Centre for Sustainability Management (CSM)

Organisational unit: Institute

Organisation profile

The Centre for Sustainability Management (CSM) at Leuphana University Lüneburg is an internationally operating centre conducting research, teaching and continuous education in the fields of entrepreneurial sustainability management, corporate social responsibility (CSR) and social entrepreneurship.

The Centre analyses causes, structures and processes of environmental, social and sustainability related problems applying concepts and methods of business management, entrepreneurial and environmental sciences. It develops integrated, sustainability solutions for companies, the economy and society by creating integrative ecological, social and economic approaches to sustainability management and entrepreneurship.

How can sustainability performance in and of companies be measured effectively and efficiently? What are relevant framework conditions for effective CSR and sustainability management? How can stakeholder relationships be managed effectively? These and other questions are examined by CSM that also deals with practical up-to-date issues such as supply chain management, biodiversity management or social businesses.

CSM offers a distance learning MBA in Sustainability Management - the first Green MBA worldwide and the leading programme for sustainability management and corporate social responsibility (CSR). The Centre is furthermore involved in developing programmes and courses on CSR and sustainability management at Leuphana University Lüneburg and other universities.

 

Main research areas

The CSM provides input into numerous curricular programmes and courses on CSR and sustainability management at the Leuphana University Lüneburg and at other universities. Since 2003 the CSM offers the MBA in Sustainability Management as continuous education program to educate and support ‘change agents for sustainability’ in business. In addition to the comprehensive MBA programme, there is also a modular certificate program - theCertificates of Corporate Sustainability Managementon topics such as circular economy, decarbonisation management, sustainability reporting & accounting, sustainability management in sport or sustainable supply chain management.

The Centre also makes a substantial contribution to on-campus degree programmes at the Leuphana University Lüneburg.

Continuing education programmes

The MBA in Sustainability Management is the first university MBA in sustainability management and corporate social responsibility (CSR) worldwide. The e-learning supported distance learning degree programme can be completed in either part-time (two years) or full-time (one year). The MBA in Sustainability Management is accredited according to European guidelines and leads to the internationally recognised degree "Master of Business Administration" (MBA).

The CSM is also active in a number of other international continuing education programmes in CSR and sustainability management. For years the Centre has collaborated in continuing education and distance programmes with the FernUniversität Hagen (Germany’s leading open university) and the Fraunhofer Institute for Environmental, Safety and Energy Technology (UMSICHT). The CSM organises the whole area of environmental management for their interdisciplinary programme of studies in environmental sciences (the Infernum Master of Science in Environmental Sciences at the UMSICHT Fraunhofer Institute).

  1. 2003
  2. Published

    How Does Sustainability Performance Relate to Business Competitiveness?

    Wagner, M. & Schaltegger, S., 2003, In: Greener Management International. 44, p. 5-16 12 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  3. Published

    Nutzungskonflikte zwischen Freizeitnutzern

    Kleiber, O. & Bilecen, E., 2003, Freizeitaktivitäten im Baselbieter Wald: Ökologische Auswirkungen und ökonomische Folgen. Baur, B. (ed.). Liestal: Verlag des Kantons Basel-Landschaft, p. 129-133 5 p. (Quellen und Forschungen zur Geschichte und Landeskunde des Kantons Basel-Landschaft; vol. 84).

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearch

  4. Published

    Operative Umsetzung der projektorientierten Kyoto-Mechanismen bei Kraftwerken: Erarbeitung eines Instruments

    Frenzel, S., 2003, Lüneburg: Centre for Sustainability Management, 153 p.

    Research output: Working paperWorking papers

  5. Published

    Sustainability Performance and Business Competitiveness

    Wagner, M. (Editor) & Schaltegger, S. (Editor), 2003, greener management international.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesSpecial Journal issueResearch

  6. Published

    Sustainability Reporting Guidelines 2002

    Schaltegger, S. (Translator), 2003, Lüneburg: Centre for Sustainability Management, 90 p.

    Research output: Working paperWorking papers

  7. Published

    The Sustainability Balanced Scorecard as a Framework to Link Environmental Management Accounting with Strategic Management

    Figge, F., Hahn, T., Schaltegger, S. & Wagner, M., 2003, Environmental management accounting: Purpose and Progress. Bennett, M., Rikhardsson, P. M. & Schaltegger, S. (eds.). Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, p. 17-40 24 p. (Eco-Efficiency in Industry and Science; vol. 12).

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksArticle in conference proceedingsResearch

  8. Published

    Towards a Comprehensive Framework for Environmental Management Accounting: Links Between Business Actors and Environmental Management Accounting Tools

    Burritt, R., Hahn, T. & Schaltegger, S., 2003, Articles of Merit 2003 Competition. New York, NY: International Federation of Accountants, p. 93-109 17 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearch

  9. Published

    Transdisziplinäre Fallstudien in Lüneburg: Beschreibung eines Entwicklungskonzepts hin zur angewandten Erweiterung des Curriculums an der Universität Lüneburg

    Burandt, S., Döscher, K., Fuisz, S.-K., Helgenberger, S. & Maly, L., 2003, Lüneburg: Centre for Sustainability Management, 30 p.

    Research output: Working paperWorking papers

  10. Published

    Was kostet die Erholung den Waldeigentümer?

    Kleiber, O. & Bilecen, E., 2003, Freizeitaktivitäten im Baselbieter Wald: Ökologische Auswirkungen und ökonomische Folgen. Baur, B. (ed.). Liestal: Verlag des Kantons Basel-Landschaft, p. 120-128 9 p. (Quellen und Forschungen zur Geschichte und Landeskunde des Kantons Basel-Landschaft; vol. 84).

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearch

  11. Published

    "Werkzeuge" des unternehmerischen Nachhaltigkeitsmanagements

    Schaltegger, S., Herzig, C., Kleiber, O. & Müller, J., 2003, In: Umweltwirtschaftsforum. 11, 4, p. 60-65 6 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

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  2. Step on it! How Positive Affective States Influence Young Drivers’ Driving Behaviors
  3. Understanding drivers of human tolerance towards mammals in a mixed-use transfrontier conservation area in southern Africa
  4. Anschauen und Denken
  5. Cultural Influences on Errors
  6. Zur Reform des Prüfungsausschusses post BilMoG
  7. Gründen als Modus des Innovierens
  8. Planning and entrepreneurship
  9. Art. 116: Begriff des "Deutschen"
  10. Pesticide and Greenhouse Gas Externalities from US Agriculture
  11. Therapeutic Drug Monitoring of Antifungal Agents in Hematological Patients
  12. Biological invasions
  13. Combination of experimental and in silico methods for the assessment of the phototransformation products of the antipsychotic drug/metabolite Mesoridazine
  14. Weibliche Größenphantasien in Rezeptionsprozessen.
  15. Kultur liefert Emotionen
  16. Educating Change Agents for Sustainability
  17. Institutionelle Logik im Wandel: Managementmodelle als Innovation in der Gesundheitsversorgung
  18. Führt Schulinspektion zu besseren Schülerleistungen?
  19. Does it pay off? Integrated reporting and cost of debt
  20. Photolysis of sulfamethoxypyridazine in various aqueous media
  21. Innovationen in der Hochschullehre
  22. Jurisdiction in International Fisheries Law: Evolving Trends and New Challenges
  23. Time zones and German exports
  24. Moving up and over redistribution of plants in alpine, Arctic, and Antarctic ecosystems under global change
  25. Anything goes?
  26. Entwicklung eines integrativen Logistikmodells für die unternehmensinterne Lieferkette
  27. Issuers’ credit risk and pricing of warrants in the recent financial crisis
  28. Erratum to
  29. Contributions to Sustainability
  30. How does sustainability become professionally relevant?