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Prof. Dr. Frans A.J. Van Den Bosch is Professor of Management Interfaces between Organizations and Environment of the Department of Strategic Management & Entrepreneurship, RSM Erasmus University, Erasmus University Rotterdam. He 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 in Law 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 of the Erasmus University Rotterdam. He is a fellow and chairman of the Programme Board of the Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM). Presently he is coordinator of ERIM Research Programme in Strategy, 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 focused view of strategy; the application of these frameworks to general management issues, such as non-technological sources of innovations like management innovation; strategic renewal processes, strategic innovations; organizational ambidexterity; corporate entrepreneurship; corporate governance; internal and external networks; and knowledge absorption and knowledge creation processes. He has published several books and over 165 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, Business and Society, Corporate Governance, De Economist, European Management Journal, International Studies of Management and Organization, Journal of Management Studies, 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) and is a board member of several scientific journals including Long Range Planning, Journal of Management Studies and Organization Studies. He has supervised 32 PhD-theses, has been member of more than 30 PhD-committees and was invited as an external examiner of Antwerp University, City University London, Warwick University (UK) and 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. 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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