Professors

Albert JOLINK

Professor

Strategic Collaboration, Développement durable, Behavioral Strategy, VR in Management, Entrepreneurship

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Albert JOLINK

Academy

Globalization

Research center

SKEMA Centre for Sustainability Studies

Location

Paris

Discipline

Management & Organization

Albert Jolink is Full Professor of Strategic Management at SKEMA Business School (Paris). He joined SKEMA in 2019. He is a graduate from the Tinbergen Institute and obtained his PhD Cum Laude from Erasmus University Rotterdam. His main fields of research are in Strategy, Sustainability, and Managerial Behavior in Virtual Reality. Before joining SKEMA he worked for Erasmus University Rotterdam, University of Amsterdam and Coventry University. 

Education
1991
Ph.D. in Economics, Tinbergen Institute - Erasmus Universiteit, The Netherlands
1986
MSc in Economics, Erasmus Universiteit, The Netherlands
1981
Bachelor of Science, Economy, Economics, Erasmus Universiteit, The Netherlands
2017
Senior Fellow, Educational science, UK Higher Education Academy, Great Britain
2013
Academic Leadership, Educational science, Erasmus Universiteit, The Netherlands
2012
University Teaching Qualification (BKO), Educational science, Erasmus Universiteit, The Netherlands
Experience
Full-time academic positions
Since 2019
Full Professor of Strategic Management, SKEMA Business School, France
2014 - 2018
N.G. Pierson-professor, Erasmus Universiteit, The Netherlands
2014 - 2019
Senior Lecturer, School of Strategy and Leadership - Coventry University, Great Britain
2013 - 2014
Professor, Erasmus Universiteit, The Netherlands
2007 - 2012
Professor, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2001 - 2013
Associate Professor, Strategic Management & Entrepreneurship, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, The Netherlands
2000 - 2001
Affiliate professor, Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences, The Netherlands
1996
Visiting Faculty, University of Notre Dame, United States of America
1996
Visiting Faculty, Yale University, United States of America
1993 - 2000
Assistant Professor, Economic Methodology, Faculty of Philosophy, Erasmus Universiteit, The Netherlands
1990 - 1996
Assistant Professor, Erasmus School of Economics, The Netherlands
1986 - 1991
PhD Candidate, Tinbergen Institute - Erasmus Universiteit, The Netherlands
1985 - 1987
Researcher, Nederlands Economisch Instituut, The Netherlands
Other academic affiliations and appointments
2011 - 2013
Academic Director, Part-time Master Business Administration, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, The Netherlands
2001 - 2006
Academic Director, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, The Netherlands
1997 - 2000
Academic Director, Erasmus Universiteit, The Netherlands
Research grants, Awards and Honors
Awards and Honors
2015
Best Full Paper Award 2015, British Academy of Management
Other research activities
Chief Editor
2005 - 2010
Economisch Statistische Berichten
Senior or Associate Editor
2004 - 2011
Journal of Institutional Economics
Organization of a conference or a research seminar
2024
GRONEN, SKEMA Business School, France
Affiliations
1997 - 2010
Treasurer, European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy
PhD Supervision
2022
S. KUNJUTHAMBY, School of Strategy and Leadership - Coventry University, PhD thesis, Thesis director
2020
P. CONG, The University of Manchester, PhD thesis, Thesis jury member
2019
A. VAN DE HEK, PhD thesis, Thesis co-director
2015
D. FIALHO, Erasmus Universiteit, PhD thesis, Thesis jury member
2014
K. SÜLI, Erasmus Universiteit, PhD thesis, Thesis jury member
2013
M. SADOWSKA, Erasmus Universiteit, PhD thesis, Thesis jury member
2013
H. DUURSEMA, Erasmus Universiteit, PhD thesis, Thesis jury member
2011
A.-C. HOYNG, University of Amsterdam, PhD thesis, Thesis jury member
2010
M. BJARNASON, University of Amsterdam, PhD thesis, Thesis jury member
2010
M. HENSMANS, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, PhD thesis, Thesis co-director
2009
L. TIEBEN, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, PhD thesis, Thesis jury member
2005
B. VAN DE BRAND, Tilburg University, PhD thesis, Thesis jury member
2001
M.-P. SCHINKEL, Maastricht University, PhD thesis, Thesis jury member
Other academic activities
2016 - 2018
Chairman of the SIG Inter-organisational Collaboration, British Academy of Management, Great Britain
2016 - 2017
Guest editor
2010 - 2018
Expert for European Commission, European Commission, Belgium
2007 - 2010
Board Member, Royal Dutch Economics Society, The Netherlands
1996 - 2001
Vice-Chairman of the Faculty Council, Erasmus Universiteit, The Netherlands

Peer-reviewed journal articles

NIESTEN, E., JOLINK, A. and BACHA, E. (2024). Sustainable development in turbulent environments: The impact of ESG capabilities on responses to turbulence. Business Strategy and the Environment, 33(7), pp. 6468-6490.
DRIES, N., HUBBART, T., JOLINK, A., MCGUIRE, J. and VAN ZELDEREN, A. (2024). The Role of Emerging Technologies in Shaping a Human-Centric Future of Work. Group and Organization Management.
JOLINK, A. and NIESTEN, E. (2021). Credibly reducing information asymmetry: Signaling on economic or environmental value by environmental alliances. Long Range Planning, 54(4), pp. 101996.
JOLINK, A. and NIESTEN, E. (2021). Virtual Reality and Sustainable Behavior in Business. Cleaner and Responsible Consumption, 2, pp. 100012.
BARBIC, F., JOLINK, A., NIESTEN, E. and HIDALGO, A. (2021). Opening and closing open innovation projects: A contractual perspective. Industrial Marketing Management, 94, pp. 174-186.
NIESTEN, E. and JOLINK, A. (2020). Motivations for environmental alliances: Generating and internalizing environmental and knowledge value. International Journal of Management Reviews, 22(4), pp. 356-377.
NIESTEN, E. and JOLINK, A. (2018). Alliance governance choices: Disentangling the effects of uncertainty and alliance experience. Long Range Planning, 51(2), pp. 320-333.
NIESTEN, E., JOLINK, A. and CHAPPIN, M. (2018). Investments in the Dutch onshore wind energy industry: A review of investor profiles and the impact of renewable energy subsidies. Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews, 81(2), pp. 2519-2525.
NIESTEN, E., JOLINK, A., LOPES DE SOUSA JABBOUR, A.B., CHAPPIN, M. and LOZANO, R. (2017). Sustainable collaboration: The impact of governance and institutions on sustainable performance. Journal of Cleaner Production, 155(Part 2), pp. 1-6.
JOLINK, A. and NIESTEN, E. (2016). The Impact of Venture Capital on Governance Decisions in Collaborations with Start-ups. Small Business Economics, 47(-), pp. 331-344.
JOLINK, A. and NIESTEN, E. (2015). Sustainable development and business models of entrepreneurs in the organic food industry. Business Strategy and the Environment, 24(6), pp. 386-401.
NIESTEN, E. and JOLINK, A. (2015). The Impact of Alliance Management Capabilities on Alliance Attributes and Performance: A Literature Review. International Journal of Management Reviews, 17(1), pp. 69-100.
NIESTEN, E. and JOLINK, A. (2014). Absence of a market in the Dutch balancing mechanism: European rules versus specific investments. European Journal of Law and Economics, 38(-), pp. 71-90.
NIESTEN, E. and JOLINK, A. (2012). Incentives, opportunism and behavioral uncertainty in electricity industries. Journal of Business Research, 65(7), pp. 1031-1039.
JOLINK, A. and NIESTEN, E. (2012). Recent qualitative advances on hybrid organizations: Taking stock, looking ahead. Scandinavian Journal of Management, 28(2), pp. 149-161.
NIESTEN, E. and JOLINK, A. (2012). Regulating opportunism in the electricity industry and consumer interests. Utilities Policy, 20(1), pp. 38-45.
DOLFSMA, W., VAN DER EIJK, R. and JOLINK, A. (2009). On a Source of Social Capital: Gift Exchange. Journal of Business Ethics, 89, pp. 315-329.
JOLINK, A. and NIESTEN, E. (2008). Governance transformations through regulations in the electricity sector: the Dutch case. International Review of Applied Economics, 22(4), pp. 499-508.
JOLINK, A. (2006). The Urge to merge and the American Cotton Oil Company. Management and Organizational History, 1(4), pp. 385-399.
JOLINK, A. (2000). In Search of Verae Causae: The Keynes-Tinbergen Debate Revisited. De Economist, 148(1), pp. 1-17.
JOLINK, A. (1995). ‘Anecdotal myths’: Tinbergen's influence on Harrod's growth theory. European Journal of The History of Economic Thought, 2(2), pp. 434-449.
JOLINK, A. (1994). Procrustean Beds and All That: The Irrelevance of Walras for a Mirowski-thesis. History of Political Economy, 25(suppl_1), pp. 159-175.
JOLINK, A. and VAN DAAL, J. (1989). Leon Walras' latest book: Melanges d'economie politique et sociale. De Economist, 137(3), pp. 351-359.
JOLINK, A. and VAN DAAL, J. (1989). Leon Walras's Mathematical Economics and the Mechanical Analogies. Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 11(1), pp. 25-32.

Conference proceedings

NIESTEN, E. and JOLINK, A. (2023). Identifying Managerial Search Strategies in Virtual Reality. Academy of Management Proceedings.
JOLINK, A. and NIESTEN, E. (2019). Can do or should do: Differential signaling for environmental legitimacy. Academy of Management Proceedings, -(-), pp. -.
NIESTEN, E. and JOLINK, A. (2019). Environmental Alliances: The performance drivers of creating and internalizing externalities. Academy of Management Proceedings, -(-), pp. -.

Book chapters

JOLINK, A. and NIESTEN, E. (2021). Financing the energy transition: The role of public funding, collaboration and private equity. In: Rubino, A., Sapio, A., and La Scala, M. eds. Handbook of Energy Economics and Policy. 1st ed. Amsterdam: Elsevier, pp. 521-547.
JOLINK, A. and NIESTEN, E. (2012). Hybrid governance. In: M. Dietrich & J. Krafft (ed.). Handbook on the Economics and Theory of the Firm. 1st ed. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 120-135.

Conference presentations

JOLINK, A. (2023). VR: The Final Frontier, to go boldly where no man has gone before in business research. In: 1st Annual Meeting of the Global XR Management Community. Abu Dabi.
JOLINK, A. (2023). VR: Discovering Space. In: European Immersive Learning Network: VR in Higher Education. Liverpool.
NIESTEN, E., JOLINK, A. and BACHA, E. (2023). Sustainability in Environmental Turbulence: Signaling on Symbolic and Substantive Actions. In: SMS Conference. Toronto.
JOLINK, A. (2022). An Agenda for VR Research. In: VR in Management Research. Siena.
NIESTEN, E., JOLINK, A. and PINKSE, J. (2022). Business ecosystem strategies of solar energy firms. In: GRONEN 2022. Amsterdam.
JOLINK, A. (2022). Is Virtual Reality technology the future for business and management research? In: Technology for Change Workshop, Institut Polytechnique de Paris. Paris.
JOLINK, A. and NIESTEN, E. (2019). Partnerships and alliances for sustainable innovation and performance. In: AOM American Academy of Management Conference. Boston.
JOLINK, A. and NIESTEN, E. (2019). Legitimacy perceptions and institutional drivers of environmental sustainability. In: AOM American Academy of Management Conference. Boston.
NIESTEN, E. and JOLINK, A. (2018). Why Do Firms Explore or Exploit in Sustainable Alliances: The Impact of Legitimacy and Government Support. In: BAM (British Academy of Management) Conference. Bristol.
NIESTEN, E. and JOLINK, A. (2018). Why Do Firms Collaborate for Environmental Innovations? The Objectives of Environmental Exploration and Exploitation Alliances. In: BAM (British Academy of Management) Conference. Bristol.
NIESTEN, E. and JOLINK, A. (2017). Are Environmental Collaborative Strategies Greener Pastures? An Exploration (and Exploitation). In: Strategic Management Society Special Conference. San José.
NIESTEN, E. and JOLINK, A. (2017). Alliance Governance Choices: Disentangling the Effects of Uncertainty and Alliance Experience. In: Strategic Management Society Special Conference. San José.
NIESTEN, E. and JOLINK, A. (2017). Why Firms Collaborate for Sustainability. In: BAM (British Academy of Management) Conference. Coventry.
NIESTEN, E. and JOLINK, A. (2016). The Role of Partner and Alliance Dissimilarity and Equity Experience in alliance governance. In: Strategic Management Society Special Conference. Berlin.
NIESTEN, E. and JOLINK, A. (2016). Knowing me, knowing you: equity alliances with dissimilar partners. In: BAM (British Academy of Management) Conference. Newcastle.
JOLINK, A., OMIDVAR, O. and QUILE, H. (2016). Environmental sustainability and acquisitions: The driving role of innovation. In: BAM (British Academy of Management) Conference. Newcastle.
NIESTEN, E. and JOLINK, A. (2016). Governing Equity alliances. In: EURAM (European Academy of Management) Conference. Paris.
NIESTEN, E. and JOLINK, A. (2015). Like Chalk and Cheese? Governing alliances when partners differ. In: The Governance of a Complex World Conference. Nice.
JOLINK, A. and NIESTEN, E. (2015). The impact of venture Capital on Alliances of Start- ups. In: Strategic Management Society Special Conference. Denver.
JOLINK, A. and NIESTEN, E. (2015). With a little help from my friends': Impact of Venture Capital on Alliances of Start-ups. In: BAM (British Academy of Management) Conference. Postmouth.
JOLINK, A. (2014). Innovation by Combination: Start-up Alliances and the Impact of Venture Capital. In: The Governance of a Complex World Conference. Torino.

Faculty research seminar presentations

JOLINK, A. (2023). Comparative efficiency of blockchain governance: Sustainability in the fashion supply chain. In: SCSS Faculty Seminars. Paris.