Tobias Hahn

Education

• PhD in Economics and Social Science. Leuphana University of Lüneburg
• Master of Environmental Science. Leuphana University of Lüneburg

Areas of interest

• Business Sustainability
• Corporate Social Responsibility
• Paradox
• Stakeholder management
• Strategy

Tobias holds a PhD in Economic and Social Sciences from and a Master Degree in Environmental Science from the University of Lüneburg, Germany. Prior to joining ESADE he was professor in a business school in France and a project manager in a non-profit research institute in Germany. His main areas of expertise are in corporate sustainability and organizational paradox. His main research areas are tensions and paradoxes in corporate sustainability and CSR, sustainability performance assessment, corporate sustainability strategies, and stakeholder behavior.

His work as been published in journals such as Academy of Management Review, Organization Studies, Ecological Economics, International Journal of Production Economics, Journal of Business Ethics, Business & Society, Organization & Environment, and Business Strategy and the Environment. Tobias is Deputy Editor of the journal Organization & Environment and Associate Editor of the journal Business & Society. He also serves as an editorial board member for the journals Academy of Management Review, Journal of Management, Organization Studies, Long Range Planning, and Business Strategy and the Environment. From 2016 to 2020, Tobias was the president of the Group for Research on Organizations and the Natural Environment (GRONEN).

Selected publications

• Hahn, T., Sharma, G. & Glavas, A. (2023). Employee-CSR tensions: Drivers of employee (Dis)engagement with contested CSR initiatives. Journal of Management Studies.
• Hahn, T. & Pinkse, J. (2022). A paradox approach to sustainable product-service systems. Industrial Marketing Management, 2022 (105), pp. 182-189.
• Hahn, T. (2022). Salir de la zona de confort. Harvard Deusto Management & Innovation, (45), pp. 30-33.
• Figge, F. & Hahn, T. (2021). Business- and environment-related drivers of firms' return on natural resources: A configurational approach. Long Range Planning, 54 (4), 102066.
• Hahn, T. & Tampe, M. (2021). Strategies for regenerative business. Strategic Organization, 19 (3), pp. 456-477.
• Preuss, L., Pinkse, J., Hahn, T. & Figge, F. (2021). Travelled roads and novel vistas: Taking stock of empirical studies into tensions in business sustainability. In T. Maak, N. Pless & M. Orlitzky (Eds.),S. Sandhu, Routledge companion to corporate social responsibility, pp. 342-354. Routledge.
• Hahn, T. & Knight, E. (2021). A Quantum approach to paradox entails neither preexisting tensions nor asymmetry: Response to Xin Li. Academy of Management Review, 46 (2), pp. 415-419.
• Hahn, T. & Knight, E. (2021). The ontology of organizational paradox: A quantum approach. Academy of Management Review, 46 (2), pp. 362-384.