Işık University, Business Administration, 2021-2026

Galatasaray University, Marketing and Logistics Management, 2009-2011

Sabancı University, Management Sciences, 2003-2007

Dr. Irmak Orman is a part-time lecturer at Özyeğin University, where she teaches Cross-Border Mergers & Acquisitions. Her research examines how digital and AI-mediated platforms shape entrepreneurial opportunity and internationalisation for small and medium-sized enterprises in emerging markets, with a particular focus on cross-border e-commerce, internationalization through global value chains, and platform-dependent entrepreneurship.

She brings more than fifteen years of professional experience spanning finance, investment, strategy, marketing, and logistics. She began her career in project and acquisition finance on a leading Turkish bank's M&A desk, before moving into corporate venture capital as General Manager of a Doğan Holding subsidiary and later serving as Chief Strategy Officer at a digital health startup. Her marketing and logistics experience includes senior roles overseeing country and cluster marketing strategy at UPS, alongside product and marketing leadership in telecommunications and cross-border e-commerce. She is also a co-founder of a startup and has served as a board member for companies in logistics, distribution, and digital publishing.

Dr. Orman holds a PhD in Business Administration from Işık University and is the author of several books and articles on entrepreneurship, digitalisation, and global value chains.

Platform-mediated internationalisation, Cross-border e-commerce and SME internationalisation, AI-mediated platforms and trade digitalization, Entrepreneurial capabilities in emerging markets, Mergers & acquisitions and corporate strategy

Conference Proceedings & Articles

•  Logistics as a market-maker: Overcoming distance in the internationalization of emerging market SMEs. Orman, I. & Teker S. (2026). 5th International Conference on Economics, Business and Social Sciences (ICEBUSS), Malang, Indonesia.
• Orman, I., Teker, S., & Teker, D. (2025). In Proceedings of the 20th International Strategic Management Conference: Leveraging strategic management for a sustainable digital economy (p. 530). ISMMA. (September 11-13, 2025, Belgrade, Serbia)
• Orman, I., & Teker, S. (2024). Impacts of cross-border e-commerce on growth of Turkish SMEs. PressAcademia Procedia, 20(1), 66–70. https://doi.org/10.17261/Pressacademia.2024.1926
• Teker, S., Teker, D., & Orman, I. (2024). Export potential of Turkish SMEs. PressAcademia Procedia, 19, 84–87. https://doi.org/10.17261/Pressacademia.2024.1913
• Teker, S., Teker, D., & Orman, I. (2023). Agritech as a sustainable solution for agricultural production constraints. In Proceedings book of the 18th International Strategic Management Conference: Strategic management in the era of digital and green transformation (pp. 34–43). International Strategic Management and Managers Association.
• Teker, S., Teker, D., & Orman, I. (2023). International trade between Turkey and China. PressAcademia Procedia, 16, 179–191. https://doi.org/10.17261/Pressacademia.2023.1685
• Teker, S., Teker, D., & Orman, I. (2023). International trade between Turkey and China. PressAcademia Procedia, 16, 179–191. https://doi.org/10.17261/Pressacademia.2023.1685
• Teker, S., Teker, D., & Orman, I. (2021). 5G technology and future of banking. Journal of Business & Economic Policy, 8(4), 27–32. https://doi.org/10.30845/jbep.v8n4p4

Book Chapters and Books

• Orman, I., Teker, S., & Teker, D. (2026). Global value chains: From multinational dominance to SME empowerment in a regionalized and digitalized world. In M. Özşahin, V. Simovic, & A. Ertürk (Eds.), Leveraging strategic management for a sustainable digital economy (pp. 273–302). IGI Global Scientific Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4018/979-8-3373-5052-3.ch010
• Özkaşıkcı Orman, I. (2020). Butik Yayıncılık ve Kişisel Gelişim Hizmetleri. ISBN: 9786059397742
• Özkaşıkçı Orman, I. (2018). Butik Yayıncılık ve Kişisel Gelişim Hizmetleri. ISBN: 9786055154752
• Özkaşıkcı, I. (2013). Butik Yayıncılık ve Kişisel Gelişim Hizmetleri. ISBN: 9786055154301
• Özkaşıkcı, I. (2011). Levent Print City. ISBN: 9786056296505

•  Cross-Border Mergers & Acquisitions