Organisation profile

The Chair for Sustainability Management at the CSM is an internationally oriented professorship leading in research, continuing education and knowledge transfer in the field of corporate sustainability management. Under the guidance of Prof. Dr. Stefan Schaltegger, approximately 30 members of the Centre from a number of different disciplines (including environmental sciences, business administration, political science and cultural sciences) collaborate in interdisciplinary research projects. 

The mission of the Chair in Sustainability Management includes both theoretical, transdisciplinary and applied research into corporate sustainability management as well as the initiation and scientific consultation of model projects.

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The Chair for Sustainability Management at the CSM is an internationally oriented professorship leading in research, continuing education and knowledge transfer in the field of corporate sustainability management. Under the guidance of Prof. Dr. Stefan Schaltegger, about 30 researchers of the Centre from a number of different disciplines (including environmental sciences, business administration, political science and cultural sciences) collaborate in interdisciplinary research projects. 

The mission of the Chair in Sustainability Management includes theoretical, transdisciplinary and applied research into corporate sustainability management as well as the initiation and scientific consultation of model projects.

 

Research Areas: Foundations of sustainability management and corporate social responsibility; Measurement, information and communication of sustainability; Management of stakeholder relationships, Conservation management and integrative sustainability management; Continuous education

Spin-offs

see projects and MBA Sustainability Management

  1. Social Marketing: ERASMUS guest lecture

    Anica Zeyen (Lecturer)

    24.09.2009

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  2. Social Entrepreneurship: Status Quo - 2009

    Anica Zeyen (Participant)

    16.07.200917.07.2009

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesTransfer

  3. Social Entrepreneurship - an introduction: ERASMUS guest lecture

    Anica Zeyen (Lecturer)

    22.09.2009

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  4. Social and ethical aspects in sustainability performance measurement and assessment. A systematic literature review

    Samanthi Luisa Silva (Speaker), Philip Beske-Janssen (Speaker) & Stefan Schaltegger (Speaker)

    05.10.201607.10.2016

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  5. Social and Environmental Accountability Journal (Journal)

    Stefan Schaltegger (Editorial Board)

    12.2006 → …

    Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial workEditor of journalsResearch

  6. Social and Environmental Accountability Journal (Journal)

    Dimitar Zvezdov (Reviewer)

    2013 → …

    Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial workPeer review of publicationenResearch

  7. Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Föderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung (External organisation)

    Stefan Schaltegger (Member)

    20042011

    Activity: MembershipBodies of public institutionsResearch

  8. School of Sustainability (Organisational unit)

    Anica Zeyen (Member)

    09.200910.2010

    Activity: MembershipLeuphana academic councils and committeesLeuphana Academic Committees

  9. School of Sustainability (Organisational unit)

    Stefan Schaltegger (Office)

    20042005

    Activity: MembershipLeuphana academic councils and committeesLeuphana Academic Committees

  10. School of Sustainability (Organisational unit)

    Stefan Schaltegger (Office)

    20002004

    Activity: MembershipLeuphana academic councils and committeesLeuphana Academic Committees

  11. School of Sustainability (Organisational unit)

    Stefan Schaltegger (Office)

    2014 → …

    Activity: MembershipLeuphana academic councils and committeesLeuphana Academic Committees

  12. School of Sustainability (Organisational unit)

    Stefan Schaltegger (Office)

    2016 → …

    Activity: MembershipLeuphana academic councils and committeesLeuphana Academic Committees

  13. Rolling out corporate sustainability accounting: A set of challenges - 2011

    Dimitar Zvezdov (Speaker)

    02.05.2011

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  14. Rolling Out Corporate Sustainability Accounting: A New Set of Challenges for Sustainability Accounting 2011

    Dimitar Zvezdov (Organiser)

    22.01.201124.01.2011

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  15. Role-determined information needs of sustainability management control

    Dimitar Zvezdov (Speaker)

    29.08.201231.08.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  16. Resources, Conservation and Recycling (Journal)

    Dimitar Zvezdov (Reviewer)

    2012 → …

    Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial workPeer review of publicationenResearch

  17. Research Workshop “Innovation and Value Creation” - 2009

    Erik G. Hansen (Speaker)

    12.11.200914.11.2009

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  18. Research Workshop “Innovation & Value Creation"

    Erik G. Hansen (Speaker)

    26.11.2010

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  19. Research Conference of the European Business Ethics Network - EBEN 2013

    Jacob Hörisch (Speaker)

    06.06.201308.06.2013

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  20. Rational Socially Responsible Investment

    Benjamin Tobias Peylo (Speaker)

    01.10.201203.10.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  21. Progress in Industrial Ecology (Journal)

    Stefan Schaltegger (Editor)

    2004 → …

    Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial workEditor of journalsResearch

  22. Progress and Standstil. How is Sustainability Management Developing in Corporate Practice?

    Stefan Schaltegger (Speaker)

    18.10.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  23. Products service systems as enabler for sustainability-oriented innovation: The case of Osram’s off-grid lighting

    Erik G. Hansen (Speaker)

    27.10.2011

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  24. Product-Service Systems as Enabler for Sustainability Innovation: The Case of Service Stations in Kenya

    Erik G. Hansen (Speaker)

    26.10.201128.10.2011

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  25. Processes of Sustainability Transformation. An inter- and transdisciplinary project

    Lydia Kater-Wettstädt (Speaker), Stefan Hilser (Speaker), Charlott Hübel (Speaker) & Felix Beyers (Speaker)

    13.06.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  26. Perform to Disclose or Disclose to Perform: Which Drives Which?

    Wei Qian (Speaker) & Stefan Schaltegger (Speaker)

    26.07.201328.07.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  27. Partnerships for Corporate Sustainability: Capacity Development in South-East Asia

    Christian Herzig (Speaker), Tobias Viere (Speaker), Stefan Schaltegger (Speaker) & Raymond Leung (Speaker)

    07.11.200410.11.2004

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  28. Oikos International (External organisation)

    Stefan Schaltegger (Member)

    2009 → …

    Activity: MembershipAcademic networks or partnershipsResearch

  29. ÖAR (External organisation)

    Stefan Schaltegger (Member)

    2009

    Activity: MembershipAcademic councils, panels and committeesResearch

  30. Networkers, Grazers, and Explorers: how sustainability-oriented innovation in SMEs unfolds through a regional network setting.

    Johanna Klewitz (Speaker)

    22.11.201223.11.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsTransfer

  31. Nachhaltigkeitsinnovation (Sustainability Innovation): Sustainability Leadership Forum

    Erik G. Hansen (Reviewer)

    09.06.2011

    Activity: Other expert activitiesAcademic ConsultantTransfer

  32. Nachhaltigkeitsberichterstattung der DAX30 Unternehmen im Internet

    Christian Herzig (Speaker), Moritz Blanke (Speaker) & Jasmin Godemann (Speaker)

    03.10.200705.10.2007

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  33. Nachhaltige Geschäftsmodelle: Unternehmen in der Transformation

    Florian Lüdeke-Freund (Speaker)

    20.11.201321.11.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  34. Multinational Enterprises’ Management of Sustainability Issues Across Distance

    Hussain Gulzar Rammal (Speaker), Roger Burritt (Speaker), Stefan Schaltegger (Speaker) & Katherine Christ (Speaker)

    17.09.201620.09.2016

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  35. Motive activation in business models for sustainable textiles: A field study

    Aneta Woznica (Speaker), Birte Freudenreich (Speaker) & Gundula Hübner (Speaker)

    19.06.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  36. Measuring the Impacts of NGO partnerships The Economic and Societal Benefits of Community Involvement at Merck Ltd., Thailand

    Erik G. Hansen (Speaker)

    20.09.201022.09.2010

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  37. Match or Mismatch?: Biofuel Sustainability Standards and local Producers’ Perspectives on Sustainable Feedstock Production

    Tina Hildebrandt (Speaker), Christine Moser (Speaker) & Stefan Schaltegger (Speaker)

    24.01.201325.01.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  38. Marktwirtschaft und Menschenrechte - 2010

    Johanna Klewitz (Participant)

    11.03.200913.03.2009

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  39. Management Control in Supply Chain Management: A Concept and first Empirical Insights

    Philip Beske-Janssen (Speaker), Stefan Seuring (Speaker), Magnus Westhaus (Speaker) & Matthias Freise (Speaker)

    07.06.201008.06.2010

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  40. Management Competencies of Change Agents for Corporate Sustainability: A Systematic Literature Review and Conceptualization

    Maike Buhr (Speaker), Dorli Harms (Speaker) & Stefan Schaltegger (Speaker)

    29.09.201530.09.2015

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  41. Long Range Planning (Journal)

    Simon Norris (Reviewer)

    2024 → …

    Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial workPeer review of publicationenResearch

  42. Logistik-Initiative Hamburg (External organisation)

    Stefan Schaltegger (Member)

    2007 → …

    Activity: MembershipAcademic councils, panels and committeesTransfer

  43. Logistik-Initiative Hamburg (External organisation)

    Stefan Schaltegger (Member)

    20082010

    Activity: MembershipAcademic councils, panels and committeesTransfer