Henk W. Volberda is Professor of Strategic Management & Innovation at Amsterdam Business School of the University of Amsterdam. Moreover, he is Scientific Director of the Amsterdam Centre for Business Innovation. His research focuses on various themes such as hyper-competition, technological disruption, new business models, strategic flexibility, management innovation and new forms of organisation.

Volberda holds various executive and advisory positions. He is a member of the supervisory board of NXP Semiconductors Netherlands and a member of the scientific advisory committee of the Netherlands Defense Academy. In addition, he is an expert member of the World Economic Forum and a fellow of the European Academy of Management. Previously, he was, among other things, a board member of the Netherlands Centre for Social Innovation and Vice-President Research of the European Academy of Management (EURAM).

Volberda is a member of the editorial board of, among others, the Journal of Strategy and Management, Long Range Planning, Management and Organization Review, Organization Studies, Holland Management Review and Maandblad voor Accountancy en Bedrijfseconomie. Volberda has held visiting scholarships at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business and at Cass Business School in London. 

Volberda is the author of numerous books, including Strategic Management: Competitiveness and Globalization (Cengage Learning EMEA, 2011), which is used as a strategy textbook by various business schools across Europe. Also, several editions of his book Innovation 3.0: Slimmer managen, organiseren en werken have been published. Some of his other well-known titles that have received international acclaim are Building the Flexible Firm: How to Remain Competitive (Oxford University Press 1998), which has been published in several languages, and Rethinking Strategy (Sage, 2001). His book Reinventing Business Models: How Firms Cope with Disruption (Oxford University Press, 2018) has been recently awarded with the Best Book Award of the European Academy of Management. This year he published three books, namely Strategic Renewal: Core Concepts, Antecedents, and Micro Foundations (Routledge, 2019),  Innovatie Jij.nu (Management Impact 2019) and De Nieuwe Professional Service Firm (Scriptum, 2019).

Volberda has published extensively in several international peer-reviewed journals, including Academy of Management Journal, Global Strategy Journal, Journal of International Business, Journal of Management, Journal of Management Studies, Management Science, Organization Science, Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal and Strategic Management Journal. For the fifth year in a row, Volberda has been included in the Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researcher list. In addition, he has received numerous awards for his research into organisational flexibility and strategic renewal, including the ERIM Impact Award, the Erasmus Research Award, the SAP Strategy Award and the prestigious Igor Ansoff Strategic Management Award.

The Amsterdam Centre for Business Innovation is host-institute of the World Economic Forum. We annually perform the Dutch Innovation Monitor. Morever, we collect the Dutch data for the Global Competitiveness Index, the Future of Jobs report as well as the Global Gender Gap Index of the World Economic Forum. 

Teaching Activities

MBA programs

Competitive & Corporate Strategy, Full-time MBA program

Competitive & Corporate Strategy, Executive MBA program

Leading Digital Transformation, MBA Big Data program

Strategic Management, MBA Health Management

Executive Programs

Leading Digital Transformation, Executive Program Master Studies

Various open-programs and in-company courses for Executive Education on Strategy, Innovation, Business Models, and Digital Transformation

MSc. Programs

Digital Transformation and Strategic Innovation, Master Digital Business, MSc program

2019

Best Book Award 2019 European Academy of Management

Volberda, H., Heij, K. and Van den Bosch, F. (2019), Best Book Award 2019 for Reinventing Business Models: How Firms Cope with Disruption (Oxford University Press), European Academy of Management, Lisbon, June. https://abs.uva.nl/content/news/2019/07/abs-researcher-and-professor-won-best-book-award-2019.html?origin=SKwIB6gJQ3Gjl9qlnkdvaA

 

Best Developing Paper Award British Academy of Management

Veter, L.J., Commandeur, H.R., Sidhu, J.S, & Volberda, H.W. (2019), Best Developing Paper Award for “Corporate leaders’ values and the 2030 agenda for sustainable development: The effect of social class and political ideology of Dutch board directors on Sustainable Development Goal preferences”, British Academy of Management, Aston University, Birmingham, September 5.

 

2018

 

Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researcher 2018

In recognition of ranking among the top 1% researchers for most cited documents in the field Economics and Business Selected as Highly Cited Researcher. Included in the 2018 World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds

 

EURAM Best paper Strategic Management SIG 2018

Best Paper Award of the European Academy of Management, SIG Strategic Management, Strategic Responsiveness and Adaptive Organizations Track: Tatjana Schneidmueller, Mariano Heyden & Henk Volberda, Audience Engagement As A Legitimizing Driver of Technological Discontinuity Adoption’.

 

EURAM Most Inspirational Paper Strategic Management SIG 2018

Best Paper Award of the SIG Strategic Management of the EURAM 2018 Annual Conference: Heij, C.V., & Volberda, H.W. (2018). ‘How does co-creation with customers influence exploitative and exploratory innovation? The moderating role of connectedness within an organization. EURAM Annual Conference: Reykjavik, Iceland (2018, June 21^th).

 

2017

Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researcher 2017

In recognition of ranking among the top 1% researchers for most cited documents in the field Economics and Business Selected as Highly Cited Researcher. Included in the 2017 World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds

 

Flexibility Excellence Award 2017

Award for research on flexible systems management. Professor Henk Volberda from Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University (RSM) won the Flexibility Excellence Award 2017 from the Global Institute of Flexible Systems Management Society (GIFT). It was the first time the recognition was awarded. Prof. Volberda received the prize at the institute’s annual conference in New Delhi, India. GIFT chairman and managing director Dr Dinesh Kumar Likhi says for the Flexibility Excellence Award, a committee of experts was formed to identify the contributions and efforts of academics worldwide in promoting the concept of flexibility. After rigorous information gathering and subsequent analysis, the committee recommended Prof. Henk W. Volberda as the first recipient of this prestigious award. The award was conferred upon him for his exemplary contribution in the area of flexible systems management which is recognised worldwide. Dr Likhi added that Volberda’s books Building the Flexible Firm: How to Remain Competitive (Oxford University Press, 1998) and his many academic articles are widely acclaimed in the domain.

 

Best paper runner-up award at Toronto FinTech Conference 2017

PhD candidate Tatjana Schneidmüller and her co-authors Prof. Henk W. Volberda of Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University (RSM) and Mariano L. M. Heyden, received the runner-up award for best paper at the First Annual Toronto FinTech Conference for the conference paper Audience Engagement and the Legitimization of Technological Discontinuities in Regulated Markets: Evidence from FinTech in October 2017. The paper studies how audience engagement - the attention and opinion - of peer bankers, financial services field experts, the general public, and regulators impacts the strategies that established banks employ to tackle the unprecedented wave of innovation in financial services – FinTech. The Annual Toronto FinTech Conference was held in Toronto, Canada on 20-21 October, and aimed to connect scholars in the fields of strategy, entrepreneurship, innovation, organisation theory, finance, and economics to discuss their research on the rise, diffusion, and disruptive potential of financial technologies (FinTech).

 

EURAM Fellowship

The European Academy of Management (EURAM) has appointed Professor Henk Volberda from Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University (RSM) as one of its fellows. This was announced by EURAM’s President Sibel Yamak at the community’s annual conference in Glasgow on 23 June 2017. RSM’s professor of strategic management and business policy received this international recognition for his scholarly work and his contributions in EURAM’s board as vice-president research. Volberda also chaired EURAM’s annual conference in 2012, won the European Management Review Best Paper Award in 2014, and founded the strategic management Special Interest Groups at EURAM. As a fellow, Volberda aims to contribute to the further professionalisation of EURAM’s management scholar community in terms of quality of the annual conference and the level of the doctoral consortium. EURAM has awarded the distinguished status of ‘EURAM Fellow’ to outstanding scholars since 2012. The ambassadorial and leadership role of the fellows supports the work of the EURAM Board and its Executive Committee. There are only 12 EURAM fellows in total, including Prof. Anna Grandori (Bocconi University, Italy), Prof. Anne Huff (TUM Business School, Germany), and Prof. Joan E. Ricart (IESE Business School, Spain).

 

2016

Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher 2016

In recognition of ranking among the top 1% researchers for most cited documents in the field Economics and Business Selected as Highly Cited Researcher. Included in the 2016 World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds

 

EURAM Best paper 2016

Best Paper Award of the European Academy of Management, Strategy and Business Model Innovation Track: Heij, C.V., Volberda, H.W. and Van Den Bosch, F.A.J. (2016). ‘How to leverage the impact of R&D on radical product innovations? The moderating effect of management innovation’.

 

2015

Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher 2015

In recognition of ranking among the top 1% researchers for most cited documents in the field Economics and Business Selected as Highly Cited Researcher. Included in the 2015 World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds

 

ERIM Award for Impact on Management Practice 2015

Volberda, H.W., Heij, K. (2015). INSCOPE – Research for Innovation.

 

Emerald Citation of Excellence 2015

Most highly cited and highly influential paper published in 2012 relating to the areas of Business Management, Finance, Accounting, Economics and Marketing; Management Innovation and Leadership: The moderating role of organizational size, Journal of Management Studies

 

BAM Best Full Paper Award 2015

Best Paper Award Inter-Organizational Collaboration: Partnerships, Alliances and Networks, Arici, M., Tuncdogan, A., Volberda, H. and Van den Bosch, F., “The Effects of Interorganizational Ambidexterity on Firm Performance: Evidence from Patent Data”.

 

EURAM Special Conference Management Innovation Best Paper 2015

Best Paper Award of the EURAM Thematic Conference “Management Innovation: New Border for a New Concept”, Montpellier, Montpellier Business School, July 9-10, 2015: Heij, C.V. and Volberda, H.W., “How do new management practices influence a firm’s innovation performance? The moderating role of organizational size”.

 

EURAM Best paper 2015

Best Paper Award of the European Academy of Management, Strategy and Business Model Innovation Track: Ramezanzadeh, M., Khanagha, S., Mihalache, O. and Volberda, H.W., “Business Model Innovation, Multinational Enterprises, and Global Customers’ Heterogeneous Preferences”.

 

ERIM Praeceptor Doctorum Celeberrimus Award

Highly Distinguished ERIM Promotor: This award is made for an ERIM Promotor who has delivered 25 PhD's as a career achievement. The text of the award is entirely written in Latin, and it contains a collage of all 25 dissertations.

 

2014

EURAM Best Paper 2014

Best Paper Award of the European Academy of Management, Innovation Track: Heij, C.V., Volberda, H.W. and Van den Bsoch, F.A.J, “How do Different Types of Business Model Innovation Influence Firm Performance: The Moderating Effect of Environmental Dynamism”.

 

European Management Review Best Paper Award 2013

Award for best paper in EMR of 2013: Volberda, H.W., Van den Bosch, F.A.J. and Heij, C.V. (2013), Management Innovation: Management as fertile ground for innovation, European Management Review, 10: 1-15.

 

ERIM High Impact Article Award 2014

Award for high-impact publication: Jansen, J.J.P., Tempelaar, M.P., Bosch, F.A.J. Van Den, Volberda, H.W. (2009), Structural Differentiation and Ambidexterity: The Mediating Role of Integration Mechanisms, Organization Science, 20 (4): 797- 811.

 

ERIM Best Book Award 2014

 Award for the book: Volberda, H.W., Van den Bosch, F.A.J. and Heij, C.V. (2014), Re-inventing business: hoe bedrijven hun businessmodel innoveren, Stichting Management Studies, Assen: Van Gorcum.

 

2011

CMI Management Book of the Year 2011

Nominated in the Category Management and Leadership Textbook as well as best E-books

 

2010

ERIM High Performance Researcher 2002-2010:

Recognition based on research output evaluations by ERIM Board

 

2008

Berenschot Thesis Award 2008:

 Second Prize for guiding the thesis ‘Tapping into the global brain; How four Dutch multinationals organize R&D in emerging economies to increase their absorptive capacity’ of former MSc student Michiel de Man.

 

Ernst & Young Master Thesis Award 2008:

 Second Prize for guiding the thesis ‘Tapping into the global brain; How four Dutch multinationals organize R&D in emerging economies to increase their absorptive capacity’ of former MSc student Michiel de Man.

 

2007

ERIM Top Article Award 2007:

Award for the article ‘Exploratory Innovation, Exploitative Innovation, and Performance: Effects of Organizational Antecedents and Environmental Moderators’ by Justin Jansen, Frans van den Bosch and Henk Volberda, published in Management Science.

 

ERIM Award for Impact on Management Practice 2007:

 Award based on the high societal impact of the research on Social Innovation, awarded to Henk Volberda, Frans van den Bosch and Justin Jansen.

 

2007

DSM Business to Business Thesis Award 2006:

 Award for guiding the winning master thesis ‘Double Handed Champions; Ambidextrous Organizations’ of former MSc student Krista Bruine de Bruin.

 

2005

ERIM Award for Impact on Management Practice 2005:

Award based on the high societal impact of the Innovation Essay “Rethinking the Dutch Innovation Agenda: Management Matters Most” produced for the Innovation Lecture of the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs 2004.

 

Best Strategy Paper Award of the first Annual Conference on Corporate Strategy 2005:

Award received March 12, 2005 in Germany for the paper on Innovation and Ambidexterity by Justin Jansen, Frans A.J. van den Bosch and Henk W. Volberda. Out of more than 100 papers from 10 countries an international Program Advisory Board selected this paper for the Award (€ 2.500 and plaque). The Award is sponsored by SAP AG Germany.

 

2003

ERIM Award for Impact on Management Practice 2003:

Award for focused and relevant research on Strategic Renewal in the Financial Services Sector published in a special issue of Long Range Planning entitled “Mastering Strategic Renewal: Lessons from the Financial Services”.

 

Cap Gemini, Ernst & Young Strategy Award 2003:

Award (Eur 2.500) for guiding the winning master thesis “Disaggregating the Firm by means of Business Process Outsourcing” of former M.Sc. student Carolien Heemskerk.

 

Who’s who in Science and Finance:

Bibliographical profile included in Who’s Who in Science and Finance, 2002-present.

 

Who’s who in Engineering:

Bibliographical profile included in Who’s Who in Engineering, 2002-present.

 

VSNU Review Committee:

In 2002 / 2003 the Research Program of the Department was evaluated by the VSNU Review Committee. This Program, coordinated by prof. H.W. Volberda and prof. F.A.J. Van Den Bosch was among the top two best evaluated programmes in Strategy in The Netherlands.

 

2002

Leyden University, CWTS study:

 ERIM Strategy Research Program, coordinated by prof. Dr. H.W. Volberda and prof. F.A.J. van den Bosch, ranked number one in the Netherlands and Europe in the period 1999 – 2001 in a Report by Leyden University on world-wide research in Management. The ranking is based on both output and impact of papers in leading scientific journals in the Strategy field.

 

ERIM Best Book Award 2002:

For Book volume “Rethinking Strategy” published by Sage (2001). It provides an essential and thoughtful overview of strategic management, with internationally renowned contributors summarizing the latest directions and developments in strategic management theory. These include redrawing firm boundaries, developing dynamic capabilities and discovering viable strategy configurations. As well as providing an outline and evaluation of the different schools of thought in strategy, the volume offers a well-integrated synthesis of the American and European approaches to the topic.

 

1999

ANBAR Citation of Excellence:

For the paper: Volberda, H.W. (1997), joint author, ‘Strategic Renewal: how large complex organizations prepare for the future’ International Studies of Management & Organization, 27 (2). The paper has been cited with the highest quality rating by ANBAR Electronic Intelligence.

 

Finalist of the 1999 SMS Best Conference Paper Prize:

For the paper: R.A. van Wijk, F.A.J. van den Bosch, H.W. Volberda, Absorptive Capacity in Internal Networks: Exploring or Exploiting New Knowledge?, Strategic Management Society 19^th Annual International Conference, Berlin, Germany, October 3-6, 1999. Prize consisted of a Honorable Mention (cheque and plaque), for second ranked paper.

 

ROA Professionele Publicatie Prijs 1999:

For winning article “Alliance Capability as source of Competitive Advantage” written by Johan Draulans, Ard-Pieter de Man and Henk W. Volberda and published in Holland Management Review. Johan Draulans was student, Henk Volberda supervisor, and Ard-Pieter de Man was consultant at KPMG alliances.

 

1997

Erasmus University research Award 1997:

 Award received for publications in the Strategy and Organization field. The award is presented each year to a University member who has shown outstanding research output.

 

1993

Igor Ansoff Strategic Management Award 1993:

International award received for thesis Organizational Flexibility: Change and Preservation, published by Wolters-Noordhoff. The Igor Ansoff Award is presented every two years to a person that has distinguished itself by making an outstanding theoretical or practical contribution to the development of strategic management and strategic thinking. The Award consists of a sculpture, a certificate and a cash prize of EUR 50,0000.

 

ERASM Award 1993:

Research Award received for PhD study Organizational Flexibility: Change and Preservation. The price was for the first time awarded by the Erasmus Institute for Advanced Studies in Management. ERASM is the Research Institute of the Rotterdam School of Management and was founded in 1993.

 

 

1987

NCD Scholarship 1987:

Prize received for Master's Thesis `Flexibility of Organizations'. This prize of EUR 12,500 from the Dutch Institute of Directors is annually awarded to the most outstanding Master's Thesis in the field of Management and Organization. The prize, a scholarship, had to be spent on a supple­mentary study outside the Netherlands.

EDITORSHIPS

• Member Editorial Board of Long Range Planning & Consulting Editor
• Member Editorial Review Board of Organization Studies
• Member of the Advisory Board of Management & Organization Review & Consulting Editor
• Member Editorial Review Board of Journal of Strategic Management Education
• Member of the Editorial Board of International Journal of Business Environment
• Member of the Editorial Board of Journal of Strategy and Management
• Member Editorial Board of giftjour@l, Global Journal of Flexible Systems Management
• Senior Editor of MAB, Maandblad voor Accountancy en Bedrijfseconomie
• Guest Referee Academy of Management Review
• Guest Referee Academy of Management Journal
• Guest Referee Strategic Management Journal
• Guest Referee European Management Review

 

ACADEMIC MEMBERSHIPS

• Member of the Academy of International Business (AIB)
• Member of the European International Business Academy (EIBA)
• Member of the Academy of Management (AoM)
• Member of the Strategic Management Society (SMS)
• Member of the European Group of Organizational Studies (EGOS)
• Member of Global Journal of Flexible Systems management (GIFT)
• Member of the Journal of Organizational Design Community
• Partnership of the Foundation of Maandblad voor Accountancy en Bedrijfseconomie (MAB)
• Member of the Society for the Advancement of Management Studies (SAMS)
• Member of the Dutch Vereniging voor Strategisch Management (VSB)
• Member of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences  (INFORMS)