Judith SCHREMPF-STIRLING
Vice Dean, GSEM Executive
Associate Professor
Institute of Management
Ph.D., University of Lausanne
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Short bio
De nationalité allemande, Madame Judith Schrempf-Stirling a obtenu son doctorat en sciences économiques, mention Management, à l’Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales de l’Université de Lausanne en 2010.
Pendant son séjour en Suisse, de 2006 à 2010, elle a été employée par le bureau des innovations sociales de Hewlett-Packard (HP).
Madame Judith Schrempf-Stirling a ensuite poursuivi une carrière académique d’abord comme professeure assistante à la Paris School of Business (ex-ESG Management School) et à partir de 2011, elle a rejoint la Robins School of Business de l’Université de Richmondaux Etats-Unis en qualité de professeure assistante où elle a été ensuite promue au rang de professeure associée.
Ses recherches portent essentiellement sur la responsabilité des entreprises et les droits de l’homme ainsi que sur la consommation responsable. Les publications de la Prof. Judith Schrempf-Stirling ont paru dans les revues aussi prestigieuses que l’Academy of Management Review, le Business & Society, le Business Horizons et le Journal of Business Ethics.
Judith Schrempf-Stirling is Professor of Responsible Management at Geneva School of Economics and Management. She obtained her Ph.D. at HEC Lausanne under the supervision of Prof. Guido Palazzo in 2010. Prior to joining Geneva School of Economics and Management, Judith worked at the University of Richmond in the United State of America where she taught undergraduate and graduate classes such as Social, Ethical, and Legal Responsibilities of Business, Responsible Marketing, and Sustainability and Accountability of Business. Judith also gained industry experience when working in the Global Citizenship Department at Hewlett-Packard for over five years.
In her reseach, Judith examines how corporations’ responsibility along their value chain has evolved during the last fifty years by examining and analyzing recent corporate responsibility trends. More specifically, she examines corporate responsibility demands upstreaming the corporate value chain towards and beyond suppliers, down streaming the corporate value chain towards the consumer, and corporate responsibility demands for historic injustices. In her research, she explores the ‘political turn’ of corporate responsibility. Her work has been published in international journals such as the Academy of Management Review, Business & Society, Business Horizons, and Journal of Business Ethics.
Selected publications
Journal article
Schrempf-Stirling, J., Vives, J., & Coraiola, D. (2024). Dealing with Organizational Legacies of Irresponsibility. Academy of Management Perspectives.
Schrempf-Stirling, J., & Van Buren, H. J. (2024). THE IMPORTANCE OF HUMAN RIGHTS FOR MANAGEMENT AND ORGANISATION STUDIES. British Journal of Management.
Schrempf-Stirling, J., Bosse, D., Harrison, J., & Pollack, J. (2022). Entrepreneurial Opportunities as Responsibility. Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice. https://doi.org/10.1177/10422587211069374.
Schrempf-Stirling, J., & Wettsetin, F. (2022). The mutual Reinforcement of hard and soft Regulation. Academy of Management Perspectives.
Schrempf-Stirling, J., Van Buren Iii, H., & Westermann-Behaylo, M. (2021). Business and Human Trafficking: A Social Connection and Political Responsibility Model. Business and Society, 60 (2), 341-375. https://doi.org/10.1177/0007650319872509.
Schrempf-Stirling, J., & van Buren III, H. (2020). Business and Human Rights Scholarship in Social Issues in Management: An Analytical Review. Business and Human Rights Journal, 5 (1), 28-55.
Phillips, R., Schrempf-Stirling, J., & Stutz, C. (2020). The Past, History, and Corporate Social Responsibility. Journal of Business Ethics, 166, 203-2013. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-019-04319-0.
Schrempf-Stirling, J., & Hennchen, E. (2020). Fit for addressing Grand Challenges? A process model for effective accountability relationships within multi-stakeholder initiatives in developing countries. Business Ethics: a European review.
Schrempf-Stirling, J., Van Buren III, H., & Westermann-Behaylo, M. (2020). Toward Ethical Commitment: Avoiding MNC Entanglement in Modern Slavery. AIB Insights, 20 (2).
Schrempf-Stirling, J., & Hennchen, E. (2020). Fit for addressing Grand Challenges? A process model for effective accountability relationships within multi-stakeholder initiatives in developing countries. Business Ethics: a European review.
Schrempf-Stirling, J. (2018). State power: Rethinking the role of the state in political corporate social responsibility. Journal of Business Ethics, 150 (1), 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-016-3198-3.
Schrempf-Stirling, J., & Wettstein, F. (2017). Beyond guilty verdicts: Human rights litigation and its impact on corporations’ human rights policies. Journal of Business Ethics, 145 (3), 545-562. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-015-2889-5.
Schrempf-Stirling, J. (2016). Book Review: Corporate responsibility for human rights impacts. New expectations and paradigms. Business Ethics Quarterly, 26 (2), 265-268. https://doi.org/10.1017/beq.2016.25.
Schrempf-Stirling, J., & Palazzo, G. (2016). Upstream corporate social responsibility: From contract responsibility to full producer responsibility. Business and Society, 55 (4), 491-527. https://doi.org/10.1177/0007650313500233.
Schrempf-Stirling, J., Palazzo, G., & Phillips, R. (2016). Historic Corporate Social Responsibility. Academy of Management Review, 41 (4), 700-719. https://doi.org/10.5465/amr.2014.0137.
Schrempf-Stirling, J. (2014). Roche's clinical trials with organs from prisoners: Does profit trump morals? Journal of Business Ethics, 121 (2), 315-328. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-013-1723-1.
Schrempf-Stirling, J. (2014). A social connection approach to corporate responsibility: The case of the fast-food industry and obesity. Business and Society, 53 (2), 300-332. https://doi.org/10.1177/0007650312449577.
Schrempf-Stirling, J. (2013). Book review: The shareholder value myth. Business Ethics Quarterly, 23 (3), 486-489. https://doi.org/10.5840/beq201323332.
Schrempf-Stirling, J. (2013). Book review: The myth of the ethical consumer. Business Ethics Quarterly, 23 (4), 622-625. https://doi.org/10.5840/beq201323444.
Schrempf-Stirling, J. (2013). Book review: Multinationals and corporate social responsibility. Limitations and opportunities in international law. Business Ethics Quarterly, 23 (4), 625-628. https://doi.org/10.5840/beq201323445.
Schrempf-Stirling, J., Bosse, D., & Harrison, J. (2013). Anticipating, preventing, and surviving secondary boycotts.. Business Horizons, 56 (5), 573-582. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bushor.2013.05.001.
Schrempf-Stirling, J. (2012). The delimitation of corporate social responsibility: upstream, downstream and historic CSR. Business and Society, 51 (4), 690-707. https://doi.org/10.1177/0007650312446734.
Schrempf-Stirling, J. (2011). Book review: Clean Clothes: A global movement to end sweatshops. Society and Business Review, 6 (2), 103-106. https://doi.org/10.1108/17465681111105887.
Schrempf-Stirling, J. (2011). Nokia Siemens Networks: Just doing business — or supporting an oppressive regime? Journal of Business Ethics, 103 (1), 95-110. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-011-0844-7.
Academic meeting proceeding with presentation
Schrempf-Stirling, J., & Vives, J. (2022). A process Model of Organizational Repair Efforts: The Case of U.S. Universities and Antebellum Slavery. Best Paper Proceedings. Academy of Management.
Academic meeting presentation
Schrempf-Stirling, J. (2019). The limits and opportunities of CSR engagement to address Grand Challenges. Academy of Management Annual Meeeting 2019.
Schrempf-Stirling, J. (2019). Public and Private Governance in Business and Human Rights: Shades of Transformation. European Group for Organizational Studies Conference 2019.
Schrempf-Stirling, J. (2019). CSR and BHR - overlapping, parallel, or competing concepts? The role of academic research for guiding corporate practice. Society for Business Ethics Annual Meeting 2019.
Baumann-Pauly, D., Elms, H., Schrempf-Stirling, J., Van Buren, H., & Wettstein, F. (2019). CSR and BHR: Overlapping, parallel, or competing concepts? The role of academic research for guiding corporate practice. Society for Business Ethics.
Schrempf-Stirling, J. (2018). Business and Human Rights Measurement: The Next Frontier. Academy of Management Annual Meeting 2018.
Baumann-Pauly, D., Van Buren, H. J., Schrempf-Stirling, J., O'Connor, C., McPhail, K., & Palazzo, G. (2018). Managing Human Rights Obligations of Businesses and Measuring Outcomes: What Now? 78th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management.
Schrempf-Stirling, J., & van Buren, H. (2017). Bringing Human Rights Together with Management Studies: Themes, Opportunities, and Challenges. Academy of Management Annual Meeting.
Schrempf-Stirling, J. (2017). The Acquisition of an Inconvenient Past. Academy of Management Annual Meeting 2018.
Schrempf-Stirling, J. (2017). THE UN GUIDING PRINCIPLES ON BUSINESS AND HUMAN RIGHTS: A TOOL OF PLAUSIBLE DENIABILITY OR ETHICAL COMMITMENT? THE CASE OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING. THIRD BUSINESS AND HUMAN RIGHTS SCHOLARS CONFERENCE.
Schrempf-Stirling, J. (2016). Bringing human rights together with management studies. Global Business and Human Rights Scholars Association Annual Meeting.
Schrempf-Stirling, J. (2015). Business and Human Rights 20 Years In: A Dialogue Between Business Ethicists and Legal Scholars,. Society for Business Ethics Annual Meeting.
Schrempf-Stirling, J. (2014). . Decades of Corporate Social Responsibility: Let’s not pretend the nation state is dead.. Academy of Management Annual Meeting.
Schrempf-Stirling, J. (2014). Revisiting the Voluntary/ Mandatory Dichotomy: The Case of Human Rights Litigation.. Academy of Management Annual Meeting.
Faculty research seminar
Schrempf-Stirling, J. (2020). ‘Structural injustices, social connection, and corporate political responsibility: the case of business and human trafficking’. R:ETRO (Reputation: Ethics, Trust, and Relationships at Oxford) seminar series.
Invited speaker
Schrempf-Stirling, J. (2019). Une économie pour les générations futures - Enkeltaugliche Wirtschaft., Sierre, Switzerland.
Practitioner-oriented article (non peer-reviewed)
Schrempf-Stirling, J., & Federman, S. (2022). Why Corporate Success Requires Dealing With the Past. MIT Sloan Management Review, November 16.
Book chapter
Schrempf-Stirling, J., & Stutz, C. (2020). Using the past responsibly: What responsible managers and management academics can learn from historian's professional ethics. The Research Handbook of Responsible Management (pp. 745-758). Edward Elgar.
Schrempf-Stirling, J., & Wettstein, F. (2019). Business, Peace, and Human Rights: A Political Responsibility Perspective. Business, Peacebuilding and Sustainable Development. Routledge.
Schrempf-Stirling, J., Palazzo, G., & Morhart, F. (2016). Shopping for a better world: How consumer decisions can help to promote sustainability and human rights. Business and Human Rights - From Principles to Practice (pp. 200-209). Routledge.
Schrempf-Stirling, J., & Palazzo, G. (2013). IBM's business with Hitler: An inconvenient past. Honest Work: A Business Ethics Reader. Honest Work: A Business Ethics Reader.
Schrempf-Stirling, J., Palazzo, G., & Phillips, R. (2013). Ever expanding responsibilities: Upstream and downstream corporate social responsibility. Sustainable Value Chain Management (pp. 353-368). Routledge.
