis Bjartmarz´ research studies sustainability in the banking sector by analyzing the banking business models and identify where sustainability plays a key role and where there may be challenges that need addressing. she studies this with the lens of organizational boundaries theory, meaning she looks at internal processes, boundaries and people and study how they help or hinder in the implementation process of sustainability. Empirically, Thordis studies both the Danish and Icelandic banking sector through a case study research design, meaning she dives into various banks to unfold what is sustainability in and around these banks and what can we than learn from this. Studying sustainability in the banking sector makes a lot of sense, as all the sustainability solutions and innovations cost money and there is a need to bring the finance sector, with its capital and investment funds, fully on this path towards sustainability. 

15:20 - 15:50

On Quantum Weirdness… or How do Quantum Computing Problematize the Current Technological Views of the World? by Ignacio Godoy Descazeaux, Department of Digitalization

From past disagreements between famous physicists such as Einstein and Böhr, cats being dead and alive inside a box, and even teleporting information from Earth to a satellite in space, the quantum concept is an entirely counterintuitive and confusing phenomenon. Nonetheless, public and private organizations are heavily investing in developing technologies, such as the quantum computer, that promise to revolutionize the technological world as it is known today. From being capable of breaking current encryption systems and opening the space for massive cybersecurity problems to even developing highly personalized medicine specific for each human body, the promises about quantum computing are yet to unfold. While the promises are yet to be achieved, a question regarding the organizations investing in it arises: How do they make sense of these technologies if they are not ready for commercial use yet? Centered around the discourse multiple organizations have around quantum computing, the research focuses on how quantum experts and non-experts make sense of this technology-in-development and how it problematizes the digital logic we use for solving problems using technology today.