Florian Lüdeke-Freund is Professor for Corporate Sustainability at ESCP Business School, Berlin, Germany, where he holds the Chair for Corporate Sustainability. He is a Research Fellow at ESCP’s SustBusy Research Center and Leuphana University’s Centre for Sustainability Management (CSM). He also was a Research Fellow at the Governing Responsible Business Research Environment at Copenhagen Business School (CBS), Denmark. Prior to joining ESCP Business School, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Hamburg and earned a PhD in social sciences and economics from Leuphana University.

Florian’s research and teaching deal with corporate sustainability management, sustainable entrepreneurship, sustainable business models, and values-based innovation. As well as publishing numerous journal articles, books, and book chapters on these topics, he is Editorial Board Member at Organization & Environment and Co-Editor of several journal special issues (e.g., Business & Society, Organization & Environment, Journal of Cleaner Production, Int. Journal of Innovation Management, Journal of Business Models). Florian founded www.SustainableBusinessModel.org as an international research hub with 25 members from more than 10 countries, and he is an active supporter of the Strongly Sustainable Business Model Group at OCAD University, Toronto, Canada. He has been a Visiting Researcher at the Universities of St. Gallen (Switzerland), Stellenbosch (South Africa), and Copenhagen Business School (Denmark). In 2020, Florian was called to join Germany’s Circular Economy Initiative, led by the National Academy of Science and Engineering.

Chair website: https://escp.eu/berlin/berlin-academic-chairs/chair-corporate-sustainability

Personal website: https://luedekefreund.com

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Academic Articles

2024

LÜDEKE-FREUND, F., T. FROESE, K. DEMBEK, F. ROSATI, L. MASSA

What Makes a Business Model Sustainable? Activities, Design Themes, and Value Functions

ORGANIZATION AND ENVIRONMENT, 37 (2)

Conference Proceedings

2024

REMKE, K., C. SECKLER, F. LÜDEKE-FREUND

Design-oriented Research in Entrepreneurship: A Methodological Review

Academy of Management (AoM)

ESCP Impact Papers

2024

FROESE, T., F. LÜDEKE-FREUND, F. HOFMANN, M. RICHTER

How Organisations Can Engage in Degrowth-oriented Value Creation

ESCP Impact Papers, 2024-60-EN

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ESCP Impact Papers

2024

LÜDEKE-FREUND, F., C. WALDNER, A. SHEVCHENKO, J. BREAUGH

Towards sustainability transformation education: A mindset course for decision-makers Developed by ESCP’s STAR Centre

ESCP Impact Papers, 2024-8-EN

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Academic Articles

2023

FICHTER, K., F. LÜDEKE-FREUND, S. SCHALTEGGER, S. J. D. SCHILLEBEECKX

Sustainability impact assessment of new ventures:An emerging field of research

JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION, Vol. 384, Art. 135452

Academic Articles

2023

FROESE, T., M. RICHTER, F. HOFMANN, F. LÜDEKE-FREUND

Degrowth-oriented organisational value creation: A systematic literature review of case studies

ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS, 207, 107765

Academic Articles

2023

DEMBEK, K., F. LÜDEKE-FREUND, F. ROSATI, T. FROESE

Untangling Business Model Outcomes, Impacts and Value

BUSINESS STRATEGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT, 32 (4), 2296-2311

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

SHELDON, R., C., F. LÜDEKE-FREUND

Business with a mission: Introducing sustainability entrepreneurship

ENTREPRENDRE ET INNOVER, 54(1), 16-26

Academic Articles

2023

SHELDON, R., C., F. LÜDEKE-FREUND, S. REBOUD, X. LESAGE

A New Role for Entrepreneurship

ENTREPRENDRE ET INNOVER, 54(1), 10-15