
Florian Lüdeke-Freund is a Professor of Corporate Sustainability at ESCP Business School, Berlin. He is the Founder and Academic Director of the MSc program in Sustainability Entrepreneurship & Innovation.
Florian co-founded the ESCP STAR Centre for Sustainability Transformation & Applied Research, which serves as a platform for science-practice transfer. He is a Senior Research Fellow at the Borderstep Institute for Innovation and Sustainability, Berlin, and has held guest positions at the University of St. Gallen (Switzerland), Stellenbosch University (South Africa), and Copenhagen Business School (Denmark). He frequently gives lectures and guest talks at international universities and business schools.
For over fifteen years, Florian’s research and teaching have focused on corporate sustainability management, sustainable entrepreneurship, and sustainable business models. He is an Associate Editor at Business Strategy and the Environment and the Journal of Business Models, as well as a member of the Editorial Review Board of Organization & Environment. With numerous highly cited publications on sustainable business models, he is a key contributor to the development of this field.
Chair website: https://escp.eu/berlin/berlin-academic-chairs/chair-corporate-sustainability
Personal website: https://luedekefreund.com
Academic Articles
2024
Sustainable Business Model Design
JOURNAL OF BUSINESS MODELS, 12 (1), 115-132
Academic Articles
2024
What Makes a Business Model Sustainable? Activities, Design Themes, and Value Functions
ORGANIZATION AND ENVIRONMENT, 37 (2)
Conference Proceedings
2024
Design-oriented Research in Entrepreneurship: A Methodological Review
Academy of Management (AoM)
ESCP Impact Papers
2024
Towards sustainability transformation education: A mindset course for decision-makers Developed by ESCP’s STAR Centre
ESCP Impact Papers, 2024-8-EN
ESCP Impact Papers
2024
How Organisations Can Engage in Degrowth-oriented Value Creation
ESCP Impact Papers, 2024-60-EN
Academic Articles
2023
Business with a mission: Introducing sustainability entrepreneurship
ENTREPRENDRE ET INNOVER, 54(1), 16-26
Academic Articles
2023
Sustainability impact assessment of new ventures:An emerging field of research
JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION, Vol. 384, Art. 135452
Academic Articles
2023
Degrowth-oriented organisational value creation: A systematic literature review of case studies
ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS, 207, 107765
Academic Articles
2023
Untangling Business Model Outcomes, Impacts and Value
BUSINESS STRATEGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT, 32 (4), 2296-2311
Academic Articles
2023
The Organizational Dynamics of Business Models for Sustainability: Discursive and Cognitive Pathways for Change
ORGANIZATION AND ENVIRONMENT, 36 (2), 211-227