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.

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

2026

Kier, A. S., Thompson, N. A., Chiles, T. H., & Cornelissen, J. (2026). Entrepreneurial imagination: A pluralistic scoping review of a sprawling literature. Journal of Business Venturing, 41(1), Article 106555. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusvent.2025.106555

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
Touburg, G. (2025). Mythologizing Management through Metaphor in Business Teaching Cases. 14th International Critical Management Conference, Manchester, United Kingdom. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/381927187_Mythologizing_Management_through_Metaphor_in_Business_Teaching_Cases
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).
Ouacha, M., & Wieriks, R. H. Y. (2025). De paradox in de duurzaamheidsregelgeving - gelden de SDGs echt voor iedereen? De rol van diaspora in de implementatie van de SDGs in het Globale Zuiden. Advance online publication.
Versteegt, L. (2025). Moral self-regulation across contexts: From pandemic responses to behaviors in the workplace. [Doctoral Thesis, Erasmus University Rotterdam]. Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR).
Reshef, R. (2025). Ethical governance and legitimacy in welfare provision: The Amsterdam Ashkenazi community, 1673-1815. [Doctoral Thesis, Erasmus University Rotterdam]. 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).
Davids, I. (2025). Tensions in philanthropic relationships: Aspirations and actions of a grant-making foundation and its impact on grassroots associations. [Doctoral Thesis, Erasmus University Rotterdam]. Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR).
Gaara, A., Kaptein, M., & Berens, G. (2025). Corroborating and Extending a Typology of Public Relations Professionals’ Ethical Dilemmas: Unveiling Three Types of Unethical Behaviors. In Proceedings of the 75th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association
van Tulder, R., & Fortanier, F. (2025). BUSINESS AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: FROM PASSIVE INVOLVEMENT TO ACTIVE PARTNERSHIPS. In M. Kremer, & R. Went (Eds.), Doing Good or Doing Better: Development Policies in a Globalising World (1 ed., pp. 211-235). Taylor and Francis AS. https://doi.org/10.5117/9789089641076-9
Santamaria Echeverria, E., & De Moor, T. (2025). Unlocking Our Common Body? : Biological Materials, Data and Knowledge Commons for Research & Development. In A. Leonard, A. Gorbatyuk, & E. van Zimmeren (Eds.), The Future of IP : Stimulating Creativity and Inclusivity: Liber Amicorum Geertrui Van Overwalle (1 ed., pp. 257-275). Intersentia.
Page, M., & Takkenberg, H. (2025). Toward sustainable gender equity and inclusion culture in European business schools. In Women In, and Beyond, Business Schools (pp. 48-57). Taylor and Francis AS. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003640615-8
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.
de Jong, M., & Lu, H. (2025). Building styles in municipal architecture as expression of regional identity: the city branding of public space in French border areas. In A. Deffner, & M. Kavaratzis (Eds.), City Branding: Concepts and Tools for Reputation Management and Tourism Development (pp. 129-152). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781035347544.00017
Cornelissen, J., & Werner, M. (2025). Purpose-led communication: Practical steps towards defining your organisation's purpose and communicating meaningfully to your stakeholders. In The Purpose-Driven Organisation in Times of Climate Crisis (pp. 187-200). Taylor and Francis AS. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003545224-10
Cobut, L., Petrovics, D., & Bauwens, T. (2025). The transposition of renewable energy community provisions in Central and Eastern Europe: An evidence of varied polycentric governance systems. In EU Environmental Governance: Current and Future Challenges, Second Edition (pp. 76-92). Taylor and Francis AS. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003479260-7
Bauwens, T., & Wade, R. (2025). Unpacking the Energy Commons. In Postcapitalist Countrysides: From commoning to community wealth building (pp. 327-351). UCL Press.
VAN OVERBEEKE, P. S. M., Meijs, L. C. P. M., & Frey-Heger, C. (2025). BEYOND COSTS SAVING & INTERCHANGEABILITY: TOWARD A VALUE-BASED FRAMEWORK FOR VOLUNTEER CONTRIBUTIONS. Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings, 2025(1). https://doi.org/10.5465/AMPROC.2025.324bp
van der Straaten, K. (2025). Visions of inequality: from the French revolution to the end of the Cold War. Journal of International Business Policy, 8(4), 479. https://doi.org/10.1057/s42214-025-00230-w
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
Specht, K., Iodice, C., Monticone, F., Tonini, P., Petruzzelli, M., Carotti, L., Fox-Kämper, R., Toboso-Chavero, S., Orsini, F., Samoggia, A., & Vittuari, M. (2025). Measuring the social impact of City-region food system initiatives (CRFSIs): A systematic review of indicators and metrics. Sustainable Cities and Society, 128, Article 106462. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scs.2025.106462
Liu, Y., Fransen, J., de Jong, M., & Reins, L. (2025). From poverty alleviation to systemic change: A typology of frugal innovation and its contribution to the 3 pillars of sustainability. Journal of Cleaner Production, 523, Article 146462. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2025.146462
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). Collective Action in Crisis? Introduction to the Special Issue. Organization Studies, 46(7 Special Issue: Collective Action in Crisis?), 919-939. Article 01708406251336033. 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
Cetera, G. E., Punzi, M. C., & Boero, V. (2025). Rejecting the contraceptive pill. Times are changing faster than physicians’ minds: Gen Z’s pledge to be listened to. European Journal of Contraception and Reproductive Health Care, 30(6), 319-323. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/13625187.2025.2533949
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
Zhao, R., Edelenbos, J., de Jong, M., Belabas, W., & Björner, E. (2025). Challenges of implementing inclusive city policies in three European port cities. npj Urban Sustainability, 5(1), Article 47. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42949-025-00239-3
Wenzel, M., Gylfe, P., Mantere, S., & Cornelissen, J. (2025). The Manifold Impacts of Management Research. Journal of Management Studies. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1111/joms.13240
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
Versteegt, J., van Dijke, M., & Kaptein, M. (2025). The Status of Normative Ethical Decision-Making Models: The Development and Application of an Analytical Framework. Journal of Business Ethics. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-025-06094-7
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, 38(3), 403-439. https://doi.org/10.1177/10860266251326895
van Tuijl, E., de Jong, M., Knorringa, P., Björner, E., & Brorström, S. (2025). Invisible hands in energy transitions: installers in the European post-industrial cities of Gothenburg and Rotterdam. Energy Research and Social Science, 127, Article 104290. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2025.104290
van Houwelingen, G., & van Dijke, M. (2025). Cognitive abstraction increases prosociality when loyalty is valued lowly, but decreases prosociality when loyalty is valued highly. Scientific Reports, 15(1), Article 23869. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-09158-w
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
Toboso-Chavero, S., de Jong, M., Schraven, D., & Zisopoulos, F. K. (2025). Urban circular economy initiatives: Development and application of a unified theoretical framework. Cities, 167, Article 106371. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2025.106371
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
Swinkels, L., van Zanten, J. A., Rein, B., & Scholten, R. (2025). Financing the Sustainable Development Goals: Exploring the Role of Government Bond Investors. Financial Analysts Journal. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/0015198X.2025.2574831
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
Romein, A., Kırmızıaltın, S., Reshef, R., Schneider, C., Agostini, G., Charlton, A., Terras, M., & Nockels, J. (2025). From research proposal to project management. A guide from the Transkribus community on planning and executing workflows for researchers and GLAM-professionals. International Journal of Digital Humanities. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42803-025-00107-7
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., Albayrak, S., Veen, K. M., van Beynum, I., Swens, R., Roos-Hesselink, J. W., van de Woestijne, P. C., Etnel, J. R. G., Helbing, W. A., Takkenberg, J. J. M., & Bogers, A. J. J. C. (2025). Clinical course of severe congenital aortic valve stenosis in children. International Journal of Cardiology Congenital Heart Disease, 22, Article 100626. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijcchd.2025.100626
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
Morell-Delgado, G., Talens Peiró, L., & Toboso-Chavero, S. (Accepted/In press). The Journey of a Discarded T-shirt: From the Global North to the Atacama Dumpsite. Circular Economy and Sustainability, 5(6), 4957-4984. https://doi.org/10.1007/s43615-025-00618-z
Meijeren, M., & Meijs, L. C. P. M. (2025). Opening the Box of Quitting Volunteering in Refugee Aid Organizations. Voluntas. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11266-025-00787-3
Lodge, J., Augustine, G., & Radic, M. (Accepted/In press). From Paralysis to Publicization: How Victims of the UK Post Office Horizon Scandal Experienced and Confronted Organizational Harm. Academy of Management Journal.
Lauck, S. B., Gulati, M., Lewis, K. B., Straiton, N., Takkenberg, J. J. M., Nia, P. S., McGonigle, S., Padilla, K., Ross, E., Eltchaninoff, H., & Prendergast, B. (2025). A path forward for the implementation of shared decision-making in valvular heart disease: global joint recommendations from clinicians, patients and researchers. Health Research Policy and Systems, 23(1), Article 136. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12961-025-01393-x
Lansac, E., Veen, K. M., Joseph, A., Jaber, P. B., Sossi, F., Das-Gupta, Z., Aktaa, S., Sádaba, 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 Heart Journal - Quality of Care and Clinical Outcomes, 11(5), 515-528. https://doi.org/10.1093/ehjqcco/qcae051
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
Langmuur, S. J. J., Veen, K. M., Derks, D., Mokhles, M. M., Versteegh, M. I. M., Kluin, J., Brandon Bravo Bruinsma, G. J., Takkenberg, J. J. M., & Bredée, J. J. (2025). Sustainable Employability in Cardiothoracic Surgery: A Systematic Review Identifying Job Demands and Resources. European Journal of Cardio-thoracic Surgery, 67(9), Article ezaf275. https://doi.org/10.1093/ejcts/ezaf275
Kozak, J., Isański, J., Dyczewski, B., di Maggio, A., & Ouacha, M. (2025). Third Demographic Transition, Religion, Migrations and Economy: A Bibliometric Analysis of the Semantic Context. Religions, 16(8), Article 1015. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel16081015
Klok, J. M., Van Klaveren, D., Abdullah, S., Aerts, J. G. J. V., Mahtab, E. A. F., & Takkenberg, J. J. M. (2025). Shared decision-making in the treatment of non-small cell lung cancer stage I–IV: perspectives from patients and clinicians. BMJ Open Respiratory Research, 12(1), Article e003114. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjresp-2024-003114
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
Kaptein, M. (2025). Employees’ Fantasies about Unethical Behavior at Work: A Framework for Determining their Moral Seriousness. Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10672-025-09548-2
Kaptein, M. (2025). Normatively Reconciling Shareholder and Stakeholder Theories: The Ethical Responsibility of Business Is to Serve Its Shareholders by Serving Its Stakeholders. Open Journal of Business and Management , 13(2), 1000. https://doi.org/10.4236/ojbm.2025.132054
Kaptein, M. (2025). Stakeholder ethics: Defining the ethical responsibilities of stakeholders to and for companies¹. Business and Society Review, 130(2), 209-232. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1111/basr.70010
Kaptein, M. (2025). The Limits of the Ethical Responsibilities of Companies: Using Corporate Social Contract Theory to Identify Boundary Principles. Journal of Business Ethics. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-025-06109-3
Kaptein, M. (2025). To Punish or to Forgive: Managerial Responses to Unethical Employee Behavior from an Organizational Ethical Culture Perspective. Journal of Business Ethics. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-025-06163-x
Huizinga, K., & de Bree, M. (2025). Balancing Between Extremes: Goal Ambiguity-Based Strategies to Contain Goal Displacement in Regulatory Enforcement Agencies. Regulation and Governance. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1111/rego.70062
Hartwell, K., Patriotta, G., Spedale, S., & Cornelissen, J. (2025). Talking about strategy: Unpacking the connection between forms of talk and sensemaking in strategy work. Strategic Organization. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/14761270251340826
Greco, A., Torres Nadal, F., Danaj, E., & Smith, W. (2025). Media Review: Barbie and Ken—Staging Paradoxes to Bridge Polarization. Organization Studies, 46(2), 302 - 306. https://doi.org/10.1177/01708406241280000
Foncke, M., & De Moor, T. (2025). Easily accessible (small) LLMs in historical studies: opportunities, limitations, pitfalls. Proceedings of Science, 488. https://doi.org/10.22323/1.488.0004
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., 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 Herde, V., & De Moor, T. (2025). The hitchhiker’s guide to the organizational galaxy: overcoming challenges of data aggregation over time and space. Management and Organizational History. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/17449359.2025.2590125
de Bruin Cardoso, I., Kaptein, M., & Meijs, L. (2025). Exploring the dark side of NGO moral goodness: a conceptual framework on the NGO halo and its role in unethical behaviour. Voluntary Sector Review, 16(2), 302-321. https://doi.org/10.1332/20408056y2024d000000028
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
Cornelissen, J. (2025). The Problem with Propositions: Theoretical Triangulation to Better Explain Phenomena in Management Research. Academy of Management Review, 50(2), 342–365. https://doi.org/10.5465/amr.2022.0297
Cornelissen, J., & Werner, M. (2025). What Are Mechanisms? Ways of Conceptualizing and Studying Causal Mechanisms. Organizational Research Methods. https://doi.org/10.1177/1094428125131872
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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