Violetta Splitter

Dr. Violetta Splitter is a Fellow and Tutor in Management at St Peter's College, University of Oxford, and a lecturer in Strategic Management at Saïd Business School. Her research focuses on sociologically oriented management and strategy, particularly the trend toward 'Open Strategy'—inclusive, participatory approaches to corporate strategy that challenge traditional top-down hierarchies. She employs ethnographic methods, such as observing strategy processes at financial institutions, to analyze power dynamics and social practices in strategy work.

Her work integrates social practice theories (e.g., Bourdieu, Giddens) to examine how 'open strategy' transforms organizational behavior, including crowdsourcing decision-making and frontline employee involvement. She co-edited a special issue on 'Open Organizing' for Organization Studies, fostering cross-disciplinary dialogue on openness in innovation, education, and governance.

Dr. Splitter's teaching spans undergraduate and executive courses at the University of Zurich, Saïd Business School, and institutions like the University of Fine Arts Berlin. Her research emphasizes the practical implications of strategy-as-practice frameworks and challenges conventional understandings of organizational power and control.