Prof. Dr. Nada Endrissat

Profile

Prof. Dr. Nada Endrissat Studiengangsleiterin

  • Address Berner Fachhochschule
    Business School
    Abteilung Lehre
    Brückenstrasse 73
    3005 Bern

Activities

  • Head of study program Master of Science in Business Administration

  • Teaching responsibilities MScBA; MScDBA; Executive Program

  • Research

  • New Work

  • People and Organization

  • Ressort: Didactics (SGL committee)

Teaching

  • Master of Science in Business Administration (MScBA)

  • Master of Science in Digital Business Administration (MScDBA)

  • Executive Program, CAS Business Research

  • Interdisciplinary Future Week (IDFW)

  • International Study Trip (ISTR, DO4)

  • Research Methods (WWB)

  • Master thesis (MATH, RM4)

Research

  • New Ways of Working (NWW)

  • Creative industries

  • Affect theory

  • Feminist ethics of care

  • Art-based methods

CV

  • Nada Endrissat studied Organizational Psychology at the Free University of Berlin and subsequently completed a PhD in Management (Dr. rer. pol.) at the University of Basel, Switzerland. She is currently a Research Professor at the Institute for New Work at Bern University of Applied Sciences and heads the study program Master of Science in Business Administration program. Nada has been involved in several Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) funded research projects focusing on topics related to the creative industries and new forms of work. Her research is embedded in various international collaborations, and she has held visiting appointments at the Stern School of Business, NYU (2026); the Centre for Aesthetics and Business Creativity (ABC), Lund University (2025); the MAESTRO Research Cluster at EM Strasbourg (2024); Kyoto University (2023–2024); the University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia (2019–2020); Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), Canada (2017); and the Paul Merage School of Business at the University of California, Irvine (2016).
  • 2022-current Head of study proram MSc Business Administration Bern University of Applied Sciences
  • 2011-current Research professor Bern University of Applied Sciences
  • 2008-2011 Lecturer and Research Associate Bern University of Applied Sciences
  • 2004-2008 Research and Teaching Assistant Basel University
  • 2004-2008 PhD in Management (Dr.rer.pol) Basel University
  • 1999-2002 Master's degree in Psychology Free University Berlin
  • Train-the-Trainer Art Thinking Method, ESCP Paris
    CAS Mediation Basics, BFH Social Work
    Didactics Certificate, Basel University
    Systemic Coaching (Junior Professionals), Institut for Systemic Coaching, Wiesloch, Germany
    Master Class in European Human Resource Management, Copenhagen Business School

Projects

  • SNF Projekt (NFP 77) A future that works: cobotics, digital skills and the re-humanization of the work place (lead TI)

  • SNF Agora Projekt Smelling more, smelling differently

  • SNF Projekt New Scents in Action

  • SNF DORE Projekt Wissensduft

  • BFH Projekt Gendered IT (lead TI)

  • BFH Projekt Kreative Karrieren

  • BFH Projekt Sonifikation

Publications

Memberships

  • Academy of Management (AoM)

  • European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS)

  • Member of the Editorial Review Board Organization Studies

  • Member of the Editorial Review Board Journal of Change Management

Awards

Agility & New Work (MSc Digital Business Administration)

Fur, Feminization, and the Unmaking of Species Borders: Affective Infrastructures of Cat Cafes (with Nuonuo Deng & Yutaka Yamauchi)

Bringing Place into Meaningful Work: The Case of Location-Independent Work (with Pascal Dey)

The creative self on sale: work experiences of store artists (with Claus Noppeney);
What is the meaning of leadership? A guided tour through a Swiss-German leadership landscape (with W.R. Müller & J. Meissner)

Language skills and intercultural knowledge

  • German - Native or bilingual proficiency
  • English - Full professional proficiency
  • French - Limited working proficiency