Dr. Marc Oberhauser is an Associate Professor in the Department of Management at ESCP Business School, Madrid. He is also affiliated as a postdoctoral researcher with the Department of International Management at Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany. Marc is an active member of the Academy of International Business (AIB) and currently serves as Vice President of the AIB Sustainability Shared Interest Group.

Marc’s research spans two core pillars. The first focuses on integrating sustainability into the International Business (IB) domain, with particular emphasis on social and environmental issues in global value chains (GVCs), including human rights violations. The second addresses global challenges such as geopolitical tensions, violent conflicts, and sanction regimes, and their influence on multinational enterprises. His work has been published in renowned peer-reviewed journals, including International Business Review and Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management. Marc also contributes to the academic community as an ad hoc reviewer for journals such as Journal of International Management, Journal of Management Education, and Business Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility (BEER).

At ESCP Business School, Marc teaches courses on Global Challenges, Intercultural Management, and Sustainability Management across various programmes, including the PhD programme and Executive Education.

Marc holds a doctoral degree in Business Administration and Management from Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany.

 

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Academic Articles

2025

COEURDEROY, R., S. BALDERMANN, V. DUPLAT, M. OBERHAUSER, S. SCHMID

AFTER GLOBALISATION? THE FUTURE OF EUROPEAN MULTINATIONALS IN AN ERA OF GEOPOLITICAL UNCERTAINTY

EUROPEAN MANAGEMENT JOURNAL

Academic Articles

2025

OBERHAUSER, M., M. RAPIOR

Human Rights Violations in Global Value Chains: A Locally Grounded Governance Framework

JOURNAL OF BUSINESS ETHICS

Chapters

2025

OBERHAUSER, M., Z. WANG

From Corporate Diplomacy to Quasi-Sovereign Corporate Power: Geopolitical Competition and the Reshaping of the Global Order

In: Impacts of Geoeconomics and Geopolitics on International Business, Bryan Christiansen (Southern New Hampshire University, USA) and John D. Branch (University of Michigan, USA) IGI Global

ESCP Impact Papers

2025

OBERHAUSER, M., L. KIRSTE, H. VOSS

HUMAN RIGHTS IN SUPPLY CHAINS: BEYOND CORPORATE COMPLIANCE

ESCP Impact Papers, 24-25

ESCP Impact Papers

2025

VÖLKER, D., M. OBERHAUSER

Agentic AI: the next frontier in autonomous enterprise systems

ESCP Impact Papers, 2025-32-EN

Academic Articles

2024

OBERHAUSER, M., M. CONRAD, D. HOLTBRÜGGE

Apologize or deny? How companies defend legitimacy of Wall street, Main street, and Market street after corporate misconduct

CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY AND ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT.

Academic Articles

2024

OBERHAUSER, M.

The Chinese belt and road initiative: development project with strings attached?

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENT ISSUES, 23 (2), 212-244

Academic Articles

2024

OBERHAUSER, M., L. KIRSTE, D. HOLTBRÜGGE

What drives the dissemination of CSR practices in global value chains? An institutional and psychological perspective

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS REVIEW, 33 (1)

Conference Proceedings

2024

OBERHAUSER, M., V. , M. LIMA, P. CHAMAKIOTIS

The Socio-Environmental Impact of NFTs: Digital Technologies and the Capitalocene

Australasian Conference on Information Systems

ESCP Impact Papers

2024

OBERHAUSER, M., L. KIRSTE, H. VOSS

Human rights violations in global value chains – Four non-state measures for better protection

ESCP Impact Papers, 2024-33-EN