Dr. David Risi
Profile

Dr. David Risi Dozent
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Address
Berner Fachhochschule
Business School
Institut Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Brückenstrasse 73
3005 Bern
Activities
Responsibilities
Research Professor for Responsible Management
CV
Biography
- David Risi is a Research Professor of Responsible Management at the Bern University of Applied Sciences (Business) since September 2020. He is also an affiliated senior research fellow at the University of St. Gallen and an affiliated postdoctoral researcher at the University of Zurich. David combines empirical and conceptual methods in his work, which focuses on business ethics and management theory. He is a member of the Editorial Review Board of Journal of Management Studies, included in the Financial Times Top 50 journals list.
David was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Oxford (Saïd Business School) and a lecturer at the School of Management and Law at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW). For several years, he also worked for a management consulting firm as a sustainability reporting analyst.
His research has appeared in practice-oriented articles, book chapters, leading international journals such as Business & Society, International Journal of Management Reviews, Journal of Management Inquiry and Journal of Management Studies, and the Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings. He is the author of Corporate Social Responsibility (Elements in Business Strategy), published by Cambridge University Press. His research has received various awards, including the 2017 Academy of Management Social Issues in Management Best Dissertation Award.
In various university bachelor and (executive) master programs, David has taught, among others, Introduction to Business Administration, Organization and Management Theory, Strategic Sustainability Management, Management Decision Making, and Business Ethics.
Since 2022, David has been working as Principal Investigator with a small team of researchers on corporate social responsibility in Swiss financial institutions. This project is financially supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) and carried out with project partners from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and the University of Oxford.
Publications
Risi, D. , et al. (2022). Institutional theory-based research on Corporate Social Responsibility: Bringing values back in. International Journal of Management Reviews, forthcoming.
Risi, D., Vigneau, L., & Bohn, S., & Wickert, C. W. (2022). Institutional theory-based research on Corporate Social Responsibility: Bringing values back in. International Journal of Management Reviews, 1–74.
Risi, D., & Marti, E. (2022). Illuminating the dark side of values: A framework for institutional research. Journal of Management Inquiry, forthcoming.
Risi, D., & Marti, E. (2022). Illuminating the dark side of values: A framework for institutional research. Journal of Management Inquiry, forthcoming.
Risi, D., Paetzold, F., & Kellers, A. (2021). Wealthy private investors and socially responsible investing: The influence of reference groups. Sustainability, 13(22), pp. 1-26.
https://arbor.bfh.ch/15835/1/sustainability-13-12931.pdf
Memberships
Internal memberships
Institut Sustainable Business
Institut Innovation & Strategic Entrepreneurship
External memberships
Academy of Management
European Group of Organization Studies
Journal of Management Studies (Editorial Review Board)
University of St. Gallen (Institute for Business Ethics)
University of Zurich (Department of Banking and Finance)