Project Details
Description
The project investigates the impact of an increasing reliance on “competitiveness” as a prime mode of social organization and as a core concept for designing institutions on different ontological levels of social reality. Given its innovative triangulation of theories and methods from the social sciences and the humanities, the project will produce novel insights on how economic knowledge on competition transgresses from academic debates into public discourses, legal regulations, practices of institutions and everyday life.
| Status | Finished |
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| Effective start/end date | 01.05.2019 → 30.04.2024 |
Fields of science
- 502 Economics
- 502049 Economic history
- 502027 Political economy
- 504027 Special sociology
- 506013 Political theory
- 502022 Sustainable economics
- 506007 International relations
- 509023 Development research
- 502018 Macroeconomics
- 504030 Economic sociology
- 603124 Theory of science
- 502055 Distribution economics
- 603123 History of science
- 508021 Media studies
- 509019 Futurology
- 504007 Empirical social research
- 509017 Social studies of science
- 508023 Media economics
JKU Focus areas
- Sustainable Development: Responsible Technologies and Management
- Digital Transformation
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The discursive power of economic reasoning in the neoliberal era
Porak, L. & Pühringer, S., 2026, Handbook on Critical Discourse Studies . 1 ed. Edward Elgar Publishing, p. 245-255Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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Political Economy of Knowledge Production in Capitalist Academia: Challenges and Opportunities for Socio-Ecological Transformation
Altreiter, C., Hager, T. & Pühringer, S., Aug 2025, 55 p. (ICAE Working Paper Series).Research output: Working paper and reports › Working paper
Open Access -
Theorizing competition: An interdisciplinary framework
Altreiter, C., Gräbner-Radkowitsch, C., Pühringer, S., Rogojanu, A. & Wolfmayr, G., Oct 2025, In: Competition & Change. 29, 5, p. 593-614 22 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open Access
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Die Macht der Rankings (in) der Wettbewerbswissenschaft
Pühringer, S. (Speaker) & Hager, T. (Speaker)
13 Nov 2025Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk › science-to-science
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Gendered Competitive Practices in Economics: A Multi-Layer Model of Women's Underepresentation
Hager, T. (Speaker) & Pühringer, S. (Speaker)
25 Sept 2025Activity: Talk or presentation › Contributed talk › science-to-science
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Konzernmacht in globalen Warenketten
Hornykewycz, A. (Speaker)
09 Apr 2025Activity: Talk or presentation › Other talk or presentation › science-to-science