Mike Geppert is Professor for Strategic and International Management at the Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena and leads the Collaborative Research Centre’s Project Group on “Public interest versus private property rights.” He studied Sociology and complete a PhD on Organization Theory at Humboldt University in Berlin, where he also worked as a lecturer in Organizational Sociology. Before his Professorship in Jena he taught and did research at the University of Surrey, the Queen Mary University of London and Swansea University. Moreover he is Founding Member of the European Academy of Management (EURAM) and former Vice-Chair of the European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS). His research interests include socio-political issues and micro-politics in and around organizations, especially in the context of multinational corporations and global value chains, political and emotional aspects of organizational sensemaking, comparative organizational studies of management, work and employment in the global context.
Activities
Publications
- Dörrenbächer, C.; Geppert, M.; Bozkurt, Ö. (2024): "Multinational corporations and grand challenges: part of the problem, part of the solution?", In: Critical Perspectives on International Business, 20(2), 153-163.
- Geppert, M.; Bozkurt, Ö. (2021): “A Research Agenda for International Business and Management”, In: Elgar, Edward, Cheltenham A Research Agenda for International Business and Management.
- Geppert, M.; Pastuh, D. (2020): “A 'Circuits of Power'-based Perspective on Algorithmic Management and Labour in the Gig Economy. Industrielle Beziehungen”, In: Zeitschrift für Arbeit, Organisation und Management, 27/2, 179-204.
- Clegg, S.; Geppert, M.; Hollinshead, G. (2018): “Politicization and political contests in contemporary multinational corporations: an introduction“, In: Human Relations, 71(6), 745-765.
- Geppert, M.; Hollinshead, G. (2017): “Signs of Dystopia and Demoralization in global academia: Reflections on the precarious and destructive effects of the colonization of the Lebenswelt“, In: Critical perspectives on International business, 13(2), 136-150.
- Geppert, M.; Becker-Ritterspach, F.; Blazejewski, S.; Dörrenbächer, C. (2016): Micropolitics in the multinational corporation: foundations, applications and new direction. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0170840616656152
- Geppert, M.; Dörrenbächer, C.; Gammelgaard, J.; Taplin, I. (2013): “Managerial risk-taking in international acquisitions in the brewery industry: Institutional and ownership influences compared“, In: British Journal of Management 24, 316-332.
- Geppert, M.; Dörrenbächer, C. (2011): Politics and power in the multinational corporation: The role of interests, identities, and institution. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge.
