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Research interests
- Strategic Renewal, Strategic Change and Revitalization
- Strategic Flexibility, Hypercompetition and New Organizational Forms
- Coevolution of Industries and Firms
- Strategy Innovation
- Knowledge Flows and Absorptive Capacity
Biography
Henk W. Volberda is Professor of Strategic Management and Business Policy and Chairman of the Department of Strategic Management & Business Environment at the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, and Scientific Director of INSCOPE. He has been a visiting scholar at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and City University Business School, London. Professor Volberda obtained his doctorate cum laude in Business Administration of the University of Groningen.
His research on organizational flexibility and strategic change received the NCD Award 1987, the ERASM Research Award 1994, the Erasmus University Research Award 1997, Igor Ansoff Strategic Management Award 1993, Cap Gemini Ernst & Young Strategy Award 2003, the Erim Impact Award 2003 and 2005 and the SAP Strategy Award 2005. His work on strategic renewal, coevolution and new organizational forms has been published in Academy of Management Jouranl, Management Science, Decision Support Systems, European Business Forum, European Management Journal, European Management Review, International Journal of Disclosure and Governance, International Studies of Management & Organization, Journal of Management Studies, Long Range Planning, Omega, Organization Development Journal, Organization Studies and Organization Science. For his work on alliance capabilities (together with Ard-Pieter de Man and Johan Draulans) he received the Dutch ROA Award 1999 (best consultancy article). Moreover, his research on absorptive capacity and internal networks (together with Raymond van Wijk and Frans van den Bosch) received an honorable mention of the McKinsey/SMS Best Conference Paper Prize.
Professor Volberda has worked as a consultant for many large European corporations and published in many refereed books and journals. He is director of the Erasmus Strategic Renewal Program and program director of the Erasmus Institute of Management (ERIM). He is a member of the Editorial Board of Long Range Planning, Journal of International Business Studies, Global Journal of Flexible Systems Management, Management Executive, and Maanblad voor Accountancy en Bedrijfseconomie (MAB). He is also member of the Editorial Review Board of Journal of Management Studies, Organization Science and Organization Studies.
His books, “Building the Flexible Firm: How to Remain Competitive” (1998) published by Oxford University Press and “De Flexibele Onderneming: Strategieen voor Succesvol Concurreren” (2004) published by Kluwer, received wide acclaim. His book together with Tom Elfring "Rethinking Strategy" (Sage, 2001) was awarded with the ERIM Best Book Award.
Selected Publications
- Jansen, J.J.P., Tempelaar, M.P., Van den Bosch, F.A.J. & Volberda H.W. (2009), Structural Differentiation and Ambidexterity: The Mediating Role of Integration Mechanisms,
Organization Science, 20 (4): 798-811.
- Mom, T.J.M., Van den Bosch, F.A.J. & Volberda H.W. (2009), Understanding variation in Manager’s Ambidexterity: Investigating Direct and Interaction Effects of Formal Structural and Personal Coordination Mechanisms,
Organization Science, 20 (4): 812-828.
- Burgers, J.H., Jansen, J.J.P., Van den Bosch, F.A.J. & Volberda, H.W., Structural Differentiation and Corporate Venturing: The Moderating Role of Formal and Informal Integration Mechanisms,
Journal of Business Venturing, 24 (2009): 206-220.
- 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
- Sidhu, J.S., Commandeur, H.R. & Volberda, H.W. (2007), The Multifaceted Nature of Exploration and Exploitation: Value of Supply, Demand and Spatial Search for Innovation,
Organization Science, 18 (1): 20-38.
- Mom, T.J.M, Bosch, F.A.J. Van Den & Volberda, H.W. (2006), “Investigating Managers’ Exploration and Exploitation Activities: The Influence of Top-down , Bottum-up, and Horizontal Knowledge Inflows,
Journal of Management Studies, forthcoming.
- Spedale, S., Bosch F.A.J. Van den & Volberda, H.W. (2006), “Preservation and Dissolution of the Target Firm’s Embedded Ties in Acquisition”,
Organization Studies, forthcoming
- Vlaar, P.W.L., Van den Bosch, F.A.J., Volberda, H.W. (2006), On the Evolution of Trust, Distrust, and Formal Coordination and Control in Interorganizational Relationships: Towards an Integrative Framework,
Group & Organization Management, forthcoming.
- Vermeulen, P.A.M., Van den Bosch, F.A.J., Volberda, H.W. (2006) Complex Incremental Product Innovation in Established Service Firms: A Micro Institutional Perspective,
Organization Studies, forthcoming.
- 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., Bosch, F.A.J. van den & Volberda, H.W. (2006), Exploratory Innovation, Exploitative Innovation, and Performance effects of organizational antecedents and environmental moderators,
Management Science, forthcoming.
- Jansen, J., Bosch, F.A.J. van den & Volberda, H.W. (2005), Managing Potential and Realized Absorptive Capacity: How do Organizational Antecedents Matter?
Academy of Management Journal, 48 (6), pp. 999 – 1015.
- Sidhu, J.S., Volberda, H.W. & Commandeur, H. (2004), Exploring Exploration Orientation and its Determinants: Some Empirical Evidence.
Journal of Management Studies, 41 (6): 913-932.
- 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
- Lewin, A.Y. & Volberda, H.W. (2003), Beyond Adaptation-Selection Research: Organizing Self-Renewal in Co-Evolving Environments,
Journal of Management Studies, 40 (8): 2109-2110.
- Volberda H.W. & Lewin, A.Y. (2003), Co-evolutionary Dynamics Within and Between Firms: From Evolution to Co-evolution.
Journal of Management Studies, 40 (8): 2111-2136.
- Volberda, H.W. & Elfring, T. (2001), Rethinking Strategy, London
- 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.
- Volberda, H.W. (1999), Building the Flexible Firm: How to Remain Competitive. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 349 pp (paperback).
- Volberda, H. W. (1996), Towards The Flexible Form: How To Remain Vital in Hypercompetitive Environments,
Organization Science, 7 (4): 359-387.
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