Birgit Teufer

Department of Business & Psychology, FERNFH University of Applied Sciences, Austria

Birgit Teufer is the head of the Department of Business & Psychology at the FERNFH University of Applied Sciences in Austria. She carried out her doctoral research at the University of Klagenfurt (Austria), where she investigated the dynamics of consumer cooperatives and related social innovations. Her research is particularly focused on the impact of these cooperatives on sustainable development, emphasizing not only ecological and economic factors but also the critical social dimensions.