Scholar in Residence at the MPIfG

Each year the MPIfG invites a distinguished scholar in the field of political science, economics or sociology to spend three to six months at the institute. Scholars in residence are known for their outstanding academic achievements and pursue a particular research project that coincides with the research conducted at the MPIfG.
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Arndt Sorge Is Scholar in Residence 2011/2012

 
Arndt Sorge, Emeritus at the Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB), is the MPIfG Scholar in Residence for the 2011/2012 winter term. He is conducting research on the interaction between firms’ internationalization strategies and their national institutional embeddedness as demonstrated by the cases of three major European airlines: Air France, British Airways and Lufthansa.
 

 

 

 

 
Selected Publications
 
Review Essay: Financial Catastrophe and Its Implications for Socioeconomics (2011, Socio-Economic Review 9).
Enacting Fit in Work Organization and Occupational Structure Design: The Case of Intermediary Occupations in a Dutch Hospital (with Marjolein van Offenbeek und Marrig Knip, 2009; Organization Studies 30).
Internationalisierung: Gestaltungschancen statt Globalisierungsschicksal (2009, edition sigma).
Creating a High-Trust Organization: An Exploration into Politics that Stimulate Interpersonal Trust Building (with Frederique Six, 2007; Journal of Management Studies 45).
The Global and the Local: Understanding the Dialectics of Internationalization (2005, Oxford University Press).