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Elke Schüßler
Leuphana University Lüneburg
Prof. Dr. Elke Schüßler is a Professor of Business Administration, in particular Entrepreneurship and Organization Studies, at Leuphana University Lüneburg. From 2016 to 2023, she was Professor of Business Administration and Head of the Institute of Organization Science at Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria. Previously, she was an Assistant Professor of Organizational Theory at Freie Universität Berlin, where she also earned her doctorate. Prof. Schüßler is interested in the dynamics of organizational and institutional change, with a particular focus on the development of sustainable organizational and work forms, especially in the context of global supply chains and the platform economy. With a background in Psychology (BSc, University of Sussex) and Industrial Relations (MSc, London School of Economics), she pursues an interdisciplinary approach in her research, for example, in the context of the Volkswagen Foundation-funded Global Garment Supply Chain Governance Project (https://www.wiwiss.fu-berlin.de/forschung/Garments/index.html) or the DFG/FWF-funded Research Group [https://www.wiwiss.fu-%20berlin.de/forschung/organized-creativity/index.html] on Organized Creativity.
MORE ABOUT ELKE SCHüßLER >2023
Elke S. Schuessler, Nora Lohmeyer and Sarah Ashwin
“We Can’t Compete on Human Rights”: Creating Market-Protected Spaces to Institutionalize the Emerging Logic of Responsible Management
To what extent are multinational corporations able to address societal challenges through voluntary corporate social responsibility (CSR)? Based on an in-depth qualitative study of how apparel multinational corporations have addressed labor standards violations since the deadly 2013 Rana Plaza facto...
2021
Stephen J Frenkel, Elke S Schuessler
From Rana Plaza to COVID-19: Deficiencies and opportunities for a new labour governance system in garment global supply chains
The 2013 Rana Plaza disaster highlighted the failure of labour regulation in global garment value chains. Eight years on, in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, what changes have occurred in labour regulation and with what consequences for workers? Using the concept of a labour governance system (LG...
2020
Sarah Ashwin, Chikako Oka, Elke Schuessler, Rachel Alexander, Nora Lohmeyer
Spillover Effects across Transnational Industrial Relations Agreements: The Potential and Limits of Collective Action in Global Supply Chains
Using qualitative data from interviews with multiple respondents in 45 garment brands and retailers, as well as respondents from unions and other stakeholders, the authors analyze the emergence of the Action Collaboration Transformation (ACT) living wages initiative. They ask how the inter-firm coor...
