Personal
| Name: |
Erik P. van Leeuwen |
| Function: |
Assistant Professor of Strategic Management |
| Office: |
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| Phone: |
+31 10 408 2005 |
| Fax: |
+31 10 408 9013 |
| E-mail: |
eleeuwen@rsm.nl
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Research interests
Dr Erik van Leeuwen’s research interests centre on resource dependence management, sustainable resources, organisational learning and strategic renewal. The topic of his PhD thesis was managing dependencies in recycling industries. Managing resource dependencies and strategic renewal is crucial for incumbent firms to survive. For firms operating in “recovered-resource dependent industries”, i.e. industries that to a large extent depend on recycled end-of-life-products for the continuation of production processes, this is even more complex. To create and maintain a sustainable competitive advantage, the return of these products has to be strategically organised and managed as well. His study seeks to extend research on resource dependence theory to the context of recovered-resource dependent industries. Based on several theoretical lenses a conceptual managerial framework is developed incorporating internal and external factors influencing strategic renewal and recovered-resource dependence management. The results indicate why the European Paper and Board Industry and large incumbents belong to the best performing with regard to recycling rate. Furthermore, it is shown how management can influence a firm’s strategic renewal journey and recovered-resource dependence, using several resource dependence instruments, in order to contribute to sustainable competitive advantage.
Biography
Erik P. van Leeuwen began his studies in Mechanical Engineering at the Polytechnics Department of the HTS Dordrecht and specialised in energy management. After receiving his bachelor degree in 1997, he wanted to enlarge his management knowledge by studying an MSc in Business Administration at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, with a major in strategic management. He received his master’s degree in 2000 and started a management traineeship at Kappa Packaging, (Smurfit Kappa nowadays), one of Europe’s leading producers of Paper & Board Packaging. In 2003, after his traineeship, Erik van Leeuwen accepted a job as recovered paper researcher at Kappa Paper Recycling, department of Market Intelligence, and simultaneously started his PhD research at the Department of Strategic Management and Business Environment at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University. At present, he is associated with the department and involved in supervising master’s theses. Since February 2007, Erik van Leeuwen has worked as a senior business analyst at Eneco, department Eneco New Energy.
