Dr. Zehra Binnur Avunduk received the B.Sc. (Hons.), M.B.A., and Ph.D. degrees in Business Administration from the Faculty of Economics, Istanbul University, Istanbul,
Turkey, in 2009, 2012, and 2017, respectively. She is currently a Lecturer with the Vocational School of Social Sciences, Istanbul University-Cerrahpaşa. Her research interests include innovation strategies, open innovation, sustainability, technology, and production management. Dr. Avunduk has published book chapters in well-known international publishers and articles in national and international peer-reviewed journals, served as an ad-hoc reviewer in several prestigious journals, and presented many papers at scientific conferences. She has received the “Best Paper Award” from the 2018 International EMI Entrepreneurship and Social Sciences Congress. Dr. Avunduk also has served as a reviewer for the Academy of Management annual meetings. She has been a researcher in projects, one of which is funded by the Istanbul Development Agency, the second one is an R&D project in Technopark of Istanbul University, and the third one is funded by the Republic of Türkiye Ministry of Culture and Tourism.