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„Preisbildung und Vergabe von Covid-19-Impfstoffen können globale und soziale Ungleichheit verfestigen“, argumentiert Wirtschaftsethiker aus Österreich in aktueller Veröffentlichung. […]Read more on Markus Scholz on the new Power of the Pharmaceutical Industry: Covid-19 Vaccines and the Social Responsibility of Pharmaceutical Companies

First round of the "Responsible Management Lectures: Ideas for Better Business" of the IBES successfully accomplished. […]Read more on New lecture series “Responsible Management Lectures” successfully introduced

Prof. Dr. Markus Scholz (FHWien der WKW) published an article in MIT Solan Management Review with N. Craig Smith (INSEAD) demonstrating options companies can respond to a government’s human rights abuses. The extent to which corporations should react to human rights abuses by governments in their host and home countries has become one of the […]Read more on Six Ways Companies Can Promote and Protect Human Rights

The practical study was carried out within the framework of the endowed professorship for Microeconomics of Competitiveness at the Institute for Business Ethics and Sustainable Strategy (IBES) of FHWien der WKW. The results of the project „City of Vienna Competence team for sustainable, strategic and opportunity-oriented management of SMEs“ funded by the City of Vienna […]Read more on IBES publishes new study “Sustainability Management in Austrian SMEs”

A research Centre on Collective Action and Responsible Partnerships is starting at the Institute for Business Ethics and Sustainable Strategy at the FHWien der WKW, the University of Applied Sciences for Management and Communication in Vienna. It examines what motivates companies to cooperate. […]Read more on Research on Collective Action: First Josef Ressel Centre opens at FHWien der WKW

FH-Prof. Dr. Markus Scholz (FHWien der WKW) and Maria Riegler, MSc  (FHWien der WKW) published an article in the compendium “Digital Change and Ethics”, edited by Markus Hengstschläger and the Austrian Council for Research and Technology Development. In their chapter “Responsible Innovation: Corporate Responsibility and Collective Action”, the two IBES researchers examine how Collective Action […]Read more on Collective Action Initiatives in Response to the Digital Transformation

Leadership, operations and services in times of crisis IBES Director FH-Prof. Dr. Markus Scholz (FHWien der WKW) will participate in a panel discussion on “Leadership in times of crisis” at ZP EUROPE VIRTUAL. The panel takes place in cooperation with the Global Peter Drucker Forum. Continue everyday business as far as possible and lead it […]Read more on Markus Scholz at panel discussion of Zukunft Personal & Global Peter Drucker Forum

Dr. Anne Maria Busch (FHWien der WKW) was interviewed by the daily newspaper “Der Standard” about her book chapter, which she wrote together with Dr. Renate Kratochvil (BI Norwegian Business School) and FH-Prof. Dr. Christina Schweiger (FHWien der WKW), on the topic “Innovations in the (public) health care system: An analysis from a strategic perspective”. […]Read more on Management Strategies: How innovative is the healthcare system?

IBES of FHWien der WKW invites to public lectures with prominent guests. The climate crisis and not least the Covid-19 pandemic underline the urgency for a transformation of the socio-economic framework of our social life. With the lecture series “Responsible Management Lectures: Ideas for Better Business” IBES aims to initiate an interdisciplinary discourse on the […]Read more on Lectures series Responsible Management Lectures: Ideas for Better Business

Maria Riegler, MSc., Research Asscociate at the Institute for Business Ethics and Sustainable Strategy (IBES) at FHWien der WKW, was presented as “Geistesblitz” (flash of inspiration) in the Research Special Supplement of the daily newspaper “Der Standard” on August 26, 2020. In the article, Maria Riegler talks about her dissertation, which she is writing at […]Read more on Maria Riegler: The Incentive for Self-Regulation