Prof. Dr. Cornelia Storz
Forschungsschwerpunkte Comparative Institutional Analysis;
Institutionen und institutioneller Wandel; Innovationssysteme und In-novationsprozesse; Entrepreneurship
Forschungsprojekte
l „Japanische Managementpraktiken in afrikanischen Unternehmen“
(AFRASO-Teilprojekt, BMBF-GZ:
01UC1302)
l „Human Resource Management in neuen Industrien: Ein Vergleich zwischen USA und Japan“ (DFG-GZ:
STO 860/1-1)
l „Schutz des Schwachen: Verwobene Prozesse von Framing, Mobilisie-rung und InstitutionalisieMobilisie-rung in Ostasien“ (Gefördert durch die VolkswagenStiftung im Rahmen ihrer Initiative „Schlüsselthemen für Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft“) l „Identities and capabilities: an
in-ternational comparison of entre-preneurship in Germany, the UK and the U.S.“ (mit Steven Casper, Keck Graduate Institute, Claremont;
Marcela Miozzo, University of Man-chester; Lori DiVito, University of Manchester)
l „Comparative entrepreneurship“
(mit Steven Casper, Keck Graduate Institute, Claremont)
l „Innovation in creative industries“
(mit Steven Casper, Keck Graduate Institute, Claremont)
Institutionen- und Innovationsökonomik, insb. Japan/Ostasien
Chair for the Study of Economic Institutions,
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Veröffentlichungen – Publications l (with Steven Casper and Marcela
Miozzo) „Comparative Entrepre-neurship: Social Identity and Capability Development in Entre-preneurial Firms“ (Working paper).
(presented by S. Casper on the AOM Conference 2015, Vancouver, 7.–11.08.2015).
l (with Steven Casper) „New Indus-try Emergence: The Korean Online Gaming Industry“, in: R. Whitley u.
X. Zhang (Hrsg.): Changing Business Systems in Asia: Globalisation, Socio-Political Change, and Economic
Organi-sation. Oxford University Press 2016, S. 306–332.
l (with Steven Casper and Marcela Miozzo ) „Capabilities and Gener-ic Complementary Assets in New Industries: The Emergence of the Online Gaming Industry“ (Working paper). (presented on the DRUID16 20th Anniversary Conference, Co-penhagen, 13.–15.06.2016).
l (with Steven Casper) „Bounded Careers in Creative Industries.
Surprising Patterns in Video Games“
(revise and resubmit).
l „Complementary assets and capabi-lities in processes of industry emer-gence: The case of online games“
(mit Steven Casper, Keck Graduate Institute, Claremont)
l “Complementary assets and capabil-ities in processes of industry emer-gence: The case of online games”
(with Steven Casper, Keck Graduate Institute, Claremont)
Vorträge und Veranstaltungen – Lectures and events l „Comparative Entrepreneurship:
Social Identity and Strategy Formu-lation in Entrepreneurial Firms“, together with Steven Casper, Acade-my of Management Meeting, Van-couver, BC, Canada, 07.–11.08.2015 l „Lean Management and Firm
Per-formance: Evidence from Furniture Producers in Zambia“, Experimental Design Workshop, Goethe Universi-ty Frankfurt, 07.09.2015
l „Capabilities and Generic Comple-mentary Assets. The Emergence of the Online Gaming Industry“, toge-ther with Steven Casper and Mar-cela Miozzo, Research Colloquium 2016, Kleinwalsertal, 01.02.2016 l „Capabilities and Generic
Com-plementary Assets in New Indus-tries: The Emergence of the Online Gaming Industry“, together with Steven Casper and Marcela Miozzo, 40th Workshop of the Commissi-on OrganisatiCommissi-on of the German
Academic Association for Business Research (WK ORG, VHB), Univer-sity of Zurich, 18.–19.02.2016 l „Japanese Management Practices
and Firm Performance: Evidence from Furniture Producers in Zam-bia“, together with Rajesh Rama-chandran, 4. Duisburg-Frankfurt Workshop „Institutionen in der Entwicklung Ostasiens“, University Duisburg-Essen, 01.03.2016 l „Japanese Management Training
and External Validity“, Grüne-burgseminar, Department of Management and Microeconomics, Goethe University, 18.03.2016 l „Creating Conditions for Digital
Industry Emergence: Capabilities and Generic Complementary Assets in the Online Games Industry“, together with Steven Casper and Marcela Miozzo, DRUID16, 20th An-niversary Conference, Copenhagen, 13.–15.06.2016
Dr. Markus Heckel
Forschungsschwerpunkte Wirtschaftspolitik; Zentralbanken;
Institutionelle Aspekte der Arbeits-marktökonomik; employee well-being Forschungsprojekt
l „Schutz des Schwachen: Verwobene Prozesse von Framing, Mobilisie-rung und InstitutionalisieMobilisie-rung in Ostasien“ gefördert durch die Volks-wagenStiftung im Rahmen ihrer Initiative „Schlüsselthemen für Wis-senschaft und Gesellschaft“ (Cluster:
Arbeitnehmer-Wohlergehen)
Key research areas
Political economy; politics of central banks; institutional aspects of labor economics; employee well-being Research project
l “Protecting the Weak: Entangled Processes of Framing, Mobilization and Institutionalization in East Asia”
funded by the Volkswagen Foun-dation in its initiative “Key Issues for Research and Society” (Cluster:
employee well-being) Ramona Grieb, Dipl.-Kff.
Forschungsschwerpunkte Strategisches Management; verglei-chendes internationales Management;
Corporate Social Environment; Un-ternehmenskultur; Institutionen und institutioneller Wandel
Key research areas
Strategic Management; comparison of international Management; cor-porate social environment; corcor-porate culture; instiututional analysis and institutional change
Vorträge und Veranstaltungen – Lectures and events l „Auf dem Weg zur Arbeit – Das
täg-liche Pendeln zwischen Wohn- und Arbeitsort in Japan“, 16.
Deutsch-sprachiger Japanologentag, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, 28.08.2015
Daniel Ehnes, M.A.
Forschungsschwerpunkte Downsizing, Strategisches Manage-ment, Institutionenökonomik, Corpo-rate Governance, Innovation
Key research areas
Downsizing, Strategic Management, Institutional economics, Corporate Governance, Innovation
Vorträge und Veranstaltungen – Lectures and events l „Adaptive Strategies of Lay-offs. A
Media Content Analysis of Downsi-zing Behaviour of Japanese Firms“, 4. Duisburg-Frankfurt Workshop
„Institutionen in der Entwicklung Ostasiens“, Universität Duisburg -Essen, 01.03.2016
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Rajesh Ramachandran, PhD
Forschungsschwerpunkte Entwicklungsökonomik, Politische Ökonomie, Sprachpolitik, Economics of Discrimination, Bildungsökonomie
Forschungsprojekt
l „Japanische Managementpraktiken in afrikanischen Unternehmen“ (mit Cornelia Storz, AFRASO-Teilprojekt, BMBF-GZ: 01UC1302)
Key research areas
Economic Development, Political Economy, Language Policy, Econom-ics of Discrimination, EconomEconom-ics of Education
Research project
l “Japanese Management Practices in African Firms” (with Cornelia Storz, AFRASO subtheme, BMBF Ref. No.
01UC1302)
Vorträge und Veranstaltungen – Lectures and events l „Linguistic Diversity, Official
Lan-guage Choice and Nation Building:
Theory and Evidence“, Political Economy Workshop, National Bu-reau of Economic Research (NBER) Summer Institute, Boston, Juli 2015 l „Language of Instruction and
Stu-dent Learning: Evidence from an Experimental Program in Came-roon“, Society for Advancement for Economic Theory (SAET), Cam-bridge University UK, Juli 2015 l „Commuting Time and Subjective
Wellbeing“, Protecting the Weak, Large Team Meeting, Goethe Uni-versity Frankfurt, 16.12.2015 l „The Bank of Japan – Central Bank
Transparency, Monetary Policy and Negative Interest Rates“, Guest Lec-ture on Central Bank Transparency, Per Nymand-Andersen, European Central Bank, Frankfurt, 11.02.2016 l „Negative Interest Rates at the Bank of Japan and the European Central
Bank“, EJARN Annual Conference, University of Warwick, 17.06.2016 l „Uncertainty over Labor Contract
Duration: Evidence from Japanese Micro Data“, SASE Annual Confe-rence, UC Berkeley, 24.06.2016 l „’Protecting the Weak’: Social
Jus-tice and Well-Being in China and Japan“, Session Organizer, SASE Annual Conference, UC Berkeley, 24.06.2016
l „Linguistic Diversity, Offi cial Language Choice and Nation Building: Theory and Evidence“, International Political Economy Society Meeting (IPES), Stanford University, November 2015 l „Linguistic Diversity, Official
Lan-guage Choice and Nation Building:
Theory and Evidence“, Economics Seminar Series, Heidelberg Universi-ty, Dezember 2015
l „Linguistic Diversity, Official Lan-guage Choice and Nation Building:
Veröffentlichungen – Publications l (with David D. Laitin) „Language
Policy and Human Development“,
in: American Political Science Review.
(forthcoming).
Moritz John, Dipl.-Kfm.
Forschungsschwerpunkte
Unternehmertum in Japan; Vergleich von Wirtschaftssystemen; Innovati-onssysteme und -prozesse; Entstehung von neuen Clustern und Industrien (v. a. Computerspiele-Industrie)
Key research areas
Entrepreneurship in Japan; compari-son of economic systems, innovation systems and innovation processes;
emergence of new clusters and indus-tries (game software industry)
Na Zou, M.A.
Forschungsschwerpunkte Institutionenökonomie, Mikro-Ökonometrie, Arbeitsmarkt und Innovation
Forschungsprojekte
l „Schutz des Schwachen: Verwobene Prozesse von Framing, Mobilisierung und Institutionalisierung in Ost-asien“, gefördert durch die Volks-wagenStiftung im Rahmen ihrer Initiative „Schlüsselthemen für Wis-senschaft und Gesellschaft“ (Cluster:
Arbeitnehmer-Wohler gehen)
Key research areas
Institutional economics; Micro-econo-metrics; Labor market and innovation
Research projects
l “Protecting the Weak: Entangled processes of framing, mobilization and institutionalization in East Asia”, funded by the Volkswagen Foundation in its initiative “Key Issues for Research and Society”
(Cluster: employee well-being) Theory and Evidence“, Annual
Conference on Growth and Devel-opment, Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi, Dezember 2015
l „Japanese Management Practices and Firm Performance: Evidence from Furniture Producers in Zam-bia“, together with Cornelia Storz, 4. Duisburg-Frankfurt Workshop
„Institutionen in der Entwicklung Ostasiens“, University Duisburg-Essen, 01.03.2016
l „Linguistic Diversity, Official Lan-guage Choice and Nation Building:
Theory and Evidence“, Economics Seminar Series, Marburg University, Mai 2016
l „Affirmative Action, Caste Disad-vantage and Political Economy of Demand for Quotas: The case of Other Backward Classes in India“, Political Economy of India, Work-shop, Universite Namur, Mai 2016 l „Linguistic Diversity, Official
Lan-guage Choice and Nation Building:
Theory and Evidence“, Development Economics Research Group, Heidel-berg University, Juni 2016
l „Language of Instruction and Stu-dent Learning: Evidence from an Experimental Program in Came-roon“, Human Capital and Growth Conference, UNU-WIDER, Helsinki, Juni 2016
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Vorträge und Veranstaltungen – Lectures and events l „Time and Risk Preference in
Japan“, 27th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE), LSE, London, 02.–04.07.2015
l „Do High Dismissal Costs Lead to More Innovation? Evidence from OECD Panel Data“, 27th Annu-al Meeting of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Econo-mics (SASE), LSE, London, 02.–
04.07.2015
l „Do Local Government Officials Discriminate against Migrant Workers? A Field Experiment on Mayors’ Mailboxes in China“, 2nd Young Scholars’ Forum, organized by Goethe University Frankfurt, Fudan University (China) and the Confucius Institute Frankfurt, 30.–31.10.2015
l „Protecting the Weak: Entangled Processes of Framing, Mobilization and Institutionalization in East
Asia“, VolkswagenStiftung Status-symposium of „Schlüsselthemen für Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft“, Schloss Herrenhausen, Hannover, 03.–05.02.2016
l „Do Local Government Officials Discriminate against Migrant Wor-kers? A Field Experiment in China“, presented at Ph.D workshop at EHESS, Paris, France, 19.02.2016/
Duisburg-Frankfurt Workshop:
Institutions in East Asia, Duisburg University, Duisburg, Germany, 01.03.2016 /28th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE), UC Berke-ley, California, 24.–26.06.2016 Veröffentlichungen – Publications
l „Do Local Government Officials Discriminate against Migrant Workers? A Field Experiment on
Mayors’ Mailboxes in China“.
(Working paper, 2016).