Prof. Dr. Timo Busch
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Timo Busch is a full professor (W3) at the School of Business, Economics and Social Science of University of Hamburg (Germany) and a Senior Collaborator with the Center for Sustainable Finance and Private Wealth of University of Zurich (Switzerland). He gives lectures at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, and has previously taught at the Duisenberg School of Finance (The Netherlands). He teaches courses on corporate sustainability, business strategy and the environment, and sustainable finance. Timo Busch had several research stays including John Molson School of Business (Canada), Amsterdam Business School (The Netherlands), Nanyang Business School (Singapore), and University of California, Berkeley (USA). He was United Nations delegate at the Rio +20 Conference on Sustainable Development and advises the German government regarding climate change polices. He is a Principal Investigator in the Cluster of Excellence project, Climate, Climatic Change, and Society (CLICCS). Before joining the University of Hamburg, he was PhD candidate and postdoctoral researcher at ETH Zürich, and he worked beforehand as a project manager for the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment, and Energy.
Timo Busch is a member of the editorial board of the journals Organization & Environment, Journal of Business Ethics, and Business Strategy and the Environment. His research interests include strategies towards a low-carbon economy, the business case for sustainability, and sustainable finance.
Selected publications
1) Busch, T., Barnett, M.L., Burritt, R.L., Cashore, B.W., Freeman, E., Henriques, I., Husted, B.W., Panwar, R., Pinkse, J., Schaltegger, S., York, J. (2024): Moving beyond “the” business case: How to make corporate sustainability work. Business Strategy and the Environment 33 (2): 776-787
https://pure.manchester.ac.uk/ws/portalfiles/portal/274545203/Busch_et_al._2023_003_.pdf
2) Busch, T., Bauer, R., Orlitzky, M. (2016): Sustainable development and financial markets – old paths and new avenues. Business & Society 55(3): 303-329
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0007650315570701
3) Busch, T., Bruce-Clark, P. Derwall, J., Eccles, R., Hebb, T., Hoepner, A., Klein, C., Krueger, P. Paetzold, F., Scholtens, B., Weber, O. (2021): Impact Investments – a call for (re)orientation. SN Business & Economics 1 (2): 33
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s43546-020-00033-6
4) Busch, T., Cho, C.H., Hoepner, A.G.F., Michelon, G., Rogelj, J. (2023): Corporate greenhouse gas Emissions’ data and the urgent need for a science‑led just transition: introduction to a thematic symposium. Journal of Business Ethics 182 (4), 897-901
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10551-022-05288-7
5) Busch, T., Hoffmann, V.H. (2011): How hot is your bottom-line? Linking carbon and financial performance. Business & Society 50(2), 233 – 265
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10.1177/0007650311398780
6) Busch, T., Johnson, M., Pioch, T. (2022): Corporate carbon performance data: Quo vadis? Journal of Industrial Ecology 26 (1), 350-363
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jiec.13008
7) Friede, G., Busch, T., Bassen, A. (2015): ESG and financial performance: aggregated evidence from more than 2,000 empirical studies. Journal of Sustainable Finance & Investment 5 (4), 210-233
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/20430795.2015.1118917#d1e141
8) Kölbel, J.F., Busch, T., Jancso, L.M. (2017): How media coverage of corporate social irresponsibly increases financial risk, Strategic Management Journal 38 (11), 2266-2284
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/smj.2647
9) Kölbel, J.F., Heeb, F., Paetzold, F., Busch, T. (2020): Can Sustainable Investing Save the World? Reviewing the mechanisms of investment impact. Organization & Environment 33(4), 554-574
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1086026620919202
10) Slawinski, N., Pinkse, J., Busch, T., Banerjee, S.B. (2017): The role of short-termism and uncertainty avoidance in organizational inaction on climate change: a multi-level framework. Business & Society 56 (2)
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0007650315576136
For more publications, see:
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6405-5252
Research Gate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Timo-Busch
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.de/citations?user=DNK-umptwSMC&hl=en