Faculty

Professor of Corporate Communication and Management
Department of Business-Society Management
Rotterdam School of Management (RSM)
Erasmus University Rotterdam

Joep Cornelissen is Professor of Corporate Communication and Management at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University. The main focus of his research involves studies of the role of corporate and managerial communication in the context of innovation, entrepreneurship and change. In addition, he also has an interest in questions of scientific reasoning and theory development in management and organization theory.

His work has been published in the Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Management Studies, Organization Science and Organization Studies, and he has written a general text on corporate communication (Corporate Communication: A Guide to Theory and Practice, Sage Publications) which is now in its sixth edition (2020).

He is the Editor-in-Chief of Organization Theory, a former Associate Editor for the Academy of Management Review, a Council member of the Society for the Advancement of Management Studies, a former General Editor of the Journal of Management Studies (2006-2012) and serves on the editorial boards of the Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, the Journal of Management Studies and Organization Studies.

Prof. Jaap Boonstra is a professor of Organization Dynamics at Esade Business School in Barcelona (Spain) and a visiting professor of Organizational Change WU - Vienna University for Economics and Business. Additionally, he is a senior lecturer at the Netherlands School of Governance in The Haque, the Netherlands. Previously, Prof. Boonstra has been the Academic director and Dean of Sioo, an inter-university institute on organisational change and learning, and he is currently a full professor at the University of Amsterdam (the Netherlands).

As a consultant, Prof. Boonstra is involved in international alliances and change processes in international business firms throughout the Netherlands, Spain and South Africa. He is also involved in global networks in value-based banking and crime prevention and is a member of several supervisory boards of societal organisations.

Prof. Boonstra has published several books and more than two hundred articles on technological and organisational innovation, management of organisational change, organisational learning, politics in organisations, strategic decision-making, and transformational change in the service sector and public administration. His book ‘Dynamics of organizational change and learning’ was awarded as the best contribution to organisational science, and his book ‘Organizational change and leadership in organizations’ was nominated for the Management Book of the Year in 2014. His most recent book ‘Organizational change as collaborative play’ has been published in 2019 and is based on a play model for organisational change and development.

Professor of Organization Theory, Development, and Change, Scientific Director ERIM, Dean of Research RSM
Department of Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship
Rotterdam School of Management (RSM)

Erasmus University Rotterdam

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Pursey Heugens is a professor of organisation theory, development, and change at the Department of Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University (RSM). His research interests include comparative corporate governance, business ethics, and bureaucracy, institutional, and demographic theories of organisation. Professor Heugens has won numerous awards for his research and teaching. He currently serves on the editorial boards of six scholarly journals. His research has been published in academic journals including the Academy of Management Journal, the Academy of Management Review, Organization Studies, and the Journal of Management Studies. His most recent works argues that the field of organisation theory is locked into a state of permanent failure due to powerful centrifugal forces which prevent it from producing a unified theory of organisational effectiveness – while equally strong centripetal forces keep university administrators and policy makers from cashing in their chips. He offers three research strategies that might end the stalemate by increasing the integration, relevance and realism of current theories of organisation. He obtained his PhD from RSM in 2001.

Lecturer
Department of Finance
Rotterdam School of Management (RSM)
Erasmus University Rotterdam

Florian Madertoner is a Lecturer at the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University. He holds a degree in Banking- and Finance. Florian’s research interests include Capital Structure Theory, Behavioral Finance and the Economic History. He is responsible for the course “Economics” in the bachelor study programs International Business Administration and Business Administration. In addition, Florian teaches “Corporate Finance” and supervises bachelor theses in both programs. In the master program Finance & Investment Florian supervises Master theses. Florian teaches the elective “Finance for Communication Professionals” in the executive master program Corporate Communication as well as the executive training “Finance for Non-Financials”. He has been awarded multiple awards for his teaching activities: the "Professor of the Year Award" five years consecutively from 2016 to 2020 for his undergrad course “Corporate Finance” in the programs IBA and BA. In 2020 Florian has also been awarded the “Professor of the Year Award” for his course “Economics” in the IBA program as well an award for “Best Adaptation to the Coronavirus Situation”.