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Maike Buhr, M.Sc.

21335 Lüneburg, Universitätsallee 1, C11.421
Fon +49.4131.677-2262, maike.buhr@leuphana.de
Centre for Sustainability Management (CSM)

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Vita

Since 2011 Maike Buhr is part of the Centre for Sustainability Management (CSM). She worked within the MBA Sustainability Management team from December 2011 until September 2017. Her field of activity was research management and e-tutoring. Maike also conducted research in the project ‘Processes of Sustainability Transformation’ funded by the Robert Bosch Foundation and hosted by Leuphana University. She then worked at the Chair of Sustainability Economics and Management in two projects funded by the Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt (DBU), called 'Crowdfunding of Environmental Innovations' and the project 'From Eco to Ecopreneur - Promoting the Foundation of Environmentally Oriented Start-Ups and SMEs in Environmentally Aware Target Groups'. She has been a lecturer in the MBA Sustainability Management since 2014. She studied political science as well as cultural and social anthropology at Muenster University and completed her Master of Science Degree in Human Ecology at Lund University (Sweden).

Within the scope of her research, she is concerned with the question of how actors, especially individuals as change agents, can contribute to the sustainability transformation of companies. Her research interests include change agents, leadership and entrepreneurship, organizational and competence development, corporate sustainability, education for sustainable development as well as sustainability transformations.

Projects

  1. Vom Öko zum Ökopreneur – Förderung der Gründung von nachhaltigkeitsorientierten Start-ups und KMU bei nachhaltigkeitsbewussten Studierenden und jungen Erwachsenen
    Jacob Hörisch (Project manager, academic) , Maike Buhr (Project staff)
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    Project: Research

  2. Crowdfunding of Environmental Innovations: Identification of target groups and communication of success factors for start-ups & SMEs
    Jacob Hörisch (Project manager, academic) , Isabell Tenner (Project staff) , Maike Buhr (Project staff)
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    Project: Research

  3. Processes of Sustainability Transformation (Promotionskolleg)
    Matthias Barth (Project manager, academic) , Lydia Kater-Wettstädt (Coordination) , Daniel Fischer (Partner) , Jantje Halberstadt (Partner) , Stefan Schaltegger (Partner) , Julia Leventon (Partner) , Harald Heinrichs (Partner) , Daniel J. Lang (Partner) , Arnim Wiek (Partner) , Klaus Kümmerer (Partner) , Henrik von Wehrden (Partner) , Ulli Vilsmaier (Partner) , Jorge Gustavo Rodríguez Aboytes (Project staff) , Karoline Pöggel (Project staff) , Charlott Hübel (Project staff) , Maike Buhr (Project staff) , Felix Beyers (Project staff) , Josefine Laudan (Project staff) , Stefanie Albrecht (Project staff) , Hanna Weber (Project staff) , Julius Rathgens (Project staff) , Lisa Keβler (Project staff) , Stefan Hilser (Project staff) , Sadhbh Juarez Bourke (Project staff)
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    Project: Research

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Publications

Journal contributions

  1. From Environmentalist to Ecopreneur? Target Groups and Role Models as Key Elements in Sustainable Entrepreneurship Education
    Jacob Hörisch (Author) , Maren Fokuhl (Author) , Maike Buhr (Author) , Petra Dickel (Author) , 01.02.2026 , in: Sustainable Development, 34, 1 , p. 1129-1140 , 12 p.

    Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review

  2. The Role of Individual Beliefs for Corporate Sustainability Transformations
    Maike Buhr (Author) , Ilka Weissbrod (Author) , 01.01.2026 , in: Business Ethics, the Environment & Responsibility, 35, 1 , p. 340-366 , 27 p.

    Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review

  3. Designing Understanding: Sustainability Entrepreneurs Connect with Adopters
    Leonie Eising (Author) , Ursula Weisenfeld (Author) , Maike Buhr (Author) , 17.06.2025 , in: Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings, 2025, 1 , 6 p.

    Research output: Journal contributions › Conference article in journal › Research › peer-review

  4. Processes of sustainability transformation across systems scales: leveraging systemic change in the textile sector
    Julia Leventon (Author) , Maike Buhr (Author) , Lisa Keßler (Author) , Jorge Gustavo Rodríguez Aboytes (Author) , Felix Beyers (Author) , 01.03.2024 , in: Sustainability Science, 19, 2 , p. 469-488 , 20 p.

    Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review

  5. Individual change agents for corporate sustainability transformation: a systematic literature review
    Maike Buhr (Author) , Dorli Harms (Author) , Stefan Schaltegger (Author) , 01.12.2023 , in: Benchmarking: An International Journal, 30, 10 , p. 4221–4247 , 27 p.

    Research output: Journal contributions › Scientific review articles › Research

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Activities

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