Prof. Dr. Sarah Jastram

Vice President Research & International Affairs, Professor of International Business Ethics and Sustainability and Business Administration

Short Profile

Prof. Dr. Sarah Jastram has been Professor of Business Ethics, Sustainability, and Business Administration at Hamburg School of Business Administration since 2015, since February 2022, she is Head of Department Strategy & Leadership, and since June 2024, she is Vice President Research & International Affairs. Previously, she worked at the Institute of Management at Humboldt University in Berlin. Sarah Jastram is also active as a consultant and facilitator in the private and public sectors. From 2021-2024, she was a member of Porsche's Sustainability Council.

Lectures

  • Strategy & Leadership
  • Sustainability
  • Sustainable Business Model Innovation
  • Sustainable Innovation Camp
  • ESG
  • Human Rights
  • Qualitative Methods

Research Areas

  • Human Rights
  • Sustainable Supply Chains
  • Sustainable Leadership
  • Sustainable Innovation
  • Impact Measurement
  • Governance & Legitimacy
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Ethical Consumption

Publications

Conference presentations

Jastram, Sarah. 2025. "Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights in Textile Supply Chains." Presented at VHB WK ORG Konferenz, Universität Witten-Herdecke, Witten, March 2025.

Jastram, Sarah. 2025. "Emancipative Empowement through AI in International Supply Chains." Presented at Academy of Management (AOM) Annual Meeting, Copenhagen, July 29, 2025.

Jastram, Sarah. 2025. "Emancipative Empowement through AI in International Supply Chains." Presented at Society for Business Ethics (SBE) Annual Meeting, Copenhagen, Denmark, July 27, 2025.

Jastram, Sarah. 2025. "How Governmental Regulation Shapes Micro-Institutional Coupling in the Field of Corporate Sustainability." Presented at AMJ Workshop IUM, March, 2025.

Jastram, Sarah. 2025. "Innovation for Resilience in Times of War." Presented at AMJ Workshop IUM, March, 2025.

Jastram, Sarah, Zara Berberyan, and Johanna Försterling. 2023. "Shared Impact: Changing Perspectives Towards Collaborative Achievements." Presented at Academy Management (AOM) Annual Meeting, Boston (hybrid), 8th August 2023.

Jastram, Sarah, Zara Berberyan, and Johanna Försterling. 2023. "Shared Impact: Changing Perspectives Towards Collaborative Achievements." Presented at Academy Management (AOM) Annual Meeting, Boston (hybrid), 8th August 2023.

Jastram, Sarah, and Berberyan Zara. 2020. "Stakeholder Representativeness." Presented at 36th European Group Organizational Studies Colloquium (EGOS), Hamburg, 2-4 July 2020.

Berberyan, Zara, J. Rosenkranz, and Stefan Schaltegger. 2018. "From Attitude Action: Calibrating Determinants Ethical Fashion Consumption." Presented at Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Chicago, USA.

Jastram, Sarah, and Zara Berberyan. 2017. "Drivers Obstacles Ethical Fashion Consumption." Presented at Japanese Forum Business Society, Tokyo, Japan, 7-8 September 2017.

Jastram, Sarah, and Hedda Knoll. 2016. "CSR-Governance Within International Supply Chains Ghana." Presented at GRONEN (Group Organizations Natural Environment) Research Conference, Hamburg, 26th April 2016.

Jastram, Sarah, and Hedda Mensah. 2015. "Corporate Social Responsibility-Governance Challenges International Supply Chains - Field Study from Ghana." Presented at CSR Study Group - Paper Development Workshop, Freie Universität Berlin.

Jastram, Sarah, and Hedda Mensah. 2015. "Governing Corporate Social Responsibility Within International Value Chains." Presented at BJIR Special Issue Paper Development Workshop.

Jastram, Sarah. 2014. "Innovation Multi-Stakeholder Governance." Presented at 6th International Conference on Corporate Social Responsibility.

Jastram, Sarah. 2014. "Legitimizing Corporate Social Responsibility." Presented at Academy of Management, Annual Meeting, August 1-5 2005.

Journal articles (peer-reviewed)

Berberyan, Z., S. M. Jastram, M. Heuer, O. Schnittka, and J. Rosenkranz. 2025. "Attitude Without Action - What Really Hinders Ethical Consumption." Journal Business Ethics.

Jastram, Sarah Margaretha, and Johanna Foersterling. 2024. "Clarifying Ends in Institutional Decoupling Theory: Insights from Social Impact Research." Journal of Business Economics 94 (3): 501-523. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11573-023-01170-8.

Washika, Rita Fontina, Chris Brewster, Sarah Jastram, and Ahmad Ahmady. 2024. "Exploring Pre- In-Employment Experiences Refugees Germany: Bourdieusian Approach." European Management Review.

Washika, Rita Fontina, Chris Brewster, Sarah Jastram, and Ahmad Ahmady. 2024. "Exploring Pre- In-Employment Experiences Refugees Germany: Bourdieusian Approach." European Management Review.

Blind, Knut, Sarah Margaretha Jastram, and Jo-Ann Müller. 2024. "Subsidiary Strategy and Importance of Standards: An Institutional Development of the Integration-Responsiveness Framework." European Management Journal October. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emj.2024.10.001.

Jastram, Sarah Margaretha, and Zara Berberyan. 2023. "Democratic Stakeholder Representativeness." Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory: J-PART 33 (4): 647-660. https://doi.org/10.1093/jopart/muad005.

Jaich, Hans, Sarah Margaretha Jastram, and Knut Blind. 2023. "Organizational Practices As Drivers of Societal Change: Contextual Spillover Effects of Environmental Management on Employees’ Public Sphere Pro-environmental Behavior." Sustainability Accounting Management and Policy Journal 14 (1): 130-153. https://doi.org/10.1108/sampj-11-2021-0478.

Jaich, Hans, Sarah Margaretha Jastram, and Knut Blind. 2023. "Spillover of Social Norms at Work on Employees’ Self-reported Private Sphere Pro-environmental Behaviour: A Mixed Method Investigation." Schmalenbachs Zeitschrift für betriebswirtschaftliche Forschung 75 (4): 519-547. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41471-023-00167-x.

Jastram, Sarah Margaretha, Alkis Henri Otto, and Tatjana Minulla. 2022. "Diverse Organizational Adoption of Institutions in the Field of Corporate Social Responsibility." Journal of Business Ethics. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-022-05085-2.

Jastram, Sarah Margaretha, and Zara Berberyan. 2021. "How to Develop a Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy." International Journal of Sustainable Strategic Management 9 (1): 51. https://doi.org/10.1504/ijssm.2021.10041355.

Knoll, Hedda Ofoole, and Sarah Margaretha Jastram. 2019. "A Pragmatist Perspective on Sustainable Global Value Chain Governance – the Case of Dr. Bronner’s." Society and Business Review 14 (1): 12-30. https://doi.org/10.1108/sbr-12-2017-0122.

Jastram, Sarah Margaretha, and Jenny Klingenberg. 2018. "Assessing the Outcome Effectiveness of Multi-stakeholder Initiatives in the Field of Corporate Social Responsibility – the Example of the United Nations Global Compact." Journal of Cleaner Production 189: 775-784. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2018.04.005.

Jastram, Sarah, and Anna-Maria Schneider. 2015. "Sustainable Fashion Governance at the Example of the Partnership for Sustainable Textiles." uwf UmweltWirtschaftsForum 23 (4): 205-212. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00550-015-0377-0.

Mückenberger, Ulrich, and Sarah Jastram. 2010. "Transnational Norm-Building Networks Legitimacy Corporate Social Responsibility Standards." Journal Business Ethics: 223-239.

Jastram, Sarah. 2009. "Legitimation transnationaler Normen am Beispiel von ISO 26000." Zeitschrift für Wirtschafts- und Unternehmensethik 10: 106-119.

Jastram, Sarah. 2007. "Corporate Social Responsibility im interkulturellen Raum." Corporate Social Responsibility im interkulturellen Raum. Entwicklungsethnologie: 73-83.

Jastram, Sarah. 2007. "Transnational Corporate Social Responsibility - Transnationale Unternehmensverantwortung." Forum Wirtschaftsethik 15 (1): 62-63.

Bassen, Alexander, Sarah Jastram, and Katrin Meyer. 2005. "Corporate Social Responsibility. Eine Begriffserläuterung." Zeitschrift für Wirtschafts- und Unternehmensethik 6 (2): 231-236. https://doi.org/10.5771/1439-880x-2005-2-231.

Book chapters

Jastram, Sarah, and Marc Krause. 2023. "ESG - Wirtschaftliche Auswirkungen auf Unternehmen." In Praxishandbuch ESG – Grundlagen, Bedeutung und Umsetzung in Unternehmen. Fachmedien Recht und Wirtschaft, edited by Kai C. Andrejewski, Nils Krause, and Moritz von Hesberg, 137-149. Frankfurt am Main.

Baumann-Pauly, Dorothée, and Sarah Margaretha Jastram. 2018. "Assessing Human Rights Issues Fashion Industry - Challenges Investors." In Research Handbook Human Rights Investments, edited by Yannick Radi, 452-467. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing.

Berberyan, Zara, Sarah Margaretha Jastram, and Barry Friedman. 2018. "Drivers Obstacles Ethical Fashion Consumption. Eco Friendly Fair: Fast Fashion Consumer Behavior." In Eco Friendly and Fair: Fast Fashion and Consumer Behavior, edited by Carolin Becker Heuer and Marc Leifhold, 36-48. Routledge.

Schneider, Anna-Maria, and Sarah Margaretha. 2018. "Introduction Sustainable Fashion Governance." In Sustainable Fashion - Governance New Management Approaches, edited by Sarah Margaretha Jastram and Anna-Maria Schneider. Springer.

Jastram, Sarah, and Anna-Maria Schneider. 2018. "New Business Governance Approaches Sustainable Fashion - Learning from Experts." In Sustainable Fashion - Governance New Management Approaches, edited by Sarah Jastram and Anna-Maria Schneider. Springer.

Jastram, Sarah Margaretha, and Damian Bäumlisberger. 2017. "Normative Assessments Empirical Business Ethics Research - Towards Methodological Bridge across Ontological Gap." In Cambridge Handbook Research Approaches Business Ethics Corporate Responsibility, edited by H. Patricia and R. Edward Freemann Dmytriyev, 90-105. Cambridge University Press.

Jastram, Sarah. 2016. "Habermas’ Theorie und die Legitimation von Multi-Stakeholder-Verfahren der Praxis." In Die Normierung der gesellschaftlichen Verantwortung von Organisationen, edited by Markus Scholz and Marie Czuray, 3-12. Berlin/Heidelberg: Springer Gabler.

Jastram, Sarah Margaretha. 2016. "Habermas’ Theorie und die Legitimation von Multi-Stakeholder-Verfahren in der Praxis." In Forschung und Praxis an der FHWien der WKW, 3-12. Wiesbaden: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-11825-9_1.

Jastram, Sarah, and Julia Prescher. 2014. "Legitimizing Corporate Social Responsibility Governance." In Corporate Social Responsibility Governance: Practice Theory PART I, edited by Claus Strue Frederiksen, Samuel O. Idowu, Asli Yuksel Mermod, Morten Ebbe, and Juul Nielsen, 39-61. Berlin: Springer.

Jastram, Sarah. 2010. "Global Reporting Initiative." In International Encyclopedia Civil Society, edited by Helmut Anheier and Stefan Toepler, 775-776. New York.

Jastram, Sarah. 2010. "UN Global Compact." In International Encyclopedia Civil Society, edited by Helmut Anheier and Stefan Toepler, 1582-1583. New York.

Jastram, Sarah. 2009. "ISO 26000 - Vorstellung eines neuen (C)SR- Standards." In Dokumentation des Symposiums Corporate Social Responsibility im Tourismus, edited by Gate E. V., 74-78.

Jastram, Sarah. 2008. "Die richtige Ansprache von Sponsoren." In startsocial, Abschlussdokumentation, edited by McKinsey, 96-97. München.

Jastram, Sarah. 2007. "Corporate Social Responsibility und Medienmanagement." In Reflexion über einen explorativen Workshop, edited by Bodo Abel and Sarah Jastram, 34-41. Hamburg.

Jastram, Sarah. 2007. "Interkulturelles Stakeholdermanagement im Rahmen von Corporate Social Responsibility." In Kultur, Ökonomie, Ethik, edited by Mi-Yong Lee-Peuker, Fabian Scholtes, and Olaf J. Schumann. München: Hampp.

Kirschning, Ronja, Sarah Margaretha Jastram, and Justus Ahnfeldt. "Künstliche Intelligenz und Menschenrechte in internationalen Lieferketten." In Corporate Social Responsibility: Verantwortungsvolle Unternehmensführung in Theorie und Praxis, edited by Andreas Schneider and Rene Schmidtpeter. Springer.

Goydke, Tim, Ann-Kathrin Harms, and Sarah Margaretha Jastram. "Twin Transformation in der Hochschulbildung: Nachhaltige Ausbildungsstrategien für erfolgreiche Führungskräfte." In Leadership Education, edited by Jana Völkel Kitzmann. Springer.

Other publications

Berberyan, Zara, and Sarah Jastram. 2018. "Ethical Fashion Consumption." Susquehanna University, Harrisburg, USA, August 30th 2018.

Berberyan, Zara, Sarah Jastram, J. Rosenkranz, and Stefan Schaltegger. 2018. "From Attitude to Action- Calibrating the Determinants of Ethical Fashion Consumption." Susquehanna University, Selinsgrove, PA, USA, 30 August 2018.

Monographs and edited books

Jastram, Sarah. 2018. Sustainable Fashion - Governance New Management Approaches. Springer.

Jastram, Sarah. 2012. Legitimation privater Governance: Chancen und Probleme am Beispiel von ISO 26000. Wiesbaden: Gabler Verlag.

Journal articles (not peer-reviewed)

Jastram, Sarah, and Sophie Katharina Kühn. 2014. "Innovation through Multi-Stakeholder Networks Field Corporate Social Responsibility." InTeR, Zeitschrift zum Innovations- und Technikrecht: 155-160.

Working Papers

Jastram, Sarah. 2007. "The Link between Corporate Social Responsibility Strategic Management." Working Paper, CIS Papers Nr. 17. Centre International Studies.