{"id":5943,"date":"2026-05-19T08:57:53","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T06:57:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nachhaltigkeit.rw.fau.de\/?page_id=5943"},"modified":"2026-05-28T09:33:59","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T07:33:59","slug":"abgeschlossene-forschungsprojekte","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.nachhaltigkeit.rw.fau.de\/en\/forschung\/promotionsprojekte\/abgeschlossene-forschungsprojekte\/","title":{"rendered":"Finished dissertation projects"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You can find a detailed description of past research projects conducted within the department and in collaboration with other universities under the following tabs:<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-rrze-elements-collapsibles \"><div class=\"accordion\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-rrze-elements-collapse \"><div class=\"accordion-group \"><h2 class=\"accordion-heading\"><button class=\"accordion-toggle\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" data-name=\"corporate-sustainability-management\" data-href=\"#corporate-sustainability-management\" type=\"button\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"corporate-sustainability-management-section\" id=\"corporate-sustainability-management\" data-media-accordion-image-id=\"0\" data-media-accordion-image-url=\"\" data-media-accordion-image-alt=\"\" data-media-accordion-image-caption=\"\">Corporate Sustainability Management<\/button><\/h2><div id=\"corporate-sustainability-management-section\" class=\"accordion-body \" aria-labelledby=\"corporate-sustainability-management\" role=\"region\" name=\"corporate-sustainability-management\"><div class=\"accordion-inner clearfix\">\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Brief description<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Implementing sustainability in organizations, whether for-profit, public, or nonprofit, presents challenges stemming both from the unique nature and complexity of sustainability issues and from the conditions within and outside the organization.<br>This project addresses various aspects and contingencies of sustainability management and its implementation. In particular, the focus here has been on transdisciplinarity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Publications:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Beckmann, M., Hielscher, S. &amp; Pies, I. (2012): Commitment Strategies for Sustainability: How Business Firms Can Transform Trade-Offs Into Win\u2013Win Outcomes, in: Business Strategy and the Environment (Online First)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Klewitz, Johanna, Anica Zeyen, und Erik G. Hansen (2012): Intermediaries driving eco-innovation in SMEs: A qualitative investigation, European Journal of Innovation Management, 15(4), 442-467.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Pies, I. , Beckmann, M., &amp; Hielscher, S. (2012) Nachhaltigkeit durch New Governance. Ein ordonomisches Konzept f\u00fcr strategisches Management. Die Betriebswirtschaft.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Schaltegger, S., Beckmann, M., &amp; Hansen, E. G. (forthcoming). Transdisciplinarity in Corporate Sustainability. Business Strategy and the Environment.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Zeyen, A., Klewitz, J., &amp; Hansen, E. G. (2011). \u00d6koeffizienz in deutschen Unternehmen: Nachhaltigkeit durch Intermedi\u00e4re ?. <em>\u00d6kologisches Wirtschaften<\/em>, 16(3), 47-50.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">People involved:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nachhaltigkeit.rw.fau.de\/unser-team\/prof-dr-markus-beckmann\/\">Prof. Dr. Markus Beckmann<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Dr.&nbsp;Anica Zeyen<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Roya Akhavan<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Michael Garkisch<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Jasper Meyer<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Prof. Dr. Stefan Schaltegger, Centre for Sustainability Management der Leuphana Unviersit\u00e4t L\u00fcneburg<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Prof. Dr. Erik G. Hansen, Centre for Sustainability Management der Leuphana Unviersit\u00e4t L\u00fcneburg<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-rrze-elements-collapse \"><div class=\"accordion-group \"><h2 class=\"accordion-heading\"><button class=\"accordion-toggle\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" data-name=\"sustainable-supply-chain-management\" data-href=\"#sustainable-supply-chain-management\" type=\"button\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"sustainable-supply-chain-management-section\" id=\"sustainable-supply-chain-management\" data-media-accordion-image-id=\"0\" data-media-accordion-image-url=\"\" data-media-accordion-image-alt=\"\" data-media-accordion-image-caption=\"\">Sustainable Supply Chain Management<\/button><\/h2><div id=\"sustainable-supply-chain-management-section\" class=\"accordion-body \" aria-labelledby=\"sustainable-supply-chain-management\" role=\"region\" name=\"sustainable-supply-chain-management\"><div class=\"accordion-inner clearfix\">\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Brief description:<strong><br><\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The research project \u201cSustainable Supply Chain Management \u2013 Corporate Strategies and Capabilities\u201d examines the integration of sustainability into supply chain management strategies and processes, with a particular focus on procurement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the first part of the project, a study examined which management practices were implemented to integrate sustainability aspects into companies. The project also investigated whether the composition and selection of measures differ across various strategic approaches and to what extent contextual factors, such as region or industry, influence them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The second part focuses on the development of resources and capabilities that companies need to implement sustainability measures and strategies. The aim is, on the one hand, to clarify what supply chain management\u2014as a cross-functional and cross-organizational approach\u2014can achieve and how this is transformed by sustainability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On the other hand, using the automotive industry as a case study, the project examines how companies along various value chains develop organizational capabilities and resources to integrate sustainability. The primary focus is on the interactions and relationships between different stakeholders and how companies respond to sustainability requirements in a dynamic environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Publications<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Akhavan, R. &amp; Beckmann, M. (2016): A Configuration of Sustainable Sourcing and Supply Management Strategies Article reference, in: Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management, Doi: 10.1016\/j.pursup.2016.07.006 (im Erscheinen)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Akhavan, R., &amp; Beckmann, M. (2015). Corporate Management Practices to Integerate Sustainability into Sourcing: A Taxonomy of Firms. <i>Academy of Management Proceedings<\/i>. https:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.5465\/AMBPP.2015.280<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Involved people:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Roya Akhavan<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nachhaltigkeit.rw.fau.de\/unser-team\/prof-dr-markus-beckmann\/\">Prof. Dr. Markus Beckmann<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dr. Dimitar Zvezdov<\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-rrze-elements-collapse \"><div class=\"accordion-group \"><h2 class=\"accordion-heading\"><button class=\"accordion-toggle\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" data-name=\"panel_58767289\" data-href=\"#panel_58767289\" type=\"button\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"panel_58767289-section\" id=\"panel_58767289\" data-media-accordion-image-id=\"0\" data-media-accordion-image-url=\"\" data-media-accordion-image-alt=\"\" data-media-accordion-image-caption=\"\">Social Entrepreneurship<\/button><\/h2><div id=\"panel_58767289-section\" class=\"accordion-body \" aria-labelledby=\"panel_58767289\" role=\"region\" name=\"panel_58767289\"><div class=\"accordion-inner clearfix\">\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Brief description<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This research project is being conducted in collaboration with researchers at Leuphana University L\u00fcneburg. It focuses on the question of how social innovations can be scaled up and disseminated by social entrepreneurs and their organizations. Sub-questions of the project address how social entrepreneurs, as their organizations grow, manage potential tensions arising from the interplay of socially oriented and market-oriented internal logics. To this end, another subproject empirically examines how the perspectives of social entrepreneurship differ from those of commercial enterprises regarding organizational success.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A further sub-question explores the possibilities and limitations of social franchising strategies for broadly scaling new solutions in light of the unique characteristics of the social sector.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Publications<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Beckmann, Markus und Steven Ney: Wenn gute L\u00f6sungsans\u00e4tze keine Selbstl\u00e4ufer werden:<span lang=\"DE\">Vernetzung als Skalierungsstrategie in fragmentierten Entscheidungslandschaften am Beispiel des Social Labs in K\u00f6ln<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Beckmann, Markus und Anica Zeyen (2014): Franchising as a Strategy for Combining Small and Large Group Advantages (Logics) in Social Entrepreneurship: A Hayekian Perspective, in:<em> Nonprofit &amp; Voluntary Sector Quarterly<\/em>&nbsp;Vol 43(3), S. 502-522<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Involved people<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nachhaltigkeit.rw.fau.de\/unser-team\/prof-dr-markus-beckmann\/\">Prof. Dr.&nbsp;Markus Beckmann<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Dr.&nbsp;Anica Zeyen<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-rrze-elements-collapse \"><div class=\"accordion-group \"><h2 class=\"accordion-heading\"><button class=\"accordion-toggle\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" data-name=\"governance-and-regulation\" data-href=\"#governance-and-regulation\" type=\"button\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"governance-and-regulation-section\" id=\"governance-and-regulation\" data-media-accordion-image-id=\"0\" data-media-accordion-image-url=\"\" data-media-accordion-image-alt=\"\" data-media-accordion-image-caption=\"\">Governance and Regulation<\/button><\/h2><div id=\"governance-and-regulation-section\" class=\"accordion-body \" aria-labelledby=\"governance-and-regulation\" role=\"region\" name=\"governance-and-regulation\"><div class=\"accordion-inner clearfix\">\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Brief description<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One research project in this area is a collaboration with Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg. The project examines the phenomenon of \u201cnew governance\u201d\u2014that is, regulatory processes in which not only the state but also civil society organizations and businesses are involved in shaping the rules governing corporate activity. Examples include the Forest Stewardship Council or integrity pacts for corruption prevention. Given the patchy regulatory framework for globalized business relations, these issues are becoming increasingly relevant for corporate practice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Publications:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Zeyen, A., Beckmann, M., &amp; Wolters, S. (2016). Actor and Institutional Dynamics in the Development of Multi-Stakeholder Initiatives. <i>Journal of business ethics<\/i>, <i>135<\/i>, 341-360.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Pies, Ingo, Markus Beckmann und Stefan Hielscher (2011): The Political Role of the Business Firm: An Ordonomic Concept of Corporate Citizenship Developed in Comparison with the Aristotelian Idea of Individual Citizenship, in: Business and Society&nbsp;<em>(angenommen)<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Pies, Ingo, Markus Beckmann und Stefan Hielscher (2010): Value Creation, Management Competencies, and Global Corporate Citizenship, in: Journal of Business Ethics, 94,S. 265-278.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Hielscher, Stefan und Markus Beckmann (2009): Social Entrepreneurship und Ordnungspolitik:Zur Rolle gesellschaftlicher Change Agents am Beispiel des Kruppschen Wohlfahrtsprogramms, in: ORDO \u2013 Jahrbuch f\u00fcr die Ordnung von Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, Band 60, Stuttgart, S. 435-461.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Involved people:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nachhaltigkeit.rw.fau.de\/unser-team\/prof-dr-markus-beckmann\/\">Prof. Dr.&nbsp;Markus Beckmann<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Dr. Anica Zeyen<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Stella Wolters<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Dr.&nbsp;Stefan Hielscher, Martin-Luther-Universit\u00e4t Halle-Wittenberg<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Prof. Dr.&nbsp;Ingo Pies, Martin-Luther Universit\u00e4t Halle-Wittenberg<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-rrze-elements-collapse \"><div class=\"accordion-group \"><h2 class=\"accordion-heading\"><button class=\"accordion-toggle\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" data-name=\"ordonomics\" data-href=\"#ordonomics\" type=\"button\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"ordonomics-section\" id=\"ordonomics\" data-media-accordion-image-id=\"0\" data-media-accordion-image-url=\"\" data-media-accordion-image-alt=\"\" data-media-accordion-image-caption=\"\">Ordonomics<\/button><\/h2><div id=\"ordonomics-section\" class=\"accordion-body \" aria-labelledby=\"ordonomics\" role=\"region\" name=\"ordonomics\"><div class=\"accordion-inner clearfix\">\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Brief description<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This research project is a collaboration with Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg. \u201cOrdonomics\u201d is the name of a long-term research program that develops general methodological and sociological foundations for business and corporate ethics: Ordonomics is a rational-choice-based analysis of (the interdependencies between) social structure and semantics. The term \u201csocial structure\u201d refers to the institutional regulatory arrangements of a society and their differentiated incentive effects on individuals (persons) and corporate actors (organizations). The term \u201csemantics\u201d refers to linguistic terms and concepts as well as the underlying categories of thought. The ordonomic research program focuses, on the one hand, on central normative semantics such as responsibility, justice, and sustainability; on the other hand, on the dilemmatic characteristics of modern social structures; but above all, on possible discrepancies between social structure and semantics.<br>In 2010, our chair holder, Prof. Dr. Markus, received the Max Weber Prize for Business Ethics for his research work \u201cOrdnungsverantwortung: Rational Choice as an Ordonomic Research Program.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Publications:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Beckmann, Markus (2010): Ordnungsverantwortung. Rational-Choice als ordonomisches Forschungsprogramm. Berlin: wissenschaftlicher verlag berlin.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Pies, Ingo, Markus Beckmann und Stefan Hielscher: The Political Role of the Business Firm: An Ordonomic Concept Inspired by the Aristotelian Idea of Citizenship, in: Business and Society <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Pies, Ingo, Stefan Hielscher und Markus Beckmann (2009): Moral Commitments and the Societal Role of Business: An Ordonomic Approach to Corporate Citizenship, in Business Ethics Quarterly, 19(3), S.375-401.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Beckmann, Markus (2008): Governance durch politische Selbstbindung \u2013 Wider die Ausbeutungsspiele afrikanischer Eliten, in: Zeitschrift f\u00fcr Politik (ZfP), 55. Jg. 2\/2008, S. 199-220.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Beckmann, Markus und Ingo Pies (2007): Freiheit durch Bindung \u2013 Zur \u00f6konomischen Logik von Verhaltenskodizes, in: zfbf \u2013 Zeitschrift f\u00fcr betriebswirtschaftliche Forschung 59, August 2007, S. 614-644.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Involved people<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nachhaltigkeit.rw.fau.de\/unser-team\/prof-dr-markus-beckmann\/\">Prof. Dr.&nbsp;Markus Beckmann<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Dr. Stefan Hielscher, Martin-Luther-Universit\u00e4t Halle-Wittenberg<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Prof. Dr. Ingo PIes, Martin-Luther Universit\u00e4t Halle-Wittenberg<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Please refer to the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nachhaltigkeit.rw.fau.de\/en\/forschung\/publikationen\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"5906\">list of publications<\/a><\/strong> for additional publications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can find a detailed description of past research projects conducted within the department and in collaboration with other universities under the following tabs: Please refer to the list of publications for additional publications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5692,"featured_media":0,"parent":5904,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_rrze_cache":"enabled","_rrze_multilang_single_locale":"en_GB","_rrze_multilang_single_source":"https:\/\/www.nachhaltigkeit.rw.fau.de\/?page_id=3318","_faue_teaser_image_id":0,"footnotes":""},"page_category":[],"page_tag":[],"workflow_usergroup":[],"class_list":["post-5943","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","en-GB"],"faue_teaser_image_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nachhaltigkeit.rw.fau.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nachhaltigkeit.rw.fau.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nachhaltigkeit.rw.fau.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nachhaltigkeit.rw.fau.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5692"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nachhaltigkeit.rw.fau.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5943"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nachhaltigkeit.rw.fau.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6069,"href":"https:\/\/www.nachhaltigkeit.rw.fau.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5943\/revisions\/6069"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nachhaltigkeit.rw.fau.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nachhaltigkeit.rw.fau.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"page_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nachhaltigkeit.rw.fau.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/page_category?post=5943"},{"taxonomy":"page_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nachhaltigkeit.rw.fau.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/page_tag?post=5943"},{"taxonomy":"workflow_usergroup","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nachhaltigkeit.rw.fau.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/workflow_usergroup?post=5943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}