Prof. Dr. Markus Beckmann

Prof. Dr. Markus Beckmann

Room: FG.1.038
Phone: 0911/5302-95651
E-mail: markus.beckmann@fau.de
Office hours: on appointment

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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

  1. Since 2022

    Professor and supervisor in the “Ethics and Responsible Leadership” Program at the Wittenberg Center for Global Ethics

  2. Since 2021

    PI and Supervisor in the International Doctoral Programme “Business and Human Rights”

  3. 2017-2020

    Research Dean of the Faculty of Economics

  4. Since 2016

    Head of the Center for Management, Technology and Society (CMTS) of the FAU
     

  5. Seit 11/2012

    Professor of Corporate Sustainability Management, School of Business and Economics, Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU)
     

  6. 2011-2012


    Head of the Centre for Sustainability Management (CSM) at Leuphana University Lüneburg
     

  7. 2009-2012


    Assistant Professor for Social Entrepreneurship at the Centre for Sustainability Management, Leuphana University Lüneburg, Germany, Founder and Director of the Social Change Hub SCHub
      

  8. 07/2009-11/2009

    Research associate at the Chair of Business Ethics, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg

  9. 06/2003-12/2005

    Project management at the Wittenberg Center for Global Ethics

  10. 10/1997-04/2003

    Diploma in International Cultural and Business Studies, University of Passau

Awards

  1. 2018

    Wilhelm-Rieger-Preis

    FAU: Award for outstanding teaching in the field of management

  2. 2018

    Best Paper Award

    SIG Business for Society, EURAM, Reykjavik
     

  3. 2015

    Best Paper Finalist

    Social Issues in Management, Academy of Management, Vancouver
     

  4. 2014

    Enactus Germany: University Advisor of the Year
     

  5. 2012

    Impact award (Wissenstransfer Preis), Leuphana University
     

  6. 2012

    “Landmark in the Land of Ideas“ Award for the Social Change Hub (SCHub)
     

  7. 2011

    Teaching award, Leuphana University Lüneburg (with Anica Zeyen)
     

  8. 2010

    Kantorovic-Dissertation Award

    Martin-Luther-Universität in Halle-Wittenberg
     

  9. 2010

    Max-Weber-Award for Business Ethics

    Institut der Deutschen Wirtschaft Köln

Courses at the FAU

  • Branchen- und themenspezifisches Nachhaltigkeitsmanagement
  • Business Ethics & Corporate Social Responsibility
  • Current Issues in Sustainability Management
  • Einführung in das Nachhaltigkeitsmanagement
  • Grundlagen der Wirtschafts- und Unternehmensethik
  • Fallstudien und Projekte im Management I
  • Management and organization theories through the lens of social business
  • Nachhaltigkeitsmanagement in klein- und mittelständischen Unternehmen
  • Social Entrepreneurship in Theorie und Praxis
  • Sustainability Management: Concepts & Tools
  • Sustainability Management & Corporate Functions

Finished dissertation projects

  • Roya Akhavan
  • Michael Garkisch (extern)
  • Jens Heidingsfelder
  • Peter Wehnert
  • Rudiger Hein
  • Anica Zeyen (Leuphana Universität Lüneburg)
    “Scaling Strategies of Social Entrepreneurship Organizations: An Actor-Motivation Perspective” (kumulativ)
  • Heike Schirmer (Zweitbetreuer, Freie Universität Berlin; Abschluss 2013)
    “Combined Forces for Social Impact: Investigating Partnership Dynamics between Social Ventures and Corporations” (Monografie)