Fields of Research Interests

Organizational and Management Sociology, Organizational Deviance

Research Projects

• The fight against manipulation and corruption
• Fraud and Manipulation
• Criminal Action and Loyalty in Organizations (Excellence Initiative - FoF4 2013-2014)
• Top Manager in East Asia

(Teaching) Activities

Organizational Sociology

• WS 2014/15, Seminar (Bachelor): Organizational Deviance: Useful Illegality in Industry and Medicine (S), together with Julian Klinkhammer, M.A.

Methods of Qualitative Research

• Seminar (Master): Collective Mindset Analysis
• Seminar (Bachelor): Introduction to Qualitative Social Research
  Selected Methods of Qualitative Social Research - Qualitative Interview and Collective Mindset Analysis
• Tutorial (Bachelor): Methods in Qualitative Social Research, together with Markus Pohlmann

Organization of the international Academy Conference "The Silence of Organizations - How Organizations Cover up Wrongdoings" (9-10 October 2019), together with Sebastian Starystach; Presentation: "Organizational Silence and Organizational Self-Regulation"

Publications

• Starystach, Sebastian and Kristina Höly (2021): Silence and Deviance in Organizations, in: Starystach, Sebastian and Kristina Höly (eds.): The Silence of Organizations: How Organizations Cover up Wrongdoings, Heidelberg: heiBOOKS. https://doi.org/10.11588/heibooks.592.c11617
• Höly, Kristina (2018): Auf den Spuren der globalen Finanzelite. Karriereverläufe und Deutungsmuster von Top-Managern im Bankensektor Hongkongs, Wiesbaden: Springer VS.
• Pohlmann, Markus und Kristina Höly (2017): Manipulationen in der Transplantationsmedizin - Ein Fall von organisationaler Devianz?, in: Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie 69 (2): S. 181-207.
• Pohlmann, Markus, Kristina Bitsch & Julian Klinkhammer (2016): Personal Gain or Organizational Benefits – How to Explain Active Corruption? In: Peter Graeff, Sebastian Wolf (Hg.), Ethical Challenges of Corrupt Practices: Formal and Informal Conflicts of Norms and Their Moral Ramifications, in: German Law Journal 17(1): S. 73-100.

Curriculum Vitae

• Postdoctoral Researcher (since 2018), Max-Weber-Institute of Sociology, Heidelberg University
• Promotion Dr. rer. pol. (2012-2017), Max-Weber-Institute of Sociology, Heidelberg University, Title: “On the Trail of the Global Financial Elite – Career Patterns and Action Orientations of Hong Kong’s Top-Banking Managers”
• Education Manager (2016-2018), Streit GmbH, Bensheim
• Academic Employee (2013-2016), Max-Weber-Institute of Sociology, Heidelberg University
• Master of Arts (2012), Max-Weber-Institute of Sociology, Heidelberg University
• Bachelor of Arts (2010), Max-Weber-Institute of Sociology, Heidelberg University