Smit, Drs. Ruud

	Function Room Telephone Email	Assistant Professor of Knowledge Based Systems and Computational Simulations T9-34 +31(0) 10 408 2406 rsmit@rsm.nl

Research Interests

• Social Networking
• Open Source communities

Key publications

• Hendrikse, G.W.J., L. Feng, A.A.C.J. van Oijen, R. Smit, and W.J.J. Bijman, Processing Cooperatives and Diversification, in Rösner, H.J. and F. Schulz-Nieswandt (eds), Beiträge der genossenschaftlichen Selbsthilfe zur wirtschaftlichen und sozialen Entwicklung, Berlin, LIT-Verlag, 2009.  
• Hendrikse, G.W.J., R. Smit, (2007), On the Evolution of Product Portfolio Coherence of Cooperatives versus Corporations: An Agent-Based Analysis of the Single Origin Constraint, ERS-2007-055-ORG, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University.
• Hendrikse, G.W.J., R.A. Smit, and M.L. de la Vieter, Orientation in Diversification Behavior of Cooperatives: An Agent-based Approach, in Cliquet, e.a., Economics and Management of Networks: Franchising, Alliances, Joint Ventures and Cooperatives, Physica Verlag, 2007, 41-433.

Teaching

• Research Training/Bachelor Thesis course (coordination)
• Research project “Firm-hosted Online Communities”
• Minor “Principles of Negotiation”