Dr Gloria Kutscher is a Lecturer in Organisation Studies at Southampton Business School.
Gloria conducts research on how individuals and organizations make sense of and manage the boundaries and transitions between different spheres of work and life.
Adopting a social constructivist lens, Gloria's work explores how people navigate career junctures, organizational structures, and shifting work environments—particularly in hybrid, remote, precarious, and extreme contexts. She is especially committed to uncovering the often-invisible experiences of blue-collar and minority workers, and to understanding how personal and organizational practices contribute to growth and positive social change. Gloria's research contributes to management theories on boundary work, sensemaking, organizational space, and socialization, and increasingly draws on longitudinal, ethnographic, and grounded methods to capture dynamic processes over time. Understanding how individuals and organizations manage boundaries and transitions is key to moving beyond short-sighted research focused only on external shocks and short-term challenges. By examining long-term developments, her work reveals how actors create opportunities for personal growth and positive social change. Ultimately, Gloria aims to produce research that advances theory while creating practical impact for underrepresented groups and evolving work realities.
Before joining Southampton Business School, Gloria was a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Management Studies at Aalto University School of Business.
Prior to coming to Aalto, Gloria completed her PhD in Management at WU Vienna in 2018, and was a Faculty member at WU’s Department of Management.