Ali Aslan Gümüsay, Dr.
Ali Aslan Gümüsay holds a dual appointment as Head of the Innovation, Entrepreneurship & Society Research Group at the Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG) and as Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Hamburg. He is also the principal investigator of the DFG network “Grand Challenges & New Forms of Organizing”.
Before, Ali was a DAAD PRIME Fellow 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 HIIG, Ali coordinates our projects related to digital innovation and entrepreneurship. This includes work on (social) digital entrepreneurship, platforms, AI, digital transformation, and open innovation. Ali’s own research consists of four streams: values, meaning & hybridity in entrepreneurial settings; grand challenges, innovation & new forms of organizing; societal complexity & engaged scholarship; and digitalization, AI & the future of work/leadership.
Position
Head of Research Group: Innovation, Entrepreneurship & Society
Journal articles and conference proceedings
Siebold, N., Gümüşay, A., & von Richthofen, G. (2022). The Promises and Perils of Applying AI for Social Good in Entrepreneurship. Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5776857 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 (1)), 35-41. 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
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
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
Gümüşay, A., Marti, E., Trittin-Ulbrich, H., & Wickert, C. (2022). How Organizing matters for Societal Grand Challenges. (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. (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
Richthofen, G. v., 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
Working paper
Siebold, N., Gümüşay, A., & von Richthofen, G. (2022). The Promises and Perils of Applying AI for Social Good in Entrepreneurship. Zenodo. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5776857 Publication details
Other publications
Siebold, N., Gümüsay, A. A., & von Richthofen, G. (2022). The promises and perils of applying AI for social good in entrepreneurship. 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
Siebold, N., Gümüşay, A., & von 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
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
Lectures and presentations
Vom digitalen Wandel zur digitalen WendeDie digitale Transformation gestalten - Fachtagung im Rahmen des 75jährigen Jubiläums der Universität Speyer (Session: Vom digitalen Wandel zur digitalen Wende). Universität Speyer, Speyer, Germany: 08.04.2022 Further information
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Class XIV: Organizations, Institutions and WarOrganizing in Times of Crisis - Collaborative Open Courses for Master Programs in Business Administration, Management and Organization Studies (Session: Class XIV: Organizations, Institutions and War). Virtual, Virtual, Germany: 01.04.2022 Further information
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Engaging Grand Challenges through a Transformative Institutional Logics Perspective.VHB Conference 2020 (Session: Engaging Grand Challenges through a Transformative Institutional Logics Perspective). VHB, Goethe Universität, Frankfurt am Main, Germany: 20.03.2020
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Novelty, Entrepreneurship & Organizational HybridityEGOS Colloquium. European Group for Organizational Studies. University of Edinburgh Business School, Edinburgh, UK: 04.07.2019
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Institutional Complexity; Grand Challenges & Social Entrepreneurship78th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management. Academy of Management. Academy of Management, Chicago, USA: 10.08.2018
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Grand Challenges & Organizational HybriditySurprise in and around Organizations: Journeys to the Unexpected. European Group for Organizational Studies. Estonian Business School, Tallin, Estland: 02.07.2018
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Institutional Theory & LogicsThe Good Organization. 33rd EGOS Colloquium. European Group for Organizational Studies. Copenhagen Business School, Kopenhagen, Dänemark: 06.07.2017
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Religion & Leadership; Institutional Logics, Organizational Resp. & Elastic HybridityAnnual Meeting of the Academy of Management. Academy of Management. Academy of Management, Anaheim, USA: 05.08.2016
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Institutional Logics, Organizational Responses and Elastic Hybridity31st EGOS Colloquium. European Group for Organizational Studies. ALBA Graduate Business School, Athen, Griechenland: 02.07.2016
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OMT & ODC Doctoral Consortia: Institutional Logics, Organizational Resp. & Elastic HybridityAnnual Meeting of the Academy of Management. Academy of Management. Academy of Management, Vancouver, Kanada: 07.08.2015
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Academic Entrepreneurship29th EGOS Colloquium. European Group for Organizational Studies. HEC Montréal, Montréal, Kanada: 05.07.2013
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Academic entrepreneurship80th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management. Academy Of Management. Academy Of Management, Boston, USA: 03.08.2012
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Panels
Quo vadis Künstliche Intelligenz?ZVEI-Jahreskongress 2022. bcc Berlin Congress Center, Berlin, Germany: 18.05.2022 Further information
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Theory Elaboration on Religion in Entrepreneurship ResearchLIFE Konferenz. LIFE Konferenz, Berlin, Germany: 12.04.2022 Further information
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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: 10.10.2021 Further information
Mehr KI als Verstand – Technik im Dienste des Menschen?
Entrepreneurship and faith – a diversity of religious perpectivesL.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: 08.04.2021 Further information
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Brave new world?! Opportunities and challenges for sustainable development in the digital ageGronen 2020 - All Systems go?! Sustainability in the Digital Age. Group for Research on Organizations and the Natural Environment, Online, Portugal: 17.06.2020 Further information
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Organisation of events
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. Virtual, Virtual, Germany (National) Further information
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“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
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Doktorand*innen-Kolloquium IEG16.07.2020. Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society, Berlin, Germany (National)
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Grand Challenges and New Forms of Organizing36th EGOS Colloquium - Organising for a Sustainable Future: Responsibility, Renewal & Resistance. From 02.07.2020 to 03.07.2020. EGOS, Online, Germany (International) Further information
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Entrepreneurship and Innovation for the Common GoodCollaborative 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
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‘God at Work’: Engaging Central and Incompatible Institutional Logics through Elastic Hybridity07.01.2020. Universität Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany (National) Further information
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Nominations
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
Media appearances
Ali Aslan Gümüşay: „Hier wird gekocht, und gegessen wird im Himmel“ (14.08.2022). Qamar Magazin
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Why Big Brother should not be watching you at work (15.07.2022). I Magazine
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How can we create large scale change? (07.06.2022). The Sustainable Business Podcast
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Expert:innen untersuchen soziales Unternehmertum im Bereich KI (23.02.2022). Tagesspiegel Background
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Open Science can lead to “Feed Forward” mechanisms in research (01.08.2021). Leibniz Information Center for Economics
„Eigene Werte nicht verstecken“ (17.07.2021). Profil
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