Laura Marie Edinger-Schons

Laura Marie Edinger-Schons is a full Professor of Sustainable Business and Chief Sustainability Officer at the University of Hamburg, where she leads research at the intersection of Sustainable Management and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). Her work explores organizational contributions to sustainable development through employee engagement, digital social innovation, and new work paradigms.

• Education: Master's Degree in Economics and Business Management (2001-2007) and Doctoral Degree (2007-2011) from Ruhr-University Bochum
• Academic Positions: Since 2022 at University of Hamburg; 2016-2022 Professor of Sustainable Business at University of Mannheim

Her research focuses on employee sustainability behaviors, corporate digital responsibility, and social entrepreneurship, often contextualized within luxury sectors and digital economies. Recent publications analyze stakeholder democracy, sharing economy ethics, and CSR in urban sustainability projects.

Key trends in her 2018-2022 publications include:

• Measuring social/environmental impacts
• CSR communication via social media
• Psychological ownership in urban data transparency
• Normative feedback for pro-environmental behavior

Awards include:

• 2014 Overall Best Paper Award (AMA Winter Conference)
• 2016 German Science Prize for industry collaboration
• 2018 Roman Herzog Research Prize
• 2019 Capital Magazine's Top 40 under 40

As advisor to doctoral student Lisa Pfeiffer, she supervises projects like sMArt roots (Mannheim urban sustainability impact measurement). Her work spans grants for digital responsibility research and collaborations with marketing/sociology disciplines.