PhD projects Organization Science (CuCON)

Current PhD projects

• Drs. D. Alinejad; Diaspora identities and the Internet: How Iranian Migrant Communities are Imagined Online and Offline.
• Drs. M. Berendse; Producing and Reproducing Legitimacy in Professional Public Infrastructure Organisations.
• Drs. F. Brandt; Networking Livelihoods in South Africa: the impact of private farm conversions to wildlife production on the construction of farm dwellers livelihoods in the Eastern Cape.
• Drs. N.V. Brenninkmeijer; Honour related violence in The Netherlands; the rise and development of a new organizational field.
• Drs. H.H. Byun; From Loyalty to Flexibility: The effects of a new managerial regime in Japan on employees’ organization identification.
• Drs. M. Eijberts; The Integration/Participation Strategies and the Sense of Belonging of Women of Turkish and Moroccan Descent in the Netherlands.
• Drs. M.J. Freitas dos Santos; Constructing Shared Knowledge - Experiences of a transnational collaborative group in a process of collective meaning-making.
• Drs. P. Heng; Chinese investment in Cambodia: an alternative path to development.
• Drs. M. de Jong; Marokkaanse studenten op hoger onderwijs.
• Drs. S. Khieng; Competing Hegemonies - Foreign-dominated processes of modernization and political change in post-conflict Cambodia.
• Drs. E. Lohuis; Education in Buddhist nunneries.
• Drs. S. Merkus; Administrative culture and decision-making on infrastructural projects.
• Drs. Carolin Ossenkop; Managing ethnic diversity in Dutch organizations: effects of policies, practices and processes on careers of individual employees.
• Drs. P.A.M. Pelkman; Narratives of change, unraveling the back stage of black economic empowerment in complex organizations in South Africa.
• Drs. K. Poldner; (tba) 
• Drs. S. Pramono; Multi-stakeholder involvement in nature reserves.
• Drs. S. van der Raad; Paradoxical practices of inequality in the context of diversity practices, diversity management and diversity policies within organizations in two main fields of the Dutch juridical sector: the advocacy and judiciary.
• Drs. R. Radmilli; Maltese wine industry.  
• Drs. K. Smits; Collaboration in Infrastructural Mega Projects - Cultural Interfaces in the Panama Canal Expansion Project.
• Drs. D. Snijders; Private Wildlife and the State - An institutional approach to wildlife ownership in post-Apartheid South Africa.
• Drs. E. Steijvers; (tba)
• Drs. S. Tea; The South Korean investment boom: an opportunity for Cambodia entrepreneurship?
• Drs. M. Verdoes; Public Private collaborative practices in the 2nd Coentunnel.
• Drs. M.J. Verver; Ethnic Chinese entrepreneurship in Cambodia.  
• Drs. G.D.M. Wijers; Negotiating a river by its bends. How Cambodian returnee-migrants build, broker and bargain for structural reform of Cambodian economic institutions
• Drs. N. Zborowska; How do developments within the organisational and regulatory gambling arrangements within the member states of the EU relate to the European level?
  

Completed PhD projects

2011

• Dr. A. Lombarts; Citymarketing in Amsterdam; 26 mei 2011

2010

• Dr. L.A. Gberie; From chains to neckties. The liberated Africans and the making of modern Sierra Leone; 3 February 2010
• Dr. H.L. Duijnhoven; Organizing Security Culture in Practice. Strategies for Cultural Change in the Dutch and Spanish Railway Sector; 21 April 2010
• Dr. M.J. Kamsma; The Jewish Diaspora in Southeast Asia: Processes of Ethnic and Religious Identification of the Jewish Businesses in Singapore and the Straits; 28 April 2010
• Dr. T. Susilowati Prabawa; Coping with Tourism Decline – Small Scale Tourism Entrepreneurs in Yogyakarta, Indonesia; 19 October 2010
• Dr. H. Bakker; Idea management. Unravelling creative processes in three professional organizations; 6 December 2010

2008

• Dr. L. Reijn; Identity at Work. Controland commitment in postburaucratic organisations; 25 January 2008
• Dr. J.H.M. van den Heuvel; Between Optimism and Opportunism. Deconstructing Afican Management Discourse in South Africa; 4 June 2008
• Dr. G.C.H. ter Horst; Weaving into Cambodia. Trade and Identity Politics in the (post)-Colonial Cambodian Silk Weaving Industry; 10 October 2008

2006

• E. Zwart; In pursuit of comfort. The transnationalisation process of Malaysian Chinese small and medium enterprises; 8 November 2006

Department of Organization Sciences (former Department of Culture, Organization and Management)