University of Applied Sciences in Business Administration (HWZ)

Institute for Strategic Management / Stakeholder View
As one of the oldest stakeholder research groups in Europe, we are proud of our tradition of excellence in teaching and research belonging to this field. In cooperation with Jim Post from Boston University and Lee Preston from University of Maryland, the Research Institute has developed a comprehensive management approach called Stakeholder View.

Center for Corporate Social Responsibility
The Center for CSR is researching the developments and interconnections as well as the normative conditions of corporate social responsibility and injects the insights gained into the teaching and services provided by the HWZ.

Changing Managers’ Values Towards a Broader Stakeholder Orientation.
By Sachs, S., & Rühli, E.

A CSR Framework Due to Multiculturalism – The Swiss Re Case
By Sachs, S., Rühli, E.

Implementing the Stakeholder View - Learning Process Towards a Changed Stakeholder Orientation.
By Maurer, M., & Sachs, S.

Corporate Social Responsibility from a Stakeholder View Perspective: CSR Implementation by a Swiss Mobile Telecommunications Pro
By Sachs, S., Maurer, M., Rühli, E., & Hoffmann, R.

Toward Dynamic Corporate Stakeholder Responsibility.
By Sachs, S., & Maurer, M.

Ethics and Financial Markets: Ethical Expertise instead of Collective Confusion
Genève 2009 (in Erscheinung)

Ethik und Vermögensmanagement in NPO
VM, Fachzeitschrift für Verbands- und Nonprofit-Management 3/08, Zürich 2008.

5. Internationalen Menschenrechtsforum, Menschenrechte und Umwelt
Luzern 2008

Mehrwert Ethik, Added Values in Wirtschaft und Management

Versus Verlag Zürich 2007

http://www.versus.ch/links/pdf/LP_Ethik_Weber.pdf

How Stakeholder Relations Pay Off by Maintaining the License to Operate: A Comparative Case Study of the Swiss Telecommunication
By Kern, I., Sachs, S., & Rühli, E.

Good Practices Stakeholder View - How and why do firms adopt a broad stakeholder orientation?
A long-term research programme on implementation of the Strategic View as a strategic management approach. The research group analyzed examples of good practices in six companies from the Swiss Telecommunication (Orange, Sunrise and Swisscom) and Financial Services Industry (Suva, Swiss Re and Zürcher Kantonalbank).

ICT-based Stakeholder Management - How can firms identify strategically relevant stakeholders and systematically involve them in
The project aims at identifying strategically relevant stakeholders and at systematically involving them into corporate activities.

The Evaluation and Effect Measurement of Stakeholder-Engagement

Nowadays, many organisations conduct stakeholder-dialogues on most diverse subjects. In doing so, a systematic evaluation of these engagements and an answer to the question - which are the benefits of these dialogues for the organisation as well as the involved stakeholders - remain absent. This is exactly what the project, by Prof. Dr. Sybille Sachs (HWZ), Prof. Dr. Ruth Schmitt (FHNW) and their teams, assesses.