Adrian Gombert
Publications
- Gombert, Adrian; Ruehle, Rebecca C. (2024): Beyond Black and White: Assessing the Legitimacy of Multi-Stakeholder-Initiatives between the Descriptive and the Normative Perspective. Business Ethics Quarterly, Volume 36 , Issue 2 , April 2026 , pp. 240 - 274.
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/business-ethics-quarterly/article/beyond-black-and-white-assessing-the-legitimacy-of-multistakeholder-initiatives-between-the-descriptive-and-the-normative-perspective/44F6FC492318EF9E5F36AA39AB2813F6 - Gombert, Adrian (2026): Deliberation without Romance (or Cynicism): The Role of Corporations in Deliberative Democracy. Journal of Business Ethics, published online.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10551-026-06430-5 - Gombert, Adrian (2025): The Legitimizing Power of Contestation: Grounding Global Multi-Stakeholder Initiatives in the Rawlsian Theory of Justice. Business Ethics Quarterly , Volume 35 , Issue 3 , July 2025 , pp. 392 - 422.
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/business-ethics-quarterly/article/legitimizing-power-of-contestation-grounding-global-multistakeholder-initiatives-in-the-rawlsian-theory-of-justice/C8671992F0151D1448BC00EB47BB6798
Awards
- 2022, Academy of Management (AOM): Winner of the "SIM Division Best Paper Award" for "Deliberation without Romance (nor Cynicism): The Role of Corporations in Deliberative Democracy".
- 2021, Corporate Responsibility Research Conference 2021 (CRRC), Winner of the "Best PhD-Paper" Award for "The Legitimizing Power of Contestation—Grounding Multi-stakeholder initiatives in the Rawlsian Theory of Justice".
- 2021, Academy of Management (AOM): Finalist of the "SIM Best Student Paper Award" for "Three Dimensions of Legitimacy and their Meaning in the Context of Multi-stakeholder Initiatives" (with Rebecca C. Ruehle)




