Dr N. Lohmeyer (Nora)

My research is situated at the interface of business and society, with a strong interest in the politics and governance of corporate responsibility, particularly the governance of labor standards in global supply chains.

I understand questions of corporate responsibility as going beyond the individual organization and involving different actors at industrial, national, and international levels, with most of my research focusing on questions around how organizations influence and are influenced by their changing organizational environments, touching questions of organization and field level change.

To study these phenomena, I draw on theories from organization and management, but also industrial and employment relations, political science, and sociology, and mainly make use of qualitative, often longitudinal and process research designs.

I have obtained my PhD from Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, where I also worked as a post-doctoral researcher in an international research project on the governance of labor standards in global garment supply chains.