Professorship of Sustainable Strategy & Governance
The Professorship of Sustainable Strategy & Governance is part of the Faculty of Business Administration at the University of Sustainability.
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Ann-Christine Schulz
Head of the Professorship of Sustainable Strategy & Governance
E-Mail: ann-christine.schulz (at) uni-sustainability.at
Ann-Christine Schulz is a Professor of Sustainable Strategy & Governance at the University of Sustainability. Her research lies at the intersection of corporate strategy, organizational studies, and corporate governance.
After earning her doctorate at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg, she held a junior professorship in Corporate Strategy at Freie Universität Berlin. She has undertaken research stays at UC Irvine, California, and WU Vienna. At FHWien, she co-founded two research institutes dedicated to the topics of Sustainability and Digital Transformation.
Her award-winning research has been published in leading academic journals, including the Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Management Studies, and Academy of Management Learning and Education. As a board member of the Austrian Association for Management and Organization (ÖVO), she actively promotes dialogue and collaboration between academia and industry.
Selected Publications
- Stock market reactions to downsizing announcements: An analysis through an institutional lens. Schulz, A.-C. & Himme, A. (2022). Socio-Economic Review, 20: 1825–1855.
- The impact of earnings expectations on corporate downsizing. Schulz, A.-C. & Wiersema, M. F. (2018). Strategic Management Journal, 39: 2691−2702.
- What Wall Street wants − Exploring the role of security analysts in the evolution and spread of management concepts. Nicolai, A. T., Schulz, A.-C. & Thomas, T. W. (2010). Journal of Management Studies, 47(1): 162−189.