Biographical note

René Schmidpeter is an internationally recognized CSR strategist, thought leader and author. He holds a research professorship at Bern University of Applied Sciences (BFH), Switzerland, and is professor for Sustainable Management at the International University of Applied Sciences (IUBH) in Munich (Germany), visiting professor at the University of Management and Economics (ISM) in Vilnius (Lithuania,) and an academic member of the interdisciplinary research faculty of the Parmenides Foundation in Munich. Before that, he held the Dr Jürgen Meyer Endowed Chair for International Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility at the Cologne Business School (CBS), Germany. René Schmidpeter is a series editor of the book two series “CSR Management” and  "CSR, Sustainability, Ethics & Governance", Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Corporate Social Responsibility and Editor of the Encyclopedia of Sustainable Management and also the founder of M3TRIX – Institute forSustainable Business Transformation and has advisory positions in national and international think-tanks, sustainability boards and expert commissions.

Reinhard Altenburger is a Professor for Strategic Management, Sustainable Management/CSR and Innovation in the Department of Business at the IMC University of Applied Sciences Krems (Austria). The focus of his research is on the topics "CSR and innovation" and "innovations in family businesses" and also on the connection between social responsibility and corporate strategy.