New Working Paper: Competitive Performativity of (Academic) Social Networks

“Competitive Performativity of (Academic)Social Networks: The subjectivation of Competition on ResearchGate, Google Scholar and Twitter” by Pühringer and Wolfmayr In this paper, SPACE researchers and project leaders Stephan Pühringer and Georg Wolfmayr, develop a better understanding of the explicit and implicit implications of the academic field’s competitization, with a specific focus on the role that […]

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New Working Paper: The three faces of competitization

“The three faces of competitization:From marketization to a multiplicity ofcompetition” by Altreiter, Gräbner-Radkowitsch, Pühringer, Rogojanu and Wolfmayr In this paper, SPACE researchers and project leaders Carina Altreiter, Claudius Gräbner-Radkowitsch, Stephan Pühringer, Ana Rogojanu, Georg Wolfmayr, contribute to the evolving field of competition research. More precisely our paper provides a comprehensive typology of the different ways […]

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Workshop “”Value and valuation: Foundations and interdisciplinary perspectives””

26-27 September 2023 | Berlin, Germany Workshop Theme: “Value and valuation: Foundations and interdisciplinary perspectives” Workshop organization: Michaela Haase, Freie Universität Berlin, Marketing-Department, michaela.haase@fu-berlin.de ‘Value’ and ‘valuation’ are crucial concepts for the understanding of major approaches and theory developments in many social-scientific disciplines and research areas. Academic interest in these concepts, however, is not symmetrically distributed; theories […]

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SPACE in the media: Post-growth and capitalism: a contradiction?

SPACE Researchers Stephan Pühringer and Carina Altreiter comment on the situation of critical transformative knowledge production in capitalist societies The Blog Post-Growth develop visions and design ideas for a post-growth society: a sustainable society that is not dependent on economic growth and in which it is possible to live well. Several guest authors contribute to […]

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Workshop “Value and Valuation: Challenges in political economy analysis”

SPACE researcher Stephan Pühringer is organizing an interdisciplinary workshop on “Value and Valuation: Challenges in political economy analysis” together with Luísa Veloso (Iscte/CIES, University Institute of Lisbon), Alexandre Silva (Iscte/CIES, University Institute of Lisbon), Jens Maesse (University of Giessen), Thierry Rossier (University of Fribourg and London School of Economics). The Workshop is taking place form […]

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