Robert Musil
Biographic Data
| ID | 3674945 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert Musil |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert |
| FAMILY NAME | Musil |
| SIGNATURE | MUSIL R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Austrian Academy of Sciences |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9410-8028 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
From users to co-creators: How social trading platforms facilitate retail investor and trader engagement
This article examines how social trading platforms encourage laypeople to become active investors and traders and to deepen their engagement over time. Extending prior research highlighting the role of cultural narratives and platform design, we show how platforms steer users along engagement pathways, transitioning novices into active investors and traders, and ultimately into co-creators, who act as finfluencers and/or provide quasi-fund manage…
Varieties of urban housing regimes: Comparing housing provision and tenure shift in Athens, Belgrade, and Vienna
In this paper, we intend to apply the concept of urban housing regime (UHR) as an analytical framework that enables us to trace the formation of a “welfarist” regime and its transition toward a “neoliberal” regime. For this purpose, we conceptualize UHR as diverse regulative and power constellations, comprising a political-regulative, an institutional/actor and a housing-stock dimension. Our analysis focuses on the comparison of three variegated …
Scripting the habitus: How financial devices prefigure class differences
Prior research explains socioeconomic differences in financial decisions by the habitus, preferences and constraints. Yet financial decisions are increasingly shaped by platforms, which prefigure subjectivities and behaviours. Analysing scripts of financial platforms targeted at different classes, we suggest that the scripts of the platforms used by diverse classes become central to fostering class differences in financial decisions. Contribution…
The commodification of a rent-regulated housing market. Actors and strategies in Viennese neighbourhoods
Against the background of price increases on the one hand and strong tenement regulations in Vienna’s historic housing stock on the other, this article analyses the actors and strategies of commodification. Following a mixed-methods approach, this case study analyses 90 historic tenement buildings in nine neighbourhoods. Our analysis reveals the increasing relevance of institutional actors as (co-)owners, which goes hand in hand with declining ho…
Evaluating M&As from a regional perspective: Media discourses on the asymmetric internationalization of Vienna’s banking sector
Firms are important regional identity anchors. Accordingly, acquisitions by foreign companies are publicly discussed regarding the gains or losses in regional prestige that they bring about. However, the perception and evaluation of mergers and acquisitions (M&As) in public discourse has so far only been marginally analysed. The study therefore examines the interpretation and evaluation of inward and outward M&As in Vienna between 1999 and 2016 b…
The Zinshaus market and gentrification dynamics: The transformation of the historic housing stock in Vienna, 2007–2019
This article intends to contribute to the debate on the quantification of gentrification, which is constrained by two main obstacles: firstly, the operationalisation of displacement of socially weak households, which appears as an elusive phenomenon. Secondly, the consideration of the specific urban context, in particular the regulation of the housing market. Based on a case study for Vienna, this paper introduces a new empirical approach, which …
Grenzen: Theoretische, konzeptionelle und praxisbezogene Fragestellungen zu Grenzen und deren Überschreitungen
Towards a location sensitive R&D policy. Local buzz, spatial concentration and specialisation as a challenge for urban planning – Empirical findings from the life sciences and ICT clusters in Vienna
The Confusions of Young Törless
Set in a boarding school in a remote area of the Habsburg Empire at the turn of the last century, The Confusions of Young Törless is an intense study of an adolescent’s psychological development as he struggles to come to terms with his conflicting emotions. Through his relationship with two other boys Törless is led into sadistic and sexual encounters with a third pupil which both repel and fascinate him. Estranged from everyday life, Törless gr…
E uropean Global Cities in the Recent Economic Crisis
Macroeconomic imbalances are a substantial characteristic of the recent economic crisis in E urope. As several authors emphasise the impact of the state, public institutions and territorial structures on the world city, the impact of the crisis on the economic performance of global cities becomes a crucial question. After discussing the theoretical aspects of the state – global city linkages and discussing two fields of influence on the global ci…
Global integration along historic pathways: Vienna and Munich in the changing financial geography of Europe
Taking the two second-tier financial centres Munich and Vienna as illustrative cases, this paper empirically evaluates the extent to which the restructuring of the banking and insurance industry and the emergence of new financial agents calls for a reappraisal of the geography of European finance against longer-term developments. Conceptually, the paper adopts an evolutionary perspective that conceives inter- and intra-sectoral corporate takeover…
Global capital control and city hierarchies: An attempt to reposition Vienna in a world city network
Precision and Soul: Essays and Addresses
Citation de Robert Musil, L'homme sans qualités
Ruminations of a Slow-Witted Mind
Robert Musil's 'The Man without Qualities': A Critical Study
Journaux: Extraits présentés et traduits par Philippe Jaccottet
Tagebucher
The Zinshaus market and gentrification dynamics: The transformation of the historic housing stock in Vienna, 2007–2019
This article intends to contribute to the debate on the quantification of gentrification, which is constrained by two main obstacles: firstly, the operationalisation of displacement of socially weak households, which appears as an elusive phenomenon. Secondly, the consideration of the specific urban context, in particular the regulation of the housing market. Based on a case study for Vienna, this paper introduces a new empirical approach, which …
Global integration along historic pathways: Vienna and Munich in the changing financial geography of Europe
Taking the two second-tier financial centres Munich and Vienna as illustrative cases, this paper empirically evaluates the extent to which the restructuring of the banking and insurance industry and the emergence of new financial agents calls for a reappraisal of the geography of European finance against longer-term developments. Conceptually, the paper adopts an evolutionary perspective that conceives inter- and intra-sectoral corporate takeover…
The commodification of a rent-regulated housing market. Actors and strategies in Viennese neighbourhoods
Against the background of price increases on the one hand and strong tenement regulations in Vienna’s historic housing stock on the other, this article analyses the actors and strategies of commodification. Following a mixed-methods approach, this case study analyses 90 historic tenement buildings in nine neighbourhoods. Our analysis reveals the increasing relevance of institutional actors as (co-)owners, which goes hand in hand with declining ho…
Global capital control and city hierarchies: An attempt to reposition Vienna in a world city network
Towards a location sensitive R&D policy. Local buzz, spatial concentration and specialisation as a challenge for urban planning – Empirical findings from the life sciences and ICT clusters in Vienna
Journaux: Extraits présentés et traduits par Philippe Jaccottet
Tagebucher
Journaux: Extraits présentés et traduits par Philippe Jaccottet
Robert Musil's 'The Man without Qualities': A Critical Study
Ruminations of a Slow-Witted Mind
Precision and Soul: Essays and Addresses
Citation de Robert Musil, L'homme sans qualités
Global capital control and city hierarchies: An attempt to reposition Vienna in a world city network
Global integration along historic pathways: Vienna and Munich in the changing financial geography of Europe
Taking the two second-tier financial centres Munich and Vienna as illustrative cases, this paper empirically evaluates the extent to which the restructuring of the banking and insurance industry and the emergence of new financial agents calls for a reappraisal of the geography of European finance against longer-term developments. Conceptually, the paper adopts an evolutionary perspective that conceives inter- and intra-sectoral corporate takeover…
The Confusions of Young Törless
Set in a boarding school in a remote area of the Habsburg Empire at the turn of the last century, The Confusions of Young Törless is an intense study of an adolescent’s psychological development as he struggles to come to terms with his conflicting emotions. Through his relationship with two other boys Törless is led into sadistic and sexual encounters with a third pupil which both repel and fascinate him. Estranged from everyday life, Törless gr…
E uropean Global Cities in the Recent Economic Crisis
Macroeconomic imbalances are a substantial characteristic of the recent economic crisis in E urope. As several authors emphasise the impact of the state, public institutions and territorial structures on the world city, the impact of the crisis on the economic performance of global cities becomes a crucial question. After discussing the theoretical aspects of the state – global city linkages and discussing two fields of influence on the global ci…
Towards a location sensitive R&D policy. Local buzz, spatial concentration and specialisation as a challenge for urban planning – Empirical findings from the life sciences and ICT clusters in Vienna
Grenzen: Theoretische, konzeptionelle und praxisbezogene Fragestellungen zu Grenzen und deren Überschreitungen
Evaluating M&As from a regional perspective: Media discourses on the asymmetric internationalization of Vienna’s banking sector
Firms are important regional identity anchors. Accordingly, acquisitions by foreign companies are publicly discussed regarding the gains or losses in regional prestige that they bring about. However, the perception and evaluation of mergers and acquisitions (M&As) in public discourse has so far only been marginally analysed. The study therefore examines the interpretation and evaluation of inward and outward M&As in Vienna between 1999 and 2016 b…
The Zinshaus market and gentrification dynamics: The transformation of the historic housing stock in Vienna, 2007–2019
This article intends to contribute to the debate on the quantification of gentrification, which is constrained by two main obstacles: firstly, the operationalisation of displacement of socially weak households, which appears as an elusive phenomenon. Secondly, the consideration of the specific urban context, in particular the regulation of the housing market. Based on a case study for Vienna, this paper introduces a new empirical approach, which …
The commodification of a rent-regulated housing market. Actors and strategies in Viennese neighbourhoods
Against the background of price increases on the one hand and strong tenement regulations in Vienna’s historic housing stock on the other, this article analyses the actors and strategies of commodification. Following a mixed-methods approach, this case study analyses 90 historic tenement buildings in nine neighbourhoods. Our analysis reveals the increasing relevance of institutional actors as (co-)owners, which goes hand in hand with declining ho…
Scripting the habitus: How financial devices prefigure class differences
Prior research explains socioeconomic differences in financial decisions by the habitus, preferences and constraints. Yet financial decisions are increasingly shaped by platforms, which prefigure subjectivities and behaviours. Analysing scripts of financial platforms targeted at different classes, we suggest that the scripts of the platforms used by diverse classes become central to fostering class differences in financial decisions. Contribution…
From users to co-creators: How social trading platforms facilitate retail investor and trader engagement
This article examines how social trading platforms encourage laypeople to become active investors and traders and to deepen their engagement over time. Extending prior research highlighting the role of cultural narratives and platform design, we show how platforms steer users along engagement pathways, transitioning novices into active investors and traders, and ultimately into co-creators, who act as finfluencers and/or provide quasi-fund manage…
Varieties of urban housing regimes: Comparing housing provision and tenure shift in Athens, Belgrade, and Vienna
In this paper, we intend to apply the concept of urban housing regime (UHR) as an analytical framework that enables us to trace the formation of a “welfarist” regime and its transition toward a “neoliberal” regime. For this purpose, we conceptualize UHR as diverse regulative and power constellations, comprising a political-regulative, an institutional/actor and a housing-stock dimension. Our analysis focuses on the comparison of three variegated …
Economic geography (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Economics (6 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Economy (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works)