Frank-Martin Belz has been a Full Professor of Corporate Sustainability at Technische Universität München (TUM School of Management) since 2003. He studied Business Administration at the University of Mannheim (Germany) and obtained his doctoral degree and habilitation from the University of St. Gallen (Switzerland). From 2004 until 2008 he was Academic Director of the Master Consumer Affairs, a leading international master program of the TUM School of Management. In 2009 he released “Sustainability Marketing: A Global Perspective” (together with Ken Peattie), which received the prestigious VHB Award for “Best Textbook of the Year”. From 2012 to 2013 he was Distinguished Visiting Professor at Aalto University School of Business (Finland). During 2014-2016 he was coordinator of the large-scale European research project “Sustainable Lifestyles 2.0: End User Integration, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship (EU-InnovatE)”. Since 2020 he has been Director of the TUM SEED Cente, which focusses on the intersection of sustainable energies, entrepreneurship and development in the Global South.
His primary research interest is entrepreneurship in the context of sustainable development. In terms of methodology, he is interested in qualitative research, more specifically case study research. His research has been published in leading international journals like Academy of Management Discoveries, Business Strategy and the Environment, and Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice.
TUM SEED Center: Sustainable Energies, Entrepreneurship and Development in the Global South, funded 2020-2024 by DAAD, exceed and the Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development. For further information see www.seed.tum.de
