Sebastian Nagel

• Sociology of organizations, economic sociology, political economy, sociological theory;
• credit rating agencies, sustainable financial markets, shareholder activism, corporate governance, financial crises

04/2015-04/2018
Researcher [Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter] in the research project "Double Dividend? The Contribution of Sustainable Investments to the Stabilization of Financial Markets", funded by Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung 

10/2012-04/2018
Researcher [Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter] at the Chair of Sociology of Markets, Organizations and Governance (Prof. Dr. Stefanie Hiß); University of Jena

02/2012-03/2015
Researcher [Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter] in the research project NaFin - Sustainability and FinancialMarkets - Institutional Arrangements and Patterns of Perception"; Chair of Sociology of Markets, Organizations and Governance (University of Jena), funded by VolkswagenFoundation

07/2011-09/2012
Researcher [Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter] in the research project Institutionalization of public interests in private corporations"; Economic Sociology/Sociology of Financial Markets (University of Jena), funded by University of Jena

10/2009-07/2011
Graduate studies in Social Theory at the University of Jena (degree: MA)

04/2010-06/2011
Research assistant [Wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft] in the research project Rating and Rating agencies"; Economic Sociology/Sociology of Financial Markets (University of Jena), funded by Hans Boeckler Foundation

10/2010-02/2011
Research assistant [Wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft] at the Chair of General and Theory Sociology (University of Jena)

10/2006-09/2009
Undergraduate studies in Philosophy & Economics at the University of Bayreuth (degree: BA)

10/2007-07/2009
Several times undergraduate research assistant [Studentische Hilfskraft/Tutor] at the department Philosophy I (Prof. Dr. Rainer Hegselmann, University of Bayreuth)

2008
Dean's list for scholastic excellence (University of Delaware)

08/2008-12/2008
Undergraduate Studies in Philosophy at the University of Delaware (USA)

Hiß, Stefanie/Griese, Gesa/Nagel, Sebastian (2018): Da gibt es Sachen, die macht man einfach nicht Deutungsmuster von Banken im Kontext von External linkNachhaltigkeit und KriseExternal link. [There are Things you Simply do not doInterpretative Patterns of Banks in the Context of Sustainability and Crisis] In: Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie, 70 (Suppl 1), 317-341.

Hiß, Stefanie/Nagel, Sebastian (2018): Ratingagenturen. Risikoprognostiker mit regulierungsresistentem Risikopotenzial [Credit rating agencies. Risk forecasters with regulation resistant risk potential]. In: Beyer, Jürgen/Senge, Konstanze (Hg.): Finanzmarktsoziologie. Entscheidungen, Ungewissheit und Geldordnung [Finacial market sociology. Decisions, uncertainty and monetary order]. Wiesbaden: Springer VS: 165-178.

Hiss, Stefanie/Nagel, Sebastian/Teufel, Bernd (2018): Corporate Social Responsibility and Socially Responsible Investment - History of a Common Infrastructure. In: Backhaus-Maul, Holger/Kunze, Martin/Nährlich, Stefan (Eds.): Corporate Social Responsibility in Germany. Wiesbaden: Springer VS: 67-86.

Nagel, Sebastian/Schulte, Hanna/Hiß, Stefanie (2017): Institutionen und Diskurse verknüpfen: Neue Einsichten zur Stabilität sozialer Ungleichheit zwischen Geschlechtern [Linking institutions and discourses: New insights into the stability of social inequality between the genders]. In: Funder, Maria (ed.): Neo-Institutionalismus Revisited: Bilanz und Weiterentwicklungen aus Sicht der Geschlechterforschung [Neo-institutionalism revisited: Balance and advances from the point of view of gender studies]. Baden-Baden: Nomos: 153-173.

Nagel, Sebastian/Hiss, Stefanie/Woschnack, Daniela/Teufel, Bernd (2017): Between Efficiency and Resilience: The Classification of Companies According to their Sustainability Performance.External link In: Historical Social Research, 42 (1), 189-210.

Hiss, Stefanie/Nagel, Sebastian (2017): Unternehmen als gesellschaftliche Akteure [Companies as Social Actors]. In: Maurer, Andrea (Ed.): Handbuch der Wirtschaftssoziologie [Handbook of Economic Sociology]. 2nd edition. Wiesbaden: Springer VS: 331-348.

Nagel, Sebastian/Hiß, Stefanie/Teufel, Bernd (2016): Targeting the financial market: Civil society impulses for social change. In: Forschungsjournal Soziale Bewegungen, 29 (3), 135-143.

Woschnack, Daniela/Nagel, Sebastian/Hiss, Stefanie/Teufel, Bernd (2015): Das Accounting sozialer Nachhaltigkeit [The accounting of social sustainability]. In: Ökologisches Wirtschaften, 30 (4), 30-34.External link

Hiss, Stefanie/Nagel, Sebastian (2014): Credit Rating Agencies. In: Mügge, Daniel (Ed.): Europe and the Governance of Global Finance. Oxford: Oxford University Press: 127-140.

Hiß, Stefanie/Nagel, Sebastian (2012): Ratingagenturen zwischen Krise und Regulierung. [Rating Agencies Between Crisis and Regulation.] Baden-Baden: Nomos.

Introduction to Sociology of Markets (undergraduate course; course language: German); summer term 2017

Labour market for sociologists (undergraduate course; course language: German); winter term 2016/17

Qualitative Frame-Analysis (undergraduate course; course language: German); summer term 2016

Sociology of markets (undergraduate course; course language: German); winter term 2015/16

Sociology of credit (undergraduate course; course language: German); summer term 2015

New Institutionalism in sociology: Explaining stability and change (undergraduate course; course language: German); winter term 2014/15

Women in executive positions from an organization sociology perspective (undergraduate course; course language: German); summer term 2014

Corporate governance and sustainability (undergraduate course; course language: German); winter term 2013/14

Sociology of financial markets (undergraduate course; course language: German); summer term 2013

Organizations in crisis (undergraduate course; course language: German); winter term 2012/13