Current oikos PhD Fellows

Lars Stein (1979) joined oikos as a PhD Fellow in October 2006. His research focuses on discoursive practices of organizational sustainability, which he examines in several parallel field studies with corporations engaged in social and environmental sustainability. With a constructivist view and a strong inclination with social systems theory, Lars Stein analyses the development and change of organizational rationalities that enable sustainable entrepreneurship and management (Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Johannes Rüegg-Stürm).

As oikos PhD Fellow he works on the establishment of an effective oikos Alumni network and supports active oikos members by means of individual and group coaching. His coaching skills and methods build on extensive experience he gained in several consulting projects during his undergraduate and the first two years of PhD studies.

Contact: stein@dont-want-spam.oikosinternational.org

Martin Herrndorf (1981) started his studies as an oikos PhD Fellow in February 2008. His research focus is on sustainable business innovations in the consumption arena in developing countries, combining a strategic management perspective with an analysis of their development contribution. Within oikos he is engaged on internal and external communication projects, strengthening the impact and visibility of oikos among key stakeholders.

As a researcher at the UNEP / Wuppertal Institute Collaborating Centre on Sustainable Consumption (Germany), he worked for clients like UNEP, the European Commission, the European Parliament, various government ministries and NGOs. Martin contributed to various high-profile publications and conferences like the UN-ESCAP Green Growth Summit. He graduated from the University of Cologne (Germany) in economics and political science in May 2006. He wrote his thesis on “Greening SMEs in developing countries” in collaboration with the National Institute of Ecology (Mexico). He worked as a free-lance journalist and editor for various media and was the founding director of a web service agency, which he continues to consult as a freelancer. He is further affiliated with the emergia institute (www.emergia.de).

To find out more about Martin, read about his thoughts and projects on www.herrndorf.de.

Contact: Herrndorf@dont-want-spam.oikosinternational.org

Nina Hug (1982) was appointed as oikos PhD fellow in September 2007 and started her PhD studies in February 2008. Nina’s research focus is on organizations’ internal communication processes accompanying change processes to-wards coherent sustainability strategies. She is carrying out her research within the research programme “public value management” at the Centre for Social Enterprise. Nina is supervised by Prof. Miriam Meckel, head of the media and communications management department (mcminstitute) at the University of St.Gallen.

As oikos PhD Fellow Nina establishes the oikos Project Leadership Programme that fosters sustainability entrepreneurship among oikos students. Nina holds a Master of Arts in Political Science (major), Journalism (minor) and Nature Protection (minor) from the University of Ham-burg.

In 2007 Nina was President of oikos International and co-organized the oikos Conference and the oikos Spring and Autumn Meeting. In 2006 she was the Head of the organizing committee of the “Hamburg Climate Days Conference” (www.hamburger-klimatage.de). While studying she gained professional experience as a freelance journalist.

Contact: hug@dont-want-spam.oikosinternational.org