Christof BRANDTNER
Associate Professor
Research topics
1. Economic sociology
2. Organizational theory
3. Institutional change
4.Urban sociology
5. Nonprofit organizations
6. Social innovation
Prizes and awards
Publications
Gonzalez, Ana, Brandtner, Christof. 2024. Green in their own way: Pragmatic and progressive means for cities to overcome institutional barriers to sustainability. Urban Studies, 61 (13) : 2513-2530 p.
Brandtner, Christof, Powell, Walter W., Horvath, Aaron. 2024. From Iron Cage to Glass House: Repurposing of bureaucratic management and the turn to openness. Organization Studies, 45 (2) : 193-221 p.
Romero-Lankao, Patricia, Rosner, Nicole, Brandtner, Christof, Rea, Christopher, Mejia-Montero, Adolfo, Pilo, Francesca, Dokshin, Fedor, Castan-Broto, Vanesa, Burch, Sarah, Schnur, Scott. 2023. A framework to centre justice in energy transition innovations. Nature Energy, 8 (11) : 1192-1198 p.
Brandtner, Christof, Douglas, Gordon, Kornberger, Martin. 2023. Where Relational Commons Take Place: The City and its Social Infrastructure as Sites of Commoning. Journal of Business Ethics, 184 (4) : 917-932 p.
Brandtner, Christof. 2022. Green American City: Civic Capacity and the Distributed Adoption of Urban Innovations. American Journal of Sociology, 128 (3) : 627-679 p.
Brandtner, Christof, Bromley, Patricia. 2022. Neoliberal governance, evaluations, and the rise of win–win ideology in corporate responsibility discourse, 1960–2010. Socio-Economic Review, 20 (4) : 1933-1960
Brandtner, Christof, Powell, Walter W. 2022. Capturing the Civic Lives of Cities: An Organizational, Place-Based Perspective on Civil Society in Global Cities. Global Perspectives, 3 (1) : 13 p.
Brandtner, Christof. 2021. Decoupling Under Scrutiny: Consistency of Managerial Talk and Action in the Age of Nonprofit Accountability. Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 50 (5) : 1053-1078 p.
Brandtner, Christof, Bettencourt, Luis M. A., Berman, Marc G., Stier, Andrew J. 2021. Creatures of the state?: Metropolitan counties compensated for state inaction in initial U.S. response to COVID-19 pandemic. Plos One, 16 (2) : 20 p.
Brandtner, Christof, Suárez, David. 2021. The Structure of City Action: Institutional Embeddedness and Sustainability Practices in U.S. Cities. American Review of Public Administration, 51 (2) : 121-138 p.
Brandtner, Christof, Lunn, Anna, Young, Cristobal. 2019. Spatial mismatch and youth unemployment in US cities: public transportation as a labor market institution. Socio-Economic Review, 17 (2) : 357–379 p.
Horvath, Aaron, Brandtner, Christof, Powell, Walter W. 2018. Serve or Conserve: Mission, Strategy, and Multi-Level Nonprofit Change During the Great Recession. Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations, 29 (5) : 976–993 p.
Brandtner, Christof. 2017. Putting the World in Orders: Plurality in Organizational Evaluation. Sociological Theory, 35 (3) : 200-227 p.
Brandtner, Christof, Höllerer, Markus A., Meyer, Renate E., Kornberger, Martin. 2017. Enacting governance through strategy: A comparative study of governance configurations in Sydney and Vienna. Urban Studies, 54 (5) : 1075-1091 p.
Kornberger, Martin, Meyer, Renate E., Brandtner, Christof, Höllerer, Markus A. 2017. When Bureaucracy Meets the Crowd: Studying “Open Government” in the Vienna City Administration. Organization Studies, 38 (2) : 179-200 p.
Powell, Walter W., Horvath, Aaron, Brandtner, Christof. 2016. Click and mortar: Organizations on the web. Research in Organizational Behavior, 36 : 101-120 p.
Academic articles
Laryea, Krystal, Brandtner, Christof. 2024. Organizations as Drivers of Social and Systemic Integration: Contradiction and Reconciliation Through Loose Demographic Coupling and Community Anchoring. In Clegg, Stewart, Grothe-Hammer, Michael, Serrano Velarde, Kathia, Sociological Thinking in Contemporary Organizational Scholarship. Leeds : Emerald, 177-200 p.
Brandtner, Christof, Dunning, Claire. 2020. Nonprofits as urban infrastructure. In Powell, Walter W., Bromley, Patricia, The Nonprofit Sector: A Research Handbook, Third Edition. Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, 271-291 p.
Powell, Walter W., Brandtner, Christof. 2016. Organizations as Sites and Drivers of Social Action. In Abrutyn, Seth, Handbook on Contemporary Sociological Theory. Springer, 269-291 p.
Book chapters
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)