Research


The Department of Organization and Strategy is active in the fields of internal organization, human resource management, entrepreneurship, industrial organization and strategy. The Department was founded on Sept. 1, 2002 by the merger of two sections in the Department of Management Science: Organization Studies and Strategy. Our research is pooled in two groups. Our research focusses upon the following subjects:

  • Small business management and entrepreneurship

  • Organizational change and learning. This includes personality effects on learning, team effects and market structure.

  • Human resource management

  • Top management teams

  • Cross cultural management

  • Alliances, mergers and innovation

  • Market dynamics, including themes such as entry and exit, investments, innovation and standardization.

Organization Group

For more information and links about the Organization Studies activities in the Department, please click here.

Research Strategy and Industrial Organization Group

For more information and links about the Strategy and Industrial Organization activities in the Department, please click here.

Additional information

You can find additional information about our research, education, and consulting activities in the following places:
  • Our Department hosts the Geert Hofstede Chair on Cultural Diversity.
  • Our staff page lists the websites of some of our staff members with additional information.
  • The Research school of the faculty is Meteor, the Maastricht research school of Economics of TEchnology and ORganizations. The Meteor website contains a reference to Research Memoranda that can be downloaded.
  • Our research memoranda can also be downloaded from the NetEc website .
  • The Institute for Scientific Information (Thomson ISI) has ranked the head of our Department, Prof. Dr. John Hagedoorn, at number 79 in their top 100 of worldwide most cited scientists in the field of economics and business. The ranking is based on an analysis of citations of papers. For more information see the website of Thomson ISI .
Academic associations where we tend to present our work include the following: A small selection of key publications indicates the breadth of topics and the wide range of top academic journals and books that we publish in:
  • Bammens, Y.P.M., Gils, A.E.J. van & Voordeckers, W. (2008). Boards of directors in family firms: A generational perspective. Small Business Economics, 31(2), 163-180.
  • Belderbos, R.A., Carree, M.A. & Lokshin, B. (2006). Complementarity in R&D cooperation strategies. Review of Industrial Organization, 28(4), 401-426.
  • Belderbos, R.A., Lykogianni, E. & Veugelers, R. (2008). Stratgic R&D Location by Multinational Firms: Spilovers, Technology Sourcing and Competition Spilovers. Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 17(3), 759-779.
  • Belderbos, R.A. & Heijltjes, M.G. (2005). The determinants of expatriate staffing by Japanese multinationals in Asia control, learning and vertical business groups. Journal of International Business Studies, 36(3), 341-354.
  • Blumberg, B.F. & Letterie, W.A. (2008). Business starters and credit rationing. An empirical analysis of credit application and denial. Small Business Economics, 30, 187-200.
  • Carree, M.A. & Bun, M. (2005). Bias-Corrected estimation in Dynamic Panel Data Models. Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, 23(2), 200-210.
  • Carree, M.A., Thurik, A.R., Stel, A. van & Audretsch, D. (2008). Does Self-Employment Reduce Unemployment? Journal of Business Venturing, 23(6), 673-686.
  • Carree, M.A. & Dejardin, M. (2007). Entry Thresholds and Actual Entry and exit in Local Markets. Small Business Economics, 29, 203-212.
  • Carree, M.A. & Thurik, A.R. (2008). The Lag Structure of the Impact of Business Ownership on Economic Performance in OECD Countries. Small Business Economics, 30, 101-110.
  • Clegg, S.R., Rhodes, C. & Kornberger, M. (2007). Desperately Seeking Legitimacy: Organizational Identity and Emerging Industries. Organization Studies, 28(4), 495-513.
  • Clegg, S.R. (2005). Puritans, Visionaries and Survivors. Organization Studies, 26(4), 527-546.
  • Clegg, S.R. (2005). Vita Contemplativa: A Life in Part. Organization Studies, 26(2), 291-309.
  • Czarnitzki, D., Glänzel, W. & Hussinger, K. (2009). Heterogeneity of Patenting and Implicators for Basic research. Research Policy, 23(38), 26-34.
  • Hagedoorn, J. (2006).  Understanding the cross-level embeddedness of inter-firm partnership formation. Academy of Management Review, 31, 670-680.
  • Hagedoorn, J. & Hesen, G (2007). Contract Law and the Governance of inter-firm technology- An analysis of different modes of partnering and their contractual implications. Journal of Management Studies, 44, 343-366.
  • Hagedoorn, J., Gomes-Casseres, B & Jaffe, A. (2006). Do alliances promote knowledge flows? Journal of Financial Economics, 80, 5-33.
  • Hagedoorn, J., Letterie, W.A., Kranenburg, H.L. van & Palm, F.C. (2008). Information gathering through alliances. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 66, 176-194.
  • Hagedoorn, J., Cloodt, D.A.M. & Kranenburg, H.L. van (2005). Intellectual property rights and the governance of international R&D partnerships. Journal of International Business Studies, 36(2), 175-186.
  • Hagedoorn, J. & Roijakkers, A.H.W.M. (2006). Inter-firm R&D partnering in pharmaceutical biotechnology since 1975: trends, patterns and networks. Research Policy, 35, 431-446.
  • Hagedoorn, J., Cloodt, M.M.A.H. & Kranenburg, H.L. van (2006). Mergers and acquistions: their effect on the innovative performance of companies in high-tech industries. Research Policy, 35, 642-654.
  • Hussinger, K. (2008). R&D and Subsidies at the Firm level: An Application of Parametric and Semi-Parametric Two Step Selection Models. Journal of Applied Econometrics, 23, 729-747.
  • Letterie, W.A. & Pfann, G.A. (2007). Structural identification of high and low investment regimes. Journal of Monetary Economics, 54, 797-839.
  • Lokshin, B., Belderbos, R.A. & Carree, M.A. (2008). The productivity effects of internal and external R&D: evidence from a dynamic panel data model. Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 70(3), 399-413.
  • Naus, A.J.A.M., Iterson, A.T.M. van & Roe, R.A. (2007). Organizational cynicism: Extending the Exit, Voice, Loyalty, and Neglect model of employees' responses to dissatisfaction in the workplace. Human Relations, 60(5), 683-718.
  • Peng, T.K. & Peterson, M.F. (2008). Nation, Demographic and Attitudinal Boundary Conditions on Leader Social Rewards and Punishments in Local Goverments. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 29(1), 95-117.
  • Peterson, M.F. & Thomas, D.C. (2007). Organizational Behavior in Multinational Organizations. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 48(3), 261-279.
  • Pfann, G.A. (2006). Downsizing and Heterogeneous Firing Costs, Review of Economics and Statistics, 88(1), 158-170.
  • Raes, A., Glunk, U., Heijltjes, M.G. & Roe, R.A. (2007). Top management team and middle managers: making use of leadership. Small Group Research, 38(3), 360-386.
  • Schwieren, C.A.A. & Glunk, U. (2008). Mechanisms underlying nationality-based discrimination in teams: A field experiment testing predictions from social psychology and microeconomics. Small Group Research, 39, 643-672.
  • Solinger, O.N., Olffen, W. van & Roe, R.A. (2008). Beyond the three-component model of organizational commitment. Journal of Applied Psychology, 91(1), 70-83.