Lisa-Maria Gerhardt

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About

Lisa-Maria Gerhardt holds a Bachelor of Science in Biology and a Master of Science in Business Administration for Engineers and Natural Scientists from Friedrich Schiller University of Jena. During her master's studies, she worked as a research assistant at the Chair of Organization, Leadership and Human Resource Management (Prof. Dr. Peter Walgenbach). Since 2019 she is a PhD student at the same chair. From October 2024, she will be working on the DFG project "Universities in multiple competition: Changes in job advertisements for professorships, 1990 to 2020" under the direction of Peter Walgenbach.

Research interests

Sociological/institutional theories
Universities as organizational actors
Appointment procedures for university professorships: requirement profiles, appointment management and employer branding
Multiple competition in higher education
Academic collegiality
Conformity vs. differentiation of organizations
Organizational Imprinting

Publications

(with Jan Goldenstein, Simon Oertel, Philipp Poschmann und Peter Walgenbach) The Managerialization of Higher Education in Germany and its Consequences: Changes in Job Advertisements for Professorships in German Universities, 1990 to 2010. Research in the Sociology of Organizations, 2023, in press.

(with Nico Cloete, Nancy Côté, Logan Crace, Rick Delbridge, Jean-Louis Denis, Gili Drori, Ulla Eriksson Zetterquist, Joel Gehman, Jan Goldenstein, Audrey Harroche, Jakov Jandric, Anna Kosmützky, Georg Krücken, Seungah Lee, Michael Lounsbury, Ravit Mizrahi-Shtelman, Christine Musselin, Hampus Östh Gustafsson, Pedro Pineda, Paolo Quattrone, Francisco Ramirez, Kerstin Sahlin, Francois van Schalkwyk und Peter Walgenbach) “Outroduction”: A Research Agenda on Collegiality in University Settings. Research in the Sociology of Organizations, 2023, in press.