RSM researchers win Best International Paper Award

Prof. Tine De Moor, of the department of Business-Society Management at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University (RSM) and Dr Fijnanda van Klingeren a former postdoctoral researcher of RSM and now a statistical researcher at Statistics Netherlands (CBS), have been honoured with the Journal of Management History Award for Best International Paper at the Academy of Management (AOM) annual meeting in Copenhagen on Monday, 28 July. Their paper, Contagious Institutions? A Longitudinal Study of Institutional Spill-Over of European Guilds, delves into the spread of guilds across Europe throughout the last 600 years.

The research of Prof. De Moor and Dr van Klingeren offers new perspectives on the factors that have influenced the expansion of guilds, emphasising institutional distribution over traditional explanations such as urban growth. By examining data from the twelfth to nineteenth century across four European countries, the authors provide valuable insights into the historical development of guilds.

Prof. De Moor: “Our research gives an alternative view on the spread of guilds as coordination mechanisms. Neighbouring regions influence each other heavily in the implementation of new institutions. These insights help us to understand how modern institutions for collective action, formed from the bottom-up, are adopted by other regions and how an institutional model can scale over time. Receiving this award gives a great boost to showing how historical, longitudinal insights can contribute to understanding the development of grassroots organisations today.”

RSM heartily congratulates Prof. De Moor and Dr van Klingeren on their accomplishment. For more information about this award-winning paper, please read the abstract.

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