Dr. Marisa Mühlböck

Since October 2025, Marisa Mühlböck has been heading the Center for Corporate Sustainability at the University for Continuing Education Krems. Her research examines entrepreneurship and the entrepreneurial personality from a multidimensional and transdisciplinary perspective. Over the course of her professional career, the social and economic scientist, who holds a doctoral degree, gained insights into a wide range of professional and thematic fields, enabling her to develop a broad understanding of different organizational structures, ways of thinking, and societal contexts. She has worked, among others, for international corporations such as BMW and Kraft Foods and served as Managing Director of a think tank in Vienna. As a former social entrepreneur, she is also familiar with entrepreneurial life from practical experience and integrates these insights into her research.

For more than 20 years, she has been engaged with the field of corporate social responsibility. In addition to her doctoral dissertation on economic policy instruments and their impact on the potential of corporate engagement for greater social justice, and leading several research projects on the status quo of corporate social responsibility in Austria, she co-shaped Austria’s first CSR Day and is a member of the expert council of the CSR D-A-CH Verband. Since 2023, she has been active as Country Research Co-Lead of the Inner Development Goals Initiative (IDGs), which is dedicated to researching and promoting inner development to achieve the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals. She also served as a founding board member of Verband für gemeinnütziges Stiften, Austria’s first association representing and advocating for charitable foundations.

In 2025, her book “Sustainable Transformation & Well-being: The Role of Business for Individual and Collective Flourishing” was published by Springer.