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Prof. Karen Shire (Ph. D.)
Professor of Comparative Sociology and Japanese Society

Publications

 

Books

  • Shire, K., Hoppe, H-U., Borchert, M. (Eds.) (2007): „Jenseits von Virtualität: Arbeiten und Lernen in Projektnetzwerken. Entstehung, Kompetenzentwicklung und informationstechnische Lösungen“. Lohmar-Köln: Eul-Verlag.
  • Herrmann, T., Mambrey, Peter and Shire, K. (Eds.) (2003): Wissensgenese, Wissensteilung und Wissensorganisation in der Arbeitspraxis (Knowledge Creation, Knowledge Sharing and Knowledge Organisation in Work Practice). Wiesbaden: Westdeutscher Verlag.
  • Kevenhörster, P., Pascha, W., Shire, K. (2003): Länderbericht JAPAN: Wirtschaft, Gesellschaft, Politik (Japan: Economy, Society, Politics). Leske + Büdrich.
  • Holtgrewe, U., Kerst, C., Shire, K. (Eds.) (2002): Re-Organising Service Work in Europe: Call Centres in Germany and Britain. Ashgate Publishers.
  • Frenkel, S., Korczynski, M., Shire, K., Tam, M. (1999): On the Front-Line: Patterns of Service Work Organization in Comparative Perspective. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
  • Shire, K. (1990): The origins, structure and effects of Bargaining Regimes: A Comparison of Trade-Union Institutional Resources in Austria and the Federal Republic of Germany. Michigan: University Microfilms (Dissertation).

 

Journal Articles / Book Chapters

  • Shire, Karen/ Mottweiler, Hannelore/ Schönauer, Annika/ Valverde, Mireia (2009): Collective Bargaining and Temporary Contracts in Call Center Employment in Austria, Germany and Spain. European Journal of Industrial Relations, Vol. 15, No. 4, pp.1-20.
  • Shire, Karen/ Mottweiler, Hannelore/ Schönauer, Annika/ Valverde, Mireia (2009): "Temporary Work in Coordinated Market Economies: Evidence from Front-Line Service Workplaces." Industrial and Labor Review, Vol.62, No. 4, pp 602-617.
  • Shire, Karen (2008): White-Collar Work, In: Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World. Oxford University Press.
  • Shire, Karen and Danielle D. Van Jaarsveld (2008): "The Temporary Staffing Industry in Protected Employment Economies: Germany, Japan and the Netherlands", Sloan Industry Studies Working Papers, Number WP-2008-24
  • Shire, Karen (Hrsg.) (2008): Bildung und Arbeit im Modell Deutschland. Schwerpunkt Heft der Zeitschrift ARBEIT. Heft 4, pp.235-323.
  • Shire, Karen (2007): Gender and the Conzeptualization of the Knowledge Economy in Comparison. In: Sylvia Walby, Heidi Gottfried, Karin Gottschall and Mari Osawa (ed.), Gendering the New Economy, Palgrave Macmillan, pp.80-125.
  • Shire, Karen (2007): Gender Dimensions of the Aging Workforce in Japan. In Coulmas, Florian (ed.) Challenges of Demographic Change in Japan. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 27 pages (im Erscheinen).
  • Shire, Karen and Gottschall, Karin (2007) Understanding Employment Systems from a Gender Perspective – Pitfalls and Potentials of New Comparative Analytical Frameworks. ZeS-Arbeitspapier Nor. 6/2007 (www.zes.uni-bremen.de) 39 pages.
  • Shire, Karen/ Compagna, Diego (2006): What can engineers and social scientists learn from each other? In: Soeffker, Dirk/ Luther, Wolfram, Ahle, Elmar (Hrsg.): Guidance and Control of Autonomous Systems: Readings of the DAAD German Summer Academy, Duisburg 2005, Berlin: Logos Wissenschaftsverlag.
  • Zeini, Sam/ Tünte, Markus/ Imai, Jun/ Shire, Karen (2006): Data-Appendix. In: Walby, Sylvia et al. (Hrsg.): Gender and the New Economy, Palgrave Press, London, http://www.uni-due.de/imperia/md/content/shire/glow_appendix.pdf.
  • Shire, Karen 2006: Gender and the Conceptualization of the Knowledge Economy in Comparison. In: Sylvia Walby, Heidi Gottfried, Karin Gottschall and Mari Osawa (ed.), Gendering the New Economy, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 80 - 125.
  • Imai, Jun and Shire, Karen (2006) Employment Deregulation and the Expanding Market for Temporary Labour in Japan, in Haak, René (Ed.) The Changing Structure of Labor in Japan – Japanese Human Resource Management between Continuity and Innovation. London: Palgrave Press, pp. 113- 129.
  • Shire, Karen (2005) Keine Zeit? Arbeiten und Leben in Deutschland und in den Vereinigten Staaten, in: Strasser, Hermann und Nollmann, Gerd (Eds.) Endstation Amerika? Sozialwissenschaftliche Innen- und Außenansichten. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag, pp. 93-102.
  • Shire, Karen (2005) Die Gestaltung der Kundeninteraktion in wissensbasierter Dienstleistungsarbeit: eine empirische Studie, in: Jacobsen, Heike and Voswinkel, Stephan (Eds.) Der Kunde in der Dienstleistungsbeziegung. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag, pp. 219 - 240.
  • Imai, Jun and Shire, Karen (2005) Employment Deregulation and the Expanding Market for Temporary Labour in Japan, in: Haak, René (Ed.) The Changing Structure of Labor in Japan – Japanese Human Resource Management between Continuity and Innovation. London: Palgrave Press, pp. 113- 129.
  • Shire, Karen (2005) Gender and the Re-regulation of Temporary Agency Employment in Liberal and Non-Liberal Economies, in: Rehberg, Karl-Siegberg (Hrsg.): Soziale Ungleichheit - Kulturelle Unter-schiede, Verhandlungen des 32. Kongresses der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie in München 2004, Frankfurt: Campus Verlag (CD Rom Publication)
  • Shire, Karen and Imai, Jun (2004): Liberalization or Transformation of Employment in Germany and Japan? , in: Pascha, W. Systemic Change in the Japanese and German Economies: Convergence and Differentiation as Dual Challenges. Curzon Press.
  • Thomas Herrmann, Peter Mambrey, Karen Shire (2003): Wissensmanagement – ein Eingriff in die Organisation der Wissensteilung,in: Herrmann, Thomas, Mambrey, Peter and Shire, Karen (Eds.) Wissensgenese, Wissensteilung und Wissensorganisation in der Arbeitspraxis (Knowledge Creation, Knowledge Sharing and Knowledge Organisation in Work Practice). Wiesbaden: Westdeutscher Verlag, pp. 11 - 27.
  • Shire, Karen, Bienzeisler, Bernd, Mill, Ulrich and Zeini, Sam (2003): Wissensdesign an der Kundenschnittstelle (Knowledge Design in Front-Line Customer Service Work), in: Herrmann, Thomas, Mambrey, Peter and Shire, Karen (Eds.) Wissensgenese, Wissensteilung und Wissensorganisation in der Arbeitspraxis (Knowledge Creation, Knowledge Sharing and Knowledge Organisation in Work Practice). Wiesbaden: Westdeutscher Verlag, pp. 71 - 108.
  • Lenz, Ilse & Shire, K. (2003): Neue Medien in der Arbeit: Geschlechterverhältnisse im Wandel, (New Media and Work: Transformation of Gender Relations), in: Gössmann, Hilaria and Waldenberger, Franz (Eds.) Medien in Japan. Gesellschafts- und kulturwissenschaftliche Perspektiven. (Media in Japan: Social and Cultural Perspectives). Hamburg: IFA, pp. 68 -102.
  • Shire, K. (2003): Recent German Research on Japanese Labor and Economic Institutions In: Social Science Japan Journal, Vol. 6, No. 1, pp 97 - 104.
  • Shire, Karen (2003): Lessons from a Program to Develop Faculty IT Skills, in: Bachnik, J. Roadblocks on the Information Highway: The IT Revolution in Japanese Education. Boston: Lexington Books, pp. 181 - 196.
  • Shire, K., Holtgrewe, U., Kerst, C. (2002): Re-organising Customer Service Work, in: Holtgrewe, U., Kerst, C. and Shire, K. Re-Organising Service Work in Europe: Call Centres in Germany and Britain, London: Ashgate Publishers, pp. 1-16.
  • Shire, K. (2002): The Issue of Preschool Education from an International Perspective, in: Journal of Educational Research, Tokyo: ICU, pp. 295 - 303.
  • Shire, K. (2002): Stability and Change in Japanese Employment Institutions: The Case of Temporary Work, in: In ASEAN (84), pp. 21 - 30.
  • Shire, K. (2001): Zukunft der Arbeit(sforschung): Informatisierung, Subjektivität und Partizipation (The future of work (research): Informationalisation, Subjectivity and Participation) , in: Matuschek, I., Henninger, A., Kleemann, F. (Eds.) Neue Medien im Arbeitsalltag. Empirische Befunde – Gestaltungskonzepte – Theoretische Perspektiven (New Media in Everyday Working Life: Empirical Findings, Work Design and Theoretical Perspectives). Wiesbaden: Westdeutscher Verlag, pp 281 - 290.
  • Shire, K. (2000): Gendered Organization and Workplace Culture in Japanese Customer Services , in: Social Science Journal Japan Special issue on Gendering of Japan. Vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 37 - 57.
  • Korczynski, M., Shire, K., Frenkel, S., Tam, M. (2000): Service Work in Consumer Capitalism: Customers, Control and Contradictions , in: In Work, Employment & Society, vol. 14, no. 4, pp.669-687.
  • Shire, K. & Imai, J. (2000): Flexible Equality: Men and Women in Employment in Japan, in: Duisburg Working Papers on East Asian Studies, 30, 20 pages.
  • Shire, K. & Imai, J. (2000): Gender and the Diversification of Employment in Japan, in: Brose, H-G. (Ed.) Reorganisation der Arbeit. Frankfurt: Campus Verlag, pp. 117-136.
  • Shire, K. & Voss-Damm, D. (2000): Komplexe Aufgaben erfordern Spielräume (Complex Tasks Demand Autonomie), in: Die Mitbestimmung, 7. July, pp. 42-43.
  • Shire, K. (1999): Sozialization and Work in Japan: The Meaning of Adulthood for Men and Women in a Business Context. In International Journal of Japanese Sociology, 8, pp. 77-92.
  • Frenkel, S., Korczynski, M., Shire, K., Tam, M. (1998): Beyond Bureaucracy? Work Organisation in Call Centres. In International Journal of Human Resource Management, vol. 9, no. 6, pp. 957-979.
  • Shire, K. & Ota, M. (1997): The First Decade of Equal Employment Opportunities in Japan: A Review of Research. In The Journal of Social Science, 36, pp. 51-63.
  • Korczynski, M., Shire, K., Frenkel, S., and Tam, M. (1996): Front line work in the 'new model service firm': Australian and Japanese comparisons. In Human Resource Management Journal Special issue on HRM in the Asia-Pacific Region, vol. 6, no. 2, Spring, pp. 72 -87.
  • Frenkel, S., Korczynski, M., Donoghue, L., Shire, K. (1995): Reconstituting Work. In Work, Employment & Society, vol. 9, no. 4, Dez, pp. 773-796.
  • Shire, K. (1994): Bargaining Regimes and the Social Reorganization of Production: the case of General Motors in Austria and Germany. In Belanger, J., Edwards, P.K., Haiven, L. (Eds.). Workplace Regimes in International Perspective. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, N.Y., pp. 147 - 157.
  • Shire, K. (1992): New forms of work organization and remuneration regimes: a study of General Motors in Austria and Germany” (in French). In Cahiers de recherches sociologiques, 18 - 19, pp. 217 - 238.
  • Wright, E.O., Shire, K., Hwang, S.L., Dolan, M., Baxter, J. (1992): The Non-Effects of Class on the Gender Division of Labor in the Home: Sweden and the United States. In Gender & Society, 6/2/Juni, pp. 252-282.

 

Reviews and Commentaries

  • Shire, K. (2003): Recent German Research on Japanese Labor and Economic Institutions. In: Social Science Japan Journal, Vol. 6, No. 1, pp 97 – 104.
  • Shire, K. (2002): “Class and Gender in the Industrial Borderland: Lee’s Feminist Theory of Production Politics“ in Labor Studies Journal. Vol 27, No. 2 (Sommer), pp. 51 – 59.
  • Review of: Chancengleichheit auf Japanisch: Strukturen, Reformen und Perspektiven der Frauenerwerbsarbeit in Japan (Equal Opportunities in Japanese: Structure, Reform and The Future of Women's Employment in Japan by Claudia Weber. Book Review for Journal of Japanese Studies, Vol. 26, No. 2, 2000, pp. 490 - 494.
  • Race and Groupwork by T. Mistry and A. Brown. Book Review for Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, Vo. 2, No. 4, 1999, pp. 296 –298.
  • Review of: After Lean Production: Evolving Employment Practices in the World Auto Industry by Thomas A. Kochan, Russell D. Lansbury, John Paul MacDuffie. Book Review for Contemporary Sociology, Vol. 27, No. 14, 1998, pp. 369 - 370.
  • Review of: Head to Head: The Coming Economic Battle Among Japan, Europe and America by Lester Thurow. Book Review for Contemporary Sociology, vol. 23, no. 1, January 1994.

 

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