Dr. Elizangela Valarini

Max-Weber-Institut für Soziologie
Universität Heidelberg
Bergheimer Str. 58
69115 Heidelberg
Room: 02.003

Phone: +49 (6221) 54 2970
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Current Teaching Activity

Master-Research Seminar 2020/2021: Challenge for organizations in the digital age

Fields of Research Interests

Organizational, Management and Economic Sociology, Globalization, Digitalization, Corporate Crime, Corruption and Themen about Brazilian development

Research Projects

• Organizational Crime and Systemic Corruption in Brazil
• Challenges for organizations in the digital age
• The conditions under which leave organizations in Brazil and Argentina legal paths and how can this be prevented?
• The fight against corruption and manipulation
• Economic elites in Brazil and Argentina

Publication

Pohlmann, Markus, Gerhard Dannecker and Elizangela Valarini (2020): Bribery, Fraud, Cheating. How to Explain and to Avoid Organizational Wrongdoing. Wiesbaden: Springer VS.

Pohlmann, Markus, Elizangela Valarini, Maria Trombini and Mario Jorge (2019): Systemic Corruption in Brazil: An Autopsy of the Odebrecht Case. In: Journal of Self-Regulation and Regulation, Vol. 5, S. 55-78.

Valarini, Elizangela and Markus Pohlmann (2019): Organizational crime and corruption in Brazil a case study of the “Operation Carwash” court records. In: International journal of Law, Crime and Justice, Vol. 59, S. 100340.

Valarini, Elizangela and Marcio Carvalho (2018): Special Issue “Pensamento Social Alemão” [German social thought]. In: Revista em Tese, v. 15, n. 2.

Valarini, Elizangela and Marcio Carvalho (2018): Apresentação: A história da sociologia alemã e sua recepção no contexto brasileiro [Introduction: The history of German sociology and its reception in the Brazilian context]. In: Vol. 15, N. 2, S. 7-18.

Valarini, Elizangela (2018): Entrevista com Prof. Dr. rer. pol., Dr. h.c. Wolfgang Schluchter: O pensamento de Max Weber na Sociologia contemporânea [Interview with Prof. Dr. Rer. Pol., Dr. H.c. Wolfgang Schluchter: Max Weber in contemporary sociology]. In: Vol. 15, N. 2, S. 221-234.

Valarini, Elizangela (2018): Management in Brasilien. Karriereverläufe und Handlungsorientierungen im Zuge der Globalisierung. [Management in Brazil. Careers and action orientations in the course of globalisation].Wiesbaden: Springer VS.

Valarini, Elizangela and Markus Pohlmann (2016): Há um novo espírito capitalista na conduta de vida dos executivos brasileiros? Análise da orientação da ação à partir da reconstrução do padrão coletivo de interpretação social [A new spirit of capitalism in the life’s conduct of Brazilian managers? Analysis of the action orientation on the basis on the reconstruction of collective mindset], Revista de Teoria da História, V. 16, N. 2, 30-59.

Valarini, Elizangela, Friederike Elias and Markus Pohlmann (2015): The neoliberal capitalist spirit in Latin America. The role of the finance market orientation in Argentina and Brazilian large companies, Revista PLURAL, V. 22, N. 2, 37-80.

Pohlmann, Markus, Stefan Bär and Elizangela Valarini (2014): The analysis of collective mindsets:Introducing a New Method of Institutional Analysis in Comparative Research, Revista de Sociologica e Politica, V. 22, N. 52, 7-25.

Pohlmann, Markus and Elizangela Valarini (2013): Elite econômica no Brasil: discussões acerca da internationalização da carreira de executivos brasileiros [Economic elite in Brazil: discussions about the internationalization of the career of Brazilian managers]. Rev. de Sociologia e Politica. V. 21. N. 47.

Presentations

• A neoliberal spirit of capitalismus? An empirische study about the finance market orientation of Brazilian economic elite. Tagung Weber2020: Wissenschaft, Politik und Gesellschaft mit Leidenschaft und Augenmaß, Darmstadt, Juli 2020.
• Collective mindset and the narrative of corruption: International benchmark and Brazilian practice, with Maria Eugenia Trombini; XXXVIII International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association Congress – LASA2020, April 2020.
• Collective mindset of digital organizations, with Dr. Friederike Elias. Arbeitskreis: Organisation und Digitalisierung in der Sektion Organisationssoziologie der DGS. Workshop „Theoretische und empirische Grundlagen einer soziologischen Digitalisierungsforschung“, Berlin, Mai 2018.
• Corruption in Brazil, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Januar 2018.
• Globalization, Management and the role of the State. Action orientation of Brazilian and Argentinian managers, with Dr. Friederike Elias. Heidelberg University, November 2016.
• Globalização neoliberal e recuo do papel do Estado? Uma analise da orientação da ação de executivos argentinos e brasileiros em perspectiva comparada, with Dr. Friederike Elias. Federal University of Parana (UFPR), Brazil, October 2016.
• Global management? Action orientation of Brazilian and Argentinien Managers, with Dr. Friederike Elias. Federal University of ABC, Brazil, October 2016.
• Corruption and Cheating in Germany and Brazil, with Prof. Markus Pohlmann. University of Sao Paulo; Federal University of Parana (UFPR) and Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil, October 2016.
• Globalization and its effects on career patterns and action orientations of top managers in Brazil. Max-Weber-Institute of Sociology, Heidelberg University, June 2015.
• Economic Elite in Brazil: social background, career patterns and action orientation. IX Workshop: Enterprises, Entrepreneurs and Society, Niterói, Brazil, September 2014.
• Methods to Research on Economic Elites - The research design of the project International Management Studies. University of Vila Velha, Brazil, August 2014.
• The Analysis of Social Interpretation Patterns. Introducing new methods in comparative research, with Dr. Stefan Bear. Conference Elites em diferentes escalas, Teoria e metodologia no estudo de grupos dirigentes, Curitiba, Brazil, September 2013.

Conferences & Workshops

• Serie of lectures "Jenseits der Moral", with Markus Pohlmann. Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, 2018-2019.
• International Conference "How to Analyze and Prevent Corporate Crime? The Failures of Regulation and Self-Regulation", with Markus Pohlmann. Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, December 2016.
• Workshop "Collective Mindset Analysis". Federal University of Santa Catariana (UFSC), October 2016.
• International Conference "Max Weber and the New Spirit of Capitalism: Self-regulation and corporate governance in a Global Economy", with Jivanta Schöttli. Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, December 2014.
• Worshop "How to Interpret Interviews: Making use of the collective mindset analysis in the interpretation pattern of Brazilian magazines". Federal University of Paraná (UFPR), September 2014.
• Workshop "Intercultural Leadership and Organization: Corporate governance in Brazilian Enterprises". Audi AG, August und October 2014.

Curriculum Vitae

• April 2016 - Postdoctoral researcher and teaching assistant at the Max-Weber-Institute of Sociology, Heidelberg University
• 2014-2016 - Doctorate at the Heidelberg University on "Globalization and its effects on career patterns and action orientations of top managers in Brazil"
• 2011-2016 - Researcher at the Max-Weber-Institute of Sociology at the Heidelberg University - Coordination and implementation of the Ssubproject  about"Career patterns and action orientations of top managers in Brazi" in the international research project International Management Studies
• 2014 - Master of Arts in Sociology: "Organizational and personnel development" at the Max-Weber-Institute of Sociology, Heidelberg University
• 2002 - Bachelor and licentiate in Psychology with emphasis on organizational and clinical psychology at the Institute of Psychology, Universidade Estadual de Maringá (UEM)