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Prof. Dr. Pascal Dey

Profile

Prof. Dr. Pascal Dey Dozent

Contact

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  • Contact hours Monday
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  • Address Berner Fachhochschule
    Business School
    Institut Innovation and Entrepreneurship
    Brückenstrasse 73
    3005 Bern

Activities

  • I am a professor of Entrepreneurship and Organization Studies, examining entrepreneurial phenomena through various social science disciplines, particularly organizational sociology.

    I have led several projects funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF), most recently “A mixed-methods inquiry into social entrepreneurs’ crowdfunding campaigns: How do social entrepreneurs persuade backers through verbal and visual communication?” and “The Swiss commodity sector as a matter of public concern: Inquiring into processes of contestation, justification, and change.” My teaching is situated at the intersection of entrepreneurship, (strategic) management, and organizational theory/organizational behavior. In these areas, I develop and teach courses in the BBA and IBA bachelor’s programs, master’s programs, and continuing education.
    Before coming to Bern, I was Associate Professor at Grenoble Ecole de Management, France. My current research interest are in the domain of social business models, digital entrepreneurship, social entrepreneurship and disability inclusion, entrepreneurial narratives and storytelling, and the spatio-temporal dimension of alternative organizing.

  • Entrepreneurship / social entrepreneurship

  • Social innovation

  • Organization theory / organizatoin studies

Teaching

  • 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

  • Research Methods

  • Technology & Society

Research

  • Social Entrepreneurship

  • Entrepreneurship

  • Social Innovation

  • Organization Studies

  • (Sozial) Crowdfunding

  • Social Business Models

  • Practice-based Theories

  • Business Ethics

  • Phenomenology of Time and Space

  • Narrative and Discursive Theories

  • Multi-Modality

  • Critical Theories

CV

  • Pascal Dey (PhD) is a professor of Entrepreneurship and Organization Studies at Bern University of Applied Sciences and a senior research fellow at the University of St. Gallen, both in Switzerland. Previously, he was a professor at Grenoble Ecole de Management in France, where he served as director of the doctoral program. Pascal was a senior editor at Organization Studies for six years and is currently an associate editor at Organization. Much of his work is at the intersection of entrepreneurship, politics, and society, drawing on various sociological, political, and philosophical theories.
  • since 8/20 Prof. BFH
  • 1/17 - 7/20 Associate Prof. Grenoble Ecole de Management (France)
  • since 10/11 Associate Research Fellow University of St. Gallen
  • 10/9 - 9/11 Independent and Freelance Consultant Realms of expertise: Sustainability, Strategy, Organizational Development
  • 01/09 - 8/11 Senior Lecturer and Program Manager University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland
  • 01/09 - 10/09 Consultant BSD Consulting (Business, Sustainability, Development)
  • 02/03 - 06/06 Business Co-Founder BlueYou AG
  • 11/06 - 04/07 Consultant 4-simplicity
  • 12/06 - 5/07 Post-doc University of St. Gallen
  • 05/02 - 11/06 Research Assistant University of St. Gallen
  • 05/01 - 04/02 Management Trainee SBB
  • 9/97 - 01 Research Associate University Hospital Bern
  • 06/96 - 10/96 Intern Red Cross
  • 05/02 - 11/07 Dissertation (Dr. phil. hist) University of Basel
  • 11/94 - 03/01 Licentiate (lic. phil. hist); equivalent to MA (but longer and more research-intense curriculum) University of Bern
  • Publications (Selection; last update: June 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).

Projects

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

    Further Information:
    https://data.snf.ch/grants/grant/200963

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

Memberships

  • European Group of Organization Studies (EGOS)

  • ECSB - European Council for Small Business and Entrepreneurship

  • Academy of Management

Language skills and intercultural knowledge

  • German - Native or bilingual proficiency
  • English - Full professional proficiency
  • French - Limited working proficiency
  • United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
  • France