Ulrich Dolata

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Ulrich Dolata at a lecture at the TU Dortmund (2012)

Ulrich Dolata (* 1959 in Dortmund ) is a German sociologist.

He studied economics in Bremen (1980–1985; degree: Diplom-Ökonom) and also received his doctorate in economics and social sciences (Dr. rer. Pol.) At the University of Bremen in 1992 and habilitated in 2003 with a basic thesis in the sociology of technology . From the end of the 1980s he worked at the Hamburg Institute for Social Research, later at the Research Center for Work, Environment and Technology (artec) at the University of Bremen and finally at the Max Planck Institute for Social Research (MPIfG) in Cologne. In the academic year 2000/01 he worked in Graz as a visiting professor and as a senior fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies on Science, Technology, and Society (sts). Ulrich Dolata was on the board of the Science and Technology Research section of the German Sociological Society (DGS) from 2007 to 2018 and its spokesperson from autumn 2014 to autumn 2018. In addition, he has been a member of the Advisory Board of the 'Sociology of Science and Technology Network (SST-Net)' of the European Sociological Association (ESA) since 2011 .

Ulrich Dolata has been a professor of organizational and innovation sociology at the Institute for Social Sciences at the University of Stuttgart since 2009 . His work and research focuses on the sociology of technology, organization and economy, innovation research and technology policy, as well as the sociology of genetic engineering and the Internet. He is considered to be a representative of technological-sociological institutionalism.

Fonts (selection)

  • Platform regulation. Coordination of markets and curation of sociality on the Internet . Berliner Journal für Soziologie 29 (3) (2020). ( [1] )
  • Privatization, curation, commodification. Commercial platforms on the Internet . Austrian Journal for Sociology 44, Suppl. 1, 181–197 (2019). ( [2] )
  • Sectoral change through technology . Innovation Research Handbook (Eds. Birgit Blättel-Mink / Ingo Schulz-Schaeffer / Arnold Windeler). Wiesbaden: SpringerVS, 1–18 (2019). ( [3] )
  • Collectivity and Power on the Internet. A Sociological Perspective (together with Jan-Felix Schrape ). Dordrecht: Springer (2018).
  • Collectivity and Power on the Internet. Social Movements - Open Source Communities - Internet Corporations (Ed. Together with Jan-Felix Schrape ). Wiesbaden: Springer VS (2018).
  • Technically advanced sociality. Social Movements and the Internet . Journal for Sociology 46, 4, 266–282 (2017). ( doi : 10.1515 / zfsoz-2017-1015 )
  • Social Movements and the Internet. The Sociotechnical Constitution of Collective Action . SOI discussion paper 2017-02 (2017). ( [4] )
  • Apple, Amazon, Google, Facebook, Microsoft. Market Concentration - Competition - Innovation Strategies . SOI discussion paper 2017-01 (2017). ( [5] )
  • Masses, crowds, communities, movements. Collective Action in the Internet Age (together with Jan-Felix Schrape). Social Movement Studies 15, 1, 1-18 (2016). doi : 10.1080 / 14742837.2015.1055722 .
  • Research and Development in Business . Science Policy Handbook (2nd edition) (Eds. Dagmar Simon / Andreas Knie / Stefan Hornbostel). Heidelberg: Springer, 609-626 (2016).
  • Volatile monopoly. Concentration, competition and innovation strategies of the internet companies . Berliner Journal für Soziologie 24, 4, 505-529 (2015). doi : 10.1007 / s11609-014-0261-8
  • App economy: democratization of the software market? (together with Jan-Felix Schrape). Technology assessment - theory and practice 23, 1, 76–80 (2014). ( [6] )
  • Collective action on the internet. An actor-theoretical foundation (together with Jan-Felix Schrape). Berliner Journal für Soziologie 24, 1, 5–30 (2014).
  • The Transformative Capacity of New Technologies. A Theory of Sociotechnical Change . London / New York: Routledge (2013). ( [7] )
  • Internet, mobile devices and the transformation of the media. Radical change as a step-by-step reconfiguration (Ed. Together with Jan-Felix Schrape). Berlin: edition sigma (2013).
  • Change through technology. A theory of socio-technical transformation . Frankfurt / New York: Campus (2011). ( [8] )
  • Socio-technical change as a gradual transformation . Berliner Journal für Soziologie 21, 2, 265–294 (2011).
  • Technological Innovations and Sectoral Change. Transformative Capacity, Adaptability, Patterns of Change: An Analytical Framework . Research Policy 38, 6, 1066-1076 (2009).
  • The Internet and the Transformation of the Music Industry. Reconstruction and explanation of uncontrolled sectoral change . Berliner Journal für Soziologie 18, 3, 344–369 (2008). ( Full text online ; PDF; 588 kB)
  • Technological innovations and sectoral change. Depth of intervention, adaptability, transformation pattern. An analytical approach . Journal for Sociology 37, 1, 42–59 (2008). ( Full text online )
  • Society and the power of technology. Socio-economic and institutional change through mechanization (Ed. Together with Raymund Werle). Frankfurt / New York: Campus (2007).
  • Technology and innovation policy in global competition. Changed framework conditions, institutional transformation and political design options . Journal of Political Science 16, 2, 427–455 (2006).
  • An internet economy? . WSI Communications 58, 1, 11-17 (2005).
  • Company technology. Actors, interaction patterns and structural contexts of technology development: a theoretical framework . Berlin: edition sigma (2003).
  • International Innovative Activities, National Technology Competition and European Integration Efforts . Changing Governance of Research and Technology Policy. The European Research Area (eds Jakob Edler / Stefan Kuhlmann / Maria Behrens). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 271-289 (2003).
  • Cracks in the network. Power, competition and cooperation in technology development and regulation . Political quarterly: PVS special volume 31, 37–45 (2001).
  • Political economy of genetic engineering. Corporate strategies, research programs, technology races . Berlin: edition sigma (1996).
  • Modernization catching up and international innovation management. Strategies of the German chemical and pharmaceutical companies in the new biotechnology . Biotechnology - genetic engineering. An opportunity for new industries (edited by Thomas von Schell / Hans Mohr). Heidelberg: Springer, 456-480 (1995).
  • World market-oriented modernization. The economic regulation of the scientific and technical upheaval in the Federal Republic . Frankfurt / New York: Campus (1992).
  • Economic Regulation and Regulatory Crises in Capitalism. Theoretical foundations . Cologne: Pahl-Rugenstein (1986).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Homepage of Ulrich Dolata at the University of Stuttgart: http://www.uni-stuttgart.de/soz/oi/index.html
personal data
SURNAME Dolata, Ulrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Dortmund