Nicole Saam

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Nicole J. Saam (born June 25, 1964 in Stuttgart ) is a German social scientist and university professor .

Life

After graduating from high school in Backnang , Saam began studying political science , economics and sociology at the University of Stuttgart , which she completed in 1989 with a Magister Artium . During her studies, she worked as a research assistant at the Fraunhofer Institute in Stuttgart from 1987 to 1989 , after completing her studies, she moved to the "Fraunhofer Institute for Communication Systems ESK" in Munich, where she worked until 1992. Then from 1993 to 1995 she worked as a research assistant at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich with Walter L. Bühl and Rolf Ziegler . Your doctorate as Dr. phil. Saam graduated in 1995 with a thesis on computational theory construction in the social sciences. Concept-based simulation of a theoretical model using the example of military coups in Thailand. Using the multi-level synergetic approach. at the University of Stuttgart. Until her habilitation in 2001, she initially worked as a research assistant at Ziegler, then as a senior research assistant at Norman Braun at the LMU Munich. In 2001, Saam started at the University of Mannheim with a thesis on principals, agents and power. A power-theoretical extension of agency theory and its application to interaction structures in organizational consulting for the subject of sociology.

From 2002 followed as a lecturer professor at the Universities of Mannheim, Leipzig , Marburg and Erfurt . In 2006 Saam accepted a call to the political science faculty of the University of Erfurt and supported the chair for empirical social research . In 2010 she moved to the University of Augsburg , to the chair of sociology.

Since 2011 Saam has been professor for methods of empirical social research at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Erlangen . In 2015 she was elected a full member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences .

Research priorities

Saam's research focuses on organizational sociology , political sociology and methodology of the social sciences. Her research is also devoted to the interaction between the actors within the new European peace order. Among other things, Saam develops computer simulation models for the investigation of international negotiations, democratization processes and innovations.

Publications

  • Organization and Consultation. Foundations and Theories. Peter Lang International Academic Publishers, Frankfurt am Main / Berlin / Bern / Bruxelles / New York / Oxford / Vienna 2012, ISBN 978-3-631-63619-0 .
  • with Willy C. Kriz : participation in large groups. Volume 1: Sociological Perspectives. Lit, Münster 2010, ISBN 978-3-643-90026-5 .
  • Organization and advice. A textbook on basics and theories. LIT, Münster 2007, ISBN 978-3-8258-8944-9 .
  • Principals, Agents and Power. A power-theoretical extension of agency theory and its application to interaction structures in organizational consulting. Habilitation thesis . (= Unit of social sciences). Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Mannheim, 2000. Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2002, ISBN 3-16-147832-0 .
  • with Berndt Schmidt : Cooperative Agents. Applications in the Social Sciences. Springer 2002, ISBN 1-4020-0190-8 .
  • with Nina Degele , Tanja Münch, Hans Pongratz: Sociological Consulting Research. Leske + Budrich, Opladen 2001, ISBN 3-8100-3121-6 .
  • Computer-aided theory construction in the social sciences. Concept-based simulation of a theoretical model using the example of military coups in Thailand. Using the multi-level synergetic approach. Society for Computer Simulation International, San Diego / Erlangen 1995, ISBN 1-56555-087-0 .
  • with Norman Braun (Ed.): Handbook Modeling and Simulation in the Social Sciences. Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2014, ISBN 978-3-658-01163-5 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bavarian Academy of Sciences elects new members , March 13, 2015, accessed June 4, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Saam, Nicole
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Saam, Nicole J.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German social scientist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH June 25, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart