Dr M. Visser (Max)
Associate professor - Business Economics
Heyendaalseweg 141
6525 AJ NIJMEGEN
Postbus 9108
6500 HK NIJMEGEN
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-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. His current research and teaching is concerned with the relations between organizational learning, management control and performance management, in particular in governmental and non-profit organizations. Further, he is interested in the relations between governance, performance and behavior in organizations, increasingly from a Critical perspective.
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