
Katarzyna Gruszka
Mag. Katarzyna Gruszka Ph.D.- Telephone:
- +43 1 31336 5101
- Email:
- katarzyna.gruszka@wu.ac.at
- About me:
- Post-doc research associate at the Institute for Ecological Economics. Research Interests: Technology – capitalism intersection; digitalization, platform economies and platform infrastructures; platform-mediated work; platform-mediated domestic work; platform capitalism; sharing/collaborative economy and the impacts thereof; transformation and transition processes, institutional change, climate change; socio-ecological transformation; scientific discourses. Socioeconomics, political economy, economic sociology, discursive studies. Qualitative research and mixed methods. Interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity.
Affiliation
CV
-
No curriculum entries found.
Researcher Identifier
- ORCID: 0000-0002-5423-6428
Awards and Honors
- 2020
- Dr. Maria Schaumayer Stiftung – Dissertation Award for young female researchers
- 2018
- Honors Distinction – PhD Dissertation
- 2014
- Best Poster Award - 3rd place, WU Competence Day
Classifications
- 5118 Political science (Details)
- 5325 Political economics (Details)
- 5345 Social economy (Details)
- 5366 Information society (Details)
- 5415 Economic sociology (Details)
- 5422 Feminist issues (Details)
- 5902 Labour market research (Details)
- 5912 Social sciences (interdisciplinary) (Details)
- 5941 Information society (Details)
Expertise
- Sharing economy
- Platform-mediated work
- Platform capitalism
- Platform economies
- Qualitative research methods
- Socio-ecological transformation
Activities
Publications
Journal article
2020 |
Gruszka, Katarzyna, Böhm, Madeleine. 2020. Out of sight, out of mind? (In)visibility of/in platform-mediated work. New Media & Society (NMS). 1-20.
![]() |
(Details) | |
Gruszka, Katarzyna, Scholz-Wäckerle, Manuel, Aigner, Ernest. 2020. Planetary carambolage: The evolutionary political economy of technology, nature and work. Review of Evolutionary Political Economy. 273-293.
![]() |
(Details) | ||
2017 |
Gruszka, Katarzyna. 2017. Framing the collaborative economy - Voices of contestation. Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions. 23 92-104.
![]() |
(Details) | |
Gruszka, Katarzyna, Scharbert, Annika Regine, Soder, Michael. 2017. Leaving the mainstream behind? Uncovering subjective understandings of economics instructors' roles. Ecological Economics. 131 485-498.
![]() |
(Details) |
Chapter in edited volume
2016 | Gruszka, Katarzyna, Rammel, Christian. 2016. Science-Society Interfaces - Transforming Universities. In: Engaging Stakeholders in Education for Sustainable Development at University Level. Hrsg. W. Leal Filho and L. Brandli, 177-189. Switzerland: Springer. | (Details) |
Paper presented at an academic conference or symposium
Forthcoming | Gruszka, Katarzyna. Forthcoming. On the tragedy of sharing and the “uberization” of the collaborative economy. Towards an understanding of countermovement dynamics. A Great Transformation? Global Perspectives on Contemporary Capitalisms, Linz, Austria, 09.01-13.01.2017. | (Details) | |
Forthcoming | Gruszka, Katarzyna and Denaro, Elena . Forthcoming. The many facets of the ‘collaborative economy’. Exploring the subjective perspectives of OuiShare connectors. . AAG Annual Meeting, San Francisco, United States/USA, 28.03 - 20.04.2016. | (Details) | |
2019 | Gruszka, Katarzyna, Böhm, Madeleine. 2019. Platform Work Unravelled. 31st EAEPE Conference, Warschau, Polen, 12.09-15.09. | (Details) | |
Gruszka, Katarzyna, Novy, Andreas. 2019. Sharing the liberal utopia. The case of Uber in France and the US. ILERA European Congress 2019: Perspectives of Employment Relations in Europe, Düsseldorf, Deutschland, 05.09-07.09. | (Details) | ||
2017 |
Gruszka, Katarzyna. 2017. Framing the collaborative economy - Voices of contestation. 2nd International Workshop on Sharing Economy, Paris, France, 28.01.2016 - 29.01.2016.
![]() |
(Details) | |
2016 | Gruszka, Katarzyna and Scharbert, Annika Regine and Soder, Michael. 2016. Changing the world one student at a time? Uncovering subjective understandings of economics instructor's roles. Redefining economics: beyond the neoclassical approach, Warsaw, Poland, 20.05 - 21.05. | (Details) | |
2015 | Gruszka, Katarzyna, Scharbert, Annika Regine, Soder, Michael. 2015. Changing the world one student at a time? Uncovering subjective understandings of instructors' roles.. Teaching economics in the 21th century, Berlin, Deutschland, 26.11-28.11. | (Details) | |
Gruszka, Katarzyna, Soder, Michael, Scharbert, Annika Regine. 2015. Changing the world one student at a time? Uncovering subjective understandings of instructors' roles. EAEPE 2015, Genua, Italien, 17.09.-19.09.. | (Details) | ||
Gruszka, Katarzyna, Scharbert, Annika Regine, Soder, Michael. 2015. Changing the world one student at a time? Uncovering subjective understandings of instructors' roles.. 11th biannual conference of ESEE, Leeds, Großbritannien, 30.06-3.07. | (Details) | ||
Gruszka, Katarzyna. 2015. Framing Collaborative Economy. 11th biannual conference of ESEE, Leeds, Großbritannien, 30.06-3.07. | (Details) | ||
Gruszka, Katarzyna, Scharbert, Annika Regine, Soder, Michael. 2015. Changing the world one student at a time? Uncovering subjective understandings of economics instructors roles. 1st Vienna Conference on Pluralism in Economics:, Vienna, Österreich, 10.04. - 12.04.. | (Details) | ||
Gruszka, Katarzyna, Scharbert, Annika Regine, Soder, Michael. Forthcoming. Changing the world one student at a time? Uncovering subjective understandings of instructors' roles. . The 27th Annual EAEPE conference, Genoa, Italy, 17.09 - 19.09. | (Details) | ||
Gruszka, Katarzyna, Scharbert, Annika Regine, Soder, Michael. Forthcoming. Changing the world one student at a time? Uncovering subjective understandings of instructors' roles. . Young Economists Conference, AK Wien, Vienna, Austria, 29.09 - 1.10. | (Details) | ||
2014 | Gruszka, Katarzyna. 2014. Collaborative economy and cooperatives: do these two go hand in hand? 26th Annual EAEPE Conference - Unemployment and Austerity in Mediterranean European Countries, Ayia Napa, Nicosia, Zypern, 06.11.-08.11. | (Details) | |
Gruszka, Katarzyna. 2014. Collaborative economy as a facet of transition towards more sustainable consumption and production? Momentum Kongress, Hallstatt, Österreich, 16.10-19.10. | (Details) |
Working/discussion paper, preprint
2016 |
Gruszka, Katarzyna, Scharbert, Annika Regine, Soder, Michael. 2016. Changing the world one student at a time? Uncovering subjective understandings of economics instructors' roles.
![]() |
(Details) | |
Gruszka, Katarzyna. 2016. Framing the Collaborative Economy. | (Details) |
Research report, expert opinion
2018 | Foster, Gillian Joanne, Dobernig, Karin, Gruszka, Katarzyna, Schanes, Karin, de Schutter, Elisabeth Marie Louise. 2018. Chapter 5. Sustainable Consumption and Production. In Lutter, S., Luks, F., Stagl, S. (Eds.), Towards a Socio-Ecological Transformation of the Economy. Background Report for “Growth in Transition”. Vienna: Institute for Ecological Economics, Vienna University of Economics and Business. | (Details) |
Master thesis
2012 | Gruszka, Katarzyna, Huschmann, Margaret, Teodorescu, Catalina . 2012. The Code of Conduct at Vestas. A Rocky Road Leading to...?. Masterarbeit, Aalborg University, Denmark. | (Details) | |
2010 | Gruszka, Katarzyna. 2010. The Influence of English as Common Corporate Language on Communication between Native Speakers of Polish - Case Study. Masterarbeit, The Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland. | (Details) |
Magazine/newspaper article
2016 | Soder, Michael, Gruszka, Katarzyna, Scharbert, Annika Regine. 2016. LEBENDE VIELFALT ODER EINHEITSBREI IN DER ÖKONOMISCHEN FORSCHUNG UND LEHRE? Blog Arbeit & Wirtschaft, 17.03. | (Details) |
Projects
- 2020
- Platform Cleaners: The Potentials and Risks of Platform-mediated Cleaning Services in Germany (2020-2022) (Details)
- 2016
- Sharing Cities (2016-2017) (Details)
- Netzwerke, Paradigmen, Attitüden - Der deutsche Sonderweg im Fokus (2016-2018) (Details)
- CERIecon - CENTRAL EUROPE Regional Innovation Ecosystems Network (2016-2019) (Details)
- 2014
- SHARE VIENNA (2014-2015) (Details)
- 2013
- ALTECS - Knowledge exchange in the framework of alternative economic systems for the promotion of sustainable regional development (2013-2014) (Details)