Lorena Herzog
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D-10785 Berlin
Lorena Herzog is a visiting researcher in the research group “Globalization, Work, and Production” at the Berlin Social Science Center (WZB) and an associated researcher in the research group “Working with Artificial Intelligence” at the Weizenbaum Institute. She studied political and social sciences at Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, including a one-year stay at Tel Aviv University.
In her research, she studies the political economy of the socio-ecological transformation and structural changes in work and employment. As part of the Center for Structural Change and Regional Development (ZeStuR) at Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus–Senftenberg, she is currently researching transformation processes in the Lusatia region. At the WZB Berlin, she has contributed to the research projects “Business model innovation in the digital and ecological transformation (GEMI)” (2024–2025), supported by the Hans Böckler Foundation, and "Automation, digitalization and virtualization of work in the aftermath of the COVID-19 crisis" (2021–2023), supported by the German Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs (BMAS).
Selected Publications
Herzog, Lorena (2024). Public Guarantees for the Green Transition? Market-Based Finance and the Role of Development Banks in the European Commission’s Green Industrial Transition Plan. In: PROKLA. Journal of Critical Social Science, 54(216), 411-430. https://doi.org/10.32387/prokla.v54i216.2137
Herzog, Lorena, Cooiman, Franziska, Gerber, Christine & Wandjo, David (2024). COVID-19 and Platform Work in Germany: Lessons for the New Normal. Weizenbaum Series 34. https://doi.org/10.34669/WI.WS/34
Delicat, Nina/Herzog, Lorena/Krzywdsinski, Martin/et al. (2024). Organisationswandel und Wahrnehmung der Akzeptanz von Digitalisierungsprozessen in Unternehmen infolge der COVID-19-Pandemie. In: Pfeiffer, Sabine/et al. (Hrsg.) Digitalisierung der Arbeitswelten. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-44458-7_6
Herzog, Lorena (2022). Crisis as a Driving Force? Amazon’s Business Development During the Covid-19 Pandemic. In: PROKLA. Journal of Critical Social Science, 52(206), 55–76. https://doi.org/10.32387/prokla.v52i206.1978