Prof. Dr. Markus Beckmann holds the Chair for Corporate Sustainability Management and is a member at FAU’s Center for Management, Technology, and Society (CMTS). Between 2009 and 2012, he was assistant professor for social entrepreneurship at the Centre for Sustainability Management at Leuphana University in Lueneburg. His research interests include functional perspectives in corporate sustainability management, CSR, social entrepreneurship, and business ethics.
Career
- since 12/2012: Professor of Corporate Sustainability Management, School of Business and Economics, Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU)
- since 2021: PI and Supervisor in the International Doctoral Programme “Business and Human Rights”
- since 2022: Professor and supervisor in the “Ethics and Responsible Leadership” Program at the Wittenberg Center for Global Ethics
- 2017-2020: Research Dean of the Faculty of Economics
- since 2016: Head of the Center for Management, Technology and Society (CMTS) at FAU
- 07/2011-07/2012: Head of the Centre for Sustainability Management (CSM) at Leuphana University Lüneburg
- 11/2009-10/2012: Assistant Professor for Social Entrepreneurship at the Centre for Sustainability Management, Leuphana University Lüneburg, Germany, Founder and Director of the Social Change Hub SCHub
- 07/2009-11/2009: Research associate at the Chair of Business Ethics, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg
- 07/2009: Doctoral Dissertation (Dr. rer. pol.) at the Chair of Economic Ethics, Martin-Luther-University of Halle-Wittenberg
- 06/2003-12/2005: Project management at the Wittenberg Center for Global Ethics
- 04/2003: Diploma in International Cultural and Business Studies, University of Passau
Awards
- 2018: Wilhelm-Rieger-Preis, FAU: Award for outstanding teaching in the field of management
- 2018: Best Paper Award, SIG Business for Society, EURAM, Reykjavik
- 2015: Best Paper Finalist, Social Issues in Management, Academy of Management, Vancouver
- 2014: Enactus Germany: University Advisor of the Year
- 07/2012: Impact award (Wissenstransfer Preis), Leuphana University
- 01/2012: „Landmark in the Land of Ideas“ Award for the Social Change Hubs (SCHub)
- 07/2011: Teaching award, Leuphana University Lüneburg
- 2010: Kantorovic-Forschungspreis (Best dissertation award), Martin-Luther-University of Halle-Wittenberg
- 05/2010: Max-Weber-Preis für Wirtschaftsethik (Best dissertation/resesarch award in business ethics), Institut der Deutschen Wirtschaft Köln (Cologne Institute for Economic Research)
Courses at the FAU
- Branchen- und themenspezifisches Nachhaltigkeitsmanagement
- Business Ethics & Corporate Social Responsibility
- Current Issues in Sustainability Management
- Introduction to Sustainability Management
- Grundlagen der Wirtschafts- und Unternehmensethik
- Fallstudien und Projekte im Management I
- Management and organization theories through the lens of social business
- Sustainability management in small and medium sized companies
- Social entrepreneurship in theory and practice
- Sustainability Management: Concepts & Tools
- Sustainability Management & Corporate Functions
Finished dissertation projects
- Roya Akhavan
- Michael Garkisch (external)
- Jens Heidingsfelder
- Peter Wehnert
- Rudiger Hein
- Anica Zeyen (Leuphana Universität Lüneburg)
“Scaling Strategies of Social Entrepreneurship Organizations: An Actor-Motivation Perspective” (cumulative)
- Heike Schirmer (Second supervisor, Freie Universität Berlin; degree: 2013)
“Combined Forces for Social Impact: Investigating Partnership Dynamics between Social Ventures and Corporations” (monograph)
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