Wijen, Frank

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Frank Wijen
Assistant Professor of Strategic Management
T7-38
+31 10 408 1985
+31 10 408 9013
fwijen@rsm.nl

Research Interests

  • Corporate environmental management
  • Globalization
  • Influence and power
  • Institutionalization
  • National environmental policy
  • Organizational learning
  • Social networks

Education

1998 - 2002 Ph.D. degree in Management at the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration of Tilburg University (the Netherlands)
1996-1998 Propaedeutic degree in Dutch Law at the Faculty of Law of Maastricht University (the Netherlands)
1985-1991 Master’s degree in International Management at the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration of Maastricht University

Academic Experience

2004-present Assistant Professor at the Department of Strategic Management and Business Environment and Member of the ERIM Graduate School of Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University (the Netherlands)
Educational activities: Business plan (Bachelor), Globalization and strategic alliances/ Thesis writing (Bachelor), In-Company Projects (MBA), International business projects (Master), International trade and network strategies (Master), Interorganizational strategies and networks (Master), Thesis supervision (Master)
2004-present Research Fellow at Globus, the interfaculty institute for globalization and sustainable development of Tilburg University
2002-2004 Senior Researcher at Globus and Faculty member of the Department of Organization and Strategy and the CentER Graduate School of Tilburg University
1998-2002 Teacher at the Department of Organization and Strategy of the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration of Tilburg University
1987-1990 Assistant and Teacher at the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration of Maastricht University

Educational activities: Group mentoring (Bachelor)

Business experience

1994-present Owner and Manager of Ideal, international wholesale trading company in Maastricht
1996-1998 Manager and Administrator of Tricoop Polska, wholesale trading company in Lublin (Poland)
1991-1998 Marketing Manager and Commissioner of Tricoop, international textile company in Verviers (Belgium)

Publications

  • The environmental (un)sustainability of the Base-of-the-Pyramid (BOP) philosophy: A governance perspective, in Prabhu Kandachar and Minna Halme (eds), Sustainability challenges and solutions at the base of the pyramid, Greenleaf Publishing, Sheffield (2008).
  • Overcoming inaction through collective institutional entrepreneurship: Insights from regime theory (co-authored with Shahzad Ansari), Organization Studies, 28, 7, 1079-1100 (2007).
  • Institutionalization as a prerequisite for sustainable corporate development, in: Organizations and the sustainability mosaic, Sanjay Sharma, Mark Starik, and Bryan Husted (eds), Edward Elgar, Cheltenham. (2007)
  • Stakeholder power and organizational learning in corporate environmental management (co-authored with Nigel Roome), Organization Studies, 27, 2, 235-263. (2006) 
  • Negotiating innovation: Product renewal as the outcome of a complex bargaining process (co-authored with Geert Duysters), R&D Management, 35, 1, 73-87. (2005)
  • A handbook of globalisation and environmental policy: National government interventions in a global arena (co-edited with Kees Zoeteman and Jan Pieters), Edward Elgar, Cheltenham. (2005)
  • Globalisation and national environmental policy: An overview (co-authored with Kees Zoeteman and Jan Pieters), in: A handbook of globalisation and environmental policy: National government interventions in a global arena, Frank Wijen et al. (eds.), Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 1-29.
  • Architecture of the Kyoto Protocol and prospects for public climate policy , co-authored with Kees Zoeteman, in Frank Wijen et al. (eds.), A handbook of globalisation and environmental policy: National government interventions in a global arena, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 2005.

Work in Progress

  • The environmental governability of emerging markets
  • Institutionalization in collective inertia domains (co-authored with Shahzad Ansari)
  • The negative consequences of globalization for multinational enterprises (co-authored with Arjen Slangen)
  • Balancing exploration and exploitation in corporate social networks (co-authored with Niels Noorderhaven, Wim Vanhaverbeke, and Michael Rombouts)

Academic service

2009-present Greening RSM Coordinator
2009-present Editorial review board member of Academy of Management Review
2008-present Editorial review board member of Organization Studies
2007-2008 Member of PhD committees (Rotterdam, Lausanne)
2007-2009 Chair of the Faculty Council of Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University
2006-2008 Expert for the Belgian Science Policy Organisation (Belspo) on sustainable development research
2006-present Reviewer for the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO)
2004-present Member of Examination Committees of Master students
2004-present Coordination of Course Interorganizational Strategies and Networks
2001-present Reviewer for the Academy of Management Conference
2001-present Reviewer for academic journals, including Academy of Management Review, Ecological Economics, European Management Review, International Journal of Technology and Globalization, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Management Education, Journal of Management and Governance, Organization Science and Strategic Management Journal.
1999-2002 Member of Examination Committees of Master students
1998-present Advice to internal and external colleagues on working papers

Membership of academic societies

  • European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS)
  • Academy of Management (AoM)

Teaching

Dr. Frank Wijen is involved in the following educational activities:

  • Business and climate policy (Bachelor)
  • Own company (Master)
  • International investment and trade (Bachelor)
  • Globalization and strategic alliances/ Thesis writing (Bachelor)
  • In-company projects (MBA)
  • International business projects (Master)
  • International strategic sourcing (Master)
  • Interorganizational strategies and networks (Master)
  • Methodology seminars (Master)
  • Thesis supervision (Master)