Pursey Heugens

Pursey Heugens is a professor of organisation theory, development, and change at the Department of Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University (RSM).

His research interests include comparative corporate governance, business ethics, and bureaucracy, institutional, and demographic theories of organisation.

Professor Heugens has won numerous awards for his research and teaching. He currently serves on the editorial boards of six scholarly journals. His research has been published in academic journals including the Academy of Management Journal, the Academy of Management Review, Organization Studies, and the Journal of Management Studies.

His most recent works argues that the field of organisation theory is locked into a state of permanent failure due to powerful centrifugal forces which prevent it from producing a unified theory of organisational effectiveness – while equally strong centripetal forces keep university administrators and policy makers from cashing in their chips.

He offers three research strategies that might end the stalemate by increasing the integration, relevance and realism of current theories of organisation.

He obtained his PhD from RSM in 2001.

Professional experience Full Professor Erasmus University Rotterdam Rotterdam School of Management Department of Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship

Professor Pursey Heugens, professor of organisation theory, development, and change at RSM has won numerous awards for research and teaching. His work in RSM’s Department of Strategy and Entrepreneurship has broken new ground in discovering what makes organisations effective, leading to a new wave of assessment, analysis and guidance. Pursey developed his work in close conjunction with business leaders and professionals.