Chair of International Business, Society and Sustainability
The chair International Business, Society and Sustainability aims to advance the research frontier by addressing critical themes in interdisciplinary social science research related to sustainable development, business and human rights and environmental governance. Our teaching and research activities revolve around the question of how international business relationships could become more just and sustainable. For discussing this question, we draw on and contribute to different theoretical and empirical debates, such as on environmental justice, business and human rights, telecoupling, political ecology, corporate accountability and the sustainability governance of global supply chains. One of our current research interests are supply chain regulations from the demand-side, in particular human rights and environmental due diligence (HREDD) laws. We study the policy-making processes, institutional design, compliance of companies, accountability dynamics and consequences of HREDD regimes in diverse sites of production in the Global South.
In our analyses we use and combine diverse mixes of methods, among them semi-structured interviews, participatory observation, document analysis, surveys, discourse analysis, transdisciplinary methods and network analysis. The geographical focus of the chair’s activities is mainly set on Latin America and Europe, but we also carry out comparative research covering other places and regions. As sociopolitical processes and governance arrangements at different scales interact with and shape each other, our research focuses on different scales and cross-scalar linkages.
Roundtable: Desigualdad, territorio y sostenibilidad: retos globales en contextos locales de América Latina
On May 12 at 6:00 p.m., in room FG 2.024, the roundtable titled “Desigualdad, territorio y sostenibilidad: retos globales en contextos locales de América Latina” will take place. This acade...
We are thrilled to share the film 'One gram of gold', published in the Journal of Anthropological Films. The film is a collaborative film project, created by Anna Frohn Pedersen, postdoc at the Chair, together with Patric Jude Mkai, Robert Mwenda and Raphael Msuya.
The film is open access and can...
Workshop on “Business, Human Rights and the Environment in the Andean Countries”
Organized by the Centre of Human Rights Erlangen-Nuremberg (CHREN) and ADLAF Working Group on Andean Countries
Date: 30 September 2025
Location: Festival Room, 3rd floor, Andreij-Sacharow-Platz 1, 90403 Nuremberg
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We are happy to share a new publication by Anna Frohn Pedersen.
The paper is titled ‘Gold and geo-uncertainty in the making: The introduction of cyanide in Tanzania’s artisanal and small-scale mining sector’, and published in Geoforum. It is open access and can be found here: https://www.scienced...
The Chair of International Business, Society and Sustainability of the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) is looking for a full-time (100%) post-doc.
The Postdoc will mainly work in our research project on “Corporate Accountability in Global Supply Chains: The effectiveness o...
Dear students,
The registration period for all courses offered by the IBSS Chair in the Summer Semester 2025 starts on Tuesday, March 25 at 19:00h via StudOn.
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See you,
IBSS team
