Amin, J., van Burg, E. and Stam, W. (2025). In Search of a Soft Landing: How Premigration Work Attainments Influence Identity Transformation Processes of Refugee Entrepreneurs Organization Science, :.
Elco van Burg
University
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
E-mail
Research field
Strategy and Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Website
Biography
Elco van Burg is full professor of Organizational Theory at the School of Business and Economics at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Elco's research is situated at the intersection of organization theory and entrepreneurship. He studies primarily the following topics: social networks and interorganizational collaboration, managerial imagination and decision-making, design perspectives on organizing, organizing for the public good (social entrepreneurship and religious organizations), and modern organizational trends such as lean and agile organizing.
Recent awards:
- Entrepreneurship best full paper award, 2021, British Academy of Management Conference
- Journal of Business Venturing Best Paper Award 2021.
Keywords/research interests: Organization theory, Purpose, Entrepreneurship, Design, Social networks
Key publications
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.
Engel, Y., van Burg, J.C., Kleijn, E. and Khapova, S. (2017). Past career in future thinking: How career management practices shape entrepreneurial decision-making Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, 11(2):122--144.
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.
Publications
Amin, J., van Burg, E. and Stam, W. (2025). In Search of a Soft Landing: How Premigration Work Attainments Influence Identity Transformation Processes of Refugee Entrepreneurs Organization Science, :.
Kateb, S., Kroon, D., van Burg, E. and Ruehle, R. (2025). Vulnerable care: Temporality in collective action during the COVID-19 crisis Organization Studies, :.
Dejardin, M., Brigitte, H., Janssen, F., Rietveld, C.A. and van Burg, E. (2024). Coupling engagement with analytical rigor: advancing research on religion and entrepreneurship using a mechanism-based approach Small Business Economics, 62(4):1273--1284.
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.
Zhang, StephenX. and Van Burg, E. (2020). Advancing entrepreneurship as a design science: developing additional design principles for effectuation Small Business Economics, 55(3):607--626.
Engel, Y., van Burg, J.C., Kleijn, E. and Khapova, S. (2017). Past career in future thinking: How career management practices shape entrepreneurial decision-making Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, 11(2):122--144.
Choongo, P., van Burg, J.C., Paas, L. and Masurel, E. (2016). Factors influencing the identification of sustainable opportunities by SMEs: Empirical evidence from Zambia Sustainability, 8(1):81.
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.
Dolmans, S., van Burg, J.C., Reymen, I. and Romme, A. (2014). Dynamics of resource slack and constraints: Resource positions in action Organization Studies, 35(4):511--549.
van Burg, J.C. and van Oorschot, K.E. (2013). Cooperating to commercialize technology: A dynamic model of fairness perceptions, experience, and cooperation Production and Operations Management, 22(6):1336--1355.
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.