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Henk W. Volberda is Professor of Strategic Management and Business Policy and Director of Knowledge Transfer 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 Journal, 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.. His newest book "Strategic Management: Competitiveness and Globalization" is published in April 2011.

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