Prof. Dr. Pascal Dey

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Prof. Dr. Pascal Dey Dozent

  • Präsenzzeit Montag
    Dienstagvormittag
    Mittwoch
    Donnerstagvormittag
    Freitag
  • Adresse Berner Fachhochschule
    Wirtschaft
    Institut Innovation and Entrepreneurship
    Brückenstrasse 73
    3005 Bern

Tätigkeiten

  • Dozent Entrepreneurship und Organization Studies

  • Entrepreneurship / Social Entrepreneurship

  • Soziale Innovation

  • Organisationstheorie / -soziologie

Lehre

  • Master of Digital Business Administration

  • Bachelor Betriebsökonomie

  • Bachelor International Business Administration

  • Master of Business Administration

  • Master of Circular Innovation and Sustainability

  • Master of Entrepreneurship & Business Innovation

  • Business Planning

  • Strategic Management

  • Strategic Decision Making

  • Leadership & Organizational Development

  • (Social) Entrepreneurship

  • Social Innovation

  • Wissenschaftliche Methoden / Research Methods

  • Technology & Society

  • Social Innovation

Forschung

  • Soziales Unternehmertum

  • Soziale Innovation

  • Unternehmertum

  • Unternehmenssoziologie

  • (Soziales) Crowdfunding

  • Soziale Geschäftsmodelle

  • Praxistheorie

  • Unternehmensethik

  • Phänomenologie (von Zeit und Raum)

Lebenslauf

  • Pascal Dey (PhD) ist Professor für Entrepreneurship und Organisationsforschung an der Fachhochschule Bern und Senior Research Fellow an der Universität St. Gallen (beide in der Schweiz). Zuvor war er Professor an der Grenoble Ecole de Management (Frankreich), wo er als Direktor des Doktorandenprogramms tätig war. Pascal war sechs Jahren Mitherausgeber (Senior Editor) bei Organization Studies und derzeit Mitherausgeber (Associate Editor) bei Organization. Ein Grossteil seiner Arbeit bewegt sich an der Schnittstelle zwischen Unternehmertum, Politik und Gesellschaft und stützt sich auf verschiedene soziologische, politische und philosophische Theorien.
  • since 08/20 Professor Bern University of Applied Sciences
  • 01/17 - 07/20 Assoziierter Professor Grenoble Ecole de Management, France
  • since 10/11 Senior Research Fellow University of St. Gallen
  • 10/09 – 09/11 Freelance Consultant Nachhaltigkeitsberichterstattung, Stakeholder-Engagement, Impact-Messung
  • 01/09 - 08/11 Dozent und Projektmanager Executive MBA Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz
  • 01/09 - 09/09 Senior Consultant Business-Society-Development BSD Consulting
  • 02/03 - 04/06 Ko-Gründer Blueyou AG
  • 11/06 - 04/07 Senior Sonsultant 4simplicity
  • 12/06 - 05/07 Post-Doc Forscher University of St. Gallen
  • 05/02 - 11/06 Forschungsassistent University of St. Gallen
  • 05/02 - 11/07 Dissertation (Dr. phil.) Soziologie University of Basel
  • 11/94 - 03/01 Lizentiat (Lic. phil.) Psychologie University of Bern
  • Publikationen (Auswahl; Stand Juni 2026):
    Dey, P., Teasdale, S. (2026), ‘‘Marching to someone else’s beat or creating your own groove?’ Toward a rhythmic understanding of context, (entrepreneurial) agency, and transformative change’, Journal of Management Studies, 63, 101-132. (AJG: 4 / FT50).

    Müller, S., Simba, A., Dey, P., Gurtner, N., Gurtner, S. (2026), ‘African innovation and entrepreneurship research for sustainable development: A young scholars’ perspective’, Africa Journal of Management (AJG: 2).

    Garcia, R., Atkins, R.M.B., Bonillas, E., Brush, C., Gartner, W.B., Welter, F., Amoros, J.E., Al-Ajani, H., Berglund, K., de Bruin, A., Dey, P., Dodd, S., Galloway, L., Hechavarria, D., Jackson, D., Keim, J., Lewis, A., Lindbergh, J., Liu, C.Y., Lubinski, C., Nair, A., Newman, A., O’Toole, J., Price, G., Radu-Lefebvre, M., Ram, M., Randolph, A., Ro, E., Schwartz, B., Sindani, T., Villeseche, F., Wadhwani, R.D., Wettermark, A. & Xheneti, M. (2026), ‘How should we study heterogeneity in entrepreneurship? Moving the field to an inclusive approach’ (own essay Dey, P., Keim, J.: ‘A response to Bakker and McMullen (2026): From a unified theory of ‘unconventional entrepreneurs’ to an agenda of informed paradigmatic pluralism (with a brief detour to power)’, Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice, 50, 355-397. (AJG: 4* / FT50).

    Dey, P., Risi, D., Gurtner, S., Tokarski, K. (2025), ‘Editorial introduction to the Special Issue ‘Intensifying Research on the Dark Side of Entrepreneurship’’, International Journal of Entrepreneurial Venturing (AJG: 2).

    Dey, P., Lo, A., Fatien, P. (2025), ‘How collaborative spaces become places-of-entrepreneuring: A phenomenological study of entrepreneurial place-making’, Human Relations, 78, 753-790. (AJG: 4 / FT50).

    Hopp, C., Dey, P., Rüdiger, M., Riniker, M. (2025), ‘Financing sustainable entrepreneurship: Unpacking the role of campaign information and risk disclosure in reward-based crowdfunding’, Finance Research Letters, 74 (AJG: 2). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.frl.2025.106748

    Dorfmüller, H., Kimotho, W., Ebert, I., Dey, P., Wettstein, F. (2024), ‘Responsible business conduct in commodity trading – A multidisciplinary review’, Journal of Business Ethics, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-024-05635-w (AJG: 3 / FT50).

    Keim, J., Müller, S., Dey, P. (2024), ‘Whatever the problem, entrepreneurship is the solution! Confronting the panacea myth of entrepreneurship with structural injustice’, Journal of Business Venturing Insights, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbvi.2023.e00440 (AJG: 2).

    Mauksch, S., Dey, P. (2024), ‘Treating disability as an asset (not a limitation): A critical examination of disability inclusion through social entrepreneurship’, Organization, 31, 624-644. (AJG: 3)

    Nguyen, M.H., Dey, P. (2023), ‘Social franchising in the public health sector in Vietnam: A tale of two change pathways’, Social Enterprise Journal, 19, 404-420. (AJG: 1).

    Dey, P., Fletcher, D., Verduyn, K. (2023), ‘Critical research and entrepreneurship: A cross-disciplinary typology’, International Journal of Management Reviews, 25, 24-51. (AJG: 3)

    Roy, M., Dey, P., Teasdale, S. (2021), ‘(Re-)embedding embeddedness: What is the role of social enterprise in promoting democracy and protecting human rights’, Social Enterprise Journal, 17, 370-397. (AJG: 1)

    Mazzei, M., Montogmery, T., Dey, P. (2021), ‘‘Utopia’ failed? Social enterprise, everyday practices and the closure of neoliberalism’, Environment and Planning C, 39, 1625-1643. (AJG: 3)

    Teasdale, S., Roy, M., Ziegler, R., Mauksch, S., Dey, P., Raufflet, E.-B. (2021), ‘Everyone a changemaker? Exploring the moral underpinnings of social innovation discourse through real utopias’, Journal of Social Entrepreneurship, 12, 417-437. (AJG: 2)

    Dey, P. (2020), ‘Literature review: Plunder of the Commons by Guy Standing’, Journal of Business Ethics, 166, 779-783. (AJG: 3 / FT50)

    Gauthier, C., Shanahan, G., Ranville, A., Daudigeos, T., Dey, P. (2020), ‘Tackling economic exclusion through social business models: A typology’, International Journal of Applied Economics, 34, 588-606. (AJG: 1)

    Teasdale, S., Dey, P. (2019), ‘Neoliberal governing through social enterprise: Exploring the neglected roles of deviance and ignorance in public value creation’, Public Administration, 97 (2), 325-338. (AJG: 4)

    Dey, P., Mason, C. (2018), ‘Overcoming constraints of collective imagination: An inquiry into activist entrepreneuring, disruptive truth-telling and the creation of ‘possible worlds’, Journal of Business Venturing, 33 (1), 84-99. (AJG: 4* / FT50).

Projekte

  • SNF Projekt (Nr. 200963): Crowdfunding for Social Entrepreneurs: How Social Entrepreneurs Gain Support through Verbal and Visual Communication

    Weitere Informationen:
    https://data.snf.ch/grants/grant/200963

    https://www.bfh.ch/en/research/research-projects/2021-010-888-465/

Mitgliedschaften

  • Academy of Management

  • European Group of Organization Studies

  • ECSB - European Council for Small Business and Entrepreneurship

Sprachen- und Länderkenntnisse

  • Deutsch - Muttersprache oder zweisprachig
  • Englisch - Verhandlungssicher
  • Französisch - Konversationssicher
  • Frankreich
  • Vereinigtes Königreich Großbritannien und Nordirland
  • Deutschland