Talks
Talks, Presentations, Lectures
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PhD course “Sustainable Management/Nachhaltigkeitsorientierte Unternehmensführung“, taught at GSaME
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2011
Ist weniger mehr? Post-Wachstumsstrategien für Unternehmen (engl.: Is less more? Post-Growth Strategies for Business), “Wachstumswende” (Growth change”), Wuppertal Institute, Germany, 19. January 2011.
The Ecological Allowance of Enterprise: An Absolute Measure of Corporate Environmental Performance, its Implications for Strategy, and a Small Case, Environmental Leadership Symposium, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA, 2./3. May 2011.
Rightsizing Business: The Need and Means for Corporate Degrowth, International Sustainable Development Research Conference (ISDRC17), Earth Institute, Columbia University, USA, 8.-10. May 2011.
Beyond traditional perspectives on economic growth: Green growth, steady state, and degrowth, Professional Develoment Workshop, Academy of Management Annual Meeting, San Antonio, USA, 12.-16. August 2011 (accepted).
System Theory on the Ground: Research Methods and Managerial Applications, Professional Develoment Workshop, Academy of Management Annual Meeting, San Antonio, USA, 12.-16. August 2011 (accepted).
2010
Degrowth as a Business Case, International Society for Ecological Economics: Advancing Sustainability in a Time of Crisis, Oldenburg/Bremen, Germany, 22.-25. August 2010.
System Theory: It’s Rise, Failure and Renewal for OMT Theory Building, Academy of Management Annual Meeting: Dare to Care, Montreal, Canada, 6.-10. August 2010.
Workshop on Business and Production, The Steady State Economy Conference, Leeds, 19 June 2010.
Nachhaltiger Lebensstil. Anforderungen an eine neue Konsumkultur (engl.: Sustainable Lifestyle. Conditions of a new Consumption Culture), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, 03 February 2010.
De-Growth and the Firm, Re-Thinking Economic Growth: Towards an International Degrowth Network, London, 12 January 2010. (Video online!)
2009
Second-order Management, UK Systems Society International Conference, Oxford, 1./2. September 2009.
Linking Sufficiency and Business: Utility Systems Engineering in Producer-Consumer-Networks, Academy of Management Annual Meeting: Green Management Matters, Chicago, USA, 7.-10. August 2009.
Nachhaltigkeit in der Krise: Innovationen als Lösungsstrategie oder Problemverstärker?, Gemeinsame Jahrestagung der Vereinigungen für Ökologische Ökonomie (VÖÖ) und Ökologische Wirtschaftsforschung (VÖW), Frankfurt/Main, 14./15. May 2009
2008
Kreise schließen: Industrielle Ökologie im Kontext von Produktdesign und Nutzungsverhalten, Tagung der wissenschaftlichen Kommission „Nachhaltigkeitsmanagement“ im Verband der Hochschullehrer für Betriebswirtschaft e.V. (VHB), Bremen, 6./7. October 2008.
Observing the Next Organization, UK Systems Society International Conference, Oxford, 1.-3. September 2008.
Whatever happened to Industrial Ecology? An Inquiry into the Failure and Renewal of a Concept, 2nd International Sustainability Conference: Creating values for Sustainable Development, Basel, 21./22. August 2008.
The Sustainability of Society. Cornerstones of a Social Systems Theory of Sustainability, 2nd International Sustainability Conference: Creating values for Sustainable Development, Basel, 21./22. August 2008.
Making sense of what comes next: Building producer-consumer-networks for the sustainable organization, International Society for Ecological Economics (ISEE), Nairobi, Kenya, 7.-11. August 2008.
De-Growth as Corporate Competitive Advantage?, Economic De-Growth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity, Paris, 18./19. April 2008.
Building the sustainable firm. A framework for corporate transformation, International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change, FU Berlin, 22./23. February 2008.
2007
How many systems fit on a match head? A social systems theory view on relations between society, the human individual and nature, Max Plank Institute of Economics Jena, 16. October 2007.
Klimaschutz ist Selbstschutz, Interview @ Care & Click (Knesebeck-Verlag), 14. October 2007.
Building the sustainable firm. Der lange Weg zum nachhaltigen Unternehmen, Tagung der Kommission Umweltwirtschaft im Verband der Hochschullehrer für Betriebswirtschaft (VHB), Wien, 3.-5. October 2007.
An innovation-oriented framework for building the sustainable firm, UK Systems Society International Conference, Oxford, 3.-5. September 2007.
Towards a regional memory. A sociocybernetic approach for institutionalizing regional sustainability, European Society for Ecological Economics (ESEE), Leipzig, 3.-5. June 2007.
Das Gedächtnis der Unternehmung. Ein soziokybernetisches Modell der Lernenden Organisation, Tagung der Gesellschaft für Wirtschafts- und Sozialkybernetik e.V. (GWS), Aachen, 15./16. May 2007.
2006
Learning Architecture for Regional Sustainability Networks, International Society for Ecological Economics (ISEE), New Delhi, India, 15.-18. December 2006.
Soziales Gedächtnis. Ein soziokybernetischer Ansatz zur Selbststeuerung gesellschaftlicher Wandlungsprozesse, Ad-hoc-Gruppe Soziokybernetik, 33. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie, Kassel, 9.-13. October 2006.
Die Lernarchitektur regionaler Nachhaltigkeitsnetzwerke, Meeting the Future, Universität Lüneburg, 22./23. September 2006.
Towards a memory of the firm, UK Systems Society International Conference, Oxford, 11.-13. September 2006.
2005
Regional Learning Architecture, Complexity, Science and Society, Liverpool, 12.-14. September 2005.
Structuration Theory and System Dynamics, Young OR 14 (Operational Research Society), Bath, 4.-6. April 2005.
2004
Restructuration of System Dynamics, International System Dynamics Conference, Oxford, 25.-29. July 2004.
