Areas of Research:

• Employment relationships in (interactive) service work & retail sector
• Paradoxes, tensions and identity formation in HRM
• Institutional Theory and Convention Theory
• Organizational Ethnography

Her doctoral thesis analyzed how front-line service workers handle contradictory requirements of customers and employers in service interactions via the direct observation of service interactions. This is a counter-point to dominant scholarly accounts focused on normative and functional pronouncements. She is particularly interested in how organizational and macro-social structures play out at the micro-level with regards to the implications for managing the workforce. 

Currently:

• since 2015: Assistant Professor Human Resource Management,  University of Innsbruck

Work Experience:

• 2017: Visiting Scholar, Industrial Relations Research Centre (IRRC), University of New South Wales Business School, Sydney
• 2013-2015: Manager Recruiting and Talent Management AT & CEE, Peek & Cloppenburg KG, Vienna
• 2012-2013: Research Assistant, Human Resource Management Unit, University of Innsbruck
• 2009-2012: Store Manager / Sales Director, Peek & Cloppenburg KG, Vienna
• 2008-2009: General Management Trainee, Peek & Cloppenburg KG, Vienna
• 2006: Internship Human Resources, Sandoz S.A., Buenos Aires
• 2005: Internship "Fine Art" Marketing, BMW Group, Munich
  

 Education:

• October 2014: Promotion, Doctor of Social and Economic Sciences, University of Innsbruck (with distinction)
• 2012-2014: Doctoral Programme in Social and Economic Sciences, University of Innsbruck
• 2003-2008: Diploma Programmes in International Economics and Business Sciences and in Business Administration,  University of Innsbruck
• 2003-2009: Diploma Programme in Political Science, University of Innsbruck
• 2005-2006: Administración de Empresas, Universidad Carlos III, Madrid

Grants: 

• 2018: Tyrolean Tourism Research Centre - Research fund
  Project: Working when and where others are on holidays?! The role of values in the perception of attractive service work jobs, project leader, Sum: 32.800 €
• 2017: Austrian Chamber of Labour - Research fund 
  Project: Do job ads contribute to equal opportunities? project leader, Sum: 20.000 €
• 2013: Tyrolean Research Fund (TWF), Promotion of young academics                                                                            Project: Restructuring employment in the retailing sector, project leader, Sum: 10.000 €

Selected Publications: 

• Appleby, Kaitlin; Bullinger, Bernadette and Schneider, Anna (forthcoming): STEM selves: Women's identity Projects and their assessment of future employers in technical fields, Scandinavian Journal of Management. 
• Brandl, Julia; Dreher, Jochen and Schneider, Anna (forthcoming): 'The HR generalist is dead': A phenomenological perspective on decoupling. In Patrick Haack, Jost Sieweke, Lauri Wessel (ed.) Microfoundations of Institutions (Research in the Sociology of Organizations, Volume xx) Emerald Publishing Limited. 
• Brandl, Julia; Kozica, Arjan; Pernkopf, Katharina and Schneider, Anna (forthcoming): Flexible work practices: Analysis from a pragmatist perspective , Historical Social Research.
• Schneider, Anna (2017): Micropolitics in the Multinational Corporation: Foundations, Applications and New Directions", critical perspectives on international business, Vol. 13 Issue: 2, pp.180-182. (book review) 
• Brandl, Julia; Schneider, Anna (2017): Headquarters-Subsidiary Relationships from a Convention Theory Perspective: Plural Orders of Worth, Arrangements and Form-Giving Activities. In Dörrenbächer, Christoph; Geppert, Mike (ed.) Multinational Corporations and Organization Theory: Post Millennium Perspectives (Research in the Sociology of Organizations, Volume 49) Emerald Publishing Limited, pp.295 - 324.
• Kozica, Arjan; Schneider, Anna (2016): Économie des conventions. Eine Theorieperspektive für
  PraktikerInnen? Austrian Management Review, 6: 12-21.
• Schneider, Anna (2016): Handling the clash between production & consumption: A situated view on front-line service workers' competencies in interactive service. (Empirische Personal- und Organisationsforschung). München: Rainer Hampp Verlag. ISBN 978-3-95710-64-1Weblink

further academic activities - Research Documentation Database of the University of Innsbruck

Memberships:

• European Group of Organization Studies (EGOS)
• Academy of Management (AOM)
• Wissenschaftliche Kommission Personal - VHB

Teaching:

• Strategic Human Resource Management, Bachelor Management & Economics, University of Innsbruck
• Leading and Staff Development, Bachelor Management & Economics, University of Innsbruck
• HRM and Organisation, Master Organization Studies, University of Innsbruck
• Instrumente der Personal-, und Organisationsentwicklung, Privatuniversität Schloss Seeburg, Seekirchen a.W. 

Invited Talks & Media:

• July 31, 2018:         Zukunftswerkstatt Südtirol Bruneck
• July 25, 2018:         "Reich sein heißt Lebensqualität, und das nicht gemessen an materiellen Werten."
• Juliy 17, 2018:        Zukunftswerkstatt Südtirol Brixen
• January 21, 2017:  Berufliche Kommunikation im Wandel