2011 - Dr. rer. pol. - Titel of the dissertation: "Wer sind wir als Organisation?" (Grade: distinction/"summa cum laude"). 

Since 2009 - Project Coordinator of the MINO-Project (BMBF funded) in cooperation in with the project team at the IAB. 

Since 2006 - Researcher at the University of Hamburg at the Chair of Jürgen Beyer for Sociology, especially Economic and Organizational Sociology. 

2006 - Researcher at the Social Science Center Berlin (WZB) at the Research Unit Innovation and Organization (August - November). 

2005 - Graduation from University of Kent with Master of Arts in Sociology (with Merit). 

2003 - Studies in Sociology in the MA Program at the University of Kent. 2002 - Graduation with "Vordiplom" (intermediate diploma) at the Technical University Dresden. 

1999 - Studies in Sociology, Economics and Psychology at the Technical University Dresden. 

sociological theory, organizational theory and empirical organization research, innovation research, market sociology, political economy, employment market sociology, research on employment conditions

Kirchner, S. (im Erscheinen) "Wer sind wir als Organisation?" Campus Verlag: Frankfurt an Main. Reihe: Campus Forschung.

Kirchner, S. (2010) Maintaining the Organizational Core: Organizational Identity Dynamics as a Question of Path Dependence and Identity Work. In: Diskussionspapiere des Schwerpunktes Unternehmensführung am Fachbereich BWL der Universität Hamburg. Nr. 07/2010.

Beyer, J.; Eckert, F.; Evers, K.; Kirchner, S.; Ludwig, U. (2010): Projekt MINO: Matching von Innovationsfähigkeit und nachhaltigen Organisationsmodellen. In: Möslein, K.; Trinczek, R., Bullinger, A.; Danzinger, F.; Lücking, S. (Hrsg.): BALANCE Konferenzband. Flexibel, stabil und innovativ: Arbeit im 21. Jahrhundert, Göttingen. 435-444.

Kirchner, Stefan (2010) Organizational Identities and Institutions: Dynamics of the Organizational Core as a Question of Path Dependence. In: MPIfG Working Paper 10/4. Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne. [Download]

Kirchner, Stefan (2008) Pfadabhängigkeit als Mehrebenenphänomen: Grundlagen und Erweiterungen des Pfadabhängigkeitsansatzes. In: Hamburg Review of Social Sciences 3 (3): 317-343. [Download]

Kirchner, Stefan/ Maria Oppen/ Lutz Bellmann (2008) Zur gesellschaftlichen Einbettung von Organisationswandel: Einführungsdynamik dezentraler Organisationsstrukturen. IAB Discussion Paper 37/2008. Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung. [Download]

Kirchner, Stefan/ Maria Oppen (2007) Das Ende der Reorganisationsdynamik? High Performance Work Practices als Muster der Reorganisation in Deutschland (50 S.) Discussion Paper SP III 2007-103. Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung. [Download]

Reviewer for Technological Forecasting and Social Change;Wissenschaftliche Kommission Organisation (WK ORG) des Verband der Hochschullehrer für Betriebswirtschaft e.V. (VHB); Industrielle Beziehungen: Zeitschrift für Arbeit, Organisation und Management; Hamburg Review of Social Sciences (HRSS)-

2009 - Visiting Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne (MPIfG) (March - April). 

Since 2008 - Visiting Researcher status at the Institute for Employment Research (IAB) at the Research Department D1: Establishments and Employment (regular research stays). 

2007 - Visiting Researcher at the Social Science Center Berlin at the research unit Organization and Innovation (July - October). 

Since 2006 - Instructor for a Boston University (BU) course "The Social Nature of Technology" - within the "BU Dresden Engineering and Science Program" (annually February - March; together with Prof. Dr. Jost Halfmann). (course language English) 

2011 - 106th ASA Annual Meeting, Las Vegas: Economic Sociology Section: "The German model going through crisis? SMEs, Institutional Change and the Economic Crisis 2008/09."

2011 - 27th EGOS Colloquium, Gothenburg. Sub-theme 46: Organizing Work and Labor Markets: "German model(s) of organizing employment and flexibility?"

2011 - 27th EGOS Colloquium, Gothenburg. Sub-theme 36 - Creative Selves: Organizing Work in Knowledge Capitalism: "Matching creativity, life-scripts and organizational models in knowledge capitalism: Sectoral differences" (with Ute Ludwig and Falk Eckert).

2011 - SASE 23rd Annual Conference. Madrid: "Work Value Types: International comparison and historical developments" (with Sven Hauff).

2011 - 2nd Path Conference FU-Pfadkolleg: "Maintaining the Organizational Core: Organizational Identity Dynamics as a Question of Path Dependence and Identity Work".

2011 - Session at the SASE 23rd Annual Conference. Madrid:  "Discussing Comparative Capitalism: Innovation, Work Flexibility, and the Role of SMEs and MNCs" Participants among others: Raimund Hasse, Valeria Pulignano. (Session-organizer).

2011 - DGS-Sektionstagung Arbeits- und Industriesoziologie, München: "Krise? Welche Krise? Umfrage- und Fallstudienergebnisse aus Maschinenbau- und IT-Betrieben".

2011 - Presentation to the Soziologie Kolloquium (Prof. Raimund Hasse) Uni Luzern: "Wer sind wir als Organisation?".

2011 - Tagung der AG Organisationssoziologie "Organisationen im Chaos", Potsdam: "Organisationsidentität: Reflex permanenten Wandels oder Ruhepol Auf stabilen Pfaden?".

2011 - BMBF-Fokusgruppentreffen Work-Life-Balance in Trier. "Das MINO-Projekt."

2010 - SASE 23rd Annual Conference. Philadelphia. "Varieties of Innovative Capabilities: Searching for Variety within the German Institutional Framework".

2010 - 2nd International Symposium on Process Organization Studies (PROS) (Theme: Constructing Identity in and around Organizations). Rhodos: "Maintaining the Organizational Core: Organizational Identity Dynamics as a Question of Path Dependence and Identity Work."

2010 - Methodenworkshop auf der BALANCE Konferenz des BMBF-Förderschwerpunktes Flexibilität und Stabilität in einer sich wandelnden Arbeitswelt. Thema: "Verbindung von qualitative und qualitative Methoden" (Organisation und Leitung).

2010 - 1. MINO-Workshop für Qualitative Methoden, Hamburg (Teilnehmer).

2010 - 1. MINO Symposium. IAB Nürnberg (Mitveranstalter, Referent).

2010 - Methoden-Workshop für telefonische Befragungen (CATI). 

Uni Jena.2010 - PhD-Proposal-Workshop with Paul David and Georg Schreyögg. Pfadkolleg FU-Berlin.

2009 - FU Berlin, Pfadkolleg - International Summer School: On the logic of Self-reinforcing Processes in Organizations, Networks, and Markets: "Organizational Identities and Institutions." 

2009 - Institute for Employment Research (IAB): "Innovation and the German Model. Shifts and Path Dependence of Organizational Configurations of Flexibility." 

2009 - Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne: "Organizational Identities and Institutions: The Influence of Multilevel Path Dependence on Organizational Change and Stability." 

2008 - 4th Workshop Institutional Theory in Bergamo: "The Social Embeddedness of Organisational Change." 

2006 - ESEMK Symposium at Bristol: "Forms of Work Organisation in Germany and in Europe."

2006 - Institute for Employment Research (IAB): "What does High Performance Mean in Germany? Value and Potential of a Concept about New Forms Work Organization".