Christian Herzig

University of Giessen | JLU · Institut für Betriebslehre der Agrar- und Ernährungswirtschaft

Although organizations have embraced the sustainability rhetoric in their discourse and external reporting, little is known about the processes whereby management control systems contribute to a deeper integration of sustainability within organizational strategy. This paper addresses this gap and mobilizes a configuration approach to theorise the r...

Vorwort zur 1. Auflage: Die Ökologische Landwirtschaft hat sich zu einer stark wissensbasierten Wirtschaftsweise entwickelt. Für eine erfolgreiche Beschäftigung mit und in ihr braucht es neben dem Spezialwissen der Boden-, Pflanzenbau-, Nutztier-, Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften auch Kenntnisse über die Querbeziehungen zwischen diesen Gebiet...

Unter den modernen, molekularbiologischen Verfahren scheint das Genome Editing, also das präzise Modifizieren von DNA-Sequenzen, derzeit die Lebenswissenschaften zu revolutionieren. Besonders in der Tier-und Pflanzenzucht sehen WissenschaftlerInnen vielfältige Anwendungsmöglichkeiten, um resistente oder ertrag reichere Züch-tungen zu erzielen. Im M...

Upgrading is the latest buzzword in global value chain research, especially with regard to producers in countries of the Global South: participation in global food value chains has the potential of raising smallholder incomes and achieving decent work, very much in the spirit of the Sustainable Development Goals . However, we argue that the concept...

The integration of Global South actors into the global agricultural economy has attracted research on labour effects. This is because Global South actors are often integrated at the level of production of raw materials with little power and less capture of gain. To better understand the conceptual perspectives and methodologies underpinning existin...

Household organic waste has great potential for closing nutrient cycles in agriculture. This requires proper waste separation by households. Personal communication at the doorstep potentially improves household waste separation behaviour but it is expensive and findings from existing research are mixed. Based on results of previous studies and from...

This paper identifies several governance factors that enable economic upgrading and the link between economic and social upgrading /downgrading of smallholders and Abusa sharecroppers in Ghana's cocoa value chain (GCVC). The findings are based on qualitative interviews and focus group discussions with various actors in GCVC. Our findings suggest tw...

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) struggle with sustainable development. Their characteristics require different sustainability management approaches to those employed by larger enterprises. However, supportive tools for sustainability management, including sustainability assessment, reporting, and certification, are scarce. Therefore, a no...

Das Münchner Tollwood-Festival, der Evangelische Kirchentag oder die documenta – immer mehr Veranstaltungen sind nachhaltig organisiert. Der Markt für nachhaltige Eventlösungen wächst. Kristina Gruber und Christian Herzig bieten mit diesem Buch Orientierung. Sie identifizieren zentrale Handlungsfelder und stellen neueste Erkenntnisse schnell und le...

A sustainability transition (ST) of the agri-food system (AFS) is necessary due to manifold environmental and social exigencies. Scholars widely refer to the multi-level perspective (MLP) in the analysis of those transitions. The fast pace of articles covering AFS transitions, the evolving research on spaces between the three levels, and the consis...

The millions of farm workers in the Global South are an important resource for smallholder producers. However, research on their labour organisation is limited. This article focuses on smallholder farm workers in Ghana’s cocoa sector, drawing on insights from qualitative interviews and the concept of bargaining power. We review the labour relations...

Purpose This paper aims to present the progress of the implementation of sustainability in business schools in line with the United Nations Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME) and its principles of responsible management education. Design/methodology/approach By analyzing the content of the Sharing of Information on Progress rep...

This study aims to explore how a blended case-based learning approach can enhance students' learning towards accounting for sustainability. A case study was applied to provide insights into students' learning in a postgraduate course concerning material flow cost accounting. Data were collected from three sources: 51 learning journals from 17 stude...

In this study, twenty isolates of lactic acid bacteria (LAB) from different apple varieties were obtained. Their probiotic properties together with those of 12 strains, isolated by us earlier from fermented milk, Levilactobacillus brevis (10, 15, 18, 49, 51), Lactiplantibacillus pentosus (40, 57, 63, 85, 88, 92) and Lactobacillus fermentum (44) wer...

Mit dem Ziel die eigenen Werte an den neuen Herausforderungen der Zeit zu überprüfen, initiierte der Bundesvorstand von Bündnis 90/Die Grünen im April 2018 einen auf zwei Jahre angelegten Aushandlungsprozess um ein neues Grundsatzprogramm. Im Zuge dessen forderten progressive Kräfte die Potentiale der im Jahr 2012 entwickelten Methoden des Genome E...

Purpose Organic food processing must include organic principles to be authentic. This qualitative study aims to understand the processors' understanding of organic food processing quality. Design/methodology/approach This study is based on semi-structured expert interviews with eight employees of six purely or partly organic dairies from Germany a...

Organic food quality is based on processing. While the EU organic production regulation focuses on agricultural production, private standards provide more detailed information about further processing. For the development of organic processing, practitioner perspectives can provide valuable input. To get insight into practitioner perspectives, we c...

Die Bedrohungen durch die Klimakrise werden im Kulturbereich intensiv diskutiert und zwingen zum Handeln. Denn auch Kulturmacher*innen müssen Verantwortung für eine nachhaltige Gesellschaft übernehmen und ihre Produktionsweisen dahingehend umstellen. Doch wie kann die damit verbundene Transformation gelingen und welche kulturpolitischen Weichenstel...

Die Bedrohungen durch die Klimakrise werden im Kulturbereich intensiv diskutiert und zwingen zum Handeln. Denn auch Kulturmacher*innen müssen Verantwortung für eine nachhaltige Gesellschaft übernehmen und ihre Produktionsweisen dahingehend umstellen. Doch wie kann die damit verbundene Transformation gelingen und welche kulturpolitischen Weichenstel...

This paper focuses on policy networks and implications surrounding the complex legal requirements on functional foods in the European Union (EU). Using social network analysis, we empirically identify relevant network actors, both private and public, and quantitatively analyse network structures in terms of reputation, information exchange, and com...

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are crucial for a sustainable development of the food sector. Common tools to manage and improve business sustainability are not applied widely amongst food manufacturing SMEs yet. Therefore, this paper derives important aspects to consider for an SME-suitable tool, based on an extract from a Del-phi study....

New techniques in genome editing have led to a controversial debate about the opportunities and uncertainties they present for agricultural food production and consumption. In July 2018, the Court of Justice of the European Union defned genome editing as a new process of mutagenesis, which implies that the resulting organisms count as genetically m...

Purpose This paper examines the socio-ecological co-evolution and transformation of organic pioneers and the organic food market from a politically structuring actor perspective. It aims to identify strategies and activities used to contribute to the change of structures in the organic market and how the companies, in turn, reacted to the structura...

Introduction. Dairy products are the most common probiotic food. However, due to lack of enzyme lactase, their ingestion for lactose intolerant people is a challenge. Fruit juices are rich in nutrients and have proved to be effective carriers or growth media for probiotics, specifically for lactic acid bacteria; they are also lactose-free and can b...

This chapter examines the extent to which strategies for bioeconomic transformation have been developed in Germany and the Netherlands and how they differ in content. The analysis is based on national bioeconomic strategies as well as official statements and press releases published by the governments, ministries, and independent scientific advisor...

The COVID-19 pandemic is one of the most challenging crises the world has faced in recent decades. This volume provides a collection of awarded and short-listed essays on the pandemic’s impacts on food business education and food value chains. The essays were written by students and graduates of the Master of Science programme in International Food...

Purpose As members of the food supply chain, food manufacturers acquire power and hold responsibility for the sustainable transformation of our food systems. Sustainability assessment and reporting frameworks function as instruments to shape sustainable transformation processes. The purpose of the paper is to investigate the suitability for food ma...

VietGreen, headquartered in the South of Vietnam, is a bottled mineral water company striving towards becoming a leading mineral water producer with a strong reputation for social responsibility and integrity. This case describes VietGreen’s decision to explore the potential of material flow cost accounting (MFCA) for enhanced eco-efficiency and ac...

Most probiotic foods are based on dairy products. However, some people, including children, are characterized by intolerance to milk sugar - lactose. Probiotic-rich fruit juices are a good alternative to dairy products as they are free of lactose and cholesterol. Among the probiotic microorganisms, the genus of Lactobacillus is most often used in t...

In diesem Beitrag wird ein Lehrkonzept vorgestellt und evaluiert, das sich mit der Gemeinwohl-Ökonomie befasst und in seiner didaktischen Umsetzung die Prinzipien der Transdisziplinarität und des Service Learnings verbindet. Wir analysieren die Erfahrungen und Seminarergebnisse aus einem im Sommersemester 2019 durchgeführten Projektseminar, um eine...

Purpose – The paper presents a methodology to establish and integrate formal sustainability control systems (SCS) into management control systems (MCS).The innovative approach aims at contributing to the need for SCS integration by permeating and transforming MCSs so that positive and negative externalities can be internalized into the financial pe...

Purpose The study aims to enhance our understanding of strategizing sustainable palm oil at company level and to bridge the gap between strategy formulation and implementation. In this case-based study, the way a food company is tackling the challenges faced during the promotion and incorporation of sustainable palm oil into core business strategy...

This study aims to provide a better understanding of material flow cost accounting (MFCA) application in developing countries, which are characterized by rapid structure transformation leading to serious environmental problems. By systematically reviewing the existing literature, our analysis of 28 studies from nine developing countries (China, Ind...

We investigate the rural resistance of one of the world’s largest social movements, La Via Campesina, as a powerful enactment of radical democracy in practice. More than this, the paper describes how the movement challenges the framework of radical democracy by pointing towards the ethical importance of recognizing the relationship of human dignity...

Die Anzahl von Pressemitteilungen, Positionspapieren und Informationsmaterialien zum Thema Genome Editing ist beachtlich hoch, bedenkt man die vergleichsweise kurze Zeit, seit der die neue Technologie entwickelt wurde. Der Diskurs um Genome Editing ist dabei geprägt von dem Wettbewerb um die Deutungshoheit über Fragen der Potentiale und Risiken der...

Over the past decade the focus of sustainability researchers has broadened to explore management controls for sustainable business practice. This paper contributes to the emerging area of interest on understanding the roles management controls play by presenting a review of the literature that specifically focuses on the relationship between manage...

Environmental management accounting provides a set of tools designed to support management to make better decisions about cleaner production. Diffusion of innovation theory provides a foundation for understanding the dynamics of environmental management accounting implementation. Based on five case studies of businesses in Indonesia, the Philippine...

Global value chains appear to have a great potential to contribute to the achievement of multiple sustainable development goals (SDGs). In agriculture, the integration of producers into food value chains has created employment in farming and processing, but it has also led to precarious jobs, forced labour, and riskier environments for farmers. The...

Research examining organisational commitment to sustainability is not new and have been typically investigated with a focus on corporate reporting practices and understanding the corporate rationale that drives sustainable behaviour (Junior et al., 2014; Lozano, 2015; Burritt et al., 2010). However, more recently, the assumption inherent in the ext...

Over the past decade the focus of sustainability researchers has broadened to explore management controls for sustainable business practice (Wood, 1991; Bebbington, 2007). This paper contributes to the emerging area of interest in understanding the roles management controls play by presenting a systematic review of literature that specifically focu...

Extended Abstract for presentation: The Commission's new communication "Implementing the Partnership for Growth and Jobs: Making Europe a Pole of Excellence on Corporate Social Responsibility" underlines the potential of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) to contribute to the revised Lisbon strategy which aims at putting a greater focus on growt...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to conduct an empirical analysis among large German companies to enhance the understanding of whether and which institutional factors influence the application of sustainability management tools. Stepping from corporate sustainability visions to implementation requires the application of management tools. A mu...

In light of the evidence of the rapidly changing landscape of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in Asia, this paper seeks to analyse the dynamics and evolution of CSR in Asia, including the degree of variation and homogeneity within various Asian countries. We explore one proposition that isomorphism has occurred between 2002 and 2009, due to t...

In diesem Beitrag werden nationale und internationale Entwicklungen zu Responsible Management Education (RME) sowie die Ziele und Inhalte einer der führenden und von den Vereinten Nationen unterstützten Initiativen zu RME, die Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME) vorgestellt. Der Beitrag erörtert, inwieweit sich die Diskussion um...

Our study reveals both notable differences and similarities between the average international and UK samples for the issues we investigate in the International Corporate Sustainability Barometer (ICSB). Commitment from top management, corporate philosophy and self-commitment seem to drive corporate sustainability in the UK more strongly than intern...

http://www.emeraldinsight.com/journals.htm?articleid=17106310&ini=aob This paper develops the contributions that higher education institutions (HEIs) can make to sustainable development and explores issues and drivers for creating accounts for “university social responsibility”. It aims to contribute to discussions about whether, under which circum...

Management education for sustainable development, sustainable consumption in higher education institutions, and higher education for sustainable development in Central and Eastern Europe can be considered as three highly relevant emerging areas in research on higher education for sustainable development. The transformation of management education t...

PurposeThis chapter reviews empirical studies into the relationship between management control, strategy and sustainability. ApproachThe review explores the theoretical frameworks and models used in previous empirical research as well as the research questions and methods applied to empirically explore this emerging research area. FindingsEven if a...

The financial crisis has brought about dramatic consequences for economies and societies. Questions emerge about responsibility for the crisis and, implicitly or explicitly irresponsibility; the obligations to take responsibility for the costs and other adverse effects of the recession; and the nature of responsibility for social welfare and busine...

Over the years there has been considerable progress in implementing sustainability into Higher Educational Institutions (HEIs). However, there is still a long way to go until sustainability becomes a guiding principle in higher education. This Call for Papers (CfPs) for a special issue of the Journal of Cleaner Production (JCLP) will focus upon new...

The expectation that management education institutions should be leading thought and action on issues related to corporate responsibility and sustainability has been reinforced in the light of their association with business leaders’ failings, including corporate corruption, the financial crisis and various ecological system crises. The United Nati...

The operationalisation of sustainability on the corporate level is recognised to be a management task and implies the choice and application of management tools. Although researchers have proposed a large number of sustainability management tools in the literature, little is known about their acceptance and implementation. This paper extends the ex...

Dieser Beitrag widmet sich den medienspezifischen Vorteilen des Internets gegenüber einer rein printbasierten Berichterstattung für die Kommunikation über Nachhaltigkeit. Er formuliert einen Rahmen, der Hinweise für die Gestaltung internetbasierter Nachhaltigkeitskommunikation gibt und zeigt anhand eines Fallbeispiels (Henkel AG & Co KGaA) Möglichk...

The financial crisis has brought about dramatic consequences for our economy and society and we are still witnessing a fragile recovery. The financial sector has been broadly held at least partly responsible for the financial crisis, albeit in the context of regulatory failure and borrower short-sightedness. The question of sources of responsibilit...

This study examines the pressures, barriers and enablers which subsidiaries of Q5 multinational companies encounter when engaging in corporate social reporting within a developing country context. The researchers conducted in-depth interviews with eighteen managers across ten subsidiaries in Sri Lanka. The findings show that the subsidiaries are ov...

This study develops a conceptual framework to understand the roles and uses of control systems in the integration of sustainability within organisational strategy. It highlights the importance of integrating sustainability within management control rather than simply relying on discourse to deliver a triple rather than a single bottom line. The stu...

This article investigates the sustainability reporting practice of the ten largest German banks during the financial crisis in 2008/2009. It is motivated by the wider debate about the irresponsible behaviour of banks which has resulted in the fraying of the social fabric between the banking sector and society and has created an atmosphere of deep d...

Incidences of organizational wrongdoing have become wide spread throughout the whole business world. The management of organizational wrongdoings is of growing concern in organizations globally, since these types of acts can be detrimental to financial well being. Wrongdoing occurs within organizational settings and organizational members commonly...

Sustainable development will not happen without substantial contributions from and leading roles of companies and business organizations. This requires the provision of adequate information on corporate social and ecological impacts and performance. For the last decade, progress has been made in developing and adapting accounting mechanisms to thes...

As recent disasters in the offshore petroleum and other industries illustrate, managing HSE is particularly relevant for companies operating in high risk industrial sectors. HSE management systems support companies in minimising adverse health effects, injuries and environmental damages as well as in complying with legislation, standards and stakeh...

This chapter explores business schools’ efforts and achievements around the integration of sustainability. The authors have analysed the Sharing Information on Progress (SIP) reports of the first 100 United Nations Principles for Responsible Management Education (UNPRME) signatories who developed and uploaded their report onto the UNPRME website1....

This paper explores the endeavours and achievements of business schools in the integration of sustainability by analysing the Sharing Information on Progress (SIP) reports of the first 100 UN PRME signatories who developed and uploaded their report onto the UN PRME website. The findings from the analysis are presented in an order which reflects the...

Purpose The paper aims to explore trends in the use of internet‐supported sustainability reporting for German DAX30 companies. Particular focus is to be given to the question of the extent that these companies use the more effective internet‐specific methods of provision, accessibility, comprehensibility and dialogue compared to print‐based reporti...

The paper examines environmental management accounting as a tool that supports environmental investment decision-making in the context of the emerging markets for carbonised rice husk and the clean development mechanism. Based on a case study at Oliver Enterprises, a rice milling business in the Philippines, the paper analyses carbonisation and cog...

Environmental Management Accounting (EMA) remains a relatively new decision-making initiative at the corporate level. This is particularly true when it comes to its adoption by small and medium-sized enterprises in developing and newly industrialised countries. This paper elaborates upon the concept of EMA for a research study which aims to underst...

Reporting and external corporate communication play an important role in corporate sustainability. As well as economic reasons, the vision of sustainable development also emphasizes the importance of corporate sustainability reporting. On the one hand, companies depend on a supply of resources from various stakeholders, so that management is challe...

Corporate volunteering (CV) has become an important issue in Germany in recent years. Especially larger and multinational enterprises demonstrate their community involvement with the help of their personnel resources. However, apart from individual documentation of good practice examples, empirical studies of CV in Germany are still rare. This pape...

Die Umweltrechnungslegung unterstützt die Integration ökologischer und ökonomischer Informationen für Entscheidungsprozesse. Ein internationales Forschungs-, Transfer- und Weiterbildungsprojekt verankert dieses Konzept im südostasiatischen Raum.