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

Pursey Heugens
Rotterdam School of Management (RSM)
Erasmus University Rotterdam
Fellow ERIM
Field: Strategy & Entrepreneurship
Affiliated since 1997

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.

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    • Turturea, R., Sauerwald, S., & Heugens, P. P. M. A. R. (2025). Forging agents of the state? How political institutions impact CEO compensation in state-owned enterprises. Journal of International Business Studies, Article 101113. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41267-024-00765-9

    • Hendriks, G., Slangen, A. H. L., & Heugens, P. P. M. A. R. (2024). Country portfolio diversity and firms’ portfolio adjustment decisions: A behavioral perspective. International Business Review, 33(4), Article 102280. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ibusrev.2024.102280

    • Liu, W., & Heugens, P. P. M. A. R. (2024). Cross-sector collaborations in global supply chains as an opportunity structure: How NGOs promote corporate sustainability in China. Journal of International Business Studies, 55(4), 429-449. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41267-023-00644-9

    • Wang, R., Heugens, P., & Wijen, F. (2024). Green by Affiliation? Ownership Identity and Environmental Management System Adoption in Chinese Business Groups. Journal of Management, 50(4), 1331-1360. https://doi.org/10.1177/01492063221143721

    • Lander, M. W., Roulet, T. J., & Heugens, P. P. M. A. R. (2023). TEMPERING TEMPERANCE? A CONTINGENCY APPROACH TO SOCIAL MOVEMENTS’ ENTRY DETERRENCE IN SCOTTISH WHISKY DISTILLING, 1823–1921. Academy of Management Journal, 66(5), 1384-1410. https://doi.org/10.5465/amj.2019.1411

    • Hendriks, G., Slangen, A. H. L., & Heugens, P. P. M. A. R. (2023). How cross-cultural experience shapes emerging-market multinationals’ domestic performance after a cross-border acquisition. Long Range Planning, 56(4), Article 102342. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lrp.2023.102342

    • Mell, J. N., van Knippenberg, D., van Ginkel, W. P., & Heugens, P. P. M. A. R. (2022). From Boundary Spanning to Intergroup Knowledge Integration: The Role of Boundary Spanners’ Metaknowledge and Proactivity. Journal of Management Studies, 59(7), 1723-1755. https://doi.org/10.1111/joms.12797

    • 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. https://doi.org/10.1177/01492063211073067

    • Berrone, P., Duran, P., Gómez-Mejía, L., Heugens, P., Kostova, T., & van Essen, M. (2020). Impact of informal institutions on the prevalence, strategy, and performance of family firms: a meta-analysis. Journal of International Business Studies. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41267-020-00362-6

    • Aguilera, R., Duran, P., Heugens, P., Sauerwald, S., Turturea, R., & VanEssen, M. (2020). State ownership, political ideology, and firm performance around the world. Journal of World Business, 56(1), Article 101113. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jwb.2020.101113

    • Heugens, P., Engelen, P. J., Turturea, R., van Essen, M., & Bailey, N. (2020). The impact of stakeholders' temporal orientation on short- and long-term IPO outcomes: A meta-analysis. Long Range Planning, 53(2), Article 101853. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lrp.2018.10.003

    • Smolka, K., & Heugens, P. (2020). The emergence of proto-institutions in the new normal business landscape: Dialectic institutional work and the Dutch drone industry. Journal of Management Studies, 57(3), 626-663. https://doi.org/10.1111/joms.12540

    • Vishwanathan, P., Oosterhout, H., Heugens, P., Duran Solis, PA., & Essen, M. (2019). Strategic CSR: a concept building meta-analysis. Journal of Management Studies, 57(2), 314-350. https://doi.org/10.1111/joms.12514

    • Heugens, P., Sauerwald, S., Turturea, R., & van Essen, M. (2019). Does State Ownership Hurt of Help Minority Shareholders? International Evidence from Control Block Acquisitions. Global Strategy Journal, Accepted. https://doi.org/10.1002/gsj.1337

    • Duran, P., Heugens, P., van Essen, M., Kostova, T., & Peng, M. (2019). The impact of institutions on the competitive advantage of publicly-listed family firms in emerging markets. Global Strategy Journal, 9(2), 243-274. https://doi.org/10.1002/gsj.1312

    • Bergh, D., Ketchen, D., Orlandi, I., Heugens, P., & Boyd, B. (2019). Information asymmetry in management research: past accomplishments and future opportunities. Journal of Management, 45(1), 122-158. https://doi.org/10.1177/0149206318798026

    • Kroezen, JJ., & Heugens, P. (2019). What is dead may never die: Institutional regeneration through logic reemergence in Dutch beer brewing. Administrative Science Quarterly, 64(4), 976-1019. https://doi.org/10.1177/0001839218817520

    • Tihanyi, L., Aguilera, R., Heugens, P., van Essen, M., Duran, P., Sauerwald, S., & Turturea, R. (2019). State Ownership and Political Connections. Journal of Management, 45(6), 2293-2321. https://doi.org/10.1177/0149206318822113

    • Essen, M., Heugens, P., Duran, P., Saleh, SF., Sauerwald, S., Oosterhout, H., & Xie, E. (2019). How concentrated owners improve the performance of Asian firms: Filling voids or imposing effective governance? The Multinational Business Review, 28(1), 39-63. https://doi.org/10.1108/MBR-07-2019-0078

    • Lander, M., Oosterhout, H., Heugens, P., & Pruijssers, J. (2018). Career stage dependent effects of law firm governance: A multilevel study of professional-client misconduct. Human Relations, 72(9), 1497-1529. https://doi.org/10.1177/0018726718796157

    • Sauerwald, S., Heugens, P., Turturea, R., & van Essen, M. (2018). Are all private benefits of control ineffective? Principal-principal benefits, external governance quality, and firm performance. Journal of Management Studies, 56(4), 725-757. https://doi.org/10.1111/joms.12420

    • Cuypers, IRP., Ertug, G., Heugens, P., Kogut, B., & Zhou, T. (2018). The making of a construct: Lessons from 30 years of the Kogut and Singh cultural distance index. Journal of International Business Studies, 49(9), 1138-1153. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41267-018-0181-5

    • Pruijssers, J., Heugens, P., & Oosterhout, H. (2018). Winning at a losing game? Side-effects of perceived tournament promotion incentives in audit firms. Journal of Business Ethics, 162, 149-167. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-018-3991-2

    • Maas, R., Heugens, P., & Reus, T. (2018). Viceroys or emperors? An institution-based perspective on merger and acquisition prevalence and shareholder value. Journal of Management Studies, 56(1), 234-269. https://doi.org/10.1111/joms.12335

    • Simsek, Z., Bansal, P., Shaw, JD., Heugens, P., & Smith, W. (2018). From the editors: Seeing practice impact in new ways. Academy of Management Journal, 61(6), 2021-2025. https://doi.org/10.5465/amj.2018.4006

    • Hendriks, G., Slangen, A., & Heugens, P. (2017). 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, 55(6), 883-909. https://doi.org/10.1111/joms.12314

    • 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

    • Wiaya, HR., & Heugens, P. (2017). 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. https://doi.org/10.1177/0170840617736931

    • Lander, M., Heugens, P., & van Oosterhout, H. (2017). Towards an integrated framework of professional partnership performance: The role of formal governance and strategic planning. Human Relations, 70(4), 1-27. https://doi.org/10.1177/0018726717700697

    • Lander, M., & Heugens, P. (2017). Better together: Using meta-analysis to explore complementarities between ecological and institutional theories of organization. Organization Studies, 38(11), 1573-1601. https://doi.org/10.1177/0170840616677629

    • Lander, M., Heugens, P., & van Oosterhout, H. (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. https://doi.org/10.1093/jpo/jow011

    • Smolka, K., Verheul, I., Burmeister-Lamp, K., & Heugens, P. (2016). Get it together! Synergistic effects of causal and effectual decision-making logics on venture performance. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 42(4), 571-604. https://doi.org/10.1111/etap.12266

    • Mahon, JF., Heugens, P., & McGowan, RA. (2016). Blending issues and stakeholders: In pursuit of the elusive synergy. Journal of Public Affairs, 18(3), e1635. https://doi.org/10.1002/pa.1635

    • Carney, M., van Essen, M., Gedajlovic, ER., & Heugens, P. (2015). What do we know about private family firms? A meta-analytic review. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 39(3), 513-544. https://doi.org/10.1111/etap.12054

    • van Essen, M., Carney, M., Gedajlovic, ER., & Heugens, P. (2014). 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. https://doi.org/10.1111/corg.12080

    • van Essen, M., van Oosterhout, H., & Heugens, P. (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. https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.1120.0742

    • Drees, JM., & Heugens, P. (2013). Synthesizing and extending resource dependence theory: A meta-analysis. Journal of Management, 39(6), 1666-1698. https://doi.org/10.1177/0149206312471391

    • van Essen, M., Heugens, P., van Oosterhout, H., & Otten, J. (2012). An institution-based view of executive compensation: A multilevel meta-analytic test. Journal of International Business Studies, 43(4), 396-423. https://doi.org/10.1057/jibs.2012.6

    • Carney, M., Gedajlovic, ER., Heugens, P., van Essen, M., & van Oosterhout, H. (2011). Business group affiliation, performance, context, and strategy: A meta-analysis. Academy of Management Journal, 54(3), 437-460. https://doi.org/10.5465/AMJ.2011.61967812

    • Heugens, P., & Scherer, AG. (2010). When organization theory met business ethics: Toward further symbioses. Business Ethics Quarterly, 20(4), 643-672. http://hdl.handle.net/1765/20800

    • Heugens, P., & Lander, M. (2009). Structure! Agency! (And Other Quarrels): Meta-Analyzing Institutional Theories of Organization. Academy of Management Journal, 52(1), 61-85. https://doi.org/10.5465/AMJ.2009.36461835

    • Heugens, P., van Essen, M., & van Oosterhout, H. (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. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10490-008-9109-0

    • Deephouse, DL., & Heugens, P. (2009). Linking social issues to organizational impact: The role of infomediaries and the infomediary process. Journal of Business Ethics, 86(4), 541-553. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-008-9864-3

    • van Oosterhout, H., & Heugens, P. (2009). Extant social contracts in global business regulation: Outline of a research agenda. Journal of Business Ethics, 88(4), 729-740. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-009-0329-0

    • Lamertz, K., & Heugens, P. (2009). Institutional translation through spectatorship: Collective consumption and editing of symbolic organizational texts by firms and their audiences. Organization Studies, 30(11), 1249-1279. https://doi.org/10.1177/0170840609337935

    • Heugens, P., Kaptein, M., & van Oosterhout, H. (2008). Contracts to communities: A processual model of organizational virtue. Journal of Management Studies, 45(1), 100-121. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-6486.2007.00738.x

    • Heugens, P., & Zyglidopoulos, SC. (2008). From social ties to embedded competencies: The case of business groups. The Journal of Management and Governance, 12(4), 325-341. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10997-008-9064-7

    • van Oosterhout, H., Heugens, P., & Kaptein, M. (2007). Contractualism vindicated; A response to Boatright. Academy of Management Review, 32(1), 295-297. https://doi.org/10.5465/AMR.2007.23467343

    • Heugens, P., & Otten, J. (2007). Beyond the dichotomous worlds hypothesis: Towards a plurality of corporate governance logics. Corporate Governance: An International Review, 15(6), 1288-1300. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8683.2007.00647.x

    • Heugens, P., & Dentchev, N. (2007). Taming Trojan Horses: Identifying and Mitigating Corporate Social Responsibility Risks. Journal of Business Ethics, 75(2), 151-170. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-006-9242-y

    • Heugens, P., Kaptein, M., & van Oosterhout, H. (2006). The ethics of the node versus the ethics of the dyad? Reconciling virtue ethics and contractualism. Organization Studies, 27(3), 391-411. https://doi.org/10.1177/0170840606062428

    • van Oosterhout, H., Heugens, P., & Kaptein, M. (2006). The internal morality of contracting: Advancing the contractualist endeavor in business ethics. Academy of Management Review, 31(3), 521-539. https://doi.org/10.5465/AMR.2006.21318915

    • Heugens, P. (2006). Environmental issues management: Towards a multi-level theory of environmental management competence. Business Strategy and the Environment, 15(6), 363-376.

    • Heugens, P., van Oosterhout, H., & Kaptein, M. (2006). Foundations and applications for contractualist business ethics. Journal of Business Ethics, 68(3), 211-228. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-006-9011-y

    • Lamertz, K., Heugens, P., & Calmet, L. (2005). The configuration of organizational images among firms in the Canadian beer brewing industry. Journal of Management Studies, 42(4), 817-843. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-6486.2005.00520.x

    • Heugens, P. (2005). A neo-Weberian theory of the firm. Organization Studies, 26(4), 547-567. https://doi.org/10.1177/0170840605051471

    • Heugens, P., & Mol, MJ. (2005). So you call that research? Mending methodological biases in strategy and organization departments of top business schools. Strategic Organization, 3(1), 117-128. https://doi.org/10.1177/1476127005050030

    • Heugens, P. P. M. A. R., & Schenk, H. (2004). Rethinking corporate restructuring. Journal of Public Affairs, 4(1), 87-101. https://doi.org/10.1002/pa.173

    • Heugens, P., Kaptein, M., & van Oosterhout, H. (2004). Ties that grind? Corroborating a typology of social contracting problems. Journal of Business Ethics, 49(3), 235-252. https://doi.org/10.1023/B:BUSI.0000017960.17747.56

    • Heugens, P., van Riel, C., & van den Bosch, F. (2004). Reputation Management Capabilities as Decision Rules. Journal of Management Studies, 41(8), 1349-1377. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-6486.2004.00478.x

    • Mahon, JF., Heugens, P., & Lamertz, K. (2004). Social networks and nonmarket strategy. Journal of Public Affairs, 4(2), 170-189.

    • Heugens, P., & Braat, E. (2004). The public affairs of corporate restructuring. Journal of Public Affairs, 4(1), 6-9.

    • Heugens, P., Lamertz, K., & Calmet, L. (2003). Strategic groups and corporate citizenship: Evidence from the Canadian brewing industry. Journal of Corporate Citizenship. Journal of Corporate Citizenship, 3(12), 75-92.

    • Heugens, P. (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., Martens, M., & Lamertz, K. (2003). Issue evolution: A symbolic interactionist perspective. Corporate Reputation Review, 6(1), 82-93.

    • Wartick, SL., & Heugens, P. (2003). Future directions for issues management. Corporate Reputation Review, 6(1), 7-18. https://doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.crr.1540186

    • Heugens, P., van Riel, C., & van den Bosch, F. (2002). Stakeholder Integration: Building Mutually Enforcing Relationships. Business and Society, 41(1), 37-61. https://doi.org/10.1177/000765030204100104

    • Heugens, P., & van Oosterhout, H. (2002). The Confines of Stakeholder Management: Evidence from the Dutch Manufacturing Sector. Journal of Business Ethics, 40(4), 387-404. https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1020807101387

    • Heugens, P. (2002). Strategic issues management: Implications for corporate performance. Business and Society, 41(4), 456-468.

    • Heugens, P. (2002). Managing public affairs through storytelling. Journal of Public Affairs, 2(2), 57-70.

    • Heugens, P., & van Oosterhout, H. (2001). To boldly go where no man has gone before: integrating cognitive and physical features in scenario studies. Futures, 33(10), 861-872. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0016-3287(01)00023-4

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    • Heugens, P., Kaptein, M., & den Nieuwenboer, NA. (2007). Liever high-trust toezicht. Het Financiële Dagblad.

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    • Heugens, P. (2017). Why can't China clean up its act? RSM Discovery - Management Knowledge, 30(2), 17-19. http://hdl.handle.net/1765/100182

    • van Oosterhout, H., Heugens, P., & van Essen, M. (2013). The effect of blockholders in corporate governance. RSM Insight, 13(1), 18-19. http://hdl.handle.net/1765/40134

    • Heugens, P. (2009). Een mooie toekomst voor een chronisch tekortschietend vakgebied. Holland Management Review, 125, 2-8.

    • Heugens, P., van den Bosch, F., & van Riel, C. (2001). Stakeholder integratie: werken aan wederzijds versterkende relaties. M en O, 55(4), 5-26. http://hdl.handle.net/1765/10982

    • Heugens, P. (1998). Naar een nieuwe definitie van crisismanagement: plaatsbepaling. Tijdschrift voor Strategische Bedrijfscommunicatie, 4(2), 16-17.

Book (1)

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

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    • Heugens, P. (2001). Strategic issues management: Implications for corporate performance. ERIM. ERIM Ph.D series research in management

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    • Kroezen, J. J., & Heugens, P. P. M. A. R. (2012). Organizational Identity Formation: Processes of Identity Imprinting and Enactment in the Dutch Microbrewing Landscape1. In Constructing Identity in and around Organizations Ithaca/Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199640997.003.0005

    • Kroezen, JJ., & Heugens, P. (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 University Press.

    • Heugens, P. (2011). Social institutions of capitalism. In G. Ritzer (Ed.), Blackwell Concise Encyclopedia of Sociology (pp. 48-49). Blackwell Publishing.

    • Heugens, P. (2010). Social institutions of capitalism. In G. Ritzer, & J. M. Ryan (Eds.), Concise Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology Blackwell Publishing.

    • Osadchiy, S., Bogenrieder, I., & Heugens, P. (2010). Organizational learning through problem absorption: A processual view. In T. Hernes, & S. Maitlis (Eds.), Perspectives on Process Organization Studies Oxford University Press.

    • Heugens, P., & van Oosterhout, H. (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 University Press.

    • Heugens, P. (2007). Social institutions of capitalism. In G. Ritzer (Ed.), The Blackwell encyclopedia of Sociology (pp. 395-398). Blackwell Publishing.

    • Heugens, P. (2007). Organizations and the theory of the firm. In G. Ritzer (Ed.), The Blackwell encyclopedia of Sociology (pp. 3326-3331). Blackwell Publishing.

    • Heugens, P. (2005). Issues management: Core understandings and scholarly development. In P. Harris, & C. Fleisher (Eds.), The Handbook of Public Affairs (pp. 481-500). Sage.

    • Heugens, P., van Oosterhout, H., & Vromen, 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). Edward Elgar Publishing.

    • Heugens, P., Kaptein, M., van Oosterhout, H., & Wempe, JFDB. (2002). Ethical Criteria for Corporations. In S. P. Kaptein, & J. Wempe (Eds.), The Balanced Company: a Theory of Corporate Integrity (pp. 227-262). Oxford University Press.

    • Wassenberg, AFP., & Heugens, P. (2000). Intercorporate Governance: The Institutinal Design of Control between Organization. In . - (Ed.), Paper prepared for SMS-conference (pp. ---). SMS.

    • van Oosterhout, H., Heugens, P., & Kaptein, M. (2000). Normative documents, the contract model, and stakeholder management. In K. A. Getz, & D. Windsor (Eds.), Proceedings Eleventh Annual Conference Essex Junction, March 16-19, 2000 of the International Association for Business and Society (pp. 276-281). International Association for Business /Society.

    • Heugens, P., van den Bosch, F., & van Riel, C. (2000). Capability building through noncooperative stakeholder relationships: A Case Study. In K. A. Getz, & D. Windsor (Eds.), Proceedings of the IABS 11th Annual Conference (pp. 228-232). IABS.

    • Heugens, P., van den Bosch, F., & van Riel, C. (2000). Capability building when issues break. In Proceedings of the 6th LAIOOB Conference (pp. 11-22). LAIOOB.

    • Heugens, P., van den Bosch, F., & van Riel, C. (1999). Building mutually enforcing relationships: Managing diverging interests through stakeholder integration. In D. J. Wood, & D. Windsor (Eds.), Conference-paper pepared for: 10th Annual Meeting of the International Association for Business and Society, Paris (pp. 429-434). International Association for Business and Society.

    • Heugens, P., van den Bosch, F., & van Riel, C. (1999). Second-Order Issues Management: Managing External Dependencies in the Dutch Fats and Oils Industry. In . - - (Ed.), Conference-paper prepared for: 10th Annual Meeting of the International Association for Business an Society, Paris (pp. 1-10). International Association for Business and Society.

    • van Och, AMW., van den Bosch, F., Heugens, P., & van Riel, C. (1999). The Introduction of Genetically Modified Soya as a European Strategic Issue: a multi-country analysis from the perspective of a European Mulitnational Enterprise. In . - - (Ed.), Conference-paper pepared for: 10th Annual Meeting of the International Association for Business and Society, Paris (pp. 234-239). International Association for Business and Society.

    • Heugens, P. (1998). Reputations and rents: the value of corporate reputations from a resource-based perspective. In . redacteur? (Ed.), 2nd International Conference on Reputations, Identity, and Competitiveness (niet naspeurbaar) (pp. pag?-pag?). uitgever?.

    • Heugens, P. (1998). The embedded competence: conversations between organizations and network partners. In . redacteur? (Ed.), Proceedings of the 1998 CEMS Graduate Conference (niet naspeurbaar!) (pp. pag?-pag?). uitgever?.

    • Heugens, P., & de Wit, B. (1998). When fortune shrivels: an analysis of bad managerial decision-making under increasing returns. In . redacteur? (Ed.), 14th EGOS colloquium (niet naspeurbaar!) (pp. pag?-pag?). uitgever?.

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    • Pruijssers, J. L., Heugens, P. P. M. A. R., & van Oosterhout, J. (2020). Correction to: Winning at a Losing Game? Side-Effects of Perceived Tournament Promotion Incentives in Audit Firms (Journal of Business Ethics, (2020), 162, 1, (149-167), 10.1007/s10551-018-3991-2). Journal of Business Ethics, 162(1), 169. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-018-4016-x

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    • 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

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    • Dolgova, E., Heugens, P., Wolf, M., & Pandza, K. (2016). Hopes and Fears: Institutional logics and sentiment around MOOCs.. Annual Meeting of the International Network for Social Network Analysis (INSNA / Sunbelt Conference), Newport Beach, CA.

    • Dolgova, E., Heugens, P., Wolf, M., & Pandza, K. (2016). Hopes and Fears: Institutional logics and sentiment around MOOCs.. OMT Paper Development Workshop, Edinburgh, UK.

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

    • Otten, J., & Heugens, P. (2008). The managerial power theory of executive pay: A cross-national test and extension. In Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings

Doctoral Thesis (1)

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    • Heugens, P. (2001). Strategic Issues Management: Implications for Corporate Performance. [Doctoral Thesis, Erasmus University Rotterdam]. Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam (EUR).

Inaugural speech (1)

  • Popular (1)

    • Heugens, P. (2008). Organization Theory: Bright Prospects for a Permanently Failing Field. Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM). http://hdl.handle.net/1765/13129

Paper (3)

  • Academic (3)

    • Kroezen, JJ., Sasaki, I., & Heugens, P. (2021). Craft in Modern Society. Paper presented at 37th EGOS Colloquium, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

    • Berrone, P., Duran, P., Gomez-Mejia, L. R., Heugens, P. P., & Van Essen, M. (2016). The family-legitimizing environment and the prevalence, strategy, and performance of family firms. 314-319. Paper presented at 76th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, AOM 2016, Anaheim, United States. https://doi.org/10.5465/AMBPP.2016.229

    • Liket, K., & Heugens, P. (2013). Approaches to social responsibility.

Report (2)

  • Academic (1)

    • Heugens, P., van den Bosch, F., & van Riel, C. (1998). Managing external dependencies through second-order issues management: how companies in the Dutch fat and oils sector manage discontinuous events.

  • Professional (1)

    • van den Bosch, F., Heugens, P., & van Riel, C. (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. Corporate Communication Centre.

PhD Tracks (56)

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 - 2019
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
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
Overcoming Resource Constraints: The Role of Creative Resourcing and Equity Crowdfunding in Financing Entrepreneurial Ventures
  • Role: Promotor
  • PhD Candidate: Roxana Turturea
  • Time frame: 2012 - 2018
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
Praise the Lord! Infusing Values and Emotions into Neo-Institutional Theory
  • Role: Promotor
  • PhD Candidate: Hendra Wijaya
  • Time frame: 2012 - 2019
Corporate Environmentalism in China
  • Role: Promotor
  • PhD Candidate: Ruxi Wang
  • Time frame: 2012 - 2017
Multinational Enterprises and Limits to International Growth: Links between Domestic and Foreign Activities in a Firm’s Portfolio
  • Role: Promotor
  • PhD Candidate: Guus Hendriks
  • Time frame: 2013 - 2019
Organizations and their External Context: Impressions across time and space
  • Role: Promotor
  • PhD Candidate: Ron Maas
  • Time frame: 2014 - 2019
Unringing the stigma bell: Investigating informational and social mechanisms behind boards of directors’ appointments
  • Role: Promotor
  • PhD Candidate: Ilaria Orlandi
  • Time frame: 2015 - 2023
Change in Inter-Organizational Relationship Portfolios and Social Networks in the Context of Corporate Venturing
  • Role: Promotor
  • PhD Candidate: Jitse Duijsters
  • Time frame: 2016 -
  • Role: Promotor
Breaking the Conduit: A Relational Approach to Communication in Management and Entrepreneurship
  • Role: Promotor
  • PhD Candidate: Sai Kalvapalle
  • Time frame: 2017 - 2023
Firms and the State: An Examination of Corporate Political Activity and the Business-Government Interface
  • Role: Member Doctoral Committee
  • PhD Candidate: Omar El Nayal
  • Time frame: 2014 - 2019
The Effectiveness of Organizational Controls: A meta-analytic review and an investigation in NPD outsourcing
  • Role: Member Doctoral Committee
  • PhD Candidate: Vikrant Sihag
  • Time frame: 2013 - 2019
Making a Life on the Margins: An Ethnographic Account from Kutupalong
  • Role: Promotor
  • PhD Candidate: S M Musa
  • Time frame: 2018 - 2024
  • Role: Promotor
  • Role: Promotor
Inclusivity Through Menstrual Health: Social Enterprises and the Challenge of Collaborative Governance for Societal Change
  • Role: Promotor, Daily Supervisor
  • PhD Candidate: Maria Carmen Punzi
  • Time frame: 2019 -
Strengthening corporate leadership research: The relevance of biological explanations
  • Role: Promotor
  • PhD Candidate: Krishnan Nair
  • Time frame: 2013 - 2019
  • Role: Promotor
  • Role: Promotor
Coordination & Control in Contemporary Organizations
  • Role: Member Doctoral Committee
  • PhD Candidate: Jun Xiao
  • Time frame: 2015 - 2021
PhD in Strategic Management & Entrepreneurship
  • Role: Promotor
  • PhD Candidate: Guanyi Song
  • Time frame: 2021 -
  • Role: Promotor
Multi Stakeholders Organizations and Organizing
  • Role: Promotor
  • PhD Candidate: Venkata Karthik Rapaka
  • Time frame: 2019 -
Standardisation Management at the Local Level to Support Authenticity and Sustainability
  • Role: Promotor
  • PhD Candidate: Mohammadamin Yousefi
  • Time frame: 2020 -
Exogenous Shock in a Vulnerable SME Environment
Exogenous Shock in a Vulnerable SME Environment
  • Role: Promotor
  • PhD Candidate: Sarah Dodson
  • Time frame: 2022 -
SUCCESSION IN FAMILY FIRMS IN EMERGING MARKETS
SUCCESSION IN FAMILY FIRMS IN EMERGING MARKETS
  • Role: Promotor
  • PhD Candidate: Martin Schwarz
  • Time frame: 2022 -
Changing Corporate Boarders: Pressure by Stakeholders and Society
Changing Corporate Boarders: Pressure by Stakeholders and Society
  • Role: Promotor
  • PhD Candidate: James Profestas
  • Time frame: 2021 -
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: Promotor
  • PhD Candidate: Denver Berman-Jacob
  • Time frame: 2019 -
PhD in Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship
  • Role: Promotor
  • PhD Candidate: Gauri Sharma
  • Time frame: 2023 -
Exploring gendered patterns in leadership development programs
  • Role: Promotor
  • PhD Candidate: Gaby Dijkstra
  • Time frame: 2022 -
Cultural Resistance and Counter-Organizing in Illiberal Times
  • Role: Promotor
  • PhD Candidate: Marton Janos Gera
  • Time frame: 2024 -
PhD in Strategic Management & Entrepreneurship
  • Role: Promotor
  • PhD Candidate: Dana Hanouni
  • Time frame: 2024 -
GROW project
  • Role: Promotor
  • PhD Candidate: Emeka Raphael Agu
  • Time frame: 2024 -
PhD in Sustainability and Management
  • Role: Promotor
  • PhD Candidate: Myriam Bouyakhlef
  • Time frame: 2024 -
Addressing the gendered odds of new venture founding and funding
  • Role: Promotor
  • PhD Candidate: Aybüke Temel Çakir
  • Time frame: 2025 -

Courses (2)

Past
  • Organisation Theory (2023/2024)
  • Qualitative Methods (2023/2024, 2022/2023)

Events (57)

2022
December
07
ERIM Awards 2022
Other
As: Speaker
2021
November
24
ERIM Awards Ceremony 2021
Other
As: Speaker
2021
January
27
RESCHEDULED: ERIM Awards ceremony 2020
Other
As: Speaker
2019
November
28
ERIM Awards Ceremony 2019
Other
As: Speaker
2018
December
12
ERIM Awards Ceremony 2018
Other
As: Speaker
2017
December
13
ERIM Awards Ceremony 2017
Other
As: Speaker
2017
June
01
Good Deeds Done in Silence: Legitimacy Management, Stakeholder Saliency, and Silent Giving by Chinese Firms
Research Seminar
As: Coordinator
2015
May
26
Next Generation Diner
Research Seminar
As: Speaker
2015
May
26
Family Businesses Invited to ECFB Dinner Discussion
Conference
As: Speaker
2014
December
09
The Institutional Accommodation of Open Access in Higher Education Publishing
Research Seminar
As: Coordinator, Contact
2014
December
05
The Division of Labour in Service Industries: Evidence from the Residential Real Estate Industry
Research Seminar
As: Coordinator, Contact
2014
November
26
Demand Heterogeneity and the Adoption of Platform Complements
Research Seminar
As: Coordinator, Contact
2014
November
13
Disentangling Discontinuous Environmental Change
Research Seminar
As: Coordinator, Contact
2013
December
16
Should Birds of a Feather Flock Together? Agglomeration by Nationality as a Constraint in International Expansion
Research Seminar
As: Coordinator, Contact
2013
December
10
Learning to Learn or Learning to Coordinate? The Influence of Alliance Experience on Acquisition Performance
Research Seminar
As: Coordinator, Contact
2013
December
09
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
04
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
03
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
20
R&D Investment in Family and Non-Family Sart-ups: A Behavioral Perspective
Research Seminar
As: Contact, Coordinator
2013
June
13
Understanding the Environments of Emerging Markets: The Social Costs of Institutional Voids
ERIM Farewell Address
As: Coordinator
2013
June
13
The Politics of Institutions and Firms: Implications for Organization and Strategy
Valedictory symposium
As: Coordinator
2012
December
12
Opening Up but Staying Local: Insights from Partnership Formations between Established and Startup Firms
Research Seminar
As: Contact, Coordinator
2012
December
04
Two Presentations on Entrepreneurial Action: Disinhibition and Nascent Entrepreneurial Behavior, & Heterogeneity in Entrepreneurial Spinoff Performance
Research Seminar
As: Coordinator, Contact
2012
December
03
Lets (Not?) Hang Out! Examining the Exit of Prestigious Directors from Newly Public Firms
Research Seminar
As: Coordinator, Contact
2012
November
30
Academic Symposium on Family Business
Research Seminar
As: Coordinator
2012
November
29
A Behavioral Perspective on Inventors’ Mobility: The Case of Pharmaceutical Industry
Research Seminar
As: Coordinator, Contact
2012
November
22
Organizations and Ethics: The Adoption and Implementation of the Ethics and Compliance Officer
Research Seminar
As: Coordinator
2012
November
08
Configurations for Effective Entrepreneurial Judgment: A Cognitive Structural Perspective on the Process of Early-Stage Investing
Research Seminar
As: Coordinator, Contact
2012
September
27
The Impact of Organizational Prototypes and Industry Clusters on the Fates of Northern Bavarian (Franconian) Breweries
Research Seminar
As: Coordinator
2012
June
07
The Dissolution of Categories: Process, Organizational Behavior and Consequences
Research Seminar
As: Coordinator
2012
May
16
Chance events in entrepreneurial opportunity development
Research Seminar
As: Coordinator
2012
January
30
The Co-Evolution of Industries, Social Movements and Institutions: A Study of Wind Power
Research Seminar
As: Coordinator
2012
January
24
Categorical Cleaning: Divestitures as a Strategic Response to Sustainability Concerns
Research Seminar
As: Coordinator
2012
January
19
The Market that Never was: Turf Wars and Failed Alliances in Mobile Payments
Research Seminar
As: Coordinator
2012
January
10
Industry-Level Variability of Learning Outcomes from the Accumulation of Implementation: Experience with an Administrative Innovation
Research Seminar
As: Coordinator
2012
January
04
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
19
Symposium on the Economic Value of Corporate Reputation
Research Seminar
As: Speaker
2011
June
21
Rule-Based Learning: Problem Absorption and Knowledge Integration into Clinical Practice Guidelines
Research Seminar
As: Speaker
2011
May
30
to be announced
ERIM Research Clinic
As: Speaker
2011
May
23
How Do Family Firms Differ? A Meta-analysis
Research Seminar
As: Coordinator
2011
February
24
The Choice Between Joint Ventures and Acquisitions: Insights from Signaling Theory
Research Seminar
As: Coordinator
2010
November
25
Stigmatized Categories and Public Disapproval of Organizations: Theory and Evidence from the Global Arms Industry (1996-2007)
Research Seminar
As: Coordinator
2010
November
10
Institutional Work and the Transformation of an Organizational Field: Exploring the Interplay of Boundary Work and Practice Work
Research Seminar
As: Coordinator
2010
June
30
Advances in Organizational Attention Studies
Research Seminar
As: Coordinator
2010
May
03
ERIM Research Clinic: Organizations and Institutions
ERIM Research Clinic
As: Speaker
2008
November
05
ERIM Grant Workshop
Institute Event
As: Speaker
2008
September
12
Organization theory: bright prospects for a permanently failing field
Inaugural Address
As: Speaker
2008
June
23
Workshop International Developments in Management and Organization of Temporary Agency Work
Research Workshop
As: Coordinator
2008
June
09
Uses and Abuses of Governance Indicators
Research Seminar
As: Coordinator
2008
May
28
Bureaucracy and Technology: The Consequences of Information
Research Seminar
As: Coordinator
2008
February
19
Take your responsibility and let you inform about EU grants!
ERIM Grant Workshop
As: Coordinator
2008
January
30
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
05
Taking Happiness Seriously: A Neo-Utilitarian Moral Foundation for Managerial Decision Making
Research Seminar
As: Coordinator
2007
October
17
The Role of Professionals in Deinstitutionalization: A Comparative Study of the Danish and French Construction Industry
Research Seminar
As: Coordinator
2007
October
10
Workshop on Meta-analytic Methods
Research Workshop
As: Coordinator
2007
September
26
Imagined Worlds: the Role of Metaphors and Metaphorical Scenes in Sensemaking Accounts
Research Seminar
As: Coordinator
2001
October
19
Strategic Issues Management: Implications for Corporate Performance
PhD Defence
As: Speaker

Awards (3)

Address

Visiting address

Office: Mandeville Building T07-07
Burgemeester Oudlaan 50
3062 PA Rotterdam

Postal address

Postbus 1738
3000 DR Rotterdam
Netherlands

Research Initiatives

Latest publication

Article

Turturea, R., Sauerwald, S., & Heugens, P. P. M. A. R. (2025). Forging agents of the state? How political institutions impact CEO compensation in state-owned enterprises. Journal of International Business Studies, Article 101113. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41267-024-00765-9