Chair of Corporate Sustainability Management
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
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Short Profile
Prof. Dr. Markus Beckmann, born 1977, studied International Culture and Business Studies (Dipl. Kulturwirt) at the University of Passau, Universidad de Málaga and University of Washington, Seattle. From 2003 till 2005, he worked at the Wittenberg Center for Global Ethics as a doctoral candidate in diverse projects.
In 2009, he completed his doctorate at the Chair for Economic Ethics (Prof. Dr. Ingo Pies) at University of Halle. His dissertation „Ordnungsverantwortung. Rational Choice als ordonomisches Forschungsprogramm” used the ordonomic approach (see Prof. Pies) for deriving a conceptual foundation of corporate social responsibility (CSR). The dissertation received various awards including the Max-Weber-Award for Business Ethics.
From 2009 till 2012, Markus Beckmann was Assistant Professor for Social Entrepreneurship at the for Sustainability Management of Leuphana Universität Lüneburg. At Leuphana, he founded and directed the Social Change Hub, SCHub, a platform for student engagement and social innovation. SCHub was awarded as a lighthouse project by the “Germany. Land of Ideas” initiative.
Since 2012, Dr. Beckmann has been Full Professor of Corporate Sustainability Management at the School of Business, Economics and Society of Friedrich-Alexander-Universität (FAU) Erlangen-Nürnberg. At FAU, he is part of an interdisciplinary research group on Business and Huma Rights. He has collaborated as a partner in diverse other interdisciplinary research projects funded by external grants from donors such as the German Ministry of Education and Research or the Mercator Foundation. As Dr. Beckmann values the exchange with practitioners, he is thankful for the opportunity to act as external advisor in various advisory boards including the ones of LemonAid and Charity e.V. or Tomorrow.
In his research, Dr. Beckmann explores the foundations, applications, and interlinkages of corporate sustainability management, CSR, social entrepreneurship as well as business ethics and social/organization theory. His work has appeared in journals such as Business Ethics Quarterly, Business Strategy and the Environment, Business and Society, International Journal of Entrepreneurial Venturing, International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics Management, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management, Non-Profit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Voluntas, or Zeitschrift für Wirtschafts- und Unternehmensethik.
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