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Business and Management
Germany
2026

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Business and Management

D-Index
90
Citations
39075
World Ranking
86
National Ranking
6

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Business and Management in Germany Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Business and Management in Germany Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Business and Management in Germany Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Business and Management in Germany Leader Award

Overview

Stefan Schaltegger is affiliated with Leuphana University of Lüneburg in Germany and has a research focus within the field of Business, Management and Accounting. Their work spans 68 publications in this area, with a strong emphasis on sustainability and management topics.

The main subfields of study for Stefan Schaltegger include Strategy and Management, Marketing, Economics and Econometrics, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, and Business and International Management.

The key topics covered in their research are:

  • Environmental Sustainability in Business
  • Sustainable Supply Chain Management
  • Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting
  • Innovation and Socioeconomic Development
  • Management and Organizational Studies
  • Sustainability in Higher Education
  • Ethics in Business and Education

Recent publications authored or co-authored by Stefan Schaltegger include:

  • "Corporate sustainability management accounting and multi-level links for sustainability" (2022), published in International Journal of Management Reviews
  • "Sustainability learnings from the COVID-19 crisis. Opportunities for resilient industry and business development" (2020), published in Sustainability Accounting Management and Policy Journal
  • "Integrating stakeholder theory and sustainability accounting: A conceptual synthesis" (2020), published in Journal of Cleaner Production (authored by Jacob Hörisch but frequently associated)

Other notable research appearing alongside their work includes "Moving beyond 'the' business case: How to make corporate sustainability work" (2023) in Business Strategy and the Environment and "Constellations of Transdisciplinary Practices: A Map and Research Agenda for the Responsible Management Learning Field" (2020) in Journal of Business Ethics.

Stefan Schaltegger's frequent co-authors include:

  • Katherine L. Christ
  • Roger Burritt
  • Jacob Hörisch
  • Julius Wenzig
  • Ilka Weissbrod

Among their frequent publication venues, the most prominent are:

  • Business Strategy and the Environment
  • Journal of Cleaner Production
  • Journal of Business Ethics
  • Academy of Management Proceedings
  • Accounting Auditing & Accountability Journal

Best Publications

  • Sustainable entrepreneurship and sustainability innovation: categories and interactions

    Stefan Schaltegger;Marcus Wagner

  • The Sustainability Balanced Scorecard – linking sustainability management to business strategy

    Frank Figge;Tobias Hahn;Stefan Schaltegger;Marcus Wagner

  • Business Cases for Sustainability: The Role of Business Model Innovation for Corporate Sustainability

    Stefan Schaltegger;Florian Lüdeke-Freund;Erik G. Hansen

  • Business Models for Sustainability: Origins, Present Research, and Future Avenues

    Stefan Schaltegger;Erik G. Hansen;Florian Lüdeke-Freund

  • Contemporary Environmental Accounting: Issues, Concepts and Practice

    Stefan Schaltegger;Roger Burritt

  • Applying Stakeholder Theory in Sustainability Management Links, Similarities, Dissimilarities, and a Conceptual Framework

    Jacob Hörisch;R. Edward Freeman;Stefan Schaltegger

  • Sustainability accounting and reporting: fad or trend?

    Roger L. Burritt;Stefan Schaltegger

  • A Stakeholder Theory Perspective on Business Models: Value Creation for Sustainability

    Birte Freudenreich;Florian Lüdeke-Freund;Stefan Schaltegger

  • The Link Between 'Green' and Economic Success: Environmental Management as the Crucial Trigger Between Environmental and Economic Performance

    Stefan Schaltegger;Terje Synnestvedt

  • Business Models for Sustainability A Co-Evolutionary Analysis of Sustainable Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Transformation

    Stefan Schaltegger;Florian Lüdeke-Freund;Erik Gunnar Hansen;Erik Gunnar Hansen

  • Towards a Comprehensive Framework for Environmental Management Accounting - Links Between Business Actors and Environmental Management Accounting Tools

    Roger L. Burritt;Tobias Hahn;STefan Schaltegger

  • Integrative management of sustainability performance, measurement and reporting

    Stefan Schaltegger;Marcus Wagner

  • A Framework for Ecopreneurship

    Stefan Schaltegger

  • Sustainability accounting for companies: Catchphrase or decision support for business leaders?

    Stefan Schaltegger;Roger L. Burritt

  • A Framework for Ecopreneurship: Leading Bioneers and Environmental Managers to Ecopreneurship

    Stefan Schaltegger

  • An Introduction to Corporate Environmental Management: Striving for Sustainability

    Stefan Schaltegger;Roger Burritt;Holger Petersen

  • The Effect of Corporate Environmental Strategy Choice and Environmental Performance on Competitiveness and Economic Performance:: An Empirical Study of EU Manufacturing

    Marcus Wagner;Stefan Schaltegger

  • The Sustainability Balanced Scorecard: A Systematic Review of Architectures

    Erik G. Hansen;Stefan Schaltegger

  • Business Cases for Sustainability: A Stakeholder Theory Perspective:

    Stefan Schaltegger;Jacob Hörisch;R. Edward Freeman

  • Ökologische Rationalität: Ansatzpunkte zur Ausgestaltung von ökologieorientierten Managementinstrumenten

    Stefan Schaltegger;Andreas Sturm

  • Sustainability Reporting Guidelines 2002

    Stefan Schaltegger

  • Towards a Comprehensive Framework for Environmental Management Accounting

    Roger Burritt;Tobias Hahn;Stefan Schaltegger

Frequent Co-Authors

Roger Burritt
Roger Burritt Australian National University
Marcus Wagner
Marcus Wagner University of Augsburg
Frank Figge
Frank Figge ESCP Europe, France
Tobias Hahn
Tobias Hahn Ramon Llull University
Wei Qian
Wei Qian The University of Texas at El Paso
Ki-Hoon Lee
Ki-Hoon Lee Edinburgh Napier University
Alexandra-Maria Klein
Alexandra-Maria Klein University of Freiburg
Kai Hockerts
Kai Hockerts Copenhagen Business School
R. Edward Freeman
R. Edward Freeman University of Virginia
Gjalt Huppes
Gjalt Huppes Leiden University

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