Curriculum Vitae

CURRICULUM VITAE
DR. STEFAN SCHEMBERA
Office Address
University of Zurich
Department of Business Administration
Universitätsstrasse 84
CH-8006 Zürich
Phone
Email
+41 44 634 53 09
stefan.schembera@business.uzh.ch
Date of Birth
Citizenship
7 May 1984, Leonberg, Germany
German
ACADEMIC CURRICULUM
From 11/2016
SNF Project Leader and Senior Research Assistant
University of Zurich, Switzerland, Department of Business Administration,
Chair of Prof. Dr. Andreas G. Scherer
SNF Project: “Fighting Corruption in Global Business: The Impact of
Firm Size”
07/2015 – 11/2016
Postdoctoral Researcher
University of Zurich, Switzerland, Department of Business
Administration, Chair of Prof. Dr. Andreas G. Scherer
‘Forschungskredit Postdoc’ Project “Fighting Corruption in Global
Business: The Role of Firm Size and ‘Collective Action’“
06/16/2015
PhD Defense [Summa cum laude]
07/2012 – 07/2015
PhD Candidate and SNF Project Assistant
University of Zurich, Switzerland, Department of Business
Administration, Chair of Prof. Dr. Andreas G. Scherer, Foundations of
Business Administration and Theories of the Firm,
SNF Project: “Organizing for CSR – Fighting corruption”
02/2013 – 04/2014
Research stay (qualitative data collection for SNF Project), Southeast Asia
01/2013 – 04/2013
Research stay
University of Sydney, Australia
Discipline of Work and Organizational Studies
06/2010 – 07/2013
Project Assistant, Accreditation
University of Zurich, Switzerland
Faculty of Economics, Business Administration and IT
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04/2009 – 04/2010
Student Research Assistant
University of Tübingen, Germany
Chair for Personnel and Organization, Prof. Dr. Kerstin Pull
School of Business and Economics
09/2009 – 12/2009
Exchange student
Jean Moulin - Lyon 3 University, France
Institut d’Administration des Entreprises (IAE)
09/2007 – 04/2008
Exchange student
Queen‘s University, Kingston, Canada
School of Business
10/2004 – 04/2010
Diploma in Business Administration
University of Tübingen, Germany
Business French, Business English and Spanish at the university language
learning center
RESEARCH INTERESTS
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Corporate social responsibility
Organizational corruption
Organizational legitimacy
Global governance
Institutional complexity
UN Global Compact
SERVICE AS ACADEMIC REVIEWER
Reviewer for the following academic journals
2014
Business Ethics Quarterly
Since 2013
Journal of Business Ethics
2013
Ephemera
Regular reviewer at academic conferences
2015
Annual Workshop of the ‘Wissenschaftliche Kommission Organisation’
(WK ORG.), German Acad. Association for Business Research (VHB)
Since 2013
Academy of Management Annual Meeting,
2013
European International Business Association (EIBA) Annual Meeting
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Since 2012
Member, Academy of Management
Member, Society for Business Ethics
Member, European Group for Organization Studies.
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THIRD-PARTY FUNDING
01/2016
EU Horizon 2020, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions. Assistance in
preparing application for joint research project “Governance, Organization
and Corporate Social Responsibility: new approaches to global challenges
(GO-CSR)“.
06/2015
‘Forschungskredit Postdoc’ Research Project “Fighting Corruption in
Global Business: The Role of Firm Size and ‘Collective Action’“. Funding
approved by the Research Committee of the University of Zurich [101,397
CHF].
03/2015
SNF Research Project “Fighting Corruption in Global Business: The
impact of firm size” (with Andreas Scherer). Funding approved by the
Swiss National Science Foundation, Berne (Switzerland) [254,818 CHF].
07/2012
Essex Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis (England).
Funding approved by the Swiss National Science Foundation, Berne
(Switzerland) [2,650 CHF].
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Spring 2016
Strategies of Multinational Companies, University of Zurich
• Instructor of seminar for bachelor students
Fall 2015
Entrepreneurship (in German), University of Zurich
• Instructor of proseminar for bachelor students
Fall 2014
Entrepreneurship (in German), University of Zurich
• Instructor of proseminar for bachelor students
[Best evaluation among tutors: 5.1 of 6.0]
Spring 2014
Globalization and Multinational Firms (in German), University of Zurich
• Guest lecture “Organizing for Corporate Social Responsibility: Fighting
Corruption“
Fall 2013
Entrepreneurship (in German), University of Zurich
• Instructor of proseminar for bachelor students
SUPERVISION OF BACHELOR AND MASTER THESES
Fall 2015
Maja Durdevic: “Die Implementierung des UN Global Compact AntiKorruptions Prinzips – Der Einfluss von Unternehmensgrösse:“ (MA)
Fall 2015
Sarah Jensen: “Fighting Corruption in Global Business: The Case of Small
and Medium-Sized Enterprises in Switzerland and South Korea.” (BA)
Fall 2014
Beatrice Mathews: “Fighting corruption in high-risk countries: The
relationship of compliance and integrity approaches by multinational
corporations and host countries in Southeast Asia.“ (MA)
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Fall 2014
Isabel Bieri: “‚Saubere‘ multinationale Unternehmen in Ländern mit
‚schmutzigen‘ Geschäftspraktiken: Die Rolle verschiedener Formen von
(Ent-)Kopplung in Theorie und Praxis.“ (MA)
Spring 2014
Alice Hengevoss: “The State’s Influence on the Implementation of a
Global Anticorruption CSR Initiative: An Empirical Analysis.“ (BA)
[Nominated for the semester price of the Faculty of Economics,
Business Administration and IT, University of Zurich]
Spring 2014
Ivona Topalovic: “Wie können sich ‚saubere‘ multinationale Unternehmen
‚schmutzigen‘ Geschäftspraktiken in Ländern mit hohen
Korruptionsrisiken widersetzen?“ (MA)
Fall 2013
Pascal Räber: “Das Verhältnis von Korruption und Corporate Social
Responsibility in der Berichterstattung und organisatorischen Praxis von
Multinationalen Unternehmen.” (BA)
Fall 2013
Martin Schiller: “Implementing anti-corruption processes in multinational
corporations: The headquarter-subsidiary relationship.“ (MA)
Spring 2013
Remo Niklaus: “Anti-Korruptionsmassnahmen bei Multinationalen
Unternehmen: Die Rolle von Korruptionsskandalen als Auslöser von
organisationalen Wandelprozessen.” (BA)
SUMMER SCHOOLS
08/2013
ECPR Summer School in Methods and Techniques,
University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
• Course: Analyzing Text, Sound and Image with NVivo 10
08/2012
Summer School, University of Lugano, Switzerland
• Course “Case Studies”
07/2012
Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis, University of Essex,
England
• Course “Panel Data Analysis”
07/2011
Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis, University of Essex,
England
• Course „Survey Data Analysis“
WORK EXPERIENCE / QUALIFICATIONS
Since 03/2012
Research Analyst
Fondation Guilé, Brugger und Partner Consulting, Zurich, Switzerland
• Corporate sustainability reporting analysis acc. to UN Global Compact
08/2008 – 11/2008
Internship, Ernst & Young AG, Stuttgart, Germany
• Area of Corporate Social Responsibility
• Creation of consulting concepts, targeting activities
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Personnel management, supply chain management
03/2007 – 04/2007
Internship, UNICEF Deutschland, Cologne, Germany
• G8 summit Heiligendamm, planning of actions and material creation
• Junior embassador, jury member at the pre-selection
• Research and creation of information material
08/2006 – 10/2006
Social Internship, Hostelling International Bolivia, Bolivia
• Development aid
• School teaching and leisure time program in rural community
• Spanish lessons and work at reception of the HI Hostel, Sucre
03/2006 – 05/2006
Temporary Telephone Assistant, Blaser Swisslube, Stuttgart, Germany
• Supported and acquired customers
• Updated excel database
COMMUNITY SERVICE
08/2003 – 06/2004
August-Hermann-Werner School, Ludwigsburg, Germany
Public school for physically disabled children
VOLUNTARY WORK
Student Organizations
10/2004 – 09/2007 UNICEF-Student Commitment, Tübingen, Germany
• Foundation and guidance
During high-school, Ditzingen, Germany
01/2001 – 12/2002 Speaker of youth forum
07/2000 – 07/2002 Guidance of the SMV “Scholar-Joint-Responsibility”
06/2002 – 03/2003 Organizer, actor and speaker of a video-performance-project
01/2003 – 12/2005 Team captain & youth training, Tennis
LANGUAGES
German:
English:
French:
Spanish:
Latin:
Mother language
Business fluent
Business fluent
Advanced
Latinum
COMPUTER SKILLS
Microsoft Office, STATA, Endnote, Citavi, Lotus Notes, Photoshop CS3, IT administration, PC
& Mac
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REFERENCES
Prof. Dr. Andreas Georg Scherer
Full Professor for Foundations of Business Administration and Theories of the Firm
University of Zurich
Universitaetsstrasse 84, CH-8006 Zurich, Switzerland
Phone: +41 44 634 53 02
Email: andreas.scherer@business.uzh.ch
Michael D. Pfarrer, PhD
Associate Professor of Management, Department of Management, Terry College of Business,
University of Georgia, United States
Phone: +1 706 542 8393
Email: mpfarrer@uga.edu
Prof. Dr. Dennis Schoeneborn
Associate Professor of Organization, Communication, and CSR
Copenhagen Business School
Porcelænshaven 18A, DK-2000 Frederiksberg
Phone: +45 381 542 25
Email: dsc.ikl@cbs.dk
Zurich, 06 April 2016
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