Mike Geppert is Professor for Strategic and International Management at the Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena and leads the Collaborative Research Centre’s Project Group on “Public interest versus private property rights.” He studied Sociology and complete a PhD on Organization Theory at Humboldt University in Berlin, where he also worked as a lecturer in Organizational Sociology. Before his Professorship in Jena he taught and did research at the University of Surrey, the Queen Mary University of London and Swansea University. Moreover he is Founding Member of the European Academy of Management (EURAM) and former Vice-Chair of the European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS). His research interests include socio-political issues and micro-politics in and around organizations, especially in the context of multinational corporations and global value chains, political and emotional aspects of organizational sensemaking, comparative organizational studies of management, work and employment in the global context.
Activities
Publications
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Geppert, M.; Dörrenbächer, C.; Bozkurt, Ö. (2026): "Reinterpreting Multinational Enterprises Through a Revitalized Transnational Social Space Perspective: Introduction and Outlook", In: Mike Geppert, Ödül Bozkurt, Christoph Dörrenbächer (eds.): Reinterpreting Multinational Enterprises through a Revitalized Transnational Social Space Perspective, Research in the Sociology of Organizations, 101, Emerald: Bingley, 1-20.
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Dörrenbächer, C.; Geppert, M. (2026): "The Failure of the International Business Discipline to Revitalize the Understanding of the Multinational Enterprise: The Example of the Global Factory Approach", In: Mike Geppert, Ödül Bozkurt, Christoph Dörrenbächer (eds.): Reinterpreting Multinational Enterprises through a Revitalized Transnational Social Space Perspective, Research in the Sociology of Organizations, 101, Emerald: Bingley, 265-290.
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Geppert, M. (2025): "International business", In: Leo McCann, Ödül Bozkurt, Rachael Finn, Edward Granter, Carolyn Hunter, Nina Kivinen, Arun Kumar, and Brian Wierman (eds.): Elgar Encyclopedia of Critical Management Studies, Edward Elgar Publishing: Cheltenham, 268-273.
- Dörrenbächer, C.; Geppert, M.; Bozkurt, Ö. (2024): "Multinational corporations and grand challenges: part of the problem, part of the solution?", In: Critical Perspectives on International Business, 20(2), 153-163.
- Geppert, M.; Bozkurt, Ö. (2021): “A Research Agenda for International Business and Management”, In: Elgar, Edward, Cheltenham A Research Agenda for International Business and Management.
