The Cepi vaccine initiative aims to raise more than three billion euros. It relies on mRNA technology and the biotech company Moderna. In the article, Head of IBES Prof. Dr. Markus Scholz comments on Moderna’s patent release: “It is a positive step that Moderna is taking and a necessary step also to share the technological […]

Business activity is a major source of global carbon emissions. But how can we push businesses to deliver on the climate neutral (net-zero) agenda when their bottom line is at stake? That is what we asked Prof. Jonatan Pinkse in an interview with radio station Radio Radieschen. Last Thursday we had the pleasure to welcome […]

Tesla founder Elon Musk supports Ukraine with his satellite internet. He is acting politically. Morally, that may be right. But his actions are not legitimate. It is furthermore extremely dangerous. In his op-de article in the newspaper Wirtschaftswoche, Prof. Dr. Markus Scholz, Head of Institute for Business Ethics and Sustainable Strategy (IBES), analyzes the support […]

The 2022 World Cup in Doha will follow the Winter Olympics in Beijing. Once again, human rights are at stake. Is the red card for Qatar and consorts indicated? The business ethicist FH Prof. Dr. Markus Scholz thinks: Yes. Standard Forschung Spezial spoke with our Head of  Institute for Business Ethics & Sustainable Strategy (IBES), […]

Title of Master’s Thesis: “The Future is Circular” – (Dynamic) Capabilities for Sustainability-oriented Innovation in the Circular Economy Master: Organisational and Human Resource Development, graduated 2021   For Julia Prattinger it was clear that she wanted to deal with the topic of sustainability in her master’s thesis. We talked with her about the writing process, […]

Prof. Dr. Markus Scholz, will give a lecture in the course of the event series “Olympia und Propaganda” on January 17, 2022 at 19:30. His lecture is entitled “Olympic Games from the perspective of business ethics”. The upcoming 2022 Winter Olympics will be held in China. The aim of this online event series is to […]

In a guest commentary on the daily newspaper, Der Standard, Markus Scholz, Head of IBES at FHWien der WKW, and Thomas Beschorner from the University of St.Gallen write about German and Austrian companies that are “corporate citizens” for vaccination. You can read the article here. […]

Our colleague Katharina Salomon spoke with Radio Radieschen about the TransformS project of the City of Vienna’s competence Team Change for Corporate Sustainability. You can listen to the interview here. […]

Corporate responsibility to defend human rights: Analyses and strategies Companies are regularly confronted with human rights violations. Although the protection of human rights has historically been primarily the responsibility of governments, companies also have a responsibility as so-called corporate citizens. Prof. Dr. Markus Scholz (Head of the Institute for Business Ethics and Sustainable Strategy at […]

In October 2021, Daniela Ortiz Avram and Nelly Ovcharova had the opportunity to present the first draft of their Literature Review on Dynamic Capabilities for Sustainability at the 16th Corporate Responsibility Research Conference. The paper presented is part of the three-year Transformation for Sustainability (TransformS) project. What is TransformS about? Within the framework of this […]