Research Assistant

Grzegorz Lechowski is a researcher at the Chair of International Industrial Relations at the Helmut Schmidt University. His research focuses on the processes of technological, organizational, and regulatory change in the globalized industrial economy. 

His current topics include in particular: the emergence of the industrial internet of things and industrial platforms in the European political economy; the EU’s policy discourse of digital and technological “sovereignty”; the transition to electromobility and its implications for the transnational divisions of labor in the automotive sector.

Publications:

2024

Dupuis, M., Greer, I., Kirsch, A., Lechowski, G., Park, D., & Zimmermann, T. (2024, forthcoming). A Just Transition for Auto Workers? Negotiating the Electric Vehicle Transition in Germany and North America. ILR Review.

Gorwa, R., Lechowski, G., & Schneiß, D. (2024). Platform lobbying: Policy influence strategies and the EU’s Digital Services Act. Internet Policy Review, 13(2).

2023

Lechowski, G., Krzywdzinski, M., & Pardi, T. (2023). A government-driven sectoral transformation? French and German policy responses to the COVID-crisis in the automotive industry. International Journal of Automotive Technology and Management, 23(1), 5-21.

Lechowski, G. (2023). Between Domestic Entrepreneurship and Global Technology Chains: Upgrading Paths of Two Large IT Firms from Poland. In Y. Kouli & U. Müller (Eds.), The Middle-Income Trap in Central and Eastern Europe. New York: Berghahn.

Lechowski, G., & Dąbrowska, E. (2023). Die Zukunft wird multipolar. Geopolitische Verschiebungen in der Digitalwirtschaft. WZB-Mitteilungen, 180, 6-9.

Krzywdzinski, M., Lechowski, G., Ferdinand, J., & Schneiß, D. (2023). The German path to electromobility and its impacts on automotive production and employment. In B. Galgóczi (Ed.). Brussels: ETUI, 179-206.
Lechowski, G., Krzywdzinski, M., & Pardi, T. (2022). A government-driven sectoral transformation? French and German policy responses to the COVID-crisis in the automotive industry. International Journal of Automotive Technology and Management (forthcoming).

2022

Lechowski, G., & Krzywdzinski, M. (2022). Emerging positions of German firms in the industrial internet of things: a global technological ecosystem perspective. Global Networks,  22(4), 666-683.

Lechowski, G., Köppl-Turyna, M., & Wanka, S. (2022). Verflechtung macht verwundbar. Die EU muss ihre wirtschaftlichen Abhängigkeiten neu denken. WZB-Mitteilungen, 176, 49-52. 

Lechowski, G., & Köppl-Turyna, M. (2022). Globale Verflechtungen neu ausrichten. WZB-Blog: Krieg in Europa: Ursachen und Folgen.

Lechowski, G., & Wanka, S. (2022). Securing Supply Chains for the Low-Carbon Economy: The Case of Electric Batteries. 49security. Views on Germany’s National Security Strategy.

2021

Lechowski, G. (2021). Die Industriecloud als zweite Chance. Europas neuer Anlauf in der globalen Plattformökonomie. WZB Mitteilungen, 171, 35-37.

Lechowski, G. (2021). European Policy Interventions into the Emerging Industrial Cloud: Towards a Regionalization of the Digital Economy? Paper presented at the Virtual SASE Conference 2021.

Lechowski, G., Krzywdzinski, M., & Pardi, T. (2021). Government Response to COVID-Crisis in the French and German Car Industries: A Case of State-Led Sectoral Transformation? Paper presented at the Virtual SASE Conference 2021. 

2020

Humphrey, J., & Lechowski, G. (2020). Lieferschock, Nachfragekrise, Technologiewandel. Die Pandemie wird die europäische Autoindustrie nachhaltig verändern. WZB Mitteilungen, 168.

Humphrey, J., & Lechowski, G. (2020). COVID-19 and European Industry: Global Shocks, Local Shocks and Value-Chain Restructuring. Beitragsreihe Corona und die gesellschaftlichen Folgen – Schlaglichter aus der WZB-Forschung.

Lechowski, G., & Krzywdzinski, M. (2020, forthcoming). Digitalization and new technological interdependencies in the German manufacturing equipment sector. SASE Virtual Conference 2020.

2019

Lechowski, G., & Krzywdzinski, M. (2019). Governing „digital transformation“ through transnational technological standards. Paper presented at the SASE conference, The New School, New York City.

Lechowski, G., & Krzywdzinski, M. (2019). Industriestrukturen im Umbruch. WZB-Mitteilungen, H. 163, Sonderausgabe zu 50 Jahre WZB: „in touch. Forschung und Gesellschaft“, pp. 64-65 (see English version here [Link).

Krzywdzinski, M., Lechowski, G., & Mählmeyer, V. (2019). Lean work and gender inequalities: manufacturing consent at a multinational car plant in provincial Russia. Global Labour Journal, 10(2), 123-141.

2018

Lechowski, G. (2018). Beyond „dependent development“ in a high-tech industry? The interplay between domestic institutions and transnational sectoral governance in the trajectories of emerging PolishIT firms  . WZB Berlin Social Science Center, Berlin, pp. 1-38.

Krzywdzinski, M., Lechowski, G., & Jürgens, U. (2018). The inevitability of change in Chinese and Indian automakers‘ low cost productive models. La Nouvelle Revue du Travail, 12, pp. 1-20.

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Letzte Änderung: 13. August 2024