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Academic Background
M.A., business administration/economics, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland
D.B.A., business ethics, Summa Cum Laude, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland

Research Specialties

• Business ethics and economic ethics
• Business and human rights
• Corporate social responsibility / corporate citizenship
• Global justice
• Theories of justice

Current Research

• Human rights obligations of business
• Systematics relation between human rights, justice, and CSR
• Political role and responsibilities of multinational corporations
• Foundations of rights-based justice
• Business and genocide
• Corporate complicity
  

Major Works

• Multinational Corporations and Global Justice. Human Rights Obligations of a Quasi-Governmental Institution. Stanford: Stanford University Press, September 2009 (forthcoming)
• "Beyond Voluntariness, Beyond CSR: Making a Case for Human Rights and Justice," Business and Society Review, Vol. 114, Iss.1, 2009
• “Let’s Talk Rights: Messages for the Just Corporations – Transforming the Economy Through the Language of Rights," Journal of Business Ethics, Vol  78 (1-2), 2008.
• “The UN Global Compact in a Context of Voluntary Responsibility Assurance,” with S. Waddock, Unternehmensethik im Spannungsfeld der Kulturen und Religionen, ed. by J. Wallacher, M. Reder, and T. Karcher, Kohlhammer, 146-161, 2006.
• “Voluntary or Mandatory: That is (Not) the Question. Linking Corporate Citizenship to Human Rights Obligations for Business,” with S. Waddock, Zeitschrift für Wirtschafts- und Unternehmensethik, 6/3: 304-320, 2005.
• “From Causality to Capability. Towards a New Understanding of the Multinational Corporation’s Enlarged Global Responsibilities,” Journal of Corporate Citizenship, Vol. 19, 104-117, 2005.
• Die soziale Verantwortung der Wirtschaft. Was Bürger von Unternehmen erwarten, with York Lunau, Haupt, 2004.