Helena Gräf
Helena Gräf is a research associate and PhD candidate at HWR Berlin in cooperation with the University of Erfurt on the topic of "Green Industrial Policy in the EU: The State-Driven Transformation of the Battery Value Chain". She was previously a pre-doctoral student at the Max Weber Center for Advanced Studies. Helena Gräf has contributed to several research projects that examine the governance of global value chains. In the context of her PhD project and further research projects, she analyses the role of state policies in shaping global supply chains from a political-economic perspective against the backdrop of the 'Green Transition' and geo-economic challenges. Another focal point of her work lies in analyzing the relationship between the state and labor ('state-labour nexus'). Ms. Gräf teaches, among other topics, on (transnational) labour governance and decent work in global value chains.
Research Interests
- International and Comparative Political Economy
- Global Value Chains and Global Production Networks
- State Policy, with a focus on Green Industrial Policy
- Labour Governance
- Geoeconomics
- Regional Focus: Europe, EU–China relations, Brazil, Chile
Selected publications
Gräf, H. (2024). A Regulatory‐Developmental Turn Within EU Industrial Policy? The Case of the Battery IPCEIs’, Politics and Governance, 12. https://doi.org/10.17645/pag.8188
Gräf, H., & Teipen, C. (2023). Die Covid-19-Pandemie in der deutschen Automobil- und IT-Dienstleistungsindustrie: Auswirkungen auf Beschäftigung, Arbeitsbeziehungen und die Restrukturierung der Wertschöpfungskette. AIS-Studien, 16(2), 43-57. https://doi.org/10.21241/ssoar.91252
Gräf, H., & Schmalz, S. (2023). Avoiding the China shock: How Chinese state-backed internationalization drives changes in European economic governance. Competition & Change (im Druck). Doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/10245294231207990.
Gräf, Helena & Topuria, Salome (2023): The Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Industrial Policy in Germany and the European Union. European Journal of Economics and Economic Policies: Intervention (im Druck). Doi: doi.org/10.4337/ejeep.2023.0112.
Herr, H., Teipen, C., & Gräf H. (2023) Corona und das globale Machtgefälle in Lieferketten am Beispiel der Automobilindustrie. In: Haipeter, T., Helfen, M., Kirsch, A. und Rosenbohm, S. (Hg.) Soziale Standards in globalen Lieferketten: Internationale Richtlinien, unternehmerische Verantwortung und die Stimme der Beschäftigten, Bielefeld: transcript, 115-133. Doi: 10.14361/9783839467701-006.
Schmalz, S., Gräf, H., Köncke, P. & Schneidemesser, L. (2022) Umkämpfte Globalisierung: Amerikanische und europäische Reaktionen auf Chinas Aufstieg im Hochtechnologiebereich. Berliner Journal für Soziologie 32, 427–454. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11609-022-00481-x.
Gräf, H. & Raj-Reichert, G. (2020) Bessere Arbeitsbedingungen weltweit. Das neue Berliner Vergaberecht stärkt soziale Verantwortung für Lieferketten, WZB-Mitteilungen 168, 95-97.