Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterim (Post-Doc) im Drittmittelprojekt “Changes in the Governance of Garment Global Production Networks: Lead Firm, Supplier and Institutional Responses to the Rana Plaza Disaster” unter Leitung von by Prof. Dr. Jörg Sydow (Freie Universität Berlin) und Prof. Dr. Elke Schüßler (Johannes Kepler University Linz).

Akademischer Werdegang

01/2016 – heute	Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin (Post-Doc) im Projekt “Changes in the Governance of Garment Global Production Networks: Lead Firm, Supplier and Institutional Responses to the Rana Plaza Disaster”, Management-Department, Freie Universität Berlin
02/2018 – 03/2018	Gastforscherin an der Waseda University Tokyo (Japan), School of Commerce
10/2014 – 08/2015	Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am Lehrstuhl für Personalpolitik, Prof. Dr. Gregory Jackson, Freie Universität Berlin
06/2014 – 09/2014	Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am Lehrstuhl für Unternehmenskooperation, Prof. Dr. Jörg Sydow, Freie Universität Berlin
04/2014 – 05/2014	Gastforscherin an der Copenhagen Business School (Dänemark), Center for Corporate Social Responsibility, gefördert durch ein Stipendium des DAAD
04/2011 – 03/2014	Freie Universität Berlin: Stipendiatin am Graduiertenkolleg „Pfade organisatorischer Prozesse“
10/2004 – 09/2010	Universität Hamburg: Studium der Betriebswirtschaftslehre Thema der Diplomarbeit: „Management von Spendenbeziehungen - eine empirische Analyse der Spenderintegration an einem aktuellen NPO-Beispiel“
09/2008 – 07/2009	Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Neapel, Italien: Studium der Betriebswirtschaftslehre mit den Schwerpunkten: Personalwirtschafts- und Organisationslehre und Soziologie

Forschungsschwerpunkte

Ich interessiere mich für makro-organisationale Phänomene, wie u.a. Fragen des diskursiven Wandels und der Stabilität, der Pfadabhängigkeit sowie der Politik unternehmerischer Verantwortung. Im Rahmen meiner Dissertation habe ich mich aus historischer Perspektive mit den diskursiven Aushandlungen wirtschaftlicher, staatlicher und zivilgesellschaftlicher Akteure um Bedeutung und Motivation unternehmerischer Verantwortung beschäftigt. Meine aktuelle Forschung erweitert diese Interessen auf Fragen der Governance globaler Produktionsnetzwerke in der Bekleidungsindustrie – insbesondere im Hinblick auf Arbeitsstandards.

Veröffentlichungen

Publikationen in begutachteten Fachzeitschriften

Ashwin, S./Oka, C./Schüßler, E./Alexander, R./Lohmeyer, N. (2019): Spillover effects across transnational industrial relations agreements: The potential and limits of collective action in global supply chains, ILR Review, in print  [VHB Jourqual 3: A/B].

Jackson, Gregory; Helfen, Markus; Kaplan, Rami; Kirsch, Anja; Lohmeyer, Nora (2019): The Problem of De-contextualization in Organization and Management Research, Research in the Sociology of Organizations (Special Issue “The Production of Managerial Knowledge and Organizational Theory: New Approaches to Writing, Producing and Consuming Theory”) [VHB Jourqual 3: B].

Lohmeyer, N., Schüßler, E., Helfen, M. (2018): Can solidarity be organized "from below" in global supply chains? The case of ExChains, Industrielle Beziehungen / The German Journal for Industrial Relations, 4, 400-424. [VHB Jourqual 3: C].

Lohmeyer, Nora & Jackson, Gregory (2018): The business case as new vocabulary of motive: Discourse coalitions around CSR in Germany, 1970-2014, Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings, July 2018.

Lohmeyer, Nora (2018): ‚Vocabularies of motive‘: eine inhaltsanalytische Langzeituntersuchung von Motiven unternehmerischer Verantwortung in Artikeln des Manager Magazins, 1971-2017, Zeitschrift für betriebswirtschaftliche Forschung (zfbf), 70(3), 277-308 [VHB Jourqual 3: B].

Monographien

Lohmeyer, Nora (2017): Instrumentalisierte Verantwortung? Entstehung und Motive des »Business Case for CSR« im deutschen Diskurs unternehmerischer Verantwortung, Transcript-Verlag (Bielefeld).

Buchkapitel

Lohmeyer, N. & Schüßler, E. (2019): Initiativen zur Verbesserung von Arbeitsstandards in der Bekleidungsindustrie: ExChains und der „Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh“. In: Fischer, K./Grandner, M. (ed.) Globale Ungleichheit. Über Zusammenhänge von Kolonialismus, Arbeitsverhältnissen und Naturverbrauch. Wien: Mandelbaum. 

Lohmeyer, Nora & Schüßler, Elke (2018): Rana Plaza as a threat to the fast fashion model? An analysis of institutional responses to the disaster in Germany. In: Becker-Leifhold, C./Heuer, M. (Eds.) Eco Friendly and Fair: Fast Fashion and Consumer Behaviour. Sheffield, Greenleaf Publishing.

Lohmeyer, Nora (2013): Kritische Thesen zu Stakeholder-Dialogen. In: Schreyögg, Georg (Ed.): Stakeholder-Dialoge. Zwischen fairem Interessenausgleich und Imagepflege, Münster, Lit-Verlag, pp. 133-160.

Praxisorientierte Veröffentlichungen

Lohmeyer, Nora (2019): Macht und Gegenmacht in globalen Produktionsnetzwerken der Bekleidungsindustrie – Das ExChains Netzwerk [Power and countervailing power in global supply chains in the garment industry – the ExChains network], WSI-Mitteilungen.

Schüßler, Elke & Lohmeyer, Nora (2016): Sozialstandards in der globalen Bekleidungsindustrie – Was hat sich seit Rana Plaza verändert? Insight Asia-Pacific. German Asia-Pacific Business Organization, p. 6-9

Diskussionpapiere

Schüßler, Elke & Lohmeyer, Nora (2017): Changing governance system for labour: Germany’s garment supply chains, Garment Supply Chain Governance Discussion Paper Series No. 02/2017.

Alexander, Rachel; Ashwin, Sarah; Lohmeyer, Nora; Oka, Chikako; Schüßler, Elke (2017): Analysing the evolving texture of transnational industrial relations: Opening the black box of interfirm and firm-union relationships in the global garment industry, Garment Supply Chain Governance Discussion Paper Series No. 01/2017.

Vorträge

Eingeladene Vorträge

Lohmeyer, Nora (2018): Changes in labor governance in the garment industry after Rana Plaza, SEWlutions conference organized by FEMNET e.V. – Feminist perspectives on politics, economy, and society, Hamburg, 15.-16.11.2018.

Lohmeyer, Nora (2018): Globaler Textilhandel und Arbeitsbedingungen, Landeszentrale für politische Bildung, Berlin, 22.10.2018.

Lohmeyer, Nora (2018): CSR buying practices at international retailers, invited talk at the workshop Introducing sustainability to the textile engineering curriculum to guide sustainable business practices of future managers in the Bangladesh textile industry, Technische Universität Dresden, Notre Dame University Bangladesh, Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD), Dresden, 12.10.2018.

Lohmeyer, Nora (2018): Expert input on sustainable work in global production networks, invited talk at the roundtable of the German committee future earth on “sustainable work”, Berlin, 22.6.2018.

Lohmeyer, Nora (2018): Expert input on the Action Collaboration Transformation (ACT) initiative, civil-society representatives in the German Partnership for Sustainable Textiles, Hannover, 5.6.2018.

Lohmeyer, Nora & Schüßler, Elke (2018): Why do firms support transnational industrial relations arrangements? A processual lens, invited talk at Soziologisches Forschungsinstituts Göttingen (SOFI), Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen, 16.2.2018.

Lohmeyer, Nora (2018): Why do firms support transnational industrial relations arrangements? A processual lens, invited talk at Wittenberg Center for Global Ethics (WCGE), Wittenberg, 17.1.2018.

Lohmeyer, Nora (2018): Herausforderungen der Governance von Arbeitstandards in globalen Lieferketten der Bekleidungsindustrie. Was hat sich nach Rana Plaza verändert?, invited talk at Hochschule für Nachhaltige Entwicklung (HNE) Eberswalde, Eberswalde, 11.1.2018.

Lohmeyer, Nora & Schüßler, Elke (2017): Insights from the Garment Supply Chains Governance Project, invited talk at Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), Berlin, 6.12.2017.

Lohmeyer, Nora (2017): How do CSR strategies feed into the global procurement of goods and the sourcing practices of lead firms?, invited talk at Friedrich Ebert Foundation (invited by Friedrich Ebert Foundation, des Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR), Oxfam, Christliche Initiative Romero, Südwind and Verbraucherzentrale), Berlin, 13.11.2017.

Lohmeyer, Nora (2017): Die gesellschaftliche Konstruktion des „Business Case for CSR“: Zur Entwicklung und Stabilisierung instrumenteller Motive im deutschen Diskurs unternehmerischer Verantwortung, invited talk at Roman Herzog Institute, Forschungspreis Soziale Marktwirtschaft, Munich, 16.5.2017.

Lohmeyer, Nora (2017): Intraorganizational tensions around being good: Structures and practices of organizing purchasing and CSR in garment retailers and brands, invited talk at Institute for Management Research, Radboud University, Nijmegen, 6.3.2017.

Lohmeyer, Nora (2017): Sozialstandards in der globalen Bekleidungsindustrie – Was hat sich seit Rana Plaza verändert?, invited talk at Hochschule für Nachhaltige Entwicklung (HNE) Eberswalde, Eberswalde, 12.1.2017.

Lohmeyer, Nora (2016): Camp-Labour System (Sumangali) in indischen Spinnereien, invited talk at Hochschule Zittau/Görlitz, Görlitz, 19.10.2016.

Lohmeyer, Nora (2016): Unternehmensverantwortung gestern, heute und morgen, invited key-note at the conference „Fair Fashion Works? Unternehmensverantwortung im Modestudium“, organized by FEMNET e.V. – Feminist perspectives on politics, economy, and society, Düsseldorf, 13.10.2016.

Lohmeyer, Nora (2016): Country report Germany, expert input on the topic “Corporate social responsibility in different varieties of capitalism: Exploring how national institutions shape CSR”, invited by Prof. Gregory Jackson, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, 11.2.2016.

Lohmeyer, Nora (2012): Kritische Thesen zu Stakeholder-Dialogen, Panel discussion: Stakeholder Dialoge – Möglichkeiten, Grenzen, Kritik, Berlin, 18.6.2012.

Konferenzbeiträge

Auschra, Carolin; Bartosch, Julia; Lohmeyer, Nora (2019): Gender and Journal Authorship in the Field of Management and Organization Research: A Longitudinal Analysis, 43^rd Annual Meeting Kommission Organisation, WK ORG, Münster, 12.-15.2.2019.

Ashwin, Sarah; Alexander, Rachel; Egels-Zandén, Niklas; Lohmeyer, Nora (2018): Understanding the Emergence of Supply Chain Governance Institutions in Liberal Market Economies and Coordinated Market Economies, European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) conference, Hamburg, 22 - 25 August 2018.*

Ashwin, Sarah; Alexander, Rachel; Oka, Chikako; Lohmeyer, Nora; Schüßler, Elke (2018): Why do firms support transnational industrial relations arrangements? A processual lens, 78th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (AOM), Chicago, IL, 10 - 14 August 2018.

Ashwin, Sarah; Alexander, Rachel; Lohmeyer, Nora; Schüßler, Elke (2018): Intraorganizational tensions around being good: Structures and practices or organizing purchasing and CSR in garment retailers and brands, 78th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (AOM), Chicago, IL, 10 - 14 August 2018.

Lohmeyer, Nora; Schüßler, Elke (2018): Challenging the functionality of audits: Examining the bureaucratization of risks with Franz Kafka, 78th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (AOM), Chicago, IL, 10 - 14 August 2018.

Ashwin, Sarah; Alexander, Rachel; Lohmeyer, Nora: Varieties of capitalism or activism? Understanding the emergence of supply chain governance institutions in Germany and the UK, 30^th Annual Meeting Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE), Kyoto, 23.-25.6.2018, Kyoto.*

Ashwin, Sarah; Alexander, Rachel; Oka, Chikako; Lohmeyer, Nora; Schüßler, Elke: Why do firms support transnational industrial relations arrangements? A processual lens, 70^th Annual Meeting Labor and Employment Relations Association (LERA), Baltimore, 15.-17.6.2018.*

Ashwin, Sarah; Alexander, Rachel; Oka, Chikako; Lohmeyer, Nora; Schüßler, Elke: Why do firms support transnational industrial relations arrangements? A processual lens, International Workshop “5 Years After Rana Plaza: Consequences for Labor Standards Improvements in Garment Supply Chains”, Berlin, 27.-28.4.2018.*

Lohmeyer, Nora & Elke Schüßler (2018): Challenging the functionality of audits: Examining the bureaucratization of risks of industrial accidents through the eyes of Franz Kafka, novelist and insurance lawyer, 42nd Annual Meeting Kommission Organisation, WK ORG, Hamburg, 14.-16.2.2018.

Lohmeyer, Nora (2018): Discussant for Prof. Günter Ortmann: „Verschleifung“ als Problem organisationaler Entscheidungen – Hierarchie, Selbstreferentialität und Gewaltenteilung in Organisationen, 42nd Annual Meeting Kommission Organisation, WK ORG, Hamburg, 14.–16.2.2018.

Lohmeyer, Nora; Alexander, Rachel; Schüßler, Elke; Ashwin, Sarah (2017): Towards transnational collaborative industrial relations: Analyzing the evolving relationships among lead firms and unions in the global garment industry, Annual Meeting of the German Industrial Relations Association (GIRA), Duisburg, 19.–20.10.2017.

Lohmeyer, Nora & Schüßler, Elke (2017): Kafka’s “Office Writings”: Audits as bureaucratization of risks of industrial accidents, 33rd Conference of the European Group of Organizational Studies (EGOS), Copenhagen, 5.–8.7.2017.

Schüßler, Elke; Lohmeyer, Nora; Ashwin, Sarah; Alexander, Rachel; Egels-Zandén, Niklas; Frenkel, Stephen (2017): Intraorganizational tensions around being good: Structures and practices of organizing purchasing and CSR in garment retailers and brands, 33rd Conference of the European Group of Organizational Studies (EGOS), Copenhagen, 5.–8.7.2017.*

Kaplan, Rami; Kinderman, Daniel; Lohmeyer, Nora (2017): Social change, CSR, and the displacement of corporate embeddedness: From the U.S. (1945-1950) to Britain (1977-1981) to Germany (2000-2010), 33rd Conference of the European Group of Organizational Studies (EGOS), Copenhagen, 5.–8.7.2017.*

Lohmeyer, Nora; Alexander, Rachel; Schüßler, Elke; Ashwin, Sarah (2017): towards transnational collaborative industrial relations: Analyzing the evolving relationships among lead firms and unions in the global garment industry, 33rd Conference of the European Group of Organizational Studies (EGOS), Copenhagen, 5.–8.7.2017.*

Lohmeyer, Nora & Schüßler, Elke (2017): Changing governance system for labour: Germany’s garment supply chains, Conference of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE), Lyon, 29.6.–1.7.2017.

Lohmeyer, Nora; Alexander, Rachel; Schüßler, Elke; Ashwin, Sarah (2017): Analyzing the evolving field of transnational industrial relations: Opening the black box of interfirm and firm-union relationships in the global garment industry, 106th Session of the International Labour Conference, Geneva, 16.6.2017.*

Lohmeyer, Nora (2017): Struggles for hegemony: The social construction of the business case for CSR, Venice International University Summer School on Responsible Capitalism – Micro- and macro-institutional conditions of transformation, Venice, 28.5.–2.6.2017.

Lohmeyer, Nora; Alexander, Rachel; Schüßler, Elke; Ashwin, Sarah (2017): Towards transnational collaborative industrial relations: Analyzing the evolving relationships among lead firms and unions in the global garment industry, ECPR The Politics of Global Value Chains, Nottingham, 10.4.2017.*

Lohmeyer, Nora (2016): Von der Moral des Profits zum Profit der Moral, 6th Annual Meeting Netzwerkes ‚Diskurs – kontrastiv’, Mannheim, 17.–18.11.2016.

Lohmeyer, Nora (2016): Deconstructing the business case for CSR – instrumental motives for CSR in corporate non-financial reports, 7th International Conference on Corporate Sustainability and Responsibility, Berlin, 14.–16.9.2016.

Lohmeyer, Nora & Kaplan, Rami (2016): A corporate power perspective on the privatization of regulation. The cases of Britain and Germany, 32nd Conference of the European Group of Organizational Studies (EGOS), Naples, 6.–8.7.2016.

Lohmeyer, Nora (2015): Struggles for hegemony: The social construction of the business case for CSR, 31st Conference of the European Group of Organizational Studies (EGOS), Athens, 2.–4.7.2015.

Lohmeyer, Nora (2015): Struggles for hegemony: The social construction of the business case for CSR, Paper Development Workshop sponsored by the Journal of Management Studies, the Society for the Advancement of Management Studies and WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management, Vallendar, 27.–29.6.2015.

Lohmeyer, Nora (2015): Der Business Case for CSR – ein Blick auf Unternehmensverantwortung in Deutschland, Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, 13.6.2015.

Lohmeyer, Nora (2014): The business case as a hegemonic belief system – Insights from the German discourse on corporate social responsibility, Journal of Business Ethics Paper Development Workshop: Ideologies in Markets, Organizations and Business Ethics, Berlin, 26.–27.6.2014.

Lohmeyer, Nora (2014): Constructing the business case for CSR – Insights from the German discourse, PhD Paper Development Workshop, Copenhagen Business School, Copenhagen, 14.5.2014.

Lohmeyer, Nora (2014): Path-dependent processes as social processes – a discourse theoretical and analytical approach, 3rd International Conference on Path Dependence, Berlin, 16.–17.2.2014.

Lohmeyer, Nora (2013): The crisis of corporate social responsibility – a discursive perspective, 11th Conference of the European Sociological Association (ESA), Turin, 29.–31.8.2013.

Lohmeyer, Nora (2013): The puzzling history of CSR in Germany: Insights from a historical discourse analysis, Berlin Study Group on Corporate Responsibility (CR Berlin) Paper Development Workshop, Berlin, 19.7.2013.

Lohmeyer, Nora (2013): The puzzling history of corporate social responsibility in Germany – Insights from a systematic historical discourse analysis, 29th Conference of the European Group of Organizational Studies (EGOS), Montréal, 4.–6.7.2013.

Lohmeyer, Nora (2012): Corporate Social Responsibility – a path-dependent discourse?, Berlin Study Group on Corporate Responsibility (CR Berlin) Paper Development Workshop, Berlin, 23.5.2012.

(* präsentiert durch KoautorInnen)

Lehrerfahrungen

Bachelor-Kurse:

WiSe 2018/2019: Vorlesung Business and Management in Society, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg

WiSe 2015/2016: Übung Corporate Governance and Corporate Social Responsibility (Prof. Gregory Jackson), Freie Universität Berlin

SoSe 2015: Übung Grundlagen der Personalpolitik (Prof. Gregory Jackson), Freie Universität Berlin

WiSe 2011/12: Übung Grundlagen der BWL – Management (im Bachelorstudiengang VWL) (Prof. Thomas Mellewigt), Freie Universität Berlin

Master-Kurse:

WiSe 2016/17: Guest Lecture: Garment Supply Chain Governance Project – Managing international research projects, Radboud University Nijmegen

WiSe 2014/5: Vorlesung Personalpolitik (gemeinsam Prof. Gregory Jackson, Prof. Elke Schüßler, Dr. Johann Fortwengel), Freie Universität Berlin

WiSe 2014/15: Gastveranstaltung: Critical perspectives on corporate social responsibility, Copenhagen Business School

PhD-Kurse:

SoSe 2017: Gastveranstaltung Organization Theory, Johannes Kepler Universität Linz

SoSe 2016: Workshop: Einführung in die Text- und Diskursanalyse, Doctoral Program in Business Research (DPBR), Freie Universität Berlin

Betreuung von Abschlussarbeiten:

2014 - 2015: Betreuung von Bachelor- und Masterarbeiten im Bereich Corporate Social Responsibility und Personalpolitik am Lehrstuhl für Personalpolitik von Prof. Jackson, Freie Universität Berlin.

2016 - 2018: Betreuung von Bachelor- und Masterarbeiten im Bereich Corporate Social Responsibility in der Bekleidungsindustrie sowie Governance von Arbeitsstandards in globalen Produktionsnetzwerken am Lehrstuhl für Unternehmenskooperation von Prof. Sydow, Freie Universität Berlin.

Auszeichnungen

Best paper proceedings of the Academy of Management (AOM)-Conference 2018, Social Issues in Management (SIM)-Division, für das Papier “The Business Case as New Vocabulary of Motive: Discourse Coalitions around CSR in Germany, 1970-2014” (Koautor: Prof. Gregory Jackson), 2018.

Short-listed für den Roman Herzog Forschungspreis für Soziale Marktwirtschaft, für die Dissertation „Die gesellschaftliche Konstruktion des „Business Case for CSR“ – Zur Entwicklung und Stabilisierung instrumenteller Motive im deutschen Diskurs unternehmerischer Verantwortung“, 2017.

Gutachterinnentätigkeiten (ad-hoc)

British Journal of Industrial Relations

Business Research

Journal of Business Ethics

Journal of Management Studies

Organization

Organization Studies

Socio-Economic Review

 

Mitgliedschaften

Academy of Management Association (AOM), Divisions: OMT & SIM

Berlin Study Group on Corporate Responsibility (CR Berlin)

European Group of Organization Studies (EGOS)

German Industrial Relations Association (GIRA)

Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE)

Tagungsnetzwerk ‘Diskurs Interdisziplinär’