Aimé Heene

Prof. Dr. Aimé Heene is a part time senior full professor at Ghent University (retired) and at the University of Antwerp. He is visiting professor at the College of Europe in Bruges since 2008. He headed the Department Management and Organization at Ghent University from 2005 to 2010. He holds a Ph.D. in educational sciences, a M.A. in Psychological and Educational Sciences and an MBA from Ghent University. Prof. Heene teaches strategic management for private and for public organizations and currently focuses his research on Strategic management, corporate social responsibility, systems thinking, and complexity management. He has been the vice-president of the Dutch-Flemish Academy for Management, a founding member and secretary of the Flemish Strategy Society, a member of the advisory board of the European Foundation for Business Qualification, and the national representative for Belgium and a board member of the European Academy of Management. Prof. Heene published six Dutch books on strategic management and has served as a co-editor of more than twenty English volumes on competence-based strategy theory. He is a co-editor of “Research in Competence Based Management”, a new serials published from 2005 on. He published (together with Ron Sanchez) “The New Strategic Management”, a textbook on a new view on strategic management theory, research, and practice. Prof. Heene is a member of the editorial board of several journals. Since 1992 he (co)chaired ten international conferences and workshops on competence-based strategic management.

Prof. Heene currently teaches (strategic) management courses at LSM (Louvain La Neuve), Academie voor Management (Groningen), Inno Com Institute (Belgium), and several other private and public institutions. He has an extended experience in executive education and consulting, mainly in small and medium sized companies.

Recent College of Europe related publications:

• Molnar, Adrienn; Van Lembergen, Katrien; Tarantini, Federico; Heene, Aimé; Gellynck, Xavier (2013): Price Transparency as a Prerequisite for Fair Competition: The Case of the European Food Prices Monitoring Tool, in: The Ethics and Economics of Agrifood competition, 20 p.243-261, Springer, Dordrecht
• Dreger, Joanna; Heene, Aimé (2013), European integration and Europeanization: Benefits and Disadvantages for Business, Bruges European Economic Policy briefings 29/2013, College of Europe.
• Kulpa, Joanna; Heene, Aimé; Pelkmans, Jacques (2012): GMO Resistant Europe: BASF and Amflora Patato, European Case Clearing House
• Kulpa, Joanna; Heene, Aimé (2012): GMO Resistant Europe: BASF and Amflora Patato: Teaching Note, European Case Clearing House.