Role
Course director MSc Business Transformation
Sönnich is currently lecturing in Innovation & Business Transformation and Business Transformation Project. Sönnich is module leader of Innovation & Business Transformation, Global Consultancy and Business Transformation Project.
Career overview
Academic and other positions
- Associate Professor Business Transformation (Nottingham Trent University).
- Post Doc Business management and circular economy (Lund University).
- PhD Marketing and circular economy (Copenhagen Business School).
- Teaching Assistant Professor (Copenhagen Business School).
- Research assistant (Copenhagen Business School).
- MSc Economic Marketing Management (Copenhagen Business School).
- BSc Business administration and operations (Copenhagen Business School).
- Skilled carpenter and joiner (Employee and own company).
Teaching and thesis supervision
- Circular Economy – Business models for the 21st Century (MSc elective).
- Founder and course coordinator for Minor in Circular Economy (Copenhagen Business School).
- Managing product development and innovation (MSc elective).
- Marketing ethics (MSc mandatory).
- Global responsibility in businesses (MSc mandatory).
- Marketing management (BSc mandatory).
- Guest lecturing at various programmes – MSc sustainable tourism and hospitality management, summer university ISUP at CBS, HD program CBS,
- Supervision 35+ master thesis projects
- Invited key-note speaker – Swedish circular economy colloquium 2024, Danish Industry Association 2023, Innoecotour Valencia 2022, Climate VIP group Altinget 2022, Resource City Naestved 2020, SDG festival Copenhagen Business School 2019, Library session on Sustainability DK 2018.
- Conference presentation – QUIS17, Frontiers in Service, Opening the Bin.
Awards
- Certificate of Excellence in Education three times (high student satisfaction)
- Among top 10% teachers Copenhagen Business School
- Fonnesbech award for taking part in developing ´Marketing Signature Course Pack´ Copenhagen Business School
Publications
- Sönnichsen, S., de Jong, A., Clement, J., Maull, R. and Voss, C. (2024). The Circular Economy: A Transformative Service Perspective, Journal of Service Research. https://doi.org/10.1177/10946705241229423.
- Köhler, J., Sönnichsen, S.D. and Beske-Jansen, P. (2022). Towards a collaboration framework for circular economy: The role of dynamic capabilities and open innovation, Business Strategy and the Environment. https://doi.org/10.1002/bse.3000.
- Münster, M.B., Sönnichsen, S.D. and Clement, J. (2022). Retail design in the transition to circular economy: A study of barriers and drivers, Journal of Cleaner Production, 132310. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2022.132310.
- Sönnichsen, S.D. (2021). Exploring the Interface Between Public Demand and Private Supply for Implementation of Circular Economy Principles, Copenhagen Business School, PhD Series No. 14.2021. https://research.cbs.dk/en/publications/911c1281-a206-427a-a362-998a1327b854.
- Sönnichsen, S.D. (2023). Corporate fashion and circular economy – How to manage ethical challenges in marketing of B2B textiles, Creating a Sustainable Competitive Position: Ethical Challenges for International Firms, International Business & Management, Volume 37, 33-57. http://doi.org/10.1108/S1876-066X20230000037003.
- Münster, M.B., Sönnichsen, S.D. and Clement, J. (2021). The Role of Designers in the Transition from a Linear to a Circular Economy; A study of retail and hospitality designer practice outlining drivers and barriers for a new way of thinking. IADSR 2021 conference, Hong Kong, December 2021. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/359992233_Designing_for_a_Circular_Economy.
- Sönnichsen, S.D. and Clement, J. (2020). Review of green and sustainable public procurement: Towards circular public procurement, Journal of Cleaner Production. 245, 118901. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.118901.