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CURRICULUM
VITAE (part 1b: short English version)
A.R.
Thurik (3-4-1952)
Erasmus University Rotterdam
P.O. Box 1738
3000 DR Rotterdam, the Netherlands
tel: 31-10-4081398
email: thurik@few.eur.nl
general:
Roy
Thurik is professor of industrial and small business economics at
Erasmus University Rotterdam and professor of entrepreneurship at the
Free University in Amsterdam. He is scientific advisor at EIM Business
and Policy Research in
Zoetermeer, the Netherlands, the largest private small business research
institute in the world. He is member of the Dutch Council for
Entrepreneurship. Roy's research focuses on the role of small firms in
markets, on the role of business owners in firms and on the consequences
and causes of entrepreneurship in economies. He is a research fellow at
two renowned Dutch schools: the Tinbergen Institute for Economic
Sciences and the Erasmus Research Institute for Management. He recently
published Innovation, Industry Evolution and Employment with Cambridge
University Press together with David Audretsch. He has published over
eighty scholarly articles in leading international academic journals. He
is editor of Small Business Economics: An International Journal.
home address:
Dorpsstraat
185
2903 LA Capelle a/d IJssel
the Netherlands
(tel. 31-10-4509662).
present positions:
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professor
of "Industrial Economics and Small Business Economics”, Faculty
of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam, P.O. Box 1738, 3000 DR
Rotterdam, NL (tel. 31-10-4081398; email thurik@few.eur.nl). |
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scientific
advisor, EIM Small Business Research and Consultancy, P.O. Box 7001,
2701 AA Zoetermeer, NL (tel. 31-79-413634; email rth@eim.nl). |
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director
of the center for advanced small business economics (CASBEC), Faculty
of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam, P.O. Box 1738, 3000 DR
Rotterdam, NL (tel. 31-10-4081398). |
| member of the
editorial board of Service Industries Journal, Journal of Marketing
Channels, International Review of Retail, Distribution and Consumer
Research, ESB, CPB Report, MAB |
| professor
of "Entrepreneurship and Small and Medium-Sized Business",
Free University Amsterdam. |
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research
fellow, Tinbergen Institute Rotterdam. |
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research
fellow, Erasmus Research Institue for Management. |
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Ameritech
research scholar, Institue for Development Strategies at Indiana
University. |
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Member,
Dutch Council for Entrepreneurship. |
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Editor,
Small Business Economics: an International Journal. |
referee:
International
Journal of Research in Marketing; European Journal of Operations Research;
Small Business Economics; Service Industries Journal; National Science
Foundation (USA); International Journal of Retailing; Journal of Economic
Behavior and Organization; Foundation for the Advancement of Research in
the Economic Sciences (NL); Review of Industrial Organization; Various
EARIE-conferences; Various EMAC-conferences; European Economic Review;
Kluwer Academic Publishers; Journal of Applied Econometrics; Economic and
Social Research Council (UK); Journal of Marketing Channels; NATO
Collaborative Research Grants; International Journal of Industrial
Organization, Labour Economics, Maandblad voor Accountancy en
Bedrijfseconomie, Cambridge University Press.
awards:
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VIVO
yearly award, 1984 for Ph.D. thesis "Quantitative analysis of
retail productivity" |
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Award
of Excellence, 36th World Conference of ICSB, Vienna, 1991 for the
paper "Are there decreasing economies of scale over time in Dutch
manufacturing?" |
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Award
of Excellence, 44th World Conference of ICSB, Naples, 1999 for the
paper “Entrepreneurship and unemployment in the knowledge
economy”. |
current research interests:
industrial
economics; business diagnostics; small business economics; retailing;
marketing research; entrepreneurship
current Ph.D.-supervision:
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J.
de Kok, Human resource management and productivity: the relevance of
firm size. |
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J.
Nijkamp, Structural change in the retail industry. |
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M.
van Gelderen, The willingness to enterprise. |
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A.
van Stel, Business ownership and economic growth. |
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S.
Wennekers, The revival of business ownership at the end of the 20th
century. |
past Ph.D.-supervision:
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Y.M.
Prince: Price-cost margins in Dutch manufacturing. |
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J.C.A.
Potjes: Empirical studies in Japanese retailing. |
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J.
van Dalen: Quantitative studies in wholesaling. |
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B.
Bode: Studies in retail pricing. |
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L.
Klomp: Quantitative models in the hospitality sector. |
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M.A.
Carree: Market dynamics, evolution and smallness. |
Ph.D.
committees:
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D.
van der Wijst, Financial structure in small business; theory, tests
and applications. |
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M.E.
Homan, The allocation of time and money in one-earner and two-earner
families; an economic analysis. |
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G.
de Wit, Determinants of self-employment. |
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P.J. Louter,
Internationale expansie: internationaal marketingbeleid voor kleine en
middelgrote ondernemingen. |
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R.
Girardi, Regional equilibrium growth and disequilibrium dynamics. |
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F.W.
van Tongeren, Corporates in an economy-wide model: a micro-simulation
approach. |
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M.H.C.
Lever, Union formation and (un)employment. |
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E.M.
Vermeulen, Corporate risk management: a multi factor approach. |
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C.M.
van Praag, Determinants of succesfull enterpreneurship. |
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C.S.J.
Jie-A-Joen, Strategic trade policy, multinational firms, and
vertically related industries. |
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J.
Meijaard, Decision-making in research and development. |
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J.S.
Sidhu, Organization mission, business domain orientation, and
performance. |
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