INCHER Lunchtime talk 24. April 2024: Same, same but different. (Funding) Contests in different fields
Talk by: Dr. Tim Seidenschnur (INCHER, Universität Kassel, Kassel)
Sociological research examines competition regarding its constitutive elements, strategies and dynamics within competition, and its intended and unintended effects. Since competition is a complex phenomenon and, in many cases, – even though it became omnipresent – difficult to observe, competition is usually analysed in empirical studies within one organisational field. Classically, business organisations are of major interest, but as we can see at the example of our research group on multiple competition in the higher education, research is also focusing on other interesting fields such as the academic field. In organizational research, there is the strong assumption that the field has a considerable influence on the social construction, perception and design of competition. Even if an increase in competition and competitions can be observed in almost all organisational fields in the recent past, this does not mean that the way how competition actually takes place follows similar paths everywhere, but rather that field-specific routines and perceptions have a strong influence on competitive actors and the form of competitions. Studies that adopt such a comparative perspective on competitions are very rare to date. In this presentation, I will give an empirical example of how competitions can be compared between different fields and offer ideas for a research program following this comparative approach.
Tim Seidenschnur is a researcher in the DFG-funded project "Multiple competitions in teaching and research". Before joining the DFG-Project team Tim Seidenschnur has been coordinator of the thematic area "Governance and Organization" from April 2018 on. He has joined INCHER as research associate in April 2015 working in the research project “legitimation of management consultancy” le by Georg Krücken. Tim Seidenschnur worked at the University of Würzburg as a research associate and at the University of Kassel as a lecturer before joining INCHER. He received his doctor’s degree in 2012 for a work on anti-Semitism in German schools.
The INCHER lectures in summer semester 2024 are hybrid events.
Zoom participation only after prior registration (koch@incher.uni-kassel.de)
Venue: INCHER, University of Kassel, meeting room 4102, Mönchebergstraße 17
34125 Kassel