J. (Hans) van Oosterhout

Hans van Oosterhout is a professor of corporate governance and responsibility at the Department of Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University (RSM).

His research is in comparative corporate governance, involving both comparisons between different national corporate governance systems, and comparisons between different forms of enterprise organization.

His current research focuses on how jurisdiction level institutions shape the respective role of owners and executives in publicly listed firms, and on the corporate governance challenges and practices of professional partnerships, family firms, and philanthropic organizations.

Professor van Oosterhout has published extensively in journals including the Academy of Management Review, Organization Studies, the Journal of Management Studies, Business Ethics Quarterly and the Journal of Business Ethics.

He has held visiting positions at the Australian National University and the The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Professor van Oosterhout obtained an MA Cum Laude in political science from Leiden University and a PhD in Management from Erasmus University.

• Articles (24)
  • Van Essen, M., Oosterhout, J. van & Heugens, P.P.M.A.R. (2013). Competition and cooperation in corporate governance: The effects of labor institutions on blockholder effectivess in 23 European countries. Organization Science, 24(March/April), 530-551.
  • Essen, M. van, Heugens, P.P.M.A.R., Oosterhout, J. van & Otten, J.A. (2012). An institution-based view of executive compensation: A multilevel meta-analytic test. Journal of International Business Studies, 43, 396-423.
  • Oosterhout, J. van, Essen, M. van & Carney, M. (2012). Corporate boards and the performance of Asian firms: A meta-analysis. Asia Pacific Journal of Management, 29(4), 873-905.
  • Carney, M., Gedajlovic, E.R., Heugens, P.P.M.A.R., Essen, M. van & Oosterhout, J. van (2011). Business group affiliation, performance, context, and strategy: A meta-analysis. Academy of Management Journal, 54(3), 437-460.
  • Oosterhout, J. van (2010). The Role of Corporations in Shaping the Global Rules of the Game: In Search of New Foundations. Business Ethics Quarterly, 20(2), 253-264.
  • Oosterhout, J. van (2010). Can the Firm Be Seen to Emerge out of a Pincer Movement of Efficiency Pressures? In A.M. Pacces (Ed.), The Law and Economics of Corporate Governance (pp. 290-296). Cheltenham: Edward Elger Publishing.
  • Heugens, P.P.M.A.R., Essen, M. van & Oosterhout, J. van (2009). Meta-analyzing ownership concentration and firm performance in Asia: Towards a more fine-grained understanding. Asia Pacific Journal of Management, 26(3), 481-512.
  • Oosterhout, J. van & Heugens, P.P.M.A.R. (2009). Extant social contracts in global business regulation: Outline of a research agenda. Journal of Business Ethics, 88(4), 729-740.
  • Heugens, P.P.M.A.R., Kaptein, S.P. & Oosterhout, J. van (2008). Contracts to communities: A processual model of organizational virtue. Journal of Management Studies, 45(1), 100-121.
  • Oosterhout, J. van (2008). Transcending the confines of political and Economic organization; The misguided metaphor of corporate citizenship. Business Ethics Quarterly, 18(1), 35-42.
  • Otten, J.A. & Oosterhout, J. van (2008). Bestuurdersbeloning: Ideologie, Symboliek of Instrument van Corporate Governance? Ondernemingsrecht, 290-296.
  • De Jong, Abe, Mertens, G.M.H., Oosterhout, J. van & Vletter - van Dort, H.M. van (2007). How useful is shareholder intervention? Management Control en Accounting, 11(2), 8-15.
  • Oosterhout, J. van, Heugens, P.P.M.A.R. & Kaptein, S.P. (2007). Contractualism vindicated; A response to Boatright. Academy of Management Review, 32(1), 295-297.
  • Oosterhout, J. van (2007). Authority and Democracy in Corporate Governance? Journal of Business Ethics, 71(4), 359-370.
  • Heugens, P.P.M.A.R., Oosterhout, J. van & Kaptein, S.P. (2006). Foundations and applications for contractualist business ethics. Journal of Business Ethics, 68(3), 211-228.
  • Heugens, P.P.M.A.R., Kaptein, S.P. & Oosterhout, J. van (2006). The ethics of the node versus the ethics of the dyad? Reconciling virtue ethics and contractualism. Organization Studies, 27(3), 391-491.
  • Oosterhout, J. van, Heugens, P.P.M.A.R. & Kaptein, S.P. (2006). The internal morality of contracting: Advancing the contractualist endeavor in business ethics. Academy of Management Review, 31(3), 521-539.
  • Oosterhout, J. van (2005). Corporate Citizenship; An idea whose time has not come. Academy of Management Review, 30(4), 677-681.
  • Heugens, P.P.M.A.R., Kaptein, S.P. & Oosterhout, J. van (2004). Ties that grind? Corroborating a typology of social contracting problems. Journal of Business Ethics, 49(3), 235-252.
  • Oosterhout, J. van, Wempe, B.H.E. & Willigenburg, T. van (2004). Rethinking Organizational ethics: a plea for pluralism. Journal of Business Ethics, 55(4), 387-395.
  • Oosterhout, J. van, Wempe, B.H.E. & Willigenburg, T. van (2004). Contractualism and the Project for an Integrative Organizational Ethics. In Stephanie Welcomer (Ed.), IABS Proceedings The Fifteenth Annual Conference, Jackson Hole, Wyoming.
  • Oosterhout, J. van, Wempe, B.H.E. & Willigenburg, T. van (2004). ISCT and the Call for Practical Guidance. In Stephanie Welcomer (Ed.), IABS Proceedings The Fifteenth Annual Conference, Jackson Hole, Wyoming.
  • Heugens, P.P.M.A.R. & Oosterhout, J. van (2002). The Confines of Stakeholder Management: Evidence from the Dutch Manufacturing Sector. Journal of Business Ethics, 40(4), 387-404.
  • Heugens, P.P.M.A.R. & Oosterhout, J. van (2001). To boldly go where no man has gone before: integrating cognitive and physical features in scenario studies. Futures, 33(10), 861-872.

• Books
  • Heugens, P.P.M.A.R., Oosterhout, J. van & Vromen, J.J. (2004). The Social Institutions of Capitalism: Evolution and Design of Social Contracts. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing.

• Book contributions (6)
  • Heugens, P.P.M.A.R. & Oosterhout, J. van (). Much ado about nothing: A conceptual critique of corporate social responsibility. In D.S. Siegel, D. Matten, A. McWilliams & A. Crane (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Corporate Social Responsibility (pp. 197-223). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Heugens, P.P.M.A.R., Oosterhout, J. van & Vromen, J.J. (2004). Social Contract Theories: E Pluribus Unum? In P.P.M.A.R Heugens & J. Van Oosterhout (Eds.), The Social Institutions of capitalism: Evolution and Design of Social Contracts (pp. 1-19). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing.
  • Heugens, P.P.M.A.R., Kaptein, S.P., Oosterhout, J. van & Wempe, J. (2002). Ethical Criteria for Corporations. In S.P. Kaptein & J. Wempe (Eds.), The Balanced Company: a Theory of Corporate Integrity (pp. 227-262). Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press.
  • Oosterhout, J. van, Wempe, B.H.E. & Willigenburg, T. van (2002). A Critique of Monistic Organizational Ethics. In Proceedings Ninth Annual International Conference Promoting Business Ethics. Niagara Falls.
  • Rutte, K.L. van & Oosterhout, J. van (2002). Standard Argumentative Strategies in Conceptualizing Business Ethics. In Duane Windsor & Stephanie Welcomer (Eds.), 2002 Proceedings Thirteenth Anual Conference Victoria (B.C.) June 27-30 2002 of the International Association for Business and Society (pp. 61-65).
  • Oosterhout, J. van, Heugens, P.P.M.A.R. & Kaptein, S.P. (2000). Normative documents, the contract model, and stakeholder management. In Kathleen.A Getz & Duane Windsor (Eds.), Proceedings Eleventh Annual Conference Essex Junction, March 16-19, 2000 of the International Association for Business and Society (pp. 276-281). Essex: International Association for Business /Society.

• Doctoral thesis
  • Oosterhout, J. van (2002, februari 05). The Quest for Legitimacy; On Authority and Responsibility in Governance. Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam (195 pag.) (Rotterdam: Erasmus Research Institute of Management (PhD Serie 012)). Prom./coprom.: Prof.Dr. T. van Willigenburg & Prof. mr. H.R. van Gunsteren.

• ERIM Awards (1)

  Name	ERIM Top Article Award
  Year	2007
  Website	http://www.erim.eur.nl/index.php?id=10029