| 12/2024 - now | Postdoc RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau, Chair of Business Administration, esp. Sustainability Management of Prof. Dr. Katharina Spraul |
| 12/2018 - 12/2024 | Research assistant & PhD student RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau, Chair of Business Administration, esp. Sustainability Management of Prof. Dr. Katharina Spraul |
10/2016 - 11/2018 | Studied Industrial Engineering and Management, area of study Mechanical Engineering (Master) TU Kaiserslautern Focus: Human resource management, sustainability management, materials science, production engineering |
10/2012 - 02/2017 | Study of industrial engineering, area of study mechanical engineering (Bachelor) TU Kaiserslautern |
| 08/2002 - 06/2010 | Theodor-Heuss-Gymnasium Sulzbach |
| 04/2018-11/2018 | Research Assistant TU Kaiserslautern, Chair of Human Resource Management, Leadership and Organization Activity: General chair tasks |
| 05/2017-11/2018 | Research Assistant TU Kaiserslautern, Chair of Human Resource Management, Leadership and Organization Activity: Support in the research project "BeWaB" |
Bachelor courses | Courses in the Master's program |
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Loos, C., & Spraul, K. (2024, August). Measuring first-order legitimacy judgments: Development of the corporate profession legitimacy scale. 84th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (AOM), Chicago.
Loos, C., & Spraul, K. (2024, July). Measuring first-order legitimacy judgments: Development of the corporate profession legitimacy scale. 40th EGOS Colloquium, Milan.
Loos, C., & Spraul K. (2024, April). Measuring first-order legitimacy judgments: Development of the corporate profession legitimacy scale. 2nd Annual Organizational Legitimacy Workshop, Amsterdam.
Friedrich, C., & Spraul K. (2023, May). Sustainability manager's struggle for internal legitimacy: The influence of validity and consensus on propriety. 1st Annual Organizational Legitimacy Workshop, Lausanne.
Friedrich, C., & Spraul, K. (2022, August). "Either you need me, or I'm leaving!"How sustainability managers influence the legitimacy process. 82nd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (AOM), Seattle.
Friedrich, C., & Spraul K. (2022, June). "Either you need me, or I'm leaving!"How sustainability managers influence the legitimacy process. GRONEN Conference 2022, Amsterdam.
Friedrich, C. (2021, October). Legitimizing a new occupation: The legitimacy strategies of sustainability managers. Fall Conference of the Scientific Commission on Sustainability Management of the Association of University Professors of Business Administration. Leuphana University, Lüneburg.
Spraul, K., & Friedrich, C. (2021, July). Stakeholder pressure through the lens of corporate social responsibility and as part of the occupational rhetorics of sustainability managers. De La Salle University's DBA Program, virtual event.
Friedrich, C. (2021, January). Legitimating the sustainability manager occupation: Legitimacy strategies on the individuallevel. Business in Dialogue on: Sustainable Developments. Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences, virtual event.
Friedrich, C. (2020, August). ONE Doctorial Consortium. 80th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (AOM), virtual event.
Friedrich, C. (2019, June). Justifying the sustainability manager profession: Occupational rhetorics in the public and nonprofit sector. Doctoral and postdoctoral colloquium "Management Science 2019", Saarbrücken.
Journals:
Loos, C., & Spraul, K. (2024). The why, how, and when of CSR managers' internal legitimation strategies. Journal of Management Studies. Advance online publication. doi. org/10.1111/joms.13145
Conference proceedings:
Loos, C., & Spraul, K. (2024). Measuring first-order legitimacy judgments: Development of the corporate profession legitimacy scale. Academy of Management Proceedings, 2024(1), 16407. https://doi.org/10.5465/AMPROC.2024.16407abstract.
Friedrich, C., & Spraul, K. S. (2022). "Either you need me, or I'm leaving!" How sustainability managers influence the legitimacy process. Academy of Management Proceedings, 2022(1), 12328. https://doi.org/10.5465/AMBPP.2022.12328abstract.
Articles in edited volumes:
Spraul, K., Hufnagel, J., Friedrich, C. & Brill, N. (2019). Talents for key positions in organizations: the sustainability manager as a profession. In Y. Liu (Ed.), Research handbook of international talent management (pp. 274-317). Edward Elgar. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781786437105.00024.
University publications:
Loos, C. (2024). Turning corporate social responsibility (CSR) inside-out: CSR professionals through the lens of legitimacy [Dissertation]. University of Kaiserslautern-Landau. doi.org/10.26204/KLUEDO/8550
Friedrich, C. (2018). Convergence or divergence? The competence profile of a sustainability manager and sustainability management courses in Germany [Unpublished Master's thesis]. Technical University of Kaiserslautern.
Friedrich, C. (2018). Models vs. documents - Conceptual foundations and their use in product development [Research project]. Technical University of Kaiserslautern. https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hbz:386-kluedo-52887.
Friedrich, C. (2017). Consequences of E-HRM in organizations [Bachelor thesis]. Technical University of Kaiserslautern. https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hbz:386-kluedo-48333.
Practice brochures and blogs:
Loos, C., Pfalzgraf, T. & Rhude, C. (2025). Assessing the credibility of sources: A practical guide. University of Kaiserslautern-Landau. rptu.de/s/zuysvc
Loos, C. & Spraul , K. (October 24, 2024). Navigating the Legitimacy Jungle: Insights from CSR Managers. Journal of Management Studies Blog. managementstudiesinsights. com/navigating-the-legitimacy-jungle-insights-from-csr-managers/
Langhauser, C. & Loos, C. (2024). Education for sustainable development. University of Kaiserslautern-Landau, Rhineland-Palatinate.
Friedrich, C. (2021). The legitimacy strategies of sustainability managers. Technical University of Kaiserslautern.
Friedrich, C. (2020). Core competencies in sustainability management. Technical University of Kaiserslautern.