Institute of Sustainable Corporate Management

PhD Sara Siakala

Research Fellow
Helmholtzstrasse 18 email: sara.siakala(at)uni-ulm.de tel.: +49(0)7 31 - 50 323 51
89081 Ulm room: 1.04 fax: +49(0)7 31 - 50 323 59
Baden-Wuerttemberg
Germany		    

office hours by arrangement

Profile

  • Corporate Sustainability
     
  • Corporate Human Rights Responsibility
     
  • Social Entrepreneurship
     
  • Sustainable Supply Chain Management

  • Lecture: Corporate Human Rights Responsibility (summer semester 2023)
     
  • Seminar: Service Learning (summer semester 2023)
     
  • Seminar: Corporate Human Rights Responsibility (summer semester 2022)
     
  • Seminar: Service Learning (summer semester 2022)
     
  • Seminar: Corporate Human Rights Responsibility (winter semester 2021/2022)
     
  • Seminar: Service Learning (winter semester 2021/2022)
     
  • Seminar: Corporate Human Rights Responsibility (summer semester 2021)
     
  • Seminar: Corporate Sustainability (winter semester 2020/2021)
     
  • Sustainable Supply Chain Management (summer semester 2020)
     
  • Seminar: Corporate Human Rights Responsibility (summer semester 2020)
     
  • Seminar: Corporate Sustainability (winter semester 2019/2020)
     
  • Seminar: Corporate Sustainability (summer semester 2019)
     
  • Sustainable Supply Chain Management (summer semester 2019)
     
  • Seminar: Corporate Sustainability (winter semester 2018/2019)
     
  • Sustainable Supply Chain Management (summer semester 2018)
     
  • Seminar: Corporate Sustainability (winter semester 2017/2018)
     
  • Sustainable Supply Chain Management (summer semester 2017)

  • Since 2017: Research Fellow, Institute for Corporate Sustainability Leadership at Ulm University
     
  • Since 2019: Founder & CEO of hatefree gGmbH (Social Business)
     
  • 2017-2019 Head of a large-scale research project at the BMW Group (research focus: sustainable supply chain management)
     
  • 2016-2017: PhD intern at the BMW Group in the department of Sustainable Supply Chain Management

  • PhD, Ulm University
     
  • M.Sc. in Management and Corporate Sustainability, Cranfield University (GB)
     
  • B.Sc. in International Business Administration, European University Viadrina

Publications

Siakala, S. Business and Human Rights Scholarship: An analytic literature review (forthcoming)

Siakala, S. (2022) Corporate challenges and counter strategies in the implementation of human rights impact assessments, oparu. dx.doi.org/10.18725/OPARU-44846

Siakala S. und Müller M. (2020) Das Potenzial eines Lieferkettengesetzes einen Beitrag zur Optimierung bestehender sozial-ökologischer Konditionen zu leisten, Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftspolitik, 69(1): 34–43.

Müller, M. und Siakala, S. (2019) Nachhaltiges Lieferkettenmanagement: Von der Strategie zur Umsetzung. Berlin: de Gruyter. Online at: https://www.degruyter.com/view/product/525122?rskey=pWEyfp