Prof.dr. A.H. van Marrewijk

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Chair
Alfons van Marrewijk is appointed at the extraordinary chair in Business Anthropology. The chair focuses at the anthropology of cultural interventions in complex public private networks in the infrastructure sector. The aim of the chair is to develop, transfer, and apply anthropological theories of culture in the context of business organisations. These insights help to understand cultural interventions and its consequences for managers and employees. 

Based upon anthropological theories and methods Prof. van Marrewijk studies cultural collaboration between corporations in a technological complex context focusing on changing practices of collaboration. He applies a social-material perspective in which objects, material and buildings are integral part of cultural collaboration. His fields of study are; Infrastructure Megaprojects, Telecom sector, and Construction sector.

• Business Anthropology (in Ba minor Organization Culture)
• Changing Culture (Ma)
• Masterthesis supervision (thesis subjects)
  

His academic work focuses on the everyday life in technology driven organizations and complex (mega)projects. Currently, he runs a research program, in cooperation with knowledge institute KING, which studies cultural practices in six Dutch megaprojects. This research project aims to give an in-depth understanding of how, in the collaboration of public and private partners, public values are embedded in cultural practices in megaprojects. Furthermore, he is, together with colleague prof. Marcel Veenswijk, (co)project leader of the Partners in Business action research program. The aim of this program is to help public and private partners in the construction industry to change their collaborative practices. Finally, van Marrewijk studies social material work practices in organisations in which the design of spatial settings is intertwined with organisational change processes. 

Publications (Source: METIS VU)

Recent publications:

• Outstanding Paper Award Winner at the Literati Network Awards for Excellence 2011. Van Marrewijk, A.H. M. Veenswijk, S.C. Clegg (2010). Organizing reflexivity in designed change: the ethnoventionist approach. Journal of Organizational Change Management 23(3), 212-229.
• Van Marrewijk, A.H. (2011). Aesthetic Experiences of Designed Organizational Space. Special issue of International Journal of Work, Organisation and Emotion. 4(1), 61-77
• Van Marrewijk, A.H. (2010). Situational Construction of Dutch – Indian Cultural Differences in Global IT Projects.  Scandinavian Journal of Management. 26(4), 368-381.
• Van Marrewijk, A.H. and Yanow, D. (eds.) (2010). Organizational Spaces. Rematerializing the Workaday World. Cheltenham, UK:  Edward Elgar Publishers.
• Van Marrewijk, A.H. M. Veenswijk, S.C. Clegg (2010) Ethnographers, Clinicians and Ethnoventionists. Organising Reflexivity in Design Oriented Change Programmes. Journal of Organisational Change Management 23(3), 212-229.
• Veenswijk, M, van Marrewijk, A. H and K Boersma (2010). Developing new knowledge in Collaborative Relationships in Megaproject Alliances: Organizing reflection in the Dutch Construction Sector. International Journal of Knowledge Management Studies.  Vol. 4, no.2 pp. 216-232.
• Van Marrewijk, A.H. (2009). Gezamenlijke cultuurverschillen De bedrijfsantropologie van crossculturele samenwerking in complexe projecten. Oratie Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen van de Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. ISBN 978-90-9024315-3. pp. 1-51.
• Van Marrewijk, A.H. (2009). Corporate Headquarters as Physical Embodiments of Organisational Change. Journal of Organization Change Management. Vol.22 no.3 pp 290-306.
• Van Marrewijk, A.H. (2009). Gezamenlijke cultuurverschillen De bedrijfsantropologie van crossculturele samenwerking in complexe projecten. Oratie Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen van de Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. ISBN 978-90-9024315-3. pp. 1-51.
• Van Marrewijk, A.H. (2009). Corporate Headquarters as Physical Embodiments of Organisational Change. Journal of Organization Change Management. Vol.22 no.3 pp 290-306.

Extraordinary chair

Bedrijfsantropologie, i.h.b. de antropologie van cultuurinterventies in complexe publiek-private netwerken.