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

Sociology of Organizations

• Seminar (Bachelor):
  Wrongdoings in Organizations
  Silence in Organizations
  Organizational Deviance: Useful Illegality in Industry and Medicine, together with Julian Klinkhammer

Methods of Qualitative Social 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

Current Conferences and Academic Lectures

• "Observing, Bystanding, Tolerating - Explaining Organizational Failure in Dealing with Criminal Offences", together with Markus Pohlmann, held on 09/09/2021, Eurocrim 2021, Bukarest (online)
  
• "The Silence of Organizations - How Organizations Cover up Wrongdoings", Organization of the international Academy Conference 9-10/10/2019, Heidelberg, together with Sebastian Starystach (Lecture: "Organizational Silence and Organizational Self-Regulation")

Publications

• Pohlmann, Markus, Kristina Höly and Maria Eugenia Trombini (2021): The German Organ Transplant Scandal - The unwritten rules of organizational wrongdoings, in: Social Science and Medicine. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.114577
• 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