Mike G.

I am a full Professor at the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration at Jena since January 2014. My general research focus is on organization theory and international management. I am especially interested in actor-centered institutionalism, socio-political issues in multinational corporations, and cross-national comparisons of management, work and organizations. I have published in various high quality journals in the areas of international business and management, business management, organization studies, industrial relations, and sociology, reflecting my multidisciplinary research interests and commitment to interdisciplinary work. Moreover, I have published a number of academic books. I held a number of visiting positions, e.g. at Copenhagen Business School, Social Science Research Centre Berlin, Rotterdam School of Management, Judge Institute of Management Studies at Cambridge, Faculty of Business, Economics and Management Information Systems of the University of Regensburg, IBMEC in Belo Horizonte, and at the Sociology Departments of Moscow State University, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Wake Forest University, Stanford University and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Currently, I am coordinator of the EGOS Standing Working Group 'Multinational corporations: social agency and institutional change'​ (with F. Becker-Ritterspach and S. Blazejewski), which started 2012. I am a guest editor of the Special Issue on 'Politicization and political contests in contemporary multinational corporations'​ in Human Relations (with S. Clegg and G. Hollinshead). Moreover, I am currently co-editing (together with C. Dörrenbächer) a new volume (49) of the Research in the Sociology of Organizations series on 'Multinational Corporations and Organization Theory: Post millennium perspectives' with Emerald, which is due to be published in early 2017.

I have collaborated with various colleagues of the School in academic paper writing, research projects, organising research seminars, and paper development workshops for PhD students and young scholars. I was also involved in panels of the School's which are responsible for the selection and recruitment of future PhD students and academic staff members.

In 2014 I was appointed as a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Centre for Management & Organisation Studies at the University of Technology, Sydney, Australia. I worked on various research related projects with members of the Centre of Management and Organization Studies (CMOS). I am still a member of the Organizing Committee of the upcoming APROS/EGOS conference in Sydney in December 2015, and co-convene of the subtheme 11 on "The politicized multinational company: contested transnational spaces and the role of actors and institutions", together with Stewart Clegg.

- Director of the Research Centre for Comparative Studies on Organisational Learning in International Settings - Project Leader of the international comparative project on 'Work and employment relations of European multinational grocery retailers: discounters and hypermarkets' - Leader of the Subject Group 'International Management, Strategy and Enterprise'

- worked on a paper for the International Journal of Management Reviews on politics and power in MNCs - organized a masters level seminar on Comparative International Management - gave a lecture at the Ringvorlesung Ost-West Transfers

- worked on a a) book on Politics and Power in multinational corporations, b) on paper for Critical Policy Studies and c) a proposal for a EGOS Standing Working Group on Multinational Corporations: Social Agency and Institutional Change

- started new research project, on 'The international diffusion of hypermarket & discounter models and the effects on industrial relations and working conditions in the European food retail sector: An international comparison' - conducted expert interviews for above projects and gave a presentation about the project above - worked on book about politics and power in multinational companies

- worked on a book chapter titled Corporate Financing, Management and Organization in SMEs: An Anglo-German Comparison

- worked on a research project on Small and Medium-sized Firms under Changing Conditions of New European Capitalism with colleagues at the Dept of Sociology