Stefan Schaltegger (Chairperson)

Stefan Schaltegger, Prof. Dr. rer. pol.
Full professor of management
Center for Sustainability Management (CSM)
Leuphana University
Scharnhorststr. 1
D-21335 Lüneburg
Germany
Tel.: (+49) 4131-677-2181
Dir.: (+49) 4131-677-2180
Fax: (+49) 4131-677-2186
E-Mail: schaltegger@uni.leuphana.de
Homepage: http://www.leuphana.de/csm

Description

  • Head of the Centre for Sustainability Management (CSM), Leuphana University Lüneburg, Germany, an academic competence centre focused on corporate sustainability management. For an overview of the research and continuous education programmes see:  <http://www.leuphana.de/csm> www.leuphana.de/csm
  • Full professor of Sustainability Management, Leuphana University Lüneburg and head of the MBA Sustainability Management (www.sustainament.de)
  • Vice-president research, Leuphana University Lueneburg (2006-2010)
  • Member of the editorial boards of the international scientific journals “Business Strategy and the Environment“ (since 1998), “Eco-Management and Auditing“ (since 1998) respectively the relaunched journal “Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management“ (since 2001), “Greener Management International“ (since 2002), “Progress in Industrial Ecology“ (since 2004), “International Journal of Business Environment“ (since 2005), “Society and Economy” (since 2009) and Sustainability Accounting, Management and Policy Journal (SAMPJ) (since 2009) and member of the International Advisory Board of "Social and Environmental Accounting Journal" (since December 2006) and „Issues in Social and Environmental Accounting“ (since 2007).
  • Member of the Steering Committee of the national research programme “Sustainable Infrastructure Development (NFP 54)“ of the Swiss National Science Foundation (2003-2011); Member of the Steering Committee of the framework programme “Research for Sustainability“ of the German Federal Ministry of Science and Education (BMBF) (2004-2008); Member of the Board of the research programme “Sustainable Biotechnology“ of the German Federal Ministry of Science and Education (BMBF) (2002-2006)
  • Award from the German Environmental Management Association (BAUM) in the category science (2007); research award ("article of merit") by the Professional Ac­countants in Busi­ness (PAIB) Committee of the International Federation of Accountants (IFAC) - Burritt R.; Hahn, T. & Schaltegger, S. (2002): Towards a Comprehensive Frame­work for Environ­men­tal Management Accounting. Links Between Business Actors and En­viron­mental Mana­ge­ment Accounting Tools, Australian Accounting Review, Vol. 12, No. 2, 39-50; Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Green Professionals (Hon. FIGP; www.instituteofgreenprofessionals.org) (2009).

Research interests

  • Corporate sustainability management (incl. environmental management)
  • Environmental and sustainability accounting, performance measurement and reporting (incl. indicators, Balanced Scorecard, management control, environmental and sustain­ability information management, etc.)
  • The business case for sustainability (including the link between environmental and economic performance of a company)
  • Sustainable entrepreneurship
  • Strategic stakeholder management
  • Integration of sustainability management and economics

Publications (choice)

Books (choice, in chronological order)

  • Schaltegger, S.; Bennett, M.; Burritt, R. & Jasch, C. (Eds.) (2008): Environmental Accounting for Cleaner Production, Dordrecht: Springer.
  • Schaltegger, S. (2008): Zentrale Bedeutung des "Business Case for Sustainability" für Nachhaltiges Investment, in: Faust, M. & Scholz, S. (Hrsg.): Nachhaltige Geldanlagen. Produkte, Strategien und Beratungskonzepte, Frankfurt: Frankfurt School of Finance Verlag, 61-79.
  • Schaltegger, S.; Bennett, M.; Burritt, R. & Jasch, C. (2008): Environmental Management Ac­counting as a Support for Cleaner Production, in: Schaltegger, S.; Bennett, M.; Burritt, R. & Jasch, C. (Eds): Environmental Management Accounting for Cleaner Production, Dord­recht: Springer, 15-46.
  • Schaltegger, S. & Herzig, C. (2008): Berichterstattung im Lichte der Herausforderungen un­ter­nehmerischer Nachhaltigkeit, in: Isenmann, R. & Marx Gómez, J. (Hrsg.): Internet­basierte Nach­haltigkeitsberichterstattung. Maßgeschneiderte Stakeholderkommunikation mit IT, Ber­lin: Erich Schmidt Verlag, 51-64.
  • Schaltegger, S. & Wagner, M. (2008): Nachhaltigkeitsrechnungswesen als Bindeglied zwi­schen Sustainability Balanced Scorecard und Nachhaltigkeitsberichterstattung, in: Isen­mann, R. & Marx Gómez, J. (Hrsg.): Internet­basierte Nach­haltigkeitsberichterstattung. Maß­geschneiderte Stakeholderkommunikation mit IT, Ber­lin: Erich Schmidt Verlag, 157-174.
  • Herzig, C. & Schaltegger, S. (2007): Nachhaltigkeitsberichterstattung von Unternehmen, in: Michel­sen, G. & Godemann, J. (Hrsg.): Handbuch Nachhaltigkeitskommunikation. 2. ak­tuali­sierte und überarbeitete Neuauflage, München: oekom, 579-593.
  • Schaltegger, S. (2007): Management des universitären Auftrags mit der Sustainability Balan­ced Scorecard, in: Dudeck, A. & Jansen-Schulz, B. (Hrsg.): Zukunft Bologna!? Gender und Nachhaltigkeit als Leitideen für eine neue Hochschulkultur, Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 127-145.
  • Herzig, C.; Viere, T. ; Burritt, R. & Schaltegger, S. (2006): Unterstanding and Supporting Ma­na­ge­ment Decision-Making. South East Asian Case Studies on Environmental Manage­ment Accounting, in: Schaltegger, S.; Bennett, M. & Burritt, R. (Eds.): Sustain­ability Ac­count­ing and Reporting, Dordrecht: Springer, 491-508.
  • Herzig, C. & Schaltegger, S. (2006): Corporate Sustainability Reporting. An Overview, in: Schalt­egger, S.; Bennett, M. & Burritt, R. (Eds.): Sustainability Accounting and Reporting, Dordrecht: Springer, 301-324. Schaltegger, S.; Bennett, M. & Burritt, R. (2006): Sustainability Accounting and Reporting. De­velopment, Linkages and Reflection, in: Schaltegger, S.; Bennett, M. & Burritt, R. (Eds.): Sustainability Accounting and Reporting, Dordrecht: Springer, 1-34.
  • Schaltegger, S. & Burritt, R. (2006): Corporate Sustainability Accounting, in: Schaltegger, S.; Bennett, M. & Burritt, R. (Eds.): Sustainability Accounting and Reporting, Dordrecht: Springer, 1-34.
  • Schaltegger, S. & Hasenmüller, P. (2006): Nachhaltiges Wirtschaften aus Sicht des "Busi­ness Case of Sustainability", in: Tiemeyer, E. & Wilbers, K. (Hrsg.): Berufliche Bildung für nachhaltiges Wirtschaften. Konzepte, Curricula, Methoden, Beispiele, Bielefeld: Bertels­mann, 71-86.
  • Schaltegger, S. & Burritt, R. (2006): Environmental Accounting, in: Annandale, D., Marinova, D. & Phillimore, J. (Eds) International Handbook on Environmental Tech­nology Management, Cheltenham: Egward Elgar.
  • Schaltegger, S. & Wagner, M. (2006): Managing Sustainability Performance Measurement and Re­porting in an Integrated Manner. Sustainability Ac­count­ing as the Link between the Sustainability Balanced Scorecard and Sustainability Reporting, in: Schaltegger, S.; Bennett, M. & Burritt, R. (Eds.) (2006): Sustainability Accouting and Reporting, Dordrecht: Springer, 681-698.
  • Schaltegger, S. & Wagner, M. (2006): Management unternehmerischer Nachhaltigkeits­leistung, in Göllinger, T. (Hrsg.): Bausteine einer nachhaltigkeitsorientierten Betriebs­wirt­schaftslehre. Festschrift für Eberhard Seidel, Marburg: Metropolis, 157-176.
  • Schaltegger, S. & Burritt, R. (Eds.) (2006): Sustainability Accounting, Special Issue of the Journal “Business Strategy and the Environment”, Hongkong: ERP/Wiley.  Schaltegger, S., Bennett, M. & Burritt, R. (Eds.) (2006): Sustainability Accounting and Reporting, Dordrecht: Springer.
  • Schaltegger, S. & Wagner, M. (Eds.) (2006): Managing the Business Case of Sustainability.  Sustainability Performance, Competitiveness and Business Success. Frameworks, Empirical Results and Management Approaches, Sheffield: Greenleaf.
  • Bennett, M.; Rikhardsson, P. & Schaltegger, S. (Eds.) (2003): Environmental Management Accounting: Purpose and Progress. Dordtrecht NL: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
  • Schaltegger, S.; Burritt, R. & Petersen, H. (2003): An Introduction to Corporate Environmental Management. Striving for Sustainability. Sheffield: Greenleaf.
  • Schaltegger, S. & Dyllick, T. (Hrsg.) (2002): Nachhaltig managen mit der Balanced Scorecard. Konzepte und Fallstudien, Wiesbaden: Gabler.
  • Schaltegger, S., Hahn, T. & Burritt, R. (2002): EMA - Links. Government, Management & Stakeholders. Improving Governments' Role in Promoting Environmental Management Accounting (EMA), UN Workbook 2, Expert Working Group on Improving Government's Role in Environmental Management Accounting (EMA) of the United Nations Division of Sustainable Development (UNDSD), New York: UNDSD.
  • Schaltegger, S. & Burritt, R. (2000): Contemporary Environmental Accounting: Issues, Concept and Practice. Sheffield: Greenleaf.
  • Contemporary Environmental Accounting has been translated into Chinese by:    Prof. Dr. Xiao, Hua (Ph.D), Accounting Department of Management School, Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian and    has been published by Dongbei University of Finance & Economics Press (DUFEP).
  • Contemporary Environmental Accounting translated into Japanese by Prof. Dr. Nobuyuki Miyazaki (International    Christian University, Tokyo); Tomoko Kurasaka (JCPA) and Kentaro Azuma (Hitotubashi University). The    Japanese translation has been published by Gogensha Publishing, Tokyo, April 2003, pp.582.
  • The Japanese translation has been published by Gogensha Publishing, Tokyo, April 2003, pp.582.
  • Schaltegger, S. & Burritt, R. (2001): Solutions Manual for Course Leaders. Contemporary Environmental Accounting. Sheffield: Greenleaf.
  • Schaltegger, S. & Sturm, A. (2000/1994/1992): Ökologieorientierte Entscheidungen in Unternehmen. Ökologisches Rechnungswesen statt Ökobilanzierung: Notwendigkeit, Kriterien, Konzepte. Bern: Paul Haupt. 1. Auflage 1992, 2. Auflage 1994. (vergriffen /out of print).
  • Schaltegger, S. & Sturm, A. (1998): Eco-Efficiency By Eco-Controlling. Theory and Cases, Zürich: vdf.

Journal contributions (choice, in chronological order)

  • Burritt, R. & Schaltegger, S. (Guest editors) (2010): Sustainability Accounting. A Question for Management, Special Issue of „Accounting, Accountability and Auditing Journal”.
  • Schaltegger, S. & Burritt, R. (2010): Sustainability Account­ing for Companies. Catch­phra­se or Decision Support for Business Leaders? Journal of World Business, vol. 45, No 4
    Schaltegger, S. & Burritt, R. (2009, online): Sustainability Accounting for Companies. Catch­phrase or Decision Support for Business Leaders? Journal of World Business, doi: 10.1016/j.jwb.2009.08.002
  • Viere, T.; Schaltegger, S. & van Enden, J. (2008): Supply Chain Information in Environmental Management Accounting. The Case of a Vietnamese Coffee Exporter, Issues in Social and Environmental Accounting, Vol 2, No.1, 296-310. 
  • Schaltegger, S. (2007): Contributions to sustainability. What kind of information is needed?, Issues in Social and Environmental Accounting, Vol. 2, No 1, 112-116.
  • Kicherer, A.; Schaltegger, S.; Tschochohei, H. & Ferreira Pozo, B. (2007). Eco-Efficiency. Combining Life Cycle Assessment and Life Cycle Costs via Normalization, International Journal of LCA, Vol 12, No 7, 537-543.
  • Möller, A. & Schaltegger, S. (2006): Management der betrieblichen Ressourceneffizienz, UmweltWirtschaftsForum, Jg. 14, H. 4, 13-18.
  • Schaltegger, S. & Burritt, R. (Guesteds.) (2006): Sustainability Accounting, special issue of the journal “Business Strategy and the Environment”, Vol. 15, No. 5, Chichester/Hongkong: ERP/Wiley. ISSN 0964-4733
  • Schaltegger, S. & Burritt, R. (2006): Corporate Sustainability Accounting. A Nightmare or a Dream Coming True? Introduction to the special issue on “Sustainability Accounting” of the journal “Business Strategy and the Environment” (Schaltegger, S. & Burritt, R.; eds.), Vol. 15, No. 5, 293-295.
  • Schaltegger, S. & Wagner, M. (2006): Integrative Management of Sustainability Performance, Measurement and Reporting, International Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Performance Evaluation (IJAAPE), Vol. 3, No. 1, 1-19.
  • Möller, A. & Schaltegger, S. (2005): The Sustainability Balanced Scorecard as a Framework for Eco-Efficiency Analysis, Journal of Industrial Ecology, Vol. 9, No. 4, 73-83.
  • Schaltegger, S., Hahn, T. & Burritt, R. (2005): Analyse erfolgversprechender Förderpfade in der Umweltpolitik. Stakeholder-Links zwischen Regierung, Management und Intermediären am Beispiel des betrieblichen Umweltrechnungswesens, Zeitschrift für Umweltpolitik und Umweltrecht, No. 2, 193-210.
  • Schaltegger, S. (2004): “Unternehmerische Steuerung von Nachhaltigkeitsaspekten mit der Sustainability Balanced Scorecard”, Controlling, Sonderheft Strategische Steuerung, Heft 8/9, 511-516.
  • Schaltegger, S.; Herzig, C.; Viere T. & Burritt, R. (2004): “Implementing EMA Tools in South-East Asia“, ASEP Newsletter, Vol. 21, No. 1/2, 1, 10-11.
  • Wagner, M. & Schaltegger, S. (2004): “The Effect of Corporate Environmental Strategy Choice and Environmental Performance on Competitiveness and Economic Performance. An Empirical Analysis in EU Manufacturing”, European Management Journal, Volume 22, Issue 5, October, 557-572.
  • Wagner, M. & Schaltegger, S. (2003): “How does Sustainability Performance Relate to and Business Competitiveness?”, Greener Management International (GMI), Issue 44, Special Edition on “Sustainability Performance and Business Competitiveness”, Winter 2003, 5-16.
  • Burritt R.; Hahn, T. & Schaltegger, S. (2002): Towards a Comprehensive Framework for Environmental Management Accounting. Links Between Business Actors and Environmental Management Accounting Tools, Australian Accounting Review, Vol. 12, No. 2, 39-50. This paper has been awarded as an "article of merit" by the Professional Accountants in Business (PAIB) Committee of the International Federation of Accountants (IFAC) Link
  • Schaltegger, S. & Synnestvedt, T. (2002): The Link between “Green” and Economic Success. Environmental Management as the Crucial Trigger between Environmental and Economic Performance, Journal of Environmental Management, Vol. 65, No. 2, 339-346.
  • Wagner, M.; Schaltegger, S. & Wehrmeyer, W. (2002): The Relation between the Environ-mental and Economic Performance of Firms. What does Theory Propose and what does Empirical Evidence Tell Us? Greener Management International, Vol. 34, 95-108.
  • Burritt, R. & Schaltegger, S. (2001): On the Interrelationship between Eco- Efficiency and Operational Budgeting, Environmental Management and Health, No. 2, 158-174.
  • Burritt, R.; Schaltegger, S. & Hahn, T. (2001): Improving the Role of Governments in Promoting Environmental Management Accounting, News Journal of the Asia Pacific Centre for Environmental Accountability, Vol. 7, No. 4, 3-11.
  • Dyllick, T. & Schaltegger, S. (2001): Nachhaltigkeitsmanagement mit einer Sustainability Balanced Scorecard, Umweltwirtschaftsforum, Vol. 9, Nr. 4, 68-73.
  • Schaltegger, S. & Figge, F. (2000): Environmental Shareholder Value. Economic Success with Corporate Environmental Management, Eco-Management and Auditing, Vol. 7, No. 1, 29-42.
  • Schaltegger, S. & Figge, F. (2000): Wohin führt die Entwicklung der Analysemethoden für nachhaltige Finanzdienstleistungen? Gaia, Vol. 9, No. 2, 122-127.
  • Schaltegger, S. (1999): Öko-Effizienz als Element des sozio- ökonomisch vernünftigen Umweltmanagements. Ein Kriterium unter vielen, Ökologisches Wirtschaften, Nr. 3, 12-14.
  • Schaltegger, S. & Figge, F. (1999): Öko-Investment. Spagat zwischen Shareholder Value und Sustainable Development? Umweltwirtschaftsforum (UWF), Vol. 7, Nr. 3, 4-8.
  • Schaltegger, S. (1997): Economics of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA). Inefficiency of the Pre-sent Approach, Business Strategy and the Environment, Vol. 6, No. 1, February, 1-8.
  • Schaltegger, S. (1997): Information Costs, Quality of Information and Stakeholder Involvement- The Necessity of International Standards of Ecological Accounting, Eco-Management and Auditing, Vol. 4, November, 87-97.
  • Schaltegger, S. & Müller, K. (1997): Calculating the True Profitability of Pollution Prevention, in: Greener Management International, Special edition on Environmental Management Accounting (edited by Bennett, M. & James, P.), Vol. 17, Spring, 53-68.
  • Schaltegger, S. & Sturm, A. (1997): Eco-Controlling for Environmental Management, Asia Pacific Tech Monitor, March/ April, 14-26.
  • Schaltegger, S. & Kempke, S. (1996): Öko-Controlling: Überblick über bisherige Ansätze, Zeitschrift für Betriebswirtschaft, 66 (Ergänzungsheft Umweltmanagement 2), 149-163.
  • Schaltegger, S. & Sturm A. (1996): Managerial Eco-Control in Manufacturing and Process Industries, Greener Management International, Vol. 13, No. 1, 78-91.
  • Ilinitch, A. & Schaltegger, S. (1995): Developing a Green Business Portfolio, Long Range Planning, Vol. 28, No. 2, 29-38.
  • Grimsted, B.; Schaltegger, S.; Stinson, C. & Waldron, C. (1994): A Multimedia Assessment Scheme to Evaluate Chemical Effects on the Environment and Human Health, Pollution Prevention Review, Summer, 259-268.
  • Schaltegger, S. & Sturm, A. (1990): Ökologische Rationalität- Ansatzpunkte zur Ausgestaltung von ökologieorientierten Managementinstrumenten, Die Unternehmung, Nr. 4, 273-290.

Other

  • Schaltegger, S. (2008): „Sustainability and accounting: questions for management”, Procee­dings of the 7th A-CSEAR conference „Sustainability and accounting: the question for management” Adelaide, Australia, 7-9 December 2008.
  • Schaltegger, S. (2008): „Corporate Sustainability. Requirements for Information Manage­ment and Computer Support”, Procee­dings of the EnviroInfo Conference „Sustain­ability Infor­matics”, Lüneburg, Germany, 10-11 September 2008.
  • Schaltegger, S. (2008): „Managing the Business Case for Sustainability”, Procee­dings of the EMAN Conference, Budapest, Hungary, 6-7 October 2008.
  • Herzig, C.; Viere, T.; Schaltegger, S. & Burritt, R. (2007): Implementing Environmental Mana­ge­ment Accounting in South-East Asian Companies, Paper presented at the 10th Annual EMAN-EU Conference on "Environmental Management Accounting and Sustain­able Supply Chains”, 24-25 May 2007, Espoo, Finland.
  • Schaltegger, S. (2006): Sustainability Accounting. Catchphrase of Decision Support?, key presentation at the EMAN conference „EMA and Cleaner Production“, Graz/Austria, 26 April.