Stefan Kirchner
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 455340 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Stefan Kirchner |
| PRENOMES | Stefan |
| SOBRENOME | Kirchner |
| ASSINATURA | KIRCHNER S |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Technische Universität Berlin |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1958-0810 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 24 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 69 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 24 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2013 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Labour Governance of Platforms
Scholarly work on labour platforms has primarily examined labour governance in relation to the role of algorithmic management in labour control. This article instead argues that platform labour governance involves organising and structuring the broader market environment to ensure a continuous and adaptable labour supply. We showcase the processes of ‘market-making’ and ‘market-shaping’ to explain how labour platforms in food delivery and care se…
Varieties of platform capitalism? Competition, regime types and the diversity of food delivery platforms across Europe and North America
This article challenges the idea of platform capitalism, that digital platforms implement a uniform model based on a self-employed labor force. Expanding on empirical evidence of a diversity of platform models, we theorize expectations about platform diversity from competition and comparative capitalism research. Using a unique cross-national dataset of leading food delivery platforms in 32 countries across North America and Europe, we compare pl…
Selling out the city? Airbnb’s amateur and professional listings across cities, time, and hotspots
In the early days of its existence, Airbnb was heralded as a champion of the “sharing economy”, enabling amateur hosts to offer short-term lodging to a global community of guests. Since then, public debates and research have highlighted the rise of professional hosts as an indication for the commercialization of Airbnb. However, it is neither well understood how Airbnb listings developed across cities and time nor how they are distributed across …
The Organization of Digital Platforms
Digital platforms pervade contemporary societies, but sociology currently lacks a general concept for investigating them. Platforms combine technology and organizational elements in particular ways, but existing concepts consider these combinations in a one-sided manner: Business approaches focus on technological features solely in economic relationships, sociological approaches underestimate the relevance of technology for the multiple relations…
Data on Digital Transformation in the German Socio-Economic Panel
Public debates and current research on “digitalization” suggest that digital technologies could profoundly transform the world of work. While broad claims are common in these debates, empirical evidence remains scarce. This calls for reliable data for empirical research and evidence-based policymaking. We implemented a data module in the Socio-Economic Panel to gather information on digitalization in three domains: artificial intelligence (AI), p…
Climate Change and Underwater Cultural Heritage. Utilizing international law to empower communities to protect their coastal sacred sites and sea-level rise
Sacred sites in the Arctic are under threat from a number of external factors. In addition to land uses such as mining, climate change poses a major threat. Already today, climate change is leading to the melting of permafrost, coastal erosion and sea-level rise. While parts of the European Arctic continue to experience post-glacial land uplift, coastal communities across most of the Arctic will have to consider the impacts of sea-level rise on t…
Who is leading the digital transformation? Understanding the adoption of digital technologies in Germany
Debates on digitalisation in Germany often refer to ‘Industrie 4.0’ describing a seamless and technology‐driven process spearheaded by manufacturing. This view conflicts with sociological arguments, assuming highly differentiated processes of digitalisation. We review the literature and empirically test the core assumption that digital technologies relate to organisational characteristics and that adoption differs according to the type of technol…
Moving Beyond Uber
Discussions on organizational models and work in the platform economy often center on Uber as a prominent example of a digital marketplace that relies on venture capital and gig labor from self-employed drivers. This focus on Uber underestimates the diversity of organizational models and work types that likely arise from struggles between firms seeking to dominate emerging fields. Our exploratory results coming out of the field of “shared mobilit…
Kommt jetzt die Plattformgesellschaft? Organisation in der digitalen Transformation und Impulse für eine Soziologie der Digitalisierung
Digitale Plattformen, wie Uber oder Airbnb, läuten das Ende der Organisationsgesellschaft ein, die von bürokratischen Großorganisationen geprägt war. Das behaupten zumindest aktuelle Thesen zur Plattformökonomie. Tatsächlich finden sich in der Debatte um Digitalisierung jedoch erstaunlich wenige konzeptionelle Anhaltspunkte, wie genau sich ein substanzieller Wandel ergibt. Diagnosen, wie „Plattformkapitalismus", „Plattformgesellschaft" oder „Plat…
Acts of genocide and international law
In addition to the loss of over 200,000 lives due to the COVID-19 pandemic, racist violence, riots, wildfires, storms and political controversies in an election year, the United States of America might now also see acts of genocide. If recent reports are confirmed, multiple acts of genocide have been committed against migrants from Central America, targeting in particular women and children. This text outlines the elements which define the crime …
Targeted Geoengineering
Targeted geoengineering aims to tackle a global scale impact of climate warming by addressing local or regional systemic interventions. We consider three examples: conserving the West Antarctic ice sheet by limiting rates of ice discharge or increasing snow accumulation, thereby reducing global sea level rise; transforming the Arctic permafrost zone into steppe grassland; raising the albedo of Arctic sea ice. There are important differences betwe…
Between mutuality, autonomy and domination
This Special Issue advances a new understanding of digital platforms as dynamic and relational. An archetypal transaction platform, we argue, is comprised of three canonical social relationships which exist in tension with each other. The first is mutuality-the practices of sharing and reciprocity which animated the early days of the 'sharing economy'. The second is autonomy-representing the desire for freedom and independence attracting many ear…
Künstliche Intelligenz am Arbeitsplatz
In der aktuellen Debatte um Künstliche Intelligenz (KI) wird oft ein radikaler Wandel der Arbeitswelt erwartet, der auch die Arbeitsqualität betrifft. Dabei stehen bisher vielen weitreichenden Annahmen sehr wenige empirische Fakten gegenüber. Zudem wird oftmals nicht berücksichtigt, dass die KI-Nutzung am Arbeitsplatz bestimmte digitale Arbeitsmittel voraussetzt, die wiederum selbst Kernaspekte der Arbeitsqualität, wie Autonomie, mitbeeinflussen …
Between East and West? East Germany's Employment System in a Dynamic Comparison
This article investigates how working conditions in East Germany differ from those in West Germany as well as from those among its Central and Eastern European (CEE) neighbors (Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland). Building on repeated International Social Survey Programme (ISSP) survey data (1989, 1997, 2005, and 2015), the author compares key elements of East Germany's employment system with West Germany and its CEE neighbors over time. The res…
Arbeiten in der Plattformökonomie
How national employment systems relate to employee involvement
We investigate general claims that national institutional conditions relate to employee involvement across countries. Using a decomposition analysis, we examine how much of the key domains of national employment systems contribute to differences in employee involvement in Germany, the UK and Sweden. Drawing on the 2015 European Working Conditions Survey (EWCS), our decomposition analysis explains between 40% and 65% of the cross-national differen…
Kritische Masse, Wettbewerb oder Legitimität
Cross-Border Forms of Animal Use by Indigenous Peoples
The aim of this essay is to show how international law relates to the interaction of indigenous peoples and animals across international borders. While colonial borders have affected the lives of herding communities in Africa and while there are cross-border indigenous activities in different parts of Latin America, the situation in Northern Europe is particularly noteworthy. This is because cross-border activities are possible there not simply b…
Linking institutions and firm-level outcomes
Traditionally, scholars of comparative capitalisms expect a solid link between institutions and outcomes, such as exporting and innovation. For Germany seminal approaches rely on an ideal-typical firm-level profile with strong innovative capabilities and high traditional institutional embeddedness. Current literature on firm-level diversity in Germany exposes that the empirical links between institutions, de facto firm-level profiles, and their o…
Besser, schlechter oder polarisiert
Dieser Artikel untersucht Trends von Autonomie, Intensität und Beschäftigungsstabilität als Kernaspekte der Arbeitsqualität für Beschäftigte in EU-15-Ländern. Universalistische Ansätze vermuten eine universelle Verschlechterung dieser drei Aspekte auf der Low-Road. Teilweise wird eine universelle Polarisierung der Arbeitsqualität angenommen. Regimetheorien unterstellen dagegen, dass Trends und Polarisierung nach Ländergruppen unterschiedlich verl…
Die Plattformlogik als digitale Marktordnung
Die Digitalisierung gilt derzeit als Auslöser eines radikalen Strukturwandels. Es wird erwartet, dass zunehmend mehr ökonomische Aktivitäten erfolgreich auf digitale Märkte verlagert werden. Aus wirtschaftssoziologischer Perspektive sind diese Erwartungen erklärungsbedürftig. Die Unsicherheit auf digitalen Märkten ist vergleichsweise groß. Dieser Artikel nutzt die wirtschaftssoziologischen Theoriebausteine der Kontrollkonzepte von Fligstein (2001…
Konturen der digitalen Arbeitswelt
Protection of Privacy Rights of Internet Users Against Cross-Border Government Interference
There is a difference between voluntarily giving somebody an amount of money and having the same amount of money taken away from one, maybe even without one noticing it at first. Even though the economic situation might be the same, it is the loss of control, of sovereignty over one's own affairs, which we find troublesome. Likewise, hardly anyone, when buying something from a complete stranger, would assent to the idea that one is to hand over o…
Wandel der Arbeitsqualität / Changes in Job Quality
Bisherige Studien zum Wandel der Arbeitsqualität beschreiben lediglich Veränderungen in den Arbeits- und Beschäftigungsbedingungen. Arbeitsqualität stellt allerdings ein evaluativ-relationales Konzept dar: Zum einen impliziert die Einschätzung der Arbeitsqualität stets eine wertende Perspektive; zum anderen haben die jeweiligen Arbeits- und Beschäftigungsbedingungen ein unterschiedliches Gewicht bei der Bestimmung der Arbeitsqualität. Im vorliege…
Between mutuality, autonomy and domination
This Special Issue advances a new understanding of digital platforms as dynamic and relational. An archetypal transaction platform, we argue, is comprised of three canonical social relationships which exist in tension with each other. The first is mutuality-the practices of sharing and reciprocity which animated the early days of the 'sharing economy'. The second is autonomy-representing the desire for freedom and independence attracting many ear…
Die Plattformlogik als digitale Marktordnung
Die Digitalisierung gilt derzeit als Auslöser eines radikalen Strukturwandels. Es wird erwartet, dass zunehmend mehr ökonomische Aktivitäten erfolgreich auf digitale Märkte verlagert werden. Aus wirtschaftssoziologischer Perspektive sind diese Erwartungen erklärungsbedürftig. Die Unsicherheit auf digitalen Märkten ist vergleichsweise groß. Dieser Artikel nutzt die wirtschaftssoziologischen Theoriebausteine der Kontrollkonzepte von Fligstein (2001…
The Organization of Digital Platforms
Digital platforms pervade contemporary societies, but sociology currently lacks a general concept for investigating them. Platforms combine technology and organizational elements in particular ways, but existing concepts consider these combinations in a one-sided manner: Business approaches focus on technological features solely in economic relationships, sociological approaches underestimate the relevance of technology for the multiple relations…
Konturen der digitalen Arbeitswelt
Who is leading the digital transformation? Understanding the adoption of digital technologies in Germany
Debates on digitalisation in Germany often refer to ‘Industrie 4.0’ describing a seamless and technology‐driven process spearheaded by manufacturing. This view conflicts with sociological arguments, assuming highly differentiated processes of digitalisation. We review the literature and empirically test the core assumption that digital technologies relate to organisational characteristics and that adoption differs according to the type of technol…
Varieties of platform capitalism? Competition, regime types and the diversity of food delivery platforms across Europe and North America
This article challenges the idea of platform capitalism, that digital platforms implement a uniform model based on a self-employed labor force. Expanding on empirical evidence of a diversity of platform models, we theorize expectations about platform diversity from competition and comparative capitalism research. Using a unique cross-national dataset of leading food delivery platforms in 32 countries across North America and Europe, we compare pl…
Moving Beyond Uber
Discussions on organizational models and work in the platform economy often center on Uber as a prominent example of a digital marketplace that relies on venture capital and gig labor from self-employed drivers. This focus on Uber underestimates the diversity of organizational models and work types that likely arise from struggles between firms seeking to dominate emerging fields. Our exploratory results coming out of the field of “shared mobilit…
Arbeiten in der Plattformökonomie
Selling out the city? Airbnb’s amateur and professional listings across cities, time, and hotspots
In the early days of its existence, Airbnb was heralded as a champion of the “sharing economy”, enabling amateur hosts to offer short-term lodging to a global community of guests. Since then, public debates and research have highlighted the rise of professional hosts as an indication for the commercialization of Airbnb. However, it is neither well understood how Airbnb listings developed across cities and time nor how they are distributed across …
Besser, schlechter oder polarisiert
Dieser Artikel untersucht Trends von Autonomie, Intensität und Beschäftigungsstabilität als Kernaspekte der Arbeitsqualität für Beschäftigte in EU-15-Ländern. Universalistische Ansätze vermuten eine universelle Verschlechterung dieser drei Aspekte auf der Low-Road. Teilweise wird eine universelle Polarisierung der Arbeitsqualität angenommen. Regimetheorien unterstellen dagegen, dass Trends und Polarisierung nach Ländergruppen unterschiedlich verl…
Wandel der Arbeitsqualität / Changes in Job Quality
Bisherige Studien zum Wandel der Arbeitsqualität beschreiben lediglich Veränderungen in den Arbeits- und Beschäftigungsbedingungen. Arbeitsqualität stellt allerdings ein evaluativ-relationales Konzept dar: Zum einen impliziert die Einschätzung der Arbeitsqualität stets eine wertende Perspektive; zum anderen haben die jeweiligen Arbeits- und Beschäftigungsbedingungen ein unterschiedliches Gewicht bei der Bestimmung der Arbeitsqualität. Im vorliege…
Wandel der Arbeitsqualität / Changes in Job Quality
Bisherige Studien zum Wandel der Arbeitsqualität beschreiben lediglich Veränderungen in den Arbeits- und Beschäftigungsbedingungen. Arbeitsqualität stellt allerdings ein evaluativ-relationales Konzept dar: Zum einen impliziert die Einschätzung der Arbeitsqualität stets eine wertende Perspektive; zum anderen haben die jeweiligen Arbeits- und Beschäftigungsbedingungen ein unterschiedliches Gewicht bei der Bestimmung der Arbeitsqualität. Im vorliege…
Protection of Privacy Rights of Internet Users Against Cross-Border Government Interference
There is a difference between voluntarily giving somebody an amount of money and having the same amount of money taken away from one, maybe even without one noticing it at first. Even though the economic situation might be the same, it is the loss of control, of sovereignty over one's own affairs, which we find troublesome. Likewise, hardly anyone, when buying something from a complete stranger, would assent to the idea that one is to hand over o…
Konturen der digitalen Arbeitswelt
Linking institutions and firm-level outcomes
Traditionally, scholars of comparative capitalisms expect a solid link between institutions and outcomes, such as exporting and innovation. For Germany seminal approaches rely on an ideal-typical firm-level profile with strong innovative capabilities and high traditional institutional embeddedness. Current literature on firm-level diversity in Germany exposes that the empirical links between institutions, de facto firm-level profiles, and their o…
Besser, schlechter oder polarisiert
Dieser Artikel untersucht Trends von Autonomie, Intensität und Beschäftigungsstabilität als Kernaspekte der Arbeitsqualität für Beschäftigte in EU-15-Ländern. Universalistische Ansätze vermuten eine universelle Verschlechterung dieser drei Aspekte auf der Low-Road. Teilweise wird eine universelle Polarisierung der Arbeitsqualität angenommen. Regimetheorien unterstellen dagegen, dass Trends und Polarisierung nach Ländergruppen unterschiedlich verl…
Die Plattformlogik als digitale Marktordnung
Die Digitalisierung gilt derzeit als Auslöser eines radikalen Strukturwandels. Es wird erwartet, dass zunehmend mehr ökonomische Aktivitäten erfolgreich auf digitale Märkte verlagert werden. Aus wirtschaftssoziologischer Perspektive sind diese Erwartungen erklärungsbedürftig. Die Unsicherheit auf digitalen Märkten ist vergleichsweise groß. Dieser Artikel nutzt die wirtschaftssoziologischen Theoriebausteine der Kontrollkonzepte von Fligstein (2001…
Cross-Border Forms of Animal Use by Indigenous Peoples
The aim of this essay is to show how international law relates to the interaction of indigenous peoples and animals across international borders. While colonial borders have affected the lives of herding communities in Africa and while there are cross-border indigenous activities in different parts of Latin America, the situation in Northern Europe is particularly noteworthy. This is because cross-border activities are possible there not simply b…
Kritische Masse, Wettbewerb oder Legitimität
Arbeiten in der Plattformökonomie
How national employment systems relate to employee involvement
We investigate general claims that national institutional conditions relate to employee involvement across countries. Using a decomposition analysis, we examine how much of the key domains of national employment systems contribute to differences in employee involvement in Germany, the UK and Sweden. Drawing on the 2015 European Working Conditions Survey (EWCS), our decomposition analysis explains between 40% and 65% of the cross-national differen…
Between East and West? East Germany's Employment System in a Dynamic Comparison
This article investigates how working conditions in East Germany differ from those in West Germany as well as from those among its Central and Eastern European (CEE) neighbors (Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland). Building on repeated International Social Survey Programme (ISSP) survey data (1989, 1997, 2005, and 2015), the author compares key elements of East Germany's employment system with West Germany and its CEE neighbors over time. The res…
Acts of genocide and international law
In addition to the loss of over 200,000 lives due to the COVID-19 pandemic, racist violence, riots, wildfires, storms and political controversies in an election year, the United States of America might now also see acts of genocide. If recent reports are confirmed, multiple acts of genocide have been committed against migrants from Central America, targeting in particular women and children. This text outlines the elements which define the crime …
Targeted Geoengineering
Targeted geoengineering aims to tackle a global scale impact of climate warming by addressing local or regional systemic interventions. We consider three examples: conserving the West Antarctic ice sheet by limiting rates of ice discharge or increasing snow accumulation, thereby reducing global sea level rise; transforming the Arctic permafrost zone into steppe grassland; raising the albedo of Arctic sea ice. There are important differences betwe…
Between mutuality, autonomy and domination
This Special Issue advances a new understanding of digital platforms as dynamic and relational. An archetypal transaction platform, we argue, is comprised of three canonical social relationships which exist in tension with each other. The first is mutuality-the practices of sharing and reciprocity which animated the early days of the 'sharing economy'. The second is autonomy-representing the desire for freedom and independence attracting many ear…
Künstliche Intelligenz am Arbeitsplatz
In der aktuellen Debatte um Künstliche Intelligenz (KI) wird oft ein radikaler Wandel der Arbeitswelt erwartet, der auch die Arbeitsqualität betrifft. Dabei stehen bisher vielen weitreichenden Annahmen sehr wenige empirische Fakten gegenüber. Zudem wird oftmals nicht berücksichtigt, dass die KI-Nutzung am Arbeitsplatz bestimmte digitale Arbeitsmittel voraussetzt, die wiederum selbst Kernaspekte der Arbeitsqualität, wie Autonomie, mitbeeinflussen …
Data on Digital Transformation in the German Socio-Economic Panel
Public debates and current research on “digitalization” suggest that digital technologies could profoundly transform the world of work. While broad claims are common in these debates, empirical evidence remains scarce. This calls for reliable data for empirical research and evidence-based policymaking. We implemented a data module in the Socio-Economic Panel to gather information on digitalization in three domains: artificial intelligence (AI), p…
Climate Change and Underwater Cultural Heritage. Utilizing international law to empower communities to protect their coastal sacred sites and sea-level rise
Sacred sites in the Arctic are under threat from a number of external factors. In addition to land uses such as mining, climate change poses a major threat. Already today, climate change is leading to the melting of permafrost, coastal erosion and sea-level rise. While parts of the European Arctic continue to experience post-glacial land uplift, coastal communities across most of the Arctic will have to consider the impacts of sea-level rise on t…
Who is leading the digital transformation? Understanding the adoption of digital technologies in Germany
Debates on digitalisation in Germany often refer to ‘Industrie 4.0’ describing a seamless and technology‐driven process spearheaded by manufacturing. This view conflicts with sociological arguments, assuming highly differentiated processes of digitalisation. We review the literature and empirically test the core assumption that digital technologies relate to organisational characteristics and that adoption differs according to the type of technol…
Moving Beyond Uber
Discussions on organizational models and work in the platform economy often center on Uber as a prominent example of a digital marketplace that relies on venture capital and gig labor from self-employed drivers. This focus on Uber underestimates the diversity of organizational models and work types that likely arise from struggles between firms seeking to dominate emerging fields. Our exploratory results coming out of the field of “shared mobilit…
Kommt jetzt die Plattformgesellschaft? Organisation in der digitalen Transformation und Impulse für eine Soziologie der Digitalisierung
Digitale Plattformen, wie Uber oder Airbnb, läuten das Ende der Organisationsgesellschaft ein, die von bürokratischen Großorganisationen geprägt war. Das behaupten zumindest aktuelle Thesen zur Plattformökonomie. Tatsächlich finden sich in der Debatte um Digitalisierung jedoch erstaunlich wenige konzeptionelle Anhaltspunkte, wie genau sich ein substanzieller Wandel ergibt. Diagnosen, wie „Plattformkapitalismus", „Plattformgesellschaft" oder „Plat…
The Organization of Digital Platforms
Digital platforms pervade contemporary societies, but sociology currently lacks a general concept for investigating them. Platforms combine technology and organizational elements in particular ways, but existing concepts consider these combinations in a one-sided manner: Business approaches focus on technological features solely in economic relationships, sociological approaches underestimate the relevance of technology for the multiple relations…
Varieties of platform capitalism? Competition, regime types and the diversity of food delivery platforms across Europe and North America
This article challenges the idea of platform capitalism, that digital platforms implement a uniform model based on a self-employed labor force. Expanding on empirical evidence of a diversity of platform models, we theorize expectations about platform diversity from competition and comparative capitalism research. Using a unique cross-national dataset of leading food delivery platforms in 32 countries across North America and Europe, we compare pl…
Selling out the city? Airbnb’s amateur and professional listings across cities, time, and hotspots
In the early days of its existence, Airbnb was heralded as a champion of the “sharing economy”, enabling amateur hosts to offer short-term lodging to a global community of guests. Since then, public debates and research have highlighted the rise of professional hosts as an indication for the commercialization of Airbnb. However, it is neither well understood how Airbnb listings developed across cities and time nor how they are distributed across …
Labour Governance of Platforms
Scholarly work on labour platforms has primarily examined labour governance in relation to the role of algorithmic management in labour control. This article instead argues that platform labour governance involves organising and structuring the broader market environment to ensure a continuous and adaptable labour supply. We showcase the processes of ‘market-making’ and ‘market-shaping’ to explain how labour platforms in food delivery and care se…
Political science (18 obras) · Digital Economy and Work Transformation (10 obras) · Business (8 obras) · Economics (8 obras) · Geography (7 obras) · Humanities (7 obras) · Innovation, Technology, and Society (7 obras) · Computer Science (6 obras) · Sharing Economy and Platforms (6 obras) · Engineering (5 obras)