Professorship for Business Administration, in particular Business in Society

Organisational unit: Professoship

Organisation profile

The professorship Business in Society, led by Prof. Dr. Hannah Trittin-Ulbrich focuses on issues concerning responsible and sustainable corporate management and organization as well as communication. In particular, the professorship focuses on aspects and issues related to the responsible corporate use of digital technologies (e.g., Gamification, Social Media, Artificial Intelligence), diversity management and sustainability management in the digital age. The teaching and research activities are interdisciplinary and closely connected to local, national, and international networks. The professorship is interested in a close exchange with researchers and practitioners to generate synergy effects for research and teaching activities, as well as to transfer scientific findings into practice.

Main research areas

The professorship is currently researching various topics, which all follow an interpretive research paradigm and is based on both conceptual and empirical research approaches. Empirical research projects primarily use a qualitative research method. The professorship’s research is internationally oriented, which includes that research results are presented and discussed on through conferences and workshops within the international research community.

The following topics have been researched in previous research projects and are examples for the research program of the professorship:

- Corporate Social Responsibility
- Corporate Volunteering
- CSR communication
- Diversity Management
- Employee Activis
- Governing Ethics
- Neue Formen des Organisierens
- Refugee entrepreneurship

  1. Published

    Balancing the Boundary: Sustaining Self-Managing Modes of Work Within Hierarchical Organizations

    Stöber, A. & Schöneborn, D., 01.08.2022, In: Academy of Management Proceedings. 2022, 1, 1 p., 14278.

    Research output: Journal contributionsConference abstract in journalResearchpeer-review

  2. Published

    Consensus Vs. Dissensus: The Communicative Constitution Of Responsible Management

    Schöneborn, D., Trittin-Ulbrich, H. & Cooren, F., 05.2020, Research Handbook of Responsible Management. Laasch, O., Jamali, D., Freeman, R. E. & Suddaby, R. (eds.). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, p. 453-469 17 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksChapterpeer-review

  3. Published

    Constitutive views on csr communication: The communicative constitution of responsible organization, organizing, and organizationality

    Schoeneborn, D., Glozer, S. & Trittin-Ulbrich, H., 22.11.2022, The Routledge Handbook of Corporate Social Responsibility Communication. O'Connor, A. (ed.). Taylor and Francis Inc., p. 73-84 12 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksChapterpeer-review

  4. Published

    Conveying the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence in K–12 and Academia: A Systematic Review of Teaching Methods

    Tschoppe, N. J., Katsarov, J., Drews, P. & Trittin-Ulbrich, H., 07.01.2025, Proceedings of the 58th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences: Hilton Waikoloa Village, January 7-10, 2025. Bui, T. X. (ed.). Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, p. 4744-4753 10 p. (Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS); vol. 2025).

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksArticle in conference proceedingsResearchpeer-review

  5. Published

    Corporate change agents for sustainability: Transforming organizations from the inside out

    Schaltegger, S., Girschik, V., Trittin-Ulbrich, H., Weissbrod, I. & Daudigeos, T., 04.2024, In: Business Ethics, the Environment & Responsibility. 33, 2, p. 145-156 12 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  6. Published

    CSR Communication and the Polarization of Public Discourses: Introduction to the Special Issue

    Schoeneborn, D., Golob, U., Trittin-Ulbrich, H., Wenzel, M. & O’Connor, A., 11.2024, In: Management Communication Quarterly. 38, 4, p. 751-774 24 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  7. Accepted/In press

    Cultivating dispersed collectivity: How communities between organizations sustain employee activism

    Stöber, A. & Girschik, V., 2024, (Accepted/In press) In: Human Relations . 30 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  8. Published

    Exploring the dark and unexpected sides of digitalization: Toward a critical agenda

    Trittin-Ulbrich, H., Scherer, A. G., Munro, I. & Whelan, G., 01.2021, In: Organization. 28, 1, p. 8-25 18 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  9. Published

    From Fleeting Enchantment to Embodied Commitment: How Bottom-up Momentum can Emerge and Persist

    Stöber, A., 01.08.2024, In: Academy of Management Proceedings. 2024, 1, 1 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsConference abstract in journalResearchpeer-review

  10. Published

    From the Substantive to the Ceremonial: Exploring Interrelations Between Recognition and Aspirational CSR Talk

    Trittin-Ulbrich, H., 05.2023, In: Business and Society. 62, 5, p. 917-949 33 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

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