dr. J.R.O. Bartosch (Julia)

Julia is an Assistant Professor at NSM, Radboud University. Previously, she was a postdoctoral researcher at the Freie Universität Berlin (Germany), where she also received her PhD (2018). She was a research fellow at ILR School at Cornell University (USA) and a visiting researcher at the School of Commerce at Waseda University (Japan).

Julia's research focuses on the interface between business and society. Her goal is to contribute to knowledge about the governance of corporate responsibility in the global economic environment. She therefore examines which organizational practices and structures, as well as societal institutions, exacerbate problems and which enable cooperative organizating for societal change. Since addressing societal challenges and sustainability requires systemic approaches, her research focuses on the interactions between various actors, including business, civil society, government, and employee representatives. Her work is published in journals such as Research Policy, Business & Society, Journal of Business Ethics, Socio-Economic Review (SER) or Industrial Labour Relations Review (ILRR).

Julia has a background in sociology and business studies and applies a comparative approach in most of her work. She combines organizational theory, institutional theory, comparative capitalism research, and economic sociology. Her methodological approaches are ranging from theory generating/refining over qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) to quantitative approaches for theory testing. Since December 2025, she is Head COMPASSS, the international community for set-theoretical configurational methods for cross-case analysis (such as QCA): https://compasss.org/about/

Julia is committed that our own research becomes more inclusive and diverse. Find out more here: https://blog.oup.com/2023/10/what-does-community-mean-to-you/ , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oj43lq61sj8 Julia is a member of the board of the Women's and Gender Forum at SASE.