Humboldt Institute for Internet & Society<\/a> Berlin.<\/p>\nHe is a board member of the German Association for Business Research as well as the LMU Innovation & Entrepreneurship Center. His research focuses on (1) values, meaning and hybridity in entrepreneurship, (2) grand challenges, sustainability and new forms of organizing, (3) digitalization, management and innovation as well as (4) impact, scholarship and futures. It has been published in outlets such as Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Management Studies, Organization Theory, and Research Policy.<\/p>\n
Prior, Prof. G\u00fcm\u00fc\u015fay was a Visiting Research Fellow at Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, a senior researcher at the University of Hamburg, a research fellow at Vienna University of Economics & Business, the principal investigator of the DFG network \u201cGrand Challenges & New Forms of Organizing\u201d, and a DAAD Prime Fellow. He received his doctorate from the University of Oxford, where he also worked as a Lecturer in Management at Magdalen College, University of Oxford. Before his DPhil from Sa\u00efd Business School, he was a consultant with the Boston Consulting Group.<\/p>\n
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