Dr Ralf Barkemeyer

Lecturer: Corporate Social Responsibility

Telephone number: +44(0) 113 34 37485
Email address: r.barkemeyer@leeds.ac.uk
Room: 10.119

Biography

Ralf is Lecturer in Corporate Social Responsibility and joined the SRI in November 2010. He mainly focuses on the interface of business, environment and society. In particular, he is interested in the impact of contemporary corporate social responsibility related policies and practices in a developing country context. Furthermore, Ralf is interested in the area of value-oriented approaches to measuring and managing corporate sustainability.

Prior to joining SRI, Ralf has been working at the University of St Andrews and Queen's University Management School, Belfast, from where he received his PhD on CSR practices and priorities in developed and developing countries.

Ralf is a member of the Organisations for Sustainable Societies Group (BOSS).

Projects

Current projects

Trends in Sustainability
Seabus - International Research Network on Social and Environmental Aspects in Business and Management

Sustainable Investments and the Sustainable Company
- Value based Sustainability Analysis of Nordic Companies
- Impact of Value on SRI Practice: A Comparison of Financial Professionals & Beneficiaries

Past projects

PhD Supervising

I would be interested in supervising PhDs on topics such as:

Sustainability-related media coverage
The link between the CSR activities of multinational companies and international development
Corporate sustainability performance assessment

Publications

Barkemeyer R; Figge F (2012) Fordlandia: Corporate Citizenship or Corporate Colonialism, CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY AND ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT, 19, pp.69-78. doi: 10.1002/csr.288
Barkemeyer R (2011) Corporate Perceptions of Sustainability Challenges in Developed & Developing Countries: Constituting a CSR Divide?, Social Responsibility Journal, 7, pp.257-281. doi: 10.1108/17471111111141521
Barkemeyer R; Holt D; Preuss L; Tsang S (2011) What Happened to the 'Development' in Sustainable Development? Business Guidelines Two Decades After Brundtland, Sustainable Development, .
Holt D; Barkemeyer R (2011) Media coverage of sustainable development issues - attention cycles or punctuated equilibrium?, Sustainable Development, 20, pp.1-17. doi: 10.1002/sd.1460
Preuss L; Barkemeyer R (2011) CSR priorities of emerging economy firms: Is Russia a different shape of BRIC?, Corporate Governance, 11, pp.371-385.
Hahn T; Figge F; Liesen A; Barkemeyer R (2010) Opportunity cost based analysis of corporate eco-efficiency: A methodology and its application to the CO2-efficiency of German companies, JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT, 91, pp.1997-2007. doi: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2010.05.004
Barkemeyer R; Holt D; Figge F; Napolitano G (2010) Longitudinal and contextual analysis of media representation of business ethics, European Business Review, 22, pp.377-396.
Barkemeyer R; Figge F; Hahn T; Liesen A; Schuler V; Wald E (2009) Zielorientiertes Nachhaltigkeitsmanagement mit dem Sustainable-Value-Ansatz am Beispiel der Automobilindustrie und der BMW Group, In: Schröder RW; Wall F (Ed) Controlling zwischen Shareholder Value und Stakeholder Value, Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag.
Barkemeyer R (2009) Beyond compliance - below expectations? CSR in the context of international development, BUSINESS ETHICS-A EUROPEAN REVIEW, 18, pp.273-289.
Barkemeyer R; Figge F; Hahn T; Holt D (2009) What the Papers Say: Trends in Sustainability, Journal of Corporate Citizenship, 33, pp.69-86.
Hahn T; Figge F; Barkemeyer R (2007) Sustainable Value Creation among Companies in the Manufacturing Sector, International Journal of Environmental Technology and Management, 7, pp.496-512.
Barkemeyer R (2004) Ursachen und Außmaß der Regenwaldzerstörung in Indonesien. Eine Analyse der Rahmenbedingungen indonesischer Umweltpolitik, Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs, 23, pp.267-280.