Prof. Markus Scholz introduces himself
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Prof. Dr. Markus Scholz introduces himself Markus Scholz is a full professor of Business Management, esp. Responsible Management at Technical University Dresden (TU Dresden). Among other international research and teaching positions, he is a visiting scholar and adjunct professor at the INSEAD Social Innovation Centre. He studied business administration, economics and philosophy at the Leibniz University Hannover and at the London School of Economics and Political Science, among others. Previous academic visiting positions include the Wharton Business School, where he was a Senior Fellow at the Zicklin Center for Business Ethics Research (2013–2017). From 2016–2017 (one-year tenure) he served as the chairman of the European branch of the Harvard Business School's Microeconomics of Competitiveness (MOC) network. Before joining TU Dresden, he was the founding director of the Institute for Business Ethics and Sustainable Strategy (IBES) as well as of the Josef Ressel Centre for Collective Action and Responsible Partnerships (CARe) in Vienna (Austria). |
His research focuses on strategic sustainability management, sustainable change and innovation, business and human rights, and corporate political activity and responsibility, especially in the context of cultural, environmental and technological changes in society. The contexts of his conceptual and empirical research include multinational corporations, family businesses, governmental and non-governmental organisations regarding issues of strategic sustainability and responsibility management.