Prof. Dr. Frank-Martin Belz
Professor Dr. Frank-Martin Belz conducts both international and interdisciplinary research on sustainable entrepreneurship. His work has taken him to Boston/USA (2001), Toronto/Canada (2009), Helsinki/Finland (2014), Kampala/Uganda (2023) and Nairobi/Kenya (2024). He studied business administration at the Universities of Giessen and Mannheim and earned his PhD at the University of St. Gallen, where he also served as an assistant professor. In 2003, Prof. Belz became a full professor at TUM in Munich.
| 1966: | Born in Singen/Hohentwil at Lake Constance, Germany |
| 1985 - 1987: | Undergraduate Studies of Business Administration at the University of Giessen |
| 1987 - 1990: | Graduate Studies of Business Administration at the University of Mannheim |
| 1991 - 1995: | Ph.D. studies and research assistant at the University of St. Gallen Degree: Dr. oec. (HSG) |
| 1996 - 2001: | Assistant Professor for Corporate Environmental Management at the University of St. Gallen |
| 1997 - 2001: | President of the oikos Foundation for Economy and Ecology |
| 2001 - 2003: | Associate Professor for Corporate Environmental Management and Eco-Marketing at the University of St. Gallen (HSG)(Switzerland) Vice Director of the Institute for Economy and Ecology at the University of St. Gallen (Switzerland) President of the oikos Foundation for Economy and Ecology |
| since 2003: | Chair of Corporate Sustainability at the Technische Universität München (TUM School of Management) |
| 2004 - 2008: | Founding Academic Director of the Master Program in Consumer Science |
| 2010 - 2013: | Vice-Dean of the TUM School of Management |
| 2012 - 2013: | Distinguished Visiting Professor at Aalto University School of Business (Finland) |
| 2014 - 2016: | Coordinator of the large-scale European research project “Sustainable Lifestyles 2.0: End User Integration, Innovation and Entrepreneurship” (EU-InnovatE) |
| since 2020: | Director of TUM SEED Center |
Belz, FM, Binder, JK. 2017: Sustainable Entrepreneurship: A Convergent Process Model. Business Strategy and the Environment, 26(1): 1-17.
Hertel CJ, Bacq S, Belz, FM It Takes a Village to Sustain a Village. 2019. A Social Identity Perspective on Successful Community-Based Enterprise Creation. Academy of Management Discoveries, 5(4): 438-464.
| 2005: | Teaching Award of the International Center of Food and Life Sciences Weihenstephan at the Technische Universität München by the Students Council |
| 2010: | Award for the „Best Text Book of the Year 2010“ by the German Academic Association for Business Research (VHB) |
- Sustainable Entrepreneurship
- Qualitative Research