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Our publications at the LMU IEC are featured in top-ranked scientific journals and bring important discussions to the international research community. Discover our most recent research highlights here.
Prof. Dr. Jelena Spanjol Receives 2025 AMA-EBSCO-RRBM Award for Responsible Research in Marketing
We are proud to announce that Prof. Dr. Jelena Spanjol has been awarded the 2025 AMA-EBSCO-RRBM Annual Award for Responsible Research in Marketing. This prestigious award recognizes research that is both credible and useful, with real-world applications that benefit society.
The honored work was selected based on its alignment with the Seven Principles of Responsible Research, supporting the vision of better marketing for a better world. Prof. Dr. Spanjol’s research exemplifies the power of marketing to drive positive societal change.
Imagining Desirable Future – Organization Theory
Prof. Ali Gümüsay and Juliane Reinecke co-authored a radical piece on future-oriented scholarship. They propose "prospective theorizing," which focuses on imagining desirable futures; arguing for a shift from projection to imagination and from values-neutral to values-led theorizing. The paper suggests practices for prospective theorizing and introduces the concept of "speculative rigor" for scientific evaluation. The authors advocate for greater diversity in theorizing to foster (re)generative scholarship aimed at envisioning positive futures.
Self-transcendent leadership – European Management Review
In collaboration with Maximilian Theissen, and Hubertus Theissen, Prof.Ali Gümüsay persuasively explores self-transcendence in leadership literature, aiming to develop a comprehensive understanding of leadership research. The study links each form of self-transcendence to a leadership theory and proposes a meta-perspective of self-transcendent leadership along with its implications for research and practice.
Strategic social value orientation and sustainability performance – Organization Studies
Together with her co-authors, Prof. Jelena Spanjol published a new article where they explore how firms prioritize creating social value alongside financial and market value. They introduce the concept of Strategic Social Value Orientation (SSVO). In their contributions, they call for a more detailed assessment of social value and sustainability strategies, fostering theory and providing empirical measures for firms’ social value orientation.
Management Scholars of the World, Unite! – Organization Studies
In this Agora piece, Prof. Ali Gümüsay calls on management scholars to collectively bring together their insights to tackle the grand challenges ahead of us. Management scholars can do so, by building new formats of working together and speaking up and connecting with a broader public.
Fueling innovation management research – Journal of Production Innovation Management
Together with a team of authors, Jelena Spanjol explores the future of innovation management research by summarizing insights on emerging research areas and discussing key challenges and opportunities ahead. The forward looking paths include technological, social/environmental, and organizational innovation, with special attention to topics like AI, business models and responsibility.
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