Dr F.H. (Frank) Wijen

Frank Wijen
Rotterdam School of Management (RSM)
Erasmus University Rotterdam
Member ERIM
Field: Strategy & Entrepreneurship
Affiliated since 2004

Frank Wijen is an Associate Professor at the Department of Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship of Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam. He holds a PhD in management from Tilburg University, where he also worked as a Senior Researcher. His research interests include institutional processes, globalization, power and influence, organizational learning, and corporate and national environmental management. Frank published in journals such as Academy of Management Review (2014, 2015), California Management Review (2011, 2018), Journal of Management (2022, 2023), Organization Science (2013), Organization Studies (2006, 2007), Regulation & Governance (2022), Strategic Management Journal (2018), and Strategic Organization (2011), and was the leading editor of A handbook of globalisation and environmental policy, second edition (2012, published by Edward Elgar).

Publications

Article (18)

  • Academic (16)

    • Wijen, F., & Flowers, M. (2023). Issue opacity and sustainability standard effectiveness. Regulation & Governance, 17(3), 772-790. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1111/rego.12485

    • Wang, R., Heugens, P., & Wijen, F. (2023). Green by Affiliation? Ownership Identity and Environmental Management System Adoption in Chinese Business Groups. Journal of Management. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/01492063221143721

    • Liu, W., Heugens, P., Wijen, F., & van Essen, M. (2022). Chinese management studies: a matched-samples meta-analysis and focused review of indigenous theories. Journal of Management, 48(6), 1778-1828. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/01492063211073067

    • Wijen, F., & Chiroleu-Assouline, M. (2019). Controversy over voluntary environmental standards: A socioeconomic analysis of the Marine Stewardship Council. Organization and Environment, 32(2), 98-124. https://doi.org/10.1177/1086026619831449

    • Lyon, T., Delmas, M., Maxwell, J., Bansal, P., Chiroleu-Assouline, M., Crifo, P., Durand, R., Gond, JP., King, A., Lenox, M., Toffel, M., Vogel, D. J., & Wijen, F. (2018). CSR needs CPR: Corporate sustainability and politics. California Management Review, 60(4), 5-24. https://doi.org/10.1177/0008125618778854

    • Wang, R., Wijen, F., & Heugens, P. (2017). Government's green grip: Multifaceted state influence on corporate environmental actions in China. Strategic Management Journal, 39(2), 403-428. https://doi.org/10.1002/smj.2714

    • Wijen, F. (2015). Coupling, not decoupling, should be institutional theory's mantra: A rejoinder to Haack and Schoeneborn. Academy of Management Review, 40(2), 310-313. https://doi.org/10.5465/amr.2014.0464

    • Wijen, F. (2014). Means versus ends in opaque institutional fields: Trading off compliance and achievement in sustainability standard adoption. Academy of Management Review, 39(3), 302-323. https://doi.org/10.5465/amr.2012.0218

    • Ansari - Loan, S., Wijen, F., & Gray, B. (2013). Constructing a climate change logic: An institutional perspective on the "Tragedy of the commons". Organization Science, 24(4), 1014-1040. https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.1120.0799

    • Wijen, F., & van Tulder, R. (2011). Integrating environmental and international strategies in a world of regulatory turbulence. California Management Review, 53(4), 23-46. https://doi.org/10.1525/cmr.2011.53.4.23

    • Wijen, F., Noorderhaven, N., & Vanhaverbeke, W. (2011). Structural Antecedents of Corporate Network Evolution. International Journal of Business Environment, 4(3), 207-233. http://hdl.handle.net/1765/26290

    • Ansari - Loan, S., Gray, B., & Wijen, F. (2011). Fiddling while the ice melts? How organizational scholars can take a more active role in the climate change debate. Strategic Organization, 9(1), 70-76. https://doi.org/10.1177/1476127010395525

    • Wijen, F., & Ansari - Loan, S. (2007). Overcoming Inaction through Collective Institutional Entrepreneurship: Insights from Regime Theory. Organization Studies, 28(4), 1079-1100. https://doi.org/10.1177/0170840607078115

    • Roome, NJ., & Wijen, F. (2006). Stakeholder power and organizational learning in corporate environmental managment. Organization Studies, 27(2), 235-263. https://doi.org/10.1177/0170840605057669

    • Wijen, F., & Duysters, GM. (2005). Negotiating innovation: Product renewal as the outcome of a complex bargaining process. R and D Management, 35(1), 73-87.

    • Wijen, F. (2003). Invloed en leren bij het milieumanagement van ondernemingen. MAB, 77(12), 586-593.

  • Professional (2)

    • Wijen, F. (2014). Trade-offs in the adoption of sustainability standards. RSM Discovery - Management Knowledge, 19(3), 18-19. http://hdl.handle.net/1765/77135

    • Wijen, F., & van Tulder, R. (2011). International Regulatory Turbulence: Strategies for Success. RSM Insight, 8(4), 4-6. Article 1. http://hdl.handle.net/1765/40125

Book (3)

  • Academic (3)

    • Wijen, F., Zoeteman, K., Pieters, J., & Van Seters, P. V. (2012). A Handbook of Globalisation and Environmental Policy, Second Edition: National Government Interventions in a Global Arena. Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781849805773

    • Wijen, F., Zoeteman, K., & Pieters, J. (2005). A handbook of globalisation and environmental policy: National government interventions in a global arena. Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781781954355

    • Wijen, F., Zoeteman, K., & Pieters, J. (2005). A Handbook of globalisation and environmental policy: National government interventions in a global arena (hardback). Edward Elgar Publishing.

Book editing (1)

  • Academic (1)

    • Wijen, F., Zoeteman, K., & Pieters, J. (2006). A handbook of globalisation and environmental policy: National government interventions in a global arena (paperback). Edward Elgar Publishing.

Book/Film/Article review (1)

  • Academic (1)

    • Wijen, F. (2010). Book review: Thomas Lawrence, Roy Suddaby and Bernard Leca (eds): Institutional work: Actors and agency in institutional studies of organizations. Organization Studies, 31, 1744-1747. https://doi.org/10.1177/01708406100310120703

Chapter (5)

  • Academic (5)

    • Wijen, F. (2017). The environmental (un)sustainability of the base-of-the-pyramid (BoP) philosophy: A governance perspective. In Sustainability Challenges and Solutions at the Base of the Pyramid: Business, Technology and the Poor (pp. 430-445). Taylor & Francis Ltd. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351279888-25

    • Wijen, F., Zoeteman, K., Pieters, J., & van Seters, P. (2012). Globalisation and National Environmental Policy: Update and Overview. In F. Wijen, K. Zoeteman, J. Pieters, & P. van Seters (Eds.), A Handbook of Globalisation and Environmental Policy, Second Edition: National Government Interventions in a Global Arena (pp. 3-33). Edward Elgar Publishing. http://hdl.handle.net/1765/31149

    • Wijen, F. (2007). Institutionalization as a Prerequisite for Sustainable Corporate Development. In Sanjay Sharma, & Mark Starik (Eds.), Organizations and the Sustainability Mosaic (pp. 106-132). Edward Elgar Publishing.

    • Wijen, F., & Zoeteman, K. (2005). Architecture of the Kyoto Protocol and prospects for public climate policy. In F. Wijen et al. (Ed.), A handbook of globalisation and environmental polity: National government interventions in a global arena (pp. 595-623). Edward Elgar Publishing.

    • Zoeteman, K., Wijen, F., & Pieters, J. (2005). Globalisation and national environmental policy: An overview. In F. Wijen, K. Zoeteman, & J. Pieters (Eds.), A handbook of globalisation and environmental policy: National government interventions in a global arena (pp. 1-29). Edward Elgar Publishing.

Conference article (1)

  • Academic (1)

    • Liu, W., Heugens, P., Wijen, F., & Essen, M. (2021). Assessing and extending the unique contributions of Chinese management studies. Academy of Management. Annual Meeting Proceedings, 2021(1), Article Best Papers. https://doi.org/10.5465/AMBPP.2021.91

Conference proceeding (4)

  • Academic (4)

    • Liu, W., Heugens, P., & Wijen, F. (2020). State political ideology as a corporate control mechanism: Evidence from China. In Academy of Management Conference proceedings

    • Wang, R., & Wijen, F. (2015). Responding to complexity within a state logic: Environmental responsibility reporting in China. In Academy of Management Annual Meeting Best Paper Proceedings

    • Wijen, F., & Slangen, A. (2012). The dark side of globalization for mature European multinationals: An extended network perspective. In R. Van Tulder, A. Verbeke, & L. Voinea (Eds.), Progress in International Business Research (Vol. 7, pp. 443-467). Emerald Group Publishing.

    • Ansari - Loan, S., Wijen, F., & Gray, B. (2009). Averting the "tragedy of the commons": An institutional perspective on the construction and governance of transnational commons. In G. Solomon (Ed.), Academy of Management 2009 Conference Best Paper Proceedings

Paper (4)

  • Academic (4)

    • Wang, R., & Wijen, F. (2015). Responding to complexity within a state logic: Environmental responsibility reporting in China. 1224-1229. Paper presented at 75th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, AOM 2015, Vancouver, Canada. https://doi.org/10.5465/AMBPP.2015.213

    • Ansari, S., Wijen, F., & Gray, B. (2009). Averting the "tragedy of the commons": An institutional perspective on the construction and governance of transnational commons. Paper presented at 69th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, AOM 2009, Chicago, IL, United States. https://doi.org/10.5465/ambpp.2009.44244347

    • Roome, NJ., Kolk, AJH., van der Woerd, F., & Wijen, F. (2002). Dynamic Aspects of Corporate Greening in Dutch Business. Paper presented at Greening of Industry Network Conference, Goteborg.

    • Roome, NJ., Wijen, F., & de Groene, J. (2001). Organizational routines, environmental learning and stakeholder interaction. Paper presented at Greening of Industry Network Conference, Thailand.

Web publication/site (2)

  • Popular (2)

    • Wijen, F. (Author). (2015). Trade-offs in the adoption of sustainability standards. Web publication/site, The Huffington Post.

    • Wijen, F. (Author). (2015). Banning child labour imposes naive western ideals on complex problems (Op. Ed.). Web publication/site, .

Additional activities (2)

  • Strategic Organization (Journal)

    Editorial work (Academic)

  • Organization Studies (Journal)

    Editorial work (Academic)

PhD Tracks (8)

Corporate Governance during Market Transition: Heterogeneous responses to institutional tensions in China
  • Role: Member Doctoral Committee
  • PhD Candidate: Pierre-Olivier Legault Tremblay
  • Time frame: 2009 - 2015
Corporate Environmentalism in China
  • Role: Daily Supervisor
  • PhD Candidate: Ruxi Wang
  • Time frame: 2012 - 2017
An Indigenous Perspective on Institutions for Sustainable Business in China
  • Role: Promotor
  • PhD Candidate: Wenjie Liu
  • Time frame: 2018 - 2023
Dynamics of Inclusive Prosperity
  • Role: Co-promotor
  • PhD Candidate: Yannick Tristan Wiessner
  • Time frame: 2018 -
Praise the Lord! Infusing Values and Emotions into Neo-Institutional Theory
  • Role: Member Doctoral Committee
  • PhD Candidate: Hendra Wijaya
  • Time frame: 2012 - 2019
Standardisation Management at the Local Level to Support Authenticity and Sustainability
  • Role: Promotor
  • PhD Candidate: Mohammadamin Yousefi
  • Time frame: 2020 -
Building a fair and sustainable digital platform and ecosystem: in view of power dynamics between platform owners and complementors
Building a fair and sustainable digital platform and ecosystem: in view of power dynamics between platform owners and complementors
  • Role: Co-promotor
  • PhD Candidate: Oh Young Koo
  • Time frame: 2022 -
Firm-level response to Industry Diminution An Institution-Based View of the Clothing Manufacturing Industry in South Africa
Firm-level response to Industry Diminution An Institution-Based View of the Clothing Manufacturing Industry in South Africa
  • Role: Co-promotor
  • PhD Candidate: Denver Berman-Jacob
  • Time frame: 2019 -

Course (1)

Past
  • Engaged Research (2022/2023, 2021/2022)

Events (9)

2020
February
11
SHARED FATE AND ENTREPRENEURIAL COLLECTIVE ACTION IN THE EMERGENT U.S. WOOD PELLET MARKET
Research Seminar
As: Contact
2017
June
14
Alliance for Research on Corporate Sustainability Ninth Annual Research Conference
ERIM Conference
As: Contact, Coordinator
2017
June
01
Good Deeds Done in Silence: Legitimacy Management, Stakeholder Saliency, and Silent Giving by Chinese Firms
Research Seminar
As: Contact
2014
September
24
Global Private Regimes, Domestic Public Law: ISO 14001 and Pollution Reduction.
Research Seminar
As: Contact, Coordinator
2013
March
12
A Theory of Multi-Tier Ecolabels
Research Seminar
As: Coordinator
2012
May
15
Institutional Entrepreneurship in Emerging Markets
Research Seminar
As: Coordinator
2011
May
17
Private Global Business Regulation
Research Seminar
As: Coordinator
2011
May
17
Publishing in California Management Review
Research Seminar
As: Coordinator
2006
November
29
Presenting and discussing grant proposals
ERIM Grant Workshop
As: Speaker

Address

Visiting address

Office: Mandeville Building T07-38
Burgemeester Oudlaan 50
3062 PA Rotterdam

Postal address

Postbus 1738
3000 DR Rotterdam
Netherlands

Latest publication

Article

Wijen, F., & Flowers, M. (2023). Issue opacity and sustainability standard effectiveness. Regulation & Governance, 17(3), 772-790. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1111/rego.12485