H.G. (Harry) Barkema

Harry Barkema holds the DSM Distinguished Chair in Innovation Management at the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University (RSM).

Professor Barkema is the director of the Innovation Co-Creation Lab at RSM, an academic venture that draws together academics from the London School of Economics, Stanford, MIT, and executives from multinational companies.

Research conducted at the centre requires close collaboration with companies with the goal of understanding the machinations of innovation, and helping them to foster breakthrough innovation in the areas of new products and business models.

Professor Barkema has authored or co-authored more than 50 articles published in the leading international journals including, among others, the Strategic Management Journal, the Academy of Management Journal, the Journal of International Business Studies, the International Journal of Industrial Organisation, and Organisation Studies. He has twice been the associate editor of the Academy of Management Journal.

He is a regular presenter at major international forums and conferences and has taught on MBA and PhD programmes at RSM, the London Business School, IESE Business School, INSEAD, Wharton and the Simon Rochester Business School in NY.

He has held visiting research and teaching assignments at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, the European Institute of Advanced Studies in Management in Brussels, the Simon Business School in Rochester in New York and, most recently, IESE Business School in Barcelona.

Professor Barkema has a PhD in Business Administration from Groningen University, the Netherlands.

• Piaskowska, D.A., Nadolska, A.M. & Barkema, H.G. (). Risks, roles and learning: how to create value through minority and majority international joint ventures. In Strategic Management Journal.

• Articles (16)
  • Nadolska, A.M. & Barkema, H.G. (2013). Good learners:how top management team affect behavior and performance of acquisitions. Strategic Management Journal, Accepted.
  • Stam, D.A., De Vet, A., Barkema, H.G. & de Dreu, C.K.W. (2013). Suspending group debate and developing concepts. The Journal of Product Innovation Management.
  • Hoever, I.J., van Knippenberg, D., van Ginkel, W.P. & Barkema, H.G. (2012). Fostering team creativity: Perspective taking as key to unlocking diversity¿s potential. Journal of Applied Psychology, 97(5), 982-996.
  • Barkema, H.G. & Schijven, M.P.G. (2008). Towards unlocking the full potential of acquisitions: The role of organizational restructuring. Academy of Management Journal, 51(4), 696-722.
  • Barkema, H.G. & Schijven, M.P.G. (2008). How do firms learn to make acquisitions? A review of past research and an agenda for the future. Journal of Management, 34(3), 594-634.
  • Kudina, A., Yip, G.S. & Barkema, H.G. (2008). Born global. Business Strategy Review, 19(4), 38-44.
  • Barkema, H.G. & Drogendijk, H.J. (2007). Internationalizing in small, incremental or larger steps? Journal of International Business Studies, 38(7), 1132-1148.
  • Barkema, H.G. & Chvyrkov, O. (2007). Does top management team diversity promote or hamper foreign expansion? Strategic Management Journal, 28(7), 663-680.
  • Nadolska, A.M. & Barkema, H.G. (2007). Learning to internationalize: the pace and sucess of foreign acquisitions. Journal of International Business Studies, 38(7), 1170-1186.
  • Barkema, H.G. & Nadolska, A.M. (2003). How internationalizing firms develop their absorptive capacity over time: the case of acquisitions. In Academy of Management Proceedings.
  • Barkema, H.G., Baum, J. & Mannix, B. (2002). Management challenges in a new time. Academy of Management Journal, 45(5), 916-931.
  • Vermeulen, G.A.M. & Barkema, H.G. (2002). Pace, rhythm and scope: Process dependence in building a profitable multinational corporation. Strategic Management Journal, 23(7), 637-653.
  • Zadoks, R.N., Leeuwen, W. van, Kreft, D., Fox, L.K., Barkema, H.G., Schukken, Y.H. & Belkum, A. van (2002). Comparison of Staphylococcus aureus isolates from bovine and human skin, milking equipment and bovine milk by phage typing, pulsed-field gel electrophoresis and binary typing. Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 40(11), 3894-3902.
  • Vermeulen, G.A.M. & Barkema, H.G. (2001). Learning through acquisitions. Academy of Management Journal, 44(3), 457-476.
  • Barkema, H.G., Bell, J. & Pennings, J.M. (1996). Foreign entry, cultural barriers, and learning. Strategic Management Journal, 17(2), 151.
  • Pennings, J.M., Barkema, H.G. & Douma, S. (1994). Organizational learning and diversification. Academy of Management Journal, 37(3), 608-640.

• Book contributions (3)
  • Barkema, H.G. (2005). How to avoid ruining your company through international acquisitions: The Ahold case. In Cary.L. Cooper & Sydney Finkelstein (Eds.), Advances in Mergers and Acquisitions. Elsevier.
  • Barkema, H.G. & Chvyrkov, O. (2002). What Sort of Top Management Team is Needed at the Helm of Internationally Diversified Firms? In M. Hitt, D. Ireland, M. Camp & D. Sexton (Eds.), Strategic Entrepreneurship. Blackwell Publishing.
  • Pennings, J.M., Barkema, H.G. & Bell, J. (1995). Strategic Expansion Decisions and Cultural Differences. In P. Drenth, P. Koopman & C. Lammers (Eds.), Decision making under Different Economic and Political Conditions. London: Blackwell Publishers.