Business Administration

The department of Business Administration at Radboud University in Nijmegen offers high quality and socially relevant scientific research and education with an emphasis on social aspects and processes. At Radboud University, we explicitly focus on the social and societal processes and their fundamental role in organisations and relations with their stakeholders. These processes are approached from a social science perspective: our students learn to understand what organisations are by seeing them as social systems interacting with their business ecosystem, as institutions and in relation to their stakeholders. The programme prepares them for their roles as responsible decision makers through reflecting critically on their own impact on organisations as future leader. Read more about the story of Nijmegen School of Management.

Research

The research programme of Business Administration addresses the multiple values underlying responsibility, the conditions required to realise those values and the interventions geared to the transition of organisations toward responsible organisation. Our research programme is embedded in the Institute for Management Research.

Research in the picture

Some of the research of the Department of Business Administration is featured below. View the full news overview and all ongoing projects here.

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Sjors Witjes publishes book ‘Framing the Economy of the Future’

Sjors Witjes, associate professor of Strategy at Nijmegen School of Management, has published the book ‘Framing the Economy of the Future’ in collaboration with Niels Faber, of Hanzehogeschool and associate professor at the University of Groningen.

Beatrice van der Heijden onderscheidingen

Beatrice van der Heijden receives four prestigious awards during AOM congress in Chicago

Prof. dr. Beatrice van der Heijden, professor of strategic HRM, has received four prestigious awards at Academy of Management (AOM) conference in Chicago.

Repair tech

Why Do Some Tech Products Provide Years of Continued Use While Others Are Quickly Discarded? A New Study Explores

Paolo Franco, Assistant Professor of Marketing, explored the active role of customers in extending product’s lifecycle and that companies must consider this “entropy work” before limiting or encouraging these activities.

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Alumni interview: Roy Jakobs

As CEO of Philips, Roy Jakobs, Business Administration alumnus, constantly finds himself in an environment full of inspiration and innovation. He makes an impact in healthcare by focusing on social responsibility, sustainability and ease of use of technology: "No one can do this alone. We need to think in 'open systems' when it comes to healthcare."

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