Katrin Muff

• PhD in Leadership and Management
• Professor at LUISS Guido Carli, Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali

The Business Sustainability Typology (Dyllick & Muff 2013) offers a practical approach to evaluate different levels of integration of sustainability in business. As such, it provides an answer to the difficult question of what business sustainability actually means and how to differentiate between beginning, intermediate and advanced levels in busi...

This article builds on the competency assessment of responsible leadership (CARL) developed by Muff et al. (Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management Journal, 2020, 27, 2254–2274) and assesses the data collected from a sample of 9’566 participants across 122 countries in the timeframe. The analysis reveals interesting, sometimes...

In view of the significant global challenges, this article analyzes and suggests pragmatic solutions for organizations to transform from sustainability risk management to creating a positive impact. Positive impact is defined by products and services that are created with the purpose of solving societal problems. It reflects the shift from reducing...

Business school rankings have been criticized, to blindly “follow the money” with their strong focus on salaries and economic performance, thereby reflecting the values and expectations of the times the rankings were created. Rankings are increasingly seen as out of touch with changing demands on business and business schools to address issues of s...

In the era of the sustainable development goals (SDGs) and calls for climate action, business is challenged to respond more effectively to societal and environmental challenges. Collaboration with stakeholders requires an ability for broader collaboration competencies. These form a part of an established literature on responsible leadership (RL) co...

Der rasante Wandel von Marktveränderungen im Kontext der großen gesellschaftlichen Probleme unserer Zeit kann für kleine und mittlere Unternehmen mitunter eine große Herausforderung sein. In diesem Labyrinth können die Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) als Kompass dienen, um neue langfristige Geschäftsmodelle und Einkommensquellen zu entdecken. A...

In September 2015 the United Nations General Assembly unanimously adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development with its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), one of the most ambitious and important global agreements in recent history. To advance implementation of the SDGs, a new framework − the GAPFRAME − has been developed and published...

The global agenda of Grand Challenges until 2030 is set: the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) enjoy broad global governmental acceptance and increasing business awareness. This paper takes a concrete look at how we can reach a state-of-the-world by 2030 that is ‘safe for all of us’. Getting there requires relevant national measures that are eas...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to outline a path for entrepreneurial universities to embrace their purpose as custodians of society and to hardwire it institutionally. Design/methodology/approach The paper is conceptual in its approach, drawing on practical and theoretical insights in the fields of responsible leadership, business sustainabi...

New problems require new approaches. The increasing complexity of our environmental, social and economic challenges requires an entirely new way for issue-centred stakeholders to co-create new solutions. Globally responsible leaders need different competences and sustainable organizations are called to assume a new role in society. Such wayfinders...

This chapter aims to provide hotels, academia and students with a multidimensional sustainability grid, the SWELL (sustainability for well-being), which represents different types of hotel sustainability as phases of an evolutionary process. The SWELL focuses on competitive sustainability strategies and sustainable hotel practices, based on a model...

This article examines the potential for scalability of action research in the domain of management education. It considers the individual, the institutional as well as the systemic perspective of embracing action research and provides telling examples in all three domains. Using the guiding framework of the seven choice points of quality action res...

While sustainability management is becoming more widespread among major companies, the impact of their activities does not reflect in studies monitoring the state of the planet. What results from this is a “big disconnect.” With this article, we address two main questions: “How can business make an effective contribution to addressing the sustainab...

The purpose of this paper is to integrate a number of recent studies on business sustainability into a framework for greater corporate engagement. Enabling business sustainability is the biggest challenge of our times and at the same time represents the biggest opportunity to finding solutions for some of the most important global problems. It is a...

This Editorial welcomes the inaugural issue and gives an overview of the content.

The article aims to link sustainability strategies to a more meaningful purpose and a specific outcome: societal well-being; and thus offers a novel solution for business in implementing sustainability. The article is a theoretical contribution in the form of a conceptual sustainability framework, which derives heavily from existing literature revi...

The Business Sustainability Typology provides an answer to the difficult question of what business sustainability actually means and how to differentiate between beginning, intermediate and advanced levels in business practice. It offers a practical approach to evaluate different levels of integrating sustainability in business (Dyllick & Muff, 201...

What do employers expect from recent business graduates or interns? And how do they think business schools should prepare students for their new positions? This practitioner-oriented article reviews these two questions which were addressed to a sample of executives in various job functions and across a wide range of industries. The answers are as s...

Internships form an integral part of experiential learning and can play an important role in shaping future managers and leaders. This article looks at the practices of 25 international organizations across six different industries all located in Switzerland. It evaluates strengths, weaknesses and opportunities in making internships more relevant a...

This essay looks at the financial markets as the main driver behind today's corporate behavior and suggests regulating them in order to promote and support the implementation of sustainable business practices. Despite the adoption of sustainable business practices and the growing knowledge on the topic, the change toward a sustainable and socially...

Purpose It is 50 years since the Gordon/Howell and Pierson reports substantially influenced and shaped management education. “Vision 50+20” offers an alternative future in management education for the next 20 years. The purpose of this paper is to provide insight into the suggested new purpose of business schools as role models in providing respons...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to further the debate on relevance in business education by sharing one business school's experiences. Design/methodology/approach A qualitative survey was carried out, reviewed by two independent collaborators. Conclusions drawn from interviews with more than 30 CEOs and HR Directors, from across all industrie...

Management educators carry an important responsibility in educating the kinds of leaders who are equipped to embrace current and emerging social, environmental and economic challenges both regionally and globally. The education and development of such globally responsible leaders represents a significant challenge for business schools that have tra...