dr. H.L. Aalbers (Rick)

Rick Aalbers is an Associate Professor (tenured) in Strategy and Innovation at the department of Business Administration of the Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands. He has been a visiting scholar at Imperial College London and National University of Ireland at Galway and The Tokyo Institute of Technology. Prior to his academic career, he worked as a Manager at Deloitte Consulting where he advised on strategic change in the financial services industry.

A native of The Netherlands, he holds a Masters degree in Business Administration from Rotterdam School of Management, a second Masters degree in Business Economics (cum laude) from Erasmus University's School of Economics and a PhD in Business and Economics from Groningen University (winner of the SOM best dissertation award).

His research focuses on organizational restructuring and innovation and revolves around the following research lines:

Collaboration and intra-firm network intervention
Organizational restructuring and downsizing
Advanced technology business model development

His work has been accepted for publication by leading international journals, including: Research Policy, Long Range Planning, Journal of Product Innovation Management, MIT Sloan Management Review, Journal of Engineering and Technology Management, Journal of Business Strategy, Management Decision, Innovation, Ivey Business Journal and British Journal of Management, among others. A monograph on Innovation networks apeared with Routledge in 2015. His works have been presented at various international conferences, including the Academy of Management, the Organization Science Winter Conference, Strategic Management Society and DRUID.

Rick Aalbers heads the Radboud Centre for Organization Restructuring and serves as program coordinator and main applicant of the Marie Curie ITN Program FINDER , a competitive research grant by the European Commission (See www.thefinderproject.eu for more information).