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Current Projects

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
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
Work and Skills 2030
Head
Prof. Dr. Martin Krzywdzinski
Staff
Mario Ottaiano
Duration: 01.06.2021-31.05.2022
Funding: Volkswagen AG
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
Duration: 01.01.2021- 30.09.2023
Funding: Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs
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: 1.9.2017 - 14.9.2022
Funding: Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung

Completed Projects

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
Skills, Artificial Intelligence and Labour
Head
Prof. Dr. Martin Krzywdzinski
N. N.
Duration: 01.01.2020-30.04.2021
Funding: Volkswagen Stiftung
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
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
Fairwork Secretariat
Head
Prof. Dr. Martin Krzywdzinski
Prof. Dr. Mark Graham
Staff
Dr. Kristin Thompson, Dr. Patrick Feuerstein, Tatiana López Ayala, Pablo Agüera Reneses, Giulia Varaschin, James Dunn-Williamson
Duration: 01.11.2020-30.06.2022
Funding: Bundesministerium für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung (BMZ), Gesellschaft für internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)
Strategic Response to COVID-Crisis in the Automotive Industry: Comparing European and Global Approaches
Head
Prof. Dr. Martin Krzywdzinski
Staff
Grzegorz Lechowski
Duration: 01.03.2021-31.08.2022
Funding: Volkswagen Stiftung

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