Dr. Thomas Beschorner

Economist, *1970

• 1986-1989 professional training in wholesale and foreign trade
  
  
• 1991-1997 studies of economics and management at the University of Kassel, Germany, the National University of Ireland

• 1998-2001 doctoral student at the Max Weber Centre for Advanced Studies, University of Erfurt, Germany

• 2000-2001 postdoc fellow (Concordia University) and visiting prof. (Dawson College), Montreal, Canada
  
  
• 2002 - 2007 head of the GELENA-research group on societal learning and sustainability, University of Oldenburg, Germany
  
  
• 2003-2005 visiting-fellow at the Centre de Recherche en Éthique de l'Université de Montreal (CRÉUM), Canada
  
  
• 2005-2006 visiting professor, department of sociology, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
  
  
• Since 2006 Fellow of the IÖW
  
  
• Since 2007 professor at the Centre de Recherche en Éthique de l’Université de Montréal

Key issues

Theory of action and institutionalism, Evolutionary and cultural economics, Theory of the firm, Corporate environmental management, Business ethics

Selected publications of Dr. Thomas Beschorner