Successful participation of our employees in this year's NAMA 2025

This year, our Chair of Business Administration, with a focus on Sustainability Management and Corporate Environmental Economics, once again participated in the NAMA 2025 conference. NAMA is the annual conference of the Scientific Commission for Sustainability Management (WK NAMA) within the Association of University Professors of Business Administration (VHB) and serves as a forum for professional exchange among researchers in the field of sustainability and management. Among other things, the conference will present and intensively discuss current research. This year, the conference took place from September 25 to 26 in the European Capital of Culture on the campus of TU Chemnitz.

Vera Braun, Sarah Bärsch and our visiting scholar Namchul Shin from Pace University in New York presented their research on biodiversity reporting in the coal mining industry. Ronja Paleit presented her work on quality criteria in sustainability reporting. Finally, Remmer Sassen moderated the session on "Integrated Assessment." Important feedback and methodological aspects were openly discussed with the session participants.

Also present were our colleagues from the Chair of Environmental Management at the IHI Zittau: Laura Hoffmann, Olivia Staub, Stefanie Kast, Albert Baena Regel, and our former colleague Christoph Scope, who now works at the neighboring HTW Dresden.

As always, the conference offered an excellent opportunity to exchange ideas on scientific issues, whether during the sessions, the breaks, or the evening event at LUXOR Chemnitz. This atmosphere of solidarity and constructive criticism forms the basis for networking among researchers in the field of sustainability management within the VHB's NAMA (Working Group for Sustainability Management).
The open and authentic insights from Lutz Am Ende (Hassia Mineralquellen GmbH & Co. KG) were particularly impressive. He described the company's journey in practical sustainability management.
We thank the organizers of this year's NAMA, especially Prof. Marlen Gabriele Arnold and Prof. Mathias Wichmann, for compiling the program's key topics and for their outstanding hospitality. We look forward to NAMA 2026 in Düsseldorf.