prof.dr. J.P (Joep) Cornelissen

Joep Cornelissen
Rotterdam School of Management (RSM)
Erasmus University Rotterdam
Fellow ERIM
Field: Organisation
Affiliated since 2015

Joep Cornelissen is Professor of Corporate Communication and Management at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University. The main focus of his research involves studies of the role of corporate and managerial communication in the context of innovation, entrepreneurship and change. In addition, he also has an interest in questions of scientific reasoning and theory development in management and organization theory.

 

 

 

His work has been published in the Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Management Studies, Organization Science and Organization Studies, and he has written a general text on corporate communication (Corporate Communication: A Guide to Theory and Practice, Sage Publications) which is now in its sixth edition (2020).

 

 

 

He is the Editor-in-Chief of Organization Theory, a former Associate Editor for the Academy of Management Review, a Council member of the Society for the Advancement of Management Studies, a former General Editor of the Journal of Management Studies (2006-2012) and serves on the editorial boards of the Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, the Journal of Management Studies and Organization Studies.

Publications

Article (45)

  • Academic (44)

    • Cornelissen, J., & Kaandorp, M. (2023). Towards Stronger Causal Claims in Management Research: Causal Triangulation Instead of Causal Identification. Journal of Management Studies, 60(4), 834-860. https://doi.org/10.1111/joms.12897

    • van Werven, R., Cornelissen, J., & Bouwmeester, O. (2023). The Relational Dimension of Feedback Interactions: A Study of Early Feedback Meetings Between Entrepreneurs and Potential Mentors. British Journal of Management, 34(2), 873-897. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8551.12615

    • Geradts, T., Jansen, J., & Cornelissen, J. (2022). Let's Profitably Fight Poverty, Shall We? How Managers Use Emotional Framing to Develop Base of the Pyramid Ventures Inside a Large Fast-moving Consumer Goods Company. Organization and Environment, 35(4), 579-606. https://doi.org/10.1177/10860266221095253

    • Jellema, S. F., Werner, M. D., Rasche, A., & Cornelissen, J. (2022). Questioning Impact: A Cross-Disciplinary Review of Certification Standards for Sustainability. Business and Society, 61(5), 1042-1082. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/00076503211056332

    • Cornelissen, J., Akemu, O., Jonkman, J., & Werner, M. (2021). Building Character: The Formation of a Hybrid Organizational Identity in a Social Enterprise. Journal of Management Studies, 58(5), 1294-1330. https://doi.org/10.1111/joms.12640

    • van Burg, E., Elfring, T., & Cornelissen, J. P. (2021). Connecting content and structure: A review of mechanisms in entrepreneurs’ social networks. International Journal of Management Reviews, 24(2), 188-209. https://doi.org/10.1111/ijmr.12272, https://doi.org/10.1111/ijmr.12272

    • Cornelissen, J., Hollerer, M., & Seidl, D. (2021). What Theory Is and Can Be: Forms of Theorizing in Organizational Scholarship. Organization Theory, 2(3). https://doi.org/10.1177/26317877211020328

    • Giessen, M., Langenbusch, C., Jacobs, G., & Cornelissen, J. (2021). Collective sensemaking in the local response to a grand challenge: Recovery, alleviation and change-oriented responses to a refugee crisis. Human Relations, 75(5), 903-930. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/00187267211004688

    • Xu, J., Peng, B., & Cornelissen, J. (2021). Modelling the network economy: A population ecology perspective on network dynamics. Technovation, 102, Article 102212. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.technovation.2020.102212

    • Stephens, V., Matthews, L., Cornelissen, J. P., & Rowlands, H. (2021). Building Novel Supply Chain Theory Using “Metaphorical Imagination”. Journal of Supply Chain Management, 58(1), 124-139. https://doi.org/10.1111/jscm.12257

    • Chatterjee, I., Cornelissen, J., & Wincent, J. (2021). Social entrepreneurship and values work: The role of practices in shaping values and negotiating change. Journal of Business Venturing, 36(1), Article 106064. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusvent.2020.106064

    • Schildt, H., Mantere, S., & Cornelissen, J. (2020). Power in sensemaking processes. Organization Studies, 41(2), 241-265. https://doi.org/10.1177/0170840619847718

    • Harley, B., & Cornelissen, J. (2020). Rigor With or Without Templates?: The Pursuit of Methodological Rigor in Qualitative Research. Organizational Research Methods. https://doi.org/10.1177/1094428120937786

    • Wenzel, M., Cornelissen, J., Koch, JM., Hartmann, M., & Koch, M. (2020). Un)Mind the gap: How organizational actors cope with an identity–strategy misalignment. Strategic Organization, 18(1), 212-244. https://doi.org/10.1177/1476127019856524

    • Cornelissen, J., & Cholakova, M. (2019). Profits Uber everything? The gig economy and the morality of category work. Strategic Organization. https://doi.org/10.1177/1476127019894506

    • Clarke, JS., Llewellynn, N., Cornelissen, J., & Viney, R. (2019). Gesture analysis and organizational research: The development and application of a protocol for naturalistic settings. Organizational Research Methods. https://doi.org/10.1177/1094428119877450

    • Solinger, O., Jansen, PGW., & Cornelissen, J. (2019). The emergence of moral leadership. Academy of Management Review, 45(3), 504-527. https://doi.org/10.5465/amr.2016.0263

    • Sagath, D., van Burg, E., Cornelissen, J. P., & Giannopapa, C. (2019). Identifying design principles for business incubation in the European space sector. Journal of Business Venturing Insights, 11, Article e00115. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbvi.2019.e00115

    • van Werven, R., Bouwmeester, O., & Cornelissen, J. P. (2019). Pitching a business idea to investors: How new venture founders use micro-level rhetoric to achieve narrative plausibility and resonance. International Small Business Journal: Researching Entrepreneurship, 37(3), 193-214. https://doi.org/10.1177/0266242618818249

    • Wenzel, M., Cornelissen, J., Koch, J., Rothmann, W., & Senf, N. (2019). How Organizational Actors Live Out Paradoxical Tensions Through Power Relations: The Case of a Youth Prison. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 155, 55-67. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.obhdp.2019.03.001

    • Cornelissen, J. (2019). Imagining futures for organization studies: The role of theory and of having productive conversations towards theory change. Organization Studies, 40(1), 55-58. https://doi.org/10.1177/0170840618767468

    • Pfarrer, M. D., Devers, C. E., Corley, K., Cornelissen, J. P., Lange, D., Makadok, R., Mayer, K., & Weber, L. (2019). Sociocognitive perspectives in strategic management. Academy of Management Review, 44(4), 767-774. https://doi.org/10.5465/amr.2019.0185

    • Cornelissen, J., & Hoellerer, M. (2019). An Open and Inclusive Space for Theorizing: Introducing Organization Theory. Organization Theory, 1(1). https://doi.org/10.1177/2631787719887980

    • Lounsbury, M., Cornelissen, J., Granqvist, N., & Grodal, S. (2018). Culture, innovation and entrepreneurship. Innovation: Management, Policy and Practice, 21(1), 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1080/14479338.2018.1537716

    • Logemann, M., Piekkari, R., & Cornelissen, J. (2018). The sense of it all: Framing and narratives in sensegiving about a strategic change. Long Range Planning, 52(5), Article 101852. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lrp.2018.10.002

    • Clarke, JS., Cornelissen, J., & Healey, M. (2018). Actions speak louder than words: how figurative language and gesturing in entrepreneurial pitches influences investment judgments. Academy of Management Journal, 62(2). https://doi.org/10.5465/amj.2016.1008

    • Savage, P., Cornelissen, J., & Franck, H. (2017). Fiction and organization studies. Organization Studies, 39(7), 975-994. https://doi.org/10.1177/0170840617709309

    • Cornelissen, J. (2017). Preserving Theoretical Divergence in Management Research: Why the Explanatory Potential of Qualitative Research Should Be Harnessed Rather than Suppressed. Journal of Management Studies, 54(3), 368-383. https://doi.org/10.1111/joms.12210

    • Wickert, C., Vaccaro, A., & Cornelissen, J. (2017). Buying corporate social responsibility: Organizational identity orientation as a determinant of practice adoption. Journal of Business Ethics, 142(3), 497-514. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-015-2740-z

    • Haslam, SA., Cornelissen, J., & Werner, M. (2017). Metatheories and metaphors of organizational identity: integrating social constructionist, social identity, and social actor perspectives within a social interactionist model. International Journal of Management Reviews, 19(3), 318-336. https://doi.org/10.1111/ijmr.12150

    • Cornelissen, J. (2017). From the editors: Developing propositions, a process model or a typology? Addressing the challenges of writing theory without a boilerplate. Academy of Management Review, 42(1), 1-9. https://doi.org/10.5465/amr.2016.0196

    • Ketokivi, M., Mantere, S., & Cornelissen, J. (2017). Reasoning by analogy and the progress of theory. Academy of Management Review, 42(4), 637-658. https://doi.org/10.5465/amr.2015.0322

    • Van grinsven, M., Heusinkveld, S., & Cornelissen, J. (2016). Translating Management Concepts: Towards a Typology of Alternative Approaches. International Journal of Management Reviews, 18(3), 271-289. https://doi.org/10.1111/ijmr.12106

    • Schoeneborn, D., Vasquez, C., & Cornelissen, J. (2016). Imagining organization through metaphor and metonymy: Unpacking the process-entity paradox. Human Relations, 69(4), 915-944. https://doi.org/10.1177/0018726715612899

    • Christensen, L. T., & Cornelissen, J. (2015). Organizational transparency as myth and metaphor. European Journal of Social Theory, 18(2), 132-149. https://doi.org/10.1177/1368431014555256

    • Ueberbacher, F., Jacobs, CD., & Cornelissen, J. (2015). How Entrepreneurs become Skilful Cultural Operators. Organization Studies, 36(7), 925-951. https://doi.org/10.1177/0170840615575190

    • Cornelissen, J., Durand, R., Fiss, PC., Lammers, JC., & Vaara, E. (2015). Putting communication front and center in institutional theory and analysis. Academy of Management Review, 40(1), 10-27. https://doi.org/10.5465/amr.2014.0381

    • van Werven, R., Bouwmeester, O., & Cornelissen, J. (2015). The power of arguments: How entrepreneurs convince stakeholders of the legitimate distinctiveness of their ventures. Journal of Business Venturing, 4(1), 616-631. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusvent.2014.08.001

    • Kroon, DP., Cornelissen, J., & Vaara, E. (2015). Explaining Employees' Reactions towards a Cross-Border Merger: The Role of English Language Fluency. Management International Review, 55(6), 775-800. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11575-015-0259-2

    • Corbett, A., Cornelissen, J., Delios, A., & Harley, B. (2015). Variety, novelty and perceptions of scholarship in research on management and organizations: An appeal for ambidextrous scholarship. Journal of Management Studies, 51(1), 3-18. https://doi.org/10.1111/joms.12032

    • Werner, M., & Cornelissen, J. (2014). Framing the Change: Switching and Blending Frames and their Role in Instigating Institutional Change. Organization Studies, 35(10), 1449-1472. https://doi.org/10.1177/0170840614539314

    • Cornelissen, J., & Werner, M. (2014). Putting Framing in Perspective: A review of Framing and Frame Analysis across the Management and Organizational Literature. The Academy of Management Annals, 8(1), 181-235. https://doi.org/10.1080/19416520.2014.875669

    • Cornelissen, J., Mantere, S., & Vaara, E. (2014). The contraction of meaning: The combined effect of communication, emotion, and materiality on sensemaking the stockwell shooting. Journal of Management Studies, 51(5), 699-736. https://doi.org/10.1111/joms.12073

    • Cornelissen, J., & Durand, R. (2014). Moving forward: Developing theoretical contributions in management studies. Journal of Management Studies, 51(6), 995-1022. https://doi.org/10.1111/joms.12078

  • Professional (1)

    • Cornelissen, J., & Kroon, DP. (2015). Post-merger integration and the role of language fluency. RSM Discovery - Management Knowledge, 24(4), 13-14. http://hdl.handle.net/1765/79319

Book (1)

  • Academic (1)

    • Cornelissen, J. (2017). Corporate communication: A guide to theory and practice. SAGE Publishing.

Chapter (8)

  • Academic (8)

    • Harley, B., & Cornelissen, J. (2019). Reframing rigor as reasoning: Challenging technocratic conceptions of rigor in management research. In Research in the Sociology of Organizations (pp. 59-76). Emerald Group Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0733-558X20190000059004

    • Wickert, C., & Cornelissen, J. (2017). Corporate social responsibility and reputation: Too much of a good thing? In J. Moon, M. Morsing, & A. Rasche (Eds.), Corporate Social Responsibility: Strategy, Communication and Governance (pp. 328-349). Cambridge University Press.

    • Cornelissen, J., Schoeneborn, D., & Vasquez, C. (2017). Deconstructing the Theoretical Language of Process Research: Metaphor and Metonymy in Interaction. In A. Langley, & H. Tsoukas (Eds.), Handbook of Process Organization Studies (pp. 607-615). SAGE Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4135/9781473957954.n39

    • Bangerter, A., & Cornelissen, J. (2017). Studying Discourse Processes in Institutional Contexts. In The Routledge Handbook of Discourse Processes, second edition Routledge.

    • Viney, R., Clarke, JS., & Cornelissen, J. (2017). Making meaning from multimodality: Embodied communication in a business pitch setting. In C. Cassell, A. L. Cunliffe, & G. Grandy (Eds.), The Sage Handbook of Qualitative Business and Management Research Methods: Methods and Challenges Sage.

    • Cornelissen, J. (2016). Morgan's Legacy in Theorizing and Understanding Organizations. In A. Ortenblad, K. Trehan, & L. L. Putnam (Eds.), Exploring Morgan’s Metaphors: Theory, Research, and Practice in Organizational Studies

    • Cornelissen, J., Haslam, SA., & Werner, M. (2016). Bridging and Integrating Meta-Theoretical Perspectives on organizational identity: A social Interactionist Model of Organizational Identity Development. In M. Pratt, M. Schultz, D. Ravasi, & B. Ashforth (Eds.), Handbook on Organizational Identity Oxford University Press.

    • Cornelissen, J., & Schildt, H. (2014). Sensemaking and strategy as practice. In D. Seidl, J. Balogun, E. Vaara, & D. Golsorkhi (Eds.), Handbook on strategy as practice Oxford University Press.

Conference contribution (3)

  • Academic (3)

    • Cholakova, M., & Cornelissen, J. (2018). Sailing towards an unknowable future: How different types of factual reasoning support early-stage entrepreneurial idea validation. 10th International Process Symposium on Temporality and History in Organization Studies, Halkidiki, Greece.

    • Cholakova, M., & Cornelissen, J. (2017). Being a permanent beta – How different types of factual reasoning support effective opportunity development. European Theory Development Workshop, Zurich, Switzerland.

    • Cholakova, M., Cornelissen, J., & Andriopoulos, C. (2017). What if I do or I don’t, had or had not: The role of prefactual and counterfactual thinking in supporting entrepreneurial reasoning. Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Atlanta, USA. https://doi.org/10.5465/ambpp.2017.14432abstract

Conference proceeding (3)

  • Academic (3)

    • Harley, B., & Cornelissen, J. (2018). Reframing Rigor as Reasoning: Challenging Technocratic Conceptions of Rigor in Management Research. In Research in the Sociology of Organizations Emerald Group Publishing.

    • Ravasi, D., Etter, M., Rindova, V., & Cornelissen, J. (2018). The formation of organizational reputation. In Academy of Management Annals http://hdl.handle.net/1765/110535

    • Gregoire, D., Dimov, D., Cornelissen, J., & Van den Burg, E. (2015). The mind in the middle: Taking stock of affect and cognition research in entrepreneurship. In International Journal of Management Reviews

Editorial (1)

  • Academic (1)

    • Van Burg, E., Stam, W., Cornelissen, J., & Jack, S. (2020). Advancing Qualitative Entrepreneurship Research: Leveraging Methodological Plurality for Achieving Scholarly Impact. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, OnlineFirst. https://doi.org/10.1177/1042258720943051

PhD Tracks (23)

Governing for Stakeholders: How Organizations May Create or Destroy Value for their Stakeholders
  • Role: Member Doctoral Committee
  • PhD Candidate: Pushpika Vishwanathan
  • Time frame: 2009 - 2016
Corporate Responses to Social Issues: Essays in Social Entrepreneurship and Corporate Social Responsibility
  • Role: Member Doctoral Committee
  • PhD Candidate: Ona Akemu
  • Time frame: 2011 - 2017
A Test of Time: A temporal and dynamic approach to power and ethics
  • Role: Member Supervisory Team
  • PhD Candidate: Laura M. Giurge
  • Time frame: 2012 - 2017
Corporate Environmentalism in China
  • Role: Member Doctoral Committee
  • PhD Candidate: Ruxi Wang
  • Time frame: 2012 - 2017
Searching for a new identity: post-merger integration challenges in the certification industry
  • Role: Promotor
  • PhD Candidate: Sylke Jellema
  • Time frame: 2018 -
Purpose in Business: On how to embed'purpose' in organizational and entrepreneurial contexts
  • Role: Promotor
  • PhD Candidate: Krijn Turkenburg
  • Time frame: 2016 -
Breaking the Conduit: A Relational Approach to Communication in Management and Entrepreneurship
  • Role: Promotor
  • PhD Candidate: Sai Kalvapalle
  • Time frame: 2017 -
Make Our Planet Great Again: A Systems Perspective of Corporate Sustainability
  • Role: Member Doctoral Committee
  • PhD Candidate: Amanda Williams
  • Time frame: 2013 - 2018
PhD in Organizational Behaviour/Human Resource Management
  • Role: Promotor
  • PhD Candidate: Jingtao Zhu
  • Time frame: 2018 -
Praise the Lord! Infusing Values and Emotions into Neo-Institutional Theory
  • Role: Promotor
  • PhD Candidate: Hendra Wijaya
  • Time frame: 2012 - 2019
Coordination & Control in Contemporary Organizations
  • Role: Promotor
  • PhD Candidate: Jun Xiao
  • Time frame: 2015 - 2021
How firms cope with digital revolution
  • Role: Promotor
  • PhD Candidate: Mohammad Taghi Ramezan Zadeh
  • Time frame: 2015 - 2021
Co-creating Safety and Security: Essays on bridging disparate needs and requirements to foster safety and security
  • Role: Promotor
  • PhD Candidate: Mark van der Giessen
  • Time frame: 2015 - 2022
Engaging with Emerging Technologies: Socio-cognitive foundations of incumbent response
  • Role: Member Doctoral Committee
  • PhD Candidate: Tatjana Schneidmüller
  • Time frame: 2015 - 2020
Open PhD project in Value Based Organizing: Acting on unprecedented change
  • Role: Promotor
  • PhD Candidate: Daan Abraham Petrus Peeters
  • Time frame: 2021 -
The Integration of Crisis Communication and Regulatory Focus: Deconstructing and Optimizing the Corporate Message
  • Role: Member Doctoral Committee
  • PhD Candidate: Viktor Koritarov
  • Time frame: 2013 - 2021
Mind the Gap: The role of psychic distance and supplier’s reputation in international buyer-supplier relationships
  • Role: Member Doctoral Committee
  • PhD Candidate: Silviu Horia Tierean
  • Time frame: 2012 - 2022
Exploring the role of context and interpretative dynamics in large-scale cross-cultural collaborations
  • Role: Member Doctoral Committee
  • PhD Candidate: Chuqiao Zhou
  • Time frame: 2016 - 2023
Threats as a trigger of change: How reputational threats impact on identity
Threats as a trigger of change: How reputational threats impact on identity
  • Role: Promotor
  • PhD Candidate: Eduardo Notario Garcia
  • Time frame: 2021 -
The reputation of public sector organizations: The role of uncertainty, polarization of stakeholders’ demands, and multiple tasks. Implications for a bureaucratic reputation theory and reputation management
  • Role: Promotor
  • PhD Candidate: Francesco Lovecchio
  • Time frame: 2020 -
Integrated Reporting as an internal mechanism for organizational change
Integrated Reporting as an internal mechanism for organizational change
  • Role: Promotor
  • PhD Candidate: Valerie Sydry
  • Time frame: 2018 -
Lonely-ship: The Emergence and Experience of Leader Loneliness
  • Role: Member Doctoral Committee
  • PhD Candidate: Ho Wa (Hodar) Lam
  • Time frame: 2016 -
What´s next? Dealing with upcoming organizational reputation drivers from a complexity theory perspective
What´s next? Dealing with upcoming organizational reputation drivers from a complexity theory perspective
  • Role: Promotor
  • PhD Candidate: Liselotte Dijkstra
  • Time frame: 2016 -

Course (1)

Events (16)

2018
June
01
The Essay in Management Studies
Research Seminar
As: Coordinator, Contact
2018
May
31
Publishing in The Journal of Management Studies
Research Seminar
As: Coordinator, Contact
2017
November
08
ERIM Research Seminar - Wesley Helms
Research Seminar
As: Coordinator, Contact
2017
November
08
Competing for Good: How Organizational Hybridity Challenges Inter-Organizational Categorization and Cross-Sector Value Creation
Research Seminar
As: Contact, Coordinator
2017
May
24
Making Sense of Decoupling Through Narration: The Case of Anti-Corruption
Research Seminar
As: Coordinator, Contact
2017
April
19
Experimental institution building: How innovative governance emerged in response to Rana Plaza
Research Seminar
As: Contact, Coordinator
2017
March
29
Ethnography of War Hospital in Afghanistan
Research Seminar
As: Contact, Coordinator
2017
March
17
Rethinking Rigour for Management Research: Challenging Technocratic Conceptions of Rigour in Management Scholarship
Research Seminar
As: Contact, Coordinator
2017
March
16
Publishing in Journal of Management Studies - an interactive workshop with Professor Bill Harley, consulting editor
Research Workshop
As: Contact, Coordinator
2016
January
20
Social Innovations in Outsourcing: The Emergence of Impact Sourcing
Research Seminar
As: Contact, Coordinator
2016
January
14
AMR-OMT Paper Development Workshop
Research Workshop
As: Coordinator, Contact
2016
January
14
Panel session: Academy of Management Review editors
Research Workshop
As: Coordinator, Contact
2016
January
13
AMR-OMT Paper Development Workshop
Research Workshop
As: Coordinator, Contact
2015
October
01
Symposium: Innovating beyond Technology
Research Seminar
As: Speaker
2015
March
04
Sensemaking and Coordinating Under Duress: Communication, Emotions and Identity in the Stockwell Shooting
Research Seminar
As: Speaker
2007
September
26
Imagined Worlds: the Role of Metaphors and Metaphorical Scenes in Sensemaking Accounts
Research Seminar
As: Speaker

Award (1)

Address

Visiting address

Office: Mandeville Building T11-53
Burgemeester Oudlaan 50
3062 PA Rotterdam

Postal address

Postbus 1738
3000 DR Rotterdam
Netherlands

Latest publication

Article

Cornelissen, J., & Kaandorp, M. (2023). Towards Stronger Causal Claims in Management Research: Causal Triangulation Instead of Causal Identification. Journal of Management Studies, 60(4), 834-860. https://doi.org/10.1111/joms.12897