P.P.M.A.R. (Pursey) Heugens

Pursey Heugens is a professor of organisation theory, development, and change at the Department of Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship, the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University (RSM).

His research interests include comparative corporate governance, business ethics, and bureaucracy, institutional, and demographic theories of organisation.

Professor Heugens has won numerous awards for his research and teaching. He currently serves on the editorial boards of six scholarly journals. His research has been published in academic journals including the Academy of Management Journal, the Academy of Management Review, Organization Studies, and the Journal of Management Studies.

His most recent works argues that the field of organisation theory is locked into a state of permanent failure due to powerful centrifugal forces which prevent it from producing a unified theory of organisational effectiveness – while equally strong centripetal forces keep university administrators and policy makers from cashing in their chips.

He offers three research strategies that might end the stalemate by increasing the integration, relevance and realism of current theories of organisation.

He obtained his PhD from RSM in 2001.

• Key publications (10)
  • 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.
  • Heugens, P.P.M.A.R. & Lander, M.W. (2009). Structure! Agency! (And Other Quarrels): Meta-Analyzing Institutional Theories of Organization. Academy of Management Journal, 52(1), 61-85.
  • Lamertz, K. & Heugens, P.P.M.A.R. (2009). Institutional translation through spectatorship: Collective consumption and editing of symbolic organizational texts by firms and their audiences. Organization Studies, 30(11), 1249-1279.
  • 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, Heugens, P.P.M.A.R. & Kaptein, S.P. (2007). Contractualism vindicated; A response to Boatright. Academy of Management Review, 32(1), 295-297.
  • 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.
  • Heugens, P.P.M.A.R. (2005). A neo-Weberian theory of the firm. Organization Studies, 26(4), 547-567.
  • Lamertz, K., Heugens, P.P.M.A.R. & Calmet, L. (2005). The configuration of organizational images among firms in the Canadian beer brewing industry. Journal of Management Studies, 42(4), 817-843.
  • Heugens, P.P.M.A.R., Riel, C.B.M. van & Van Den Bosch, Frans, A.J. (2004). Reputation Management Capabilities as Decision Rules. Journal of Management Studies, 41(8), 1349-1377.

• Articles (38)
  • Carney, M., Van Essen, M., Gedajlovic, E.R. & Heugens, P.P.M.A.R. (2013). What do we know about private family firms? A meta-analytic review. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 37.
  • Drees, J.M. & Heugens, P.P.M.A.R. (2013). Synthesizing and extending resource dependence theory: A meta-analysis. Journal of Management, 38.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Heugens, P.P.M.A.R. & Scherer, A.G. (2010). When organization theory met business ethics: Toward further symbioses. Business Ethics Quarterly, 20(4), 643-672.
  • Deephouse, D.L & Heugens, P.P.M.A.R. (2009). Linking social issues to organizational impact: The role of infomediaries and the infomediary process. Journal of Business Ethics, 86(4), 541-553.
  • 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.
  • Heugens, P.P.M.A.R. & Lander, M.W. (2009). Structure! Agency! (And Other Quarrels): Meta-Analyzing Institutional Theories of Organization. Academy of Management Journal, 52(1), 61-85.
  • Lamertz, K. & Heugens, P.P.M.A.R. (2009). Institutional translation through spectatorship: Collective consumption and editing of symbolic organizational texts by firms and their audiences. Organization Studies, 30(11), 1249-1279.
  • 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. & Zyglidopoulos, S.C. (2008). From social ties to embedded competencies: The case of business groups. The Journal of Management and Governance, 12(4), 325-341.
  • 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.
  • Otten, J.A. & Heugens, P.P.M.A.R. (2008). The managerial power theory of executive pay: A cross-national test and extension. In Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings.
  • Heugens, P.P.M.A.R. & Otten, J.A. (2007). Beyond the dichotomous worlds hypothesis: Towards a plurality of corporate governance logics. Corporate Governance: An International Review, 15(6), 1288-1300.
  • Heugens, P.P.M.A.R. & Dentchev, N. (2007). Taming Trojan Horses: Identifying and Mitigating Corporate Social Responsibility Risks. Journal of Business Ethics, 75(2), 151-170.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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. (2006). Environmental issues management: Towards a multi-level theory of environmental management competence. Business Strategy and the Environment, 15(6), 363-376.
  • 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.
  • Heugens, P.P.M.A.R. & Mol, M.J. (2005). So you call that research? Mending methodological biases in strategy and organization departments of top business schools. Strategic Organization, 3(1), 117-128.
  • Heugens, P.P.M.A.R. (2005). A neo-Weberian theory of the firm. Organization Studies, 26(4), 547-567.
  • Lamertz, K., Heugens, P.P.M.A.R. & Calmet, L. (2005). The configuration of organizational images among firms in the Canadian beer brewing industry. Journal of Management Studies, 42(4), 817-843.
  • Heugens, P.P.M.A.R. & Schenk-Braat, E.A.M. (2004). The public affairs of corporate restructuring. Journal of Public Affairs, 4(1), 6-9.
  • 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.
  • Heugens, P.P.M.A.R., Riel, C.B.M. van & Van Den Bosch, Frans, A.J. (2004). Reputation Management Capabilities as Decision Rules. Journal of Management Studies, 41(8), 1349-1377.
  • Heugens, P.P.M.A.R. & Schenk, H. (2004). Rethinking corporate restructuring. Journal of Public Affairs, 4(1), 87-101.
  • Mahon, J.F., Heugens, P.P.M.A.R. & Lamertz, K. (2004). Social networks and nonmarket strategy. Journal of Public Affairs, 4(2), 170-189.
  • Heugens, P.P.M.A.R., Martens, M. & Lamertz, K. (2003). Issue evolution: A symbolic interactionist perspective. Corporate Reputation Review, 6(1), 82-93.
  • Heugens, P.P.M.A.R. (2003). Capability building through adversarial relationships: A replication and extension of Clarke and Roome (1999). Business Strategy and the Environment, 12(5), 300-312.
  • Heugens, P.P.M.A.R., Lamertz, K. & Calmet, L. (2003). Strategic groups and corporate citizenship: Evidence from the Canadian brewing industry. Journal of Corporate Citizenship. The Journal of Corporate Citizenship, 3(12), 75-92.
  • Wartick, S.L. & Heugens, P.P.M.A.R. (2003). Future directions for issues management. Corporate Reputation Review, 6(1), 7-18.
  • 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. (2002). Managing public affairs through storytelling. Journal of Public Affairs, 2(2), 57-70.
  • Heugens, P.P.M.A.R. (2002). Strategic issues management: Implications for corporate performance. Business and Society, 41(4), 456-468.
  • Heugens, P.P.M.A.R., Riel, C.B.M. van & Van Den Bosch, Frans, A.J. (2002). Stakeholder Integration: Building Mutually Enforcing Relationships. Business and Society, 41(1), 37-61.
  • 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 (2)
  • 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.
  • Heugens, P.P.M.A.R. (Ed.). (2001). Strategic issues management: Implications for corporate performance (ERIM Ph.D series research in management, ISSN 1568-1726 ; 7). Rotterdam: ERIM.

• Book contributions (10)
  • Kroezen, J.J. & Heugens, P.P.M.A.R. (2012). Organizational Identity Formation: Processes of Identity Imprinting and Enactment in the Dutch Microbrewing Landscape. In M. Schultz, S. Maguire, A. Langley & H. Tsoukas (Eds.), Perspectives on Process Organization Studies Volume 2 (pp. 89-127). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Heugens, P.P.M.A.R. (). Social institutions of capitalism. In G. Ritzer (Ed.), Blackwell Concise Encyclopedia of Sociology (pp. 48-49). Oxford: Blackwell.
  • Heugens, P.P.M.A.R. (2010). Social institutions of capitalism. In G. Ritzer & J.M. Ryan (Eds.), Concise Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology. Oxford: Blackwell.
  • Osadchiy, S., Bogenrieder, I. & Heugens, P.P.M.A.R. (2010). Organizational learning through problem absorption: A processual view. In T. Hernes & S. Maitlis (Eds.), Perspectives on Process Organization Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • 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. (2007). Organizations and the theory of the firm. In G. Ritzer (Ed.), The Blackwell encyclopedia of Sociology (pp. 3326-3331). Oxford: Blackwell.
  • Heugens, P.P.M.A.R. (2007). Social institutions of capitalism. In G Ritzer (Ed.), The Blackwell encyclopedia of Sociology (pp. 395-398). Oxford: Blackwell.
  • Heugens, P.P.M.A.R. (2005). Issues management: Core understandings and scholarly development. In P. Harris & C. Fleisher (Eds.), The Handbook of Public Affairs (pp. 481-500). London: Sage.
  • 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.

• Professional publications (5)
  • Heugens, P.P.M.A.R. (2009). Een mooie toekomst voor een chronisch tekortschietend vakgebied. Holland Management Review, 125(-), 2-8.
  • Heugens, P.P.M.A.R., Kaptein, S.P. & Nieuwenboer, N.A. den (20-12-2007). Liever high-trust toezicht. Het Financiële Dagblad
  • Heugens, P.P.M.A.R., Van Den Bosch, Frans, A.J. & Riel, C.B.M. van (2001). Stakeholder integratie: werken aan wederzijds versterkende relaties. M en O, 55(4), 5-26.
  • Van Den Bosch, Frans, A.J., Heugens, P.P.M.A.R. & Riel, C.B.M. van (1998). De introductie van GMO-soja in Nederland. Beschrijving en analyse van de communicatie en de strategie van het margarine-, vetten- en oliën-cluster in de periode 1992-1998. Rotterdam: Corporate Communication Centre.
  • Heugens, P.P.M.A.R. (1998). Naar een nieuwe definitie van crisismanagement: plaatsbepaling. Tijdschrift voor Strategische Bedrijfscommunicatie, 4(2), 16-17.

• Doctoral thesis
  • Heugens, P.P.M.A.R. (2001, oktober 19). Strategic Issues Management: Implications for Corporate Performance. Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam (245 pag.) (Rotterdam: Erasmus Research Institute of Management (PhD Serie 007)). Prom./coprom.: Prof. dr. ing. Frans, A.J. Van Den Bosch & Prof.Dr. C.B.M. van Riel.

• Editorial position (6)

  Journal	Corporate Reputation Review
  Role	Editorial Board
  Journal	Business and Society
  Role	Editorial Board
  Journal	Business Ethics Quarterly
  Role	Editorial Board
  Journal	Journal of Business Ethics
  Role	Editorial Board
  Journal	Strategic Organization
  Role	Editorial Board
  Journal	Journal of Public Affairs
  Role	Editorial Board

• ERIM Awards (3)

  Name	ERIM Top Article Award
  Year	2007
  Website	http://www.erim.eur.nl/index.php?id=10029
  Name	ERIM Award for 'Outstanding Performance by a Young Researcher'
  Year	2005
  Website	http://www.erim.eur.nl/index.php?id=10026
  Name	ERIM Dissertation Award
  Year	2003
  Website	http://www.erim.eur.nl/index.php?id=10023