Dr F.H. (Frank) Wijen

Associate Professor

Department of Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship

Rotterdam School of Management (RSM)

Erasmus University Rotterdam

Member ERIM

Field: Strategy & Entrepreneurship

Affiliated since 2004

T: +31 10 4081985

E: fwijen@rsm.nl

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), Organization Science (2013), Organization Studies (2006, 2007), 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 (26)

Articles (16)

F.H. Wijen & M. Chiroleu-Assouline (2019). Controversy over voluntary environmental standards: A socioeconomic analysis of the Marine Stewardship Council. Organization and Environment . doi: 10.1177/1086026619831449 [go to publisher's site]
R. Wang, F.H. Wijen & P.P.M.A.R. Heugens (2018). Government's green grip: Multifaceted state influence on corporate environmental actions in China. Strategic Management Journal, 39 (2), 403-428. doi: 10.1002/smj.2714
T. Lyon, M. Delmas, J. Maxwell, P. Bansal, M. Chiroleu-Assouline, P. Crifo, R. Durand, J.P. Gond, A. King, M. Lenox, M. Toffel, D.J. Vogel & F. Wijen (2018). CSR needs CPR: Corporate sustainability and politics. California Management Review, 60 (4), 5-24. doi: 10.1177/0008125618778854
R. Wang & F.H. Wijen (2015). Responding to complexity within a state logic: Environmental responsibility reporting in China. In Academy of Management Annual Meeting Best Paper Proceedings . Vancouver, Canada
F.H. Wijen (2015). Coupling, not decoupling, should be institutional theory's mantra: A rejoinder to Haack and Schoeneborn. Academy of Management Review, 40 (2), 310-313. doi: 10.5465/amr.2014.0464
F.H. Wijen (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. doi: 10.5465/amr.2012.0218
S.M. Ansari, F.H. Wijen & B. Gray (2013). Constructing a climate change logic: An institutional perspective on the "Tragedy of the commons". Organization Science, 24 (4), 1014-1040. doi: 10.1287/orsc.1120.0799
F.H. Wijen & A.H.L. Slangen (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 (pp. 443-467). Emerald
F.H. Wijen, N. Noorderhaven & W. Vanhaverbeke (2011). Structural Antecedents of Corporate Network Evolution. International Journal of Business Environment, 4 (3), 207-233.
F.H. Wijen & R. Van Tulder (2011). Integrating environmental and international strategies in a world of regulatory turbulence. California Management Review, 53 (4), 23-46. doi: 10.1525/cmr.2011.53.4.23
S.M. Ansari, B. Gray & F.H. Wijen (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. doi: 10.1177/1476127010395525
S.M. Ansari, F.H. Wijen & B. Gray (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
F.H. Wijen & S.M. Ansari (2007). Overcoming Inaction through Collective Institutional Entrepreneurship: Insights from Regime Theory. Organization Studies, 28 (4), 1079-1100. doi: 10.1177/0170840607078115
N.J. Roome & F.H. Wijen (2006). Stakeholder power and organizational learning in corporate environmental managment. Organization Studies, 27 (2), 235-263. doi: 10.1177/0170840605057669
F.H. Wijen & G.M. Duysters (2005). Negotiating innovation: Product renewal as the outcome of a complex bargaining process. R and D Management, 35 (1), 73-87.
F.H. Wijen (2003). Invloed en leren bij het milieumanagement van ondernemingen. MAB, 77 (12), 586-593.

Books (3)

F.H. Wijen, K. Zoeteman, J. Pieters & P. van Seters (Ed.). (2012). A Handbook of Globalisation and Environmental Policy, Second Edition: National Government Interventions in a Global Arena. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar
F.H. Wijen, K. Zoeteman & J. Pieters (Ed.). (2006). A handbook of globalisation and environmental policy: National government interventions in a global arena (paperback). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar
F.H. Wijen, K. Zoeteman & J. Pieters (2005). A Handbook of globalisation and environmental policy: National government interventions in a global arena (hardback). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar

Book Contributions (5)

F.H. Wijen, K. Zoeteman, J. Pieters & P. van Seters (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). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar
F.H. Wijen (2008). The environmental (un)sustainability of the Base-of-the-Pyramid (BOP) philosophy: A governance perspective. In P. Kandachar & M. Halme (Eds.), Sustainability challenges and solutions at the base of the pyramid . Sheffield: Greenleaf
F.H. Wijen (2007). Institutionalization as a Prerequisite for Sustainable Corporate Development. In Sanjay Sharma & Mark Starik (Eds.), Organizations and the Sustainability Mosaic (pp. 106-132). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar
F.H. Wijen & K. Zoeteman (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). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar
K. Zoeteman, F.H. Wijen & J. Pieters (2005). Globalisation and national environmental policy: An overview. In Frank Wijen, Kees Zoeteman & Jan Pieters (Eds.), A handbook of globalisation and environmental policy: National government interventions in a global arena (pp. 1-29). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar

Professional Publications (2)

F.H. Wijen (2014). Trade-offs in the adoption of sustainability standards. RSM Discovery - Management Knowledge, 19 (3), 18-19.
F.H. Wijen & R. Van Tulder (2011). International Regulatory Turbulence: Strategies for Success. RSM Insight, 8 (4), 4-6.

PhD Tracks (7)

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

Corporate governance and non-market strategy

Role: External Member Supervisory Team
PhD Candidate: Yanze Zhang
Time frame: 2018 -

Mergers and Acquisitions by Chinese Firms in Europe

Role: External Member Supervisory Team
PhD Candidate: Mingqi Li
Time frame: 2018 -

Institutions for Sustainable Business in China

Role: Co-promotor
PhD Candidate: Wenjie Liu
Time frame: 2018 -

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

Recognitions (7)

Editorial positions (4)

Academy of Management Review

Editorial Reviewer
Organization Studies

Editorial Reviewer
Organization Studies

Associate Editor
Strategic Organization

Editorial Reviewer

Organization Memberships (2)

European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS)

http://www.egosnet.org/

Participant
Academy of Management (AM)

http://www.aomonline.org/

Participant