Prof. A.U. Saka-Helmhout (Ayse)
Professor - Strategy
Heyendaalseweg 141
6525 AJ NIJMEGEN
Postbus 9108
6500 HK NIJMEGEN
Prior to joining the Nijmegen School of Management in 2014, Ayse worked as a Reader in the Department of International Business and Sustainable Systems at the University of Surrey (UK). She holds a PhD from Warwick Business School (UK).
Ayse's research focuses on how MNEs display agency despite their institutional embeddedness. Her work has highlighted responses by MNEs to multiple institutional pressures from a comparative perspective, including those to institutional voids. She recently completed a Trans-Atlantic Platform-funded project on social innovation processes in and around multinationals (2020-2023) and has embarked on an EU Horizon project on assessing trade-offs among global strategies for skills (GS4S) (2024-2027).