Prof. Dr. Laura Marie Edinger-Schons

Photo: Mina Esfandiari

Professor

Professorship for Business Administration, esp. Sustainable Business

Address

University of Hamburg

Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences

Socioeconomics

Rentzelstraße 7

20146 Hamburg

Office

Room: 102

Office hours

nach Vereinbarung

Contact

Tel: +49 40 42838-3074

Email: laura.marie.edinger-schons"AT"uni-hamburg.de

Secretary's office

Víctor González

Team Assistant

Rentzelstraße 7

20146 Hamburg

Room: 101

Tel: +49 40 42838-2273

Email: victor.gonzalez.menendez"AT"uni-hamburg.de

Laura Marie Edinger-Schons is Professor of Sustainable Business at the University of Hamburg and Chief Sustainability Officer (CSO) of the University of Hamburg. Her research focuses on how organizations (from for-profit to non-profit) can contribute to sustainable development as defined by the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Specific topics that she is interested in include Employee Engagement in Sustainability, Social Entre-/Intrapreneurship, Digital Social Innovation, Corporate Democracy, and New Work. Her work has been published in prestigious academic journals including Journal of Marketing, Journal of Consumer Psychology, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, and Journal of Business Ethics.
She received the Overall Best Paper Award at AMA Winter 2014, was selected as one of the Top Ten Junior Academics 2015 (by Zeit and researchers) and received the 2016 Deutschen Wissenschaftspreis for best collaboration with the private sector. She received the 2017 AACSB Innovations that Inspire Award for her teaching, and the 2017 Wolfgang-Ritter-Preis, the 2018 Roman-Herzog-Forschungspreis, and the 2018 Max-Weber-Preis für Wirtschaftsethik for her postdoctoral dissertation. In 2019, she was named to the Top 40 Under 40 by Capital magazine.

Academic career:

Date	Position
Since 12/2022	PROFESSOR OF SUSTAINEBLE BUSINESS at Universität Hamburg and CHIEF SUSTAINABILITY OFFICER (CSO) at Universität Hamburg
11/2016 – 11/2022	PROFESSOR OF SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS at University of Mannheim
10/2015 – 11/2016	ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY at University of Mannheim
04/2011 – 10/2015	POST-DOC at the Sales & Marketing Department (Prof. Dr. Jan Wieseke & Prof. Dr. Christian Schmitz)
11/2007 – 04/2011	DOCTORAL STUDENT at the Faculty of Economics and Business Management of the Ruhr-University of Bochum, Dissertation grade: Summa cum laude
03/2006 – 11/2006	PROGRAM ASSISTANT at Udayana University, Indonesia
10/2001 – 11/2007	MASTER DEGREE in Economics and Business Management at the Ruhr-University of Bochum

Publications:

Journal Articles

Bhattacharya, C. B., Sen, S., Edinger-Schons, L. M. und Neureiter, M. (2022). Corporate Purpose and Employee Sustainability Behaviors. Journal of Business Ethics, 1–19.
Sipilä, J., Alavi, S., Edinger-Schons, L. M., Müller, U. und Habel, J. (2022). Corporate social responsibility and perceived fairness of price increases. Psychology & Marketing, 1–15.
Herden, C. J., Alliu, E., Cakici, A., Cormier, T., Deguelle, C., Gambhir, S., Griffiths, C., Gupta, S., Kamani, S. R., Kiratli, Y.-S., Kispataki, M., Lange, G., Moles de Matos, L., Tripero Moreno, L., Betancourt Nuñez, H. A., Pilla, V., Raj, B., Roe, J., Skoda, M., Song, Y., Ummadi, P. K. und Edinger-Schons, L. M. (2021). “Corporate Digital Responsibility” : New corporate responsibilities in the digital age. Sustainablility management forum = Nachhaltigkeits¬Management¬Forum : SMF, 29, 13–29.
Sipilä, J., Alavi, S., Edinger-Schons, L. M., Dörfer, S. und Schmitz, C. (2021). Corporate social responsibility in luxury contexts: potential pitfalls and how to overcome them.Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, 49, 280–303.
Appels, M., Edinger-Schons, L. M., Korschun, D. und Balk, L. (2020). Don’t mix business with politics? Understanding stakeholder reactions to corporate political activism.Marketing Review St. Gallen, 37, 24–30.
Braig, P. und Edinger-Schons, L. M. (2020). From purpose to impact – an investigation of the application of impact measurement and valuation methods for quantifying environmental and social impacts of businesses. Sustainable Production and Consumption, 23, 189–197.
Dannenbaum, J., Edinger-Schons, L. M., Rese, M., Ploetner, O. und Wieseke, J. (2020). What does it take to successfully implement a hybrid offering strategy? A contingency perspective. Journal of Service Management Research : SMR, 4, 100–120.
Edinger-Schons, L. M., Lengler-Graiff, L., Scheidler, S., Mende, G. und Wieseke, J. (2020). Listen to the voice of the customer – First steps towards stakeholder democracy. Business Ethics, 29, 510–527.
Küper, I. und Edinger-Schons, L. M. (2020). Is sharing up for sale? Monetary exchanges in the sharing economy. Journal of Business Research : JBR, 121, 223–234.
Scheidler, S. und Edinger-Schons, L. M. (2020). [Partners in crime? The impact of consumers' culpability for corporate social irresponsibility on their boycott attitude](https://www.researchgate.net/publication/332722866_Partners_in_crime_The_impact_of_consumers'_culpability_for_corporate_social_irresponsibility_on_their_boycott_attitude). Journal of Business Research : JBR, 109, 607–620.
Verbücheln, M. und Edinger-Schons, L. M. (2020). Maximizing participation in corporate volunteering. Marketing Review St. Gallen, 37, 32–38.
Edinger-Schons, L. M., Lengler-Graiff, L., Scheidler, S. und Wieseke, J. (2019). Frontline employees as corporate social responsibility (CSR) ambassadors: A quasi-field experiment. Journal of Business Ethics, 157, 359–373.
Scheidler, S., Edinger-Schons, L. M., Spanjol, J. und Wieseke, J. (2019). Scrooge posing as Mother Teresa: How hypocritical social responsibility strategies hurt employees and firms. Journal of Business Ethics, 157, 339–358.
Edinger-Schons, L. M., Sipilä, J., Sen, S., Mende, G. und Wieseke, J. (2018). Are two reasons better than one? The role of appeal type in consumer responses to sustainable products. Journal of Consumer Psychology : JCP, 28, 644–664.
Hemmert, G. A. J., Edinger-Schons, L. M., Wieseke, J. und Schimmelpfennig, H. (2018). Log-likelihood-based pseudo-R2 in logistic regression : deriving sample-sensitive benchmarks. Sociological Methods & Research : SMR, 47, 507–531.
Waßmuth, N. und Edinger-Schons, L. M. (2018). Are people really strange when you’re a stranger? A longitudinal study of the effect of intergroup contact on host-country identification. International Journal of Intercultural Relations : IJIR, 67, 58–70.

Conference Papers

Appels, M., Edinger-Schons, L. M. und Korschun, D. (2020). It takes courage! How corporate activism inspires political participation. In , Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings (S. 14681). Annual Meeting Proceedings / Academy of Management, Academy of Management: Chicago, IL.
Haumann, T., Güntürkün, P., Edinger-Schons, L. M. und Wieseke, J. (2019). Beneficial for whom? Customer motive attribution in coproduction contexts and its consequences for maintaining successful customer relations¬hips. In , 48th EMAC Annual Conference : May 28–31, 2019, Universität Hamburg, Germany, Proceedings (S. A2019–8279). , Universität Hamburg: Hamburg.
Sipilä, J., Alavi, S., Edinger-Schons, L. M., Dörfer, S. und Wieseke, J. (2019). The double-edged sword of corporate social responsibility in the luxury context. In , Understanding complexity, transforming the marketplace : AMA Winter Academic Conference 2019 : Austin, Texas, USA, 22–24 February 2019 (S. CC-7). AMA Educators' Proceedings, American Marketing Association ; Curran: Chicago, IL ; Red Hook, NY.
Sipilä, J., Alavi, S., Habel, J., Müller-Richter, U. und Edinger-Schons, L. M. (2019). The crux of the morality halo: The interplay of corporate social responsibility and price increases on consumers’ perceived price fairness. In , Understanding complexity, transforming the marketplace : AMA Winter Academic Conference 2019 : Austin, Texas, USA, 22–24 February 2019 (S. CC-11). AMA Educators' Proceedings, American Marketing Association ; Curran: Chicago, IL ; Red Hook, NY.
Sipilä, J., Blatt, I. und Edinger-Schons, L. M. (2019). Overcoming the stigma – donations to stigmatized causes. In , Understanding complexity, transforming the marketplace : AMA Winter Academic Conference 2019 : Austin, Texas, USA, 22–24 February 2019 (S. CC-6). AMA Educators' Proceedings, American Marketing Association ; Curran: Chicago, IL ; Red Hook, NY.
Blatt, I. und Edinger-Schons, L. M. (2018). Is sharing up for sale? Market exchanges in the sharing economy. In , (S. 12880). Annual Meeting Proceedings / Academy of Management, Academy of Management: Chicago, IL.
Edinger-Schons, L. M., Lengler-Graiff, L., Scheidler, S., Mende, G. und Wieseke, J. (2018). Listen to the voice of the customer – a field-experimental study on customer involvement in corporate social responsibility. In , Annual Meeting Proceedings / Academy of Management (S. 13503). Annual Meeting Proceedings / Academy of Management, Academy of Management: Chicago, IL.
Verbücheln, M., Edinger-Schons, L. M. und Bhattacharya, C. B. (2018). How to do corporate volunteering right – investigating the optimal design of volunteering programs. In , (S. 14323). Annual Meeting Proceedings / Academy of Management, Academy of Management: Chicago, IL.

Conference Presentations

Sipilä, J., Alavi, S., Habel, J., Müller-Richter, U. und Edinger-Schons, L. M. (2019). The crux of the morality halo: The interplay of corporate social responsibility and price increases on consumers’ perceived price fairness. 9th Business & Society Seminar 2019, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Verbücheln, M., Edinger-Schons, L. M. und Bhattacharya, C. B. (2019). How to do corporate volunteering right – investigating the optimal design of volunteering programs. 9th Business & Society Seminar 2019, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Blatt, I. und Edinger-Schons, L. M. (2018). Is sharing up for sale? Market Exchanges in the sharing economy. 5th International Workshop on the Sharing Economy, Mannheim, Germany.
Blatt, I. und Edinger-Schons, L. M. (2018). Is sharing up for sale? Market exchanges in the sharing economy. 8th Business and Society Research Seminar 2018, Mannheim, Germany.
Edinger-Schons, L. M., Lengler-Graiff, L., Scheidler, S., Mende, G. und Wieseke, J. (2018). Listen to the voice of the customer – a field-experimental study on customer involvement in corporate social responsibility. 8th Business and Society Research Seminar 2018, Mannheim, Germany.
Güntürkün, P., Haumann, T. und Edinger-Schons, L. M. (2018). Getting the ‘right’ CSR insurance: When CSR activities buffer or bolster the adverse impact of corporate scandals on marketing outcomes. 8th Business and Society Research Seminar 2018, Mannheim, Germany.
Verbücheln, M., Edinger-Schons, L. M. und Bhattacharya, C. B. (2018). How to do corporate volunteering right – investigating the optimal design of volunteering programs. 8th Business and Society Research Seminar 2018, Mannheim, Germany.
Willeke, O. und Edinger-Schons, L. M. (2018). How consumers react to brand generated sustainability messages communicated via social media. 8th Business and Society Research Seminar 2018, Mannheim, Germany.

Books

Kraemer, A. und Edinger-Schons, L. M. (Hrsg.) (2019). CSR und Social Enterprise : Beeinflussungsprozesse und effektives Schnittstellenmanagement. Berlin ; Heidelberg: Springer Gabler.

Book Chapters

Kehnel, A. und Edinger-Schons, L. M. (2021). Mit „WUM“ an die Spitze der Nachhaltigkeits¬forschung. In Eine Universität für die Gesellschaft : 75 Jahre Neubegründung Wirtschafts¬hochschule und Universität Mannheim (S. 260–262). Ubstadt-Weiher: verlag regionalkultur.
Edinger-Schons, L. M., Lübbermann, U. und Kaya, B. (2019). Premium Cola – Wir hacken die Wirtschaft : Veränderung aus dem System heraus. In CSR und Social Enterprise : Beeinflussungs¬prozesse und effektives Schnittstellen¬management (S. 203–210). Berlin ; Heidelberg: Springer Gabler.