Profile
Frank Wijen is an Associate Professor at the Department of Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship of Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam. He holds a PhD in management from Tilburg University, where he also worked as a Senior Researcher. His research interests include institutional processes, globalization, power and influence, organizational learning, and corporate and national environmental management. Frank published in journals such as Academy of Management Review (2014, 2015), California Management Review (2011, 2018), Journal of Management (2022, 2023), Organization Science (2013), Organization Studies (2006, 2007), Regulation & Governance (2022), Strategic Management Journal (2018), and Strategic Organization (2011), and was the leading editor of A handbook of globalisation and environmental policy, second edition (2012, published by Edward Elgar).
Publications
Article (18)
Academic (16)
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Wijen, F., & Flowers, M. (2023). Issue opacity and sustainability standard effectiveness. Regulation & Governance, 17(3), 772-790. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1111/rego.12485
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Wang, R., Heugens, P., & Wijen, F. (2023). Green by Affiliation? Ownership Identity and Environmental Management System Adoption in Chinese Business Groups. Journal of Management. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/01492063221143721
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Liu, W., Heugens, P., Wijen, F., & van Essen, M. (2022). Chinese management studies: a matched-samples meta-analysis and focused review of indigenous theories. Journal of Management, 48(6), 1778-1828. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/01492063211073067
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Wijen, F., & Chiroleu-Assouline, M. (2019). Controversy over voluntary environmental standards: A socioeconomic analysis of the Marine Stewardship Council. Organization and Environment, 32(2), 98-124. https://doi.org/10.1177/1086026619831449
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Lyon, T., Delmas, M., Maxwell, J., Bansal, P., Chiroleu-Assouline, M., Crifo, P., Durand, R., Gond, JP., King, A., Lenox, M., Toffel, M., Vogel, D. J., & Wijen, F. (2018). CSR needs CPR: Corporate sustainability and politics. California Management Review, 60(4), 5-24. https://doi.org/10.1177/0008125618778854
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Wang, R., Wijen, F., & Heugens, P. (2017). Government's green grip: Multifaceted state influence on corporate environmental actions in China. Strategic Management Journal, 39(2), 403-428. https://doi.org/10.1002/smj.2714
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Wijen, F. (2015). Coupling, not decoupling, should be institutional theory's mantra: A rejoinder to Haack and Schoeneborn. Academy of Management Review, 40(2), 310-313. https://doi.org/10.5465/amr.2014.0464
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Wijen, F. (2014). Means versus ends in opaque institutional fields: Trading off compliance and achievement in sustainability standard adoption. Academy of Management Review, 39(3), 302-323. https://doi.org/10.5465/amr.2012.0218
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Ansari - Loan, S., Wijen, F., & Gray, B. (2013). Constructing a climate change logic: An institutional perspective on the "Tragedy of the commons". Organization Science, 24(4), 1014-1040. https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.1120.0799
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Wijen, F., & van Tulder, R. (2011). Integrating environmental and international strategies in a world of regulatory turbulence. California Management Review, 53(4), 23-46. https://doi.org/10.1525/cmr.2011.53.4.23
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Wijen, F., Noorderhaven, N., & Vanhaverbeke, W. (2011). Structural Antecedents of Corporate Network Evolution. International Journal of Business Environment, 4(3), 207-233. http://hdl.handle.net/1765/26290
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Ansari - Loan, S., Gray, B., & Wijen, F. (2011). Fiddling while the ice melts? How organizational scholars can take a more active role in the climate change debate. Strategic Organization, 9(1), 70-76. https://doi.org/10.1177/1476127010395525
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Wijen, F., & Ansari - Loan, S. (2007). Overcoming Inaction through Collective Institutional Entrepreneurship: Insights from Regime Theory. Organization Studies, 28(4), 1079-1100. https://doi.org/10.1177/0170840607078115
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Roome, NJ., & Wijen, F. (2006). Stakeholder power and organizational learning in corporate environmental managment. Organization Studies, 27(2), 235-263. https://doi.org/10.1177/0170840605057669
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Wijen, F., & Duysters, GM. (2005). Negotiating innovation: Product renewal as the outcome of a complex bargaining process. R and D Management, 35(1), 73-87.
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Wijen, F. (2003). Invloed en leren bij het milieumanagement van ondernemingen. MAB, 77(12), 586-593.
Professional (2)
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Wijen, F. (2014). Trade-offs in the adoption of sustainability standards. RSM Discovery - Management Knowledge, 19(3), 18-19. http://hdl.handle.net/1765/77135
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Wijen, F., & van Tulder, R. (2011). International Regulatory Turbulence: Strategies for Success. RSM Insight, 8(4), 4-6. Article 1. http://hdl.handle.net/1765/40125
Book (3)
Academic (3)
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Wijen, F., Zoeteman, K., Pieters, J., & Van Seters, P. V. (2012). A Handbook of Globalisation and Environmental Policy, Second Edition: National Government Interventions in a Global Arena. Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781849805773
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Wijen, F., Zoeteman, K., & Pieters, J. (2005). A handbook of globalisation and environmental policy: National government interventions in a global arena. Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781781954355
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Wijen, F., Zoeteman, K., & Pieters, J. (2005). A Handbook of globalisation and environmental policy: National government interventions in a global arena (hardback). Edward Elgar Publishing.
Book editing (1)
Academic (1)
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Wijen, F., Zoeteman, K., & Pieters, J. (2006). A handbook of globalisation and environmental policy: National government interventions in a global arena (paperback). Edward Elgar Publishing.
Book/Film/Article review (1)
Academic (1)
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Wijen, F. (2010). Book review: Thomas Lawrence, Roy Suddaby and Bernard Leca (eds): Institutional work: Actors and agency in institutional studies of organizations. Organization Studies, 31, 1744-1747. https://doi.org/10.1177/01708406100310120703
Chapter (5)
Academic (5)
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Wijen, F. (2017). The environmental (un)sustainability of the base-of-the-pyramid (BoP) philosophy: A governance perspective. In Sustainability Challenges and Solutions at the Base of the Pyramid: Business, Technology and the Poor (pp. 430-445). Taylor & Francis Ltd. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351279888-25
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Wijen, F., Zoeteman, K., Pieters, J., & van Seters, P. (2012). Globalisation and National Environmental Policy: Update and Overview. In F. Wijen, K. Zoeteman, J. Pieters, & P. van Seters (Eds.), A Handbook of Globalisation and Environmental Policy, Second Edition: National Government Interventions in a Global Arena (pp. 3-33). Edward Elgar Publishing. http://hdl.handle.net/1765/31149
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Wijen, F. (2007). Institutionalization as a Prerequisite for Sustainable Corporate Development. In Sanjay Sharma, & Mark Starik (Eds.), Organizations and the Sustainability Mosaic (pp. 106-132). Edward Elgar Publishing.
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Wijen, F., & Zoeteman, K. (2005). Architecture of the Kyoto Protocol and prospects for public climate policy. In F. Wijen et al. (Ed.), A handbook of globalisation and environmental polity: National government interventions in a global arena (pp. 595-623). Edward Elgar Publishing.
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Zoeteman, K., Wijen, F., & Pieters, J. (2005). Globalisation and national environmental policy: An overview. In F. Wijen, K. Zoeteman, & J. Pieters (Eds.), A handbook of globalisation and environmental policy: National government interventions in a global arena (pp. 1-29). Edward Elgar Publishing.
Conference article (1)
Academic (1)
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Liu, W., Heugens, P., Wijen, F., & Essen, M. (2021). Assessing and extending the unique contributions of Chinese management studies. Academy of Management. Annual Meeting Proceedings, 2021(1), Article Best Papers. https://doi.org/10.5465/AMBPP.2021.91
Conference proceeding (4)
Academic (4)
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Liu, W., Heugens, P., & Wijen, F. (2020). State political ideology as a corporate control mechanism: Evidence from China. In Academy of Management Conference proceedings
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Wang, R., & Wijen, F. (2015). Responding to complexity within a state logic: Environmental responsibility reporting in China. In Academy of Management Annual Meeting Best Paper Proceedings
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Wijen, F., & Slangen, A. (2012). The dark side of globalization for mature European multinationals: An extended network perspective. In R. Van Tulder, A. Verbeke, & L. Voinea (Eds.), Progress in International Business Research (Vol. 7, pp. 443-467). Emerald Group Publishing.
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Ansari - Loan, S., Wijen, F., & Gray, B. (2009). Averting the "tragedy of the commons": An institutional perspective on the construction and governance of transnational commons. In G. Solomon (Ed.), Academy of Management 2009 Conference Best Paper Proceedings
Paper (4)
Academic (4)
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Wang, R., & Wijen, F. (2015). Responding to complexity within a state logic: Environmental responsibility reporting in China. 1224-1229. Paper presented at 75th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, AOM 2015, Vancouver, Canada. https://doi.org/10.5465/AMBPP.2015.213
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Ansari, S., Wijen, F., & Gray, B. (2009). Averting the "tragedy of the commons": An institutional perspective on the construction and governance of transnational commons. Paper presented at 69th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, AOM 2009, Chicago, IL, United States. https://doi.org/10.5465/ambpp.2009.44244347
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Roome, NJ., Kolk, AJH., van der Woerd, F., & Wijen, F. (2002). Dynamic Aspects of Corporate Greening in Dutch Business. Paper presented at Greening of Industry Network Conference, Goteborg.
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Roome, NJ., Wijen, F., & de Groene, J. (2001). Organizational routines, environmental learning and stakeholder interaction. Paper presented at Greening of Industry Network Conference, Thailand.
Web publication/site (2)
Popular (2)
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Wijen, F. (Author). (2015). Trade-offs in the adoption of sustainability standards. Web publication/site, The Huffington Post.
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Wijen, F. (Author). (2015). Banning child labour imposes naive western ideals on complex problems (Op. Ed.). Web publication/site, .
Additional activities (2)
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Strategic Organization (Journal)
Editorial work (Academic)
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Organization Studies (Journal)
Editorial work (Academic)
Courses
IM Research clinic
- Study year: 2023/2024, 2022/2023, 2021/2022, 2020/2021
- Code: BM-IM-RC
- Level: Master
Global Business Strategies
- Study year: 2023/2024, 2022/2023, 2021/2022
- Code: BM02GBS
- Level: ERIM, Exchange, IM/CEMS, Master
Research Clinic PT
- Study year: 2023/2024, 2022/2023, 2021/2022
- Code: BMRSCMIM-P
- ECTS: 1 Level: Master
Past courses
Advanced Empirical Research Methods
- Study year: 2022/2023
- Code: BPTPHD2102
- ECTS: 1
Advanced Qualitative Methods
- Study year: 2022/2023
- Code: BPTPHD2203
- ECTS: 1
Advanced Quantitative Methods
- Study year: 2022/2023
- Code: BPTPHD2202
- ECTS: 1
Appraisal
- Study year: 2022/2023
- Code: BPTPHD1400
Argumentative Writing
- Study year: 2022/2023
- Code: BPTPHD2103
- ECTS: 1
Engaged Research
- Study year: 2022/2023, 2021/2022
- Code: BERMSKL025
- Level: PhD
Engaged Research
- Study year: 2022/2023
- Code: BPTPHD1302
- ECTS: 1
Finding Scholarly Literature & Data (Library workshop)
- Study year: 2022/2023
- Code: BPTPHD1102
Front End of Paper
- Study year: 2022/2023
- Code: BPTPHD2101
- ECTS: 1
Integrity in Research
- Study year: 2022/2023
- Code: BPTPHD1202
- ECTS: 1
Introduction to Academic Writing
- Study year: 2022/2023
- Code: BPTPHD1103
- ECTS: 1
Introduction to Causal Inference
- Study year: 2022/2023
- Code: BPTPHD1401
- ECTS: 1
Introduction to Empirical Research Methods
- Study year: 2022/2023
- Code: BPTPHD1301
- ECTS: 2
Introduction to Qualitative Methods
- Study year: 2022/2023
- Code: BPTPHD1304
- ECTS: 1
Peer Review Clinic
- Study year: 2022/2023
- Code: BPTPHD2204
- ECTS: 1
Peer Review Clinic
- Study year: 2022/2023
- Code: BPTPHD4101
- ECTS: 1
Philosophy of Science 1
- Study year: 2022/2023
- Code: BPTPHD1101
- ECTS: 2
Philosophy of Science II
- Study year: 2022/2023
- Code: BPTPHD1402
- ECTS: 1
Presentation Skills
- Study year: 2022/2023
- Code: BPTPHD3102
- ECTS: 1
Presentation Skills
- Study year: 2022/2023
- Code: BPTPHD4102
- ECTS: 1
Publication Strategy
- Study year: 2022/2023
- Code: BPTPHD3101
- ECTS: 1
Refreshers Statistics
- Study year: 2022/2023
- Code: BPTPHD1104
- ECTS: 1
Research Data Management
- Study year: 2022/2023
- Code: BPTPHD1305
- ECTS: 1
Research Data Management (Workshop)
- Study year: 2022/2023
- Code: BPTPHD1203
- ECTS: 2
Research Design & Theory Development
- Study year: 2022/2023
- Code: BPTPHD1201
- ECTS: 1
Systematic Literature Review
- Study year: 2022/2023
- Code: BPTPHD2201
- ECTS: 1
Visualisation Fundamentals
- Study year: 2022/2023
- Code: BPTPHD4103
- ECTS: 1
Writing Clinic
- Study year: 2022/2023
- Code: BPTPHD1303
- ECTS: 1
Qualitative research in Strategic Management & Strategic Entrepreneurship
- Study year: 2021/2022, 2020/2021, 2019/2020, 2018/2019
- Code: BMRMSE-SM-QUAL
- Level: Master
SM-M, Majorgebonden Methodologie Seminars
- Study year: 2021/2022, 2020/2021, 2019/2020, 2018/2019, 2017/2018, 2016/2017, 2015/2016, 2014/2015
- Code: BMA3139
- ECTS: 2
Sustainable Strategies
- Study year: 2021/2022, 2020/2021, 2019/2020, 2018/2019, 2017/2018, 2016/2017, 2015/2016
- Code: BMME085
- Level: Master, Master, Master, Master
Engaged Research
- Study year: 2020/2021
- Code: BERMSKL023
- Level: Master, PhD
IM Research clinic
- Study year: 2020/2021, 2019/2020
- Code: BM-IMRC
- Level: Master
ERIM Research Clinic Strategy and Entrepreneurship
- Study year: 2019/2020, 2018/2019, 2017/2018
- Code: BERMRC004
- ECTS: 4 Level: Master
Advanced Topics in Engaged Strategizing
- Study year: 2018/2019
- Code: BERMASC009
- ECTS: 5 Level: Master
Research Clinic Strategic Entrepreneurship & Strategic Management
- Study year: 2018/2019
- Code: BMRCSE-SM
- ECTS: 1 Level: Master
Research Methods Strategic Management and Strategic Entrepreneurship
- Study year: 2017/2018
- Code: BMRMSE-SM-17
- ECTS: 4 Level: Master
Research Skills in Entrepreneurship
- Study year: 2017/2018, 2016/2017, 2015/2016
- Code: BMRMSE
- ECTS: 4 Level: Master
Research Methods - A: Qualitative research
- Study year: 2016/2017, 2015/2016
- Code: BMRMSM-A
- ECTS: 4 Level: Master
Strategic management honours class
- Study year: 2015/2016
- Code: BMHONSM
- ECTS: 10 Level: Master
Research Methods - A: Qualitative data: Case studies, Interviews & analysis
- Study year: 2014/2015
- Code: RSMRMSM-A
- ECTS: 4 Level: Master
SM2, Methodologie Seminars
- Study year: 2014/2015
- Code: BMA3130
- ECTS: 2
Strategic management honours class
- Study year: 2014/2015
- Code: RSMHONSM
- ECTS: 10 Level: Master
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Trump has a great opportunity to save our environment
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Debate: What is the Role of Business in Humanitarian Issues?
What is the wider role of business in society? While it has long been acknowledged that big businesses in particular have a part to play – by virtue of their place in society as well as the people directly affected by their supply…
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keurmerken en de keuze tussen ‘slaafvrij’ of ‘slaafvol’ voedsel
Quality labels are too vague and have too many loopholes that one can question why we have them in the first place. Frank Wijen states that this can partially be explained by the competition between the quality labels. …
Thursday, 30 June 2016 -
'Keurmerkensysteem is onzinning'
In the article called 'Vier misverstanden over fairtrade' on the site of One World, author Wouter Mensink questions the necessity of hallmarks. Frank Wijen responds by approving of more generic sectoral, or even transcending…
Tuesday, 28 June 2016 -
Leeds Professor Receives the ARCS Emerging Sustainability Scholar Award
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Leeds Professor Receives the ARCS Emerging Sustainability Scholar Award
The next Alliance for Research on Corporate Responsibility (ARCS) Conference will be held at the Rotterdam School of Management at Erasmus University. The Conference Chair is Frank Wijen, Associate Professor of Strategic…
Monday, 6 June 2016 -
Leeds Professor Receives the ARCS Emerging Sustainability Scholar Award
The next Alliance for Research on Corporate Responsibility (ARCS) Conference will be held at the Rotterdam School of Management at Erasmus University. The Conference Chair is Frank Wijen, Associate Professor of Strategic…
Monday, 6 June 2016 -
Leeds Professor Receives the ARCS Emerging Sustainability Scholar Award
The next Alliance for Research on Corporate Responsibility (ARCS) Conference will be held at the Rotterdam School of Management at Erasmus University. The Conference Chair is Frank Wijen, Associate Professor of Strategic…
Monday, 6 June 2016