Alexander Brink

Alexander Brink (born March 9, 1970 in Düsseldorf ) is a German economist and philosopher . He is professor of business and business ethics at the University of Bayreuth and founder and partner of concern GmbH, a management consultancy specializing in corporate governance, responsibility and sustainability based in Cologne and Bayreuth .

Live and act

Alexander Brink is the son of Gudrun and Günter Brink. He attended the Albert-Martmöller-Gymnasium in Witten. After graduating from high school in 1989, he did community service in the Lutherhaus retirement and nursing home in Witten-Bommern. Until 1990 he was responsible for the care and maintenance of inpatient heavy nursing cases and he worked there as a geriatric nurse until 2002.

Alexander Brink began studying economics at the Ruhr University in Bochum , which he completed in 1996 with a degree in economics, as well as studying philosophy , psychology and business administration , which he completed in 1998 with a master's degree. He then did his doctorate in philosophy and economics within three years. phil. at the University of Bochum (1999) and Dr. rer. pole. at the University of Witten / Herdecke (2001). In the meantime he had a research stay in 1997 at the American Yale University in New Haven. He also worked for companies such as Mannesmann in Wetter in 1992, in Sydney in 1994 and in New York in 1997 and held doctoral positions at the Bavarian chemical company Trostberg AG from 2000 to 2001 and at Degussa AG in Düsseldorf from 2001 to 2002 . He gained practical experience in the areas of corporate development, corporate strategy, controlling, finance and sales.

From 2002 to 2008 Alexander Brink, who until then was a lecturer at the University of Witten / Herdecke, was appointed one of the first junior professors in Bavaria at the University of Bayreuth . He represented applied ethics in the Bachelor and Master programs of the interdisciplinary and excellent reform course Philosophy & Economics. Alexander Brink has been a full professor of business and business ethics in the philosophy department of the Faculty of Cultural Studies since 2008 . As a visiting professor for corporate governance & philosophy, he also taught at the Reinhard Mohn Institute (RMI) at the University of Witten / Herdecke from 2008 to 2016 . He previously worked at the Institute for Corporate Governance (ICG) there for two years.

In 2010 Alexander Brink founded the consulting company concern GmbH, based in Cologne and later in Bayreuth. As a spin-off of the Philosophy & Economics course at the University of Bayreuth, concern was one of the first corporate governance, responsibility and sustainability consultancies in Germany. The services extend to the fields of strategy, marketing and sales, corporate responsibility and digitization.

Since 2010, Alexander Brink has also been a lecturer at the Wuppertal / Bethel Church University as part of a doctoral program for the qualification of managers in companies in the social economy and the church. He has also been a lecturer in the Executive Master for Family Entrepreneurship at the Zeppelin University in Friedrichshafen since 2011 . He was the scientific director of the Center for Business Ethics (ZfW) in Berlin from 2013 to 2019.

Alexander Brink has 16 active memberships, which extend across associations, networks, forums, societies, institutes and clubs. Since 1996 he has been a member of the European Business Ethics Network (EBEN) and the German Network for Business Ethics eV (DNWE). In 2000 he became a member of the Schmalenbach Society (SBG). In addition, he has been a member of the European Society for Research in Ethics (Societas Ethica) since 2004, a member of the Verein für Socialpolitik (VFS) since 2007 and a member of the Research Center for Family Businesses (FoFamU) since 2014.

Research, teaching and advice

Alexander Brink researches and teaches at the University of Bayreuth on the subjects of corporate governance , corporate responsibility and sustainability. He developed a normative theory of enterprise based on promises and advocates a cooperation economy in the fourth sector. He also advises companies on value positioning and the ethics of artificial intelligence . He is also a co-initiator of the FAIRE Consulting initiative for savings banks and cooperative banks.

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Alexander Brink has published around 20 books and over 300 articles. He is co-editor of the international series Ethical Economy, Studies in Economic Ethics and Philosophy (Springer) and the series Diakoniewwissenschaft und Diakoniemanagement (Nomos). He is also on the editorial board of the magazine for business and business ethics (Nomos). As an expert, he appraises around a dozen leading national and international journals.

As an author - monographs

• Holistic shareholder value management. A regulatory idea for global management in ethical responsibility , 2000, ISBN 3-87988-468-4 (also Diss. Bochum 1999 ud T .: Ethics and corporate management )
• VBR - Value-Based-Responsibility. Theoretical approach to the integration of ethical aspects in value-oriented corporate management , 2002, ISBN 3-87988-622-9 (also Diss. Witten-Herdecke 2001)
• Management philosophy. Thoughts on a normative theory of the enterprise (series: Institutionelle und Evolutorische Ökonomik , Vol. 36), 2011, ISBN 3-89518-866-2

As editor - edited volumes

• Ethics and Finance, Re.Think Series Vol. IV, Bayreuth: University of Bayreuth (together with D. Rohrmann and in cooperation with Deutsche Bank AG) (2016)
• The Corporate Network, Re.Think Series Vol. II, Bayreuth: University of Bayreuth (together with D. Rohrmann and in cooperation with NOKIA AG) (2014)
• Investing Society, Re.Think Series Vol. III, Bayreuth: University of Bayreuth (together with D. Rohrmann and in cooperation with the management consultancy Das Integral) (2013)
• Corporate Governance and Business Ethics, Series: Ethical Economy. Studies in Economic Ethics and Philosophy (SEEP), Vol. 39, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, Tokyo: Springer (2011)
• Business ethics. Research perspectives on determining the relationship between companies and society, series: Ethik und Ökonomik, Vol. 4, Marburg: Metropolis (together with OJ Schumann and T. Beschorner) (2010)
• The Organization, Re.Think Series Vol. I, Bayreuth: University of Bayreuth (together with D. Rohrmann and in cooperation with NOKIA AG) (2010)
• Leadership in social organizations, series: Social investments, Vol. 2, Wiesbaden: VS Verlag (together with J. Eurich) (2009)
• Justice in Health Care, Series: Sozialpolitische Schriften, SPS 88, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot (together with J. Eurich, J .; Hädrich, A .; Langer and P. Schröder) (2006)
• Differential ethics - applications in medicine, economics and politics, series: Ethik in der Praxis, Vol. 2, Münster, London: Lit (together with E. Baumann and AT May) (2006)
• Incentive versus Virtue? Characteristics of modern business ethics, series: Strategisches Management, Bd. 21, Hamburg: Dr. Kovac (together with J. Eurich and C. Giersch) (2005)
• Ethical management: The value-oriented executive code, Bern, Stuttgart, Vienna: Haupt (together with VA Tiberius) (2005)
• Social institutions between market and morality. Management and action contexts, Wiesbaden: VS Verlag (together with J. Eurich, J. Hädrich, A. Langer and P. Schröder) (2005)
• Business ethics in turbulent times. Business guide on ethics in management, Bern, Stuttgart, Vienna: Haupt (together with O. Karitzki) (2004)
• Philosophical Openness in Bioethics, Series: Experience and Thinking, Vol. 94, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot (together with E. Baumann, AT May, P. Schröder and C. Schutzeichel) (2004)
• Business Ethics as Critical Social Science, Bern, Stuttgart, Vienna: Haupt (together with OJ Schumann and M. Breuer) (2003)

As editor - book and magazine series

• Editor of the Diakoniewwissenschaft und Diakoniemanagement series, Baden-Baden: Nomos, 7 volumes published so far (together with M. Benad, M. Büscher, B. Hofmann, U. Krolzik and D. Starnitzke), http: //www.nomos-shop .de / reihenpopup.aspx? reihe = 521 (since 2013)
• Editor of the Ethical Economy series. Studies in Economic Ethics and Philosophy (SEEP), Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, Tokyo: Springer has so far published 54 volumes (together with JD Rendtorff) (Advisory Board: JM Buchanan, C. Cowton, RT De George, T. Donaldson, J. Elster, A. Etzioni, M. Haase, P. van Parijs and J. Wieland), www.springer.com/series/2881 (Advisory Board 2007 to 2011, editor since 2012)
• Editor of the series for business and business ethics (sfwu), Munich, Mering: Hampp, 23 volumes published so far (together with T. Beschorner, M. Schmidt, W. Schmidt and OJ Schumann) (2005 to 2012)
• Editor of the Zeitschrift für Wirtschafts- und Unternehmensethik (zfwu), Journal for Business, Economics & Ethics, Munich, Baden-Baden: Nomos (until 2016 Mering: Hampp) (together with T. Beschorner, M. Breuer [retired], B. Hollstein, M. Hübscher and OJ Schumann [retired]), http://www.zfwu.nomos.de (since 2000)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ management. In: Wirtschafts- & Unternehmensethik Bayreuth. Retrieved June 9, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Prof. Dr. Dr. Alexander Brink. Retrieved June 12, 2019 . 
3. ↑ management. In: Wirtschafts- & Unternehmensethik Bayreuth. Retrieved June 12, 2019 . 
4. ^ Value Consulting ›concern GmbH, Cologne. Retrieved June 12, 2019 . 
5. ↑ Lecturers - Institute for Diaconal Science and Diaconal Management. Retrieved June 12, 2019 . 
6. ↑ Executive Master for Family Entrepreneurship | Profile. Retrieved June 12, 2019 . 
7. ^ Anke Kettler: ZfW. In: DNWE. Retrieved on August 20, 2019 (German). 
8. ↑ management. In: Wirtschafts- & Unternehmensethik Bayreuth. Retrieved June 12, 2019 . 
9. ↑ Main research areas. In: Wirtschafts- & Unternehmensethik Bayreuth. Retrieved June 12, 2019 . 
10. ↑ FAIRE ADVICE initiative Financial services - transparent, individual, understandable | Welcome. Retrieved June 12, 2019 .