Bosch, Frans A.J. van den

Personal

Name: Frans A.J. Van Den Bosch

Function: 		Professor of Management Interfaces Between Organizations and Business Environment
Office: T7-57, P.O.Box 1738, 3000 DR Rotterdam
Phone: +31 10 408 1955 / +31 10 408 2005
Fax: +31 10 408 9013
E-mail: fbosch@rsm.nl
Websites: www.rsm.nl/fvandenbosch
www.strategyaterasmus.nl
www.erasmusstrategicrenewal.nl
www.erasmusinnovatiemonitor.nl
www.inscope.nl

Research Interest


  • Managerial and Knowledge-Based Theories of the Firm including their contibutions to managerial, organizational and social innovation
  • Strategic renewal of large established organizations, focus on the role of (top) management, corportate entrepreneurship and corporate governance
  • Coevolutionary dynamics between Firms, Industries, Institutions and Environments

Short Biography


Prof. Dr. Frans A.J. van den Bosch is Professor of Management Interfaces between Organizations and Business Environment of the Department of Strategic Management and Business Environment, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University.

Frans A.J. van den Bosch holds a BA in Mechanical Engineering from the Polytechnic of Rotterdam (with distinction), received his Master's degree in Economics ( cum laude) from the Erasmus University Rotterdam and his PhD from Leiden University, the Netherlands. He was an assistant professor and an associate professor of Economics at the Faculty of Economics of the Erasmus University Rotterdam. He joined the Delft Graduate School of Management in 1984 as an associate professor of Economics. In 1988 he was appointed as Full Professor of Management in the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University. He is a fellow and chairman of the Programme Board of the Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM). Presently he is vice-chairman of the Department of Strategic Management and Business Environment, director of the Erasmus Strategic Renewal Center (ESRC) and of the Dutch Partner Institute of the World Economic Forum (WEF)

His major research interests are the development of integrative strategy frameworks incorporating both the externally and internally antecedents of strategy; the application of these frameworks to general management issues, such as make, buy or co-operate decisions; strategic renewal processes, strategic innovations; organizational ambidexterity; corporate governance and stakeholder management; internal and external networks; and knowledge absorption and knowledge creation processes.

He has published several books and over 160 articles in scientific journals including chapters in books in the areas of strategy, international business, general management, economics and industry studies. His scientific papers have appeared in among others Academy of Management Journal, Administrative Science Quarterly, Agrarwirtschaft, Business and Society, Corporate Governance, De Economist, European Management Journal, International Studies of Management and Organization, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of Business Venturing, Long Range Planning, Management Science, Organization Science and Organization Studies. Since 1985 he has been fellow of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIAS). Van den Bosch is a board member of several scientific journals including Long Range Planning, Journal of Management Studies, Organization Science and Organization Studies.

He has supervised 25 PhD-theses, has been member of more than 30 PhD-committees and was invited as an external examiner of Antwerp University, City University London and Warwick University (UK) Indian Institute of Science. On behalf of the Erasmus University Rotterdam, he acted in 1993 as honorary promoter of Michael Porter of Harvard Business School.

Dr. Van den Bosch is a member of the Academy of Management, Strategic Management Society, International Business Association, European Group for Organizational Studies, The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences, Royal Dutch Association of Economics and the NIAS Fellow Association. He is an editorial board member of various top journals in the strategy and management field including Journal of Management Studies, Longe Range Planning and Organization Studies.

Dr. Van den Bosch has been actively involved in the business community and the public sector, e.g. as vice-chairman of the Rotterdam Chamber of Commerce, member of the Rotterdam City Council, chairman of the Rotterdam Enterprise Prize Committee, advisor of a Dutch trade union association and as chairman of the Board of Non-executive Directors of Dutch companies. At present his main activities concern research, teaching and executive education.


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Selected Publications in International Scientific Journals (1999 - )


  • Justin J.P. Jansen, Michiel P. Tempelaar, Frans A.J. Van den Bosch, Henk W. Volberda (2009), Structural Differentiation and Ambidexterity: The Mediating Role of Integration Mechanisms, Organization Science, pp. 1-15.
  • Mom, T.J.M., Bosch, F.A.J. Van Den & Volberda, H.W. (2009), “Understanding variation in Manager’s Ambidexterity: Investigating Direct and Interaction Effects of Formal Structural and Personal Coordination Mechanisms” Organization Science, forthcoming
  • Burgers, J.H., Jansen, J.J.P., Bosch, F.A.J. Van Den & Volberda, H.W. (2009), “Structural Differentiation and Corporate Venturing: The Moderating Role of Formal and Informal Integration Mechanisms”, Journal of Business Venturing, forthcoming.
  • Burgers, J.H., Van den Bosch, F.A.J. & Volberda, H.W. (2008), Why New Business Development Projects Fail: Coping with the Differences of Technological versus Market Knowledge, Long Range Planning, 41 (1), 55 - 73. Click here to download the full paper
  • Bezemer. P., Maassen, G.F., Van den Bosch, F.A.J. & Volberda, H.W. (2007) Investigating the development of the internal and external service tasks of non-executive directors: The case of the Netherlands (1997-2005). Corporate governance, 15 (6), 1119 - 1129. Click here to download full paper
  • Mom, T.J.M, Bosch, F.A.J. Van Den & Volberda, H.W. (2007), “Investigating Managers’ Exploration and Exploitation Activities: The Influence of Top-down , Bottum-up, and Horizontal Knowledge Inflows, Journal of Management Studies, 44 (6), pp. 910 - 931. Click here to download full paper
  • Vermeulen, P.A.M., Van den Bosch, F.A.J., Volberda, H.W. (2007) Complex Incremental Product Innovation in Established Service Firms: A Micro Institutional Perspective, Organization Studies, 28 (10), pp. 1523 – 1546.
  • Vlaar, P.W.L., Van den Bosch, F.A.J. & Volberda, H.W. (2007) “Towards a Dialectiv Perspective on Formalization in Interorganizational Relationships: How Alliance Managers Capitalize on the Duality Inherent in Contracts, Rules, and Procedures”, Organization Studies, 28 (4), pp. 437 – 466.
  • Vlaar, P.W.L., Bosch, F.A.J. van Den & Volberda, H.W. (2007), "On the Evolution of Trust, Distrust, and Formal Coordination and Control in Interorganizational Relationships: Towards an Integrative Framework, Group Organization Management, 32 (4), 407 - 429. Click here to download full paper
  • Spedale, S., Bosch F.A.J. Van den & Volberda, H.W. (2007), “Preservation and Dissolution of the Target Firm’s Embedded Ties in Acquisition”, Organization Studies, 28 (8), 1 – 28.
  • Vlaar, P.W.L., Van Den Bosch, F.A.J., Volberda, H.W. (2006), Coping with Problems of Understanding in Interorganizational Relationships: Using Formalization as a Mean to make Sense, Organization Studies, Special Issue “Karl Weick”, 27 (11), 1617 – 1638.
  • Jansen, J.J.P., Van Den Bosch, F.A.J. & Volberda, H.W. (2006), Exploratory Innovation, Exploitative Innovation, and Performance effects of organizational antecedents and environmental moderators, Management Science, 52 (11), pp. 1661-1674.
  • Jansen, J., Van Den Bosch, F.A.J. & Volberda, H.W. (2005), Managing Potential and Realized Absorptive Capacity: How do Organizational Antecedents Matter? Academy of Management Journal, 48 (6), pp. 999 – 1015.
  • Heugens, P.M.A.R., Van Riel, C.B.M., Van Den Bosch, F.A.J. (2004), Reputation Management Capabilities as Decision Rules, Journal of Management Studies, 41 (8), p.1349-1377.
  • Flier, B., Van Den Bosch, F.A.J., Volberda, H.W. (2003), Coevolution in the Strategic Renewal Behaviour of British, Dutch and French Financial Incumbents: Interaction of Environmental Selection, Institutional Effects, and Managerial Intentionality, Journal of Management Studies, 40 (8), p. 2163-2187.
  • Volberda, H.W., Ch. Baden-Fuller and F.A.J. Van Den Bosch (2001), Mastering strategic renewal: Mobilising renewal journeys in multi-unit firms, Long Range Planning, 34 (2) p. 159-178.
  • Volberda, H.W., F.A.J. Van Den Bosch, B. Flier and E. Gedajlovic (2001), Following the Herd or not? Long Range Planning, 34 (2) p. 209-229.
  • Huygens, M. Ch. Baden-Fuller, F.A.J. Van Den Bosch, H.W. Volberda (2001), Coevolution of Firm Capabilities and Industry Competition: Investigating the Music Industry 1877-1997, Organisation Studies, vol. 22, no. 6, p. 971-1011.
  • Van den Bosch, F.A.J., H.W. Volberda, M. de Boer (1999), Co-evolution of Firm Absorptive Capacity and Knowledge Environment: Organization Forms and Combinative Capabilities, Organization Science, vol. 10, 5, p. 551-568.
  • Dijksterhuis, M., F.A.J. Van Den Bosch, H.W. Volberda (1999), Where do New Organization Forms come from? Management Logics as a Source of Co-evolution, Organization Science, vol. 10, 5, p. 569-582.
  • Boer, M. de, F.A.J. Van Den Bosch, H.W. Volberda (1999), Managing Organizational Knowledge Integration in the Emerging Multimedia Complex, Journal of Management Studies, vol. 36, 3, p. 379-398.


Selected Refereed Book Publications (1997 - )


  • Pettigrew, A.M., R. Whittington, L. Melin, C. Sanchez-Runde, F.A.J. Van Den Bosch, W. Ruigrok, T. Numagami (eds.) (2003) Innovative Forms of Organizing, International Perspectives, London: Sage Publications, ISBN 07619 64363.
  • Van Den Bosch, F.A.J., A.P. de Man (eds.), (1997), Perspectives on Strategy, Contributions of Michael E. Porter, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston, ISBN 0-7923-9895-5.



Selected Awards & Recognitions


  • Highly Distinguished ERIM Promotor (ERIM Praeceptor Doctorum Celeberrimi) 2008 click here to download
  • ERIM Top Article Award 2007, Justin Jansen, Frans van den Bosch & Henk Volberda for their article: “Exploratory innovation, Exploitative Innovation, and Performance: Effects of Organizational Antecedents and Environmental Moderators” published in Management Science
  • ERIM Award for Impact on Management Practice 2007, Henk Volberda, Frans van den Bosch & Justin Jansen, for their Research on Social Innovation
  • Best Reviewer Award 2007, Journal of Management Studies
  • The ERIM Strategy Research Program in which the strategy research was coordinated by prof. F.A.J. Van Den Bosch and prof. H.W. Volberda, was ranked number one in The Netherlands and number two in Europe in the period 1999 – 2003 in a Report by Leyden University on world-wide research in Management (Leyden University, 2006)
  • Best Teacher Award 2006, post experience MScBA program (PTO), RSM Erasmus University; emphasizing the ability to illustrate theoretical constructs and frameworks with managerial practice
  • ERIM Award for Impact on Management Practice 2005 (with H.W. Volberda)
  • Annual Conference on Corporate Strategy (ACCS) Best Paper Award 2005 (with J. Jansen and H.W. Volberda)
  • Best Teacher Award, post experience MScBA (PTO) 2005
  • ERIM Award for Impact on Management Practice 2003 (with H.W. Volberda)
  • Inclusion in Who's Who in Science and Engineering (2002 - present)
  • Strategy Research Program (coordinated with H.W. Volberda) ranked as number one in the Netherlands and in Europe in the period 1999-2001 (Leyden University)
  • Cap Gemini Ernst & Young Strategy Award 2001 for supervisor of best Master Thesis on Strategy
  • Payment to Centre of Excellence Grant, awarded by the Royal Dutch Shell (with H.W. Volberda), 1998
  • Honorary promoter of Michael E. Porter of the Harvard Business School, Erasmus University Rotterdam, November 1993

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