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Andreas Georg Scherer

Andreas Georg Scherer

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Political Science
Switzerland
2026
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Law and Political Science
Switzerland
2022

D-Index & Metrics

Political Science

D-Index
43
Citations
14077
World Ranking
399
National Ranking
8

Business and Management

D-Index
43
Citations
14085
World Ranking
1394
National Ranking
13

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Political Science in Switzerland Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Political Science in Switzerland Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Political Science in Switzerland Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Law and Political Science in Switzerland Leader Award

Overview

Andreas Georg Scherer is affiliated with the University of Zurich in Switzerland and specializes primarily in Business, Management, and Accounting. Their research has a significant focus on Strategy and Management, Sociology and Political Science, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Management of Technology and Innovation, as well as Mechanical Engineering.

The researcher explores various topics across several domains including Management and Organizational Studies, Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences, Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting, Innovation and Socioeconomic Development, Public Relations and Crisis Communication, Political Influence and Corporate Strategies, and Environmental Sustainability in Business.

Among their recent publications are:

  • Exploring the dark and unexpected sides of digitalization: Toward a critical agenda (2020) in Organization
  • Grand Societal Challenges and Responsible Innovation (2021) in Journal of Management Studies
  • Pathways to social value and social change: An integrative review of the social entrepreneurship literature (2022) in International Journal of Management Reviews
  • From Compliance to Progress: A Sensemaking Perspective on the Governance of Corruption (2022) in Organization Science
  • Temperature-dependent fracture behavior of towpreg epoxy resins for cryogenic liquid hydrogen composite vessels: The influence of polysiloxane tougheners on the resin yield behavior (2022) in Polymer Testing

The scientist collaborates frequently with several colleagues, including:

  • Christian Voegtlin
  • Florian Ueberbacher
  • Cristina Neesham
  • Nadine Hietschold
  • Bennet Schwoon

Andreas Georg Scherer has contributed multiple publications to various scholarly venues. The most frequent publication outlets include:

  • Academy of Management Proceedings
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Business Ethics Quarterly
  • Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Best Publications

  • The New Political Role of Business in a Globalized World: A Review of a New Perspective on CSR and its Implications for the Firm, Governance, and Democracy

    Andreas Georg Scherer;Guido Palazzo

  • Organizing Corporate Social Responsibility in Small and Large Firms: Size Matters

    Dorothée Baumann-Pauly;Christopher Wickert;Laura J. Spence;Andreas Georg Scherer

  • Global rules and private actors: Toward a new role of the transnational corporation in global governance

    Andreas Georg Scherer;Andreas Georg Scherer;Guido Palazzo;Guido Palazzo;Dorothéee Baumann;Dorothéee Baumann

  • Managing Legitimacy in Complex and Heterogeneous Environments: Sustainable Development in a Globalized World

    Andreas Georg Scherer;Guido Palazzo;David Seidl

  • Responsible Leadership in Global Business: A New Approach to Leadership and Its Multi-Level Outcomes

    Christian Voegtlin;Moritz Patzer;Andreas Georg Scherer

  • Managing for political corporate social responsibility: : New challenges and directions for PCSR 2.0

    Andreas Georg Scherer;Andreas Rasche;Guido Palazzo;André Spicer

  • Walking and talking corporate social responsibility: Implications of firm size and organizational cost

    Christopher Wickert;Andreas Georg Scherer;Laura J. Spence

  • Globalization and Corporate Social Responsibility

    Andreas Georg Scherer;Guido Palazzo

  • Responsible Innovation and the Innovation of Responsibility: Governing Sustainable Development in a Globalized World

    Christian Voegtlin;Andreas Georg Scherer

  • Some Unanticipated Consequences of Organizational Restructuring

    William Mckinley;Andreas Georg Scherer

  • The Business Firm as a Political Actor: A New Theory of the Firm for a Globalized World

    Andreas Georg Scherer;Guido Palazzo;Dirk Matten

  • The Philosophical Foundations of Knowledge Management: Editors' Introduction:

    J.-C. Spender;Andreas Georg Scherer

  • Introduction to the Special Issue: Globalization as a Challenge for Business Responsibilities

    Andreas Georg Scherer;Guido Palazzo;Dirk Matten

  • Corporate Social Responsibility, Democracy, and the Politicization of the Corporation

    Guido Palazzo;Andreas Georg Scherer

  • CORPORATE GOVERNANCE FOR RESPONSIBLE INNOVATION: APPROACHES TO CORPORATE GOVERNANCE AND THEIR IMPLICATIONS FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

    Andreas Georg Scherer;Christian Voegtlin

  • Pluralism and Incommensurability in Strategic Management and Organization Theory: A Problem in Search of a Solution:

    Andreas Georg Scherer

  • Handbook of Research on Global Corporate Citizenship

    Andreas Georg Scherer;Guido Palazzo

  • Democratizing Corporate Governance: Compensating for the Democratic Deficit of Corporate Political Activity and Corporate Citizenship

    Andreas Georg Scherer;Dorothée Baumann-Pauly;Dorothée Baumann-Pauly;Anselm Schneider

  • Legitimacy‐as‐Feeling: How Affect Leads to Vertical Legitimacy Spillovers in Transnational Governance

    Patrick Haack;Michael D. Pfarrer;Andreas Georg Scherer

  • Global Rules and Private Actors - Towards a New Role of the Transnational Corporation in Global Governance

    Andreas Georg Scherer;Guido Palazzo;Dorothée Baumann-Pauly

  • The Changing Role of Business in Global Society

    Andreas Georg Scherer;Guido Palazzo;Dirk Matten

  • Exploring the dark and unexpected sides of digitalization: Toward a critical agenda:

    Hannah Trittin-Ulbrich;Andreas Georg Scherer;Iain Munro;Glen Whelan

  • Financial Regulation and Social Welfare: The Critical Contribution of Management Theory

    Emilio Marti;Andreas Georg Scherer

  • Toward a Political Conception of Corporate Responsibility - Business and Society Seen from a Habermasian Perspective

    Andreas Georg Scherer;Guido Palazzo

  • Organization Studies as Applied Science: The Generation and Use of Academic Knowledge about Organizations Introduction to the Special Issue

    Paula Jarzabkowski;Susan Albers Mohrman;Andreas Georg Scherer

  • Theory Assessment and Agenda Setting in Political CSR: A Critical Theory Perspective Theory Assessment and Agenda Setting

    Andreas Georg Scherer

  • Grand Societal Challenges and Responsible Innovation

    Christian Voegtlin;Andreas Georg Scherer;Günter K. Stahl;Olga Hawn

  • The Downward Spiral and the U.S. Model Business Principles - Why MNEs Should Take Responsibility for the Improvement of World-Wide Social and Environmental Conditions

    Andreas Georg Scherer;Marc Smid

Frequent Co-Authors

Guido Palazzo
Guido Palazzo University of Lausanne
Dirk Matten
Dirk Matten York University
Andreas Rasche
Andreas Rasche Copenhagen Business School
Laura J. Spence
Laura J. Spence King's College London
David Seidl
David Seidl University of Zurich
Pursey P. M. A. R. Heugens
Pursey P. M. A. R. Heugens Erasmus University Rotterdam
Jeremy Moon
Jeremy Moon Copenhagen Business School
Aseem Prakash
Aseem Prakash University of Washington
Subhabrata Bobby Banerjee
Subhabrata Bobby Banerjee City, University of London
Sebastian Polarz
Sebastian Polarz University of Hannover

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