Program

•  Albert Martin (Leuphana Lüneburg) 

Personnel policy: base and superstructure. Thought experiments with the help of simulations. (in German)

•  Frank Schirmer (TU Dresden)  

Micro politics and organizational change

•  Sylvia Marlene Wilz (Fernuni Hagen) 

„All of a sudden, I was speaking their language.“ Communication, interpretation, and the constitution of the organization 

•  Ute Schmiel (Duisburg-Essen) 

Corporate actors and market theory

•  Werner Nienhüser (Duisburg-Essen) 

Miniature societies: companies as political actors

•  David Schweikard (EUF Flensburg) 

The agential and normative profile of collective agents

• Ger Snijkers (Statistics Netherlands) and Mojca Bavdaz (University of Ljubljana) 

The "Betrieb" in surveys. Collecting data from the "right" unit?

• Tobias Gebel (DIW Berlin)  

Operational definition of the "Betrieb" in organizational research

• Lutz Bellmann (IAB Nürnberg) 

The German Industrial Relations System under Pressure - Evidence from the IAB Establishment Panel Survey 1993-2019

• Hauke Brunkhorst (EUF Flensburg) 

The legal code of capital - a legal revolution?

• Arne L. Kalleberg (Chapel Hill, NC)  

Corporations as Persons: On the development of the rights of action of corporate actors in the USA

• Charlotte Schmitt-Leonardy (Bielefeld) 

Criminal Responsibility for Corporate Crimes in Germany – The Never Ending Story to finally get to the corporate actor

• Hartmut Kliemt (Gießen)  

(Il-)legitmate CSR

• Marcelo Neves (Brasília)   

(Anti)Democratic Standards: A Retrospective View on the Sabotage of Democracy and Support of Dictatorship in Latin America During the 1960s and 1970s years.

• Peter Walgenbach (Jena)   

On the social construction of corporate responsibility

• Rolf Brühl (ESCP Berlin)  

Human rights in the supply chain: on moral and legal responsibilities of corporate actors

• Cécile Ezvan (excelia La Rochelle)

The social footprint of an investment fund: an analysis based on the capabilities approach

• Rutger Claassen (Utrecht) 

Business corporations as political actors

• Lisa Herzog (Groningen)  

The epistemic life of corporations and its moral dimensions

• Georg Krücken (Kassel)   

Multiple competitions in higher education: a conceptual approach

• Günther Ortmann

On Elias Khalil's "Is the firm an individual?"

• Wolfgang Mayrhofer (Vienna)  

Institutionalization of personnel management and collective action

• Woody Powell (Stanford)

Organizations, networks and institutions

• Berndt Keller (Konstanz)   

Work councils: collective action within corporations

• David Marsden (LSE London)      

Patterns of organisational ownership and employee well-being in Britain

• Dieter Sadowski (Trier)    

The fiduciary relationship of supervisory boards, with particular emphasis on employee participation

• Konstanze Senge (Halle)    

Standards of Good Work and Uncertainties beyond the Precariate: The Rise of a new Emotional Economic Culture

• Sigurt Vitols (WZB Berlin)  

What drives sustainability in companies?

• Bénédicte Zimmermann (EHESS Paris)

Workers Capabilities and the boarders of the firm