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Education and professional experience

• Current: Associate Professor in Strategic Management & Entrepreneurship, Erasmus University Rotterdam
• 2017: Ph.D in Management, Tilburg University
• 2014: Research Master in Business, Tilburg University
• 2012: BSc in International Business Administration, Tilburg University

Publications

• Kaufmann, W. and Haans, R.F.J. (2020). Understanding the Meaning of Concepts Across Domains Through Collocation Analysis. Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory: 1-16.
• Haans, R.F.J. (2019), "What’s the value of being different when everyone is? The effects of distinctiveness on performance in homogeneous versus heterogeneous categories." Strategic Management Journal, 40(1): 3–27.
• Hannigan, T., Haans, R.F.J., Vakili, K., Tchalian, H., Glaser V.L., Wang, M., Kaplan, S., and Jennings, P.D. "Topic models in management research: Rendering new theory from textual data." Academy of Management Annals 13(2): 586-632.
• Haans, R.F.J. and Van Witteloostuijn, A. 2019. "Regional stickiness of novel ideas in the scholarly International Business community." Cross Cultural & Strategic Management 26(2): 145-165.
• Haans, R.F.J. and Van Witteloostuijn, A. 2018. "Expected job creation across the cultural industries: A sectoral division and its implications for cultural policy." International Journal of Cultural Policy 24(1): 45-67.
• Haans, R.F.J., Pieters, C., and He, Z.L. 2016. "Thinking about U: Theorizing and testing U- and inverted U-shaped relationships in strategy research." Strategic Management Journal 37(7): 1177–1195.

Paper presentations

• 2018: What’s the value of being different when everyone is? The effects of distinctiveness on performance in homogeneous versus heterogeneous categories. Alberta Institutions Conference (Alberta)
• 2018: Does foreign language liberate or limit creativity? Academy of Management Annual Meeting (Chicago)
• 2018: A trinity of time, community, and industry: Achieving optimal distinctiveness in craft brewing. Studying Crafts and Craftsmanship in Organizations (Lancaster)
• 2017: When everyone is different, no one is? Effects of distinctiveness on performance in homogeneous and heterogeneous creative industries. Academy of Management Annual Meeting (Atlanta)
• 2017: When everyone is different, no one is? Effects of distinctiveness on performance in homogeneous and heterogeneous creative industries. SAMS Creative Industries Conference (Edinburgh)
• 2016: Diversity’s contingent effects on innovation and opportunity recognition: The role of self-efficacy. Academy of Management Annual Meeting (Anaheim)
• 2016: Topic founding, topic recombination, and top affiliation’s role in achieving impact in strategy. Academy of Management Annual Meeting (Anaheim)
• 2016: How optimal is distinctiveness? A Topic model of entrepreneurial identity. University of Edinburgh Creative Industries Conference (Edinburgh)
• 2016: Collaborative partner diversity, Innovation, opportunity Recognition, and the moderating role of entrepreneurial self-efficacy. Strategic Management Society Special Conference (Rome)
• 2015: Does creativity aid or curb job creation? Comparing entrepreneurs in creative and other industries. Academy of Management Annual Meeting (Vancouver)

Awards and other recognition

• 2020: I was awarded the ERIM Award for Outstanding Performance by a Young Researcher for delivering extremely good research in the two years prior to receiving the award, while having obtained my PhD degree no more than five years prior (more info here: https://www.erim.eur.nl/index.php?id=10026).
• 2020: I received the “I wish I had written that paper”-award for my work on optimal distinctiveness from the department of Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship at RSM.
• 2020: My 2019 work on optimal distinctiveness in SMJ was among the top 10% most-read articles in 2018-2019
• 2020: My 2019 work on topic modeling AMA was among the second most-read article in 2019
• 2019: Voted best Professor of the Trimester for the course Strategic Management in the Business Administration BSc programme
• 2016: Entrepreneurship Division Best Reviewer Award (Academy of Management Annual Meeting)
• 2016: OMT Division Doctoral Consortium participant (Academy of Management Annual Meeting)
• 2016: Doctoral Consortium participant (Strategic Management Society Special Conference, Rome)
• 2016: Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts & Sciences Honours Programme

Recent teaching

• 2018 – Current: Quantitative Research in Strategic Management & Strategic Entrepreneurship (MSc)
• 2017 – Current: Strategic Management (BSc)
• 2018 – 2020: Thesis Coordinator for the MSc programs Strategic Management and Strategic Entrepreneurship
• 2018 – 2020: Research Clinic Strategic Entrepreneurship & Strategic Management (MSc)
• 2018 – 2019: International Project (Parttime MSc)
• 2017 – 2018: Research Methods Strategic Management and Strategic Entrepreneurship (MSc)
• 2017 – 2018: New Business Development (MSc)
• 2017 – 2018: Strategic Entrepreneurship (MPhil)

Service and leadership

• 2021 – Current: Editorial Review Board member - Strategic Management Journal
• 2019 – Current: Data Analytics Chair for the Organization and Management Theory (OMT) Division of the Academy of Management
• 2019 – Current: Member of the Advisory Board, Erasmus Data Service Centre
• 2017 – Current: OMT Membership Group Ambassador
• 2020: Co-organizer of PDW Advances in Topic Modeling: Curating Corpora, Using Structured Models, and Theorizing with Visuals at Academy of Management Annual Meeting (Vancouver)
• 2019: Panelist for the inaugural Interpretive Data Science (IDEaS) Workshop (University of Alberta)
• 2018: Co-organizer of PDW Topic Modeling: A Hand-On Approach to Analysis and Theory Building at Academy of Management Annual Meeting (Chicago)
• 2018: Panelist for PDW Optimal Distinctiveness: Past Approaches, Theoretical Integration and Future Research Agenda at Academy of Management Annual Meeting (Chicago)
• 2017: Co-organizer of PDW Topic Modeling in Quant and Qual Research: A Hands-On Approach at Academy of Management Annual Meeting (Atlanta)
• 2015 – 2018: Social Media Editor for Cross Cultural & Strategic Management
• Ad-hoc Reviewer for (in alphabetical order), Academy of Management Journal, Administrative Science Quarterly, the British Journal of Management, European Management Review, Journal of Business Venturing, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Management, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of Strategy and Management, Organization Science, Research in the Sociology of Organizations, Social Forces, Strategic Organization, Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, Strategy Science.
• Reviewer for Academy of Management Annual Meeting (ENT division, 2015, 2016, 2017; BPS division, 2016, 2019, 2020; OMT division, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020), the Strategic Management Society Annual Meeting (2020) and the Strategic Management Society Special Conference (2018).