Renate is also Part Time Professor in Institutional Theory at Copenhagen Business School and holds visiting positions at Saïd Business School, Oxford University, and University of Alberta. She is current Editor of Organization Studies.

Renate’s current research interests include the institutionalisation of new management ideas and their translation into new cultural contexts, institutional renewal, multimodality, novel organisational forms, collective action in crises, as well as governance structures and governance gaps mostly in urban contexts. Renate has published in journals such as Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Annals, Organization Studies, Organization Science, or Journal of Management Studies. 

She has also published several books, and has (co-)edited several volumes, among them the second edition of The SAGE Handbook on Organizational Institutionalism (with Royston Greenwood, Christine Oliver, and Tom Lawrence) or a recent volume of Research in the Sociology of Organizations on The Corporation: Rethinking the Iconic Form of Business Organization. 

His research interests revolve around organizational and governance aspects of the labour market inclusion of vulnerable citizens, using among others institutional theory. He is currently involved in a research project on workplace inclusion of vulnerable jobseekers in small and medium-sized enterprises, and another on governance networks in social inclusion of youth not in employment, education or training (NEET).