Economic Processes, Institutions and Decisions (WIP)

In the cumulative processes of the division of labour and the expansion of markets, diverse forms of heterogeneity arise endogenously. This poses ever new challenges for organisations, institutions and the market society as a whole, which can be described using terms such as integration, stability and cohesion.

These basic insights are the subject of various research programmes and questions in modern economics - with varying of focus.

• What holds market societies together in which endogenous diversity is constantly emerging?
• When and how can institutions and organisations benefit from diversity in a targeted and sustainable way?
• To what extent and why are modern institutions dependent on diversity?
• What are the risks of the endogenous development of diversity?
• To what extent is endogenous diversity, differentiation and division of labour linked to the emergence of segmentation, power imbalances and discrimination?
• How should the phenomena of gender-specificforms of division of labour and the formation of classes be dealt with?
• How can undesirable risks and effects of differentiation be mitigated institutionally and organisationally?

Questions such as these are dealt with in various sub-disciplines at HUKeconCLUSTER. These include

• business diversity management, marketing strategies and organisational theory
• economic institutional theory and labour market research
• the study of processes of innovation, migration, asynchronous demographic transitions and other diversity-generating processes from an evolutionary (Schumpeterian) perspective and
• economic-historical studies on the development of the market economy and society under aspects of globalisation as well as aspects of regional, national and cultural differentiation processes and lines of conflict.

This cluster brings together different economic research programmes and levels of argumentation. Analogies as well as intersections and possible docking points can thus be identified more quickly. This should enable productive new combinations of insights and methods.