Dr M. Visser (Max)

Dr. Max Visser works as an Associate Professor in the Business Economics group of the Department of Economics & Business Economics. He received Dutch Masters' degrees in public administration and American studies from the University of Groningen, the Netherlands, and a Master's degree in political science from the University of Kansas, USA. From 1990-1996 he worked as a research associate in different functions at the University of Twente, the Netherlands, where he received his PhD in social science in 1998. After that he switched to private business and worked as a project manager at PAO-BB/De Baak (1996-1999) and SSR (1999-2000), both institutes for post-academic education. In 2000 Visser returned to the university, becoming an assistant professor at the department of Business Administration at Nijmegen School of Management. In 2012 he moved to the Business Economics group.
While his earlier teaching and research centered on learning in and by organizations, in the last decade he has become interested in the (positive and negative) ways in which management accounting and control systems and practices influence behavior, learning and performance within organizations. At the same time, driven by broader concerns about the social, ecological and economic state of the world, Visser engages with (radical) humanist perspectives that may inform sustainable alternatives to current systems of production and consumption.