Stephan Rothlin

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Stephan Rothlin (* 1959 in Lachen (SZ) ) is a Swiss business ethicist , Jesuit and lecturer in business ethics at the UIBE ( University of Foreign Economics and Trade ) in Beijing and at St. Joseph's University in Macau . He is also head of the Macau Ricci Institute there . As a business ethicist, Rothlin works in research and teaching as well as in consulting.

Education

After attending grammar school in Einsiedeln and Nuolen , Rothlin studied philosophy and music with a focus on piano at the Scuola di Musica Tommaso Ludovico da Victoria from 1979 to 1981 at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome and at the University of Philosophy in Munich . From 1984 to 1987 Rothlin studied sociology and theology at the Center Sèvres and medical ethics at the Center Laennec in Paris . From 1988 to 1992 Rothlin studied economics, philosophy and business ethics at the University of Innsbruck and received his doctorate in 1991 on the subject of justice in freedom: Representation and critical appreciation of the concept of justice in the thinking of Friedrich August von Hayek .

Professional and scientific commitment

From 1992 to 1998 Rothlin headed the Akademikerhaus in Zurich . Since 1998 he has lived and worked in Beijing, Hong Kong and Macau, where, together with colleagues, he founded associations and research centers to promote business ethics.

From 2004 to 2013 Rothlin was Secretary General of the CIBE (Center for International Business Ethics) at the University of International Business and Economy (UIBE) in Beijing. In 2013 he founded his own consulting company Rothlin Ltd in Hong Kong and Beijing to research business ethics in Asia and to disseminate the insights gained from it.

Since 1999 Rothlin has been giving guest lectures at the University of Madras in Chennai (India), the University of Texas at San Antonio , the KEDGE Business School in Bordeaux, the Insead Business School in Singapore, and the Catholic Fu-Jen University in Taipei and at numerous Chinese universities ( Renmin University , Tsinghua University , Hong Kong University ). He works as a research assistant at the University of Zurich and at the CREMA (Center for Research in Economics) at the University of Basel.

His book " Becoming a top-notch player: 18 rules of international business ethics ", published in Chinese and English in 2004, gives an insight into issues of international business ethics as well as working conditions and labor law in a Chinese context.

It pays tribute to the cultural heritage of Asia in particular the wisdom traditions of China from the context of Confucianism , Buddhism , Daoism , Islam and Christianity for the foundation of business ethics and is at the same time firmly rooted in Western philosophy and social ethics . His engagement as a business ethicist is not limited to the investigation of China, but also analyzes the intercontinental interdependencies of globalization. Stephan Rothlin is convinced that China not only has great economic potential, but can also become a driving force in the field of ethics.

Stephan Rothlin works in Switzerland, among other things, with regular, public lectures by the Ladanyi Association for Business Ethics, which was founded in 2008 and organizes lectures on business ethics with a focus on the Asian region.

Fonts

  • Stephan Rothlin with Dennis McCann: International business ethics: focus on China , Springer, Heidelberg 2016, ISBN 978-3-662-47433-4 .
  • Stephan Rothlin with Peter Acht: Beijing Night Talks: God and the World in China , Fromm Verlag, Beau Bassin 2018, ISBN 978-620-2-44057-8 .
  • Stephan Rothlin with Parissa Haghirian (ed.): Dimensions of Teaching Business Ethics in Asia , Springer, Berlin Heidelberg, 2013, ISBN 978-3-642-36021-3 .
  • Stephan Rothlin: Becoming a top-notch player: 18 rules of international business ethics , Renmin University Press, Beijing 2004, ISBN 7-300-05326-2 .
  • Stephan Rothlin: Justice in freedom: Presentation and critical appreciation of the concept of justice in thinking by Friedrich August von Hayek , Lang, Frankfurt am Main, Bern 1992, ISBN 3-631-44675-6 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Biography ( Memento of the original from August 28, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. from: riccimac.org, accessed August 30, 2016 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.riccimac.org
  2. ↑ Stephan Rothlin: Justice in Freedom: Presentation and critical appreciation of the concept of justice in thinking by Friedrich August von Hayek , Lang, Frankfurt am Main, Bern 1992, cf. Information on the back cover
  3. ↑ a b Profile on: ladanyi.ch, accessed on August 30, 2016
  4. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from August 28, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / en.rothlin.org
  5. ↑ http://www.crema-research.ch/fellows.htm
  6. ↑ a b Stephan Rothlin: Becoming a top-notch player: 18 rules of international business ethics , Renmin University Press, Beijing 2004, Stephan Rothlin with Dennis McCann: International business ethics: focus on China , Springer, Heidelberg 2016
  7. ↑ Lecture archive at: ladanyi.ch, accessed on August 30, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Rothlin, Stephan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss business ethicist and Jesuit
DATE OF BIRTH 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Laughter (SZ)