Curriculum Vitae Sept 2013 Prof. Dr. Sjoerd Beugelsdijk
Full Professor International Business Faculty of Economics and Business
Department of Global Economics and Management University of Groningen
PO Box 800
Groningen, the Netherlands
External Bio
Sjoerd Beugelsdijk (PhD 2003 Tilburg University) is a full professor in international business at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands. His research interests are in the field of culture (as in norms, values and beliefs), international business, and globalization. He has published in a wide range of academic journals and edited special issues in leading journals like the Journal of International Business Studies and Journal of Economic Geography. He published several books, including one undergraduate textbook. His interest in international business emerges from his ambition to understand how people and firms deal with cultural diversity both between and within nations. Sjoerd Beugelsdijk has held visiting positions at several universities including University of South Carolina, Copenhagen Business School, Vienna University of Economics and Business, and Bocconi University. He has served as a head of department and most recently as the academic director of the undergraduate international business program in Groningen. Dr. Beugelsdijk is one of the few scholars in social sciences who received both the prestigious VENI (2007-2009) and VIDI (2012-2017) grants in social sciences of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO).
Current position 2009-present Full Professor
Department of Global Economics and Management, University of Groningen National Science Foundation (NWO VIDI Grant 5 years, 2012-)
2012-present Research Professor, Academic Advisory Board Halle Institute for Economic Research, Germany
Past positions
2005-2008 Associate Professor, Nijmegen School of Management, the Netherlands Netherlands National Science Foundation (NWO VENI Grant 2007-2009)
Visits
2013 - 2014 University of South Carolina, Columbia SC Dept of International Business
Aug-oct 2008 Bocconi University, Milan
Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER) March 2008 Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration
Dept. of International Marketing and Management Febr 2008 University of Reading (UK)
Center of International Business Studies (CIBS) Spring 2007 Copenhagen Business School (CBS)
Center for Strategic Management and Globalisation, Copenhagen (Denmark). Nov-dec 2004 Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland Ohio
Weatherhead School of Management-Department of Economics Apr-aug 2004 Copenhagen Business School (CBS)
Department of International Economics and Management Febr-mar 2004 European University Institute, Firenze (Italy)
Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies Ad hoc reviewing
Journal of International Business Studies, Academy of Management Journal, International Business Review, Journal of International Management, Management International Review, Organization Studies, Journal of Management Studies, Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice, Global Strategy Journal, Long Range Planning, European Management Review, Human Resource Management, Oxford Economic Papers, Journal of Comparative Economics, Southern Economic Journal, European Journal of Political Economy, Review of Political Economy, Journal of Evolutionary Economics, Review of Social Economy, Journal of Economic Surveys, International Economic Review, Journal of International Trade & Economic Development, Review of World Economics, Small Business Economics, World Development, Journal of Banking & Finance, Journal of Economic Geography, Regional Studies, Economic Geography, European Urban and Regional Studies, Papers in Regional Science, Journal of Social and Economic Geography (TESG), Annals of Regional Science, American Journal of Sociology, European Sociological Review, CyberPsychology and Behaviour, Edward Elgar Book Reviews, Cambridge University Press book reviews.
Editorial board positions
2013-present Journal of International Business Studies, Book review editor 2013-present Journal of International Business Studies,Editorial review board 2010-present Global Strategy Journal, Editorial review board
2005-present International Comparative Social Sciences (ICSS) book series, Brill Academic Publishers (Leiden/Boston/Tokyo)
Guest editorships:
2012 Special issue on The Multinational in Geographical Space in the Journal of International Business Studies (with R. Mudambi) 2010 Special issue on International Business and New Economic
Geography in the Journal of Economic Geography (with R. Mudambi and P. McCann).
Publications (2002-) 31 refereed journal articles
1 Monograph on Culture in Economics with Cambridge University Press
1 Textbook on International Economics and Business with Cambridge University Press 1 Edited volume on firms in the international economy with MIT Press
14 refereed book chapters
30 other publications (Dutch, working papers or newspaper articles) Citations
• According to a cited reference search in Social Science Citation Index (Web of Science): 350+ times with an H-index of 12 (Feb 2013)
• According to Scopus (Elsevier): 400+ times with an H-index score of 12 (Feb 2013). • According to Google Scholar and Harzing’s Publish or Perish: 2200+ citations with
an H-index score of 26 (Feb 2013).
Monographs
1. (2013) Firms in the International economy: firm heterogeneity meets international business, MIT Press edited volume (eds. Beugelsdijk, S., Brakman, S., Garretsen, J.H., and H. van Ees) 400 pages
2. (2013) International Economics and Business, undergraduate textbook, Cambridge University Press (with Brakman, S., Garretsen, J.H., and Van Marrewijk, C) 475 pages
linkages among them. For students and instructors looking for a textbook that blends international economics (trade and finance) with international business (international investment and multinational enterprises), look no further. This book has it all and does it well.” [Lorraine Eden, Professor of Management and Mays Research Fellow, Mays Business School, Texas A&M University]
3. (2011) Culture in Economics; history, methodological reflections and contemporary applications (Monograph together with R. Maseland), Cambridge University Press: 388 pages.
Peer Reactions:
“Economic science has its roots in Anglo-American cultural values. With an increasing share of world economic power slipping out of Western hands, there is a crying need for an economic science in which cultural values are treated as a variable. The book by Beugelsdijk and Maseland is a welcome contribution to this development” [Geert Hofstede, author of 'Culture's Consequences']
“A new literature in economics has rediscovered fundamental insights in sociology, and is using them to address long standing economic problems. This book does a superb job in placing this new line of research in a broader context, explaining its deep roots and how it opens up fundamental methodological issues. A very timely book, that will have a lasting impact on one of the most exciting areas of research in the social sciences.” [Guido Tabellini, Professor of Economics, Past President of the European Economic Association and Rector of Bocconi University]
“This important new book on culture in economics by Sjoerd Beugelsdijk and Robbert Maseland is most welcome. It fills an important gap in the literature that has only recently been recognised. After decades of sceptical methodological isolationism, economists have come to accept that without reference to people’s systems of norms and beliefs a large part of the differences in performance across populations would go unexplained. I strongly recommend this book to anyone interested in truly understanding economics.” [Luigi Guiso, Professor of Economics, European University Institute]
“This is a very systematic and comprehensive work, which clarifies the theoretical and methodological framework for analyzing the role of culture in economics. I would recommend it to historians of economic thought and to macroeconomists sympathetic to institutionalism, as well as to all other social scientists dealing with comparative economic performance and cross-cultural differences” [Book review by Andrej Sušjan in the Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 2012, 34.2: 289-292]
4. (2010) International Business Research: homo ludens meets homo economicus, inaugural professorial lecture University of Groningen, October 19
5. (2003) Culture and Economic Development in European Regions, CentER Tilburg University (dissertation)
Refereed journal articles
6. (forthcoming) The impact of home-host cultural differences on foreign affiliate sales: the moderating role of cultural variation within host countries, Journal of Business Research (with M. Onrust, A. Slangen and R Maseland)
7. (forthcoming) Distance in international management: from mean to variance based measures, International Journal of Human Resource Management (with M. Onrust, A. van Hoorn, R Maseland and A. Slangen)
8. (2013) MNEs as border-crossing MLEs: the role of discontinuities in geographic space, Journal of International Business Studies 44.5: 413-426 (with R Mudambi) 9. (2011) The impact of cultural distance on US arm’s length exports: an international
business perspective, Management International Review 51.6: 875-896. 50 year anniversary issue (with A.H.L. Slangen and J.F. Hennart)
10. (2010) Why and how FDI stocks are a biased measure of MNE affiliate activity, Journal of International Business Studies 41.9: 1444-1459 (with A.H.L. Slangen, J.F. Hennart and R. Smeets) lead article
This was also published in the Columbia FDI Perspectives series 45, august 29, 2011.
11. (2010) Place, Space and Organization; Economic Geography and the Multinational Enterprise, Journal of Economic Geography, vol. 10.4: 485-493 (with R. Mudambi and P. McCann)
12. (2010) A cultural explanation of the foreign bias in international asset allocation, Journal of Banking and Finance 34: 2121-2131 (With B. Frijns)
13. (2010) The impact of institutional hazards on foreign multinational activity: A contingency perspective, Journal of International Business Studies 41.7, 980-995 (with A. Slangen)
14. (2010) Gravity equations: workhorse or Trojan horse in explaining trade and FDI patterns across time and space? (with R. Zwinkels) International Business Review, vol. 19.1: 452-472
15. (2010) The impact of national cultural distance on the number of foreign website visits by U.S. households (with A.H.L. Slangen ), CyberPsychology & Behavior 13.2: 201-205.
16. (2009) Is there a trend towards global value chain specialization? An examination of cross border sales of US foreign affiliates (with T. Pedersen and B. Petersen), Journal
19. (2008) Strategic human resource practices and product innovation, Organization Studies, vol. 29.6: p. 821-847
20. (2008) The impact of horizontal and vertical FDI on host country economic growth, International Business Review vol. 17.4: 452-472 (with R. Zwinkels and R. Smeets)
This paper was nominated for best paper in IBR 2008. Prize was awarded at EIBA conference Valencia 2009.
21. (2008) Entrepreneurial culture and economic growth: revisiting McClelland’s thesis, American Journal of Economics and Sociology vol. 67.5: 915-939 (with R. Smeets) 22. (2008) Trust, institutions and the ‘generally speaking question’; a reply to Uslaner,
Cambridge Journal of Economics vol. 32.4: 633-638
23. (2007) The regional environment and a firm’s innovative performance; a plea for a multi-level interactionist approach, Economic Geography vol. 83.2, p. 181-199. 24. (2007) Entrepreneurial culture, regional innovativeness and economic growth,
Journal of Evolutionary Economics 17.2: 187-210
Reprinted in: Thurik, R. and Freytag, A. (eds.) (2009) Culture and Entrepreneurship, Springer Verlag; pp. 129-156.
25. (2006) Organizational culture and network embeddedness, Current Topics in Management vol. 11(with C. Koen and N. Noorderhaven)
26. (2006) Organizational culture and relationship skills, Organization Studies vol. 27, 833-854 (With C. Koen and N. Noorderhaven)
27. (2006) A note to the theory and measurement of trust in explaining differences in economic growth, Cambridge Journal of Economics vol. 30, p. 371-387
28. (2006) Toward a unified Europe? Explaining cultural differences by economic development, cultural heritage and historical shocks, Regional Studies vol. 40.3, p. 317-328 (With A.B.T.M. van Schaik, and W.A. Arts)
29. (2005) Differences in social capital between 54 Western European regions, Regional Studies vol. 39.8, p. 1053-1064 (with A.B.T.M. van Schaik)
30. (2005) Personality characteristics of self-employed; an empirical study, Small Business Economics 24.2, 159-167 (with N. Noorderhaven)
31. (2005) Social capital and growth in European regions; an empirical test, European Journal of Political Economy 21.2, p. 301-324 (with A.B.T.M. van Schaik)
32. (2004) Entrepreneurial attitude and economic growth, a cross section of 54 European regions, Annals of Regional Science 38, p. 1-20 (with N. Noorderhaven)
33. (2004) Trust and economic growth; a robustness analysis, Oxford Economic Papers 56.1, p. 118-134 (With H.L.F. de Groot and A.B.T.M. van Schaik)
34. (2002) ‘A far friend is worth more than a good neighbor’, proximity and innovation in a small country, Journal of Management and Governance, 6, p. 169-188. (with M. Cornet)
35. (2002) Regional cluster policies; learning by comparing? Kyklos 3, p. 381-401. (with G.J. Hospers)
36. (2002) Drivers and determinants of organizational change; the case of Heineken Inc. Journal of Organizational Change Management 15.4, p. 311-326 (With A.H.L. Slangen and M.F.M van Herpen)
Chapters in (refereed) edited books/Book series
37. (2013) Firms in the international economy, firm heterogeneity, international economics and international business, In: Firms in the international economy; firm heterogeneity meets international business (eds. Beugelsdijk, Brakman, Van Ees and Garretsen) MIT Press: pp. 1-19.
38. (2013) How is entrepreneurship included in international business? In: Routledge Handbook for International Management Education (with A. N. Kiss): pp 104-116 39. (2011) Location specific advantages and liability of foreignness; time, space and
relative advantage, in: Advances in International Management (Asmussen, C.G., Devinney, T., Pedersen, T., and Tihanyi, L.): pp. 181-210.
40. (2011) Organization theorists struggling with a view of mankind: power, ethics and top management teams, in: The Nature of the New Firm (eds. Dolfsma, W.), Edward Elgar, pp. 13-17
41. (2010) Entrepreneurial culture and its effects on the rate of nascent entrepreneurship (with K. Suddle and S. Wennekers), in: Thurik and Freytag, Culture and Entrepreneurship, Springer: pp. 227-244.
42. (2010) Entrepreneurial culture, regional innovativeness and economic growth, In: Thurik, R. and Freytag, A. (eds.) Culture and Entrepreneurship, Springer Verlag: pp. 129-156
43. (2009) Mapping the landscape of social capital: a need for a two-level approach, in: De Jong, Culture, Economics and Business, Routledge: pp. 137-158.
44. (2005) Organizational culture, alliance capabilities and relationship performance, In: T. Gössling, R.J.G. Jansen, & L.A.G. Oerlemans (Eds.), Coalitions and Collisions (pp. 125-142). Nijmegen: Wolf Publishers. (with C. Koen and N. Noorderhaven) 45. (2004) Regional cluster policy between best practice and cultural uniqueness, in:
Boneschansker, E., Van Dijk, J., Jansma, L.G., and Verhaar, K. (eds.), Cultural Uniqueness and Regional Economy, Fryske Akademy, Leeuwarden. (With G.J. Hospers)
48. (2004) Chapter 11: Networks and clusters of economic activity, in: Koen C., International Comparative Management, McGraw-Hill London (with G.J. Hospers) 49. (2003) Participation in civil society and European regional economic growth, in: Arts,
W., Halman, L., and Hagenaars, J. (eds.) The cultural diversity of European unity, Brill Leiden, pp. 118-146 (with A.B.T.M. van Schaik)
50. (2003) Bonding and bridging social capital: which type is good for economic growth? in: Arts, W., Halman, L., and Hagenaars, J. (eds.) The cultural diversity of European unity, Brill Leiden, pp. 147-184 (with S. Smulders)
51. (2003) Opening the black-box of regional culture. Entrepreneurial attitude and
economic growth in 54 European regions, in: Arts, W., Halman, L., and Hagenaars, J. (eds.) The cultural diversity of European unity, Brill Leiden, pp. 95-117 (with N. Noorderhaven)
Teaching Current:
International Business 1st year BA (4.6)
International Business PhD course
Org Theory and Comparative Business Systems PhD course Supervision of Ba and Msc thesis
Past:
Industrial Economics and Organization, Institutional Economics, Introduction of Management Sciences, Introduction in Economic Geography, Culture and Economic Behaviour, Introduction in Business Economics, Industrial Organisation, Supervision of Ba/Msc thesis; National University of Costa Rica (UNA) summer course ‘ecology and markets’; Executive teaching TIAS Business School (2002-2003) Tilburg University.
Doctoral Supervision Sarah Castaldi, University of Groningen (2013-present) Laetitia Em, University of Groningen (2012-present) Marjolijn Onrust, University of Groningen (2011-present) Philipp Marek, University of Groningen (2010-present)
Lisa Berntsen, University of Groningen/Jyvaskila University (2010-present) Ines Wagner, University of Groningen/Jyvaskila University (2010- present) Dut van Vo, University of Groningen (planned date of defense January 20, 2013) Andre van Hoorn, University of Nijmegen (date of defense April 19, 2011) Numerous PhD Degree Committee Memberships
Conference and seminar presentations Expert seminars
2012 Organizer workshop the Multinational in geographical space, Temple University (with R. Mudambi), June 27-30.
2011 Co-organizer CES-IFO workshop Venice July 2011 Globalization, trade, FDI and the multinational firm.
2010 Key note speaker, conference on economics of trust organized by Spanish Chamber of Commerce, Santander (Spain), Universitat de Santander. 2009 Member of ten person panel of invited international experts convened to
advice the EU commissioner for Regional Policy and the staff of EU directorate DGXVI on the future role, evolution and evaluation of EU Cohesion Funding and Regional Policy.
Academic conferences
Invited panellist and (key note) speaker at numerous international academic conferences Academy of International Business, AIB (2002, 2004-2011, 2013);
Academy of Management, AoM (2002, 2003, 2006, 2009-2012); Strategic Management Society, SMS (2013)
European International Business Association, EIBA (2003, 2007, 2011); European Economic Association, EEA-ESEM (2002, 2003, 2007, 2008); European Regional Science Association, ERSA (2002-2005).
North American Regional Science Conference, NARSC (2004) Association of American Geographers, AAG (2008)
Grants and awards Grants (total >1 mln euro)
2012-2017 VIDI grant for top researchers, awarded Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO; 800 k euro)
2007-2009 VENI grant for top researchers, awarded by Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO; 200 k euro)
Awards
2012 Best paper award, European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management, 10th Workshop on International Strategy and Cross Cultural Management 2011 Finalist for Temple-best paper award of the Academy of International
Business 2011, Nagoya Japan. For paper on intra country cultural diversity and U.S. MNE activity with A. Slangen.
2009 Best paper prize in International Business Review (IBR) 2008.
2009 Best reviewer award, Academy of International Business (AIB) Conference 2008 Best paper prize at the 9th annual IB Research Forum and 2nd annual
Offshoring Research Network, Temple University Philadelphia, 2008 April 3-5. For the paper on global value chains together with Torben Pedersen and Bent Petersen.
2007- Listed in Who is Who in the World (and later), 25th world edition Marquis. 2007 Best reviewer award, Academy of International Business (AIB) Conference 2004 1st prize best dissertation award Regional Science Association International 2004 2nd prize winner of the EPAINOS (best paper presented by young scientist)
award at European Regional Science Conference (ERSA) Porto 2004. (for paper: entrepreneurial culture, regional innovativeness, and economic growth).
2004 Finalist for the Haynes best paper prize for scholars under 40 years at the Stockholm 2004 AIB meeting (paper: national cultural distance and bilateral trade)
2002 Top 3 of best teacher at Faculty of Economics of Tilburg University.
2002 Finalist for the Carolyn Dexter award for the best international paper at the Academy of Management (AoM) Conference 2002 for paper: 'Opening the black-box of regional culture; a cross section of 54 regions'.
2000 Best paper award at CURE conference on Cultural Uniqueness and Regional Economy, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands, November 22-24, 2000. Title of the paper: 'Regional cluster policies, learning by comparing?'
