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Dr. Hana Fehrenbach

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Dr. Hana Fehrenbach is a postdoctoral fellow within the Chair of Public and Nonprofit Management, Faculty of Economics and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Freiburg since December 2023. As a recipient of the Elsa Neumann Scholarship of the State of Berlin, she received her doctorate from the Faculty of Social, Cultural and Educational Sciences at the Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany in 2023. She also holds a Master and a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) from Queen’s University in Kingston, Canada.

Hana is interested in organizational change and inertia. In her current postdoctoral research, she explores cross-sector collaborations focusing on artificial intelligence. Her dissertation, published in the Book Series Organizational Sociology from the German Sociological Research Association, examined why, how and for what (expected) benefits transnational strategic collaboration contributed to organizational change or to maintain inertia in pluralistic organizations. She employs both mixed and qualitative methods. 

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