Coordinated Programmes (DFG funded)

Researchers of the faculty are members of the interdisciplinary research units "Bedarfsgerechtigkeit und Verteilungsprozeduren (demand-based justice and distribution procedures)", "Media and Participation" and "Multiple Competition in the Higher Education System: Actor Constitution, Coordination of Action, and Consequences".

The graduate program “Collective Decision-Making” is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and started in October of 2020. It is an interdisciplinary program that brings together researchers from economics, philosophy and political science to investigate new questions relating to election procedures, complex deliberative and multilevel decision-making procedures, and the formation of institutions. Up to 19 doctoral researchers and 13 professors from the Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences and the Department of Philosophy will be involved in the program. Their aim is to link theoretical and empirical research on collective decision-making. The Spokesperson of the graduate program is Prof. Anke Gerber (Department of Economics). Further information can be found here.

The research training group “Urban Future-Making: Professional agency across time and scale”, which exists in cooperation with HafenCity University (HCU) and Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH), has been funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) since 2022. It is dedicated to questions concerning the shaping of urban space in the face of currently pressing challenges such as population growth, climate change and resource scarcity. These are particularly evident in cities and have been exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic. The focus is specifically on individual groups of actors in order to find out to what extent people from administration, planning and science - the so-called “urban future-makers” - are able to equip urban developments for these challenges.

Involved in this cooperation are researchers from the departments of urban planning and civil engineering of the HCU as well as the department of transportation planning of the TUHH. Participating professorships of the WISO-Faculty of the University of Hamburg are Prof. Dr. Katharina Manderscheid (Co-Spokesperson of the research training group) and jun.-Prof. Dr. Franziska Müller. Further information can be found here.

The Hamburg Center for Health Economics is home to the DFG-funded research training group "Managerial and economic dimensions of health care quality" with WISO participation. It offers a structured doctoral program in the field of health economics. Within this framework, doctoral students from the fields of business administration, economics, health economics or closely related fields research cause-and-effect relationships in order to enable the management of quality in the healthcare system. The research work is based in particular on the evaluation of new data sets.

Participating professorships of the WISO-Faculty are Prof. Dr. Iris Kesternich, Prof. Dr. Mathias Kifmann and jun.-Prof. Dr. Johanna Kokot. Further information can be found here.

In 2018, Prof. Dr. Frank Adloff (in German) (Department of Socioeconomics) and Prof. Dr. Sighard Neckel (Department of Social Sciences) submitted the proposal for the Centre for Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences “Futures of Sustainability”, which was awarded funding by the DFG. The research group started its work in September 2019.

”Futures of Sustainability” deals with the question of how modern societies change when they are guided by different notions of sustainability. It primarily serves the development of theory and analytical syntheses in the diagnosis of society. International fellows, especially from the social sciences and humanities, are regularly invited to participate in research.

In 2019, the DFG announced the establishment of the priority programme "Digitalisierung der Arbeitswelten. Zur Erfassung und Erfassbarkeit einer systemischen Transformation (Digitisation of the Workplace. On the Capturing and Recordability of Systemic Transformation)" (SPP 2267). The priority programme is based on the assumption that the digitisation of working environments is taking place as a systemic transformation that will fundamentally and lastingly change all institutional systems of the working society. The digital transformation is to be researched as an interaction of three dimensions of processes in which this socio-technical change is a) socially prepared, b) technically enabled and c) discursively negotiated and socially managed. In the first funding phase, Prof. Dr. Jürgen Beyer (Department of Social Sciences) has developed the project "Does the macro-level matter? A comparative analysis of institutional frameworks and gigwork platforms across EU-28 countries" in cooperation with Stefan Kirchner from TU Berlin.

In 2018, the DFG decided to continue funding the priority programme ”Experience and Expectation: Historical Foundations of Economic Behaviour”. The project focuses on three objectives: First, it aims to investigate on a broad empirical basis how expectations arise and how they are translated into economic action. Secondly, the historical change of expectations will be analyzed. Third, crises, shocks and structural breaks will be analyzed as central determinants of expectation formation. Within the framework of the second funding phase, Prof. Dr. Ulrich Fritsche (in German) (Department of Socioeconomics) acquired the project “Exploring the experience-expectation nexus in macroeconomic forecasting using computational text analysis and machine learning” in cooperation with the Helmut Schmidt University and the Merseburg University of Applied Sciences.

In 2019, the DFG granted further funding to the Collaborative Research Centre “Affective Societies. Dynamics of Social Coexistence in Mobile Worlds”. Since October 2019, the Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences is involved with a subproject in the research area B: Repertoires under the direction of Prof. Dr. Sighard Neckel (Department of Social Sciences).