Ali Aslan Gümüsay

Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich | LMU

Taking into account the institutional context, I refine and broaden the concept of entrepreneurial opportunities by introducing micro-level evaluative criteria based on underlying macro-level institutional logics. The existing focus on so-called lucrative opportunities, which is implicitly based on a market logic, narrows the overall actual set of...

Nascent academic entrepreneurs need to acquire entrepreneurial competencies to create successful spin-off ventures. In this paper, we examine difficulties in this pursuit prior to venture formation and offer a systematic classification of inhibitors. We confirm, combine, and extend two previously identified inhibiting mechanisms into a relational i...

Religion is a significant social force on organizational practices, yet has been relatively underexamined in organization theory. In this theoretical article I assert that the institutional logics perspective is especially conducive to examine the macro-level role of religion for organizations. The notion of the religious logic offers conceptual me...

Research about the role of religion in entrepreneurship and more broadly management is sparse. In this conceptual article we complement existing entrepreneurship theory by examining entrepreneurship from an Islamic perspective (EIP). EIP is based on three interconnected pillars: the entrepreneurial, socio-economic/ethical and religio-spiritual. We...

How does religion impact leadership today? What are the opportunities and pitfalls for society at large? How can we constructively engage with religion? These questions lie at the core of this paper. In order to answer them, we conducted a 18-month study that involved a literature screening, over 30 interviews with religious leaders of secular org...

There is a resurgence in both the advancement and critique of research at the intersection of religion and entrepreneurship. It is precisely because there are important conflicts, tensions, and paradoxes in religion and entrepreneurship that this stream of research is important to the field of entrepreneurship as a source of meaningful heterodoxy....

By applying a dynamic approach to field‐level institutional complexity, we explore how growing institutional complexity affects fields over time. We examine field transition processes, which are shaped by the number of logics, the nature of their relationships and the shifts in dominance. Focusing on Germany's energy field, our analysis identifies...

Three principles for rethinking and changing scholarly behavior. - Stanford Social Innovation Review

In this piece, I suggest two ways of addressing matters of public significance and public urgency in more coordinated, collective, and cooperative efforts: deep engagement and rapid response task forces. Deep engagement task forces are research clusters that work on a societal concern over an extended period. They bring together diverse expertise o...

Advancing AI capabilities make the technology increasingly relevant for enabling better and faster decisions. AI plays different roles in different types of decisions, with the most common AI-enabled decisions involving repetitive, tactical, and structured situations. These are also the types of decisions that are most likely to be fully or partial...

To the surprise of many in the West, the fall of the USSR in 1991 did not lead to the adoption of liberal democratic government around the world and the much anticipated “end of history.” In fact, authoritarianism has made a comeback, and liberal democracy has been on the retreat for at least the last 15 years culminating in the unthinkable: the in...

Societal grand challenges have moved from a marginal concern to a mainstream issue within organization and management theory. How diverse forms of organizing help tackle – or reinforce – grand challenges has become centrally important. In this introductory paper, we take stock of the contributions to the volume on Organizing for Societal Grand Chal...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is viewed as a new breeding ground for unprecedented entrepre-neurial opportunities. While researchers and practitioners alike agree that AI holds great potential for economic growth, one key question that arises is: How can AI be applied for the greater good of society? In this study, we explore how entrepreneurial ven...

Societal grand challenges have moved from a marginal concern to a mainstream issue within organization and management theory. How diverse forms of organizing help tackle—or reinforce—grand challenges has become centrally important. In this introductory article, we take stock of the contributions to the volume on Organizing for Societal Grand Challe...

Digital technologies, and the affordances they provide, can shape institutional processes in significant ways. In the last decade, social media and other digital platforms have redefined civic engagement by enabling new ways of connecting, collaborating, and mobilizing. In this article, we examine how technological affordances can both enable and h...

Forscher*innen gehen davon aus, dass der zunehmende Einsatz von künstlicher Intelligenz (KI) weitreichende Auswirkungen auf Arbeit, Organisation und Gesellschaft haben wird. In diesem Kapitel untersuchen wir, welche Anzeichen wir hierzu schon jetzt beim Einsatz von KI feststellen können. Zu diesem Zweck haben wir Interviews mit Beschäftigten aus 19...

This chapter engages with both religion and paradox in leadership and organization research by focusing on three sources of paradoxical tensions and how they are shaped by religion: worldly limits, diverse interpretations, and emerging relationships. First, regarding worldly limits, religion is predicated on an additional “very macro” level of real...

As physical distancing is a core measure of containing the spread of COVID-19, this pandemic is a crisis that has uprooted social interaction. While current research mainly focuses on crises as a challenge for entrepreneurial ventures and potential regulatory response mechanisms, we complement this research by addressing the question of how crises...

Digital transformation is leading to new competency requirements for employees. Nevertheless, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) currently often refrain from comprehensive training measures, especially due to time and cost constraints. Yet, in particular digital learning formats are an efficient and cost-effective alternative to analog forma...

Moments of crisis may serve as critical junctures for imagining alternatives. As the future has become increasingly volatile and precarious in these unsettled times of pandemic, climate emergency, rising inequality and an ever looming digital (r)evolution, there is a great need and opportunity to develop theory that can guide society towards its fu...

In einer pluralen, vernetzten Welt treffen häufiger unterschiedliche Wert(e)vorstellungen aufeinander. Das Konfliktpotenzial nimmt zu. Um trotzdem organisational Einheit in Vielfalt zu schaffen, müssen Führungskräfte ihre Mitarbeitenden und sich selbst befähigen, mit der gestiegenen Komplexität umzugehen. Elastische Hybridität ist hierfür ein poten...

Generating theory from research settings requires researchers to adeptly engage with the social intricacies of the field. They need to develop a contextual understanding by gaining in-depth insights into the setting, while retaining a critical distance from it. Researchers must practice this along the entire research journey, from site selection, t...

The institutional logics perspective has the explanatory power and potential to further contribute to our understanding of some of the most pressing societal concerns of our time. In this article, we develop the logics perspective along four analytical dimensions – macro-level positioning, contextuality, temporality and value plurality – which, we...

During the current COVID-19 crisis, we can see that we increasingly depend on digital platforms to satisfy our basic needs. Platforms like Google, Facebook, Uber, and Amazon are not only providing central communication channels, server capacity, and information but also offer mobility infrastructure, deliver food, and supply vital medicines. Platfo...

The universality of having to operate with limited in-person experiences is reducing the stigma often associated with online interactions. https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/this-is-not-digital-business-as-usual/

Religions are social constituents of present societies that need to be integrated into theories of leadership. In this article, I outline how three distinct characteristics, particularly present in Abrahamic religions, can significantly impact leadership principles and practices: a belief in the existence of and relationship to a God, the faith in...

Jenseits von wutbürgerlicher Protestkultur avanciert die Zivilgesellschaft im 21. Jahrhundert zu einer treibenden Kraft des sozialen Fortschritts, die zunehmend auch von Seiten des Staates und der Wirtschaft als bedeutende Gestaltungsressource und innovatives Wirkungsfeld wahrgenommen und entdeckt wird. Nicht mehr ausschließlich auf karitatives Eng...

Scent permeates all organizations and multiple dimensions of organizational life - yet it has been largely neglected in organization studies. This is unfortunate as scent is both a constitutive component of social reality and a distinct semiotic mode of constructing and conveying cultural meaning. It impacts, among many other things, the identity a...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to infer, from the mystical Islamic tradition, practical wisdom for management development on knowledge transfer and storage as well as organizational boundaries. Design/methodology/approach This exploratory research uses an ethnographic approach. Deep immersion was sought through participant observation in a S...