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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.
New article on impact and impact measurement in the corporate context
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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.
In collaboration with Prof. Judith Ströhle, Prof. Laura Marie Edinger-Schons and other key players, Prof. Ali Aslan Gümüsay and Dr. Amyn Vogel have published a new article.
Can we rethink capitalism by measuring what really matters? In this curated dialog, published in the Journal of Management Inquiry, leading voices critically discuss Impact Measurement and Valuation (IMV).
Together with an inspiring group of academics and practitioners, we question whether the monetization of business impact actually leads to sustainable change, contributing to the debate on the future of a fair and sustainable economy.
Curated Discussion on Impact Entrepreneurship
The team of the Professorship of Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Sustainability has curated and published a discussion on impact entrepreneurship.
Curated by Dr. Amyn Vogel, Monica Nadegger, PhD, and Dr. Barbara Wolf, and with a contribution by Prof. Dr. Ali Aslan Gümüsay, the Professorship of Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Sustainability has published a curated discussion on impact entrepreneurship.
As societies face pressing societal and ecological grand challenges, entrepreneurs are increasingly called upon to shape sustainable futures. Impact entrepreneurship goes beyond profit maximization to embrace social and ecological purpose — aligning value creation with systemic change.
This curated discussion brings together five essays, each exploring a different dimension of impact entrepreneurship:
- Prof. Dr. Jelena Spanjol, Prof. Dr. Ali Aslan Gümüsay & Prof. Dr. Laura Marie Edinger-Schons examine the conceptual foundations of impact, introducing an integrated tripartite framework that clarifies sources of impact across economic, social, ecological, and governance dimensions.
- Prof. Dr. Christine Volkmann, Kristin Krebs & Dr. Julian Bafera analyze impact ecosystems, showing how entrepreneurial environments can be structured to help enterprises scale socio-ecological value effectively and sustainably.
- Dr. Larissa Gebken & Paul Vilchez focus on impact technology, arguing that digital innovations should be designed for societal good, guided by stakeholder values and ecological purpose rather than novelty alone.
- Felizia von Schweinitz, Dr. Amyn Vogel & Prof. Dr. Judith Stroehle address impact measurement, highlighting the need for more methodological consistency, higher standards, and collaborative processes to ensure credibility and transparency.
- Prof. Dr. Britta M. Gossel, Dr. Daniel J. Kruse, Dr. Mona Mirtsch, Viktoria Unger & Dr. Barbara Wolf emphasize impact education, proposing ways to prepare future entrepreneurs to tackle complexity, act with a values compass, and imagine desirable futures.
Together, these contributions highlight how entrepreneurship research, practice, and education can evolve to support more equitable and sustainable futures.
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