
The IMV Lab is a joint research initiative of LMU Munich and the University of Hamburg. Ali Aslan Gümüsay, Laura Marie Edinger-Schons, Amyn Vogel, and Felizia von Schweinitz collaborate in an interdisciplinary setting to advance research on impact measurement and the valuation of social innovations.

Professor of Innovation, Entrepreneurship & Sustainability at LMU Munich and Head of the research group Innovation, Entrepreneurship & Society at the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG).
Member of the Executive Board of the German Academic Association for Business Research (VHB) and of the LMU Innovation & Entrepreneurship Center. Previously Visiting Fellow at the University of Cambridge and Senior Researcher at the University of Hamburg and WU Vienna.
From 2014 to 2016, Lecturer in Management at Magdalen College, University of Oxford, where he also completed his DPhil in Management Research.
His research focuses on societal challenges, digitalization, and new forms of organizing, with a particular emphasis on values, innovation, futures, and societal impact.
Professor for Business Administration, esp. Sustainable Business at the University of Hamburg
Researches the intersection of corporate sustainability, ethics, and societal impact. Her work focuses on the role of purpose, governance, and individual agency in driving transformative change within organizations.
Examines how companies and individuals contribute to sustainable development, with a particular emphasis on corporate purpose, sustainable consumption, democratic corporate governance, impact measurement, and ethical technology design.
Her research has been published in leading academic journals, including Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, Business & Information Systems Engineering, Journal of Marketing, Journal of Consumer Psychology, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, and Journal of Business Ethics.
She has received numerous awards, including the German Science Award (2016, 2022), the Wolfgang Ritter Prize (2017), the Roman Herzog Research Prize (2018), the Max Weber Prize for Business Ethics (2018), and the AACSB Innovations That Inspire Award (2017). In 2019, she was named one of Capital magazine’s Top 40 under 40.
Project Lead at the Impact Measurement and Valuation Lab (IMV Lab). His current research and projects focus on social innovation, impact orientation, and collective value creation at the interface of academia and practice.
Supported by the German Academic Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes), he completed his PhD at Freie Universität Berlin on the diffusion and acceptance of social innovations and conducted research at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin on participatory decision-making in perioperative care. His work in health services research examines the implementation of innovative care models from a social science perspective, with a particular focus on enabling and constraining factors in the diffusion and acceptance of social innovations.
For the past several years, his research has focused on impact-oriented entrepreneurship and the measurement of social innovation impact, with an emphasis on the development and critical reflection of approaches to impact assessment and the societal role of entrepreneurship.
Amyn holds a Master’s degree in Futures Studies (M.A.) from Freie Universität Berlin, a dual Master’s degree in International Management (M.A. / Grade de Master) from the Berlin School of Economics and Law and ESCE Paris, and a Bachelor’s degree (B.A.) in International Management from the Berlin School of Economics and Law.
Project Lead of the BMFTR-funded Impact Measurement and Valuation Lab (IMV Lab) at the University of Hamburg. She conducts research at the Chair of Business Administration, esp. Sustainable Business, at the University of Hamburg.
Her research interests center on the measurement and valuation of social and environmental impacts of organizations, as well as impact entrepreneurship (Püchel et al., 2024; Vogel et al., 2025; von Schweinitz & Vogel, 2024).
Her work has been published in Schmalenbach Journal of Business Research and Business & Information Systems Engineering and presented at conferences such as the Academy of Management Annual Meeting and the EGOS Colloquium. She has collaborated with practice partners on corporate citizenship projects (SAP and Amazon in cooperation with Haus des Stiftens) and on impact-oriented digital strategies for the German federal government (Agora Digitale Transformation).
Felizia holds a Master’s degree in Management (M.Sc.) from the University of Mannheim and a Bachelor’s degree in International Cultural and Business Studies (B.A.) from the University of Passau.

The IMV Lab is a joint research initiative of LMU Munich and the University of Hamburg. Ali Aslan Gümüsay, Laura Marie Edinger-Schons, Amyn Vogel, and Felizia von Schweinitz collaborate in an interdisciplinary setting to advance research on impact measurement and the valuation of social innovations.

Professor of Innovation, Entrepreneurship & Sustainability at LMU Munich and Head of the research group Innovation, Entrepreneurship & Society at the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG).
Member of the Executive Board of the German Academic Association for Business Research (VHB) and of the LMU Innovation & Entrepreneurship Center. Previously Visiting Fellow at the University of Cambridge and Senior Researcher at the University of Hamburg and WU Vienna.
From 2014 to 2016, Lecturer in Management at Magdalen College, University of Oxford, where he also completed his DPhil in Management Research.
His research focuses on societal challenges, digitalization, and new forms of organizing, with a particular emphasis on values, innovation, futures, and societal impact.
Professor for Business Administration, esp. Sustainable Business at the University of Hamburg
Researches the intersection of corporate sustainability, ethics, and societal impact. Her work focuses on the role of purpose, governance, and individual agency in driving transformative change within organizations.
Examines how companies and individuals contribute to sustainable development, with a particular emphasis on corporate purpose, sustainable consumption, democratic corporate governance, impact measurement, and ethical technology design.
Her research has been published in leading academic journals, including Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, Business & Information Systems Engineering, Journal of Marketing, Journal of Consumer Psychology, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, and Journal of Business Ethics.
She has received numerous awards, including the German Science Award (2016, 2022), the Wolfgang Ritter Prize (2017), the Roman Herzog Research Prize (2018), the Max Weber Prize for Business Ethics (2018), and the AACSB Innovations That Inspire Award (2017). In 2019, she was named one of Capital magazine’s Top 40 under 40.
Project Lead at the Impact Measurement and Valuation Lab (IMV Lab). His current research and projects focus on social innovation, impact orientation, and collective value creation at the interface of academia and practice.
Supported by the German Academic Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes), he completed his PhD at Freie Universität Berlin on the diffusion and acceptance of social innovations and conducted research at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin on participatory decision-making in perioperative care. His work in health services research examines the implementation of innovative care models from a social science perspective, with a particular focus on enabling and constraining factors in the diffusion and acceptance of social innovations.
For the past several years, his research has focused on impact-oriented entrepreneurship and the measurement of social innovation impact, with an emphasis on the development and critical reflection of approaches to impact assessment and the societal role of entrepreneurship.
Amyn holds a Master’s degree in Futures Studies (M.A.) from Freie Universität Berlin, a dual Master’s degree in International Management (M.A. / Grade de Master) from the Berlin School of Economics and Law and ESCE Paris, and a Bachelor’s degree (B.A.) in International Management from the Berlin School of Economics and Law.
Project Lead of the BMFTR-funded Impact Measurement and Valuation Lab (IMV Lab) at the University of Hamburg. She conducts research at the Chair of Business Administration, esp. Sustainable Business, at the University of Hamburg.
Her research interests center on the measurement and valuation of social and environmental impacts of organizations, as well as impact entrepreneurship (Püchel et al., 2024; Vogel et al., 2025; von Schweinitz & Vogel, 2024).
Her work has been published in Schmalenbach Journal of Business Research and Business & Information Systems Engineering and presented at conferences such as the Academy of Management Annual Meeting and the EGOS Colloquium. She has collaborated with practice partners on corporate citizenship projects (SAP and Amazon in cooperation with Haus des Stiftens) and on impact-oriented digital strategies for the German federal government (Agora Digitale Transformation).
Felizia holds a Master’s degree in Management (M.Sc.) from the University of Mannheim and a Bachelor’s degree in International Cultural and Business Studies (B.A.) from the University of Passau.