Business Ethics and Digitization

Prof. Dr. Christoph Lütge is director of the Institute for Ethics in Artificial Intelligence (IEAI), founded in 2019 at the Technical University of Munich and holds the Peter-Löscher Endowed Chair of Business Ethics. Prof. Dr. Lütge conducts research in the field of business ethics and investigates ethical agency under the conditions of globalization and digitization. In specific, he explores regulatory ethics – ethical behavior in the socio-economic framework of a globalized world.

Prof. Dr. Matthias Uhl is professor for "social implications and ethical aspects of AI" at Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt. Prof. Dr. Uhl's research concentrates on ethics of digitization and business ethics. Further research interests are experimental ethics, experimental economics and behavioral economics as well as the theory of science.

Alexander Kriebitz is a political scientist, who studies the overlap of international law, business ethics and international relations. His current project is a re-examination of literature on Business and Human Rights and the division of labor between states and companies in fulfilling human rights responsibilities. To this end, Alexander Kriebitz published research articles in the Business and Human Rights Journal and in the Human Rights Review.

Raphael Max is an economist with a philosophical background who studies political, economic and social conditions of human behavior in a modern globalized world. A particular focus of his research is the discrepancy between moral judgment and human action. Raphael’s current project is the analysis of the normative perception of economic activities under uncertainty and moral evaluation of investment decisions.