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. Assessing and Managing Sustainable Business Models - A Status Update

    Stefan Schaltegger (Speaker), Florian Lüdeke-Freund (Coauthor), Krzysztof Dembek (Coauthor), Francesco Rosati (Coauthor), Roman Rauter (Coauthor) & Klaus Fichter (Coauthor)

    06.2021

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  2. Assessing and Managing Sustainable Business Models - A Status Update

    Stefan Schaltegger (Keynote Speaker)

    17.06.2021

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  3. Audits, Siegel, Zertifikate - Glaubwürdige Nachhaltigkeit? - 2011

    Johanna Klewitz (Participant)

    10.02.2011

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  4. Australian Accounting Review (Journal)

    Dimitar Zvezdov (Reviewer)

    2013 → …

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

  5. Benefits of the Bottom Line and Beyond: Corporate Volunteering in Germany

    Christian Herzig (Speaker)

    07.11.200410.11.2004

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  6. Beyond the supply chain – Sustainability-oriented product innovations through a transdisciplinary approach

    Dorli Harms (Speaker)

    29.02.201202.03.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  7. Biodiversity Principles: Recommendations for the Financial Sector

    Uwe Beständig (Reviewer)

    01.10.2011

    Activity: Other expert activitiesAcademic ConsultantTransfer

  8. Biosphärenreservate unternehmerisch management

    Karina Hellmann (Speaker)

    21.09.200623.09.2006

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  9. BOP aber wie? Neue Partner zur Entwicklung innovativer Geschäftsmodelle für Menschen in Armut - 2009

    Erik G. Hansen (Speaker)

    10.07.2009

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsResearch

  10. British Academy of Management - BAM 2012

    Sarah Elena Windolph (Speaker)

    12.09.2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  11. Bundesdeutscher Arbeitskreis für Umweltbewusstes Management ( B.A.U.M.) e.V. (External organisation)

    Stefan Schaltegger (Member)

    2010 → …

    Activity: MembershipAcademic councils, panels and committeesTransfer

  12. Business Strategy and the Environment (Journal)

    Stefan Schaltegger (Editor)

    1998 → …

    Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial workEditor of journalsResearch

  13. Business Strategy and the Environment (Journal)

    Stefan Schaltegger (Editor)

    2013 → …

    Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial workEditor of journalsResearch

  14. Business Strategy and the Environment (Journal)

    Stefan Schaltegger (Editor)

    2006

    Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial workEditor of journalsResearch

  15. Business Strategy and the Environment (Journal)

    Simon Norris (Reviewer)

    2023 → …

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

  16. Carbon Management Accounting

    Dimitar Zvezdov (Speaker)

    01.09.2010

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  17. Case study research on sustainable supply chain management: What evidence has been found?

    Stefan Seuring (Speaker), Philip Beske-Janssen (Speaker), Stefan Gold (Speaker), Jörg Schreiber (Speaker) & Romy Morana (Speaker)

    07.09.2008

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  18. Change agents for corporate sustainability: the role of competencies in sustainability transformations

    Maike Buhr (Speaker)

    05.10.201507.10.2015

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  19. Circular Economy and Sustainable Supply Chains - Investigating the Cradle to Cradle Approach

    Philip Beske-Janssen (Speaker) & Christopher Blauth (Speaker)

    11.10.201713.10.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  20. Circular X | Advisory Group Member

    Ilka Weissbrod (Consultant)

    20202025

    Activity: Consultancy

  21. Comparing Environmental Management and Strategies of Companies in the United Kingdom and Germany

    Walter Wehrmeyer (Speaker), Marcus Wagner (Speaker), Carlos Pacheco (Speaker) & Stefan Schaltegger (Speaker)

    23.06.200226.06.2002

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  22. Conference - Global Economic Symposium 2010 (GES) (Event)

    Stefan Schaltegger (Member)

    28.09.201029.09.2010

    Activity: MembershipAcademic networks or partnershipsResearch

  23. Conference of the Environmental and Sustainability Management Accounting Network - EMAN Asia-Pacific 2013

    Dimitar Zvezdov (Speaker)

    14.07.201315.07.2013

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  24. Corporate Responsibility Evolution Models: Concepts, Evidence and Implications

    Heiko Spitzeck (Speaker) & Erik Gunnar Hansen (Speaker)

    01.07.201003.07.2010

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  25. Corporate Responsibility Research Conference - CRRC 2017

    Ferdinand Revellio (Speaker) & Erik Hansen (Speaker)

    13.09.201715.09.2017

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  26. Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management (Journal)

    Stefan Schaltegger (Editorial Board)

    2001 → …

    Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial workEditor of journalsResearch

  27. Corporate strategy and sustainability-oriented technologies

    Erik G. Hansen (Lecturer)

    18.01.2010

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  28. Corporate strategy meets green technology

    Erik G. Hansen (Lecturer)

    23.11.2009

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  29. Corporate Sustainability & Leadership Excellence

    Erik G. Hansen (Lecturer)

    08.01.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  30. Corporate Sustainability & Leadership Excellence

    Erik G. Hansen (Lecturer)

    22.03.2010

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  31. Corporate Sustainability Management as a Driver for Innovation and Development

    Stefan Schaltegger (Speaker)

    04.09.200306.09.2003

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  32. Cranfield University

    Erik G. Hansen (Visiting researcher)

    15.02.201029.06.2010

    Activity: Visiting an external institutionVisiting an external academic institutionResearch

  33. Critical review of survey based research on Sustainable Supply Chain Management

    Philip Beske-Janssen (Speaker), Stefan Seuring (Speaker), Stefan Gold (Speaker) & Romy Morana (Speaker)

    14.06.200917.06.2009

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  34. CSR Leadership: An exploratory study

    Erik G. Hansen (Lecturer)

    18.06.2008

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  35. Cultural Traits and Environmental Management Accounting for Staff Appraisal: Evidence from Australia, Germany and Japan

    Roger Leonard Burritt (Speaker), Stefan Schaltegger (Speaker), Katsuhiko Kokubu (Speaker) & Marcus Wagner (Speaker)

    07.07.200209.07.2002

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  36. Current Developments in Environmental Management Accounting: Towards a Comprehensive Framework for Environmental Management Accounting

    Roger Leonard Burritt (Speaker), Tobias Hahn (Speaker) & Stefan Schaltegger (Speaker)

    08.02.200110.02.2001

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  37. Daimler and Benz Foundation (External organisation)

    Stefan Schaltegger (Member)

    2011 → …

    Activity: MembershipBodies of private companies and organisationsTransfer

  38. Debating Accounting and Sustainability: Incompatibility and Rapprochement in the Pursuit of Corporate Sustainability

    Stefan Schaltegger (Speaker)

    04.12.201107.12.2011

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  39. Debating Accounting and Sustainability: Incompatibility and Rapprochement in the Pursuit of Corporate Sustainability

    Rob Gray (Speaker) & Stefan Schaltegger (Speaker)

    05.12.201107.12.2011

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  40. Deciphering Sustainable Consumption: Understanding, Motives and Heuristic Cues in the Context of Personal Care Product. Poster Presentation

    Andrea K. Moser (Speaker)

    24.05.201627.05.2016

    Activity: Talk or presentationPresentations (poster etc.)Research

  41. Determinants of the Relationship Between Environmental and Economic Performance at the Firm Level: An Empirical Analysis of the European Paper Industry

    Marcus Wagner (Speaker), Nguyen Van Phu (Speaker) & Théophile T. Azomahou (Speaker)

    01.09.2001

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  42. Developing New Markets for Moist Biomass: An Eco-efficient Approach of Dehydrating Agricultural Biomass

    Florian Lüdeke-Freund (Speaker) & Jan Müller (Speaker)

    30.03.200901.04.2009

    Activity: Talk or presentationPresentations (poster etc.)Research

  43. Dissemination of Environmental Management Accounting in South-East Asia

    Christian Herzig (Speaker) & Tobias Viere (Speaker)

    04.03.200405.03.2004

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  44. Does EMA Tool Application Influence Carbon Performance and Information disclosure?

    W. Qian (Speaker), Stefan Schaltegger (Speaker) & Jacob Hörisch (Speaker)

    13.07.201618.07.2016

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  45. Does ISO 14001 Lead the Way? Investigating the Application of relevant Sustainability Management Tools

    Jacob Hörisch (Speaker), Matthew Johnson (Speaker) & Stefan Schaltegger (Speaker)

    29.09.2015

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  46. Eco-Integrated Portfolio Analysis: Strategic Tools for Managing Sustainably

    Anne Y. Ilinitch (Speaker) & Stefan Schaltegger (Speaker)

    08.08.199311.08.1993

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  47. Eco-Management and Auditing (Journal)

    Stefan Schaltegger (Editorial Board)

    19982001

    Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial workEditor of journalsResearch

  48. econsense – Forum Nachhaltige Entwicklung der Deutschen Wirtschaft e. V. (External organisation)

    Stefan Schaltegger (Member)

    20082010

    Activity: MembershipAcademic councils, panels and committeesTransfer

  49. Education for Sustainable Development - 2011

    Dimitar Zvezdov (Participant)

    14.09.201116.09.2011

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesEducation

  50. Einführung in SPSS: Computergestützte Auswertung statistischer Daten

    Jacob Hörisch (Lecturer)

    10.02.201212.02.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation