Dr Dorottya Sallai is an Associate Professor (Education) in Management. She serves as the Department of Management’s Education and Assessment Innovation Lead, Chair of the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Working Group, and the department’s representative in LSE’s AI Working Group. Her work in management education focuses on innovation and the integration of digital technologies, simulation games, and generative AI into teaching, learning, and assessment practices.

In her interdisciplinary research, Dorottya explores how organisations and leaders navigate institutional transitions and relationships at the intersection of management, politics, artificial intelligence (AI), education, and policy. She is particularly interested in how executive decision-making, strategy, foreign direct investment (FDI), and education are shaped by global political and technological changes, such as the rise of populism and the emergence of generative AI (GenAI).

Dorottya has received consistent recognition for teaching excellence, including LSE’s Outstanding Teaching Award and Excellence in Education Award, the Department of Management’s Academic Contribution Award, and first place in the Top Ten Teachers’ Award.

Research projects:

• AI in Management Education: Integrating AI into teaching, learning, and assessment in management through screening, practice building, and practice sharing.
• GENIAL-HUB for AI in Education: Explore how full-time undergraduate and postgraduate students use popular GenAI tools in learning and assessment.
• Faculty Advisor in Education 2.0: Navigating the Post-GenAI world: This student-led initiative, funded by Civica equips students and educators with strategies to adapt to AI, fostering an academic culture where AI complements rather than replaces human intellectual effort.
• Eden Development Fellowship AI in Teaching Change Management. The project aimed to catalyse the integration and advancement of digital and AI-enhanced teaching methodologies within the Change Management curriculum.
• POPBACK - Populist Backlash, Democratic Backsliding, and the Crisis of the Rule of Law in the European Union. The work package led by Dr Sallai focused on how the rise of populism increases political risk and undermines the Rule of Law in the economy and business environment, impacting multinational enterprises (MNEs) and firms. It also examines the coping strategies businesses adopt in response.

Drawing on her professional background in EU consulting prior to her academic career, she advises public- and private-sector organisations, as well as European institutions such as the European Commission.

She is an affiliate of LSE’s Data Science Institute, and Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Organisational Behaviour Faculty Research Group

Courses: Leading Organisational Change, Organisational Behaviour and Leadership, Negotiations, Lobbying and AI Leadership.

Publications:

 Blog Entries:

Sallai, Dorottya (2024) Assessment and curriculum design can’t ignore how students use AI. Initially posted in Times Higher Education (23 July 2024). Reposted on Management with Impact Blog with the author's permission (09 August 2024).

Sallai, Dorottya; Gyger, Annina C.; Francisco, Julio Ignacio Benitez; Chaudhuri, Arundhati; Bengham, Soloman; Farley, Meagan; Nwokedi, Ada Onyinye and Singh, Rashmi (2024) Embracing GenAI in Higher Education: A Change Journey Through the Eyes of Educators and Students. Management with Impact Blog (01 August 2024).

Sallai, Dorottya (2024) A Human-Centred Approach to AI Transformation. Management with Impact Blog (09 May 2024).

Sallai, Dorottya, Calin, Olimpia and Ibáñez, Camila (2023) Leading Organisational Change: Teaching and Learning with Simulation Games. Management (05 Sep 2023).

Sallai, Dorottya (2023) Levelling up management education: how to power student success with simulation games. Management (01 Sep 2023).

Sallai, Dorottya and Schnyder, Gerhard (2023) How multinationals survive populist governments. LSE Business Review (11 May 2023).

Sallai, Dorottya; Gomes, Marcus; Feldmann, Magnus; Morgan, Glenn, & Spicer, Andrew (2021), Social Challenges for Business in the Age of Populism, Business and Society, (21 November 2021).

Sallai, Dorottya and Schnyder, Gerhard (2021) What makes a capitalist system authoritarian? Business and Society, (14 December 2021).

Sallai, Dorottya (2021) On the Bookshelf, with Dorottya Sallai and Barbara Kiviat, Book Review: The Class Ceiling: Why it Pays to be Privileged, by Sam Friedman and Daniel Laurison (Policy Press, 2020), Blog Entry.

Sallai, Dorottya and Schnyder, Gerhard (2020) The return of the visible hand: How struggles for economic and political dominance turn state capitalism into authoritarian capitalism, 20 August 2020, Developing Economics. 

Sallai, Dorottya and Schnyder, Gerhard (2018) Is the EU subsidising autocracies? Hungary and the rise of the ‘illiberal’ model. The Conversation (12 January 2018) Blog Entry.

Articles:

Sallai, D., Cardoso-Silva, J., Barreto, M., Panero, F., Berrada, G. and Luxmoore, S. (2024) Approach Generative AI Tools Proactively or Risk Bypassing the Learning Process in Higher Education, LSE Public Policy Review, 3(3), p. 7.

Sallai, Dorottya; Morgan, Glenn; Feldmann, Magnus; Gomes, Marcus and Spicer, Andrew (2024) Social challenges for business in the age of populism. Business & Society, 63 (2). 279 - 299. ISSN 0007-6503

Sallai, Dorottya; Schnyder, Gerhard; Kinderman, Daniel and Nölke, Andreas (2023) The antecedents of MNC political risk and uncertainty under right-wing populist governments. Journal of International Business Policy. ISSN 2522-0691

Ricz, Judit; Sallai, Dorottya and Sass, Magdolna (2024) The role of the state in shaping the internationalization of firms in the twenty-first century. Competition and Change. ISSN 1024-5294

Schnyder, Gerhard and Sallai, Dorottya (2020) Between a rock and a hard place: internal- and external institutional fit of MNE subsidiary political strategy in contexts of institutional upheaval. Journal of International Management, 26 (2). ISSN 1075-4253

Sallai, Dorottya and Schnyder, Gerhard (2020) What is “authoritarian” about authoritarian capitalism? The dual erosion of the private-public divide in state-dominated business systems. Business and Society Review. ISSN 0045-3609

Sallai, Dorottya (2013) European union lobbying and the golden cage of post-socialist network capitalism in Hungary. Journal of Common Market Studies, 51 (5). pp. 948-964. ISSN 0021-9886

 Book Sections:

Sallai, Dorottya (2023) Populists in power: the impact on interest representation and firm-level nonmarket strategies. In: Feldmann, Magnus and Morgan, Glenn, (eds.) Business and Populism: The Odd Couple? Oxford University Press, 285 – 306. ISBN 9780192894335

Sallai, Dorottya (2022) Professional large group mentoring as an alternative to the ‘traditional’ personal tutoring system. In: Lochtie, Dave, Stork, Andrew and Walker, Ben W., (eds.) The Higher Education Personal Tutor’s and Advisor’s Companion: Translating Theory into Practice to Improve Student Success. Critical Publishing, St Albans, UK, 135 - 141. ISBN 9781913453459

Sallai, Dorottya (2019) Non-market strategies within conflicting institutional pressures: The case of western multinationals in a post-socialist context. In: Shirodkar, Vikrant, Strange, Roger and McGuire, Steven, (eds.) Non-Market Strategies in International Business: how MNEs capture value through their political, social and environmental strategies. The Academy of International Business. Springer Nature (Firm), Cham, pp. 19-39. ISBN 9783030350741