Prof. Dr. Markus Beckmann

Prof. Dr. Markus Beckmann
mark Room: FG.1.038
Phone: 0911/5302-95651
Email:     markus.beckmann@fau.de
Office hours: by appointment publications

teaching evaluations

Scientific and professional career

  • since 11/2012: Chair of Corporate Sustainability Management at FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg
  • 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 of 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
  • 2011-2012: Head of the Institute Center for Sustainability Management (CSM) at the Leuphana University of Lüneburg
  • 2009-2012: Junior Professor for Social Entrepreneurship at the Center for Sustainability Management, Leuphana University of Lüneburg & Head of the  Social Change Hub SCHub
  • 07/2009-11/2009: Research fellow at the Chair of Business Ethics, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
  • 07/2009: Doctorate (Dr. rer. pol.) at the Chair of Business Ethics, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
  • 06/2003-12/2005: Project work at the Wittenberg Center for Global Ethics, Lutherstadt Wittenberg
  • 10/1997-04/2003: Languages, economic and cultural studies at the University of Passau, the Universidad de Málaga and the University of Washington (Seattle, USA) with a degree in cultural studies (University of Passau)

awards

  • 2018: Wilhelm-Rieger-Preis, FAU: Award for Outstanding Teaching in 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

  • 2012: Awarded the Knowledge Transfer Prize from the Leuphana University of Lüneburg for the „SCHub Live Case Study“ (with Anica Zeyen)

  • 2012: The Social Change Hub (SCHub) is recognized as one of “365 places in the land of ideas” by “Germany. country of ideas“
  • 2011: Awarded the teaching prize of the Leuphana University of Lüneburg (with  Anica Zeyen )
  • 2010: Awarded the Kantorovic Prize from the Martin Luther University in Halle-Wittenberg
  • 2010: Awarded the Max Weber Prize for business ethics by the Cologne Institute for Economic Research

Courses at the FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg

  • Industry and subject-specific sustainability management
  • Business Ethics & Corporate Social Responsibility
  • The world we (want?) to live in
  • Current Issues in Sustainability Management
  • Introduction to sustainability management
  • Basics of business and business ethics
  • 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

Completed promotions

  • Anica Zeyen (Leuphana Universität Lüneburg)
    „Scaling Strategies of Social Entrepreneurship Organizations: An Actor-Motivation Perspective“ (cumulative)
  • Roya Akhavan
  • Michael Garkisch (external)
  • Jens Heidingsfelder
  • Peter Wehnert
  • Rudiger Hein
  • Heike Schirmer (second supervisor, Freie Universität Berlin; degree: 2013)
    „Combined Forces for Social Impact: Investigating Partnership Dynamics between Social Ventures and Corporations“ (monograph)