Wirtschaftssoziologie

We are excited to announce that Dr. Simon Walo has been awarded the Sage Prize for Innovation and Excellence for his recently published paper «‹Bullshit› After All? Why People Consider Their Jobs Socially Useless».

Publiziert im «Handbuch Sozialstrukturanalyse», März 2024.

We are honoured to announce that Dr. Simon Walo has been awarded the 2024 «FAN award for early career researchers» (Fonds zur Förderung des akademischen Nachwuchses) for his outstanding doctoral achievements at the Sparkling Research celebration event of the University of Zurich on February 6, 2024.

Published in the new Elgar Encyclopedia of Political Sociology, December 2023. 

A deep dive into a tale of Swiss family rivalries in 17th century Basel.

This open-access study by Jörg Rössel, Patrick Schenk & Ilona Pap shows how often European migrants in Switzerland transfer money to their home countries, and how much money is sent. While people from Portugal tend to send smaller amounts more often, people from the UK are more likely to send larger amounts but do so less frequently.

Nachdem der Fachkräftemangel in der Schweiz bereits 2022 einen Höchststand erreichte, zeigen sich auch im Jahr 2023 wenig Anzeichen von Entspannung. Dies zeigt der Fachkräftemangel Index Schweiz der Adecco Gruppe Schweiz und des Stellenmarkt-Monitors Schweiz der Universität Zürich.

Wie kommt es, dass Menschen ihren Job als gesellschaftlich nutzlos erachten? Was braucht es, damit ihre Arbeit aus sinnvoll wahrgenommen wird? Diese und weitere Fragen beantwortet Soziologe Simon Walo im Interview mit Nelly Keusch von der NZZ.

 Vol. 34, Heft 2 of MREV (Management revue - Socio-Economic Studies (co-edited by Prof. Katja Rost ) on «Religion, Spirituality, and Faith in a Secular Business World» has just been published and is now available in the Nomos eLibrary:

We are honoured to announce that Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. Marlis Buchmann has been awarded the 2023 "William Thierry Preyer Award for Excellence in Research on Human Development" at the European Conference for Developmental Psychology in Turku, Finland, on August 28, 2023.