Business-Society Management

Established in 1998, the department of Business-Society Management (B-SM) at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University was the first of its kind within a European business school. The B-SM Department offers a social science-based perspective on managerial and organizational issues at the interface between business and society.

Our world-class research and education focus on how organizations (businesses, social enterprises, nonprofits, cooperatives, citizen collectives, social movements, etc.) can contribute to addressing the great societal challenges of our time, such as climate change and social inequalities.

Flore Bridoux, Department Chair

Staff of the department are involved in teaching at the under- and post-graduate level, including bachelor programmes, the full-time MBA and specialized and executive master programmes. The department also delivers the school’s flagship Master programme on Global Business and Sustainability. The Master programme is one of the longest running programmes in the world in the area of business and society management and continues to deliver graduates that are in high demand in today’s business world.

Sustainability and corporate responsibility

Students who come through our teaching programmes form a deep understanding of how through responsible forms of business activity - including new forms of inclusive business models, stakeholder partnerships and social entrepreneurship - they can actively contribute to the health and sustainability of the societies in which they operate whilst as a base condition still run viable businesses. Our programmes point not just to the limits to economic growth within our planet’s boundaries, but we strive to make a positive change by equipping our students with ways of experimenting with new ‘circular’, ‘inclusive’, ‘shared value’ - in short more sustainable - business models that can grow exponentially to shape new social and environmental value chains.

Multi-disciplinary faculty

Within the department, we have multi-disciplinary faculty who turn their specialist expertise into tangible solutions for businesses and into transformational experiences in the classroom. Areas of expertise range from sustainability and climate change to social enterprise, stakeholder communication, cross-sector partnerships, philanthropy, ethics and corporate governance. Our faculty is also strongly rooted in theory which allows them analyze complex issues and wicked problems and to develop novel answers to pressing business and societal questions.

Practical Impact and Outreach

Besides high quality research and education, we actively engage with the business community and civic society actors, involving them in our education programmes whilst ensuring at the same time that the work that we do has the widest possible impact on business and society. We have dedicated research centers, including the Partnership Resource Centre, the Centre for Eco-Transformation, the Erasmus Centre for Strategic Philanthropy the Centre for Behavioral Ethics and the Corporate Communication Centre, that work with business leaders to turn our research into positive change.

PhD vacancy in Sustainability and Management

The Business-Society Management department at the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, is seeking a highly motivated PhD candidate looking to study a topic in the area of sustainability and management. For this position, you will be able to freely choose your own research topic, within our department’s area of expertise. Potential research topics broadly cover the challenges that society and our natural environment face and then consider how organisations can address these challenges.

Overall, we are looking for a candidate who is eager to learn to research how organisations and businesses can be key drivers of social change, and we welcome applications from a wide variety of backgrounds and perspectives.

Full vacancy details

About our research

Research expertise

Research of the Department of Business-Society Management examines the mutual impact of business and society upon each other. The broad objective is to reach a clear understanding of the challenges and opportunities arising at the interface of business and society. Strategic and sustainable solutions are the aim.

Multidisciplinary research focuses on several areas:

The relationship between business and society: Issues around sustainability, philanthropy, international relations, reputation.
Behavioural ethics: Issues around decision-making, ethics, leadership.
Legitimacy: Issues around governance, stakeholder well-being, accountability, ecology.

Centres and Experts

Much of the high profile, relevant research of the B-SM Department is focused in Centres of Expertise and other projects. These centres encourage network building among scholars who are working in the many research themes of the department, providing cutting-edge research, ideas publications related to business and society management. Support for this research may come from companies, the European government, grants or sponsored Chairs.

The current Centres of Expertise associated with B-SM faculty members:

Erasmus Centre of Behavioural Ethics

Scientific Director: Dr. Marius van Dijke

The ECBE fosters and promotes fundamental laboratory and field research in behavioural ethics that has implications for a wide variety of fields such as management, law, and social sciences in general.

Corporate Communication Centre (CCC)

Director: Marijke Baumann

This Centre is focused on corporate communication as a management instrument that harmonises all consciously used forms of internal and external communication as effectively and efficiently as possible in order to achieve a positive corporate reputation.

Centre for Corporate Eco-Transformation

Scientific Director: Dr. Steve Kennedy

The broad aim of this Centre is to reach a clearer understanding of the management challenges posed by climate change and search for credible management solutions to achieving global sustainability.

Partnerships Resource Centre

Academic Director: Prof. dr. Rob van Tulder

The PrC is a flexible learning and research network; it functions as the centre of a (virtual) network of professionals, academics and practitioners around the world to share, retrieve and build up knowledge and experience to enhance the impact of cross sector partnerships on addressing complex or ‘wicked’ problems in particular around sustainable development. The latter entails processes of selecting appropriate partnerships and increasing their efficiency, impact and effectiveness.

Publications

2025

Ouacha, M., Isanski, J., Kozak, J., & Dyczewski, B. (2025). Special Issue: Searching for a Better Life with my Community: migratory trends in religious-based social networks. Religions, 16(3). https://doi.org/10.3390/rel16030282
De Moor, T. (2025). Review of A. Winchester (2024). Common Land in Britain: A History from the Middle Ages to the Present Day. Economic History Review, 78(1), 333-334. https://doi.org/10.1111/ehr.13400
Schippers, M., van Tulder, R., Louwerse, M. M., & Panas, D. C. (2025). Engaging Students with Sustainable Development Goals: A Performative Educational Toolkit with Virtual Reality Simulations, Letters to the Future and an SDG Strategy Assignment. Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR).
Jansen, M. (2025). Ports as a force for positive change? An ecosystems approach to inclusive port development. [Doctoral Thesis, Erasmus University Rotterdam]. Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR).
Ouacha, M. (2025). Diaspora Nonprofits in an Islamic (faith-based) Nation State: an empirical case study on Morocco. In M. Rudvin, & D. E. G. (Eds.), Mediterranean Dialogues on Migration Palermo University Press.
Bauwens, T., & Wade, R. (2025). Unpacking the Energy Commons. In Postcapitalist Countrysides: From commoning to community wealth building (pp. 327-351). UCL Press.
Toboso-Chavero, S., Zisopoulos, F. K., de Jong, M., & Schraven, D. (2025). Critical review of methodological tools and trends for assessing the performance of inclusive circular cities. Cleaner Environmental Systems, 17, Article 100275. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cesys.2025.100275
Cetera, G. E., Punzi, M. C., Merli, C. E. M., & Vercellini, P. (2025). Analyzing the association between menstrual coitus and endometriosis' pathogenesis: A narrative review. Women's health (London, England), 21. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/17455057241305072
Kornberger, M., Meyer, R., Marti, I., Frey-Heger, C., Cornelissen, J., & Gatzweiler, M. (2025). Introduction to the Special Issue on “Collective Action in Crisis?”. Organization Studies. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/01708406251336033
Takkenberg, J. J. M., Kluin, J., & Deglurkar, I. (2025). Cardiac surgery needs women: innovation through inclusion. European Journal of Cardio-thoracic Surgery, 67(2), Article ezaf032. https://doi.org/10.1093/ejcts/ezaf032
Zito, F., Veen, K. M., Melina, G., Lansac, E., Schäfers, H. J., de Kerchove, L., Takkenberg, J. J. M., Kluin, J., & Mokhles, M. M. (2025). Aortic valve repair in adults: long-term clinical outcomes and echocardiographic evolution in different valve repair techniques. European Journal of Cardio-thoracic Surgery, 67(3), Article ezaf020. https://doi.org/10.1093/ejcts/ezaf020
Zisopoulos, F. K., Fath, B., Toboso Chavero, S., Huang, H., Schraven, D., Steuer, B., Stefanakis, A., Clark, O. G., Scrieciu, S., Singh, S. J., Noll, D., & de Jong, M. (2025). Inequities blocking the path to circular economies: A bio-inspired network-based approach for assessing the sustainability of the global trade of waste metals. Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 212, Article 107958. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resconrec.2024.107958
Zisopoulos, F. K., Fath, B. D., Tong, X., & de Jong, M. (2025). Network properties of the global waste trade. Environmental and Sustainability Indicators, 25, Article 100550. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.indic.2024.100550
Zisopoulos, F. K., Fath, B. D., de Oliveira, B. M., Toboso-Chavero, S., D'Assenza-David, H., de Souza, V. M., Huang, H., Scrieciu, Ş., Clark, O. G., Noll, D., Singh, S., Stefanakis, A., Boyd, G., Schraven, D., & de Jong, M. (2025). Towards an ecological metaphor for regenerative circular economies. Ecological Economics, 231, Article 108545. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2025.108545
Wang, X., Notenboom, M. L., Veen, K. M., Grashuis, P., Andrinopoulou, E. R., Etnel, J. R. G., Bogers, A. J. J. C., Mokhles, M. M., & Takkenberg, J. J. M. (Accepted/In press). How to Put Survival After Cardiothoracic Interventions in the General Population Context: A Case-Based Practical Guideline to Calculate Cumulative Matched-General-Population Survival. Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes, 18(2), e009993. Article e009993. https://doi.org/10.1161/circoutcomes.123.009993
van Zanten, J. A., & Putintseva, M. (2025). Evaluating governmental policies for the sustainable development goals using hierarchical clustering. International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology, 32(3), 322-340. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/13504509.2024.2448669
van Zanten, J. A. (2025). Measuring Companies’ Environmental and Social Impacts: An analysis of ESG Ratings and SDG Scores. Organization and Environment. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/10860266251326895
van Dulmen, N., Rocha, C. F. B., Toboso-Chavero, S., Heijungs, R., & Guinée, J. (2025). Evaluating the landscape of social assessment methods: integrating the social dimension in sustainability assessment of product value chains. International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11367-025-02432-z
Syakhroza, M. A., & Lodge, J. (2025). Birds of a Feather are Punished Together, or Not? Examining Heterogeneity in Career Advancements of Minority Groups. Journal of Management Studies, 62(2), 879-922. https://doi.org/10.1111/joms.13077
Stofberg, N., Ciulli, F., Bridoux, F., & Hawlitschek, F. (2025). Value co-creation in sharing service ecosystems: The role of institutional arrangements and social norms. Journal of Cleaner Production, 492, Article 144663. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2025.144663
Punzi, M. C., & Thuis, T. (2025). Mapping ethical concerns in algorithm-driven period and fertility tracking technologies. Contraception, Article 110837. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.contraception.2025.110837
Petrovics, D., & Savini, F. (2025). Energy communities for degrowth: Democracy, reduction, maintenance and substitution. Energy Research and Social Science, 121, Article 103946. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2025.103946
Notenboom, M. L., de Keijzer, A. R., Veen, K. M., Gokalp, A., Bogers, A. J. J. C., Heijmen, R. H., van Kimmenade, R. R. J., Geuzebroek, G. S. C., Mokhles, M. M., Bekkers, J. A., Roos-Hesselink, J. W., & Takkenberg, J. J. M. (2025). Sex-related differences in the clinical course of aortic root and ascending aortic aneurysms: the DisSEXion Study. European Heart Journal, 46(6), 551-564. Article ehae525. https://doi.org/10.1093/eurheartj/ehae525
Neij, L., Palm, J., Busch, H., Bauwens, T., Becker, S., Bergek, A., Buzogány, A., Candelise, C., Coenen, F., Devine-Wright, P., Hoppe, T., Kortetmäki, A., Pantazis, K., Palaiogiannis, F., Margosi, M., Petrovics, D., Plöchl, J., Ruggieri, G., Ruggiero, S., ... Soutar, I. (2025). Energy communities—lessons learnt, challenges, and policy recommendations. Oxford Open Energy, 4, Article oiaf002. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1093/ooenergy/oiaf002
Lansac, E., Veen, K. M., Joseph, A., Jaber, P. B., Sossi, F., Das-Gupta, Z., Aktaa, S., Sadaba, J. R., Thourani, V. H., Dahle, G., Szeto, W. Y., Bakaeen, F., Aikawa, E., Schoen, F. J., Girdauskas, E., Almeida, A., Zuckermann, A., Meuris, B., Stott, J., ... Takkenberg, J. J. M. (2025). The First International Consortium for Health Outcomes Measurement (ICHOM) Standard Dataset for Reporting Outcomes in Heart Valve Disease: Moving From Device- to Patient-Centered Outcomes. European Journal of Cardio-thoracic Surgery, 67(2), Article ezae254. https://doi.org/10.1093/ejcts/ezae254
Kennedy, S., Grewatsch, S., Liboni, L., & Cezarino, L. O. (2025). Teaching a Systems Approach to Address the Sustainability Management Disconnect. Business and Society. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/00076503251324569
Dong, Y., de Jong, M., Wang, J., & Yu, N. (2025). The asymmetric impacts of governmental grant funding and block funding on research quality in Chinese universities. International Journal of Educational Research, 130, Article 102552. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijer.2025.102552
De Moor, T., Czischke, D., van Eijk, C., Groep-Foncke, M., Held, L., Horlings, L. G., Jans, L., Kleinhans, R., & van Meerkerk, I. (2025). Burgercollectieven aan het roer? In co-creatie met de overheid naar succesvolle transities. Bestuurswetenschappen, 79(1), 64-83. https://www.collectievekracht.eu/upload/HandlerDownloadFiles.ashx?idnv=3023579
de Bruin, I., Meyer, M., & Kaptein, M. (2025). Exploring the dark side of the NGO halo: Relating NGO mission, morals, and people to NGO unethical behavior. Journal of Philanthropy, 30(1), Article e70000. https://doi.org/10.1002/nvsm.70000
Cabana, G. C., & Kaptein, M. (2025). Team ethical culture as a coupling mechanism between a well-implemented organizational ethics program and the prevention of unethical behavior in teams. Business Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility, 34(2), 409-422. https://doi.org/10.1111/beer.12661
Biscaro, C., Bruni, E., Cornelissen, J., & Oswick, C. (Accepted/In press). Metaphor and Organization Studies: Going beyond resonance to further theory and practice. Organization Studies. https://doi.org/10.1177/01708406251314572
Athanasopoulou, A., Marti, E., Risi, D., & Schlindwein, E. (2025). How Companies Restrain Means–Ends Decoupling: A Comparative Case Study of CSR Implementation. Journal of Management Studies, 62(1), 214-245. https://doi.org/10.1111/joms.13043
Alsayel, A., Fransen, J., de Jong, M., & Almatar, K. M. (2025). Riyadh: king of gigaprojects can Riyadh's dramatic place rebranding realize path-breaking and profound urban transformations? Cities, 163, Article 106022. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2025.106022

2024

Kaptein, M. (2024). Normatively reconciling shareholder and stakeholder theories: The ethical responsibility of a business is serving its owners by serving its stakeholders. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4659249
Kaptein, M. (2024). Research Handbook on Organisational Integrity. Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781803927930
Augustine, G., Lodge, J., & Radic, M. (2024). Mr Bates vs The Post Office depicts one of the UK’s worst miscarriages of justice: here’s why so many victims didn’t speak out. Web publication/site, The Conversation. https://theconversation.com/mr-bates-vs-the-post-office-depicts-one-of-the-uks-worst-miscarriages-of-justice-heres-why-so-many-victims-didnt-speak-out-220513
Touburg, G. (2024). Mobilizing Myth in Management: A Literature Review. 15th International Conference on Organizational Discourse, Bristol, United Kingdom. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/381927178_Mobilizing_Myth_in_Management_Theory_A_Literature_Review
Touburg, G. (2024). Mythologizing Management through Metaphor in Business Teaching Cases. 15th International Conference on Organizational Discourse, Bristol, United Kingdom. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/381927187_Mythologizing_Management_through_Metaphor_in_Business_Teaching_Cases
Petrovics, D. (2024). The Institutionalization of Energy Communities for a Just and Democratic Energy Transition. Multistakeholder Forum on Science, Technology and Innovation for the Sustainable Development Goals. https://sdgs.un.org/tfm/STIForum2024#science-policy_briefs
Ouacha, M. (2024). Film Review. The Football Aficionado. Directed by Sharmin Mojtahedzadeh and Paliz Khoshdel. Urbanities, 14(2). https://www.anthrojournal-urbanities.com/vol-14-no-2-november-2024/
Ferwerda, W. (2024). Commonland's 4 Returns: A Path to Sustainable Landscapes, with Willem Ferwerda. Digital or Visual Products, Designing Nature's Half. https://www.designingnatureshalf.com/the-landscape-conservation-podcast/commonland-4-returns-framework-willem-ferwerda
Ferwerda, W. (2024). Episode 10: Landscape Scale Regeneration: 100 MM Hectares by 2024!. Digital or Visual Products, CapInstitute. https://youtu.be/JC1BtaSfLR4
Ferwerda, W. (2024). Kickstarted the restoration industry with Commonland 11 years ago, now finally big money shows interest, but we need billions. Digital or Visual Products https://investinginregenerativeagriculture.com/2024/08/13/willem-ferweda/
van Overbeeke, P. (2024). Appreciating what matters: The many dimensions of volunteer value. [Doctoral Thesis, Erasmus University Rotterdam]. Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR).
Sadiq, M. (2024). Hybrid pathways to societal impact: Challenges and opportunities. [Doctoral Thesis, Erasmus University Rotterdam]. Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR).
Ouacha, M. (2024). Receiving by giving: The examining of cross-border diasporic and bi-cultural philanthropy. [Doctoral Thesis, Erasmus University Rotterdam]. Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR).
Jellema, S. (2024). Brace for impact: Good intentions, unintended consequences, and the role of performative micro-processes in organized eff orts for societal change. [Doctoral Thesis, Erasmus University Rotterdam]. Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR).
De Schutter, L. (2024). How power differences shape interpersonal trust processes. [Doctoral Thesis, Erasmus University Rotterdam]. Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR).
Casoliva- i- Cabana, G. (2024). Unravelling Team Ethical Culture: The Existence, Relevance and Implications for Ethics Management. [Doctoral Thesis, Erasmus University Rotterdam]. Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR).
Bunders, D. (2024). Gigs of their own: can platform cooperatives become resilient? [Doctoral Thesis, Erasmus University Rotterdam]. Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR).
Vugts, B. (Ed.), Holwerda, M. (Ed.), de Vries, S. (Ed.), van Raak, R., Adriaansen, R.-J., Boele, C., van de Bovenkamp, H., Gerritsen, H., Grim, R., Haandrikman, F., Icaza, R., Jones, L., Koot, R., Kruithof, F., van Leeuwen, P., Plaatsman, P., Platenkamp, C., van der Ploeg, E., Schelling, J., ... Vugts, B. (2024). The living library: Stories from the collections of the Erasmus University Library. Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR).
De Moor, T. (2024). Hoe waarde weerbaar wordt: Bouwen aan de gemeenschapseconomie in Rotterdam. https://www.collectievekracht.eu/collectievenlab/nieuws/2725217.aspx?t=Hoe-waarde-weerbaar-wordt-bouwen-aan-de-gemeenschapseconomie-in-Rotterdam
Commonland (2024). The 4 Returns Framework in Practice: A guidebook for holistic landscape restoration. https://4returns.commonland.com/lesson/introduction/
Kaptein, M. (2024). Introduction to Research Handbook on Organisational Integrity. In M. Kaptein (Ed.), Research Handbook on Organisational Integrity (pp. 1-6). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781803927930.00005
van Tulder, R., Grøgaard, B., & Lunnan, R. (2024). Introduction : Settting the scene. In Walking the Talk? : MNEs Transitioning Towards a Sustainable World Progress in International Business Research (Vol. 18, pp. 1-15) https://doi.org/10.1108/S1745-886220240000018001
Takkenberg, H. (2024). You can't be what you can't see / Wat je niet kent dat word je niet: Reflections on the continued overrepresentation of male professors in the Netherlands / Beschouwingen over de aanhoudende oververtegenwoordiging van mannelijke hoogleraren in Nederland. In The living library / De levende bibliotheek: Stories from the collections of the Erasmus University Library / Verhalen uit de collecties van de Erasmus Universiteitsbibliotheek (pp. 166-179). Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR).
Hein, P. H., Helms, W., Lodge, J., & Woods, K. (2024). Disability Stigma at Work. In O. Branzei, & A. Zeyen (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to Disability and Work (1 ed., pp. 125-133). Taylor and Francis AS. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003350781-12
de Bree, M., & Stoopendaal, A. (2024). A regulatory perspective on organisational integrity. In Research Handbook on Organisational Integrity (pp. 243-256). Edward Elgar Publishing.
de Bree, M., & Stoopendaal, A. (2024). A regulatory perspective on organizational integrity. In Handbook of organizational integrity (pp. 243-256). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781803927930
Cornelissen, J. (2024). Defining the role of metaphor in organization studies. In The Oxford Handbook of Metaphor in Organization Studies (pp. 43-56). Ithaca/Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780192895707.013.2
Berens, G. (2024). Organizational Trust. In K. Podnar (Ed.), Elgar Encyclopedia of Corporate Communication (pp. 450-453). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781802200874.ch73
Augustine, G., Lodge, J., & Radic, M. (2024). From paralysis to publicization: How victims confront organizational harm. Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings, 2024(1). https://doi.org/10.5465/AMPROC.2024.315bp
Yacoub, M. H., Notenboom, M. L., Melina, G., & Takkenberg, J. J. M. (2024). Surgical Heritage: You Had to Be There, Ross: The Comeback Kid. Seminars in Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery: Pediatric Cardiac Surgery Annual, 27, 37-41. https://doi.org/10.1053/j.pcsu.2023.10.001
Notenboom, M. L., Van Hoof, L., Schuermans, A., Takkenberg, J. J. M., Rega, F. R., & Taverne, Y. J. H. J. (2024). Aortic Valve Embryology, Mechanobiology, and Second Messenger Pathways: Implications for Clinical Practice. Journal of Cardiovascular Development and Disease, 11(2), Article 49. https://doi.org/10.3390/jcdd11020049
Cetera, G. E., Punzi, M. C., Merli, C. E. M., & Vercellini, P. (2024). Menstrual products: culprits or bystanders in endometriosis and adenomyosis pathogenesis? Archives of Gynecology and Obstetrics, 310(4), 1823-1829. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00404-024-07713-w
Biermann, K. Y., Breitsohl, H., & Meijs, L. C. P. M. (2024). Occupation-Related Volunteering: A Qualitative Systematic Literature Review, Conceptualization, and Directions for Future Research. SAGE Open, 14(2). https://doi.org/10.1177/21582440241255834
Bauwens, T., Wade, R., & Burke, M. (2024). The energy commons: A systematic review, paradoxes, and ways forward. Energy Research and Social Science, 118, Article 103776. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2024.103776
Cornelissen, J., Höllerer, M. A., Boxenbaum, E., Faraj, S., & Gehman, J. (2024). Large Language Models and the Future of Organization Theory. Organization Theory, 5(1). https://doi.org/10.1177/26317877241239056
Biely, K., Sareen, S., de Vries, G., Chappin, E., Bauwens, T., & Montagnino, F. M. (2024). Understanding the embeddedness of individuals within the larger system to support energy transition. Sustainability Science, 19(3), 687-700. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-024-01493-7
Zhu, J., Gianoli, A., Noori, N., de Jong, M., & Edelenbos, J. (2024). How different can smart cities be? A typology of smart cities in China. Cities, 149, Article 104992. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2024.104992
Zhu, B., Guo, J., de Jong, M., Liu, Y., Zhao, E., & Jing, G. (2024). Predicting city branding choices made by Chinese metropolitan cities: examining the impact of geographic context and national plans. Journal of Place Management and Development, 17(3), 295-324. https://doi.org/10.1108/JPMD-04-2023-0042
Zhao, R., Edelenbos, J., & de Jong, M. (2024). Between branding and being: how are inclusive city branding and inclusive city practices related? Journal of Place Management and Development, 18(1), 20-39. https://doi.org/10.1108/JPMD-11-2023-0113
Yu, N., Dong, Y., de Jong, M., & Yue, J. (2024). How do new university presidents affect research performance? Measuring the impact of pervious career paths in China. Research Policy, 53(2), Article 104946. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2023.104946
Xu, C., Huo, X., Hong, Y., Yu, C., de Jong, M., & Cheng, B. (2024). How urban greening policy affects urban ecological resilience: Quasi-natural experimental evidence from three megacity clusters in China. Journal of Cleaner Production, 452, Article 142233. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2024.142233
Wittenberg, K., Corten, R., van der Lippe, T., & de Moor, T. (2024). The emergence of citizen collectives for care: the role of social cohesion. BMC Public Health, 24(1), Article 3360. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-024-20780-7
Williams, A., Parker, J. N., Kennedy, S., & Whiteman, G. (2024). A Process Study of Evolving Paradoxes and Cross-Sector Goals: A Partnership to Accelerate Global Sustainability. Journal of Management. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/01492063241278803
Werner, M. D., Punzi, M. C., & Turkenburg, A. J. K. (2024). Period Power: Organizational Stigma, Multimodality, and Social Entrepreneurship in the Menstrual Products Industry. Journal of Management Studies, 61(5), 2137-2180. https://doi.org/10.1111/joms.12974
Versteegt, L., van Dijke, M., & van den Bos, K. (2024). Physical distancing during the COVID-19 crisis: The roles of threat and moralization. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 54(3), 162-174. https://doi.org/10.1111/jasp.13021
Velasco-Herrejón, P., & Bauwens, T. (2024). Are energy transitions reproducing inequalities? Power, social stigma and distributive (in)justice in Mexico. Global Environmental Change, 87, Article 102883. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2024.102883
Veen, K. M., Koudstaal, T., Hendriks, P. M., Takkenberg, J. JM., Boomars, K. A., & van den Bosch, A. E. (2024). Prognostic value of tricuspid valve regurgitation in patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension and CTEPH: A longitudinal study. IJC Heart and Vasculature, 51, Article 101342. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijcha.2024.101342
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Education

Bachelor Programmes

The department of Business-Society Management contributes to the curriculum of both the Bachelor of Science in International Business Administration (IBA) programme and the Bachelor of Science in Business Administration (Bedrijfskunde) programme.

Masters in Global Business & Sustainability

Understanding the global challenges of sustainability is a vital skill for any future leader. Sustainability issues such as climate change, global inequality, social injustice and resource scarcity are amongst those central to the corporate strategy of today’s multinational businesses. These concerns of the wider society undoubtedly carry threats to the way in which many businesses currently operate, but they equally present new business opportunities to provide solutions and take advantage of a rapidly changing business world.

Our MSc Global Business & Sustainability is designed specifically for a new generation of leaders with the capacity to think critically about the sustainability challenges facing business and society both locally and globally. In this programme we bring students into close contact with the global frontrunners in corporate sustainability, with governmental organisations and with the non-profit sector. Our graduates gain theoretical knowledge alongside enhance managerial capabilities and skills to prepare for an international business career with meaningful impact in a wide variety of sectors.

Should you have any questions related to the content of our programme, please do not hesitate to visit us or to contact our MScBA coordinator, who will be happy to answer any of your questions.

– Dr. Marius van Dijke. - department chair