Markus Scholz at the SBE Annual Conference 2023

In early August, Prof. Markus Scholz attended the annual meeting of the Society for Business Ethics, which took place in Boston, Massachusetts (USA). In collaboration with renowned colleagues, he conducted two significant panels:

The first panel, organized by Prof. Scholz in collaboration with Dr. Anna-Lena Maier, Research Associate at ma-co maritimes competenzcentrum GmbH, and Dr. Maria Riegler, Postdoc Research Associate at the Technical University of Dresden, was titled "Political Corporate Social Responsibility in Times of War". The discussion of this particularly relevant topic was led by the following panelists:

• Zena Al-Esia, University of Bath (UK)
• Bobby Banerjee, University of London (UK)
• Dorothee Baumann-Pauly, Geneva School of Economics and Management (Switzerland)
• John E. Katsos, American University of Sharjah (United Arab Emirates)
• Andreas Georg Scherer, University of Zurich (Switzerland)

© Markus Scholz

The second panel addressed the topic "The Lack of Normativity in Business (Ethics) and Responding to Grand Challenges". As an active participant in the discussion, Prof. Scholz engaged in this debate alongside the following panelists:

• N. Craig Smith, INSEAD (France) 
• Thomas Donaldson, University of Pennsylvania (USA)
• Sareh Pouryousefi, Toronto Metropolitan University (Canada)
• Markus Scholz, Technical University of Dresden (Germany)
• Peter Seele, University of Lugano (Switzerland)
• Laura Spence, Royal Holloway University (UK)

Moderators of the second panel:

• Thomas Beschorner, University of St. Gallen (Switzerland)
• Mollie Painter, Nottingham Trent University (UK)