Christof BRANDTNER

Assistant Professor

Ph.D. in Sociology

Innovation & Entrepreneurship

Research topics

1. Economic sociology

2. Organizational theory

3. Institutional change

4.Urban sociology

5. Nonprofit organizations

6. Social innovation

Prices and awards

SA Dissertation Award (Honorable Mention)
2020
Best dissertations in discipline, American Sociological Association
SER Best Paper Award
2019
Best paper published in the Socio-Economic Review
Barbara & Sandy Dornbusch Award
2019
For a Contribution to the Understanding or Solution of a Social Problem, Department of Sociology, Stanford University

Publications

Associations

  • European Group of Organization Studies
  • Academy of Management (OMT)
  • American Sociological Association
  • Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics
  • ARNOVA

Communications & Seminars

  • Regular presenter at Annual Meetings of EGOS, AOM, ASA, and SASE
  • Co-organizer, Emerging Scholars Workshop for Research on Nonprofit Organizations, University of Chicago (2020)
  • Co-convenor, Sub-themeCities as Sites and Drivers of Organizational Action, EGOS Colloquium (2019)
  • Facilitator, Summer Institute for Organizational Effectiveness, Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) (2017)