Aybike Mergen
Assistant Professor of Management · Özyeğin University
I am interested in humans as individuals and in collectives, and in what happens in the space between them.
In brief
Most of what I do starts from impatience with a particular kind of explanation. When something goes wrong in an organization, we look for someone to blame; I am more interested in the conditions that made it possible, and in why we work so hard not to see them.
Research
What I work on
Followership & audience roles
The parts people play in producing leadership — the participatory-theatre framework.
Toxicity & its normalization
How harm becomes ordinary in organizations, and how expertise corrodes.
Algorithmic governance
Digital commons, accountability, and bias in datafied systems.
Multi-level agency
How agency forms between individuals and collectives, and what the group makes possible for the person.
Power, justice & exclusion
Inclusion, decolonial critique, fairness, and voice.