André Habisch is Professor for Christian Social Ethics and Society at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt. After studies of Catholic theology (Münster/ Tubinga) and Economics (Free University of Berlin) he was working for the edition of ‘Lexikon der Wirtschaftsethik’ at the Chair of Business Ethics at the Catholic University’s Economic Department at Ingolstadt. During fellowships of ‘Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft’ (Habilitation program 1994-1997) and Heisenberg program (1998) he completed his habilitation on ‚Social capital theory and family policy’ and accepted a tenure position at KUE-I in 1998. Resulting from a DFG research grant on ‘New Governance Structures’ he founded the Center for Corporate Citizenship that became one of main research centres on Corporate Social Responsibility and Corporate Citizenship in Germany. Since 2003 he is a Visiting Professor at the ICCSR at Nottingham Business School, Nottingham UK and fellow of BRESE at London Brunel University. He is member of the Editorial Board of the Journal for Corporate Citizenship and actively involved in the European Academy Business in Society (EABIS), Brussels, serving as a member of the Steering Committee of EABIS’ 2005 Conference at Warsaw.
He is scientific adviser of the Catholic Entrepreneur’s Union (since 1998) and has been scientific member of the Study commission ‘Future of civic engagement’ of the German Parliament 1999-2002. He has also served as a member of the Audit-Council of ‘Beruf und Familie’ gGmbH (work-life) of gem. Hertie-Stiftung (1998-2006). As scientific adviser for several ethics-in-business competitions and rankings of leading German business magazines (Wirtschaftswoche, ManagerMagazin, Capital) the Center for Corporate Citizenship has collected and documented empirical data of Responsibility projects from a vast variety of business contexts.
With active participation of Prof. Habisch the Center for Corporate Citizenship successfully completed research projects for several donor institutions including DFG, BMBF, EU, Anglo-German Foundation, Adenauer Foundation, Bertelsmann Foudation, Seidel Foundation (see www.corporatecitizen.de). Prof. Habisch completed an international research project on ‘Social Auditing’ (together with IPK Fraunhofer Institute, Berlin, and University Paris XII/ CCIAS, Paris) and an EU-sponsored EABIS project on ‘Teaching Corporate Social Responsibility’ (together with Copenhagen Business School, Warwick Business School and INSEAD). He has recently constructed the ‘CSR Internship Exchange Network CIEN’ together with Copenhagen Business School, Nottingham Business School and Catholic Univ. of Milan) to stimulate international exchange of student interns under the heading of Erasmus.
Only recently, Prof. Habisch has been appointed to the Jury of the ECON Handbook of Business Communication, Berlin, and has been invited to chair the committee of the newly founded BAYER Cares Foundation, Leverkusen.
Prof. Habisch is currently following 10 PhD dissertations on different aspects of Corporate Responsibility, 2 being completed in the past.
Recent relevant publications include:
A.H., Corporate Citizenship. Gesellschaftliches Engagement von Unternehmen in Deutschland, Heidelberg-Berlin: Springer 2003.
AH, Social Responsibility, Social Capital and SMEs [Small and Medium Enterprises] in: L. Spence/ A. H. / R. Schmidpeter (Ed.), Responsibility and Social Capital. The World of Small and Medium Sized Enterprises, London: Palgrave 2004.
A.H. / J. Jonker / M. Wegner/ R. Schmidpeter (Ed.), Corporate Social Responsibility across Europe, Heidelberg-New York – Berlin: Springer 2004.
AH, Corporate Citizenship, in: WISU-Magazin (2005).
AH/ Jeremy Moon, Social Capital and Corporate Social Responsibility, in: Jan Jonker/ Marco de Witte (Ed.), The challenge of organising and implementing CSR, London: Palgrave 2006 (forthcoming).
K. Gazdar/ A.H./ K. Kirchhoff / S. Vaseghi, Erfolgsfaktor Verantwortung, Heidelberg: Springer 2006.