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Ali Aslan Gümüsay, Prof. Dr.

Ali Aslan Gümüsay is the head of the Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Society research focus. He is also a professor of Innovation, Entrepreneurship & Sustainability at LMU Munich.

Before, he was a visiting researcher at the University of Cambridge, postdoctoral researcher at the University of Hamburg, DAAD Prime Fellow at WU Vienna and Lecturer at Magdalen College, University of Oxford. He received his DPhil from Saïd Business School, University of Oxford. Prior to this, he worked as a strategy consultant for the Boston Consulting Group.

At the HIIG, Ali Gümüsay coordinates our projects related to business, digitalization and society. This includes projects on AI & work, digital organizing & openness, platforms & ecosystems, and digital entrepreneurship & sustainability. His own research consists of four streams: (1) values, meaning and hybridity in entrepreneurship; (2) grand challenges, sustainability and new forms of organizing; (3) digitalisation, management and innovation as well as (4) impact, scholarship and futures.

Current projects

  • Entrepreneurship & innovation

    Task Force: Digital Organizing

    The task force Digital Organizing is a group of researchers who study the implications of digital practices for the processes of organizing.
  • Entrepreneurship & innovation

    Digital Social Innovation & Entrepreneurship

    In the “Digital Social Innovation & Entrepreneurship" research project, we investigate entrepreneurial organisations that primarily focus on society – often called social enterprises.

Publications

Journal articles and conference proceedings (33)

Stroehle, J., Gümüşay, A. A., Edinger-Schons, L. M., Vogel, A., Ebrahim, A., Rasche, A., King, A., Pucker, K., Barker, R., Reinecke, J., Michelon, G., Cooper, S., Etzion, D., Harji, K., Besharov, M., Mayer, C., Hsieh, N., & van den Terrell, E. (2025). A critical examination of corporate environmental and social impact measurement and valuation. Journal of Management Inquiry, 3-18. Publication details

Jahajeeah, J. A., Gümüşay, A. A., Salvi, E., von Richthofen, G., & Kekana, L. (2025). Grand Challenges, Decoloniality and Management Scholarship. Research in the Sociology of Organizations, 93, 85-102. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/S0733-558X20250000093006 Publication details

Edinger-Schons, L.M., Stroehle, J., Gümüsay, A. A. et al. (2025). Monetary impact valuation for sustainable business. Nature Sustainability, 1102–1104. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-025-01630-9 Publication details

Vogel, A., Nadegger, M., Wolf, B., Gümüşay, A. A., & Vilchez, P. et al. (2025). Impact entrepreneurship: Reimagining entrepreneurial Purpose and research for driving societal impact. Schmalenbach Journal of Business Research. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s41471-025-00221-w Publication details

Zeller-Lanzl, J., Bohn, S., von Richthofen, G., Körner, M.-F., & Gümüşay, A. A. (2025). Essay 3: Fostering Interdisciplinary Impact Around the Potentialities of (Ir)Responsibility In and Through Digitalization. Schmalenbach Journal of Business Research, 28-45. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s41471-025-00234-5 Publication details

Gümüşay, A. A., & Reinecke, J. (2024). Imagining Desirable Futures: A call for prospective theorizing with speculative rigour. Organization Theory, 5(1). DOI: 10.1177/26317877241235939 Publication details

Theissen, M. H., Theissen, H. H., & Gümüsay, A. A. (2024). Self-transcendent leadership: A meta-perspective. European Management Review. DOI: 10.1111/emre.12640 Publication details

Gümüşay, A.A., Meyer, R.E., & Höllerer, M. A. (2024). Committed Actors, Institutional Complexity, and Pathways to Compromise: The Emergence of Islamic Banking in Germany. Journal of Management Studies. DOI: 10.1111/joms.13061 Publication details

Gullmark, P., Høyvarde Clausen, T., Gümüşay, A.A., & Alsos, G., A. (2024). Public entrepreneurial opportunities: How institutional logics shape public servants’ opportunity evaluation. Public Administration Review.. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/puar.13920 Publication details

Gümüsay, A. A., Bohné, T. & Davenport, T. (2023). AI and the Future of Management Decision-Making. Management and Business Review, 1-16. Publication details

Gümüşay, A. A. (2023). Management Scholars of the World, Unite! Organization Studies, 44(8), 1377-1380. Publication details

Bohn, S., & Gümüşay, A. A. (2023). Growing Institutional Complexity and Field Transition: Towards Constellation Complexity in the German Energy Field. Journal of Management Studies. DOI: http://doi.org/10.1111/joms.13004 Publication details

Bohn, S., Gümüşay, A. A., von Richthofen, G., & Reischauer, G. (2023). Digital organising. Internet Policy Review – Concepts of the digital society, 12(4), 1-15. Publication details

Smith, B., Gümüşay, A. A., & Townsend D. M. (2023). Bridging worlds: The intersection of religion and entrepreneurship as meaningful heterodoxy. Journal of Business Venturing Insights, 20(1), 1-8. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbvi.2023.e00406. Publication details

von Richthofen, G., & Gümüşay, A. A. (2023). Impact Without Imposition: What Role for Northern Academics in the Global South? Stanford Social Innovation Review. DOI: https://doi.org/10.48558/B761-2W21 Publication details

Köhne, S., Ulich, A., & Gümüşay, A. (2022). Digitale Weiterbildung in KMU: Ein Dreiphasenmodell zur Implementierung einer bedarfsgerechten Strategie. Zeitschrift Führung + Organisation, 1(91), 35-41. Publication details

Adler, P. S., Adly, A., Armanios, D. E., Battilana, J., Bodrožić, Z., […], Gümüşay, A. A., et al. (2022). Authoritarianism, Populism, and the Global Retreat of Democracy: A Curated Discussion. Journal of Management Inquiry, 32(1), 3–20. Publication details

Gümüşay, A. A., Raynard, M., Etter, M., Albu, O. & Roulet, T. (2022). Digital Technology and Voice: How Platforms Shape Institutional Processes Through Visibilization. Research in the Sociology of Organizations, 83, 57-85. Publication details

Scheidgen, K., Gümüşay, A.A., Günzel-Jensen, F., Krlev, G., & Wolf, M. (2021). Crises and entrepreneurial opportunities: digital social innovation in response to physical distancing. Journal of Business Venturing Insights, 15. Publication details

Gümüşay, A.A. (2021). Crossing boundaries: connecting religion and paradox for leadership and organisation research. Interdisciplinary Dialogues on Organizational Paradox: Learning from Belief and Science, 73a, 95-112. DOI: 10.1108/S0733-558X2021000073a007 Publication details

Gümüşay, A.A., & Reinecke, J. (2021). Researching (for) desirable futures: How can we theorize what does not exist? Journal of Management Studies. Publication details

Gümüşay, A. A. (2021). Unity in diversity: Leadership, Organization & Conflict Management. Konfliktdynamik, 10(4), 290–294. Publication details

Gümüsay, A. A., & Reinecke, J. (2021). Researching for Desirable Futures: From Real Utopias to Imagining Alternatives. Journal of Management Studies, 59(1), 236-242. Publication details

Gümüşay, A.A., Smets, M., & Morris, T. (2020). ‘God at Work’: Engaging Central and Incompatible Institutional Logics through Elastic Hybridity. Academy of Management Journal, Vol. 63(1), 124 - 154. DOI: 10.5465/amj.2016.0481 Publication details

Gümüşay, A.A. (2020). The Plurality and Prevalence of the Religious Institutional Logic. Business & Society, 59:5, 855-880. DOI: 10.1177/0007650317745634 Publication details

Gümüşay, A. A., & Dobusch, L. (2020). This Is Not (Digital) Business as Usual – The universality of having to operate with limited in-person experiences is reducing the stigma often associated with online interactions. MIT Sloan Management Review. Publication details

Bohn, S., Friederici, N., & Gümüşay, A. A. (2020). Too big to fail us? Platforms as systemically relevant. Internet Policy Review. Publication details

Friederici, N., Meier, P., & Gümüşay, A. A. (2020). An opportunity for inclusion? Digital platform innovation in times of crisis. Pioneers Post. Publication details

Gümüşay, Ali Aslan (2019). Embracing religions in moral theories of leadership. Academy of Management Journal, 33(3), 292 - 306. DOI: 10.5465/amp.2017.0130 Publication details

Gümüşay, Ali Aslan; Bohné, Thomas (2018). Individual and organizational inhibitors to the development of entrepreneurial competencies in universities. Research Policy, 47(2), 363 - 378. DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2017.11.008 Publication details

Gümüşay, Ali Aslan (2018). Commentary: Sharing is caring: From material to socio-material sharing. Academy of Management Discoveries, 4(3), 376 - 377. DOI: 10.5465/amd.2018.0083 Publication details

Gümüşay, Ali Aslan (2017). Unpacking entrepreneurial opportunities – an institutional logics perspective. Innovation: Organization & Management, 20(3), 209 - 222. DOI: 10.1080/14479338.2017.1404430 Publication details

Gümüşay, Ali Aslan (2015). Entrepreneurship from an Islamic Perspective. Journal of Business Ethics, 130(1), 199 - 208. DOI: 10.1007/s10551-014-2223-7 Publication details

Edited works (1)

Gümüşay, A.A., Marti, E., Trittin-Ulbrich, H., Wickert, C. (2022). Organizing for Societal Grand Challenges. In A.A. Gümüşay, E. Marti., H. Trittin-Ulbrich, & C. Wickert, Research in the Sociology of Organizations, 79. Bingley: Emerald Publishing Limited. DOI: 10.1108/S0733-558X20220000079002 Publication details

Book contributions and chapters (5)

Ohliger, U., Winter, J., von Richthofen, G., Gümüşay, A. A., & Hünsche, M. (2025). Menschengerechte Arbeitswelt und ressourceneffizientes Wirtschaftswachstum durch KI – Potenziale für den nachhaltigen Technologieeinsatz. In N. Fabisch, R. Schmidpeter, G. Schuster, & A. Sihn-Weber (Eds.), Menschenwürdige Arbeit und Wirtschaftswachstum. Globale Ziele für nachhaltige Entwicklung. (pp. 1-13). Berlin / Heidelberg, Germany: Springer Gabler. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-68327-9_1-1 Publication details

Gümüşay, A., Marti, E., Trittin-Ulbrich, H., & Wickert, C. (2022). How Organizing matters for Societal Grand Challenges. In A.A. Gümüsay, E. Marti, H. Trittin-Ulbrich & C. Wickert, Organizing for Societal Grand Challenges, Research in the Sociology of Organizations (79) (pp. 1-14). Bingley: Emerald Publishing Limited. DOI: 10.1108/S0733-558X20220000079002 Publication details

Gümüşay, A. A. (2022). Sustainable business, grand challenges & diverse forms of organizing. In S. Neckel, P. Degens & S. Lenz, Kapitalismus und Nachhaltigkeit, Zukünfte der Nachhaltigkeit (pp. 273–284). Frankfurt am Main: Campus Verlag. Publication details

Gümüşay, A.A., & Smets, M. (2021). New hybrid forms and their liability of novelty. In M. L. Besharov, & B. C. Mitzinneck (Eds.), Organizational Hybridity: Perspectives, Processes, Promises, Research in the Sociology of Organizations, Vol. 69 (pp. 167-187). Bingley, United Kingdom: Emerald Publishing Limited. DOI: 10.1108/S0733-558X20200000069008 Publication details

von Richthofen, G., Gümüsay, A. A., & Send, H. (2021). Künstliche Intelligenz und die Zukunft von Arbeit. In R. Altenburger & R. Schmidpeter (Eds.), CSR und Künstliche Intelligenz (pp. 353-366). Berlin, Heidelberg, Germany: Springer Gabler. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-63223-9_19 Publication details

Other publications (12)

Fecher, B., Gümüsay, A. A., Bohn, S. & A. Jobin (2023). Resilience without accountability holds back transformative change. LSE Impact Blog. Publication details

Fecher, B., Gümüşay, A. A., Bohn, S., & Jobin, A. (2023). Resilience without accountability holds back transformative change. LSE Impact Blog. Publication details

Siebold, N., Gümüşay, A., & von Richthofen, G. (2022). Der Einsatz von KI zum Wohl der Gesellschaft: Versprechen & Gefahren für Start-ups. Digital Society Blog. Publication details

Siebold, N., Gümüşay, A. A. , & v. Richthofen, G. (2022). The promises and perils of applying AI for social good in entrepreneurship. LSE Business Review. Publication details

Gümüşay, A. (2022). Eine andere Form der Geldwäsche. Andere Zeiten. Publication details

Krlev, G., Scheidgen, K., Günzel-Jensen, F., Wolf, M., & Gümüşay, A.A (2022). Did COVID lockdowns harm entrepreneurship? Not exactly. LSE Business Review. Publication details

Siebold, N., Gümüşay, A., & von Richthofen, G. (2022). Der Einsatz von KI zum Wohl der Gesellschaft: Versprechen & Gefahren für Start-ups. Digital society blog. Publication details

Gümüsay, A., Köhne, S., Schildhauer, T., Krzywdzinski, M., & Send, H. (2022). Why Big Brother should not be watching you at work. I by IMD. Publication details

Siebold, N., Gümüşay, A. A. , & v. Richthofen, G. (2022). The promises and perils of applying AI for social good in entrepreneurship. HIIG Impact Publication Series. Publication details

Spanuth, A., & Gümüşay, A.A. (2021). Three ways social entrepreneurs work in conflict regions. Pioneers Post. Publication details

Interview with Ali Aslan Gümüşay (2021). Open Science can lead to “Feed Forward” mechanisms in research. The ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics. Publication details

Interview mit Ali Alsan Gümüşay (2021). „Eigene Werte nicht verstecken“. profil. Publication details

Activities

Lectures and presentations (32)

31.10.2025 · Ali Aslan Gümüşay

Entrepreneurship futures: A short talk about (almost) everything

Seminarreihe der Fakultät für Wirtschafts- und Verwaltungswissenschaften der Anadolu-Universität. IIBF, Anadolu Üniversitesi. IIBF Seminarraum, Eskişehir, Türkiye.

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28.07.2025 · Sonja Köhne, Ali Aslan Gümüşay, Georg von Richthofen, Hendrik Send

Shaping Organizational Futures: How Workers Respond to Artificial Intelligence

85th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (AOM 2025). AOM. Bella Center Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.

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10.06.2025 · Ali Aslan Gümüşay

Desirable futures and prospective theorising

2025: Futures of Technologies – Mutual Shaping of Socio-Technical Transformations. Finland Futures Research Centre, Finland Futures Academy, University of Turku, VTT Technical Research Centre. Finland Futures Research Centre, Turku, Finland.

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10.10.2024 · Ali Aslan Gümüşay

The Responsible Business Salon #2: ‘Future Imaginaries’

The Responsible Business Salon #2: 'Future Imaginaries'. Kings College London. Melbourne House, London, Great Britain.

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09.10.2024 · Ali Aslan Gümüşay

Desirable Futures and Prospective Theorizing

IGP 10th Year Anniversary Lecture. UCL Institute for Global Prosperity. Chandler House (UCL), London, Great Britain.

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12.07.2024 · Ali Aslan Gümüşay

Neue Ansätze in der Social Entrepreneurship Lehre für den Umgang mit Komplexität

FutureSEE Transferbrücke. Hybrid: HNEE + online, Eberswalde, Germany.

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04.07.2024 · Ali Aslan Gümüşay

Shaping sustainable futures: An impact entrepreneurship perspective

40th EGOS Colloquium 2024: "Crossroads for Organizations: Time, Space and People". EGOS. University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy.

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28.05.2024 · Ali Aslan Gümüşay, Georg von Richthofen

How can academics from the Global North have an impact without imposing their idea(l)s on people in the Global South?

re:publica24. STATION Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

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27.05.2024 · Ali Aslan Gümüşay, Leonhard Dobusch, Laura Marie Edinger-Schons, Maja Göpel

Engaged scholarship: Academics that care enough to take a stance

re:publica24. STATION Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

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14.05.2024 · Ali Aslan Gümüşay

Einführen in Vielfalt: Organisationen richtig führen

Entrepreneurship Perspektiven der Münchener Hochschulen Ringvorlesung. Ludwig-Maximilian-Universität, Munich, Germany.

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26.03.2024 · Ali Aslan Gümüşay

Islam and Entrepreneurship

Islam and Entrepreneurship. Malaysian Islamic Economic Development Foundation. YaPEIM Main Hall, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

18.03.2024 · Ali Aslan Gümüşay

Researching Religion and Business

Islamic Finance and Economy Research Seminar Series. Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU), Education City, Qatar.

07.07.2023 · Sonja Köhne, Georg von Richthofen, Ali Aslan Gümüşay, Hendrik Send

Artificial Intelligence and Work Representation

39th EGOS Colloquium 2023: "Organizing for the Good Life: Between Legacy and Imagination". EGOS. University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy.

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09.05.2023 · Ali Aslan Gümüşay

Munich Postdoc Day 2023. Insights into Leadership

Munich Postdoc Day 2023. Insights into Leadership. TUM Vorhoelzer Forum. TUM Vorhoelzer Forum, Munich, Germany.

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22.03.2023 · Ali Aslan Gümüşay

Innovation & Entrepreneurship Seminar: A Research Potpourri – Innovative Templates, Circular Forms of Organizing, and Futures

Innovation & Entrepreneurship Seminar. Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition. Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Munich, Germany.

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22.03.2023 · Ali Aslan Gümüşay

Innovation & Entrepreneurship Seminar: A Research Potpourri – Innovative Templates, Circular Forms of Organizing, and Futures

Innovation & Entrepreneurship Seminar. Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition. Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Munich, Germany.

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15.03.2023 · Stephan Bohn, Ali Aslan Gümüşay

Growing Institutional Complexity – Field Transitioning Processes Towards Constellation Complexity.

47. Workshop der WK ORG. Johannes Kepler University Linz, Linz, Austria.

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16.01.2023 · Ali Aslan Gümüşay

Digitale Zukünfte

Digital Future Challenge 2022/23: Halbfinale. Initiative D21, Deloitte-Stiftung. Deloitte Greenhouse, Berlin, Germany.

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10.11.2022 · Ali Aslan Gümüsay

Internationale Fachkonferenz 2022: Creative Ways into Desirable Futures. Kompetenzzentrum Kultur- und Kreativwirtschaft des Bundes. online, online, Germany.

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07.07.2022 · Stephan Bohn, Ali Aslan Gümüsay

38th EGOS Colloquium: Digital organizing in open-source IoT companies. The mutual relationship between datafication and connectification.

38th EGOS Colloquium: Organizing: The Beauty of Imperfection. Wirtschaftsuniversität, Vienna, Austria.

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08.04.2022 · Ali Aslan Gümüsay

Vom digitalen Wandel zur digitalen Wende

Die digitale Transformation gestalten - Fachtagung im Rahmen des 75jährigen Jubiläums der Universität Speyer. Universität Speyer, Speyer, Germany.

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01.04.2022 · Ali Aslan Gümüsay

Class XIV: Organizations, Institutions and War

Organizing in Times of Crisis - Collaborative Open Courses for Master Programs in Business Administration, Management and Organization Studies. Virtual, Virtual, Germany.

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20.03.2020 · Ali Aslan Gümüsay

Engaging Grand Challenges through a Transformative Institutional Logics Perspective

VHB Conference 2020. VHB, Goethe Universität, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

04.07.2019 · Ali Aslan Gümüsay

Enlightening the Future: The Challenge for Organizations

EGOS Colloquium. European Group for Organizational Studies. University of Edinburgh Business School, Edinburgh, UK.

10.08.2018 · Ali Aslan Gümüsay

78th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management. Academy of Management. Academy of Management, Chicago, USA.

02.07.2018 · Ali Aslan Gümüsay

EGOS Colloquium

Surprise in and around Organizations: Journeys to the Unexpected. European Group for Organizational Studies. Estonian Business School, Tallin, Estland.

06.07.2017 · Ali Aslan Gümüsay

EGOS Colloquium

The Good Organization. 33rd EGOS Colloquium. European Group for Organizational Studies. Copenhagen Business School, Kopenhagen, Dänemark.

05.08.2016 · Ali Aslan Gümüsay

Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management

Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management. Academy of Management. Academy of Management, Anaheim, USA.

02.07.2016 · Ali Aslan Gümüsay

Organizations and the Examined Life: Reason, Reflexivity and Responsibility

31st EGOS Colloquium. European Group for Organizational Studies. ALBA Graduate Business School, Athen, Griechenland.

07.08.2015 · Ali Aslan Gümüsay

Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management

Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management. Academy of Management. Academy of Management, Vancouver, Kanada.

05.07.2013 · Ali Aslan Gümüsay

Bridging Continents, Cultures and Worldviews

29th EGOS Colloquium. European Group for Organizational Studies. HEC Montréal, Montréal, Kanada.

03.08.2012 · Ali Aslan Gümüsay

The Informal Economy

80th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management. Academy Of Management. Academy Of Management, Boston, USA.

Panels (13)

28.07.2025 · Ali Aslan Gümüşay, Jonas Spengler, Chris Marquis, Michael Y. Lee, Jonas Friedrich Juliane Reinicke, Costanza Sartoris, Mette Morsing, Martin Parker, Jerry Davis, Ana Maria Peredo, Meredith Lehman

Real utopias for organizational governance

The 85th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management. Academy of Management. Bella Center, Copenhagen, Denmark.

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26.07.2025 · Ali Aslan Gümüşay, Jelena Spanjol, Esther Salvi, Viktoria Unger, Maija Renko, Pablo Munoz, Helen Haugh, Joel Gehman, Claudia Doblinger

Impact and entrepreneurship: Collaborative pathways for better futures

The 85th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management. Academy of Management. Bella Center, Copenhagen, Denmark.

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13.03.2025 · Ali Aslan Gümüşay

Organisation und Demokratie. Wissenschaft, Politik und Praxis im Austausch

49. Workshop der Wissenschaftlichen Kommission Organisation im VHB. VHB. Universität Witten/Herdecke, Witten, Germany.

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11.08.2024 · Ali Aslan Gümüşay

Impact Scholars, Unite! Building Bridges Across Communities Interested in Creating Impact

84th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (AOM 2024). AOM, Chicago, USA.

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26.04.2024 · Ali Aslan Gümüşay

What could possibly go wrong? Inputs and discussion about impact, unforeseen consequences and error culture with a focus on design for sustainability and social impact.

Design als Wagnis – Risiken und Wirkungen der Gestaltung. DGTF, Lucerne, Switzerland.

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27.02.2023 · Ali Aslan Gümüşay

#D21TALK – Resilienz im digitalen Wandel

#D21TALK – Fachkongress digitale Gesellschaft 2023. Initiative D21 e. V.. Amplifier Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

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07.08.2022 · Ali Aslan Gümüsay, Juliane Reinecke, Tor Hernes

Theorizing Desirable Futures

38th EGOS Colloquium: Organizing: The Beauty of Imperfection. WU, Vienna, Vienna, Austria.

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07.08.2022 · Stephan Bohn, Ali Aslan Gümüsay

Digital organizing & strategizing in open-source IoT companies. The mutual relationship between datafication and connectification.

38th EGOS Colloquium: Organizing: The Beauty of Imperfection. WU, Vienna, Vienna, Austria.

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18.05.2022 · Ali Aslan Gümüsay

ZVEI Panel “Quo vadis Künstliche Intelligenz?

ZVEI-Jahreskongress 2022. bcc Berlin Congress Center, Berlin, Germany.

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12.04.2022 · Ali Aslan Gümüsay

Panel: Theory Elaboration on Religion in Entrepreneurship Research

LIFE Konferenz. LIFE Konferenz, Berlin, Germany.

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10.10.2021 · Mehr KI als Verstand – Technik im Dienste des Menschen?

Mehr KI als Verstand – Technik im Dienste des Menschen?

Ali Aslan Gümüsay. Zentrum für Angewandte Kulturwissenschaft und Studium Generale. Karlsruher Institut für Technologie, Karlsruhe, Germany.

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08.04.2021 · Ali Aslan Gümüşay

Entrepreneurship and faith: a diversity of religious perpectives

L.I.F.E. Research Conference 2021 – 1st Annual Research Conference on Faith and Entrepreneurship. Miami University, L.I.F.E. Research Lab. Online, Miami, USA.

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17.06.2020 · Ali Aslan Gümüşay

Gronen 2020 – All Systems go?! Sustainability in the Digital Age

Gronen 2020 - All Systems go?! Sustainability in the Digital Age. Group for Research on Organizations and the Natural Environment, Online, Portugal.

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Moderation of workshops and panels (6)

26.07.2025 · Ali Aslan Gümüşay, Laura Marie Edinger-Schons, Judith Stroehle, Amyn Vogel, Felizia von Schweinitz, Colin Meyer, Florian Hoos, Florian Berg

From values to value? The complexities and potentials of impact valuation

The 85th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management. Academy of Management. Bella Center, Copenhagen, Denmark.

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25.07.2025 · Ali Aslan Gümüşay, Marvin Hanisch, Lorino Philippe, Emilio Marti, Juliane Reinecke, Christoph Seckler, Garima Sharma

Prospective, Prescriptive, and Pragmatist Theorizing and Methodology

The 85th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management. Academy of Management. Bella Center, Copenhagen, Denmark.

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03.07.2025 · Ali Aslan Gümüşay, Emilio Marti

Creating Desirable Futures: Challenges and Prospects for Organizational Scholars

41st EGOS Colloquium: Creativity that goes a long way. European Group of Organizational Studies. The American College of Greece, Athens, Greece.

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08.04.2025 · Ali Aslan Gümüşay

Themenraum: Wissenschaft

Geschichten des Aufbruchs & Gelingens. Forum für Soziale Innovationen und Gemeinwohlorientierte Unternehmen (SIGU). Berliner Congress Center (bcc), Berlin, Germany.

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10.08.2024 · Ali Aslan Gümüşay

Organizing for Emerging Digital Technologies: Taking Stock and Moving On

84th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (AOM 2024). AOM, Chicago, USA.

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21.02.2024 · Ali Aslan Gümüşay

The Future of Organisation and Management Theory

The Future of OMT and Futures in OMT. Turkish Academy of Management. online, Instanbul, Turkey.

Organisation of events (13)
Research Methods and Strategies for Co-Creating Desirable Futures with Practitioners
41st EGOS Colloquium: Creativity that goes a long way. European Group of Organizational Studies. From 03.07.2025 to 05.07.2025. The American College of Greece, Athens, Greece. Co-Organised by: European Group of Organizational Studies. (International) Further information

Ali Aslan Gümüsay

Digitaler Salon: Update Unbekannt?
26.02.2025. Humboldt Institut für Internet und Gesellschaft, Berlin, Germany (National) Further information

Lara Kauter, Daniel Pothmann, Nele Buß, Sarah Spitz, Ali Aslan Gümüsay

Organizing for Emerging Digital Technologies: Taking Stock and Moving On
84th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (AOM 2024). From 09.08.2024 to 13.08.2024. AOM, Chicago, USA (International) Further information

Ali Aslan Gümüsay

From Metrics to Meaning: Navigating the Depths of Impact Assessment
84th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (AOM 2024). From 09.08.2024 to 13.08.2024. AOM, Chicago, USA (International) Further information

Ali Aslan Gümüsay

Impact Entrepreneurship: Bridging Environmental, Social, and Responsible Entrepreneurship
84th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (AOM 2024)e. From 09.08.2024 to 11.08.2024. AOM, Chicago, USA (International) Further information

Ali Aslan Gümüsay

Impact Measurement and Valuation Lab
From 06.03.2024 to 08.03.2024. Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Lüneburg, Germany (National) Further information

Ali Aslan Gümüsay

Lunch Talk Series I Grand Challenges, Digitalisation & Sustainability
22.06.2022. Humboldt Institut für Internet und Gesellschaft, Berlin, Germany (International) Further information

Sarah Spitz, Ali Aslan Gümüsay

The societal relevance of management & impactful research (The societal relevance of management & impactful research)
VHB Conference Symposium & Workshop 2022. From 08.03.2022 to 11.03.2022. Online, Düsseldorf, Germany (National) Further information

Ali Aslan Gümüsay

“Commitment versus Compliance: Prioritizing, Compromizing, and the Development of Templates in Situations of Institutional Complexity”
MAN 910 – Area Management Seminar. 17.03.2021. University of Mannheim Business School, Mannheim, Germany (International) Further information

Ali Aslan Gümüsay

Doktorand*innen-Kolloquium IEG
16.07.2020. Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society, Berlin, Germany (National)

Ali Aslan Gümüsay

Grand Challenges and New Forms of Organizing
36th EGOS Colloquium - Organising for a Sustainable Future: Responsibility, Renewal & Resistance. From 02.07.2020 to 03.07.2020. EGOS, Online, Germany (International) Further information

Ali Aslan Gümüsay

Entrepreneurship and Innovation for the Common Good
Collaborative Open Course for Master Programs in Business Administration, Management and Organisation Studies. 16.04.2020. Organising in Times of Crisis, Online, Austria (International) Further information

Ali Aslan Gümüsay

‘God at Work’: Engaging Central and Incompatible Institutional Logics through Elastic Hybridity
07.01.2020. Universität Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany (National) Further information

Ali Aslan Gümüsay

Nominations (13)
Bertelsmann Stiftung: Nachhaltige Wertschöpfung.

Ali Aslan Gümüşay

Ideenlauf Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung.

Ali Aslan Gümüsay

ONE-SIM Outreach Award.

Ali Aslan Gümüsay

IGP Jury des BMWi.

Ali Aslan Gümüsay

Innovation Programme for Business Models and Pioneer Solutions (IGP).

Ali Aslan Gümüsay

Innovation Programme for Business Models and Pioneer Solutions, IGP, BMWi 2021.

Ali Aslan Gümüşay

Member: DFG Scientific Network "Strategizing in a Digital Economy".

Ali Aslan Gümüsay

Member of DFG Network Digital Strategizing.

Ali Aslan Gümüşay

Board Member: Exhibition at Altonaer Museum.

Ali Aslan Gümüsay

Principal Investigator: DFG Network “Grand Challenges & New Forms of Organizing”.

Ali Aslan Gümüsay

Member of the scientific organizing committee: European Group for Organizational Studies, University Hamburg.

Ali Aslan Gümüsay

Board member: AIWG, University of Frankfurt.

Ali Aslan Gümüsay

Board member: The Concordia Forum.

Ali Aslan Gümüsay

Participation as expert (2)

24.09.2025 · Ali Aslan Gümüşay

Genoaward: Zukunft verwirklichen. Internationals Jahr der Genossenschaften

Genoaward: Zukunft verwirklichen. Internationals Jahr der Genossenschaften. F.A.Z. Institut, Genoverband. F.A.Z. Tower, Frankfurt, Germany.

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01.10.2022 · von Richthofen, Georg & Gümüsay, Ali Aslan

Between Benin & Berlin: Research & Impact at the Intersection of Sustainability & Digitalization.

Bits & Bäume. Die Konferenz für Digitalisierung und Nachhaltigkeit. TU Berlin, Berlin, Deutschland.

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Ali Aslan Gümüsay

Position

Head of Research: Innovation, Entrepreneurship & Society

Contact

ali.guemuesay@hiig.de
@guemuesay
guemuesay.com

Research focus

Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Society

Technologies are reshaping how economies and societies develop and operate in a changing, globally connected digital environment. We investigate how different forms of innovation and entrepreneurship address systemic societal challenges.

Expertise

Topics: Digital Transformation, Digitalisation & Economy, Sustainable Entrepreneurship