Handbook of the Philosophical Foundations of Business Ethics

Christoph Lütge is Full Professor of Business Ethics at Technical University of Munich (TUM) and the Director of the TUM Institute for Ethics in Artificial Intelligence (IEAI). He is Distinguished Visiting Professor of Tokyo University and has held further visiting positions at Harvard, Taipei, Kyoto, Stockholm and others. He has a background both in philosophy as well as information studies, having taken his PhD at the Technical University of Braunschweig in 1999 and his habilitation at the University of Munich (LMU) in 2005. In 2007, he was awarded a Heisenberg Fellowship by the German Research Foundation. He has published extensively on business ethics, including his books “AI with Integrity: At the Intersection of AI Ethics and Business Ethics” (Springer, 2026) and “Business Ethics: An Economically Informed Perspective” (Oxford University Press, 2021, with Matthias Uhl).

Marianne Thejls Ziegler is a research associate at the Chair of Business Ethics at the Technical University of Munich (TUM). She completed her PhD at Copenhagen Business School (CBS). Her research addresses the ethics of digital technologies, corporate social responsibility, and foundational questions in business ethics, including work on integrity. Together with Christoph Lütge, she has examined the ethical dimensions of virtual work environments. Through her article "Critical Intuitions in Stakeholder Theory and Political CSR: The Effect of Identity Constituting Values on the Dynamics of Business Ethical Debates" (Humanistic Management Journal, 2025), she has contributed to the debate on tacit premises of business ethics.