Laasch Oliver | ESCP Business School

Oliver Laasch

Full Professor of Responsible Management

Department : Sustainability
Campus : Berlin

Oliver is a chaired professor of Responsible Management at ESCP in Berlin, and an adjunct professor in social entrepreneurship at the University of Manchester. He has previously held full-time academic roles at the University of Nottingham Ningbo campus (China), the Tecnológico de Monterrey (Mexico), and Seoul National University (South Korea), as well as visiting positions at the University of Tübingen’s Global Ethic Institute and Copenhagen Business School. Oliver’s research interests lie in responsible management, alternative business models, dis-ruptive activism, research philosophy, and qualitative methods.

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Oliver is a chaired professor of Responsible Management at ESCP in Berlin, and an adjunct professor in social entrepreneurship at the University of Manchester. He has previously held full-time academic roles at the University of Nottingham Ningbo campus (China), the Tecnológico de Monterrey (Mexico), and Seoul National University (South Korea), as well as visiting positions at the University of Tübingen’s Global Ethic Institute and Copenhagen Business School. Oliver’s research interests lie in responsible management, alternative business models, dis-ruptive activism, research philosophy, and qualitative methods. His work has been published in journals such as Academy of Management Learning and Education, British Journal of Management, Journal of Management Education, Long Range Planning, Organization Stud-ies, Organization and Environment, and the Journal of Business Ethics. Oliver is a pioneer of the United Nations Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME) initiative. His bestselling textbooks have been translated into five languages. Oliver has served as an Associate Editor of Academy of Management Learning and Education, an editorial board member of Long Range Planning and the British Journal of Management. He has edited special issues for the British Journal of Management, Journal of Business Ethics, Organization and Environment, Journal of Management Education, and over 40 books, in-cluding the Research Handbook of Responsible Management and the Sage Handbook of Re-sponsible Management Learning and Education. Oliver has contributed extensively to practitioner outlets, such as Harvard Business Review, Forbes, Times Higher Education, and The Conversation. He has worked as a coach and con-sultant with dozens of companies and universities in staff and faculty development. He has also designed and taught a variety of full courses at bachelor, master, PhD, and executive education levels, including blended and massive open online courses such as the Coursera MOOC “Managing Responsibly”, with an enrolment of around 40,000 students.

PUBLICATIONS

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15 publications

Academic Articles

2025

LAASCH, O., G. HODGKINSON, M. A. GAZI, S. HAYWARD

Addressing the crises of modern-day capitalism through responsible management: A call for multidomain microfoundations research

ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT DISCOVERIES, 11(1), 9-16

Academic Articles

2024

LAASCH, O.

Corporate Sustainability: Managing responsible business in a globalized world

ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT LEARNING AND EDUCATION, 23 (2), 360-362

Academic Articles

2024

LAASCH, O., C. MCLEAN, J. AROLES

Responsible Management-as-Process of Smoothing–Striating

JOURNAL OF BUSINESS ETHICS

Books

2024

LAASCH, O., A. HOPE

Responsible Business

Taylor and Francis

Books

2024

LAASCH, O.

Principles of Business and Management : Practicing Ethics, Responsibility, Sustainability (3rd edition)

Sage, 968

Media

2024

LAASCH, O., T. WERNINK

Why Companies Should Embrace Disruptive Climate Activism

Harvard Business Review

Other Intellectual Contributions

2024

LAASCH, O., T. WERNINK

Win-Win - Disruptiven Klimaaktivismus einbinden statt ausgrenzen!

HARVARD BUSINESS MANAGER, 45, 32-36

Academic Articles

2023

LAASCH, O., D. MOOSMAYER, E. ANTONACOPOULOU

The Interdisciplinary Responsible Management Competence Framework: An Integrative Review of Ethics, Responsibility, and Sustainability Competences

JOURNAL OF BUSINESS ETHICS, 187, 733–757

Academic Articles

2023

PINKSE, J., F. LÜDEKE-FREUND, O. LAASCH, Y. SNIHUR, R. BOHNSACK

The Organizational Dynamics of Business Models for Sustainability: Discursive and Cognitive Pathways for Change

ORGANIZATION AND ENVIRONMENT, 36 (2), 211-227

Academic Articles

2023

LAASCH, O., P. HIBBERT, A. CAZA, D. M. CORAIOLA, M. GERHARDT, D. GREENBERG, D. LINDEBAUM, C. RIGG, O. RYAZANOVA, A. L. WRIGHT

Why be an editor?

ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT LEARNING AND EDUCATION, 22(4), 569-573

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