TY - THES A1 - Diener, Joel T1 - Responsible finance BT - concepts, tools, impact measurement ; [cumulative dissertation] N2 - In Anbetracht großer globaler Herausforderungen ist in den letzten Jahren die Frage, wie mit nachhaltiger Geldanlage ein positiver Einfluss auf die Erreichung von Nachhaltigkeitszielen genommen werden kann, immer weiter in den Fokus geraten. Dieses Verständnis hat sich jedoch bei zahlreichen Anbietern von Nachhaltigkeitsfonds noch nicht durchgesetzt und auch die akademische Auseinandersetzung mit nachhaltiger Geldanlage fokussiert sich bisher vor allem auf eine Analyse der finanziellen Auswirkungen dieser Anlageform. Eine weitere Lücke in der akademischen Betrachtung ist eine ausführliche Auseinandersetzung mit der Praxis christlich geprägter Geldanlage. Beitrag 1 entwickelt die konzeptuelle Grundlage für die weiteren Artikel. Darauf aufbauend wird in Beitrag 2 Literatur zu der Frage analysiert, welche Anlagetechniken bevorzugt werden sollten, um eine Verbesserung der Nachhaltigkeitsleistung der Portfoliounternehmen zu erreichen. Beitrag 3, eine empirische Studie, verwendet die Erkenntnisse der ersten beiden Beiträge, um zu untersuchen, ob und - wenn ja - wie eine Einflussnahme auf die Nachhaltigkeitsleistung der Portfoliounternehmen in den Anlagepolitiken der Anbieter von Nachhaltigkeitsfonds verankert ist. Beitrag 4, ebenfalls eine empirische Studie, beleuchtet die Praxis christlich geprägter Nachhaltigkeitsfonds. Zum einen wird analysiert, welche Filter und Anlagetechniken verwendet werden. Zum anderen wird ein Teil des in Beitrag 3 entwickelte Kategorie-Systems genutzt, um zu ermitteln, wie wichtig die Verbesserung der Nachhaltigkeitsleistung der Portfoliounternehmen für die Fondsanbieter ist. N2 - In view of the major global challenges, the question of how sustainable investment can have a positive influence on the achievement of sustainability goals has come increasingly into focus in recent years. However, this understanding has not yet been adopted by numerous providers of sustainability funds, and also the academic discussion of sustainable investment has so far focused primarily on an analysis of the financial effects of this form of investment. Another gap in the academic discussion is a detailed examination of the practice of Christian-influenced investment. Paper 1 develops the conceptual basis for the subsequent articles. Building on this, paper 2 analyses literature on the question of which investment techniques should be preferred in order to achieve an improvement in the sustainability performance of portfolio companies. Paper 3, an empirical study, uses the findings of the first two papers to investigate whether and - if so - how influencing the sustainability performance of portfolio companies is embedded in the investment policies of sustainability fund providers. Paper 4, also an empirical study, sheds light on the practice of Christian-influenced sustainability funds. On the one hand, it analyses which filters and investment techniques are used. On the other hand, part of the category system developed in paper 3 is used to determine how important improving the sustainability performance of portfolio companies is for fund providers. KW - Ethikfonds KW - environmental social governance KW - non-financial impact (NFI) KW - faith-based investing KW - christian finance KW - investor impact KW - corporate social responsibility KW - Portfolio Selection KW - Unternehmensethik KW - Nachhaltigkeit Y1 - 2023 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:824-opus4-8437 ER - TY - THES A1 - Wack, Eva T1 - Online background checks in personnel decision-making BT - practices, challenges, and ethical recommendations ; [cumulative dissertation] N2 - Abstract Paper 1: Cybervetting has become common practice in personnel decision-making processes of organizations. While it represents a quick and inexpensive way of obtaining additional information on employees and applicants, it gives rise to a variety of legal and ethical concerns. To limit companies’ access to personal information, a right to be forgotten has been introduced by the European jurisprudence. By discussing the notion of forgetting from the perspective of French hermeneutic philosopher Paul Ricoeur, the present article demonstrates that both, companies and employees, would be harmed if access to online information on applicants and current employees would be denied. Consistent with a Humanistic Management approach that promotes human dignity and flourishing in the workplace, this article proposes guidance for the responsible handling of unpleasant online memories in personnel decision-making processes, thereby following Ricoeur’s notion of forgetting as “kept in reserve”. Enabling applicants and employees to take a qualified stand on their past is more beneficial to both sides than a right to be forgotten that is questionable in several respects. Abstract Paper 2: When hiring new employees, managers often conduct online background checks on applicants. This practice has led many applicants to reach out to legal and technological solutions that render unpleasant online memories forgotten. With this article, we question the effectiveness and social value of approaches aimed at permanently erasing information from the web. Furthermore, we provide practitioners with guidance toward responsible handling of applicant information from the web. In this conceptual article, we review the literature on organizational memory and interpret it through a philosophical lens by turning to the works of the French philosopher Paul Ricoeur and the French sociologist Maurice Halbwachs. We conclude that legally or technologically enforced forgetting on the web fails to provide true protection from a memory in a hiring situation, as remembering in an organization is a complex social process that hardly lets a memory disappear completely. As a result, legal and technological approaches that aim at erasing unpleasant memories from the web represent only an illusion of protection for job applicants. Alternatively, we propose a selection process that makes the erasure of unpleasant memories from the web unnecessary. Previous literature on organizational memory has already criticized a purely mechanistic view of memory in organizations, by which memories are treated as objects that can be retrieved and deleted on demand. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first article that establishes a connection between organizational memory and the use of online information in selection. Abstract Paper 3: Companies have started using social media for screening applicants in the selection process. Thereby, they enter a low-cost source of information on applicants, which potentially allows them to hire the right person on the job and avoid irresponsible employee behavior and negligent hiring lawsuits. However, a number of ethical issues are associated with this practice, which give rise to the question of the fairness of social media screening. This article aims to provide an assessment of the procedural justice of social media screening and to articulate recommendations for a fairer use of social media in the selection process. To achieve this, a systematic literature review of research articles pertaining to social media screening has been conducted. Thereby, the benefits and ethical issues relating to social media screening, as well as recommendations for its use have been extracted and discussed against Leventhal’s (1980) rules of procedural justice. It turns out that without clear guidelines for recruiters, social media screening cannot be considered procedurally fair, as it opens up way too many opportunities for infringements on privacy, unfair discrimination, and adverse selection based on inaccurate information. However, it is possible to enhance the fairness of this practice by establishing clear policies and procedures to standardize the process. Abstract Paper 4: Social media platforms have presented individuals with sheer endless possibilities for networking, creating and exchanging information. Yet, overwhelming social demands, privacy concerns, and even a lack of access to new technologies have led many users to discontinue social media usage. Simultaneously, companies screen and select applicants on social media. As previous research suggests that employers may view missing social media information with suspicion, we ask if non-users of social media face disadvantages in hiring: Are they discriminated against? In this study, we employ a 2 x 2 experimental survey design to verify whether absence from social media may result in discriminatory behavior towards job applicants. We conduct the study with two samples: The first comprises business students, and the second consists of more senior members of the workforce. Although this study does not confirm discrimination against non-users of social media in the selection process, it adds to the literature in two respects: Firstly, it shows differences in call-back between highly and less qualified candidates as a result of social media information. Secondly, it suggests unintentional, systemic rater biases. Against these findings, we formulate recommendations for applicants and employers and give recommendations for future research in this field. KW - Social Media KW - Personalauswahl KW - Unternehmensethik KW - Corporate Digital Responsibility KW - Personalbeschaffung KW - Personalpolitik KW - Berufliches Profiling KW - Personalplanung Y1 - 2023 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:824-opus4-8098 ER - TY - THES A1 - Sasse-Werhahn, Laura Friederike T1 - Practical wisdom in management [cumulative dissertation] N2 - This dissertation endeavours to bring together already formulated and future starting points in the research of wisdom-oriented management. While modules I and II focus on practical wisdom with regard to corporate sustainability, module III focuses on the concept of practical wisdom with regard to decision-making processes in companies. Module IV provides the fundamentals of business ethics and wisdom-oriented thinking in relation to management education. N2 - Diese Dissertation folgt dem Bestreben nach Zusammenführung bereits formulierter und künftig zu gestaltender Ausgangspunkte in der Forschung von weisheitsorientiertem Management. Während in den Modulen I und II der Fokus auf praktische Weisheit in Hinblick auf Unternehmensnachhaltigkeit liegt, wird in Modul III das Konzept der praktischen Weisheit hinsichtlich der Entscheidungsfindungsprozesse in Unternehmen herausgearbeitet. Modul IV liefert die Grundlagen unternehmensethischer und weisheitsorientierter Überlegungen in Bezug auf die Managementausbildung. KW - Wirtschaftsethik KW - Unternehmensethik KW - Management KW - Phronesis KW - Practical wisdom KW - Prudence KW - Virtue ethics KW - Business ethics Y1 - 2019 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:824-opus4-5034 ER - TY - THES A1 - Bachmann, Claudius T1 - Practical wisdom: management’s no longer forgotten virtue [cumulative dissertation] N2 - Die kumulative Dissertation befasst sich mit den Bedingungen und der Bedeutung praktischer Weisheit (engl. Practical Wisdom) in der Managementforschung und -praxis. Insgesamt umfasst die Dissertation vier Beiträge: 1. Bachmann, C., Habisch, A. & Dierksmeier, C. (2017). Practical Wisdom: Management’s No Longer Forgotten Virtue. Journal of Business Ethics. First Online: 12 January 2017, doi: 10.1007/s10551-016-3417-y. 2. Habisch, A. & Bachmann, C. (2016). Empowering practical wisdom from religious traditions: a ricoeurian approach. International Journal of Corporate Social Responsibility 1(10), 1-9. 3. Bachmann, C. (2014). Can practical wisdom be taught in business schools? An inquiry based learning approach for management education. In P. Blessinger & J. M. Carfora (Hrsg.), Inquiry-Based Learning for the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences: A Conceptual and Practical Resource for Educators, (pp. 277-302). Emerald Group Publishing Limited. 4. Bachmann, C., Sasse, L. & Habisch, A.(under review). Applying the Practical Wisdom Lenses in Decision-Making: An Integrative Approach to Humanistic Management. Eingereicht bei: Humanistic Management Journal. Die Dissertationsschrift versteht sich als Grundlagenforschung, die einen entscheidenden Beitrag zur Erschließung und Systematisierung des noch unübersichtlichen Terrains weisheitsorientierter Managementforschung leistet, die zur Fundierung und Hypothesenbildung für zukünftige Forschung beiträgt und die die relevanten weiterführenden Aspekte eines solchen Programms skizziert. Sie umfasst einerseits unternehmensethische und weisheitstheoretische Grundlagenreflexion (Beitrag I & II) und andererseits stärker anwendungsorientierte, konkret auf zwei Teildisziplinen der Managementforschung bezogene Sondierungen (Modul III & IV). N2 - This cumulative dissertation explores the role and nature of practical wisdom in management research and comprises four papers: 1. Bachmann, C., Habisch, A. & Dierksmeier, C. (2017). Practical Wisdom: Management’s No Longer Forgotten Virtue. Journal of Business Ethics. First Online: 12 January 2017, doi: 10.1007/s10551-016-3417-y. 2. Habisch, A. & Bachmann, C. (2016). Empowering practical wisdom from religious traditions: a ricoeurian approach. International Journal of Corporate Social Responsibility 1(10), 1-9. 3. Bachmann, C. (2014). Can practical wisdom be taught in business schools? An inquiry based learning approach for management education. In P. Blessinger & J. M. Carfora (Hrsg.), Inquiry-Based Learning for the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences: A Conceptual and Practical Resource for Educators, (pp. 277-302). Emerald Group Publishing Limited. 4. Bachmann, C., Sasse, L. & Habisch, A.(under review). Applying the Practical Wisdom Lenses in Decision-Making: An Integrative Approach to Humanistic Management. Eingereicht bei: Humanistic Management Journal. The dissertation is basic research which significantly contributes to the development and systematization of the hitherto unchartered landscape of wisdom-oriented management literature. In this sense, it rediscovers new intellectual territory where further research on the role of practical wisdom in leadership and organizational studies might emerge. The first two papers, on the one hand, focus on theoretical reflections on corporate ethics and wisdom theory. The third and fourth papers, on the other hand, are more application-oriented and specifically related to two main disciplines of management research, i.e. management education (3) and decision-making theory (4). KW - Business ethics KW - Practical wisdom KW - Prudence KW - Virtue ethics KW - Wirtschaftsethik KW - Phronesis KW - Klugheit KW - Unternehmensethik KW - Management Y1 - 2018 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:824-opus4-3702 ER - TY - THES A1 - Wegner, Martina T1 - Das Prinzip Nachhaltigkeit im Spannungsfeld von globalem Anspruch und lokaler Umsetzung. Eine Untersuchung zu den soziokulturellen Zusammenhängen aus der Perspektive von Mitarbeitern eines multinationalen Unternehmens. T1 - The principle of sustainability between global claims and local implementation. Research into the sociocultural contexts from the perspective of employees of a multinational enterprise N2 - Das Prinzip Nachhaltigkeit wurde in den letzten Jahren weltweit und interdisziplinär unter Anwendung vager Definitionen diskutiert. Die vorliegende Arbeit setzt daher zunächst einen begrifflichen Rahmen und analysiert das Prinzip Nachhaltigkeit aus der politisch-konzeptionellen, normierenden, bürgerschaftlichen und betriebswirtschaftlichen Perspektive. Um diese theoretischen Ergebnisse und ihre Wirkung zu verifizieren, wurden sie an den empirischen Daten einer multinationalen Unternehmensbefragung gespiegelt. Dazu wurden Mitarbeiter aus sechs Ländern (Deutschland, Italien, Frankreich, GB, China, Polen) in Tiefeninterviews nach ihrer Meinung zum Thema Nachhaltigkeit befragt und die Einflüsse der genannten Perspektiven auf die Mitarbeiter im Unternehmen untersucht. Die Bedeutung der bürgerschaftlichen Perspektive und die nationalen Unterschiede bilden den Schwerpunkt der Untersuchungsergebnisse. Die Untersuchung wurde bei einem multinationalen Finanzdienstleister durchgeführt und antwortet auf die Frage nach der Durchführbarkeit globaler Nachhaltigkeitsstrategien. N2 - In recent years the principle of sustainability has been discussed in interdisciplinary contexts giving mostly vague definitions. This thesis sets a conceptional framework analysing sustainability from four different perspectives: politics/concept, standards, community involvement, business operations.In order to verify these theoretical results and their effects, they were compared with empirical data of a multinational corporate survey. For this purpose in-depth interviews were conducted with staff members from six countries (France, Italy, Germany, Poland, Great Britain, China) to investigate into their views of sustainability and the impact of above mentioned perspectives on staff in companies. The results highlights the Corporate Citizenship perspective and the national differences. This study was supported by a multinational financial services provider and analyses the feasibility of global sustainability strategies. KW - Nachhaltigkeit KW - Wirtschaftsethik KW - Unternehmensethik KW - Globalisierung KW - Global Governance KW - Soziales Kapital KW - Corporate Citizenship KW - Corporate Social Responsibility KW - Unternehmensverantwortung KW - Rating-Agenturen KW - Bürgerschaftliches Engagement KW - Community Involvement KW - Sustainable Development KW - Corporate Citizenship KW - Social Capital KW - Corporate Social Responsibility Y1 - 2004 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:824-opus-266 ER -