Editors

About the Editor

Alexander Brink

 Alexander Brink, born in Düsseldorf in 1970, is Professor of Business Ethics at Bayreuth University. He is Co-founder and Partner of the concern GmbH, a Corporate Responsibility Management Consultancy and P & E spin-off located in Cologne and Bayreuth.

Alexander Brink holds degrees in both in Economics and in Philosophy. He received a PhD in Philosophy from the Ruhr-Uni­ver­sity of Bochum and a PhD in Economics from the Private University of Witten/Herdecke (1999-2001). After a research visit at Yale University, he was Juniorprofessor of Applied Ethics at Philosophy & Economics in Bayreuth from 2002 until 2008. He was Visiting Professor of Corporate Governance & Philosophy at the Private University of Witten/Herdecke from 2002 until 2008.

His professional experience covers various projects at Mannesmann, Degussa und SKW Trostberg in Germany, in the United States and in Australia. His publication list includes more than 20 books and over 300 contributions to edited volumes and journals.

Jacob Dahl Rendtorff

 Jacob Dahl Rendtorff, PhD and Dr. Scient. Adm. is professor of philosophy of management at the Department of Business and Social Sciences, Roskilde University, Denmark. Rendtorff’s research has a broad perspective on organization theory, management, responsibility, ethics and legitimacy of business firms and corporations, corporate social responsibility, business ethics, sustainability, bioethics and biolaw, human rights, political theory and philosophy of law. Rendtorff is educated in philosophy and political sciences in Copenhagen, Paris and Berlin, and he has been visiting professor in many universities (Utrecht, Rome, Freiburg, Boston, Stanford, Santa Clara, Louvain, Shanghai, Besancon, Paris, and Tubingen). Rendtorff has written and edited on issues of existentialism and hermeneutics, French philosophy, ethics, bioethics, business ethics and philosophy of management as well as philosophy of law. Rendtorff’s recent publications are Handbook of Business Legitimacy, Springer 2020, Philosophy of Management and Sustainability, Emerald 2019, Cosmopolitan Business Ethics. Towards a Global Ethos of Management, Routledge 2017 and Stakeholder Theory a Model for Strategic Management, Springer 2016. Rendtorff is a member of the steering committee of the European Business Ethics Network (EBEN) and of the Steering Committee of FISP (International Federation of Philosophical Societies). Rendtorff is editor of the Springer Series Ethical Economy, associate editor of Social Responsibility Journal (Emerald) and European editor of Journal of Business Ethics Education. Presently, Rendtorff’ s main research interests are philosophy of management, stakeholder theory, sustainability, CSR, and cosmopolitan business ethics.