 Following the coup of 1980,as an academic who experienced great disappointment and desperation in this period, Mahçupyan ceased his intellectual activities for some time and left academia moving into business.To support himself, he worked as a manager at several prestigious companies (i.e., Eczacıbaşı Group ) as well as his own business.After 1989, he started working for a consultancy firm, learning to work on “productivity-enhancing cultural and psychological change in companies.” Because of the kind of consultancy work he was doing, he studied social psychology.