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Interview with Prof. Dr. Ali Aslan Gümüsay on proposed changes to sustainability rules and the risks involved

The team of the Professorship of Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Sustainability has curated and published a discussion on impact entrepreneurship.

The team of the Professorship of Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Sustainability has curated and published a discussion on impact entrepreneurship.

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We are pleased to share that our doctoral researcher at the Chair of Innovation, Entrepreneurship & Sustainability – supervised by Prof. Dr. Ali Aslan Gümüsay – has been awarded a doctoral scholarship by the China Scholarship Council (CSC).

Towards a science that co-creates the future. A contribution by Ali Aslan Gümüsay in "DIE ZEIT".

Together with Prof. Judith Ströhle, Prof. Laura Marie Edinger-Schons and further important actors, Prof. Ali Aslan Gümüsay and Dr. Amyn Vogel have published a new article. 

Together with Prof. Petter Gullmark, Prof. Gry Agnete Alsos and Prof. Tommy Høyvarde Clausen, Prof. Ali Aslan Gümüsay has published a new article on institutional logics and public entrepreneurial opportunities. 

Contribution by Prof. Gümüsay in the FAIR BANKING magazine on the role of religion and values in the professional context

This article examines Instagram’s moderation practices and how users employ poetic acts to challenge power structures and redefine platform norms.

The business magazine Capital has honored the “Top 40 under 40” - including Prof. Dr. Ali Aslan Gümüsay.

On 15 November 2024, the Circular Valley Forum marked the third event in the Impact Allianz Events series.

On October 8, the Impact Alliance gathered in Hamburg.

The cooperative project Impact Measurement and Valuation Lab (IMV-Lab) has received new BMBF funding on the subject of ‘Standardisation and scaling of impact measurement and evaluation for social innovations’

Should entrepreneurial success be measured by profit alone? No, says Ali Gümüşay: A company can do both – make money and make the world a bit better. From the research magazine EINSICHTEN

Our Desirable Futures standing working group community is thriving, bringing together scholars dedicated to making an impact with and through science.

The Impact Entrepreneurship Day at Ludwig Maximilians University (LMU) Munich rethinks the economy

Together with Prof. Juliane Reinecke, Prof. Ali Aslan Gümüsay has published a new  article on prospective theorizing. 

Commited actors, institutional complexity, and pathways to compromise: The emergence of Islamic banking in Germany

Self-transcendence allows people to behave non-egoistically. What for?

Impact without Imposition: How can academics from the Global North have an impact without imposing their ideas and mindset on people in the Global South? Three principles for rethinking and changing scholarly behavior.

New article on "Growing Institutional Complexity and Field Transition: Towards Constellation Complexity in the German Energy Field"

New article out - co-authored with Stephan Bohn, Dr. Georg von Richthofen & Georg Reischauer.

How can we measure and illustrate the impact of social innovations?

Ali Aslan Gümüşay researches possible futures and alternative forms of organization. Since January 2023, he has been Professor for Innovation, Entrepreneurship & Sustainability at LMU.

The team of the Professorship of Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Sustainability participated in this year's Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (AOM), in Boston.

What can higher education – and society – learn from Sufi circles, the circular economy, and the Catholic church? A lot, says renowned management scholar Ali Aslan Gümüsay, professor of innovation, entrepreneurship and sustainability at LMU Munich.

What can higher education – and society – learn from Sufi circles, the circular economy, and the Catholic church? A lot, says renowned management scholar Ali Aslan Gümüsay, professor of innovation, entrepreneurship and sustainability at LMU Munich.

The Impact Measurement and Valuation Lab (IMV-Lab) research project explores the potential of impact measurement and valuation for social innovation.

We are one of 20 universities that have been accepted by the Stifterverband's "Transformative Skills for Sustainability" funding program!

A postdoctoral researcher and project leader of the IMV-Lab!

A postdoctoral researcher and Impact Entrepreneurship Education Lead!

A postdoctoral researcher and project leader of impACTup!

Prof. Dr. Ali Gümüsay co-convenes the EGOS Standing Working Group, a four year (2023-2026) Standing Working Group under the European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS).