This list includes but is not limited to topics we are interested in:

• Business and Human Rights:
  • management and reporting of corporate human rights performance
  • the business case for human Rights
  • internal organization, processes and tools for managing corporate human rights performance
  • industry and international/cultural differences in corporate human rights strategy
  • The role of partnerships for managing corporate human rights performance

• Sustainability in the hydrogen economy
  • Sustainability implications of hydrogen-based business models [Peter would be interested in supervising such a thesis].
  • Measurement, control and communication of hydrogen-related sustainability performance
  • Hydrogen and stakeholder management

• Business and sustainability regulation
  • Business and the German Lieferkettengesetz
    • Corporate Lobbying for/against the proposed bill
    • Strategic implications of the law for German companies
  • EU Taxonomy
    • Impact of the taxonomy on companies (esp. reporting; sustainable product portfolio; strategic alignment). Cooperation with Matthias Fertig (Schaeffler) intended.
  • EU Green Deal, EU CSR Directive

• Cooperatives (Genossenschaften) and further alternative governance approaches for responsible management
  • Cooperatives and their sustainability potential
  • Benefit Corporation
  • B-Corp certification
  • Gemeinwohlökonomie (Economy for the common good)

• Further topics:
  • Science Based Targets
  • internet plus public service / public service innovation
  • Circular Economy: Innovation, Smartification & Product-Service Systems
  • Future Scenarios of Smart-Technology Usage for Sustainability
  • Lending-based crowdfunding and sustainability.
    • Research question and methodology in consultation with the candidate.
  • Sustainability, social entrepreneurship and CSR in the Chinese context
    • Theses in this area can only be supervised and written in English