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Research interests

My current research interests include:

  • Socio-ecological and economic sustainability of work
  • The reconfiguration of markets, politics and society by digital platform corporations
  • Employment relations, collective bargaining, and trade union revitalization
  • Processes of horizontal Europeanization between national and global scales
  • Organization theory, sociological neo-institutionalism and Bourdieusian social theory 
  • Conflicts and power in transnational social fields
  • Sociology of emotions and (group) psychoanalysis

Research Projects

2024 – 2026 - HBS Forschungsprojekt “Wer macht gute Arbeit”

 

2024 – 2026 - LIFT_C Forschungsprojekt “The transformative power of cooperation towards sustainable work in automotive production and digital platform services [COOPOWER]”

 

2020 - “Arbeitskreis Sozialpartnerschaft”, opens an external URL in a new window, interdisziplinäre Arbeitsgruppe der Abteilung Wirtschafts- und Organisationssoziologie in

Kooperation mit dem Institut für Arbeitsrecht und Sozialrecht der Johannes Kepler Universität Linz, der FORBA Forschungs- und Beratungsstelle Arbeit Wien, dem Bereich Human Resource Management der Paris Lodron Universität Salzburg und dem Department of Social Science and Business der Roskilde University in Dänemark.

Mitglieder der Arbeitsgruppe:

Susanne Pernicka (Koordinatorin, Institut für Soziologie der JKU), Georg Adam (FORBA Wien), Elias Felten (Institut für Arbeitsrecht und Sozialrecht der JKU), Vera Glassner (Soziologin in Wien), Torben Krings (Institut für Soziologie der JKU), Eduard Müller (Institut für Soziologie der JKU), Thomas Paster (Universität Roskilde), Ursula Rami (Institut für Soziologie der JKU), Astrid Reichel (HRM, Universität Salzburg), Bettina Stadler (FORBA Wien)

2012 - 2018 “Horizontal Europeanization”, Research Group funded by the DFG (German Science Foundation) consisting of seven empirical research projects and a project on theory development.

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Coordinator: Martin Heidenreich, University of Oldenburg
Project Partners: Jan Delhey (Magdeburg University), Jürgen Gerhards (Free University of Berlin), Christian Lahusen (University of Siegen), Steffen Mau und Sebatian Büttner (University of Bremen), Richard Münch (University of Bamberg), Susanne Pernicka (University of Linz)

Research project under my direction:
“Industrial Relations in Europe – How Trade Unions might contribute to Horizontal Europeanization”, opens an external URL in a new window
Co-Director: Vera Glassner, researchers: Torben Krings, Nele Dittmar, Markus Ellmer
External Partners: Roland Erne (University College Dublin), Guglielmo Meardi (Warwick Business School)

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