Veronique Helwing-Hentschel
Member of the Human Geography working group with a focus on economic geography
Main research areas: Digitalization, platformization, globalization, geographies of work, logistics
From March 2020 to December 2024, Veronique Helwing-Hentschel worked as a research assistant in the Human Geography working group with a focus on economic geography. She worked on the Hans Böckler Foundation-funded project "Digital business models - changing value chains and work using the example of the logistics industry" and her dissertation deals with restructuring processes as a result of increasing platformization. She completed her Bachelor's degree in Geography with minors in Political Science and Business Administration and Economics at the Philipps University of Marburg. She then studied economic and social geography at Osnabrück University and wrote her master's thesis on the effects of platform-based job placement in the courier and parcel industry.
Helwing-Hentschel, V. (2025). Digital platforms in transportation logistics: work-related effects at different spatial levels. Standort. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00548-025-00969-7
Verfürth, P., Helwing-Hentschel, V. (2024): Digital platforms and the reconfiguration of global production networks. Journal of Economic Geography, lbae039, https://doi.org/10.1093/jeg/lbae039
Helwing-Hentschel, V., Franz, M., Verfürth, P. (2024). Due diligence in transportation supply chains: Taking the entire supply chain into account. Research funding working paper, Hans Böckler Foundation. link
Franz, M., Helwing, V., Verfürth, P. (2024). Digital platforms and their impact on labor in the logistics sector from a Global Production Networks perspective. In: Vale, M., Ferreira, D., Rodrigues, N. (eds.): Geographies of the platform economy. Critical perspectives. Springer: 91-104.
Helwing, V., Verfürth, P., Franz, M. (2023). Trucking (un)limited - the impact of digital platforms on labor in production networks of logistics. ZFW - Advances in Economic Geography. doi.org/10.1515/zfw-2021-0032
Verfürth, P., Franz, M., Helwing, V. (2023). Digital business-to-business platforms in the logistics sector. Effects on work and reactions of works councils and trade unions. Working Paper Research Funding 272, Düsseldorf: Hans Böckler Foundation. link
16.10.2024 | "Digitalization and automation of logistics: The example of digital platforms in road freight transport" as part of a lecture series of the project "Human in digital Logistics (HuLog)", online. |
| 28.08.2024 | "Digital Logistics Platforms and the Reconfiguration of Global Production Networks", RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2024, London (UK). |
| 23.11.2023 | "Digital Platforms and AI in (Transport) Logistics - Changing Work and Co-Determination", 3rd Schaffarei Conference on Technology Assessment from a Workers' Perspective, Feldkirch (AT). |
| 21.09.2023 | "Digital Platforms in Logistics: (Re-)Configuring Global Production Networks", 62nd German Congress of Geography, Frankfurt. |
| 31.08.2023 | "Trucking (un)limited - labor in the platformized transport logistics", RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2023, London (UK). |
| 29.04.2023 | "Digital platforms in logistics: Restructuring global production networks", 16th Rauischholzhausen Symposium on Economic Geography, Ebsdorfergrund-Rauischholzhausen. |
| 10.02.2023 | "Trucking (Un)limited - the Impact of Digital Platforms on Labor in the Logistics Sector", Annual Conference of the AK Labour Geography, Berlin. |
| 25.11.2022 | "Digital Platforms in Logistics - Reorganization of Global Production Networks", 37th Annual Conference of the AK Industrial Geography, Naurod-Niedernhausen. |
| 06.11.2020 | "Digital Platforms as Intermediaries in Global Production Networks - Conceptual Considerations Using the Example of the Logistics Sector", 35th Annual Conference of the AK Industrial Geography, online. |
Digital business models - changing value chains and work using the example of the logistics sector
Funding: Hans Böckler Foundation
Duration: Mar. 2020 - Feb. 2024
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Funding: INTERREG program Germany-Nederland
Duration: Jan. 2018 - Dec. 2018