Profile
Korcan Kavusan is an Associate Professor of Strategy in the Department of Strategic Management & Entrepreneurship, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in Management at Tilburg University, the Netherlands.
His research focuses on interfirm relationships such as strategic alliances and acquisitions with a particular interest on how companies develop new technological and managerial capabilities through alliances and acquisitions, and how different stakeholders, such as managers and investors, make decisions regarding firms’ alliance and acquisition activities. His work is accepted for publication in the Strategic Management Journal, Strategic Organization, and Research Policy.
Korcan teaches graduate-level courses on strategic management, innovation strategy, and technology-driven interfirm relationships. Prior to earning his doctorate, he worked as an internal auditor for the UniCredit Group.
Publications
Article (8)
Academic (7)
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Mount, M., Ertug, G., Kavusan, K., George, G., & Zou, T. (2024). Reeling in the Slack: An Integrative Review to Reinstate Slack as a Central Theoretical Construct for Management Research. The Academy of Management Annals, 18(2), 473-505. https://doi.org/10.5465/annals.2023.0087
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Cuypers, I. R. P., Ertug, G., Noorderhaven, N. G., & Kavusan, K. (2024). The distinctiveness effect: How cross-country dissimilarities influence governance decisions. Strategic Organization. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/14761270241254756
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Kavusan, K., Ates, NY., & Nadolska, A. (2020). Acquisition target selection and technological relatedness: The moderating role of TMT demographic faultlines. Strategic Organization. https://doi.org/10.1177/1476127020919329
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Blagoeva, R., Kavusan, K., & Jansen, J. (2020). Who violates expectations when? How firms’ growth and dividend reputations affect investors’ reactions to acquisitions. Strategic Management Journal, 41(9), 1712-1742. https://doi.org/10.1002/smj.3155
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Kavusan, K., & Frankort, HTW. (2019). A behavioral theory of alliance portfolio reconfiguration: Evidence from pharmaceutical biotechnology. Strategic Management Journal, 40(10), 1668-1702. https://doi.org/10.1002/smj.3041
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Kavusan, K., Noorderhaven, N. G., & Duysters, G. (2017). Learning and specialization in strategic alliances. Rutgers Business Review, 2(2), 234-239.
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Kavusan, K., Noorderhaven, N. GN., & Duysters, GM. (2016). Knowledge acquisition and complementary specialization in alliances: The impact of technological overlap and alliance experience. Research Policy, 45(10), 2153-2165. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2016.09.013
Professional (1)
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Kavusan, K. (2017). Developing capabilities through strategic alliances. RSM Discovery - Management Knowledge, 29(1), 8-9. http://hdl.handle.net/1765/98611
Courses
Strategic Management
- Study year: 2024/2025, 2023/2024
- Code: BM22MIM
Strategic Decision-Making
- Study year: 2024/2025
- Code: BMME156
Past courses
OLD - Changing Business Strategically
- Study year: 2023/2024
- Code: BMSM09
Research Clinic
- Study year: 2023/2024
- Code: BMRCSE-SM
Behavioral Strategy
- Study year: 2022/2023
- Code: BERMASC047
