André Habisch

Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt (KU) | KU · Ingolstadt School of Management

Recent studies have identified practical wisdom as a critical area for exploration in the domains of management and leadership. This paper delves into the cultivation and manifestation of practical wisdom in leadership, emphasizing the potential of narratives as an efficacious tool, as corroborated by academic literature. Employing practical wisdom...

Despite a large amount of assets under management and a strong influence on the sustainable investment movement, very little is known about what ethical investing looks like from a Christian perspective. We therefore analyzed the ethical investment policies of a unique dataset of Christian-influenced mutual fund providers using a structured–themati...

The concept of investor impact of socially responsible investments is relatively new. Our article expands knowledge in this field by analyzing how investor impact is implemented in the ethical investment policies of 45 providers of publicly traded, socially responsible funds. Based on a typological content analysis, we first develop an impact-focus...

The concept of investor impact of socially responsible investments is relatively new. Our article expands knowledge in this field by analyzing how investor impact is implemented in the ethical investment policies of socially responsible fund providers. Based on a typological content analysis, we first develop an impact-focused category system, whic...

The book grants conceptual and practical insights into the (public) Chamber of commerce in Germany. In contrast with the private Chamber system in many countries, the German Chamber system is endowed with obligatory membership. A main achievement lies in the important role for the dual VET system contributing substantially to very low youth unemplo...

Purpose This paper measures German customers' label-depending preference and willingness to pay for organic and local food. Design/methodology/approach The sample covers 325 survey respondents from 12 out of the 16 German federal states. Data was collected through convenience sampling in December 2019. A choice-based conjoint analysis was operated...

This open access book examines a particular factor in the enduring international success of German companies. Beyond industrial specialization, peaceful labor relations, local financial markets and the “miracle of the Mittelstand”, it focuses on a characteristic aspect of governance within the German economy: The Chambers of commerce and industry....

Purpose This paper aims to emphasize the importance and current deficits of non-financial impact (NFI) assessment of socially responsible investment (SRI) with reference to the action plan of the European Commission (EC) for a greener and cleaner economy. Design/methodology/approach The importance and current deficits of NFI assessment are evaluat...

In the late Middle Ages, the canonical prohibition of interest increasingly came into conflict with an ever more dynamic economic practice. The Ingolstadt based theology professor Johannes Eck is better known as Catholic opponent of Martin Luther; however, he also worked more strongly than his academic contemporaries against fundamentalist business...

Previous research has underlined the significance of practical wisdom pertaining to corporate sustainability (CS). Recent studies, however, have identified managing opposing but interlocked tensions related to environmental, social, and economic aspects as one of the most crucial future challenges in CS. Therefore, we apply the established link bet...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the influences of smallholder farmers’ motivations, opportunities and abilities on their satisfactions of non-certified organic farming practices in Southern China based on the motivation–opportunity–ability (MOA) model. Design/methodology/approach The sample covers 314 smallholders from Nanning...

The dawning of the digitalization era has placed diversity into an entirely new light. Beyond the traditional cultural, age, and gender-specific sensitivities, “inter-creational” differences will require business leaders and HR managers to address the prospect of humans working together with artificial intelligence on a day-to-day basis. This essay...

Happiness is attained by realizing one’s potential as a human being through social interaction, the harmonization of the intellect and the emotions, the application of moral values, and the fulfilment of public and private duties.

The ancient virtue of practical wisdom has lately been enjoying a remarkable renaissance in management literature. The purpose of this article is to add clarity and bring synergy to the interdisciplinary debate. In a review of the wide-ranging field of the existing literature from a philosophical, theological, psychological, and managerial perspect...

This paper portrays the contribution of Wilhelm Röpke (1899-1966) to business ethics and social responsibility of entrepreneurs. First, Röpke’s critique of liberalism and his concept of social market economy are emphasized. Afterward, we analyze the normative foundations of Röpke’s concept of the entrepreneur. He called for the moral responsibility...

In management literature, practical wisdom is increasingly perceived as a necessary resource for excellence in judgment. However, so far, little effort has been devoted to provide substantive guidance on how to apply practical wisdom into day-to-day managerial decision-making processes. In order to close this gap, we develop an item-based guideline...

The structure between economic, social and environmental dimensions has to be rebuilt and rebalanced since China has been entering an accelerative transforming period. CSR is perceived as an effective way to achieve sustainable development, and regime actors’ engagement in CSR practices is essential and influential. We thereby evaluate the engaging...

The purpose of this study is to explore how the implementation of Responsible Supply Chain Management (RSCM) of SMEs as buyers in the international markets differs from the approach of MNCs. The study is based on a cross-sectional qualitative case-study research of ten German companies. We find compelling evidence to identify important size-related...

Cultural values and social capital are important parts of the context that determines countries’ innovation performance (and, hence, economic development). This paper investigates the culture–innovation relationship in a European context, as well as the mediating role of the national-level trust in this connection. Data are used to test the hypothe...

In this article we consider how the virtue of practical wisdom (prudence) rooted in the Aristotelian philosophy helps to develop a value-based media management in today’s age of digitalization. We argue that the integrative and the normative dimension of practical wisdom contribute to a wisdom-based, multi-dimensional perspective of media managemen...

The tradition of Catholic social thought (CST) has been of crucial importance for the development of “Rhenish Capitalism” and “Social Market Economy” in Europe. However, its origins and basic principles have no longer been much remembered, recently. This essay describes the emergence of CST in the context of industrialization, which also represents...

2009 begann an der Katholischen Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt (KU) eine koordinierte mehrjährige Forschung zu den zentralen Themen Nachhaltigkeit, Migration und Bildung. Die institutionelle Form der Forschung waren Graduiertenkollegs. Mit diesem Band werden die Ergebnisse des Graduiertenkollegs „Nachhaltigkeit in Wirtschaft , Umwelt und Gesellsc...

Multiple strains of research are currently claiming to bring back normative perspectives into business analysis. In line with a series of publications from different disciplines we refer to the traditional concept of Practical Wisdom for that purpose but link it substantially with narrations from religious and spiritual traditions. Aware of potenti...

Referring to the hermeneutical concept of Paul Ricoeur, in what follows, we prepare the ground for the empowerment and inculturation of spiritual wisdom traditions into contemporary business culture and management practice. Addressing a lack of normative orientation and professional ethos in the global business world of the twenty-first century we...

The contributions in this volume in multiple ways represent an innovative approach towards a more integrated concept of business education. ‘Practical Wisdom’—basically reflected by the Greek philosopher Aristotle (2004)—served as the crucial point of reference of Western medieval and early modern moral educational philosophy. For centuries not onl...

This study inquires the social impact of entrepreneurial behaviour from a regional development perspective. A special focus is laid on the reciprocity of public and private leaders' regional responsibility. From a social capital perspective, the relevance of shared values among actors within regional structures is elaborated and identified as a dec...

This book provides a multidisciplinary approach to Corporate Social Responsibility. While for decades a purely mathematical-technical orientation dominated the business curriculum, this book presents CSR and sustainability as a business concept embedded in its cultural and spiritual context. It initially approaches practical wisdom from different c...

Vor dem Hintergrund aktueller gesellschaftlicher Fragestellungen wie Globalisierung, Klimawandel und Finanzkrise wird vermehrt auch grundsätzliche Kritik an der Wertschöpfung von Unternehmen laut. Um Glaubwürdigkeit und Vertrauen in verantwortungsvolles Unternehmenshandeln zurückzugewinnen, sind nachhaltige Geschäftsmodelle unabdingbar. Der Arbeits...

Traditionell herrscht die Auffassung eines Gesellschaftsmodells von drei Sektoren vor: Staat, Wirtschaft und Zivilgesellschaft. Jedem dieser Sektoren wird eine bestimmte Rolle zugeschrieben. Der öffentliche Sektor war bisher für die Erstellung von und die Versorgung mit öffentlichen Gütern zuständig, z.B. Bildung, soziale Sicherheit und Gesundheit....

The purpose of this study is to explore how the implementation of Responsible Supply Chain Management of SMEs as buyers in the international markets differs from the approach of MNCs. The study is based on a cross-sectional qualitative case-study research of ten German best practice companies. We find compelling evidence to identify important size-...

Implementing sustainable policies in supply chains is a significant challenge for businesses. Recent evidence has shown that failure to manage supply chains responsibly can have significant impacts on firms' reputation and financial performance. In this paper, we develop a conceptual framework, which focuses on organizational learning, and outline...

Words matter, but some words are seldom used in management discourse— and that gap has important implications for what is and is not considered relevant for research, teaching, and management practice. In particular, we argue that organizational research should connect more directly with other social sciences to update and enlarge its theoretical r...

The role of the institutional context in the pattern of the implementation of responsible procurement management (RPM) has been object of very limited previous research, although it has been found that it affects the approach to both CSR and supply chain management. The article presents the results of an in-depth comparative study drawing on 47 int...

The authors want to express the thanks and gratitude to a number of individuals without whom this issue would not be possible. With respect to the authors gathered in this special issue, the authors wish to thank them for their commitment and patience through the editorial process. The authors also thank the panel of anonymous peer reviewers for th...

Nachhaltigkeitsfragen gewinnen in den letzten Jahrzehnten schnell an Relevanz – und zwar sowohl aus einer unternehmensethischen wie aus einer genuin betriebswirtschaftlichen Perspektive. Aus unternehmerischer Sicht spricht man nunmehr in der Regel von corporate social responsibility (CSR) oder – etwas weiter gefasst – von corporate social and envir...

Peter Drucker is considered one of the leading management thinkers in the 20th century. Before his passing he had written extensively on the Management Challenges in the 21st century. Now that capitalism is in crisis, it is timely to reconsider some of Drucker’s thinking and how it might help address the current problems. In this panel we highlight...

Capitalism is at a crossroads and the challenges for management in the 21st century are manifold. From climate change, to increasing inequity, social exclusion, poverty and decreasing social trust in business, many agree that managers are witnessing a perfect storm. While many scholars posit that business needs to be rethought and reenacted, in thi...

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This chapter explores the concept of social innovation linking the research on social capital to innovation in general and where possible to social innovation in particular. Based on an Ostromian definition of social capital, the relationships between social capital and social innovation are presented at three different levels. At a micro or indivi...

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This paper contributes to the existing literature about the effects of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) on market valuation. In particular, we investigate the impact of sustainability reporting under the global reporting initiative (GRI) on the firm value of non-financial EUROSTOXX 600 firms. Our findings show that the highest level of GRI-ali...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the special issue on practical wisdom for management from the Islamic traditions. Design/methodology/approach The guest editorial introduces the papers in this special issue, focusing on practical wisdom for management from the Islamic tradition. Findings Using multiple levels of anal...

The authors express thanks and gratitude to a number of individuals without whom this issue would not be possible: First, to the authors gathered in this special issue, for their commitment and the patience through the editorial process; to a panel of anonymous peer reviewers for their suggestions for the improvement of the papers; and to all those...

Purpose Corporate compliance practices are often “coercively” structured, coined by a legal discourse and derived from individualist normative concepts. Drawing on the “logic of the Decalogue”, the purpose of this paper is to design an “enabling” approach based on a covenantal logic present within the Decalogue. Design/methodology/approach The app...

This chapter critically discusses the thesis of ‘politization of companies’ developed by some academic scholars. The ‚Good Company Ranking’ of Manager Magazin screened the social engagement of EuroStoxx and DAX listed companies biannualy from 2005 onwards. The architecture of the Ranking in general and the criteria for Corporate Citizenship Engagem...

Purpose – This paper aims to provide an overview of this special issue. Design/methodology/approach – The guest editorial introduces the papers in this special issue, focusing on practical wisdom for management from the Chinese classical traditions. Findings – Chinese culture increasingly will permeate international culture and move from peripher...

Purpose The notion of compassion is a cornerstone in Chinese as well as western orientations for business practice. Spiritual and religious traditions, philosophical approaches and historical and present business practices outline this notion in a comparative perspective. This paper seeks to address this issue. Design/methodology/approach Interdis...

Although theoretical underpinnings of stakeholder dialog (SD) have been extensively discussed in the extant literature, there is a lack of empirical studies presenting evidence on the SD initiatives undertaken by firms. In this article, we provide information about 294 SD initiatives collected through a content analysis of the sustainability report...

The Encyclical-Letter Caritas in Veritate by Pope Benedict XVI suggests to advance towards a new conceptualization of the tenuous relationship between economics and ethics, proposing a “new humanistic synthesis.” Where social encyclicals have traditionally justified policy proposals by natural law and theological reasoning alone, Caritas in Veritat...

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Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) wird heute sowohl im angelsächsischen als auch im kontinentaleuropäischen Raum intensiv diskutiert. In der öffentlichen Diskussion wird dabei häufig übersehen, dass die Internationalen Finanzmärkte ein wichtiger Treiber dieser Diskussion sind. Mancher deutsche Vorstand hat den Begriff CSR erstmals aus dem Mund...

Seit Ende der 1990er Jahre wird – ausgehend von den USA – das Konzept „Social Entrepreneurship“ diskutiert; dabei geht es um Unternehmerpersönlichkeiten, die nicht primär wirtschaftliche, sondern gemeinnützige Ziele verfolgen. Die wörtliche Übersetzung von social entrepreneurship mit „Soziales Unternehmertum“ ist allerdings missverständlich – im En...

Politik- und Sozialwissenschaftler stellen seit Jahren gravierende Veränderungen entwickelter Industriegesellschaften des Westens fest, die sie mit den Stichworten ‚Individualisierung’ und ‚Verlust sozialer Netzwerke’ charakterisieren. Am prägnantesten hat dies der renommierte Harvard-Politikwissenschaftler und Clinton-Berater Robert D. Putnam in d...

Purpose – This paper aims to indicate how practical wisdom in the western Christian tradition may be introduced into management development. Following recent documents of Catholic social thought, three roads to go are indicated especially concerning: management practice, management education, and the managerial reason. Design/methodology/approach...

Purpose This paper aims to focus on business education, which should not exclude strains of religious ethical traditions, e.g. Catholic social thought, and the practical wisdom embodied in them. Design/methodology/approach Recent traditions of social Catholicism starting from the Papal Social Message Rerum Novarum (1891) are summarized. Consequenc...

Ein Unternehmen als selbstständige Handlungseinheit hat ein enormes Potenzial bei der Veränderung und Gestaltung seiner Umwelt. Zu den wichtigsten Auswirkungen unternehmerischen Handelns zählen: • Auswirkungen auf Kunden und Kundenbedürfnisse: Es befriedigt Kundenbedürfnisse mit seinen Produkten und Dienstleistungen, schafft sogar neue Bedürfnis...

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Companies are there to serve people, not the other way round. Peter Walter, founding CEO, betapharm INTRODUCTION After a two-day workshop in 2005 with his top management team, Peter Walter, the founding CEO of betapharm, was wondering what he should do. betapharm, he knew, was a different kind of company: during the last 10 years, the generic-drug...

Socially responsible business and ethical behaviour of companies have been of interest to academia and practice for decades. But the focus has almost exclusively been on large corporations while small- and medium-sized enterprises (SME) have not received as much attention. Thus, this paper focuses on socially responsible business practices of SME e...

Die Begriffe des Corporate Citizenship und des unternehmerischen Engagements werden in der laufenden Diskussion sehr breit und oft uneinheitlich verwendet1. Dies ist einerseits ein Zeichen veränderter gesellschaftlicher Erwartungen, anderseits auch eines gewandelten Selbstverständnisses der Unternehmen. Sahen sich diese in den 1970er und 1980er Jah...

Die mitteleuropäischen Gesellschaften stecken mitten in einer tief greifenden Trans-formation. Der EU-Beitritt der mittel-und osteuropaischen Lander macht die vieldiskutierte Globalisierung bis tief in die mittelstandische Wirtschaft hinein zu einer erfahrbaren Realitat. Der Globalisierungsprozess bringt neue Chancen fur diejenigen, die sich auf ih...

Es stellt sich die Frage nach dem „Warum“ für Unternehmen - für kleine und mittlere mindestens so sehr wie für Großunternehmen - in aller Dringlichkeit. Resultat aber auch Motor arbeitsteiliger, spezialisierter und professionalisierter Gesellschaften ist vor allem ein effektives Wettbewerbssystem, das einen starken Druck auf den einzelnen Anbieter...

Dieses Buch liefert eine fundierte Gesamtsicht der vielfältigen Anwendungsmöglichkeiten von Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) und Corporate Citizenship im täglichen Wirtschaftsleben. Es gibt Managern und CSR-Verantwortlichen das Rüstzeug, um mit der gesellschaftlichen Verantwortung des Unternehmens Wettbewerbsvorteile zu erzielen und so einen n...

Corporate Citizenship (CC) und Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) sind in Deutschland und Österreich seit längerer Zeit keine Fremdwörter mehr. Sie werden von Unternehmenslenkern, Politikern und Journalisten mittlerweile mit großer Vertrautheit verwendet. Auch die überregionalen Tages- und einschlägigen Wirtschaftszeitungen berichten mit wachsen...

Öffentlichkeit und Medien besinnen sich immer dann auf Werte und Moral, wenn sich Verantwortliche aus Politik und Wirtschaft nicht mehr an die (geschriebenen oder ungeschriebenen) Spielregeln halten. Millionenschwere Selbstbedienung in Aufsichtsgremien? Korruptionsskandal im Traditionsunternehmen? Kungeleien zwischen den Tarifpartnern der Autoindus...

Profilbildung durch fokussiertes und professionelles Engagement – so ließe sich das Corporate Citizenship von Nokia charakterisieren. Ein Vorstandsmitglied eröffnet den Bericht über das gesellschaftliche Engagement des Unternehmens. Vorteils- und Konkurrenzüberlegungen werden als Leitlinien gesellschaftlichen Engagements expliziert: Weiche Bindunge...

This chapter underlines the significance of social capital for business and the contribution that corporate social responsibility (CSR) can make to investment in social capital. We follow Adler and Kwon (2002, p. 17), who state that social capital can be ‘understood roughly as the goodwill that is engendered by the fabric of social relations and th...

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has become an increasingly important topic in our global society. Corporate Social Responsibility Across Europe is the first volume of its kind to bring together twenty-three national perspectives on this issue. Thirty-seven European researchers worked on the book, which provides a comprehensive and structured...

"Social capital" can be considered to be the product of co-operationbetween various institutions, networks and business partners. It haspotential as a useful tool for business ethics. In this article weidentify categories pertinent to the measurement of social capital insmall and medium sized enterprises (SMEs). By drawing on three differentsectors...