goncagunay

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Prof. Dr.

Gonca

Gunay

Turkey

Area of expertise, interest, main activities...: 

entrepreneurship, social enterprises, women in academia, gender stereotypes

About you (please use English): 

Prof. Dr. Gonca Gunay has earned a bachelor’s degree from Bilkent University Department of Management in 1996 and MBA degree from Koç University in 1998. In 2004, she completed her PhD studies at Dokuz Eylül University. To conduct research in the field of management, she had been a visiting scholar at Columbia Business School in 2006 and Post-Doctoral Fulbright Fellow at Harvard Business School in 2010. She has worked for İzmir University of Economics, İstanbul Aydın University and Kadir Has University. Currently, she works as a Professor of Management and as Vice Rector responsible for Research at İstanbul Bilgi University. Her research interests are women’s entrepreneurship, women in leadership positions and business models of social enterprises.

Scientific discipline: 

Social sciences

Stakeholder group: 

Science stakeholders, Teachers, educators, learners, Policy stakeholders, Education & training policy makers, Science, technology and innovation policy makers, Gender equality stakeholders, Women scientists’ organizations

Contact details

Spoken languages: 

English

Turkish

City: 

İstanbul

Street: 

Santral İstanbul

ZIP: 

34060

Social networks: 

https://www.linkedin.com/in/gonca-gunay-ba4a8b2/

GenPORT Gender Expert2Expert Directory

Would you like to form part of the GenPORT Gender Expert database?: 

Yes

Area of Gender Expertise: 

Gender in business and management

Country coverage: 

Turkey

Skills and track record: 

Uygur, D., Kahraman, E.B. & Gunay, G. (2017). Empowering Women through Social Entrepreneurship with Innovative Business Models: Cases from Turkey. In Garcia, M.C.D., Brush, C., Gatewood, E.J. & Welter, F. (Eds.) Women’s Entrepreneurship in Global and Local Contexts (pp. 164-182). Edward Elgar. Uygur, D., Kahraman, E.B. & Gunay, G. (2015). Female Social Entrepreneurship in Turkey. In V. Ramadani, S. Gërguri-Rashiti & A. Fayolle (Eds.) Female Entrepreneurship in Transition Economies (pp.225-245). Palgrave Macmillan. Gupta, V.K., Goktan, A.B. & Gunay, G. (2014). Gender differences in evaluation of new business opportunity: A stereotype threat perspective. Journal of Business Venturing, 29(2), 273-288. Katrinli, A., Gunay, G., Acar, E. & Karaibrahimoglu, Y. (2010). Gender stereotyping in the accounting profession in Turkey. Journal of Modern Accounting and Auditing, 6(4), 15-25. Yılmaz, S. & Gunay, G. The Impact of Gender Stereotype Threat on Adopted Leadership Styles of Women in the Boardrooms. 33rd EGOS Colloquium, July 6-8, 2017. Copenhagen. Uygur, D., Kahraman, E.B. & Gunay, G. (2015). Fail Again, Fail Better: Deriving policy from failures of female entrepreneurs in Turkey. Diana International Research Conference 2015, June 8-9, 2015. Boston, USA