Burgers, Henri

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Henri Burgers
Assistant Professor
hburgers@rsm.nl

Research Interests


  • Corporate Entrepreneurship and Innovation
  • Corporate Venturing and Strategic Renewal
  • Ambidextrous organizations
  • Managing new business development projects
  • Knowledge creation and transfer in innovation projects

Education


2003- 2008 PhD candidate in Management at the Rotterdam School of Management Erasmus University
1998-2003 Msc in Business Administration, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, the Netherlands. Title: “Corporate Venturing and Strategic Renewal in Incumbent Firms”
1995-1998 Bsc in Management of Technology, Polytechnic University Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Work Experience


2003-present Research associate, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
2005-2007 Chairman of the faculty council, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University.
2005 Research project for Philips, the Netherlands
2004-2005 Member of the representative board of the Erasmus PhD Association Rotterdam
2003-2005 Member and chair (from 2004) of the ERIM PhD Council
2002-2003 research assistant, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
1998 Junior consultant, Peter Chadwick Management consultancy Ltd.

Publications


  • Burgers, J.H., J.J.P. Jansen, F.A.J. Van den Bosch and H.W. Volberda, 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
  • Burgers, J.H., F.A.J. Van den Bosch and H.W. Volberda (forthcoming), Corporate venturing and the impact on a firm’s competence modes, in R. Martens, A. Heene, and R. Sanchez (eds), Competence-Building and Leveraging in Interorganizational Relations, Advances in Applied Business Strategy vol.11, Elsevier (chapter 6)
  • Burgers, J.H., F.A.J. Van den Bosch and H.W. Volberda (2004), ‘Corporate venturing en de concurrentieomgeving, Maandblad voor Accountancy en Bedrijfseconomie, pp 240-247 (May). (Dutch journal)
  • Burgers, J.H., “Becoming more entrepreneurial: what does it take?, Interface, April 2004.

Recent Conference Contributions


  • Burgers, J.H., The dynamic interplay of new business development project relatedness and autonomy: implications for project performance, paper accepted for presentation at Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management 2008, Anaheim: USA
  • Burgers, J.H., J.J.P. Jansen, F.A.J. Van den Bosch and H.W. Volberda, Organizational Ambidexterity and Corporate Entrepreneurship: the Differential Effects on Venturing, Innovation and Renewal Processes, paper accepted for presentation at Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference 2008, Chapel Hill: USA
  • Shah, C., Burgers, J.H. and V. Scholten, Revisiting Corporate Venturing: Opening up the Innovation Chain, paper accepted for presentation at Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference 2008, Chapel Hill: USA
  • Burgers, J.H., The dynamic interplay of new business development project relatedness and autonomy: implications for project performance, paper accepted for presentation at Strategic Management Society Conference 2008, Cologne: Germany
  • Burgers, J.H., J.J.P. Jansen, F.A.J. Van den Bosch and H.W. Volberda, Structural differentiation and corporate venturing: the moderating role of formal and informal integration mechanisms, paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management 2007, Philadelphia: USA
  • Shah, C., J.H. Burgers and M. Zegveld, Corporate venturing: opening up the innovation chain, paper presented at the International Society for Professional Innovation Management (ISPIM) Conference 2007, Warsaw: Poland
  • Burgers, J.H., and J.J.P. Jansen, Structural separation and corporate venturing: the moderating effects of formal and informal integration mechanisms, paper presented at the Babson Entrepreneurship conference, Madrid: Spain
  • Burgers, J.H., J.J.P. Jansen, F.A.J. Van den Bosch and H.W. Volberda, Structural differentiation and corporate venturing: the moderating role of integration mechanisms, paper presented at the EURAM conference, Paris: France
  • Burgers, J.H. and F.A.J. Van den Bosch, why new product development fails: complementary insights from a process perspective, paper presented at the Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference 2006, Bloomington, Indiana: USA.
  • Burgers, J.H., F.A.J. Van den Bosch and H.W. Volberda, Renewing competence modes through corporate venturing, paper presented at the EURAM Conference 2006, Oslo: Norway
  • Burgers J.H., F.A.J. Van den Bosch and H.W. Volberda, Corporate venturing as strategy enhancement or as engine of strategic renewal, paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management 2005, Honolulu: USA
  • Burgers, J. H., F.A.J. Van den Bosch and H.W. Volberda, Corporate venturing as engine of strategic renewal: following or changing the industry rules, paper presented at the Annual Conference of Corporate Strategy (ACCS) 2005, Vallendar: Germany.
  • Burgers, J.H., F.A.J. Van den Bosch and H.W. Volberda, Corporate venturing and the impact on a firm’s competence modes, paper presented at the Annual Conference on Competence-Based Management 2005, Antwerp: Belgium

Working Papers

  • Burgers, J.H., F.A.J. Van den Bosch and H.W. Volberda, Aligning autonomy and newness of NBD-projects: technological and market knowledge, and performance effect
  • Burgers, J.H., F.A.J. Van den Bosch and H.W. Volberda, Crossing the great divide: changing managerial requirements of pre and post market introduction stages in internal ventures
  • Burgers, J.H., Managing expectations and support in new business creation.
  • Burgers, J.H., Exploring the differences between product, technology and market innovation.

Teaching


2008 ERIM Honours Programme in Research in Management
2008 Advanced Research Topics in Strategy, Mphil/ PhD course
2003-present Co-reader and examiner for master theses
2003-2005 Strategy and Corporate Entrepreneurship
2003-2005 Strategy Formation and Implementation
2003-2005 Strategic Business Plan

Professional service activities


  • Track chair of entrepreneurship track at the EURAM 2007 conference
  • Ad hoc reviewer, Journal of Business Venturing
  • Ad hoc reviewer, Journal of International Business Studies
  • Ad hoc reviewer, Long Range Planning
  • Reviewer Academy of Management Annual Meetings, ENT division
  • Reviewer Academy of Management Annual Meetings, BPS division
  • Reviewer EURAM conference