The Chair of Business Management, esp. Responsible Management introduces itself

Presenting the Chair of Business Management, esp. Responsible Management

Our work focuses on current challenges for management against the backdrop of cultural, environmental and technological changes in society, especially regarding questions of corporate responsibility (cf. Business Ethics, Business & Society, CSR, Sustainability). We aim to contribute to addressing grand societal challenges, e.g. (de)globalization, digitalization, climate change and human rights, with methodologically diverse, empirical as well as philosophically informed research.

Our research is oriented towards management studies, social science, and philosophy. The focus is on strategic sustainability and responsibility management, sustainable change and transformation, business and human rights, and corporate political engagement and responsibility. Furthermore, we analyze the normative foundations of business ethics. 

In teaching, one of our main tasks is to coordinate and develop the master's program "Business Ethics und Responsible Management" (renamed in 2019; original name: "Business Ethics und CSR Management"), which was launched in 2010. This degree program was the first of its kind in Germany, and its social science and business focus distinguishes it from comparable degree programs that tend to have a more pronounced philosophical or environmental science orientation.