Dr. Martha Ehrich

Martha joined the Filmuniversity as a Postdoc responsible for the project management of the international research project „GEP Analysis: Assessing, Understanding, and Modeling the Impact of Gender Equity Policies (GEP) in the Film Industry“ (DFG/ESRC/SSHRC, 2021-2024) in April 2021. Prior to this Martha was employed as a research assistant at the Radboud University Nijmegen, while also obtaining their PhD degree in Management Science.

Martha's research interests lie broadly with interdisciplinary and multi-method network research in organisational cooperation. More specifically, Martha's research projects relate to different industry contexts, bridging critical management studies, critical political economy and feminist philosophy of science.

Publications:

Ehrich, M. (forthcoming). Tensions and dialectics in the capitalist embeddedness of inter-organizational networks: A case study of network cooperation in the Dutch paper industry. Farol: Journal of Organizational Studies and Society (Special Issue on Economic Studies of Organizations).

Ehrich, M. (forthcoming). The Dutch Paper and Board Industry from 1580 to the Present: The Long Survival of a Small Industry. London: Palgrave Macmillan.

Ehrich, M. (forthcoming). Autoethnography. In Leo McCann, Ödül Bozkurt, Rachael Finn, Edward Granter, Nina Kivinen, Arun Kumar, Carolyn Hunter & Brian Wierman (eds.), Encyclopedia of Critical Management Studies. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.

Ehrich, M., Thiele, F., Loist, S. and Prommer, E. (2023) Netzwerke der Ungleichheit: Kodieren von Geschlecht und Ethnizität im Distributionsnetzwerk der Filmindustrie. In Niebling, L., Stollfuß, S., Raczkowski, F. (eds), Handbuch Digitale Medien und Methoden. Wiesbaden: Springer VS.

Ehrich, M. (2023). Being an academic ghostwriter: be(coming) me(thodology). In S. Robinson, A. Bristow & O. Ratle (eds), Doing Academic Careers Differently: Portraits of academic life. New York, USA: Routledge.

Ehrich, M., Burgdorf, K., Samoilova, Z. and Loist, S. (2022). The film festival sector and its networked structures of gender inequality. Applied Network Science, 7(20). rdcu.be/cKKJS

Ehrich, M. (2022). Dialectical network analysis: A critical approach for researching networks in management and organization studies. In M. Godwyn (eds), Research Handbook on the Sociology of Organizations. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, pp.125-144.

Ehrich, M. (2020). Neither new nor heterarchic. Inter-organizational networks throughout the history of the Dutch paper and board industry. Doctoral dissertation. Radboud University.