Our research areas

Prof. Dr. Markus Scholz focuses his research activities on the following areas:

• Business & human rights (incl. normative management frameworks)
• Corporate governance & risk management (especially banks and the pharmaceutical industry)
• Corporate political activity & responsibility
• Purpose & ethical leadership (e.g., "Giving Voice to Values")
• Strategic sustainability management & corporate social responsibility

Prof. Dr. Michael S. Aßländer focuses his research activities on the following areas:

• Theoretical and practice-oriented questions regarding economic and business ethics
• Corporate citizenship
• Corporate social responsibility
• The social history of human labor
• Theoretical history of political economy

PD Dr. Eckhard Burkatzki focuses his research activities on the following areas:

• Sociology of corruption and economic crime
• Strategies and instruments of forensic management
• Economic ethics of postcapitalism

Maria Riegler, PhD focuses her research activities on the following areas:

• Collective organizing efforts & non-state collective action
• Private governance
• Supply chain due diligence regulations
• Corporate political activity & responsibility