@phdthesis{Remuss2018,
  author    = {Remuß, Nina-Louisa},
  title     = {Theorising Institutional Change},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam},
  pages     = {231},
  year      = {2018},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{Copercini2017,
  author    = {Copercini, Marco},
  title     = {Produktionsnetzwerke und kreatives Feld des Modedesigns},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam},
  pages     = {211},
  year      = {2017},
  language  = {de}
}
@phdthesis{Reiher2019,
  author    = {Reiher, Martin},
  title     = {Parlamentarier als Beruf},
  publisher = {Nomos},
  address   = {Baden-Baden},
  pages     = {402},
  year      = {2019},
  abstract  = {Die politische Professionalisierung hat innerhalb der institutionellen Rahmenbedingungen zur Sozialfigur des Berufspolitikers gef{\"u}hrt. Diese Entwicklung wird im theoretischen Teil der Arbeit hergeleitet und im empirischen Teil mit umfangreichen Daten belegt. Bemerkenswert ist, dass es dabei nicht zu erheblichen Ver{\"a}nderungen in den Rekrutierungsmustern und Karriereverl{\"a}ufen der Abgeordneten gekommen ist. Vielmehr erweisen sich die von Dietrich Herzog herausgearbeiteten Karrieretypen auch heute noch als g{\"u}ltig und mussten nur moderat angepasst werden. Es zeigt sich damit eine erstaunliche Kontinuit{\"a}t in der politischen Elitenbildung. Die in Deutschland sehr gefestigten institutionellen Rahmenbedingungen, die den Zugang und die Attraktivit{\"a}t politischer Karrieren determinieren, haben offensichtlich auch zu einer Stabilisierung der Karrieretypen gef{\"u}hrt.},
  language  = {de}
}
@phdthesis{Wenzel2017,
  author    = {Wenzel, Bertolt},
  title     = {The organization of coordination in marine governance},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam},
  year      = {2017},
  abstract  = {Over the past decade, an increasing number of public organizations involved in fisheries and marine environmental management in Europe have changed their formal coordination structures. Similar reorganizations of formal coordination structures can be observed for organizations at different administrative levels of governance with different mandates across the policy cycle. Against the backdrop of this phenomenon, this PhD thesis is interested in exploring how these similar organizational reforms can be explained and why the formal coordination structures for fisheries and marine environmental management have been reorganized in the cases of the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES), the Directorate-General for Fisheries and Maritime Affairs of the European Commission (DG FISH), the Norwegian Institute of Marine Research (IMR) and the Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management (SwAM). Accordingly, the objective is to shed light on how public organizations actually "behave" or "tick" in the face of increasingly complex coordination challenges in fisheries and marine environmental management. To address these questions, the thesis draws on different theoretical perspectives in organization theory, namely an instrumental and an institutional perspective. These theoretical perspectives provide different explanations for how organizations deal with issues of formal organizational structure and coordination. In order to evaluate the explanatory relevance of these theoretical perspectives in the cases of ICES, DG FISH, the IMR and the SwAM, a case study approach based on congruence analysis is applied. The case studies are based on document analysis, the analysis of organizational charts and their change over time, as well as expert interviews. The aim of the thesis is to contribute to the coordination debate in the marine policy and governance literature from a hitherto omitted public administration and organization theory perspective, as well as explaining coordination efforts at the organizational level with an organization theory approach. The findings indicate that the formal coordination structures of the organizations studied have not only changed to solve coordination problems in fisheries and marine environmental management efficiently and effectively, but also to follow modern management paradigms in marine governance and to ensure the legitimacy of these organizations. Moreover, it was found that in the cases of ICES, DG FISH, the IMR and the SwAM, the organizational changes were strongly influenced by external pressures and interactions with other organizations in the organizational field of fisheries and marine environmental management in Europe. Driven by forces of isomorphism, a gradual convergence of the formal horizontal coordination structures for fisheries and marine environmental management of the organizations studied can be observed. However, the findings also indicate that although the organizational changes observed may convey a reaction to changing environments, they do not necessarily reflect actual policy change and the implementation of new management concepts.},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{Dietrich2012,
  author    = {Dietrich, Irina},
  title     = {{\"O}ffentliche Unternehmen in Deutschland : eine Analyse von Mikrodaten der amtlichen Statistik},
  publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam},
  address   = {Potsdam},
  isbn      = {978-3-86956-182-0},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-59199},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam},
  pages     = {XIV, 266},
  year      = {2012},
  abstract  = {Die vorliegende Arbeit enth{\"a}lt eine statistische Analyse der Gesamtheit {\"o}ffentlicher Unternehmen in Deutschland und ihrer wirtschaftlichen Lage. F{\"u}r diese Untersuchung stand eine Datenbank f{\"u}r etwa 9000 {\"o}ffentliche Unternehmen mit knapp 500 Merkmalen zur Verf{\"u}gung, die im Wesentlichen den Posten der Jahresabschl{\"u}sse und verschiedenen Identifikationsmerkmalen (wie u. a. Unternehmenssitz, Wirtschaftszweig und Rechtsform) entsprechen. Die Analyse umfasst den Zeitraum von 1998 bis 2006. Die extrem umfangreiche Datengrundlage - Jahresabschlussstatistiken {\"o}ffentlicher Unternehmen - ist f{\"u}r einen Statistiker eine große Versuchung. In der Arbeit wurden Methoden der beschreibenden Statistik und der Jahresabschlussanalyse mit Bilanzkennzahlen angewandt. Vor allem in den letzten zwanzig Jahren wurde die Entwicklung der Gesamtheit {\"o}ffentlicher Unternehmen durch Wandelprozesse gepr{\"a}gt und von Diskussionen {\"u}ber ihre Leistungsf{\"a}higkeit begleitet. Die Dynamik der Gesamtheit {\"o}ffentlicher Unternehmen zeigt sich v. a. an der Vielfalt ihrer Aufgabenbereiche und Organisationsformen. Daher wurde in dieser Arbeit versucht, zun{\"a}chst eine Bestandsaufnahme des {\"o}ffentlichen Unternehmensbereichs durchzuf{\"u}hren. Ein weiteres Ziel war die Beschreibung der Wirtschaftslage {\"o}ffentlicher Unternehmen im letzten Jahrzehnt, wobei ihre Leistungsf{\"a}higkeit in den Vordergrund gestellt wird. Die Leistungsf{\"a}higkeit {\"o}ffentlicher Unternehmen nur {\"u}ber die betriebswirtschaftliche Effizienz zu messen, ist gewiss einseitig und nicht ausreichend. Diese ließ sich aber im Vergleich zur volkswirtschaftlichen oder sozialen Effizienz leichter operationalisieren: Die betriebswirtschaftlichen Effizienzkriterien k{\"o}nnen gut aus den Jahresabschl{\"u}ssen abgeleitet werden. Dadurch wird auch ein Vergleich mit privaten Unternehmen in gewissen Grenzen m{\"o}glich. Die Beschreibung der Wirtschaftslage {\"o}ffentlicher Unternehmen wurde als Analyse ihrer einzelnen Teillagen (Verm{\"o}gens-, Finanz- und Ertragslage) strukturiert. Insgesamt unterstreicht die Analyse der Teillagen die enge Verflechtung zwischen {\"o}ffentlichen Unternehmen und {\"o}ffentlichen Haushalten. Die vorliegende Untersuchung soll die Forschung auf dem Gebiet der datengetriebenen Statistik, die im Universit{\"a}tsbereich in letzten Jahren im Vergleich zur modellgetriebenen Statistik oft vernachl{\"a}ssigt wurde, ausweiten.},
  language  = {de}
}
@phdthesis{Heucher2018,
  author    = {Heucher, Angela},
  title     = {Through IOs' Eyes},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam},
  pages     = {323},
  year      = {2018},
  abstract  = {Is global governance characterized by overlap and fragmentation, or by coordination and harmonization? There are two rather different narratives about the worlds in which international organizations (IOs) live. One way or another, IOs are part of a broader environment and engage in relations with other actors in it. Rather than being detached from their environment, IOs are shaped by and respond to developments taking place within it (e.g., overlap). Thus, the general research interest of this dissertation lies in organizational responses to such environmental developments. Therein, the emphasis is placed on IO positionality, meaning the position of an IO within a "web" of interorganizational relations, or, more precisely, an IO's position within an organizational field as a specification of the IO environment. Against this background, the dissertation poses the following research question: How does an IO's position within an organizational field shape its responses to developments of the field? In that, three subquestions are advanced: Which position does an IO occupy within the organizational field? How does an IO perceive the organizational field? How does an IO respond to developments and features of the field? Theoretically, the dissertation combines an open system perspective on IOs with two variants of field theory inspired by Bourdieu and by DiMaggio and Powell. Building on the central concept of the organizational field, the dissertation understands IOs as actors with agency. Empirically, the dissertation consists of a qualitative, comparative study and analyzes two IOs located within the organizational field of global food security governance. I select IOs that occupy different positions within the field of food security governance, namely an IO at the core of the field (the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, or FAO) and an IO at the periphery of the field (the United Nations Industrial Development Organization, or UNIDO). I compare and analyze their respective perceptions of the field of food security governance, including their own role and their understandings of food security, and their responses over time. To investigate these IOs' perceptions and responses over time, the method of choice consists of a qualitative content analysis of a wide range of organizational documents (e.g., governing bodies' reports). The main argument this dissertation advances is as follows: The position that an IO occupies within an organizational field influences how the organization perceives its environment—in particular, features of and developments within this environment. Against this background, the main findings of this dissertation are as follows: Overall, FAO and UNIDO both perceive proliferation, overlap, and duplication as relevant developments of the organizational field of global food security governance over time. While both IOs see developments in the field of food security governance (e.g., overlap and duplication) as problematic given their detrimental effects for food security governance, FAO and UNIDO differ in decisive regards. Whereas FAO holds a narrative that other actors were responsible for this state of affairs, and thus responsible for reducing or even eliminating overlap and duplication, UNIDO perceives these developments differently. UNIDO acknowledges its own role in the development of overlap and duplication, and therefore also sees a role for itself in addressing these developments. The two IOs thus differ in what they understand to be the causes and historical priors of field-specific developments. Furthermore, while both FAO and UNIDO attempt to demonstrate that they are constructive players within the UN development system, the two IOs differ in their responses: While FAO engages in balancing by voicing its commitment to UN processes and to coordination, yet early on making different reservations, UNIDO, in contrast, engages in UN processes without similar reservations. Accordingly, the two IOs also differ on the responses they employ to field-level harmonization demands. The dissertation makes several contributions. Theoretically, I contribute an innovative argument on the influence of perceptions for organizational responses to developments in the IOs' environment. This argument may help us to better understand how IOs as actors embedded within an organizational field deal with changes evolving within these fields. Empirically, I scrutinize developments in food security governance, such as proliferation and overlap, through the eyes of IOs in the field. While proliferation, overlap, and duplication are often referred to in academic debates on food security governance, we do not yet actually understand these phenomena very well. To this, I contribute a study that analyzes IO perceptions of these developments in the field, thus resulting in a more in-depth and nuanced picture of how IOs perceive these developments as a central type of actor in food security governance. Next, to this emphasis on the IO perspective, I also inductively develop a spectrum of IO responses to field developments, ranging from expanding scope to defending turf. Finally, I also make a methodological-conceptual contribution: While concepts such as "position" are well-known, they are sometimes drawn on without developing a clear foundation of how to assess different positions. I thus add an approach for bringing this concept of position to life by developing a range of criteria that can be used to approximate an IO's position within an organizational field, depending on different types of capital.},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{Dahlsten2014,
  author    = {Dahlsten, Ulf},
  title     = {World market governance},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-70168},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam},
  year      = {2014},
  abstract  = {Democratic capitalism or liberal democracy, as the successful marriage of convenience between market liberalism and democracy sometimes is called, is in trouble. The market economy system has become global and there is a growing mismatch with the territoriality of the nation-states. The functional global networks and inter-governmental order can no longer keep pace with the rapid development of the global market economy and regulatory capture is all too common. Concepts like de-globalization, self-regulation, and global government are floated in the debate. The alternatives are analysed and found to be improper, inadequate or plainly impossible. The proposed route is instead to accept that the global market economy has developed into an independent fundamental societal system that needs its own governance. The suggestion is World Market Governance based on the Rule of Law in order to shape the fitness environment for the global market economy and strengthen the nation-states so that they can regain the sovereignty to decide upon the social and cultural conditions in each country. Elements in the proposed Rule of Law are international legislation decided by an Assembly supported by a Council, and an independent Judiciary. Existing international organisations would function as executors. The need for broad sustained demand for regulations in the common interest is identified.},
  language  = {en}
}