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Publications

Journal articles and Book chapters

2023

Cakir, I.; Aerni, P.; Bergman, M.M.; Cakir, B. esg2go: A Method to Reduce Bias, Improve Coherence, and Increase Practicality of ESG Rating and Reporting. Sustainability 2023, 15, 16872. https://doi.org/10.3390/su152416872


Diković, J. 2023. Prudent Resilience of Farmers. Journal of Rural and Community Development, 18 (3), 152-173. https://journals.brandonu.ca/jrcd/article/view/2335/622

Lappe-Osthege, T. and J. Dikovic. 2023. Constructing Postconflict Memoryscapes: From Narratives of Division to Coexistence. Arcadia 18, https://www.environmentandsociety.org/arcadia/constructing-postconflict-memoryscapes-narratives-division-coexistence

Gertschen, Alex. (2023): Räderwerke der Normalität: Wie Normen und Standards Vertrauen schaffen, Zurich: NZZ Libro, 180-205.

Aerni, P. 2023. COP-27: A great opportunity to address the double crisis of food security and climate change–and for the EU to re-align its farm to fork strategy. Frontiers in Environmental Economics. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frevc.2022.1082869/full

Aerni P (2023) COP-27: A great opportunity to address the double crisis of food security and climate change–and for the EU to re-align its farm to fork strategy. Frontiers in Environmental Economics. 1:1082869. https://doi.org/10.3389/frevc.2022.1082869


Zaccari, C., De Vivo, R., Pawera, L., Termote, C., Hunter, D., Borelli, T. et al (2023). Lessons learned from the Second International Agrobiodiversity Congress: Adopting agricultural biodiversity as a catalyst for transformative global food systems. Current Opinion in Environmental Science & Health, 100411. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2468584422000861?casa_token=0N2sM8lurTEAAAAA:7Z5IXUtR2yMUWJf4e_fzkGYOQV2FMNWfkQeKNIlsLUJqjrXhxkjXi8sGP1rI9hUWEDbUdNhTbpRY

 

2021

Ricroch, Agnes; Aerni, Philipp; Chopra, Surinder; Kuntz, Marcel (2021). Exploring the Roots of the Old GMO Narrative and Why Young People Have Started to Ask Critical Questions. In: Ricroch, Agnes; Chopra, Surinder; Kuntz, Marcel. Plant Biotechnology : Experience and Future Prospects. Cham: Springer, 277-304.

Hosoya, Hiromi; Schaefer, Markus; Aerni, Philipp (2021). The Industrious City Urban Industry in the Digital Age. In: Hosoya, Hiromi; Schaefer, Markus. The Industrious City Urban Industry in the Digital Age. Zurich: Lars Müller Publishers, 105-115.

Aerni, Philipp (2021). “Business as Part of the Solution”: SDG 8 Challenges textbook Views on Sustainable development". In: Aermi, Philipp; Stavridou, Marianthe; Schluep, Isabelle. Transitioning to Decent Work and Economic Growth. Basel, Switzerland: MPDI Books, 67-101.

Aerni, Philipp (2021). Decentralized Economic Complexity in Switzerland and Its Contribution to Inclusive and Sustainable Change. Sustainability, 13(8):1-18.

Aerni, Philipp (2021). The Ethics of Farm Animal Biotechnology from an Anthropological Perspective. Sustainability, 13:3674.

Cakir, Benjamin; Aerni, Philipp; Schluep, Isabelle; Cakir, Isa (2021). 'Amalgamation of Export with Import Information: The Economic Complexity Index as a Coherent Driver of Sustainability’. Sustainability, 13(4/2049):1-71.

De Vivo, Romano; Rueff, Henri; Gaudioso, Antonio; Marchis, Alexandru; Menza, Gianpiero; Capri, Ettore (2021). Agriculture in the Face of Climate Change: Sustained and Inclusive Economic Growth as a Prerequisite for Sustainable Development. In: Aerni, Philipp; Stavridou, Marianthe; Schluep, Isabelle.Transitioning to Decent Work and Economic Growth. Basel, Switzerland: MDPI Books, 147-168.

Dikovic, J. 2021. “What is not known about rural development? Village experiences from Serbia”.
Eszter Krasznai Kovács (Ed). Politics and the Environment in Eastern Europe. Cambridge: Open Book Publishers, pp. 261-283, https://www.openbookpublishers.com/10.11647/OBP.0244.pdf

Brander, Micheal; Bernauer, Thomas; Huss, Matthias (2021). Improved on-farm storage reduces seasonal food insecurity of smallholder farmer households–Evidence from a randomized control trial in Tanzania. Food Policy, 98:101891.

Ferrini, Lia (2021). Multilevel Sustainability Tensions of MNEs in Developing Countries. In: Aerni, Philipp; Stavridou, Marianthe; Schluep, Isabelle. Transitioning to Decent Work and Economic Growth. Basel, Switzerland: MDPI Books, 123-145.

Tegethoff, Thomas; Santa, Richardo; Schluep, Isabelle; Fernando Morante, Diego; Cruz, Martha L (2021). THE CHALLENGES OF STRATEGIC INNOVATION: ACHIEVING OPERATIONAL EFFECTIVENESS IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES. International Journal of Innovation Management, 25(3):2150031.

Stavridou, Marianthe (2021). “Me muess d’Lüt neh wie si sy—Anderi gits e keini”. Decent Work and Sustainable Development for the 21st Century: The Case of Wyon AG in Switzerland. In: Aerni, Philipp; Stavridou, Marianthe; Schluep, Isabelle. Transitioning to Decent Work and Economic Growth. Basel, Switzerland: MDPI Books, 205-231.

 

2019

Aerni, Philipp; Berlinger, Patrick; Bieri, Sabin; Brugger, Fritz; Dioubaté, Mamy; Guenat, Dominique; Günther, Isabel; Herkenrath, Mark; Hochuli, Marianne; Kalu, Kenneth; Kappel, Robert; Koller, Franziska; Kung, Ruedi; Lundsgaard-Hansen, Lara M; Bambu, Boniface Mabanza; Mutazu, Tirivangani; Niedenführ, Hannah; Oberson, Nathalie; Sarr, Felwine; Scheidegger, Urs; Skibbe, Claudia; Specker, Manuela; Tatah, Veye; Utlu, Deniz (2019). Almanach Entwicklungspolitik 2020: «Afrika zwischen Aufbruch und Armut». In: Specker, Manuela. 2020 Almanach Entwicklungspolitik Afrika zwischen Aufbruch und Armut. Luzern: Caritas-Verlag, 171-182.

Schluep Campo, Isabelle (2019). Prinzipienorientierte Einbettung als Beitrag der Unternehmen zu nachhaltigem und inklusivem Wachstum. In: Arnold, Christian; Keppler, Sonja; Knödler, Hermann; Reckenfelderbäumer, Martin. Herausforderungen für das Nachhaltigkeitsmanagementigem und inklusivem Wachstum : Globalisierung – Digitalisierung – Geschäftsmodelltransformation. Wiesbaden: Springer, 223-247.

Aerni, Philipp (2019). Politicizing the Precautionary Principle: Why Disregarding Facts Should Not Pass for Farsightedness. Frontiers in Plant Science, 10:1053.

Celentano, Giulia; Zea Escamilla, Edwin; Göswein, Verena; Habert, Guillaume (2019). A matter of speed: The impact of material choice in post-disaster reconstruction. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 34:34-44.

Zea Escamilla, Edwin; Archilla, Hector; Nuramo, Denamo Addissie; Trujillo, David (2019). Bamboo: An Engineered Alternative for Buildings in the Global South. In: Guedes, Manuel Correia; Cantuaria, Gustavo.Bioclimatic Architecture in Warm Climates. Wiesbaden: Springer, 397-414.

 

2018

Zea Escamilla, Edwin; Habert, Guillaume; Correal Daza, Juan Francisco; Archilla, Hector F; Férnandez, Juan Sebastian Echeverry; Trujillo, David (2018). Industrial or Traditional Bamboo Construction? Comparative Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of Bamboo-Based Buildings.Sustainability, 10(9):3096.

Zea Escamilla, Edwin; Archila, Hector; Kaminski, Sebastian; Trujillo, David; Harries, Kent A (2018). Bamboo reinforced concrete – a critical review. Materials and structures, 51:102.

Aerni, Philipp (2018). The Use and Abuse of the Term ‘GMO’ in the ‘Common Weal Rhetoric’ Against the Application of Modern Biotechnology in Agriculture. In: James Jr, H S. Ethical Tensions from New Technology. University of Missouri: CAB International Publishing, 39-52.

Stavridou, Marianthe (2018). Business Ethics and Human Rights. The Industrial Involvement in the Embeddedness of the Tibetan Community in Rikon, Switzerland: A Case Study. In: Stavridou, Marianthe. Diaspora Networks in International Business. Cham: Springer, Epub ahead of print.

Aerni, Philipp (2018). Global Business in Local Culture. Deutschland: Springer.

Haase, Marco; Huss, Matthias (2018). Guilty speculators? Range-based conditional volatility in a cross-section of wheat futures. Journal of Commodity Markets, 10:29-46.

Celentano, G; Zea Escamilla, Edwin; Göswein, V; Hischier, V; Habert, G (2018). Speeding up post-disaster reconstruction: material choice or roof design? In: Ghavami, Khosrow; Herrera, Pedro.Non-Conventional Materials and Technologies - NOCMAT for XXI Century. Millersville PA, USA: Materials Research Forum LLC, 26-34.

 

2017

Christensen, Kasper; Nørskov, Sladjana; Frederiksen, Lars; Scholderer, Joachim (2017). In search of new product ideas: Identifying ideas in online communities by machine learning and text mining. Creativity and Innovation Management, 26(1):17-30.

Aerni, Philipp; Cottier, Thomas; Nadakavukaren Schefer, Krista (2017). Regulatory Barriers to Trade. In: Cottier, Thomas; Nadakavukaren Schefer, Krista. Elgar Encyclopeida of International Economic Law. Cheltenham / Northampton: Edward Elgar Publishing, 413-415.

Aerni, Philipp; Cottier, Thomas; Nadakavukaren Schefer, Krista (2017). Stimulating the Private Sector. In: Cottier, Thomas; Nadakavukaren Schefer, Krista. Elgar Encyclopedia of International Economic Law. Cheltenham / Northampton: Edward Elgar Publishing, 617-619.

Aerni, Philipp (2017). "Principled Embeddedness": How foreign direct Investment may contribute to inclusive and sustainable growth in developing economies? African Technology Development Forum Journal, 9(1):3-19.

Stavridou, Marianthe; Vangchuay, Sumon (2017). Beyond Corporate Social Responsibility: A Human-Centred Approach to Business Ethics in the 21st Century. African Technology Development Forum Journal, 9(1):70-86.

Bartel, Constantine; Soldati, Veronica (2017). Embeddedness of Chiquita’s Banana Production in Panama: The potential to mitigate social and ecological problems. African Technology Development Forum Journal, 9(1):32-47.

Frei, Ulrich; Schluep Campo, Isabelle (2017). From Philanthropy to Business: When Transformation Is The Only Way to Stay True to Your Mission. African Technology Development Forum Journal, 9(1):48-55.

Sostizzo, Tanja (2017). Positive Sustainability Effects Resulting from Embeddedness: Evidence from Syngenta’s potato business in Kenya and Colombia. African Technology Development Forum Journal, 9(1):56-69.

Sostizzo, Tanja (2017). Sustainable and Future Oriented Cocoa Production in Ghana: Analysis of the Initiatives of two Swiss Chocolate Manufacturers. African Technology Development Forum Journal, 9(1):20-31.

Marty, Rudolf; Meins, Erika (2017). Der Schweizer Mietimmobilienmarkt belohnt andere Nachhaltigkeitsmerkmale als Energieeffizienz. Swiss Real Estate Journal, 15(15):47-54.

Tellnes, L G F; Ganne-Chedeville, C; Dias, A; Dolezal, F; Hill, C; Zea Escamilla, Edwin (2017). Comparative assessment for biogenic carbon accounting methods in carbon footprint of products: a review study for construction materials based on forest products. iForest : Biogeosciences and Forestry, 10:815-823.

Aerni, Philipp; Schluep Campo, Isabelle; Oniang'o, Ruth K (2017). Europe and Africa: Addressing the food security challenges (Chapter 6). In: Virgin, Ivar; Morris, Jane E. Creating Sustainable Bioeconomies : The bioscience revolution in Europe and Africa. London: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 62-74.

Aerni, Philipp (2017). Attitudes towards the role of innovation in promoting sustainable agriculture. In: Paschke, Melanie. Agriculture in Transformation : Concepts for agriculture production systems that are socially fair environmentally safe. München: Idea Verlag, 60-65.

Christensen, Kasper; Scholderer, Joachim; Liland, Kristian Hovde; Kvaal, Knut; Risvik, Einar; Biancolillo, Alessandra; Nørskov, Sladjana; Næs, Tormod (2017). Mining online community data: the nature of ideas in online communities. Food Quality and Preference, 62:246-256.

Zea Escamilla, Edwin; Habert, Guillaume (2017). Method and application of characterisation of life cycle impact data of construction materials using geographic information systems.International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment, 22(8):1210-1219.

 

2016

Aerni, Philipp (2016). Coping with migration-induced urban growth: addressing the blind spot of UN habitat. Sustainability, 8(8):800.

Howells, John; Scholderer, Joachim (2016). Forget unlearning: How an empirically unwarranted concept was allegedly imported from psychology to flourish in management and organisation studies. Management Learning, 47(4):443-463.

Aerni, Philipp; Glasmeier, Amy Special Issue: A contextual and dynamic understanding of sustainable urbanisation. Edited by: Aerni, Philipp; Glasmeier, Amy (2016). Basel: MDPI Publishing.

 

2015

Meins, Erika; Sager, Daniel (2015). Sustainability and risk Combining Monte Carlo simulation and DCF for Swiss residential buildings. Journal of European Real Estate Research, 8(1):66-84.

Aerni, Philipp (2015). Agricultural Biotechnology and Public Attitudes: An Attempt to Explain the Mismatch between Experience and Perception. In:Watson, Ronald Ross; Preedy, Victor R. Genetically Modified Organisms in Food Production, Safety, Regulation and Public Health. London: Elsevier, 149-158.

Aerni, Philipp (2015). Welche Ethik braucht es für die Durchsetzung der UNO-Nachhaltigkeitsziele? In: Kummert, Irina. Schwierigkeiten mit der Moral. Wiesbaden: Springer VS, 25-43.

Aerni, Philipp; Nichterlein, Karin; Rudgard, Stephen; Sonnino, Andrea (2015). Making agricultural innovation systems (AIS) work for development in tropical countries. Sustainability, 2015(7):831-850.

Orquin, Jacob L; Scholderer, Joachim (2015). Consumer judgment of explicit and implied health claims on foods: Misguided but not misled. Food Policy, (51):144-157.

Schneider, Anselm; Scherer, Andreas Georg (2015). Corporate governance in a risk society.Journal of Business Ethics, 126(2):309-323.

 

2014

Mollet, Janick Christian; Ziegler, Andreas (2014). Socially responsible investing and stock performance: New empirical evidence for the US and European stock markets. Review of Financial Economics, 23(4):208-216.

Cottier, Thomas; Aerni, Philipp; Karapinar, Baris; Matteotti, Sofya; de Sépibus, Joëlle; Shingal, Anirudh (2014). The Principle of Common Concern and Climate Change. Archiv des Völkerrechts, 52(5):293-324.

Schneider, Anselm (2014). Embracing ambiguity – lessons from the study of corporate social responsibility throughout the rise and decline of the modern welfare state. Business Ethics: A European Review, 23(3):293-308.

Schäfer, Andreas; von Arx, Urs (2014). The influence of pension funds on corporate governance.Applied Economics, 19(19):2316-2329.


Aerni, Philipp (2014). The motivation and impact of organized public resistance against agricultural biotechnology. In: Smyth, Stuart J; Phillips, Peter W B; Castle, David. Handbook on Agriculture, Biotechnology and Development. Cheltenham Glos UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, 256-276.

Aerni, Philipp (2014). The great misunderstanding of the global food crisis. In: Heap, B; Bennett, D. Africa's future ... can biosciences contribute? Cambridge: B4FA, 76-87.

Schneider, Anselm Jakob; Scherer, Andreas Georg (2014). Unternehmen, Menschenrechte und Global Governance: Zur Umsetzung von Compliance auf Unternehmensebene. In: Bungenberg, Marc; Dutzi, Andreas; Krebs, Peter; Zimmermann, Nicole. Compliance und Corporate Social Responsibility: Chancen und Risiken sanfter Regulierung. Wiesbaden: Nomos, 58-80.

Aerni, Philipp (2014). Fairness, Respekt, Verantwortung - Was ist ein tugendhaftes Unternehmen?In: Behringer, Jeannette. Verantwortliches Handeln lohnt sich. Schmerikon: Vereinigung Christilicher Unternehmer der Schweiz (VCU), 11-18.

 

2013

Aerni, Philipp (2013). Resistance to agricultural biotechnology: The importance of distinguishing between weak and strong public attitudes. Biotechnology Journal, 8(10):1129-1132.

Mollet, Janick Christian; von Arx, Urs; Ilic, Dragan (2013). Strategic sustainability and financial performance: Exploring abnormal returns. Zeitschrift für Betriebswirtschaft, 83(6):577-604.

Ilic, Dragan (2013). Spatial and temporal aggregation in racial profiling. Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics = Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Volkswirtschaft und Statistik, 149(1):27-56.

Scherer, A G; Baumann-Pauly, D; Schneider, A (2013). Democratizing corporate governance: Compensating for the democratic deficit of corporate political activity and corporate citizenship.Business & Society, 52(3):473-514.

Ilic, Dragan (2013). Marginally discriminated: the role of outcome tests in European jurisdiction.European Journal of Law and Economics, 36(2):271-294.

 

2012

Scherer, Andreas Georg; Schneider, Anselm (2012). Corporate Citizenship und Corporate Governance: Ein Ansatz zur Behebung des Legitimitätsdefizits der Corporate Political Activities von multinationalen Unternehmen. In: Eberl, Peter; Geiger, Daniel; Koch, Jochen.Oranisation und Komplexität: Unternehmenssteuerung zwischen Ordnung und Chaos. Berlin: Erich Schmidt Verlag, 73-106.

Schneider, Anselm Jakob; Scherer, Andreas (2012). Private business firms, human rights, and global governance issues: An organizational implementation perspective. UZH Business Working Paper Series 320, University of Zurich.

 

2010

Meins, Erika (2010). Lohnt sich Nachhaltigkeit auch finanziell? Real Estate Immobilien & Anlagen, (3-10):27.

Meins, Erika; Wallbaum, Holger; Hardziewski, Regina; Feige, Annika (2010). Sustainability and property valuation: a risk-based approach. Building Research & Information, 38(3):280-300.

Lange, Andreas; Löschel, Andreas; Vogt, Carsten; Ziegler, Andreas (2010). On the self-interested use of equity in international climate negotiations. European Economic Review, 54(3):359-375.

Ziegler, Andreas; Schröder, Michael (2010). What determines the inclusion in a sustainability stock index? A panel data analysis for European firms. Ecological Economics, 69(4):1-33.


Ziegler, Andreas (2010). Z-Tests in multinomial probit models under simulated maximum likelihood estimation: some small sample properties. Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik:630-652.

 

2009

Meins, Erika (2009). Der finanzielle Wert der Nachhaltigkeit von Immobilien. In: Rottke, Nico. Ökonomie vs. Ökologie : Nachhaltigkeit in der Immobilienwirtschaft? Köln, Deutschland: Immobilien Manager Verlag, 259-274.

Wallbaum, Holger; Meins, Erika (2009). Nicht-Nachhaltiges Planen, Bauen und Betreiben – Aus guten Gründen (noch) die Praxis in der Bauwirtschaft? Bauingenieur, 84(8):291-303.

Ziegler, Andreas; Nogareda, Jazmin Seijas (2009). Environmental management systems and technological environmental innovations: Exploring the causal relationship. Research Policy, 38(5):885-893.

Meins, Erika (2009). Nachhaltigkeit inklusive. Ein zukunftsorientierter Ansatz für die Immobilienbewertung. In: Bahn, Christopher. Immobilienwirtschaft aktuell. Zurich, Switzerland: vdf Hochschulverlag AG an der ETH Zürich, 213-228.

Oberndorfer, Ulrich; Ziegler, Andreas (2009). 2002 German Federal Elections and Associated Energy Policy: How were Energy Corporations financially affected. Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik, 229(5):570-583.

 

2008

Meins, Erika (2008). Mehrwert: Nachhaltigkeit finanzieren. In: Köhler, Roland. Schweizer Energiefachbuch 2009. St. Gallen: KünzlerBachmann Medien AG, 12-15.

 

2007

Aerni, Philipp (2007). Exploring the linkages of commerce, higher education and human development: a historical review. African Technology Development Forum Journal, Volume 4(Issue 2):35-47.