Dr. Angela Kornau

 

 

 

Curriculum Vitae

Academic career

Since July 2015: Postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at the Chair of Human Resource Management (Prof. Dr. Barbara Sieben), at the Department of Humanities and Social Science, Helmut Schmidt University – University of the Federal Armed Forces Hamburg

01/2011-12/2013: Research assistant at the Chair of Human Resource Management and intercultural leadership (Prof. Dr. Marion Festing), ESCP Europe Business School Berlin

09/2009-12/2010: Student Assistant/Intern at the Chair of Human Resource Management and intercultural leadership (Prof. Dr. Marion Festing), ESCP Europe Business School Berlin

Academic education

2014: Ph.D. (Dr.rer.pol.), summa cum laude, Chair of Human Resource and Intercultural Leadership, ESCP Europe Business School Berlin

2009: Diploma in International Economics at Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen

• Major: Human Resources and Organizations, Economic Theory, Economic Politics, Chinese, Regional Studies China
• 2006: Study abroad at Nanjing University in Nanjing, China

Occupational history

11/2008-07/2009: Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth (BMFSFJ), Department for Gender Equality, Berlin (PR Coordinator)

08/2008-10/2008: Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth  (BMFSFJ), Department for Gender Equality, Berlin (intern)

01/2007-03/2007: German Society for International Cooperation (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit) (GIZ); Liaoning Employment Promotion and Qualifikation Program, Liaoning, Shenyang, China (intern)

06/2006-11/2006: European Chamber of Commerce in Nanjing, China; Finance and Taxation and Human Resources Working Group (intern)

11/2005-01/2006: Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), Bonn (intern)

08/2004: Governmental Commission for Human Rights, Monterrey, México  (intern)

Main research interests and publications

Main research interests

• Actor-centric and context-specific perspectives on in/equality, diversity and inclusion
• Inclusion in the context of new / alternative forms of work and organizing
• Workplace integration of refugees
• Gender and HRM
• International human resource management

Dissertation

Dissertation

• Title of dissertation: Women’s underrepresentation in management positions in the corporate world: Gendered human resource management practices and female coping patterns (Disputation November 2014 at ESCP Europe Business School Berlin, Dissertation Chair: M. Festing, Co-chair: B. Sieben)

Publications in peer-reviewed journals

Bernauer, V. S., & Kornau, A. (2024). E-voice in the digitalised workplace. Insights from an alternative organisation. Human Resource Management Journal, 34(2), 369-385. https://doi.org/10.1111/1748-8583.12460 

Knappert, L., Ortlieb, R., Kornau, A., Maletzky de García, M., van Dyke, H. (2023): The ecosystem of managing refugee employment: Complementarity and its microfoundations. Academy of Management Discoveries. https://doi.org/10.5465/amd.2020.0157

Kornau, A., Bernauer, V. S., Mucha, A., Rastetter, D., Schmucker, S., & Sieben, B. (2022): Editorial. Digitalisierung der Arbeitswelt: Hindernisse und Chancen mit Blick auf Chancengleichheit, Diversität und Inklusion. [Editorial. Digitalization of work: Barriers and benefits for equality, diversity and inclusion] Zeitschrift für Diversitätsforschung und -management, 7(1), 3-7. https://doi.org/10.3224/zdfm.v7i1.01  

Kornau, A., Knappert, L., Tatli, A., & Sieben, B. (2022). Contested fields of equality, diversity and inclusion at work: An institutional work lens on power relations and actors’ strategies in Germany and Turkey. The International Journal of Human Resource Management. https://doi.org/10.1080/09585192.2022.2086014  

Kornau, A., Knappert, L., & Erdur, D. A. (2021). Advertising, avoiding, disrupting, and tabooing: The discursive construction of diversity subjects in the Turkish context. Scandinavian Journal of Management, 37(2), 101-151. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scaman.2021.101151  

Haq, R., Kornau, A., Klarsfeld, A., & Ngunjiri, F. W. (2020). Diversity in India: Addressing caste, disability and gender. Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: An International Journal, 36(6), 586-596. https://doi.org/10.1108/EDI-04-2020-0095

Kornau, A., Frerichs, I. M., & Sieben, B. (2020). An empirical analysis of research paradigms within international human resource management: The need for more diversity. German Journal of Human Resource Management, 34(2), 148-177. https://doi.org/10.1177/2397002220908035

Klarsfeld, A., Knappert, L., Kornau, A., Ngunjiri, F. W., & Sieben, B. (2019). Diversity in under-researched countries: New empirical fields challenging old theories? Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: An International Journal, 38(7), 694-704. https://doi.org/10.1108/EDI-03-2019-0110  

Knappert, L., Kornau, A., & Figengül, M. (2018). Refugees’ exclusion at work and the intersection with gender: Insights from the Turkish-Syrian border. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 105, 62-82. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvb.2017.11.002  

Festing, M., Knappert, L., & Kornau, A. (2015). Gender‐specific preferences in global performance management: An empirical study of male and female managers in a multinational context. Human Resource Management, 54(1), 55-79. https://doi.org/10.1002/hrm.21609  

Festing, M., Kornau, A., & Schäfer, L. (2015). Think talent–think male? A comparative case study analysis of gender inclusion in talent management practices in the German media industry. The International Journal of Human Resource Management, 26(6), 707-732. https://doi.org/10.1080/09585192.2014.934895  

Editorial work

Kornau, A., Bernauer, V. S., Mucha, A., Rastetter, D., Schmucker, S., & Sieben, B. (Hrsg.) (2022). Schwerpunktthema „Digitalisierung der Arbeitswelt: Hindernisse und Chancen mit Blick auf Chancengleichheit, Diversität und Inklusion“. [Special Issue „Digitalization of work: Barriers and benefits for equality, diversity and inclusion“] Zeitschrift für Diversitätsforschung und -management, 7(1).

Klarsfeld, A., Knappert, L., Kornau, A., Ng, E. S., & Ngunjiri, F. W. (Eds.) (2022). Research handbook on new frontiers of equality and diversity at work. International perspectives. Edward Elgar. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800888302  

Haq, R., Kornau, A., Klarsfeld, A., & Ngunjiri, F. W. (Eds.) (2020). Special issue: Equality, diversity and inclusion in India. Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: An International Journal, 39(6), 585-596. https://doi.org/10.1108/EDI-04-2020-0095 .

Klarsfeld, A., Knappert, L., Kornau, A., Ngunjiri, F. W., & Sieben, B. (Eds.) (2019). Special Issue: Diversity in under-researched countries: New empirical fields challenging old theories? Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: An International Journal, 38(7), 694-704. https://doi.org/10.1108/EDI-03-2019-0110

Conference presentations

Rybnikova, I. & Kornau, A. (2023, July). Gendered agility? An explorative study of (in)equalities in Scrum teams. European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS) Colloquium, Cagliari, Italy.

Kornau, A., & Bernauer, V. S. (2022, October): Navigating boundaries of inclusion. Practices and inherent tensions. 12th International Workshop on Human Resource Management, Cádiz. 

Kornau, A., & Bernauer, V. S. (2022, September): Negotiating boundaries of diversity and inclusion. Practices and inherent paradoxes.  Autumn Workshop of the Section Personnel in the German Academic Association for Business Research (VHB), Berlin. 

Kornau, A., & Bernauer, V. S. (2021, September). An explorative case study of diversity and inclusion in alternative organizations. Workshop of the Section Organization in the German Academic Association for Business Research (VHB), Lueneburg (virtual). 

Bernauer, V. S., & Kornau, A. (2020, September). Inclusion through e-voice? An explorative case study of an internet collective. Autumn Workshop of the Section Personnel in the German Academic Association for Business Research (VHB), Duesseldorf.  

Bernauer, V. S., & Kornau A. (2020, July). An explorative case study of diversity and inclusion in alternative organizations. European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS) Colloquium, Hamburg (virtual). 

Kornau, A., & Baumgärtner, M. (2019, August). Creating inclusive workplaces for refugees – A conceptual model of inclusive refugee leadership. Conference and Network Meeting of Diversity Researchers from the D-A-CH Regions, St. Gallen. 

Kornau, A., Knappert, L., & Acar Erdur, D. (2019, July). The advertised, the deceived, the silenced, and the avoided: Organizational discourses on equality, diversity and inclusion in the Turkish context. European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS) Colloquium, Edinburgh. 

Kornau, A., Knappert, L., & Acar Erdur, D. (2019, July). The advertised, the deceived, the silenced, and the avoided: Organizational discourses on equality, diversity and inclusion in the Turkish context. Equality, Diversity, Inclusion International Conference, Rotterdam. 

Kornau, A. Knappert, L., Maletzky, M., & van Dyke, H. (2018, September). Contextual influences on refugees‘ inclusion at work. A comparative analysis of Germany and The Netherlands. Autumn Workshop of the Section Personnel in the German Academic Association for Business Research (VHB) , Munich. 

Knappert, L., Kornau, A., & Figengül, M. (2017, September). Refugees‘ exclusion at work: Qualitative insights from the Turkish-Syrian border. Conference and Network Meeting of Diversity Researchers from the D-A-CH Regions , Goettingen. 

Knappert, L., Kornau, A., & Figengül, M. (2017, July). Refugees’ exclusion at work: Qualitative insights from the Turkish-Syrian border. European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS) Colloquium, Copenhagen. 

Knappert, L., Kornau, A., & Figengül, M. (2017, March). Refugees‘ exclusion at work: Qualitative insights from the Turkish-Syrian border. „reThink refugees“, event organised by Ashoka, PWC, The Haag, Tilburg University and EAWOP, The Hague .  

Kornau, A., Sieben, B., & Knappert, L. (2016, October). Actors’ moves in the political arena of equality and diversity – the cases of Germany and Turkey. Workshop on Political CSR, London. 

Kornau, A., Knappert, L., & Sieben, B. (2016, September). Diversity and inclusion through HRM: A comparative analysis of organizations in Germany and Turkey. Autumn Workshop of the Section Personnel in the German Academic Association for Business Research (VHB), Paderborn.

Kornau, A., Knappert, L., & Sieben, B. (2016, August). The political arena of equality and diversity at work. The cases of Germany and Turkey. Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (AOM), Boston. 

Kornau, A., Knappert, L., & Sieben, B. (2016, July). The contested terrain of equality and diversity at work – the cases of Germany and Turkey. European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS) Colloquium, Naples. 

Kornau, A., Sieben, B., & Knappert, L. (2016, April). Equality and diversity as a political arena – A comparative analysis of Germany and Turkey. International Labour Process Conference (ILPC), Berlin. 

Festing, M., Kornau, A., & Schäfer, L. (2013, July). Talent management and the career advancement of female managers: A single case study in the German media industry. European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS) Colloquium, Montréal

Kornau, A., & Festing, M. (2013, July). The impact of gendered organisational cultures on the career advancement of female managers: A review and a framework for future research. Pre-Colloquium Workshops ‚Gender and Diversity‘, European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS), Montréal. 

Festing, M., Knappert, L., & Kornau, A. (2012, August). Gender-specific preferences in global performance management – an empirical study of male and female leaders in a multinational context. Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (AOM), Boston. 

Other publications

Bookchapter:

Kornau, A., & Kumra, S. (2021). Richard Florida’s creative class: The Global Tolerance Index and its value for diversity and inclusion research. In E. Ng, A. Klarsfeld, C. Stamper, & Y. (J.) Han (Eds.), Handbook on diversity and inclusion indices. A research compendium (pp.66-82). Edward Elgar. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788975728.00012  

Book reviews:

Bernauer, V., & Kornau, A. (2020). Rezension von [Review of] : Jungwirth, Ingrid / Bauschke-Urban, Carola (Hrsg.): Gender and Diversity Studies, European Perspectives. Opladen. Barbara Budrich 2019. Erziehungswissenschaftliche Revue 19(3). https://www.klinkhardt.de/ewr/978384740549.htm

Practitioner magazine:

Festing, M., Kornau, A., & Schäfer, L. (2015). Think talent – think male? Eine genderspezifische Analyse von Talent Management.  [Think talent – think male? A gender specific analysis of talent management] PERSONALquarterly, 67(2), 34-39. https://www.haufe.de/download/personal-quarterly-022015-personalquarterly-297522.pdf 

Services to the scientific community

Teaching:

• Teaching at Helmut Schmidt University:
  • Supervision of bachelor and master theses, since 2015
  • Seminar on human resource management, 2016-2017
  • Seminar on scientific research methods, 2018-2020
  • Teaching and coordination of Master program “Leading Diversity”, 2018-2019 at the Centre for Postgraduate Education (ZWW)
  • Seminar on international perspectives on equality and diversity at work, since 2020

• Teaching at ESPC European Business School including courses on International Human Resource Management, Organizational Behavior, Intercultural Management and Intercultural Leadership (2010-2013)