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Current Projects

Die Veränderungen globaler Produktionsnetzwerke in Folge der Covid-19-Krise
Head
Dr. Florian Butollo
Duration: 01.01.2023–31.12.2025
Funding: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
Automotive supplier industry in Central Eastern and Southeastern Europe
Head
Prof. Dr. Martin Krzywdzinski
Staff
Jonas Ferdinand, Nathan Weis
Duration: 01.10.2022-30.09.2023
Funding: Hans-Böckler-Stiftung
Arbeiten mit Künstlicher Intelligenz (Weizenbaum-Institut)
Head
Prof. Dr. Martin Krzywdzinski
Staff
Dr. Florian Butollo, Dr. Philip Wotschack, Daniel Schneiß, Lea Schneidemesser
Duration: 15.09.2022–14.09.2025
Funding: Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung
Democracy at Work through Transparent and Inclusive Algorithmic Management
Head
Dr. Florian Butollo
Staff
Dr. Philip Wotschack
Duration: 01.09.2021-31.08.2023
Funding: European Commission
Co-determination and sustainable corporate policy: new challenges through COVID-19
Head
Sigurt Vitols, Ph.D.
Staff
Dr. Robert Scholz
Duration: 01.08.2021-31.07.2024
Funding: Institut für Mitbestimmung (I.M.U.) der Hans-Böckler-Stiftung
Automatization, digitalization and virtualization of work in the aftermath of the COVID-19 crisis
Head
Dr. Florian Butollo, Prof. Dr. Martin Krzywdzinski
Staff
Dr. Jana Flemming, Christine Gerber, David Wandjo, Lotte Franziska Cooiman
Duration: 01.01.2021- 30.09.2023
Funding: Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs
Fairwork Secretariat
Head
Prof. Dr. Martin Krzywdzinski
Prof. Dr. Mark Graham
Staff
Dr. Kristin Thompson, Dr. Patrick Feuerstein, Pablo Agüera Reneses, Giulia Varaschin, Tobias Kuttler, James Dunn-Williamson, Zeynep Karlıdağ, Janine De Vera
Duration: 01.11.2020-31.08.2023
Funding: Bundesministerium für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung (BMZ), Gesellschaft für internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)

Completed Projects

Strategic Response to COVID-Crisis in the Automotive Industry: Comparing European and Global Approaches
Head
Prof. Dr. Martin Krzywdzinski
Staff
Grzegorz Lechowski
Duration: 01.03.2021-31.01.2023
Funding: Volkswagen Stiftung
Industrial Internet Platforms, Restructuring of Production Networks, and Work in China and Germany
Head
Dr. Florian Butollo
Staff
Lea Schneidemesser
Duration: 1.1.2020-31.12.2022
Funding: Hans-Böckler-Stiftung
Working in highly automated digital-hybrid processes
Head
Prof. Dr. Martin Krzywdzinski
Staff
Dr. Florian Butollo, Robert Koepp, Patricia de Paiva Lareiro
Duration: 01.09.2017 - 14.09.2022
Funding: Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung
Work and Skills 2030
Head
Prof. Dr. Martin Krzywdzinski
Staff
Mario Ottaiano
Duration: 01.06.2021-31.05.2022
Funding: Volkswagen AG
Labour Governance in global production networks: Assessing labour standards in a new generation of public procurement legislation and trade agreements linked to market access into the European Union (LG-GPN)
Head
Dr. Gale Raj-Reichert
Staff
Dr. Leonhard Plank, Dr. Cornelia Staritz, Dr. Kristoffer Marslev, Dr. John Watt
Duration: 01.01.2019-31.12.2021
Funding: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) and FWF Der Wissenschaftsfonds
Co-determination, corporate strategies and corporate performance
Head
Sigurt Vitols, Ph.D.
Staff
Dr. Robert Scholz
Duration: January 2019 - July 2021
Funding: Institute for Codetermination and Corporate Governance (I.M.U.) at the Hans-Böckler Foundation
Skills, Artificial Intelligence and Labour
Head
Prof. Dr. Martin Krzywdzinski
N. N.
Duration: 01.01.2020-30.04.2021
Funding: Volkswagen Stiftung
Wearable computing in manufacturing and logistics. New forms of work in the era of digitalization
Head
Prof. Dr. Martin Krzywdzinski
Staff
Maren Evers
Duration: 01.01.2016-31.03.2021
Funding: Hans-Böckler-Stiftung
Between digital bohemia and precarity. Work and performance in the crowd
Head
Prof. Dr. Martin Krzywdzinski
Staff
Christine Gerber
Duration: 01.07.2016 - 30.06.2019
Funding: Fritz Thyssen Stiftung
Co-Determination and Forward Looking Corporate Governance: Measuring Workers’ Strength and Influence with a Co-Determination Index (MB-ix)
Head
Sigurt Vitols, Ph.D.
Staff
Dr. Robert Scholz
Duration: December 2014 - December 2018
Funding: Hans Böckler Foundation
Trade union organizing in South-Eastern European automotive supplier industry
Head
Prof. Dr. Martin Krzywdzinski
Duration: 09.2017-06.2018
Funding: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung
Industrial Development, Work and Employment Standards in the Automotive Supply Industry
Head
Prof. Dr. Martin Krzywdzinski
Staff
Axel Schröder
Duration: 01.01.2015 - 31.12.2016
Funding: Hans-Böckler-Stiftung
Performance Management Policies in Multinational Companies. An International Comparison
Head
Prof. Dr. Martin Krzywdzinski
Staff
Valentina Mählmeyer
Duration: 09 2012 - 06 2015
Funding: VW AutoUni
Human Resources Systems in the BRIC Countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China)
Head
Prof. Dr. Ulrich Jürgens
Staff
Prof. Dr. Martin Krzywdzinski
Florian Becker-Ritterspach
Duration: 01.09.2008 - 30.06.2012
Comparison between the Personnel Systems in Japanese and German Automotive Companies
Head
Prof. Dr. Ulrich Jürgens
Dr. Miriam M. Wilhelm
Duration: 01.09.2008 - 30.06.2012
Funding: VW AutoUni

"Good Work"

Joint doctoral programme of WZB and Hans Böckler Foundation: Good Work. Approaches to Shaping Tomorrow's World of Work

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