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

Full Professor

Department of Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship

Rotterdam School of Management (RSM)

Erasmus University Rotterdam

Fellow ERIM

Field: Strategy & Entrepreneurship

Affiliated since 1997

T: +31 10 4082261

E: pheugens@rsm.nl

Pursey Heugens is a professor of organisation theory, development, and change at the Department of Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship, 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.

Publications (79)

Key Publications (14)

D. Bergh, D. Ketchen, I. Orlandi, P.P.M.A.R. Heugens & B. Boyd (2019). Information asymmetry in management research: past accomplishments and future opportunities. Journal of Management, Accepted.
J.J. Kroezen & P.P.M.A.R. Heugens (2019). What is dead may never die: Institutional regeneration through logic reemergence in Dutch beer brewing. Administrative Science Quarterly, Accepted.
I.R.P. Cuypers, G. Ertug, P.P.M.A.R. Heugens, B. Kogut & T. Zhou (2018). The making of a construct: Lessons from 30 years of the Kogut and Singh cultural distance index. Journal of International Business Studies, Accepted.
A.J.J. Maas, P.P.M.A.R. Heugens & T.H. Reus (2018). Viceroys or emperors? An institution-based perspective on merger and acquisition prevalence and shareholder value. Journal of Management Studies, Accepted. doi: 10.1111/joms.123351
G. Hendriks, A.H.L. Slangen & P.P.M.A.R. Heugens (2018). How a firm's domestic footprint and domestic environmental uncertainty jointly shape added cultural distances: The roles of resource dependence and headquarters attention. Journal of Management Studies, Accepted. doi: 10.1111/joms.12314
H.R. Wijaya & P.P.M.A.R. Heugens (2018). Give me a hallelujah! Amen! Institutional reproduction in the presence of moral perturbation and the dynamics of emotional investment. Organization Studies, 39 (4), 491-514. doi: 10.1177/0170840617736931
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
Z. Simsek, P. Bansal, J.D. Shaw, P.P.M.A.R. Heugens & W. Smith (2018). From the editors: Seeing practice impact in new ways. Academy of Management Journal, Accepted.
S. Sauerwald, P.P.M.A.R. Heugens, Roxana Turturea & M. van Essen (2018). Are all private benefits of control ineffective? Principal-principal benefits, external governance quality, and firm performance. Journal of Management Studies, Accepted. doi: 10.1111/joms.12420
M.W. Lander & P.P.M.A.R. Heugens (2017). Better together: Using meta-analysis to explore complementarities between ecological and institutional theories of organization. Organization Studies, 38 (11), 1573-1601. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0170840616677629
J.M. Drees & P.P.M.A.R. Heugens (2013). Synthesizing and extending resource dependence theory: A meta-analysis. Journal of Management, 39 (6), 1666-1698. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0149206312471391[go to publisher's site]
M. van Essen, J. van Oosterhout & P.P.M.A.R. Heugens (2013). Competition and cooperation in corporate governance: The effects of labor institutions on blockholder effectivess in 23 European countries. Organization Science, 24 (2), 530-551. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1287/orsc.1120.0742[go to publisher's site]
M. van Essen, P.P.M.A.R. Heugens, J. van Oosterhout & J.A. Otten (2012). An institution-based view of executive compensation: A multilevel meta-analytic test. Journal of International Business Studies, 43 (4), 396-423. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/jibs.2012.6[go to publisher's site]
M. Carney, E.R. Gedajlovic, P.P.M.A.R. Heugens, M. van Essen & J. van Oosterhout (2011). Business group affiliation, performance, context, and strategy: A meta-analysis. Academy of Management Journal, 54 (3), 437-460. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.5465/AMJ.2011.61967812[go to publisher's site]

Articles (58)

D. Bergh, D. Ketchen, I. Orlandi, P.P.M.A.R. Heugens & B. Boyd (2019). Information asymmetry in management research: past accomplishments and future opportunities. Journal of Management, Accepted.
J.J. Kroezen & P.P.M.A.R. Heugens (2019). What is dead may never die: Institutional regeneration through logic reemergence in Dutch beer brewing. Administrative Science Quarterly, Accepted.
G. Hendriks, A.H.L. Slangen & P.P.M.A.R. Heugens (2018). How a firm's domestic footprint and domestic environmental uncertainty jointly shape added cultural distances: The roles of resource dependence and headquarters attention. Journal of Management Studies, Accepted. doi: 10.1111/joms.12314
S. Sauerwald, P.P.M.A.R. Heugens, Roxana Turturea & M. van Essen (2018). Are all private benefits of control ineffective? Principal-principal benefits, external governance quality, and firm performance. Journal of Management Studies, Accepted. doi: 10.1111/joms.12420
Z. Simsek, P. Bansal, J.D. Shaw, P.P.M.A.R. Heugens & W. Smith (2018). From the editors: Seeing practice impact in new ways. Academy of Management Journal, Accepted.
K.M. Smolka, I. Verheul, K. Burmeister-Lamp & P.P.M.A.R. Heugens (2018). Get it together! Synergistic effects of causal and effectual decision-making logics on venture performance. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Accepted. doi: 10.1111/etap.12266
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
H.R. Wijaya & P.P.M.A.R. Heugens (2018). Give me a hallelujah! Amen! Institutional reproduction in the presence of moral perturbation and the dynamics of emotional investment. Organization Studies, 39 (4), 491-514. doi: 10.1177/0170840617736931
P.P.M.A.R. Heugens, S. Sauerwald, R. Turturea & M. van Essen (2018). Does State Ownership Hurt of Help Minority Shareholders? International Evidence from Control Block Acquisitions. Global Strategy Journal, Accepted.
A.J.J. Maas, P.P.M.A.R. Heugens & T.H. Reus (2018). Viceroys or emperors? An institution-based perspective on merger and acquisition prevalence and shareholder value. Journal of Management Studies, Accepted. doi: 10.1111/joms.123351
J.F. Mahon, P.P.M.A.R. Heugens & R.A. McGowan (2018). Blending issues and stakeholders: In pursuit of the elusive synergy. Journal of Public Affairs, 18, Forthcoming. doi: 10.1002/pa.1635
P. Duran, P.P.M.A.R. Heugens, M. Van Essen, T. Kostova & M. Peng (2018). The impact of institutions on the competitive advantage of publicly-listed family firms in emerging markets. Global Strategy Journal, 8 (Forthcoming). doi: 10.1002/gsj.1312
M.W. Lander, J. van Oosterhout, P.P.M.A.R. Heugens & J.K.L.P. Pruijssers (2018). Career stage dependent effects of law firm governance: A multilevel study of professional-client misconduct. Human Relations, 71 (Forthcoming).
J.K.L.P. Pruijssers, P.P.M.A.R. Heugens & J. van Oosterhout (2018). Winning at a losing game? Side-effects of perceived tournament promotion incentives in audit firms. Journal of Business Ethics, Accepted.
P.P.M.A.R. Heugens, P.J. Engelen, Roxana Turturea, M. van Essen & N. Bailey (2018). The impact of stakeholders' temporal orientation on short- and long-term IPO outcomes: A meta-analysis. Long Range Planning, Accepted.
I.R.P. Cuypers, G. Ertug, P.P.M.A.R. Heugens, B. Kogut & T. Zhou (2018). The making of a construct: Lessons from 30 years of the Kogut and Singh cultural distance index. Journal of International Business Studies, Accepted.
M.W. Lander, P.P.M.A.R. Heugens & J. van Oosterhout (2017). Towards an integrated framework of professional partnership performance: The role of formal governance and strategic planning. Human Relations, 70 (4), 1-27. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0018726717700697
M.W. Lander, P.P.M.A.R. Heugens & J. van Oosterhout (2017). Drift or alignment? A configurational analysis of law firms’ ability to combine profitability with professionalism. Journal of professions and organization, 4 (2), 123-148. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jpo/jow011
M.W. Lander & P.P.M.A.R. Heugens (2017). Better together: Using meta-analysis to explore complementarities between ecological and institutional theories of organization. Organization Studies, 38 (11), 1573-1601. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0170840616677629
M. Carney, M. van Essen, E.R. Gedajlovic & P.P.M.A.R. Heugens (2015). What do we know about private family firms? A meta-analytic review. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 39 (3), 513-544. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/etap.12054[go to publisher's site]
M. van Essen, M. Carney, E.R. Gedajlovic & P.P.M.A.R. Heugens (2015). How does family control influence firm strategy and performance? A meta-analysis of U.S. publicly-listed firms. Corporate Governance: An International Review, 23 (1), 3-24. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/corg.12080[go to publisher's site]
J.M. Drees & P.P.M.A.R. Heugens (2013). Synthesizing and extending resource dependence theory: A meta-analysis. Journal of Management, 39 (6), 1666-1698. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0149206312471391[go to publisher's site]
M. van Essen, J. van Oosterhout & P.P.M.A.R. Heugens (2013). Competition and cooperation in corporate governance: The effects of labor institutions on blockholder effectivess in 23 European countries. Organization Science, 24 (2), 530-551. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1287/orsc.1120.0742[go to publisher's site]
M. van Essen, P.P.M.A.R. Heugens, J. van Oosterhout & J.A. Otten (2012). An institution-based view of executive compensation: A multilevel meta-analytic test. Journal of International Business Studies, 43 (4), 396-423. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/jibs.2012.6[go to publisher's site]
M. Carney, E.R. Gedajlovic, P.P.M.A.R. Heugens, M. van Essen & J. van Oosterhout (2011). Business group affiliation, performance, context, and strategy: A meta-analysis. Academy of Management Journal, 54 (3), 437-460. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.5465/AMJ.2011.61967812[go to publisher's site]
P.P.M.A.R. Heugens & A.G. Scherer (2010). When organization theory met business ethics: Toward further symbioses. Business Ethics Quarterly, 20 (4), 643-672.[go to publisher's site]
K. Lamertz & P.P.M.A.R. Heugens (2009). Institutional translation through spectatorship: Collective consumption and editing of symbolic organizational texts by firms and their audiences. Organization Studies, 30 (11), 1249-1279. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0170840609337935[go to publisher's site]
J. van Oosterhout & P.P.M.A.R. Heugens (2009). Extant social contracts in global business regulation: Outline of a research agenda. Journal of Business Ethics, 88 (4), 729-740. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10551-009-0329-0[go to publisher's site]
D.L. Deephouse & P.P.M.A.R. Heugens (2009). Linking social issues to organizational impact: The role of infomediaries and the infomediary process. Journal of Business Ethics, 86 (4), 541-553. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10551-008-9864-3[go to publisher's site]
P.P.M.A.R. Heugens, M. van Essen & J. van Oosterhout (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. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10490-008-9109-0[go to publisher's site]
P.P.M.A.R. Heugens & M.W. Lander (2009). Structure! Agency! (And Other Quarrels): Meta-Analyzing Institutional Theories of Organization. Academy of Management Journal, 52 (1), 61-85. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.5465/AMJ.2009.36461835[go to publisher's site]
J.A. Otten & P.P.M.A.R. Heugens (2008). The managerial power theory of executive pay: A cross-national test and extension. In Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings
P.P.M.A.R. Heugens & S.C. Zyglidopoulos (2008). From social ties to embedded competencies: The case of business groups. The Journal of Management and Governance, 12 (4), 325-341. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10997-008-9064-7[go to publisher's site]
P.P.M.A.R. Heugens, S.P. Kaptein & J. van Oosterhout (2008). Contracts to communities: A processual model of organizational virtue. Journal of Management Studies, 45 (1), 100-121. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-6486.2007.00738.x[go to publisher's site]
P.P.M.A.R. Heugens & N. Dentchev (2007). Taming Trojan Horses: Identifying and Mitigating Corporate Social Responsibility Risks. Journal of Business Ethics, 75 (2), 151-170. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10551-006-9242-y[go to publisher's site]
J. van Oosterhout, P.P.M.A.R. Heugens & S.P. Kaptein (2007). Contractualism vindicated; A response to Boatright. Academy of Management Review, 32 (1), 295-297. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.5465/AMR.2007.23467343
P.P.M.A.R. Heugens & J.A. Otten (2007). Beyond the dichotomous worlds hypothesis: Towards a plurality of corporate governance logics. Corporate Governance: An International Review, 15 (6), 1288-1300. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8683.2007.00647.x
P.P.M.A.R. Heugens, J. van Oosterhout & S.P. Kaptein (2006). Foundations and applications for contractualist business ethics. Journal of Business Ethics, 68 (3), 211-228. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10551-006-9011-y[go to publisher's site]
P.P.M.A.R. Heugens (2006). Environmental issues management: Towards a multi-level theory of environmental management competence. Business Strategy and the Environment, 15 (6), 363-376.
J. van Oosterhout, P.P.M.A.R. Heugens & S.P. Kaptein (2006). The internal morality of contracting: Advancing the contractualist endeavor in business ethics. Academy of Management Review, 31 (3), 521-539. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.5465/AMR.2006.21318915
P.P.M.A.R. Heugens, S.P. Kaptein & J. van Oosterhout (2006). The ethics of the node versus the ethics of the dyad? Reconciling virtue ethics and contractualism. Organization Studies, 27 (3), 391-411. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0170840606062428[go to publisher's site]
P.P.M.A.R. Heugens & M.J. Mol (2005). So you call that research? Mending methodological biases in strategy and organization departments of top business schools. Strategic Organization, 3 (1), 117-128. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1476127005050030[go to publisher's site]
P.P.M.A.R. Heugens (2005). A neo-Weberian theory of the firm. Organization Studies, 26 (4), 547-567. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0170840605051471[go to publisher's site]
K. Lamertz, P.P.M.A.R. Heugens & L. Calmet (2005). The configuration of organizational images among firms in the Canadian beer brewing industry. Journal of Management Studies, 42 (4), 817-843. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-6486.2005.00520.x[go to publisher's site]
P.P.M.A.R. Heugens & E.A.M. Schenk-Braat (2004). The public affairs of corporate restructuring. Journal of Public Affairs, 4 (1), 6-9.
J.F. Mahon, P.P.M.A.R. Heugens & K. Lamertz (2004). Social networks and nonmarket strategy. Journal of Public Affairs, 4 (2), 170-189.
P.P.M.A.R. Heugens, C.B.M. van Riel & Frans, A.J. Van Den Bosch (2004). Reputation Management Capabilities as Decision Rules. Journal of Management Studies, 41 (8), 1349-1377. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-6486.2004.00478.x[go to publisher's site]
P.P.M.A.R. Heugens, S.P. Kaptein & J. van Oosterhout (2004). Ties that grind? Corroborating a typology of social contracting problems. Journal of Business Ethics, 49 (3), 235-252. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/B:BUSI.0000017960.17747.56[go to publisher's site]
P.P.M.A.R. Heugens & H. Schenk (2004). Rethinking corporate restructuring. Journal of Public Affairs, 4 (1), 87-101.
P.P.M.A.R. Heugens, K. Lamertz & L. Calmet (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.
P.P.M.A.R. Heugens (2003). Capability building through adversarial relationships: A replication and extension of Clarke and Roome (1999). Business Strategy and the Environment, 12 (5), 300-312.
P.P.M.A.R. Heugens, M. Martens & K. Lamertz (2003). Issue evolution: A symbolic interactionist perspective. Corporate Reputation Review, 6 (1), 82-93.
S.L. Wartick & P.P.M.A.R. Heugens (2003). Future directions for issues management. Corporate Reputation Review, 6 (1), 7-18.
P.P.M.A.R. Heugens, C.B.M. van Riel & Frans, A.J. Van Den Bosch (2002). Stakeholder Integration: Building Mutually Enforcing Relationships. Business and Society, 41 (1), 37-61. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/000765030204100104[go to publisher's site]
P.P.M.A.R. Heugens (2002). Strategic issues management: Implications for corporate performance. Business and Society, 41 (4), 456-468.
P.P.M.A.R. Heugens & J. van Oosterhout (2002). The Confines of Stakeholder Management: Evidence from the Dutch Manufacturing Sector. Journal of Business Ethics, 40 (4), 387-404. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1020807101387[go to publisher's site]
P.P.M.A.R. Heugens (2002). Managing public affairs through storytelling. Journal of Public Affairs, 2 (2), 57-70.
P.P.M.A.R. Heugens & J. van Oosterhout (2001). To boldly go where no man has gone before: integrating cognitive and physical features in scenario studies. Futures, 33 (10), 861-872. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0016-3287(01)00023-4

Books (2)

P.P.M.A.R. Heugens, J. van Oosterhout & J.J. Vromen (2004). The Social Institutions of Capitalism: Evolution and Design of Social Contracts. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing
P.P.M.A.R. Heugens (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)

J.J. Kroezen & P.P.M.A.R. Heugens (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
P.P.M.A.R. Heugens (2011). Social institutions of capitalism. In G. Ritzer (Ed.), Blackwell Concise Encyclopedia of Sociology (pp. 48-49). Oxford: Blackwell
S. Osadchiy, I. Bogenrieder & P.P.M.A.R. Heugens (2010). Organizational learning through problem absorption: A processual view. In T. Hernes & S. Maitlis (Eds.), Perspectives on Process Organization Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press
P.P.M.A.R. Heugens (2010). Social institutions of capitalism. In G. Ritzer & J.M. Ryan (Eds.), Concise Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology. Oxford: Blackwell
P.P.M.A.R. Heugens & J. van Oosterhout (2008). 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
P.P.M.A.R. Heugens (2007). Organizations and the theory of the firm. In G. Ritzer (Ed.), The Blackwell encyclopedia of Sociology (pp. 3326-3331). Oxford: Blackwell
P.P.M.A.R. Heugens (2007). Social institutions of capitalism. In G Ritzer (Ed.), The Blackwell encyclopedia of Sociology (pp. 395-398). Oxford: Blackwell
P.P.M.A.R. Heugens (2005). Issues management: Core understandings and scholarly development. In P. Harris & C. Fleisher (Eds.), The Handbook of Public Affairs (pp. 481-500). London: Sage
P.P.M.A.R. Heugens, J. van Oosterhout & J.J. Vromen (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
P.P.M.A.R. Heugens, S.P. Kaptein, J. van Oosterhout & J.F.D.B. Wempe (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

Doctoral Thesis

P.P.M.A.R. Heugens (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.

Inaugural Speech

P.P.M.A.R. Heugens (2008). Organization Theory: Bright Prospects for a Permanently Failing Field. (2008, september 12). Rotterdam: Erasmus Research Institute of Management

Professional Publications (7)

P.P.M.A.R. Heugens (2017). Why can't China clean up its act? RSM Discovery - Management Knowledge, 30 (2), 17-19.
J. van Oosterhout, P.P.M.A.R. Heugens & M. van Essen (2013). The effect of blockholders in corporate governance. RSM Insight, 13 (1), 18-19.
P.P.M.A.R. Heugens (2009). Een mooie toekomst voor een chronisch tekortschietend vakgebied. Holland Management Review, 125 (-), 2-8.
P.P.M.A.R. Heugens, S.P. Kaptein & N.A. den Nieuwenboer (2007, december 20). Liever high-trust toezicht. Het Financiële Dagblad
P.P.M.A.R. Heugens, Frans, A.J. Van Den Bosch & C.B.M. van Riel (2001). Stakeholder integratie: werken aan wederzijds versterkende relaties. M en O, 55 (4), 5-26.
P.P.M.A.R. Heugens (1998). Naar een nieuwe definitie van crisismanagement: plaatsbepaling. Tijdschrift voor Strategische Bedrijfscommunicatie, 4 (2), 16-17.
Frans, A.J. Van Den Bosch, P.P.M.A.R. Heugens & C.B.M. van Riel (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. (Extern rapport). Rotterdam: Corporate Communication Centre

PhD Tracks (32)

The Information-Based View on Business Network Performance

Role: Member Doctoral Committee
PhD Candidate: Sarita Koendjbiharie
Time frame: 2007 - 2014

Transition Process and Performance in IT Outsourcing: Evidence from a Field Study and Laboratory Experiments

Role: Member Doctoral Committee
PhD Candidate: Vinay Tiwari
Time frame: 2006 - 2010

Configurations of Inter-Firm Relations in Management Innovation: A Study in China's Biopharmaceutical Industry

Role: Member Doctoral Committee
PhD Candidate: Johannes Meuer
Time frame: 2006 - 2011

Innovation in an Uncertain Institutional Environment: Private Software Entrepreneurs in Hangzhou, China

Role: Member Doctoral Committee
PhD Candidate: Mark Greeven
Time frame: 2004 - 2009

Behind Networks: Knowledge Transfer, Favor Exchange and Performance

Role: Member Doctoral Committee
PhD Candidate: René van der Eijk
Time frame: 2003 - 2009

Typical Atypicality: Formal and Informal Institutional Conformity, Deviance, and Dynamics

Role: Member Doctoral Committee
PhD Candidate: Nathan Betancourt
Time frame: 2008 - 2012

Idea Management: Perspectives from Leadership, Learning, and Network Theory

Role: Member Doctoral Committee
PhD Candidate: Dirk Deichmann
Time frame: 2007 - 2012

Profits or Professionalism? On designing professional service firms

Role: Promotor
PhD Candidate: Michel Lander
Time frame: 2007 - 2012

The Dynamics of Formal Organization: Essays on Bureaucracy and Formal Rules

Role: Promotor
PhD Candidate: Sergey Osadchiy
Time frame: 2007 - 2011

On getting along and getting ahead: How personality contributes to social network dynamics

Role: Promotor
PhD Candidate: Evgenia Dolgova
Time frame: 2007 -

Corporate Reputation Management: Reaching Out to Financial Stakeholders

Role: Member Doctoral Committee
PhD Candidate: Yijing Wang
Time frame: 2008 - 2013

Steering Through: How Organizations Negotiate Permanent Uncertainty and Unresolvable Choices

Role: Promotor
PhD Candidate: Prabhir Vishnu
Time frame: 2007 - 2011

People, Politics, and Innovation: A Process Perspective

Role: Member Doctoral Committee
PhD Candidate: Lameez Alexander
Time frame: 2008 - 2014

Unlocking Business Model Innovation

Role: Member Doctoral Committee
PhD Candidate: Jaco Smit
Time frame: 2009 - 2016

No Team is an Island: an Integrative View of Strategic Consensus between Groups

Role: Member Doctoral Committee
PhD Candidate: Jeanine Porck
Time frame: 2009 - 2013

An Organizational Perspective on Auditor Conduct

Role: Promotor
PhD Candidate: Jorien Pruijssers
Time frame: 2010 - 2015

Managing Organizational Tensions: A Multi-level Perspective on Exploration, Exploitation, and Ambidexterity

Role: Member Doctoral Committee
PhD Candidate: Sebastian Fourné
Time frame: 2010 - 2014

Socially Situated Financial Markets:a Neo-Behavioral Perspective on Firms, Investors and Practices

Role: Promotor
PhD Candidate: Ivana Naumovska
Time frame: 2010 - 2014

Why ‘Doing Good’ is Not Good Enough. Essays on Social Impact Measurement

Role: Member Doctoral Committee
PhD Candidate: Kellie Liket
Time frame: 2010 - 2014

Connecting Minds: On the Role of Metaknowledge in Knowledge Coordination

Role: Member Doctoral Committee
PhD Candidate: Julija Mell
Time frame: 2011 - 2015

The Renewal of Mature Industries: An Examination of the Revival of the Dutch Beer Brewing Industry

Role: Promotor
PhD Candidate: Jochem Kroezen
Time frame: 2010 - 2014

The Determinants and Consequences of the Capital Structure of Private Companies

Role: Promotor
PhD Candidate: Roxana Turturea
Time frame: 2012 -

We are (all) the champions: The effect of status in the implementation of innovations

Role: Member Doctoral Committee
PhD Candidate: Balazs Szatmari
Time frame: 2012 - 2016

Multiplicity of Pentecostalism logic and its nestedness within a wider interinstitutional system: The interplay between institutional logics and work of Pentecostal churches in Indonesia

Role: Promotor
PhD Candidate: Hendra Wijaya
Time frame: 2012 -

Corporate Environmentalism in China

Role: Promotor
PhD Candidate: Ruxi Wang
Time frame: 2012 - 2017

Home Country Conditions for International Investment

Role: Promotor
PhD Candidate: Guus Hendriks
Time frame: 2013 -

On the influence of institutional forces on the strategic behavior of firms

Role: Promotor
PhD Candidate: Ron Maas
Time frame: 2014 -

Will Directorhsip Get You There: How Joining a Board Directly (and Indirectly) Affects Directors’ Career Prospects

Role: Promotor
PhD Candidate: Ilaria Orlandi
Time frame: 2015 -

Capturing the Strategic Value of Corporate Venturing

Role: Promotor
PhD Candidate: Jitse Duijsters
Time frame: 2016 -

A Multi-Method Exploration of Sensemaking in Context

Role: Promotor
PhD Candidate: Sai Kalvapalle
Time frame: 2017 -

Institutions for Sustainable Business in China

Role: Promotor
PhD Candidate: Wenjie Liu
Time frame: 2018 -

On the Political Activities of Firms: Strategies and Implications

Role: Member Doctoral Committee
PhD Candidate: Omar El Nayal
Time frame: 2014 -

Recognitions (6)

Editorial positions (6)

Journal of Business Ethics

Editorial Board
Corporate Reputation Review

Editorial Board
Business and Society

Editorial Board
Business Ethics Quarterly

Editorial Board
Journal of Public Affairs

Editorial Board
Strategic Organization

Editorial Board

Courses (2)

Qualitative Methods (2018/2019, 2017/2018, 2016/2017)

Past

Advanced Topics in Organisation Theory (2017/2018, 2016/2017)

PhD Vacancies (2)

PhD in Strategic Management & Entrepreneurship

To develop world-class academics pursuing high-impact research in Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship, we have developed a doctoral programme that combines deep-level understanding in core topics and thorough grounding in methodological design and analytical skills. Joining the PhD programme means joining a Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship group with a highly collaborative and cutting-edge research culture. The group harbors expertise in a broad range of topics: faculty members and PhD students work across nearly all relevant areas of the strategic management and entrepreneurship fields.

Throughout the programme, PhD students work closely with faculty on joint and supervised research. Teamwork offers candidates the opportunity to learn diverse research skills and become familiar with a range of debates in the field before selecting the focus of subsequent doctoral work.

Excellent job opportunities: Alumni of the PhD programme hold academic positions in renowned academic institutes around the world, including Cambridge, ETH Zurich, HEC Paris, INSEAD, McGill University, the University of South Carolina, Renmin University, and Warwick Business School.

Collaborate or integrate? The effects of R&D intensity on collaboration and integration of interdependent actors.

When industries become more R&D intensive, firms face a dilemma: performing R&D alone, create joint R&D facilities with non-competing partners, or diversifying into other businesses. A firm like Google mainly performs R&D alone, applying the results in different business lines, while in other industries joint research initiatives are set up. A classic example of the latter is MCC in the micro-electronics industry (Peck, 1986). Considerations of exploiting synergies in R&D, intellectual property and appropriation of returns, and coordination costs affect the choice. In this project we investigate the alternatives for decisions on the organization of R&D and firm integration. The PhD candidate will investigate the performance of joint R&D initiatives in different industries, and the pros and cons of firms exploiting internal research for different business lines. A specific case industry to be addressed will be the horticulture industry, since in this setting different options can be compared within the same industry. In addition, the supervisors have strong connections within this industry, which guarantees access to an exciting and innovative group of companies. The research will be mainly theory-driven and empirical, although the option to develop formal models also exists.

Events (53)

2018

December

ERIM Awards Ceremony 2018

Other

As: Speaker

2017

December

ERIM Awards Ceremony 2017

Other

As: Speaker

2017

June

Good Deeds Done in Silence: Legitimacy Management, Stakeholder Saliency, and Silent Giving by Chinese Firms

Research Seminar

As: Coordinator

2015

May

Next Generation Diner

Research Seminar

As: Speaker

2015

May

Family Businesses Invited to ECFB Dinner Discussion

Conference

As: Speaker

2014

December

The Institutional Accommodation of Open Access in Higher Education Publishing

Research Seminar

As: Coordinator, Contact

2014

December

The Division of Labour in Service Industries: Evidence from the Residential Real Estate Industry

Research Seminar

As: Coordinator, Contact

2014

November

Demand Heterogeneity and the Adoption of Platform Complements

Research Seminar

As: Coordinator, Contact

2014

November

Disentangling Discontinuous Environmental Change

Research Seminar

As: Coordinator, Contact

2013

December

Should Birds of a Feather Flock Together? Agglomeration by Nationality as a Constraint in International Expansion

Research Seminar

As: Coordinator, Contact

2013

December

Learning to Learn or Learning to Coordinate? The Influence of Alliance Experience on Acquisition Performance

Research Seminar

As: Coordinator, Contact

2013

December

The Effect of CEO Compensation on their Responses to Institutional Pressures: Evidence from the Choice between Cross-Border Alliances and Acquisitions

Research Seminar

As: Coordinator, Contact

2013

December

Varieties in State Capitalism: Outward FDI Strategies of Central and Local State Owned Enterprises from Emerging Economy Countries

Research Seminar

As: Coordinator, Contact

2013

December

Behind the Scenes: The Inside Story of the IWC 1982 Whaling Moratorium and its Impact on Greenpeace's International Strategies

Research Seminar

As: Coordinator, Contact

2013

June

R&D Investment in Family and Non-Family Sart-ups: A Behavioral Perspective

Research Seminar

As: Contact, Coordinator

2013

June

Understanding the Environments of Emerging Markets: The Social Costs of Institutional Voids

ERIM Farewell Address

As: Coordinator

2013

June

The Politics of Institutions and Firms: Implications for Organization and Strategy

Valedictory symposium

As: Coordinator

2012

December

Opening Up but Staying Local: Insights from Partnership Formations between Established and Startup Firms

Research Seminar

As: Contact, Coordinator

2012

December

Two Presentations on Entrepreneurial Action: Disinhibition and Nascent Entrepreneurial Behavior, & Heterogeneity in Entrepreneurial Spinoff Performance

Research Seminar

As: Coordinator, Contact

2012

December

Lets (Not?) Hang Out! Examining the Exit of Prestigious Directors from Newly Public Firms

Research Seminar

As: Coordinator, Contact

2012

November

Academic Symposium on Family Business

Research Seminar

As: Coordinator

2012

November

A Behavioral Perspective on Inventors’ Mobility: The Case of Pharmaceutical Industry

Research Seminar

As: Coordinator, Contact

2012

November

Organizations and Ethics: The Adoption and Implementation of the Ethics and Compliance Officer

Research Seminar

As: Coordinator

2012

November

Configurations for Effective Entrepreneurial Judgment: A Cognitive Structural Perspective on the Process of Early-Stage Investing

Research Seminar

As: Coordinator, Contact

2012

September

The Impact of Organizational Prototypes and Industry Clusters on the Fates of Northern Bavarian (Franconian) Breweries

Research Seminar

As: Coordinator

2012

June

The Dissolution of Categories: Process, Organizational Behavior and Consequences

Research Seminar

As: Coordinator

2012

May

Chance events in entrepreneurial opportunity development

Research Seminar

As: Coordinator

2012

January

The Co-Evolution of Industries, Social Movements and Institutions: A Study of Wind Power

Research Seminar

As: Coordinator

2012

January

Categorical Cleaning: Divestitures as a Strategic Response to Sustainability Concerns

Research Seminar

As: Coordinator

2012

January

The Market that Never was: Turf Wars and Failed Alliances in Mobile Payments

Research Seminar

As: Coordinator

2012

January

Industry-Level Variability of Learning Outcomes from the Accumulation of Implementation: Experience with an Administrative Innovation

Research Seminar

As: Coordinator

2012

January

Connecting the Dots: A Study of Managerial Network Cognition and Contract Wins Among Firms Tendering for the 2014 Olympic Games in Russia

Research Seminar

As: Coordinator

2011

October

Symposium on the Economic Value of Corporate Reputation

Research Seminar

As: Speaker

2011

June

Rule-Based Learning: Problem Absorption and Knowledge Integration into Clinical Practice Guidelines

Research Seminar

As: Speaker

2011

May

to be announced

ERIM Research Clinic

As: Speaker

2011

May

How Do Family Firms Differ? A Meta-analysis

Research Seminar

As: Coordinator

2011

February

The Choice Between Joint Ventures and Acquisitions: Insights from Signaling Theory

Research Seminar

As: Coordinator

2010

November

Stigmatized Categories and Public Disapproval of Organizations: Theory and Evidence from the Global Arms Industry (1996-2007)

Research Seminar

As: Coordinator

2010

November

Institutional Work and the Transformation of an Organizational Field: Exploring the Interplay of Boundary Work and Practice Work

Research Seminar

As: Coordinator

2010

June

Advances in Organizational Attention Studies

Research Seminar

As: Coordinator

2010

May

ERIM Research Clinic: Organizations and Institutions

ERIM Research Clinic

As: Speaker

2008

November

ERIM Grant Workshop

Institute Event

As: Speaker

2008

September

Organization theory: bright prospects for a permanently failing field

Inaugural Address

As: Speaker

2008

June

Workshop International Developments in Management and Organization of Temporary Agency Work

Research Workshop

As: Coordinator

2008

June

Uses and Abuses of Governance Indicators

Research Seminar

As: Coordinator

2008

May

Bureaucracy and Technology: The Consequences of Information

Research Seminar

As: Coordinator

2008

February

Take your responsibility and let you inform about EU grants!

ERIM Grant Workshop

As: Coordinator

2008

January

Conformity and Defiance of High- and Middle-Conforming Actors: The Case of Share Repurchase by U.S. Specialized and Diversified Firms in the 1997-2005 Period

Research Seminar

As: Coordinator

2007

December

Taking Happiness Seriously: A Neo-Utilitarian Moral Foundation for Managerial Decision Making

Research Seminar

As: Coordinator

2007

October

The Role of Professionals in Deinstitutionalization: A Comparative Study of the Danish and French Construction Industry

Research Seminar

As: Coordinator

2007

October

Workshop on Meta-analytic Methods

Research Workshop

As: Coordinator

2007

September

Imagined Worlds: the Role of Metaphors and Metaphorical Scenes in Sensemaking Accounts

Research Seminar

As: Coordinator

2001

October

Strategic Issues Management: Implications for Corporate Performance

PhD Defence

As: Speaker

Awards (3)

ERIM Top Article Award (2007)
ERIM Award for 'Outstanding Performance by a Young Researcher' (2005)
ERIM Dissertation Award (2003)

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Visiting address

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Burgemeester Oudlaan 50
3062 PA Rotterdam

Postal address

Postbus 1738
3000 DR Rotterdam
Netherlands

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

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Articles (58)

Books (2)

Book Contributions (10)

Doctoral Thesis

Inaugural Speech

Professional Publications (7)

PhD Tracks (32)

Recognitions (6)

Editorial positions (6)

Courses (2)

PhD Vacancies (2)

Events (53)

Awards (3)

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