Prof. Dr. Christina Teipen

Projects:

Prof. Dr. Christina Teipen leads – together with Eckhard Hein and Stefanie Lorenzen – Cluster B within the project, focusing on “The relationship of value chain reconfiguration with interdependent growth regimes and effects on economic and social resilience”. She is a Professor of Social Sciences with a focus on economic sociology at the HWR Berlin since April 2011. Prior to her current position, she conducted research at various universities and research institutes, most recently at the Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB).

Research Areas:

  • Global value chains, value chain restructuring,
  • The sociology of work, industrial relations,
  • Varieties of capitalism,
  • The automotive, IT and textile industries
  • Cross-national comparisons in emerging and advanced economies

Publications:

Helena Gräf, Christina Teipen (2023): Die Covid-19-Pandemie in der deutschen Automobil- und IT-Dienstleistungsindustrie. Auswirkungen auf Beschäftigung, Arbeitsbeziehungen und die Restrukturierung der Wertschöpfungskette. In:  Arbeits- und Industriesoziologische Studien 16 (2): 43–57.

Teipen, C., Jha, P., & De Conti, B. (2023): Dynamics in the automotive industry in Germany, Brazil and India – changes triggered by the Covid-19-pandemic, European Journal of Economics and Economic Policies. https://doi.org/10.4337/ejeep.2023.0118

Herr, Hansjörg/Teipen, Christina/Gräf, Helena (2023): Corona und das globale Machtgefälle in Lieferketten am Beispiel der Automobilindustrie, in: Thomas Haipeter, Markus Helfen, Anja Kirsch, Sophie Rosenbohm (eds.): Soziale Standards in globalen Lieferketten, transcript Verlag, Bielefeld. https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-6770-7/soziale-standards-in-globalen-lieferketten/

Teipen, Christina/Dünhaupt, Petra/Herr, Hansjörg/Mehl, Fabian (2022): Economic and Social Upgrading in Global Value Chains. Comparative Analyses, Macroeconomic Effects, the Role of Institutions and Strategies for the Global South. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan (ISBN 978-3-030-87319-6 [Print], 978-3-030-87320-2 [ePDF]). https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-87320-2 

Teipen, C.,Mehl, F. (2021): Global Value Chains and Industrial Relations in the Global South: Social Upgrading Paths in Different Industries, Journal of Labour and Society, 24, 214-236, https://brill.com/view/journals/jlso/24/1/article-p214_214.xml.

Herr, H./Teipen, C./Dünhaupt, P./Mehl, F. (2021): Ökonomisches und soziales Upgrading in globalen Wertschöpfungsketten, in: WSI-Mitteilungen 74 (1), S. 2.

Teipen, C./Mehl, F. (2021): Soziales Upgrading und industrielle Beziehungen im Globalen Süden, in: WSI-Mitteilungen 74 (1), S. 12-19.

Herr, H.; Teipen, C.; Dünhaupt, P. and Mehl, F. (2020): Wirtschaftliche Entwicklung und Arbeitsbedingungen in globalen Wertschöpfungsketten. In: Düsseldorf: Hans-Böckler-Stiftung, Working Paper Forschungsförderung No. 175, ISSN 2509-2359, S. 1-74.

Dünhaupt, P.; Herr, H.; Mehl, F. and Teipen, C. (2020): Opportunities for Development through Integration in Global Value Chains? Berlin: IPE Working Paper, No. 140/2020, ISSN 1869-6406, S. 1-24.

Dünhaupt, P.; Herr, H.; Mehl, F. and Teipen, C. (2019): Entwicklungschancen durch Integration in globale Wertschöpfungsketten: ein Länder- und Branchenvergleich. In: WSI Mitteilungen 72 (6), S. 403 – 411.

Teipen Christina (2019): Globale Wertschöpfungsketten und nationale Institutionen: Eine wirtschaftssoziologische Analyse zu Entwicklern digitaler Spielesoftware in Deutschland, Schweden und Polen. Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlag.

Teipen, Christina (2017): Macro-Meso- and Micro-Level Determinants of Employment Relations in the Video Games Industry. In: Briken, Kendra and others (ed.): The New Digital Workplace. How New Technologies Revolutionize Work. Houndsmills, Basingstoke: Macmillan, 218-237.

Christina Teipen (2015): The Implications of the Value Chain and Financial Institutions for Work and Employment: Insights from the Video Game Industry in Poland, Sweden, and Germany. In: British Journal of Industrial Relations, DOI 10.1111 / bjir.12144.

Recent Research Projects

  • Global Value Chains (GVCs) – Economic and Social Upgrading (Hans-Böckler-Foundation, 12/2017 – 02/2023)
  • Global Value Chains in Germany, India and Brazil after COVID-19 – Beginning of a New Type of Globalization? (VW Foundation, 2021-2022)
  • Varieties of COVID-19 Reactions and Changing Modes of Globalization in the Global South (DFG, 2022-2023)

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