Sustainable Management

Prof. Dr rer. pol. Georg Müller-Christ, born in 1963, holds the Chair of Sustainable Management at the University of Bremen, Department of Economics. In his scientific works he pursues a research concept as to whether the requirements of a sustainable development can be connected to entrepreneurial decision routines. From 2008 until 2011 he served the University of Bremen as a Vice-rector for study affairs. Since 2009 he is a member of the working group for Sustainability in Higher Education Institutions, working on the integration of the UN-Sustainable Development Goals into research and teaching of universities. Since 2014 Georg Müller-Christ is introducing the system constellation method into science.

• Introduction.- The Essence for Quick Readers.- Understanding Sustainability: Sustainability and Society.- Quo Vadis, Environmental Management?.- Quo Vadis, Social Responsibility?.- Sustainability as Economic Rationality.- Theoretical Impulses: A Theory of Management Ecology.- Dominant Management Rationalities and the Necessary  Improvements for a More Sustainable Management.- Coping with Contradictions as Core Problem of Modern and Sustainability-Oriented Management Studies.- Sustainable Resource Management: The Use of the Term "Resource" in Management Studies.- Salutogenesis as Heuristic for Resource-oriented Management Studies.- Sustainability and the Wrangling of Decision-Making Premises.- Sustainable Leadership: Strengthening the Resource Competence.- Sustainability Check: Getting Started with Systematic Sustainable Management.- Sustainability Management 4.0: An Integral Perspective.- The Ability to Tell a Transformative Story of Sustainable Development.