Hummel, JochemT., Berends, H. and Tuertscher, P. (2025). From Boundary Objects to Boundary Infrastructure: A Process Study of Collaboration between Big Science and Big Business Journal of Management Studies, :.
Hans Berends
University
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
E-mail
Research field
Strategy and Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Website
Biography
Hans Berends is Professor of Innovation and Organization at the KIN Center for Digital Innovation, School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. His current research focuses on organizing for digital innovation, examining platforms, ecosystems, and other emerging forms of collaboration. Much of his research uses a process research approach, explaining the emergence and development of innovation over time.
Recent Prestigious Rewards:
NWO KIC Grant Maatschappelijk Verdienvermogen: “Fieldlabs@Scale: Towards Effective Collaborative Experimentation for Mission-Driven Innovation,” 2023-2027, €1,500,000.
NWO Open Competition Grant for “OPEN-QUAL: Innovating Methods for Open Science in Qualitative Management Research,” 2023-2027, €760,000.
Journal of Business Venturing / Lazaridis Best Paper Award, 2021.
SO WHAT! Best Paper Award, Strategic Organization, 2021.
Co-Editor, Strategic Organization, 2025-present.
Keywords:
Innovation, digitalization, ecosystems, collaboration, process research.
Key publications
Borner, K., Berends, H., Deken, F. and Feldberg, F. (2023). Another pathway to complementarity: How users and intermediaries identify and create new combinations in innovation ecosystems Research Policy, 52(7):1--15.
Berends, H., van Burg, E. and Garud, R. (2021). Pivoting or persevering with venture ideas: Recalibrating temporal commitments Journal of Business Venturing, 36(4):1--23.
Karanović, J., Berends, H. and Engel, Y. (2021). Regulated Dependence: Platform Workers’ Responses to New Forms of Organizing Journal of Management Studies, 58(4):1070--1106.
Pachidi, S., Berends, H., Faraj, S. and Huysman, M. (2021). Make way for the algorithms: Symbolic actions and change in a regime of knowing Organization Science, 32(1):18--41.
Deken, F., Berends, H., Gemser, G. and Lauche, K. (2018). Strategizing and the initiation of interorganizational collaboration through prospective resourcing Academy of Management Journal, 61(5):1920–1950.
Deken, F., R. Carlile, P., Berends, J. and Lauche, K. (2016). Generating Novelty Through Interdependent Routines: A Process Model of Routine Work Organization Science, 27(3):659--677.
Reymen, I., Andries, P., Berends, J., Mauer, R., Stephan, U. and van Burg, J.C. (2015). Understanding dynamics of strategic decision-making in venture creation: a process study of effectuation and causation Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, 9(4):351--379.
van Burg, J.C., Berends, J. and van Raaij, E. (2014). Framing and interorganizational knowledge transfer: A process study of collaborative innovation in the aircraft industry Journal of Management Studies, 51(3):349--378.
Berends, J., van Burg, J.C. and van Raaij, E.M. (2011). Contacts and contracts: Cross-level network dynamics in the development of an aircraft material Organization Science, 22(4):940--960.
Publications
Hummel, JochemT., Berends, H. and Tuertscher, P. (2025). From Boundary Objects to Boundary Infrastructure: A Process Study of Collaboration between Big Science and Big Business Journal of Management Studies, :.
Borner, K., Berends, H., Deken, F. and Feldberg, F. (2023). Another pathway to complementarity: How users and intermediaries identify and create new combinations in innovation ecosystems Research Policy, 52(7):1--15.
Berends, H., van Burg, E. and Garud, R. (2021). Pivoting or persevering with venture ideas: Recalibrating temporal commitments Journal of Business Venturing, 36(4):1--23.
Karanović, J., Berends, H. and Engel, Y. (2021). Regulated Dependence: Platform Workers’ Responses to New Forms of Organizing Journal of Management Studies, 58(4):1070--1106.
Pachidi, S., Berends, H., Faraj, S. and Huysman, M. (2021). Make way for the algorithms: Symbolic actions and change in a regime of knowing Organization Science, 32(1):18--41.
Deken, F., Berends, H., Gemser, G. and Lauche, K. (2018). Strategizing and the initiation of interorganizational collaboration through prospective resourcing Academy of Management Journal, 61(5):1920–1950.
Deken, F., R. Carlile, P., Berends, J. and Lauche, K. (2016). Generating Novelty Through Interdependent Routines: A Process Model of Routine Work Organization Science, 27(3):659--677.
Reymen, I., Andries, P., Berends, J., Mauer, R., Stephan, U. and van Burg, J.C. (2015). Understanding dynamics of strategic decision-making in venture creation: a process study of effectuation and causation Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, 9(4):351--379.
van Burg, J.C., Berends, J. and van Raaij, E. (2014). Framing and interorganizational knowledge transfer: A process study of collaborative innovation in the aircraft industry Journal of Management Studies, 51(3):349--378.
Berends, J., van Burg, J.C. and van Raaij, E.M. (2011). Contacts and contracts: Cross-level network dynamics in the development of an aircraft material Organization Science, 22(4):940--960.
van Dijk, S., Berends, H., Jelinek, M., Romme, A.GeorgesL and Weggeman, M. (2011). Micro-institutional affordances and strategies of radical innovation Organization Studies, 32(11):1485--1513.
Berends, H. and Lammers, I. (2010). Explaining discontinuity in organizational learning: A process analysis Organization Studies, 31(8):1045--1068.