Professorship for Sustainability Management

Organisational unit: Professoship

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

Continuing education products

Das Fernstudium MBA Sustainability Management ist der weltweit erste universitäre MBA für Nachhaltigkeitsmanagement und Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). Seit seiner Gründung im Jahr 2003 ist er einer der führenden „Green MBA“ durch eine einzigartige und optimale Kombination aus Managementwissen, Persönlichkeitsentwicklung, Soft Skills und verantwortungsvoller Unternehmensführung

Die hohe Qualität des Weiterbildungsstudiums wird durch die Kompetenz der Dozierenden sowie vielfältige Praxispartnerschaften garantiert. Der MBA Sustainability Management ist akkreditiert und wurde zudem als UNESCO-Dekade-Projekt ausgezeichnet.

Das CSM ist darüber hinaus in weiteren internationalen Weiterbildungsprogrammen zu CSR und Nachhaltigkeitsmanagement aktiv. Seit Jahren arbeitet es erfolgreich in der Weiter- und Fernbildung mit der FernUniversität Hagen und dem Fraunhofer Institut für Umwelt, Sicherheits- und Energietechnik (UMSICHT) zusammen. Das CSM betreut u.a. den gesamten Bereich des Umweltmanagements für deren interdisziplinären Studiengang Umweltwissenschaften (infernum, Master of Environmental Sciences, MSc).

Spin-offs

see projects and MBA Sustainability Management

  1. 2004
  2. 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

  3. EMAN Conference on Environmental and Sustainability Management Accounting in collaboration with 22nd CSEAR International Congress on Social and Environmental Accounting Research 2004

    Stefan Schaltegger (Organiser)

    03.03.200405.03.2004

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  4. Vortrag: Corporate Volunteering. Konzepte und Fallstricke

    Stefan Schaltegger (Speaker)

    27.02.2004

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  5. Federal Ministry of Education and Research (External organisation)

    Stefan Schaltegger (Member)

    20042008

    Activity: MembershipBodies of public institutionsResearch

  6. Progress in Industrial Ecology (Journal)

    Stefan Schaltegger (Editor)

    2004 → …

    Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial workEditor of journalsResearch

  7. School of Sustainability (Organisational unit)

    Stefan Schaltegger (Office)

    20042005

    Activity: MembershipLeuphana academic councils and committeesLeuphana Academic Committees

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

    Stefan Schaltegger (Member)

    20042011

    Activity: MembershipBodies of public institutionsResearch

  9. 2003
  10. Corporate Sustainability Management as a Driver for Innovation and Development

    Stefan Schaltegger (Speaker)

    04.09.200306.09.2003

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  11. Sustainable Entrepreneurship and Innovation

    Anne Gerlach (Speaker)

    01.08.2003

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  12. Flexibility of Industrial Material Flow Networks

    Andreas Möller (Speaker) & Tobias Viere (Speaker)

    29.06.200302.07.2003

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch