Koç University, Management & Strategy, 2022

Sabancı University, Political Science, 2013 Tilburg University, Economics, 2011

Koç University, Economics, 2010

Dr. Aybike Mergen is a social sciences scholar who is extremely curious about leaders, their audiences, and ethics. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Management at Özyeğin University. She obtained her PhD from Graduate School of Business, Koç University, and she was a visiting scholar at Schulich School of Business, York University during her PhD studies. She obtained two master’s degrees, MSc. in Economics from Tilburg University and MA in Political Science from Sabancı University and has 2 years of management consultancy experience in Ernst & Young (EY) and Deloitte.

Leadership, Ethics, Decision-making mechanisms 

Research / Supervision Interests

Although not limited to, some of the possible topics of supervisions are as follows:
- Leadership and followership
- Emergence, self-organization, and complexity in organizations
- Ethical and effective governance of AI systems
- Distributed cognition and human–machine collaboration
- Moral psychology, empathy, and institutional legitimacy
- Social construction of expertise and authority
- Diversity, inclusion, and recognition dynamics in leadership

**Note: I am open to new MSc and PhD students**

Journal Articles

• Mergen, A., & Ozbilgin, M. (2021). Understanding the followers of toxic leaders: Toxic illusio and personal uncertainty. International Journal of Management Reviews, 23(1), 45-63. 

Book Chapters

• Mergen, A., & Ozbilgin, M. (2021). Toxic illusio in the global value chain: The case of Amazon. In S. Metin Camgoz & O. Tayfur Ekmekci (Eds.) Destructive Leadership and Management Hypocrisy: Advances in Theory and Practice. Emerald Publishing.

MGMT 202 (Organizations), MGMT 314 (Leading and Managing People in Organizations)