PD Dr. Angela Graf

PD Dr. Angela Graf is a Research Coordinator and Research Project Leader at the bidt. Since 2023 she has been coordinating the bidt research area Economy and Labour. Since 2020 she has been leading the research project Digital Transformation of engineering companies – a question of identity. Moreover, she serves as a senior lecturer (Privatdozent) at the TUM School of Social Sciences and Technology at the Technical University of Munich since 2020. She studied sociology, law, and business administration and holds a Ph.D. in sociology (2014, Thesis: The German Scientific Elite) She then worked as a post-doc at the Munich Centre for Technology in Society (MCTS) and at the Chair of Sociology of Science at the Technical University of Munich. 2020 she reached her habilitation in sociology (research topic: power relations in transition – dynamics of transformation in German academia). Her main research focus is on transformation processes, digitalization, organizational studies, power relations, technical professions and social inequality in economics and academia.

Selected Publications:

• Graf, Angela (forthcoming). “Digital transformation is 20 percent about technological issues and 80 percent about social issues” – Negotiating social sustainability in the course of organizations` digital transformation. In: Jebsen, Simon/Lueg Klarissa (Eds.): Organizations and Social Sustainability at Work. New York: Routledge
• Graf, Angela et al. (2023). “Investigating the Impact of Digital Transformation on Organizational Identity in an SME: Insights from an In-Depth Case Study” (2023). AMCIS 2023 Proceedings. 9. https://aisel.aisnet.org/amcis2023/sig_dite/sig_dite/9
• Graf, Angela et al. (2023). Exploring Digital Transformation’s Impact on Organizational Identity with an Archetype Framework. Proceedings of the 56th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, pp. 4224–4233.
• Graf, A. et al. (2023). Future Mobility – Digital Transformation of Automotive Companies as a Question of Organizational Identity. In: Lytras, M.D./Housawi, A.A./ Alsaywid, B.S. (Eds.): Smart Cities and Digital Transformation: Empowering Communities, Limitless Innovation, Sustainable Development and the Next Generation, Emerald, pp. 129-158.
• Graf, Angela/Müller, Lea/Hess, Thomas (2022). Digitale Transformation als Identitätsfrage: Zum Zusammenhang zwischen organisationaler Identität und digitaler Transformation am Beispiel eines Maschinenbauunternehmens. AIS Studien, 15(2), pp. 44–61. https://www.arbsoz.de/ais-studien-leser/375-digitale-transformation-als-identitaetsfrage-zum
• Graf, Angela/Lueg, Klarissa/Boje, David (2022). A Danish Case Study of a Sociomaterial Construction of a New Nomos and Purpose of Higher Education. In: Higher Education (online first). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-022-00844-6
• Graf, Angela/Lueg, Klarissa (2022): The Organization of Higher Education. An Overview of Sociological Research into Universities as Organizations. In: Godwyn, Mary (Eds.): Research Handbook on the Sociology of Organizations. Northampton: Edgar Elgar Publishing, pp. 13-29.
• Graf, Angela (2020): Hochschulräte revisited. Eine empirische Analyse im Lichte der Governancereform und des Exzellenzwettbewerbs. In: Beiträge zur Hochschulforschung 42/3, pp. 100-121. https://www.bzh.bayern.de/fileadmin/user_upload/Publikationen/ Beitraege_zur_Hochschulforschung/2020/3_2020_Graf.pdf
• Graf, Angela/Lueg, Klarissa/Powell, Justin (2020): Hegemonic University Tales. Discussing Narrative Positioning within the Academic Field between Humboldtian and Managerial Governance. In: Lundholt, Marianne Wolff/Lueg, Klarissa (Hrsg.): Dimensions of Counter-Narratives. New York: Routledge, pp. 267–279.
• Graf, Angela/Keil, Maria/Ullrich, Peter (2020): Exit, Voice und Loyalty. (Un‑)Möglichkeiten kollektiven Widerspruchs im akademischen Mittelbau in Deutschland. In: Leviathan 48/2, pp. 293-317.
• Graf, Angela/Lueg, Klarissa (2019): Designing the Organizational Future: How German Universities Communicate Governance by means of Corporate Design. In: Communication & Language at Work 6/2, pp. 42-54. https://tidsskrift.dk/claw/article/view/116129
• Graf, Angela (2019): Kohäsion durch Kampf?! Überlegungen zur Bedeutung von Loyalität für Hochschulen. In: Zeitschrift für Diskursforschung 2019/1. Sonderheft „Diskurs, Feld, Subjektivierung. Empirische und theoretische Perspektiven“, pp. 94-112.
• Graf, Angela (2015): Die Wissenschaftselite Deutschlands. Sozialprofil und Werdegänge zwischen 1945 und 2013. Frankfurt a.M.: Campus.