Prof. Dr. Wendelin Küpers

Prof. Dr. Wendelin Küpers

At the university since

  • September 01, 2013

Focus on teaching

  • Leadership & Organization, Studies and practice
  • General Management and Leadership
  • Leading Others: Power, Conflict and Negotiation (Master study program Social TransFormation)
  • Research Colloquium for Master study program
  • Special Issue: Transformative Research Project
  • Introduction into political philosophy
  • Ethics in Practice and Interdisciplinary subjects, Sustainability Development

Modules

  • General Management/Leadership Master Management, Master Social TransFormation including modules on business analysis, business transformation, strategy as practice, aesthetics and ethics in leadership and leading others: Power, Conflict and Negotiation
  • Introduction to Scientific Work and Empirical Social and Business Research (Research Colloquium Master program)
  • Practical Philosophy & Strategic Practice (Bachelor program “Politics, Philosophy and Economics”)
  • Special Issue: Transformative Research Project
  • Sustainability Development

Research interests and fields

  • Phenomenology and cross-disciplinary, qualitative research on organization and management/leadership
  • Embodied, emotional, and aesthetic dimensions of organizational life-worlds and management/leadership practice
  • Implicit knowing and learning & creative practices in organizations and its management/leadership
  • Theory and practice of integral and responsible forms of organizing and managing/leading
  • Practical wisdom in organizations and leadership as well as economy and society

Academic training and further education

  • Associate Professor at ICN – ARTEM, Nancy, France
  • Associate Professor at the School of Management, Massey University, Auckland/New Zealand
  • Senior Lecturer Distance University Hagen, German
  • Post-Doc Research Associate at the University of St. Gallen/Switzerland
  • Doctorate at the University of Witten/Herdecke, degree: Dr. rer. pol. honorary
  • Studies in economic sciences at the University of Witten/Herdecke, degree: Diplom rer. pol.
  • Study of philosophy at University Bochum, Participation at post-graduate College “Phenomenology and Hermeneutics”

Practical experience

  • Many years of selective cooperation with companies in empirical research projects
  • FUTOUR GmbH & Co KG, Munich
  • Wikinger-Reisen GmbH, Hagen and Reykjavik/Iceland
  • INDOCULTURES GmbH, Stuttgart and New Delhi/India
  • Huels (VEBA), Marl: Training as an industrial clerk and several years of employment

Current research projects

  • Phenomenology and “practice” of embodied, aesthetic and sustainable organizations and leadership
  • “Em-Bodied-MIND-full”: Processes and effects of mindfulness in organizational environments and leadership practice
  • “De-Sign-Doing“: bodily and artistic design(s) & “materio-socio-cultural” intermediate practices of sustainable organizations and leadership
  • “AestEthics”: Possibilities of integral, ethical and aesthetic processes and forms of practical wisdom in responsive and responsible organization and leadership

Expert activities

  • Conference Convenor, (EURAM, EGOS, CMS, Rethinking Management)
  • Editor of“The Practical Wisdom in Leadership and Organization Series“, Gower Ashgate, Routledge
  • Section Editor for “Handbook of Practical Wisdom in Business and Management”, Barry Schwartz, Caleb Bernacchio, César González-Cantón and Angus Robson, eds) in Series, “International Handbooks in Business Ethics”, Springer
  • Co-editor of “Integral Review“
  • Co-publisher and head of the German “Integral Leadership” office
  • Co-editor of “Organizational Aesthetics“
  • Scientific Advisory Board of the Institute for Integral Studies (IFIS)
  • Member of the Advisory Board of the Social Responsibility Council (SRC), New Delhi, India
  • Founding member of “Ethics and Responsibility in the World of Work” e.V.
  • Expert for “European Science Foundation”, Strasbourg, France
  • Member of the “Centre Eurpéen de Recherche en Économic Financière et Gestion des Entreprises” (CEREFIGE), Université de Lorraine, Nancy, France
  • Member of “International Research Chair in Art and Sustainable Enterprise” (IRCASE), ICN – ARTEM, Nancy, France
  • Member of the Editorial Board “Organizational Aesthetics”
  • Reviewer of scientific journals: “Academy of Management Learning & Education”, “Business Ethics: A European Review”, “Consumption Markets & Culture”, “Culture and Organization”, “Human Relations”, “Integral Review”, “International Journal of Management Reviews”, “Journal of Business Ethics”, “Journal for Cleaner Production”, “Journal of Management Inquiry”, “Journal of Organizational Behavior”, “Leadership”, “Leadership and Organization Development Journal”, “Management Learning”, “Organization Studies”, “Organization Management Journal”, “Organizational Aesthetics”, “Scandinavian Journal of Management”, “Studies in Communication Sciences”, “Zeitschrift für Arbeitswissenschaft”, “Zeitschrift für Organisations-Entwicklung”
  • Book reviewer for Routledge and Emerald
  • Associate editor of the journal “Business Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility”

Further information

Memberships

  • Aesthetics Creativity & Organization Research Network (ACORN)
  • Academy of Management (AoM)
  • Critical Management Studies (CMS)
  • European Group of Organization Studies (EGOS)
  • European Business Ethics Network (EBEN)
  • European SPES Institute – Spirituality in economics and society
  • EMONET, Emotion Net-work
  • European Academy of Management (EURAM)
  • Institute for Integral Studies (IFIS)
  • Integral Leadership Council
  • International Leadership Association (ILA)’s Followership Research Community
  • Standing Conference on Organizational Symbolism (SCOS)
  • Strategy as Practice Network (SAP)
  • Visiting Research Fellow, Imagination Laboratory

Awards and scholarships

  • Diploma degree with honors in “Economics & Business Administration” at the University of Witten/Herdecke
  • Doctoral scholarship Dörken Foundation, Herdecke
  • Post-doctoral scholarship Thyssen Foundation, Cologne
  • Research Promotion Basic Fund, University of St. Gallen/Switzerland
  • Marie Curie Fellowship, European Commission, Brussels/Belgium
  • “Key Reading” article in the Emerald Management Reviews database: Küpers, W. (2005): Embodied Implicit and Narrative Knowing in Organizations. In: Journal of Knowledge Management, Volume 9, No 6, 2005, 113-133.
  • Nomination for the “Johnson Award” as “Best Papers in Ethics and Accountability in Public Service” by the Johnson Institute for Responsible Leadership at the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs of the University of Pittsburgh/USA: Küpers, W. and Weibler, J. (2008). Inter-Leadership – Why and How to Think Leader- and Followership Integrally, Leadership, Vol. 4(4): 443-47.
  • Nomination and certificate as “Lecturer of the year (LOTY)”, Massey University, Auckland/New Zealand (2013)
  • Erasmus+ STA Mobility grant (2014/2015)

Publications

Some of the publications can be accessed directly via the following links:

Academia.edu

Research Gate

Monographs

Publications

Book chapters (selection)

  • (2023) “Phenomenology and Management & Organizations”, In: Encyclopaedia of Critical Management Studies. In: Ödül Bozkurt, Rachael Finn, Edward Granter, Arun Kumar, Carolyn Hunter, Nina Kivinen, Leo McCann and Brian Wierman, (eds.) Cheltenham: Edward Elgar (in preparation).
  • (2023) “Culture and Context of Wisdom (‘Weisheit’) and Wise Leadership Practice in the German-speaking World”, In: ‘Global Wisdoms for Sustainable Leadership Impact: Insights from Decoding Cultural Enigmas’, Eric H. Kessler & Diana J. Wong-MingJi (eds), Cheltenham: U.K.: Edward Elgar (forthcoming).
  • (2023) (with Urs Jaeger and José Pablo Valverde) “Methodological Resilience: Designing research to explore social inclusion in informal markets in Latin America”, In: Stephen Sinclair and Simone Baglioni, (Eds.) Handbook of Social Innovation and Social Policy, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (forthcoming).
  • (2023) “Values and Practical Wisdom for an Integral and Responsible-Responsive Leadership and Organizational Practice”, Capistran, A. Klostermann, G. Küpers, W. & Salfeld, A, (Eds). Ethics and responsibility in the world of work (forthcoming).
  • (2022) “Post-Phenomenology – Integrating enfleshed Prâxis, Practices, Phrónêsis and Sustainable Action for organizing and embodied living common(ing) and commonviviality”,François-Xavier de Vaujany, Jeremy Aroles and Mar Pérezts “Phenomenologies and Organization Studies: Problematizing management and organizing as appearing and appearances” (577-603), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • (2022) “Between face to face and inter-face – Embodiment and the dynamics of subconsiousness in organization in digital enframement” (“Zwischen Face to Face und InterFace – Leiblichkeit und die Dynamiken des Unbewussten in Organisationen im Digitalen Gestell”), In: Marlies W. Fröse, Annemarie Bauer & Jörg Seigies (Eds) Unconscious dynamics in organizations” Giessen: Psychosozial Verlag.
  • (2022) (with Chris Howard) “Steps Towards a Critical Posthuman Anthropology”, In: Stefan Herbrechter, et al (Eds). Handbook of Critical Posthumanism, Houndmills: Palgrave/Springer.
  • (2021) (with Stephan Sonnenburg) “Being t/here – Apart (but) together: Co-creative working in real-virtual inter-places” For “The Metamorphosis of Organizational Space in Cultural and Creative Sectors” edited by Federica De Molli & Marilena Vecco, Routledge Series on “State of the Art in Business Research, (53-66), London: Routledge.
  • (2021) “(Re-)embodied Digital Education Practices: Empirical Vignettes About Teaching and Learning in ‘Tele-co-presences'”,Stephen Loftus & Anne Kinsella (eds.), Embodiment and Professional Education: body, practice, pedagogy, (183-196) New York: Springer.
  • Küpers, W. (2020). “Embodied Inter-Practices in Resonance as New Forms of Working in Organizations”, in Aroles, J., Dale, K. & de Vaujany, F. (2020). Experiencing the New World of Work, (pp. 13-38), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Küpers, W. (2020). “From Anthropocene to Ecocene-Eco-Phenomenological Perspectives on Embodied, Anthro-decentric Transformations towards Enlivening Practices of Organizing Sustainably. In Pasi Heikkurinen, Toni Ruuska, Anu Valtonen and Outi Rantala (eds). Time and Mobility after the Anthropocene, MDPI.
  • Küpers, W. (2020). “Cultivating Sustainable Organizational Bodies by Embodied and Playful Learning as an ‘Inter-Practice'”, in Minisri, Kamel & Schulz, Klaus (eds), Pathways to Connect Creativity and Sustainable Development, (119-142), Nancy: PUN – Presses Universitaires de Nancy, Edition Collection: Organizations in Action.
  • Küpers, W. (2019). (with C. Howard) “Phenomenological anthropology of interactive travel: mediated responsivity and inter-placed mobilities, in: Tourism and embodiment, Advances in Anthropology, eds C. Palmer & H. Andrews (203-218), London: Routledge.
  • Küpers, W. (2019). “Post-Pandoran Hope for Moving Wisely, Beyond the Neo-Promethean Anthropocene, in Monika Kostera & Daniel Ericsson (eds) Organizing hope, Narratives for a Better Future. (chapter 7) Cheltenham: Edward Elgar
  • Küpers, W. (2019). “Merlin as Tale of Practical Wisdom” in: Küpers, W. & Statler, M. (eds), “Tales of Wisdom in Business and Leadership“, New York: Routledge (forthcoming).
  • Küpers, W. (2017). “Introduction: Contexts and Complexities of Wisdom Learning in Management and Business Education”, Küpers, W. & Gunnlaugson, O. (eds), Wisdom Learning: Perspectives on Wising-Up Management & Business Education. London: Routledge, 1-38
  • Küpers, W. (2017). “Embodied Aesth-Ethics for Developing Practical Wisdom in Management Education/Learning, Küpers, W. & Gunnlaugson, O. (eds), Wisdom Learning: Perspectives on Wising-Up Management & Business Education, London: Routledge, 272-311
  • Küpers, W. (2017). “The embodied Inter-Be(com)ing of Spirituality. The in-between as spiritual sphere in practically wise organizations“; Sharda Nandram (ed) Managing VUCA by an Integrative Self-Managed way: Enhancing Integrating Simplification Theory. London: Springer, 229-247.
  • Küpers, W. Sonnenburg, S. & Zierold, M. (2017). “Introduction: ReThinking Management?!“, In: Küpers, W., S. Sonnenburg & M. Zierold (2015) “Re-Thinking Management. Berlin: Springer, 11-30
  • Küpers, W. (2016). “Models of service quality”, Michael Ketting, Raimundtner Pfundtner & Hans-Dieter Zollondz, (eds.) Lexikon des Qualitätsmanagements, Munich/Vienna: Oldenbourg,707-712.
  • Küpers, W. (2016). “Qualität als philosophischer Begriff”, Michael Ketting, Raimund Pfundtner & Hans-Dieter Zollondz, (eds.) Lexikon des Qualitätsmanagements, Munich/Vienna: Oldenbourg, 875-882.
  • Küpers, W. (2016). “Qualität als Beziehungsereignis”, Michael Ketting, Raimund Pfundtner & Hans-Dieter Zollondz, (eds.) Lexikon des Qualitätsmanagements, Munich/Vienna, Oldenbourg, 863-867.
  • Küpers, W. (2015).“De-+-Touring through “Inter-Place”. In: Sonnenburg, S. and Wee, D. (eds.): Touring Consumption, Series Management-Culture-Interpretation, Heidelberg: Springer.
  • Küpers, W. (2015). “The art of practical wisdom in organization and leadership. The relevance of emotion and intuition for an integral wisdom practice“. In: Fröse, M. and Kaudela-Baum, S. (eds.): High Touch – Emotions and Intuitions in Leadership and Management, Berlin: Springer, 65-98.

Articles in specialist journals (peer-reviewed)

  • (2023) “Ethics and Temporality: Moral Practices and Ethical Issues Related to Time in Organizations” Special issue, edited by Wendelin Küpers, E. Gunter Schumacher & David Wasieleski, ‘Journal of Business Ethics’ (forthcoming). ABS3, Quartile:Q1, ABDC: A
  • (2023) “En-Fleshed Practicing in Organizations Flesh as Elemental Carnality and Formative Medium for Organizing Sustainability Development, ‘Phenomenology & Practice’ Vol 17, 2 (forthcoming).
  • (2022) (with Yves Habran and Jean Weber). “Careful Vulnerability in responsive, caring practices and relationships”, ‘Social Science & Medicine’ (under review). ABS4, Quartile:Q1, ABDC: A
  • (2022) (with Kamel Minsri) ‘The Role of Embodied, Living Ethos in relation to Pathos and Logos for Integral ‘Aesth-Ethical’ and Wise Practices”, ‘Management Communication Quarterly‘ ABS 2 (under review). ABS2, ABDC: B
  • (2022) (with Paul Shrivastava) “Embodied Leverage Practices for Sustainable Development in Organizations”, ‘InternationalJournal of Sustainability in Higher Education’ (under review).
  • (2022) (with Jeremy Aroles) “Flânerie as a methodological practice for explorative re-search in digital worlds”, ‘Culture and Organization‘, 02. 1-14. ABS2, Q1, ABDC: B
  • (2022) (with David Pauleen, Ali Intezari) “Wise relational management: Tai Chi Chuan as an exemplar of embodied and balanced responsiveness”, ‘Scandinavian Journal of Management’, Vol 38, (3), 09. 2022. ABS2, Quartile:Q1, ABDC: B
  • (2021) “Trans-Formational Qualities of the Dys-&-Functional —The interplay of the questioning Senses of Real, the quest for a Sense of the Possible and enacting a Sense of the Doable – Non-linear perspectives on spiralling moves”, Revue Internationale de Psychosociologie et de Gestion des Comportements Organizationnels (RIPCO), Special Issue Arts et organizations : des individus aux structures, la dimension esthétique inséparable du politique Philippe, Mairesse; Géraldine, Schmidt; Yoann, Bazin Volume XXVI, Numéro 71, 13-36.
  • Küpers, W. (2021) “Trans-Formational Qualities of the Dys-&-Functional —The interplay of the questioning Senses of Real, the quest for a Sense of the Possible and enacting a Sense of the Doable – Non-linear perspectives on spiralling moves”, Revue Internationale de Psychosociologie et de Gestion des Comportements Organizationnels (RIPCO), Special Issue Arts et organizations : des individus aux structures, la dimension esthétique inséparable du politique Philippe, Mairesse; Géraldine, Schmidt; Yoann, Bazin Volume XXVI, Numéro 67 (forthcoming).

Forewords

  • Küpers, W. (2020) (with David Pauleen) Series Editor’ Preface for “Practical Wisdom, Leadership and Culture: Asian, Indigenous and Middle-Eastern Perspectives” edited by Ali Intezari, Chellie Spiller and Shih-ying Yang , in “The Practical Wisdom in Leadership and Organization Series”, London: Routledge.
  • Küpers, W. (2019) Series Editor’ Preface for “Wisdom, Analytics and Wicked Problems Integral Decision Making for the Data Age edited by Ali Intezari & David Pauleen, in “The Practical Wisdom in Leadership and Organization Series”, London: Routledge.
  • Küpers, W. (2016) (with David Pauleen), Series Editors’ Preface for book “Practical Wisdom in the Age of Technology. Insights, issues, and questions for a new millennium”, edited by Nikunj Dalal, Ali Intezari, Marty Heitz, “The Practical Wisdom in Leadership and Organization Series”, London: Routledge.

Other publications and manuscripts / Working Paper

Lectures

  • Küpers, W. (2019). “From Anthropocene to Eco-cene? – Perspectives on embodied transformations towards enlivening practices in organizations”, for EGOS Conference, Sub-theme 67: Critical Organizational Anthropocene Studies, Edinburgh.
  • Küpers, W. (2019). “Embodied Leverage Practices for Sustainable Development in Organizations”, paper for presentation at conference Leverage Points, Leuphania University, Lüneburg, Germany.
  • Küpers, W. (2018). “Practices for Organizing Sustainable Praxis” interactive paper for presentation, 12, 2018, ANZAM, Auckland, New Zealand.
  • Küpers, W. (2018). “Phenomenology of Embodied New Work Practices”, Key-Note Speech for the 2nd International Workshop “Phenomenology & New Work Practices” Université PSL-Paris Dauphine, DRM – Management & Organization (01. 06. 2018).
  • Küpers, W. (2018). “Inter-Prâxis – Integrating Prâxis, Practice, Phronesis for enacting Transformative Sustainable Development”, Paper for EURAM 2018, Stream 01.02.S Business for Society as a living project, (Best Paper Nominee), Reykjavik, Iceland
  • Küpers, W. (2017). “Cultivating Sustainable Organizational Bodies by Embodied and Playful Learning as an ‘Inter-Practice'” for ARTEM conference sub-stream: Connecting creativity and sustainability via human body: Re-creating creative and sustainable organizational bodies through body-based management learning, 09, 2017, ICN, Nancy.
  • Küpers, W. (2017). “En-Fleshed Inter-Practices’ for more Sustainable Organizational Life-Worlds”, paper for ‘CARNE – Flesh and Organization’ 5th Standing Conference on Organizational Symbolism, 07 2017, Universita’ degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza, Rome.
  • Küpers, W. (2017). “The Role of Embodied Ethos for an Integral ‘Aesth-Ethical’ and Wise Practices & Praxis in Organizations”, paper for EGOS, Sub-theme 12: Being Good or Looking Good? Interrogating the Contradictions and Tensions in Organizational Ethics 07. 2017, Copenhagen.
  • Küpers, W. (2017) “Embodied Re-Design for Sustainability Development – From Design Thinking towards an Design Doing, paper for presentation at workshop on design thinking and sustainability, in connection to ‘SaM’ research project.05. 2017, Leuphana University, Lüneburg
  • Küpers, W. (2017) “Embodied (Inter-)Affection as medium for sustainable Leader- & Followership in Organizational Life-Worlds”, paper for presentation at 2nd Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Leadership Symposium, 5. 2017, Mykonos.
  • Küpers, W. (2016) (with D. Rooney, D. Pauleen, & Todarello, E.). “The Role of Time and temporality in wisdom development for organizations”, paper for presentation at ABEN (Australian Business Ethics Network) Conference, 12. 2016, Griffith University, Southbank Campus, Brisbane.
  • Küpers, W. (2016). “Integrating Sustainable Development and Practical Wisdom as Practices of Organizing”, Paper presented at ANZAM Conference, 6-9. 12. 2016, Brisbane.
  • Küpers, W. (2016) (with Rooney, D., Todarello, E., Pauleen, D.) “The temporal dimensions of wisdom development.” Paper presented at Australian Business Ethic Network Conference, Griffith University, 12. 2016, Brisbane.
  • Küpers, W. (2016). “Embodied “Aesth-Ethics for Developing Practical Wisdom in Management Education/Learning”, paper for presentation EURAM-Conference, 1-4. 06. 2016, Paris.
  • Küpers, W. (2016) (with J. Deeg): “Processing paradoxes through chiasmic organizing”, Eighth International Symposium on Process Organization Studies Theme: Dualities, dialectics and paradoxes in organizational life, 16-18 06. 2016, Corfu, Greece.
  • Küpers, W. (2015). “Embod-ied Responsive Ethical Practice, The Contribution of Merleau-Ponty for a Corporeal Ethics in Organizations, paper for presentation at EBEN (European Business Ethics Network), Conference, 26. – 28. 06. 2015, Istanbul.
  • Küpers, W. (2015) “Inter-Play(ing) -Embodied and relational possibilities of serious play at work”, presentation at 10th Organization Studies Summer Workshop and Special Issue Organizational Creativity, Play and Entrepreneurship, 21-23. 05. 2015, Chania, Crete.
  • Küpers, W. (2015): Embodied & artful design for a creative and sustainable practice in organizations and leadership. Paper for presentation at ARTEMOCC, 1st ARTEM Organizational Creativity international Conference, “Rethinking Paths on Creativity and Sustainability”, ICN Business School Nancy, 26-27 March 2015.
  • Küpers, W. (2014): “Embodied, artful design for a creative inter-practicing of leadership”. Paper for presentation at EGOS conference, Rotterdam, July 3-5, 2014. (under review for Organiational Aesthetics)
  • Küpers, W. (2014): Inter-Play(ing) – Embodied and relational possibilities of serious play at work paper for presentation at SCOS conference, Utrecht, July 7-10, 2014.
  • Küpers, W. (2014): “Embodied Inter-ruption ~ The potential of art-based approaches for a liberating irritation of the “Sense of Reality” and explorations through the “Sense of Possibility” in organization and leadership”, Presentation at Art of Management Conference, Copenhagen Business School, Copenhagen, 28-31 August 2014.
  • Küpers, W. (2014): “Embodied Performance and Performativity in Organizations and Management”, Presentation at Research Seminar @ “Unpacking Performativity Processes in Organizations”, MINES ParisTech, Paris, 19-20 May 2014.
  • Küpers, W. (2014): The “Re-” of Re-Thinking Management, Opening Speech at Conference “Rethinking Management”, Karlshochschule
  • Küpers, W. (2014): “Emotions in the digital world”, lecture for Salon 02: “La voix humaine”, Kunstverein München, January 29, 2014.
  • Küpers, W. (2014): Ornament as gesture. Merleau-Ponty’s paradox of expression and metaphor of chiasm as enfleshed organizing principle, WOF, World Ornamental Forum, Davos/Switzerland, 18-19 February 2014.
  • Küpers, W. (2014): Aufmerksamkeit und engagierte Gelassenheit als Medien einer Kunst praktischer Weisheit, lecture for “Wissenschaft und Weisheit” at the Philosophisches Seminar, Fachstelle für Weiterbildung der Universität Zürich, 3 February 2014.
  • Küpers, W. (2013) : Zur Kunst praktischer Weisheit in Organisation und Führung: die Relevanz von Emotion und Intuition, International Congress High Touch – Emotionen und Intuitionen in Führung und Management, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts/Switzerland, 7-8 November 2013.
  • Küpers, W. (2013): De-+-Touring Consumption through “Inter-Place”, Touring Consumption Conference, Karlshochschule, Karlsruhe/Germany 24.25. October 2013.
  • Küpers, W. (2013): Embodied Inter-Be(com)ing of the emergence of Novelty in Organization. Fifth International Symposium on Process Organization Studies. Theme: The Emergence of Novelty in Organizations, Chania, Crete, Greece, 22 June 2013.
  • Küpers, W. (2013): Embodied and integral Inter-knowing & Inter-learning in Organizing, European Academy of Management (EURAM) Conference, “Knowledge and Learning” General Track, Istanbul/Turkey, 29 June 2013.
  • Küpers, W. (2013): Embodied Inter-Be(com)ing as emergent, creative De-Construction in Organization, SCOS – Conference, Warsaw, Poland, 16 July 2013.
  • Küpers, W. and Howard, C. (2012): Somewhere between everywhere and nowhere: Travelling as Embodied and Inter-Placed “Be(com)ing” in the age of digital Ge-stell, ASCP Conference, Auckland/New Zealand, December 1, 2012.
  • Küpers, W. (2012): Between Non- and Post-Disciplininarity?! Perspectives on Integral Inter- & Trans-Disciplinary Re-Search, Cross-disciplinary seminar series, Massey University, Auckland/New Zealand.
  • Küpers, W. (2012): Embodied Action Research, Presentation for Academic Co-Creative Inquiry (ACCI) project, Ksenija Napan, Unitec Institute of Technology (Te Whare Wānanga o Wairaka) Auckland/New Zealand.
  • Küpers, W. (2011): Sense-Making and Making of Senses in Embodied Organizational Culture, Paper for presentation at Stream: The sense: Embodying Culture at 7th International Critical Management Conference, Naples.
  • Küpers, W. (2011): Embodied Inter-Placing. Paper for presentation at stream on “Topography & Organization” at the 14th Asia-Pacific Researchers in Organization Studies (APROS), 28 November – 1 December 2011, Auckland/New Zealand.
  • Küpers, W. (2010): Perspectives on Responsible and Integral Practices of Sustainability in Organization and Leadership, paper for presentation at Sustainability Workshop The Business Case For Social and Environmental Responsibility, Novemver 2010, Massey University, Auckland.
  • Küpers, W. (2010): Meta-Theoretical Perspectives on Integral Transformational Leadership Research and Practice, Paper for Presentation at International Symposium “Research across Boundaries”, June 16-19, 2010, Luxembourg University, Luxembourg.
  • Küpers, W. (2010): Inter-Passion – Embodied Affect in Organizational Life-Worlds, Paper for Presentation at ASCP Conference, Brisbane.
  • Küpers, W. (2010): Dilemma and Paradoxes in Chiasmic Organization, Working Paper for presentation, School of Management, Massey University, Auckland.
  • Küpers, W. (2010): Processes of Embodied & CoCreative InterPractices as Organizational Be(com)ing, paper for presentation at EGOS 2010, sub-theme: Investigating Organization as Becoming in a World on the Move, 1-3 July 2010, Lisbon.