Erasmus Research Institute of Management -

Erasmus University Rotterdam School of Management Erasmus School of Economics
 
   
 

About ERIM

The Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM) is a research school of the Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR). ERIM was founded in 1998 by two of the EUR’s schools; the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University (RSM) and the Erasmus School of Economics (ESE).

In 1999, ERIM was officially accredited by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) and re-accredited in 2003 and 2010. The next accreditation by the KNAW is planned in 2016.

Mission, goals and domain

The mission of ERIM is to conduct scientific research that enables organisations to assess and improve their business processes in order to perform in a profitable and responsible way.

ERIM’s research programmes focus on two pivotal areas of investigation. The first is the study of intra-firm and inter-firm business processes. The second is the role of data, information, information processing and knowledge in managerial decision making. ERIM’s objective is to carry out first-rate research in management, as recognised by the community of peers, and to offer an advanced Doctoral Programme in Management for the education of new, outstanding scholars in the field. More specifically, the goals of ERIM are:

  • To be a high quality institute with high visibility and a strong reputation among its peers in the international community of researchers in management;
  • To achieve a high output and impact of scientific publications in the top journals and books of research in management; 
  • To offer high quality doctoral education through an internationally competitive Doctoral Programme; 
  • To attract, develop and retain top research talent in all stages of their career.

Throughout its activities, in research as well as teaching, ERIM has five distinct areas of research in management:

 
 
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