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Katharina Pernkopf

Short biography

Katharina Pernkopf conducts research in the wider field of organizational institutionalism and (comparative) HRM. She is interested in how organizations and individuals manage tensions at work, e.g., institutional demands vs. organizational rules, global standards vs. local practices, organizational vs. personal values. She leads a research project on the implementation of the European Working Time Directive in Viennese hospitals and how decision makers (e.g. management, professionals, HRM) in these organizations cope with various expectations towards limiting doctors’ work time and solving coordination problems along the way. Furthermore, she does research on employer branding and related phenomena as well as their implications for organizations and individuals, e.g. multinational companies adjusting its employer brand to various national settings or initial job seekers’ reactions to mixed signals (recruiting website vs. online employer reviews). Further, she is interested in current developments such new ways of working (e.g., “Uberization of Work”) or HR analytics.

Since July 2014 Katharina Pernkopf has been assistant professor at the interdisciplinary institute for management and organizational behaviour. Her work has been published in the Journal of Vocational Behavior, Journal of Management Inquiry, ESEEN, Personnel Review and the European J. Cross-Cultural Competence and Management.

Previous research projects

  • FWF project ViCaPP headed by Univ.-Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Mayrhofer

  • EU project DEHEMS headed by Univ.-Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Mayrhofer

  • FWF project on the legitimacy of HR departments headed by Univ.-Prof. Dr. Julia Brandl

Teaching

  • Human Resource Management (MA)

  • Organization & Environment

  • Problem Solving and Cooperation in Teams

  • #VOMperspectives (Bachelor level)

  • IHRM & OB II (Bachelor level)

  • Scientific writing (Bachelor level)

  • Challenges in Leadership and Strategy: Managing People in Global Organizations  (Program director of this International Summer University)

  • Managing People (MBA)

  • Leadership (MBA)

Interests and research areas

  • Comparative research in Human Resource Management and Leadership

  • Organization studies

  • Organizational institutionalism

  • French pragmatist sociology

  • Convention theory