• 04.02.2018

    Schwimmer

    Title of Dissertation:
    Exploring boundary conditions of aspirational CSR communication through a business ethics lens – evidence from the garment industry

    Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Andreas Suchanek
    University: HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management
    Scholarship: KSG Scholarship
    Cohort: 5. Cohort, 2018-2021

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    Companies are increasingly confronted with the demand to respond to an increased level of stakeholder sensitivity to ethical, social, and environmental issues. Consequently, corporate social responsibility (CSR) communication serves as a strategic means to counter negative public outcry, build reputation, as well as to attain legitimacy (Palazzo & Scherer, 2006). However, in a context of public suspicion and distrust, discrepancies between CSR talk and action are being perceived as sources of hypocrisy or greenwashing and potential threats to organizational authenticity, the call for consistency seems to be appropriate (Christensen et al., 2013). A recent example is H&M’s “Conscious collection” which is part of the company’s ambitious plan to only use organic or recycled materials by 2040. The company claimed on their website, that every piece in the collection is made from sustainable sourced material, such as 100 percent organic cotton, Tencel or recycled polyester. However, some products of the collection were made of only 5 percent recycled materials, and 95 per cent non-recycled polyester, misleading consumers (Alexandra Mondalek, 2020). In the shadows of green washing accusations, H&M’s public commitments to sustainability, seemingly fail to respond to the public’s expectations of consistency in walking the CSR talk. Yet, such requests ignore the performative nature of communication and the prospect of aspirational corporate messages to stimulate further exploration and developments in the CSR arena, leading to social change (Christensen et al., 2013). Therefore, the aim of this research is to answer the following research question: under which conditions can aspirational CSR talk unfold its the performative potential?

    Answering the call for more theoretical exploration as well as empirical research on the performative nature of CSR communication (Christensen et al., 2013; Schoeneborn et al., 2020), the thesis will combine both approaches.

    First of all, the concept of self-commitment, relevant inconsistencies as well as the concept of the double syllogism (Suchanek, 2015) will serve as a conceptual foundation for a systematic analysis of boundary conditions of aspirational talk as signals. The concept of self-commitment will serve as a starting point to analyze the moral implications of aspirational talk as well as under which conditions it can be successful.

    The ethical of concept of self-commitment has been chosen, due to its ability to make sense of the space between talk and action. This space might hold some insights about the effectives of aspirational talk, since it presents time to navigate certain (re)actions. Due to a remaining lack of regulatory framework concerning corporate responsibility, organizations commit themselves (voluntary) to be guided by certain aims and values under restrictions such as competition and scarce resources. The concept of self-commitment refers to a reflected behavior, aiming to reach ones goals and values, by increasing the cost of opposing courses of actions (Suchanek, 2015).

    Due to the relative scarcity of empirical research on aspirational CSR communication, and more specifically of research into its boundary conditions, grounded theory methods are employed in this study in a second step. To explore and describe under which conditions aspirational talk turns from being motivational to being perceived as hypocrisy, a case study approach is suitable (Eisenhardt, 1989). Therefore, perspectives of different stakeholders will be gathered in order to gain insights into their daily experiences with aspirational talk, to identify certain incidents and learn more about the practice and potential boundary conditions of aspirational CSR communication.

    Data collection will be built on several in-depth qualitative interviews with experts working in the apparel industry. The focus of this research is the apparel industry, where significant challenges need to be addressed to ensure sustainable production of garments within complex and global supply chains. The interviews will be approached in a semi-structured way, with the overall aim of discovering how organizational members are making sense and experiencing the process of communicating CSR goals and intentions. The concept of self-commitment will be used as a structure for the interview guide.

    Until this point, the case selection in terms of geographical scope and organizational size is not clear yet. Further the hierarchical level of the interviewed organizational team member has not been defined yet. Potentially, extreme cases, so-called polar types will be chosen for analysis.

    Identifying boundary conditions, under which aspirational talk can unfold its full potential could lead to valuable strategic implications for CSR management. Especially, by gathering practical insights from CSR managers about how they experience challenges in the process of aspirational talk, could lead to best or worst practices derivations.

    From a theoretical perspective, this research answers the demand for more conceptual and empirical research on aspirational CSR communication (Christensen et al., 2013; Schoeneborn et al., 2020). Applying a business ethics frame, using the concepts of self-commitment, relevant inconsistencies and the double syllogism, adds a normative perspective to the discussion and broadens the view on aspirational talk.

    Literature:

    Alexandra Mondalek. (2020, Mai 18). How to Avoid the Greenwashing Trap. Business of Fashion. https://www.businessoffashion.com/articles/professional/greenwashing-fashion-sustainability-marketing

    Christensen, L. T., Morsing, M., & Thyssen, O. (2013). CSR as aspirational talk. Organization, 20(3), 372–393. https://doi.org/10.1177/1350508413478310

    Eisenhardt, K. M. (1989). Building Theories from Case Study Research. The Academy of Management Review, 14(4), 532. https://doi.org/10.2307/258557

    Palazzo, G., & Scherer, A. G. (2006). Corporate Legitimacy as Deliberation: A Communicative Framework. Journal of Business Ethics, 66(1), 71–88. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-006-9044-2

    Schoeneborn, D., Morsing, M., & Crane, A. (2020). Formative Perspectives on the Relation Between CSR Communication and CSR Practices: Pathways for Walking, Talking, and T(w)alking. Business & Society, 59(1), 5–33. https://doi.org/10.1177/0007650319845091

    Suchanek, A. (2015). Unternehmensethik: In Vertrauen investieren. Mohr Siebeck.

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  • 30.08.2016

     

    Here you will find information about the application to the doctoral program and current calls for applications.

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  • 31.08.2016

     

    Title of Dissertation:
    Exploring the roots of historical bias amplified by artificial intelligence: the programmer’s role

    Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Laura Marie Edinger-Schons
    University: University of Mannheim
    Scholarship: KAS Scholarship (Konrad Adenauer Stiftung)
    Cohort: 7th Cohort, since 2020
    Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

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    Businesses and governments increasingly employ automated decision making through artificial intelligence (AI) in areas that threaten fundamental human rights. Machine learning (ML), a branch of AI that learns from historical data, reflects continuous unfair discrimination due to historical bias. In response to these ethical issues, most previous research focuses on technological and statistical fixes. Therefore, I argue against technological solutionism to fix cultural problems, given that historical bias reflects society's prejudices, values, and the world as it is or as it was. These issues are an opportunity to question structural inequalities and the values implicitly encoded in technology. Furthermore, understanding bias in AI aids to avoid harm to vulnerable populations, business scandals, and discrimination lawsuits. In the most ambitious classification experiment of our times, classifiers as race, gender, disability, amongst others, must be understood to avoid further harm and the repetition of historical injustices through AI. There is a lack of research about the mechanisms of bias transfer from programmers to the AI, especially susceptible in the initial problem formulation stage, framed by the stakeholders in control of the AI process. Programmers are political actors because they also encode bias when choosing a fairness metric that decides to preserve biased decisions of the past. It depends on whether they assume the status quo is neutral or not.

    Computer ethicists identify three categories of bias: pre-existing social bias, technical bias related to data and technology limitations, and emergent bias, which results from the interaction of society and technology. This paper focuses on the pre-existing social bias reflected in the problem formulation stage, where a problem is identified and hypothesized as solvable by technology. The lived experiences of the programmers inform their causal inferences and impacts the entire AI pipeline. Bias goes so deep that it is entrenched in our language and word embeddings which serve as foundations for more complex algorithms. Hence, this paper explores historical bias and prejudices from the programmers through an online survey experiment. It also explores programmers' perception of fairness in AI, modern racism scale (MSR), psychological ownership, agency, legitimizing justifications for system inequality, and social orientation dominance theory to predict endorsement of actions to level the playing field or correct system inequalities. Moreover, Ethics Position Theory on relativism and idealism and Machiaveniallism will be explored, which predict unethical behaviour in IT systems (Winter et al. 2004) and bridge understanding about the global AI ethics debate between different cultures.

    The experiment has different stages. One of them involves asking for feedback from programmers on an AI chatbot represented as a white male and measure if any of them suggest diversity; the treatment group will watch a video on intersectional theory and bias. The treatment group will also assess the impression or negative affect from the speaker: one speaker is a black transexual woman, and another is a white male. The next step consists of evaluating their endorsement for affirmative action regarding the diversity of representation in an algorithm designed to admit students in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. Moreover, their conceptual understanding and preference for fairness metrics to assess algorithmic bias will be evaluated. To subsidize blindspots and include multiple perspectives, I propose an intersectionality framework to map unintended consequences in AI. There are implications for stakeholder consultation, endorsement of affirmative action to the target group of black trans women and fairness notions in AI, and gender and racial bias in programmers at the problem formulation stage. Additionally, theoretical contributions to social dominance orientation and its new subdimension of egalitarianism that refer to group based orientation, to be complimented by intersectionality theory which considers subgroups and the overlapping of multiple systems of oppression. Filling in the gap regarding programmers’ agency on AI bias and their role to reduce it.

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    • Gender Equality
    • Poverty and Social Inequality
    • Intersectional and Decolonizing Theories
    • Artificial Intelligence and Fourth Industrial Revolution Technologies

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    • 2018, Master of Science in Public Policy, University of Bristol, England
    • 2016, Bachelor of Law, Universidad Iberoamericana, Dominican Republic

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    [item title="Professional and Academic Career"]

    • 2020, Human Rights Advisor on Artificial Intelligence and Inclusion, GENIA Latina, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
    • 2019, Independent Gender Consultant, Woman Up, Mate Consultancy, Bristol, England.
    • 2018, Director of Gender and Inclusion, Ministry of Women, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
    • 2018, President, Volunteering in Global Shapers Santo Domingo, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
    • 2016, Research and Innovation Director, United Nations Programme for Development and the Office of the Vice-President of the Dominican Republic joint program
    • 2016, Research Intern, Run for America Political Consultancy, New York, United States.
    • 2013, Research Fellow, Vice-president of the Dominican Republic, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

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    • Roman, Arlette. How Should an Understanding of Gender Inequalities Inform the Design and Delivery of Policies to Tackle Global Poverty. Rome, Italy: BC Publishing House, 2019. Review of Socio-Economic Perspectives (RSEP), University of Washington Rome Centre. ISBN: 978-605-80676-9-1

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    • 2021, Business and Society Conference, University of Namur, "Exploring the roots of historical bias amplified by artificial intelligence: an interdisciplinary approach", Belgium.
    • 2020, Cumbre Internacional de Jóvenes Líderes, “Artificial Intelligence and Inclusion for Latin America”, Puerto Rico.
    • 2020, UNIDAS Dialogue on COVID-19 from a Gender Perspective, “COVID-19 and Digitalization: Evaluating Impact through an Intersectional Lens”, German Foreign Ministry, Germany.
    • 2019, 15th RSEP International Conference on Economic, Finance and Social Sciences, “How an understanding of gender inequalities informs policies to tackle global poverty?”, University of Washington in Rome, Italy.

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    • Member, Executive Board in the Global Artificial Intelligence Ethics Institute (GAIEI) by Prof. Dr. Emmanuel Goffi.
    • Member, Global Shapers Community, World Economic Forum (WEF).
    • Member, “UNIDAS” Initiative by the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs for the Cooperation with Latin America.
    • Founder, International Law Students Association Chapter Universidad Iberoamericana (UNIBE), Dominican Republic.
    • Member, United Nations Association in Dominican Republic (UNA-DR).
    • Director of International Relations, Faculty of Law Alumni Association, Universidad Iberoamericana (UNIBE).
    • Member, ATLAS Women Lawyers in Human Rights Berlin

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  • 31.08.2016

    Emma van den Terrell

    Title of Dissertation:
    Debating Due Diligence and Responsibility: from Law to Impact Valuation

    Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Laura Marie Edinger-Schons
    University: University of Mannheim
    Scholarship: tba
    Cohort: 7th Cohort, since 2020
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    Governments and businesses alike are increasingly interested in accounting for the social and environmental impacts of businesses’ endeavors. On the one hand, a growing number of governments are seeking to define human rights due diligence responsibilities through national legislation. On the other hand, groups of companies are developing ways to measure their positive and negative externalities by creating new impact valuation methodologies. These differing approaches represent just two ways to account for corporate moral responsibility in an interconnected world.

    This dissertation asks the following questions: how is moral responsibility conceptualized in these debates, and how are ethical unintended consequences addressed? The first paper examines the debates surrounding the German Human Rights Due Diligence Law (also known as the supply chain law). The following papers examine the ethics of Impact Valuation—the process of putting a monetary value on businesses’ positive and negative social and environmental impacts—as it relates to risk, business ethics, non-financial reporting, and unintended consequences.

     

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    • Normative Discourse
    • Business and Human Rights
    • Social Responsibility and Business
    • Intersectionality
    • Radical Individualism / Common Good Divide
    • Impact Valuation

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    • 2018, Master of Theological Studies in Religion, Ethics, Politics, Harvard Divinity School, United States of America
    • 2015, Bachelor of Arts in Religion and Peace and Justice Studies, Wellesley College, United States of America
    • 2014, Semester Abroad, Kings College London, United Kingdom

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    • New Editor Literary Services (2020)
    • Arvato Financial Solutions (2020)
    • House of One Berlin – House of Prayer and Learning (2019)
    • The Jiyan Foundation for Human Rights (2017 - 2018)
    • Andover-Harvard Theological Library (2016-2018)
    • Zentrum Überleben (2015-2016)
    • Wellesley Centers for Women (2011-2015)

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    • Business and Society Research Seminar, University of Namur, Belgium 17 -16 June 2021

    • Business and Human Rights Young Researchers Summit, Geneva, Switzerland 16 -17 September 2021

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  • 31.08.2016

     Taiwo

    Title of Dissertation:  Essays on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) as Risk Management Strategy

    Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Laura Marie Edinger-Schons
    University: University of Mannheim
    Scholarship: KSG Scholarship
    Cohort: 7th Cohort, since 2020
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    This research examines the social and cultural issues in corporate digital responsibility (CDR). Based on data to be collected from staff of telecommunications companies in both Nigeria and Germany, this research investigates the influence of firms’ business models on their practice of corporate digital responsibility, how firms’ internal incentive structures impede or promote the implementation of sound corporate digital responsibility, the social and cultural barriers that impede the implementation of sound corporate digital responsibility, the roles played by data protection and regulatory agencies, and how do these influence firms’ approach to CDR. This research also investigates consumers’ evaluation of CDR, as well as the extent to which socio-demographic variables influence consumers’ attitudes to CDR. Primary data to be collected   from   respondents   (telecoms   employees   and   consumers),   and   secondary   data   from   annual reports, ethics statements, news articles, and regulatory records will facilitate answers to the research questions, making it possible to also identify cross-country differences in approaches to CDR.

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    • Corporate Social Responsibility
    • Corporate Digital Responsibility
    • Responsibility for new technologies
    • Shaping ethical workplaces

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    • 2019, Master of Science Management, Technical University of Munich, Germany
    • 2014, Bachelor of Technology Computer Science, Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Nigeria

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    • 2019 – 2020, Consultant, Allianz Technology, Munich, Germany
    • 2018 – 2019, Working student, Allianz, Munich, Germany
    • 2017 – 2018, Intern – Product development, Infineon Technology, Munich, Germany
    • 2017 – 2018, Graduate Research Assistant, Technical University of Munich, Germany

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  • 31.08.2016

     Oleg

    Title of Dissertation:
    Systematic study of coaching ethics: economic approach

    Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Andreas Suchanek 
    University: HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management 
    Scholarship: KSG Scholarship
    Cohort: 7th Cohort, since 2020
    Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

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    According to a global study by ICF (2020), the largest coaching association in the world, there were an estimated 71,000 coaches in 2019, which is 33 % more than in 2015. The number of managers using coaching methods has increased by 46 %. At the same time, coaching community is confronted with increasingly complex ethical dilemmas. What understandable and manageable ethical guidance can coaching ethics offer coaches and coaching associations in this situation?

    Since there is no binding (legal) coaching regulation (Ebermann, 2018) and no "coaching assessment "pope"" (Geissler, 2016, p. 52) that define coaching and determine its rules, coaching community is confronted with ethical pluralism (Iordanou & Williams, 2016, p.2). Coaching is thus both an expression and a reflection of modern society (Aristu, 2016, p.115). This dissertation project therefore aims to investigate how, despite competing coaching approaches and the pluralistic spectrum of individual, cultural and professional values, an integrative core (Suchanek, 1994) of coaching ethics can be defined that allows understandable and manageable, yet differentiated ethical orientations to be derived for coaches and coaching associations.

    The integrative core is defined as do no illegitimate harm (Suchanek, 2017) and represents, within the framework of economic theory, a kind of systematic - in the sense of: theoretically integrated – side constraint (Suchanek, 1994, p.103) of an ethical coaching practice. This side constraint can be understood at the same time as a free-standing point of view (Rawls, 1998) claiming universal applicability independent of pluralism of partly competing purposes (Kirchgeorg et. al., 2019) of various coaching stakeholders. To define the integrative core of coaching ethics, the concept of pragmatic reduction is used, which allows the introduction of a schema "...as a very general, systematic, unifying structure for the manageable overcoming ("calculation") of problems..." (Suchanek, 1994, p.53). A (purely) market perspective on coaching, as an exclusively instrumental action process (e.g., Hannafey & Vitulano, 2013) with rather positivist view on coaching ethics (e.g., Oellerich, 2016; Schermuly & Graßmann, 2019) (Thesis) and its (purely) philosophical-normative viewpoints (e.g., Geissler, 2004; Schmidt-Lellek, 2015) (Antithesis) are integrated (Synthesis) with the help of the economic approach (Suchanek, 1994). The concept of legitimacy (Suchanek, 2019) provides another theoretical foundation.

    For exemplary differentiated applications of the integrative core of coaching ethics, the concept of the Ethical Compass (Suchanek, 2019) is applied. The choice of the Ethical Compass as a heuristic can be justified on the basis of the practical syllogism (Suchanek, 2015, p.42 - 45).

    Literatur

    Aristu, J. (2016). Gott schuf den Menschen, und der formt sich selbst. In: Wegener, R., Loebbert, M., Fritze, A. (eds) Coaching und Gesellschaft. Springer, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-09636-6_7

    Geißler, H. (2004). Braucht Coaching eine philosophisch begründete Ethik? Zur Begründung eines systemischwertrationalen Imperativs für Coaching. Organisationsberatung – Supervision – Coaching, (2), 173–186.

    Geißler, H. (2016). Die Bewertung von Coaching-Prozessen als ethische Herausforderung. In: Wegener, R., Loebbert, M., Fritze, A. (eds) Coaching und Gesellschaft. Springer, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-09636-6_4

    Hannafey, F.T., Vitulano, L.A. Ethics and Executive Coaching: An Agency Theory Approach. J Bus Ethics 115, 599–603 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-012-1442-z

    International Coach Federation (2020, January). 2020 ICF Global Coaching Study: Executive Summary. Abgerufen am 23, Februar 2022, von https://coachingfederation.org/app/uploads/2020/09/FINAL_ICF_GCS2020_ExecutiveSummary.pdf

    Iordanou, I., Hawley, R. & Iordanou, C. (2016). Values and Ethics in Coaching (1. Aufl.). SAGE Publications Ltd.

    Kirchgeorg, M., Meynhardt, T., Pinkwart, A., Suchanek, A., & Zülch, H. (2019). Das Leipziger Führungsmodell (3. Aufl.). Leipzig, Deutschland: HHL Academic Press.

    Oellerich, K. (2016). Negative Effekte von Coaching und ihre Ursachen aus der Perspektive der Organisation: Eine Mixed Methods-Studie. Universität Kassel. doi:10.19211/KUP978373760303

    Rawls, J., & Hinsch, W. (1998). Politischer Liberalismus (1. Aufl.). Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp.

    Schermuly, C. C., & Graßmann, C. (2019). A literature review on negative effects of coaching – what we know and what we need to know. Coaching: An International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice, 12(1), 39–66. https://doi.org/10.1080/17521882.2018.1528621

    Schmidt-Lellek C. (2015) Ethik und ethische Kompetenz im Coaching. In: Greif S., Möller H., Scholl W. (eds) Handbuch Schlüsselkonzepte im Coaching. Springer Reference Psychologie. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

    Suchanek, A. (1994). Ökonomischer Ansatz und theoretische Integration. Tübingen.

    Suchanek, A. (2015). Unternehmensethik. UTB.

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    • Ethical Leadership
    • Responsible Business Coaching and Training
    • Self-Leadership and Purpose
    • Competency Diagnostics
    • Competency Management

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    [item title="Education"]

    • 2016, MBA, HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management, Germany
    • 2011, M.A. Philology, Pushkin State Russian Language Institute, Russia
    • 2009, B.A. Philology, Pushkin State Russian Language Institute, Russia

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    • 2019-2020, Regional Consultant, LAMSA e. V., Halle (Saale), Germany
    • 2015-2018, Project Manager, Kontor Lighting & Living GmbH, Leipzig, Germany
    • 2012-2014, Project Manager, Sochi 2014 Organizing Committee, Moscow-Sochi, Russia

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    • N/A

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    [item title="Conference Contributions: Talks"]

    • N/A

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    [item title="Conference Contributions: Posters"]

    • N/A

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    [item title="Memberships"]

    • Forum Gemeinwohl e.V.

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