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Prof. Hans van Oosterhout

Hans van Oosterhout

Professor of Corporate Governance and Responsibility
Rotterdam School of Management (RSM)
Erasmus University Rotterdam

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Hans van Oosterhout is a professor of corporate governance and responsibility at the Department of Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University (RSM).



His research is in comparative corporate governance, involving both comparisons between different national corporate governance systems, and comparisons between different forms of enterprise organization.

 



His current research focuses on how jurisdiction level institutions shape the respective role of owners and executives in publicly listed firms, and on the corporate governance challenges and practices of professional partnerships, family firms, and philanthropic organizations.

 



Professor van Oosterhout has published extensively in journals including the Academy of Management Review, Organization Studies, the Journal of Management Studies, Business Ethics Quarterly and the Journal of Business Ethics.

 



He has held visiting positions at the Australian National University and the The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

 



Professor van Oosterhout obtained an MA Cum Laude in political science from Leiden University and a PhD in Management from Erasmus University.

Publications

Article (31)

  • Academic (28)

    • Vishwanathan, P., Oosterhout, H., Heugens, P., Duran Solis, PA. P. A., & Essen, M. (2019). Strategic CSR: a concept building meta-analysis. Journal of Management Studies, 57(2), 314-350. https://doi.org/10.1111/joms.12514

    • Essen, M., Heugens, P., Duran, P., Saleh, SF., Sauerwald, S., Oosterhout, H., & Xie, E. (2019). How concentrated owners improve the performance of Asian firms: Filling voids or imposing effective governance? The Multinational Business Review, 28(1), 39-63. https://doi.org/10.1108/MBR-07-2019-0078

    • Lander, M., Oosterhout, H., Heugens, P., & Pruijssers, J. (2018). Career stage dependent effects of law firm governance: A multilevel study of professional-client misconduct. Human Relations, 72(9), 1497-1529. https://doi.org/10.1177/0018726718796157

    • Pruijssers, J., Heugens, P., & Oosterhout, H. (2018). Winning at a losing game? Side-effects of perceived tournament promotion incentives in audit firms. Journal of Business Ethics, 162, 149-167. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-018-3991-2

    • Lander, M., Heugens, P., & Oosterhout, H. (2017). Towards an integrated framework of professional partnership performance: The role of formal governance and strategic planning. Human Relations, 70(4), 1-27. https://doi.org/10.1177/0018726717700697

    • Lander, M., Heugens, P., & Oosterhout, H. (2017). Drift or alignment? A configurational analysis of law firms’ ability to combine profitability with professionalism. Journal of Professions and Organization, 4(2), 123-148. https://doi.org/10.1093/jpo/jow011

    • Sauerwald, S., Oosterhout, H., & Essen, M. (2016). Proxy advisors and shareholder dissent. A cross-country comparative study. Journal of Management, 44(8), 3364-3394. https://doi.org/10.1177/0149206316675928

    • Sauerwald, S., Oosterhout, H., & Essen, M. (2016). Expressive Shareholder Democracy: A Multilevel Study of Shareholder Dissent in 15 Western European Countries. Journal of Management Studies, 53(4), 520-551. https://doi.org/10.1111/joms.12171

    • Essen, M., Oosterhout, H., & Heugens, P. (2013). Competition and cooperation in corporate governance: The effects of labor institutions on blockholder effectivess in 23 European countries. Organization Science, 24(2), 530-551. https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.1120.0742

    • Essen, M., Heugens, P., Oosterhout, H., & Otten, J. (2012). An institution-based view of executive compensation: A multilevel meta-analytic test. Journal of International Business Studies, 43(4), 396-423. https://doi.org/10.1057/jibs.2012.6

    • Oosterhout, H., Essen, M., & Carney, M. (2011). Corporate boards and the performance of Asian firms: A meta-analysis. Asia Pacific Journal of Management, 29(4), 873-905. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10490-011-9269-1

    • Carney, M., Gedajlovic, ER., Heugens, P., Essen, M., & Oosterhout, H. (2011). Business group affiliation, performance, context, and strategy: A meta-analysis. Academy of Management Journal, 54(3), 437-460. https://doi.org/10.5465/AMJ.2011.61967812

    • Oosterhout, H. (2010). The Role of Corporations in Shaping the Global Rules of the Game: In Search of New Foundations. Business Ethics Quarterly, 20(2), 253-264. https://doi.org/10.5840/beq201020218

    • Heugens, P., Essen, M., & Oosterhout, H. (2009). Meta-analyzing ownership concentration and firm performance in Asia: Towards a more fine-grained understanding. Asia Pacific Journal of Management, 26(3), 481-512. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10490-008-9109-0

    • Oosterhout, H., & Heugens, P. (2009). Extant social contracts in global business regulation: Outline of a research agenda. Journal of Business Ethics, 88(4), 729-740. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-009-0329-0

    • Oosterhout, H. (2008). Transcending the confines of political and Economic organization; The misguided metaphor of corporate citizenship. Business Ethics Quarterly, 18(1), 35-42. https://doi.org/10.5840/beq20081813

    • Heugens, P., Kaptein, M., & Oosterhout, H. (2008). Contracts to communities: A processual model of organizational virtue. Journal of Management Studies, 45(1), 100-121. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-6486.2007.00738.x

    • Oosterhout, H., Heugens, P., & Kaptein, M. (2007). Contractualism vindicated; A response to Boatright. Academy of Management Review, 32(1), 295-297. https://doi.org/10.5465/AMR.2007.23467343

    • Oosterhout, H. (2007). Authority and Democracy in Corporate Governance? Journal of Business Ethics, 71(4), 359-370. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-006-9146-x

    • Jong, A., Mertens, G., Oosterhout, H., & Dort, H. (2007). How useful is shareholder intervention? Management Control en Accounting, 11(2), 8-15.

    • Heugens, P., Oosterhout, H., & Kaptein, M. (2006). Foundations and applications for contractualist business ethics. Journal of Business Ethics, 68(3), 211-228. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-006-9011-y

    • Oosterhout, H., Heugens, P., & Kaptein, M. (2006). The internal morality of contracting: Advancing the contractualist endeavor in business ethics. Academy of Management Review, 31(3), 521-539. https://doi.org/10.5465/AMR.2006.21318915

    • Heugens, P., Kaptein, M., & Oosterhout, H. (2006). The ethics of the node versus the ethics of the dyad? Reconciling virtue ethics and contractualism. Organization Studies, 27(3), 391-411. https://doi.org/10.1177/0170840606062428

    • Oosterhout, H. (2005). Corporate Citizenship; An idea whose time has not come. Academy of Management Review, 30(4), 677-681. https://doi.org/10.5465/AMR.2005.18378871

    • Heugens, P., Kaptein, M., & Oosterhout, H. (2004). Ties that grind? Corroborating a typology of social contracting problems. Journal of Business Ethics, 49(3), 235-252. https://doi.org/10.1023/B:BUSI.0000017960.17747.56

    • Oosterhout, H., Wempe, B., & van Willigenburg, T. T. (2004). Rethinking Organizational ethics: a plea for pluralism. Journal of Business Ethics, 55(4), 387-395. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-004-1347-6

    • Heugens, P., & Oosterhout, H. (2002). The Confines of Stakeholder Management: Evidence from the Dutch Manufacturing Sector. Journal of Business Ethics, 40(4), 387-404. https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1020807101387

    • Heugens, P., & Oosterhout, H. (2001). To boldly go where no man has gone before: integrating cognitive and physical features in scenario studies. Futures, 33(10), 861-872. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0016-3287(01)00023-4

  • Professional (3)

    • Oosterhout, H. (2016). Does shareholder voting matter in Europe? RSM Discovery - Management Knowledge, 28(4), 8-10. http://hdl.handle.net/1765/94704

    • Oosterhout, H., Heugens, P., & Essen, M. (2013). The effect of blockholders in corporate governance. RSM Insight, 13(1), 18-19. http://hdl.handle.net/1765/40134

    • Otten, J., & Oosterhout, H. (2008). Bestuurdersbeloning: Ideologie, Symboliek of Instrument van Corporate Governance? Ondernemingsrecht, (8), 290-296.

Book (1)

  • Academic (1)

    • Heugens, P., Oosterhout, H., & Vromen, J. (2004). The Social Institutions of Capitalism: Evolution and Design of Social Contracts. Edward Elgar Publishing.

Chapter (7)

  • Academic (7)

    • Heugens, P., & Oosterhout, H. (2008). Much ado about nothing: A conceptual critique of corporate social responsibility. In D. S. Siegel, D. Matten, A. McWilliams, & A. Crane (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Corporate Social Responsibility (pp. 197-223). Oxford University Press.

    • Heugens, P., Oosterhout, H., & Vromen, J. (2004). Social Contract Theories: E Pluribus Unum? In P. P. M. A. R. Heugens, & J. Van Oosterhout (Eds.), The Social Institutions of capitalism: Evolution and Design of Social Contracts (pp. 1-19). Edward Elgar Publishing.

    • Heugens, P., Kaptein, M., Oosterhout, H., & Wempe, JFDB. J. (2002). Ethical Criteria for Corporations. In S. P. Kaptein, & J. Wempe (Eds.), The Balanced Company: a Theory of Corporate Integrity (pp. 227-262). Oxford University Press.

    • van Rutte, KL., & Oosterhout, H. (2002). Standard Argumentative Strategies in Conceptualizing Business Ethics. In D. Windsor, & S. Welcomer (Eds.), 2002 Proceedings Thirteenth Anual Conference Victoria (B.C.) June 27-30 2002 of the International Association for Business and Society (pp. 61-65)

    • Oosterhout, H., Wempe, B., & van Willigenburg, T. T. (2002). A Critique of Monistic Organizational Ethics. In Proceedings Ninth Annual International Conference Promoting Business Ethics

    • Essers, J., & Oosterhout, H. (2000). Het analyseren en schrijven van een betoog. In P. van Engeldorp Gastelaars (Ed.), Elementen van bedrijfskundig onderzoek (pp. 175-209). ServicePost.

    • Oosterhout, H., Heugens, P., & Kaptein, M. (2000). Normative documents, the contract model, and stakeholder management. In K. A. Getz, & D. Windsor (Eds.), Proceedings Eleventh Annual Conference Essex Junction, March 16-19, 2000 of the International Association for Business and Society (pp. 276-281). International Association for Business /Society.

Comment/Letter to the editor (1)

  • Academic (1)

    • Pruijssers, J. L., Heugens, P. P. M. A. R., & van Oosterhout, J. (2020). Correction to: Winning at a Losing Game? Side-Effects of Perceived Tournament Promotion Incentives in Audit Firms (Journal of Business Ethics, (2020), 162, 1, (149-167), 10.1007/s10551-018-3991-2). Journal of Business Ethics, 162(1), 169. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-018-4016-x

Conference contribution (2)

  • Academic (2)

    • Oosterhout, H., Wempe, B., & van Willigenburg, T. T. (2004). ISCT and the Call for Practical Guidance. IABS Annual Conference, Jackson Hole, Wyoming.

    • Oosterhout, H., Wempe, B., & van Willigenburg, T. T. (2004). Contractualism and the Project for an Integrative Organizational Ethics. IABS Fifteenth Annual Conference, Jackson Hole, Wyoming.

Conference proceeding (1)

  • Academic (1)

    • Oosterhout, H. (2010). Can the Firm Be Seen to Emerge out of a Pincer Movement of Efficiency Pressures? In A. M. Pacces (Ed.), The Law and Economics of Corporate Governance (pp. 290-296). Edward Elger Publishing.

Doctoral Thesis (1)

  • Internal (1)

    • Oosterhout, H. (2002). The Quest for Legitimacy; On Authority and Responsibility in Governance. Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam. http://hdl.handle.net/1765/362

Inaugural speech (1)

  • Popular (1)

    • Oosterhout, H. (2008). Het disciplineringsmodel voorbij; over autoriteit en legitimiteit in Corporate Governance. Erasmus Research Institute of Management. http://hdl.handle.net/1765/13229

Report (1)

  • Academic (1)

    • Jong, A., Mertens, G., Oosterhout, H., & Dort, H. (2007). Corporate governance practices of institutional investors: substance or symbolism? Eumedion and Nederlandse Corporate Governance Stichting.

Media

Media items

  • Familiebedrijven zijn de ruggengraat van de Nederlandse economie

    Family companies are the backbone of the Dutch economy. These companies have certain issues on the family, business and ownership divide that are specific to this type of company. To increase knowledge and understanding of family…

    Over Ondernemen Friday, 23 June 2017
  • Wat aandeelhouders eigenlijk willen zeggen met hun tegenstem

    Shareholders sometimes behave like angry and anxious voters, according to new research by Hans van Oosterhout, Professor of Corporate Governance. Their dissenting vote at shareholders' meetings often does not focus on the…

    CFO Monday, 20 March 2017
  • Hoogleraar: voorstellen topmanagement vrijwel altijd kritiekloos aangenomen

    Shareholders sometimes behave like angry and anxious voters, according to new research by Hans van Oosterhout, Professor of Corporate Governance. Their dissenting vote at shareholders' meetings often does not focus on the…

    De Telegraaf Friday, 17 March 2017
  • ‘Boze aandeelhouder lijkt op boze kiezer’

    Shareholders sometimes behave like angry and anxious voters, according to new research by Hans van Oosterhout, Professor of Corporate Governance. Their dissenting vote at shareholders' meetings often does not focus on the…

    EUR.nl Tuesday, 14 March 2017
  • Nieuwe code, geen nieuwe macht

    British Prime Minister Theresa May has her eye on at least one of the perpetrators of the unrest in the West: large companies. They must cooperate with the government to restore confidence in the market economy. "In general, you…

    NRC Handelsblad Wednesday, 7 December 2016

Discovery items

What shareholders really mean when they vote ‘No’
Monday, 27 March 2017

Shareholders who vote against management proposals often do this to express their dissatisfaction with the company's management.

The effect of blockholders in corporate governance
Sunday, 10 March 2013

Courses

Corporate Governance

  • Study year: 2021/2022, 2020/2021, 2019/2020
  • Code: BM29MIM
  • ECTS: 4 Level: Master

Corporate Governance PT

  • Study year: 2021/2022, 2020/2021
  • Code: BM29MIM-P
  • ECTS: 4 Level: Master

Corporate strategy and growth

  • Study year: 2021/2022, 2020/2021
  • Code: BMSM03
  • Level: ERIM, Exchange, IM/CEMS, Master

Corporate Ownership and Governance

  • Study year: 2021/2022, 2020/2021, 2019/2020
  • Code: BMSM04
  • Level: ERIM, Exchange, IM/CEMS, Master

Managing Business Strategically

  • Study year: 2021/2022, 2020/2021
  • Code: BMSM08
  • Level: ERIM, Exchange, IM/CEMS, Master

Changing Business Strategically

  • Study year: 2021/2022, 2020/2021
  • Code: BMSM09
  • Level: ERIM, Exchange, IM/CEMS, Master

Past courses

Business Strategy Skills

  • Study year: 2020/2021, 2019/2020
  • Code: BMSM07
  • ECTS: 3 Level: Master

Strategy, Organization & Governance

  • Study year: 2019/2020
  • Code: BERMASC046
  • Level: Master

Corporate governance

  • Study year: 2018/2019, 2017/2018, 2016/2017, 2015/2016
  • Code: BM02MIM
  • ECTS: 2 Level: Master

Philosophy of Science

  • Study year: 2018/2019, 2017/2018, 2016/2017, 2015/2016
  • Code: BAB28
  • ECTS: 3 Level: Bachelor 2, Bachelor 2, Pre-master

Philosophy of science

  • Study year: 2018/2019, 2017/2018, 2016/2017, 2015/2016
  • Code: BKB2016
  • ECTS: 3 Level: Bachelor 2, Pre-master

Philosophy of Science

  • Study year: 2017/2018, 2016/2017, 2015/2016, 2014/2015, 2013/2014, 2012/2013
  • Code: BKB1016
  • ECTS: 3

Topics in FinTech

  • Study year: 2017/2018
  • Code: BERMSS020
  • ECTS: 3 Level: Master

Philosophy of Science

  • Study year: 2016/2017, 2015/2016, 2014/2015, 2013/2014, 2012/2013
  • Code: BAB26
  • ECTS: 3

Corporate governance

  • Study year: 2014/2015, 2013/2014, 2012/2013
  • Code: BKM02GM
  • ECTS: 2 Level: Master

Governance and strategic challenges of family enterprises

  • Study year: 2014/2015
  • Code: RSMME013
  • ECTS: 6 Level: Master, Master

BIM research topics block 1

  • Study year: 2013/2014
  • Code: RSM03BIM
  • ECTS: 1 Level: Master

Leadership, sustainability & governance

  • Study year: 2012/2013
  • Code: BKB1029
  • ECTS: 5 Level: Bachelor 2

Premaster - Corporate governance, law & ethics

  • Study year: 2012/2013
  • Code: BKM02GM-PR
  • ECTS: 2

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What shareholders really mean when they vote ‘No’

What shareholders really mean when they vote ‘No’

Shareholders who vote against management proposals often do this to express their dissatisfaction with the company's management.

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Contact information

+31 10 4081974

joosterhout@rsm.nl

Visiting address

Office: Mandeville Building T07-53
Burgemeester Oudlaan 50
3062 PA Rotterdam

Postal address

Postbus 1738
3000 DR Rotterdam
Netherlands

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