dr. R.A.J.L. (Raymond) van Wijk

Raymond van Wijk
Rotterdam School of Management (RSM)
Erasmus University Rotterdam
Former ERIM PhD Candidate
Former Associate Member ERIM
Field: Strategy & Entrepreneurship
Affiliated since 1996

Raymond van Wijk is Assistant Professor at the Department of Strategy and Business Environment of Rotterdam School of Management. He joined the department as a Research Associate in 1996, to become Assistant Professor in 2000. In 2003, he obtained his PhD from Erasmus University with a study on the organization and integration of knowledge in internal networks. Much of his research has been published in a variety of journals and books. Currently, his research focuses on knowledge flows, absorptive capacity and exploration and exploitation. He teaches courses on strategic alliances and corporate development in the master program, as well as core strategy courses in the executive and bachelor programs.

PhD Track Organizing Knowledge in Internal Networks; A Multilevel Study

Organizing knowledge is fundamental to the competitive success of firms. Recent research shows that many firms experience difficulty in transferring and integrating knowledge across their organizational units, and that its remedy requires that firms change their organization forms. This PhD study seeks to examine how internal network forms of organizing influence the organization and integration of knowledge. Employing a longitudinal case study method and two questionnaires, four studies are conducted in which the effect and performance implications of both corporate-level and business-level elements shaping knowledge integration in internal networks are examined. The results demonstrate that firms improve the integration and organization of knowledge by adopting sets of complementary elements characteristic of internal networks at the corporate level, as well as through the contribution of internal networks in developing the capacity to absorb knowledge at the business level.

Keywords
absorptive capacity, alliance, central organization, transition, social networks, clusters, collaborations, competitors, complexity, cooperatives, corporate headquarters, customers, decentralization, exploitation, external networks, facilitating, firms, high knowledge integrators, horizontal knowledge, human resource practices, internal networks, knowledge bases, knowledge flow configuration, knowledge flows, knowledge integration, knowledge transfers, learning, low knowledge integrators, managers, market, networks, organizational layers, product-based structures, project-based structures
Time frame
1996 - 2003

Publications

Article (6)

  • Academic (3)

    • van Wijk, R., & Nadolska, A. (2020). Making More Of Alliance Portfolios: The Role Of Alliance Portfolio Coordination. European Management Journal. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emj.2019.12.009

    • van Wijk, R., Jansen, J., van den Bosch, F., & Volberda, H. (2012). How Firms shape knowledge to explore and exploit: A Study of Knowledge Flows, Knowledge Stocks and innovative performance across units. Technology Analysis and Strategic Management, 24(9), 929-950. https://doi.org/10.1080/09537325.2012.718666

    • van Wijk, R., Jansen, J., & Lyles, MA. (2008). Inter- and Intra-organizational knowledge transfer: a meta analytic review and assessment of its antecedents and consequences. Journal of Management Studies, 45(4), 830-853. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-6486.2008.00771.x

  • Professional (3)

    • van den Bosch, F., & van Wijk, R. (2001). De ontwikkeling van interne netwerken als een duurzame kenniscreatie strategie. Bedrijfskunde, 73(1), 104-111. http://hdl.handle.net/1765/10983

    • van Wijk, R., & van den Bosch, F. (1999). Transitieprocessen naar de Interne Netwerk Organisatie: Strategische Implicaties voor Kennisstromen en Kennisdeling. Tijdschrift voor Bedrijfsadministratie, 103(1220), 55-60. http://hdl.handle.net/1765/11007

    • van Wijk, R., & van den Bosch, F. (1999). Interne netwerken en intraorganisationele kennisdeling. Bedrijfskunde, 71(1), 54-60. http://hdl.handle.net/1765/11011

Chapter (19)

  • Academic (19)

    • van Wijk, R., van den Bosch, F., & Volberda, H. (2011). Organizing Knowledge in Social, Alliance, and Organizational Networks. In M. Easterby-Smith, & M. A. Lyles (Eds.), Handbook of Organizational Learning and Knowledge Management, Second Edition (pp. 477-504). John Wiley & Sons Inc.. http://hdl.handle.net/1765/6537

    • van den Bosch, F., van Wijk, R., & Volberda, H. (2011). Absorptive Capacity: Taking Stock in its Progress and Prospects. In M. Easterby-Smith, & M. A. Lyles (Eds.), Handbook of Organizational Learning and Knowledge Management, Second Edition (pp. 273-304). John Wiley & Sons Inc.. http://hdl.handle.net/1765/6534

    • van Wijk, R., van den Bosch, F., Volberda, H., & Heinhuis, SM. (2005). Knowledge Reciprocity as a Managerial Competence: the Determinants of Reciprocity of Knowledge Flows in Internal Network Forms of Organizing. In Sanchez, & Heene (Eds.), Research in Competence Based Management, a Focussed Issue on Managing Knowledge Assets and Organizational Learning (pp. 117-140). JAI Press/Elsevier. http://hdl.handle.net/1765/10935

    • van den Bosch, F., van Wijk, R., & Volberda, H. (2003). Absorptive Capacity: Antecedents, Models and Outcomes. In M. Easterby-Smith, & M.A. Lyles (Eds.), Handbook of Organizational Learning and Knowledge Management (pp. 278-301). Blackwell Publishing. http://hdl.handle.net/1765/10970

    • van Wijk, R., van den Bosch, F., & Volberda, H. (2003). Knowledge and Networks. In M. Easterby-Smith, & M.A. Lyles (Eds.), Handbook of Organizational Learning and Knowledge Management (pp. 428-453). Blackwell Publishing. http://hdl.handle.net/1765/6537

    • van Wijk, R., van den Bosch, F., & Volberda, H. (2003). Knowledge and Networks. In M. Easterby-Smith, & M. A. Lyles (Eds.), Handbook of Organizational Learning and Knowledge Managment (pp. 428-453). Blackwell Publishing.

    • van Wijk, R., Lewin, AY., Massini, S., Numagami, T., van den Bosch, F., & Volberda, H. (2002). Knowledge integration strategies: a comparative study of Europe, Japan and the US. In The proceedings of the Strategic Management Society, 22nd Annual International Conference, Paris, France, September 22-25 Blackwell Publishing. http://hdl.handle.net/1765/31757

    • van den Bosch, F., & van Wijk, R. (2001). Creation of Managerial Capabilities through Managerial Knowledge Integration: A Competence-based Perspective. In R. Sanchez (Ed.), Knowledge Management and Organizational Competence (pp. 159-176). Oxford University Press. http://hdl.handle.net/1765/31709

    • van Wijk, R., & van den Bosch, F. (2000). 'Creating the N-form Corporation as a Managerial Competence'. In R. Sanchez, & A. Heene (Eds.), Implementing competence-Based Strategy, Advances in Applied Business Strategy (pp. 199-214). Greenwich, CN: JAI Press. http://hdl.handle.net/1765/32077

    • van Wijk, R., & van den Bosch, F. (2000). "Creating the N-form Corporation as a Managerial Competence". In R. Sanchez, & A. Heene (Eds.), Theory development for competence-based management (pp. 199-214). JAII Press. http://hdl.handle.net/1765/32077

    • van Wijk, R., & van den Bosch, F. (2000). "The Emergence and Development of Internal Networks and Their Impact on Knowledge Flows: The Case of Rabobank Group". In A. M. Pettigrew, & E. M. Fenton (Eds.), The Innovating Organization (pp. 144-177). Sage. http://hdl.handle.net/1765/11003

    • van den Bosch, F., & van Wijk, R. (1999). Transition Processes Towards the N-Form Corporation: Stategic Implications for Knowledge Flows. In M. A. Hitt, P. Clifford, R. D. Nixon, & K. P. Coyne (Eds.), Papers prepared for: Dynamic Strategic Resources : Development, Diffusion and Integration (pp. 223-244). John Wiley & Sons Inc..

    • Whittington, R., Pettigrew, A., Melin, L., Ruigrok, WM., & van Wijk, R. (1999). 'Strategizing/Organizing'. In . - (Ed.), Paper presented at Academy of Management Meeting (pp. ---).

    • van Wijk, R., & van den Bosch, F. (1998). Knowledge characteristics of internal network-based forms of organizing. In S. Havlovic (Ed.), Academy of Management Meeting: Best Paper Proceedings CD-Rom (pp. B1-B7). Academy of Management.

    • van den Bosch, F., & van Wijk, R. (1998). Coordination mechanisms, property rights and micro-level ties from a knowledge perspective: the case of internal networks. In . redacteur? (Ed.), 14th EGOS Colloquium 1998 (pp. pag?-pag?). uitgever?.

    • van Wijk, R., & van den Bosch, F. (1998). Three Perspectives on the N-form Corporation: Structure, Management, and the Case for Knowledge Flows. In . redacteur? (Ed.), Paper presented at 14th EGOS Colloquium, July 9-11, 1998, Maastricht. (niet naspeurbaar!) (pp. pag?-pag?). uitgever?.

    • van den Bosch, F., & van Wijk, R. (1998). Transition processes towards the N-form corporation: strategic implications for knowledge flows. In . redacteur? (Ed.), Annual Strategic Management Society Conference, Orlando Florida (pp. pag?-pag?). uitgever?.

    • van den Bosch, F., & van Wijk, R. (1998). Creation of managerial capabilities by managerial knowledge integration: a competence-based perspective. In . redacteur? (Ed.), Fourth Annual Competence-based Management Conference (pp. pag?-pag?). uitgever?.

    • van Wijk, R., & van den Bosch, F. (1998). Creating the N-form corporation as a managerial competence. In . redacteur? (Ed.), Fourth International Conference on Competence Based Management (pp. pag?-pag?). Norwegian School of Management.

Conference contribution (20)

  • Academic (20)

    • van Wijk, R., & Lyles, MA. (2009). Social capital, knowledge transfer and outcomes: Meta-analytic evidence on a moderated mediation model. Academy of Management Meeting, Chicago.

    • van Wijk, R., & Jansen, J. (2009). Social capital, knowledge transfer and outcomes: Meta-analytic evidence on a moderated mediation model. Strategic Management Society Conference, Washington DC.

    • van Wijk, R., & Lyles, MA. (2008). Social capital, knowledge transfer and performance: Meta-analytic evidence and moderating effects. Academy of Management Meeting, Anaheim.

    • Dijksterhuis, MS., & van Wijk, R. (2007). Leadership Authenticity: Contextual influences and performance implications. Academy of Management Meeting, Philadelphia.

    • van Wijk, R., Jansen, J., & Lyles, MA. (2007). Organizational Knowledge Transfer: A Meta-analytic Review of its Antecedents and Outcomes. Academy of Management Meeting, Philadelphia.

    • van Wijk, R., Jansen, J., van den Bosch, F., & Volberda, H. (2006). Unraveling Absorptive Capacity: A Study of Units' Knowledge Flows, Knowledge Stocks and Innovative Performance. Academy of Management Meeting, Atlanta.

    • van Wijk, R., van den Bosch, F., & Volberda, H. (2005). Corporate Elements Shaping Knowledge Ingetration: A Study of Continental European Firms. AIB Conference, Quebec, Canada.

    • Jansen, J., van Wijk, R., van den Bosch, F., & Volberda, H. (2005). The Role of Firms? Knowledge Strategies in Developing Deep and Broad Knowledge. Academy of Management Meeting, Honolulu, HI.

    • Volberda, H., van den Bosch, F., van Wijk, R., & Jansen, J. (2004). The Role of Firms? Knowledge Strategies in Developing Deep and Broad Knowledge. Academy of International Business Conference, Stockholm.

    • van Wijk, R., Pettigrew, A., van den Bosch, F., & Volberda, H. (2002). The Corporate Elements Shaping Knowledge Integration: A Study of Continental European Firms. Academy of Management, BPS Division, Session on Knowledge Integration and Transfer, August 9-14, Denver, Colorado.

    • van Wijk, R., Pettigrew, A., van den Bosch, F., Volberda, H., & Whittington, R. (2001). The Determinants of Knowledge Integration: Corporate-level Evidence from Continental European Firms. Paper presented at Strategic Management Society Conference, October 21-24, San Francisco.

    • van Wijk, R., van den Bosch, F., & Volberda, H. (2001). Absorptive capacity of Internal Networks. Paper presented at the ERIM Conference of New Organizational Forms, November 16-17, 2001, Rotterdam.

    • van Wijk, R., Massini, S., Lewin, AY., van den Bosch, F., Volberda, H., & Numagami, T. (2001). Organizing for Knowledge Integration: A Comparative Panel Study of Europe, Japan and USA, 1992-1996. Paper presented at the Academy of International Business Conference, November 16-19, Sydney.

    • van Wijk, R., van den Bosch, F., & Volberda, H. (2001). The Impact of the Depth and Breadth of Knowledge Absorbed on Levels of Exploration and Exploitation. Presented at the Academy of Management Meeting, August 3-8, 2001, Washington D.C., USA.

    • van Wijk, R., van den Bosch, F., & Volberda, H. (2001). Absorptive Capacity of Internal Networks Forms. ERIM Conference New Organizational Forms, Track 4: New Organizational Forms in the Knowledge Economy: Strategies for Renewal and Intrapeneurship, Erasmus University Rotterdam, November 16-17.

    • Heinhuis, SM., van Wijk, R., van den Bosch, F., & Volberda, H. (2000). 'Reciprocity of a Firm's Knowledge Flows as a Managerial Competence'. Paper presented at Fifth International Conference on Competence-based Management, June 10-14, Helsinki (Finland).

    • van Wijk, R., van den Bosch, F., & Volberda, H. (2000). "Strategies to Enhance a Firm's Absorptive Capacity". Paper presented at Academy of Management Meeting, Shared Interest Track on Knowledge: Flows and Absorption, August 7-9, 2000, Toronto - Canada, Toronto, Canada.

    • van den Bosch, F., van Wijk, R., & Volberda, H. (1999). Change Journeys: Processes, Sequencing and Complementarities. Annual Meeting Academy of Management, Chicago, August 6-11, 1999.

    • van Wijk, R., van den Bosch, F., & Volberda, H. (1999). Absorptive Capacity in Internal Networks: Exploring or Exploiting New Knowledge?. Proceedings of the:15th EGOS Colloquium, Warwick (UK), July 4-6, 1999, Warwick, UK, July 4-6.

    • van Wijk, R., van den Bosch, F., & Volberda, H. (1999). Strategies to raise a firms capacity to absorb new knowledge: The Case of Network Forms of Organizing. Paper presented at: 19th SMS Conference, Berlin (Germany), October 3-6, Best Conference Paper-Prixe(cheque and plaque), Berlin, Germany. October 3-6.

Conference proceeding (3)

  • Academic (3)

    • van Wijk, R., Jansen, J., & Lyles, MA. (2009). Social capital, knowledge transfer and outcomes: Meta-analytic evidence on a moderated mediation model. In G. T. Solomon (Ed.), Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings

    • van Wijk, R., Jansen, J., & Lyles, MA. (2008). Social capital, knowledge transfer and performance: Meta-analytic evidence and moderating effects. In G. T. Solomon (Ed.), Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings

    • van Wijk, R., Jansen, J., & Lyles, MA. (2007). Organizational Knowledge Transfer: A Meta-analytic Review of its Antecedents and Outcomes. In G. T. Solomon (Ed.), Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings

Doctoral Thesis (1)

  • Internal (1)

    • van Wijk, R. (2003). Organizing Knowledge in Internal Networks. A Multilevel Study. [Doctoral Thesis, Erasmus University Rotterdam]. Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR).

Report (6)

  • Academic (6)

    • van Wijk, R., van den Bosch, F., Volberda, H., & Heinhuis, SM. (2005). Reciprocity of Knowledge Flows in Internal Network Forms of Organizing. (ERIM Report Series 024-STR ed.) ERIM Report Series Vol. 024-STR

    • van den Bosch, F., van Wijk, R., & Volberda, H. (2003). Absorptive Capacity: Antecedents, Models and Outcomes. (ERS-2003 035-STR ed.) ERS-2003 Vol. 035-STR

    • van den Bosch, F., & van Wijk, R. (2000). Creation of Managerial Capabilities through Managerial Knowledge Integration: a Competence-Based Perspective. (ERIM Report Series Research in Management (issn 1566-5283) 19 ed.) ERIM. ERIM Report Series Research in Management (issn 1566-5283) Vol. 19

    • van Wijk, R., & van den Bosch, F. (2000). Transition Processes towards Internal Networks: Differential Paces of Change and Effects on Knowledge Flows at Rabobank Group. (ERIM Report Series Research in Management (issn 1566-5283) 22 ed.) ERIM. ERIM Report Series Research in Management (issn 1566-5283) Vol. 22

    • van Wijk, R., & van den Bosch, F. (2000). Creating the N-form Corporation as a Managerial Competence. (ERIM Report Series Research in Management (issn 1566-5283) 24 ed.) Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM). ERIM Report Series Research in Management (issn 1566-5283) Vol. 24

    • van Wijk, R., & van den Bosch, F. (1998). Knowledge characteristics of internal network-based forms of organizing. (Management Report Series 27-1998 ed.) ERIM. Management Report Series Vol. 27-1998

Additional activities (2)

  • Knowledge flows in Network Forms of Organisation

    Oral presentation (Professional)

  • Networks and Knowledge Sharing

    Oral presentation (Professional)

PhD Track (1)

Managing Entrepreneurial Orientation
  • Role: Member Supervisory Team
  • PhD Candidate: Sebastiaan van Doorn
  • Time frame: 2008 - 2012

Events (17)

2012
May
22
The Effects of Market Efficiency and Transparancy on the Performance of Cross-Border Acquisitions
Research Seminar
As: Coordinator
2012
April
03
Stakeholder Capital and Performance in Tough Times
Research Seminar
As: Coordinator
2012
March
01
Balancing the Trade-Off Between Learning Prospects and Spillover Risks: MNC Subsidiaries' Vertical Linkage Patterns in Developed Countries
Research Seminar
As: Coordinator
2012
February
14
"Don't Cry for Argentina: Emerging Market Multinationals and the Theory of the Multinational Enterprise"
Research Seminar
As: Coordinator
2011
November
29
Rich Language for Poor Firms: The Symbolic Management of Bankruptcy
Research Seminar
As: Coordinator
2011
October
18
Strategizing Knowledge Coordination Capabilities: Stickiness And The Sequencing Of Investments In Knowledge Transfer
Research Seminar
As: Coordinator
2011
June
21
Rule-Based Learning: Problem Absorption and Knowledge Integration into Clinical Practice Guidelines
Research Seminar
As: Coordinator
2011
May
02
A Stream of Research on Acquisitions and Risk
Research Seminar
As: Coordinator
2011
March
29
Serendipity vs Strategy: A Tale of Two Theories
Research Seminar
As: Coordinator
2009
June
11
"Organizational Learning: Current themes and future directions"
Research Seminar
As: Coordinator
2009
March
26
Outsourcing War: Private Military Companies and Command-and-Control Capabilities after the Cold War
Research Seminar
As: Coordinator
2009
March
05
Modeling Executive Influences on Strategic Entrepreneurship
Research Seminar
As: Coordinator
2009
January
29
"Coordination in Vertical Relationships: The (Un)Importance of Information Flows"
Research Seminar
As: Coordinator
2008
October
16
"CEO Dismissal: The Role of Investment Analysts as an External Control Mechanism"
Research Seminar
As: Coordinator
2008
September
25
Exploratory Search and the Boundaries of the Firm: An Empirical Investigation
Research Seminar
As: Coordinator
2006
August
31
Strategic Renewal: Investigating Managerial Exploration and Exploitation - Problems, Findings, Recommendations
Research Seminar
As: Speaker
2003
May
22
Organizing Knowledge in Internal Networks; A Multilevel Study
PhD Defence
As: Speaker

Address

Visiting address

Office: Mandeville Building T07-39
Burgemeester Oudlaan 50
3062 PA Rotterdam

Postal address

Postbus 1738
3000 DR Rotterdam
Netherlands

Latest publication

Article

van Wijk, R., & Nadolska, A. (2020). Making More Of Alliance Portfolios: The Role Of Alliance Portfolio Coordination. European Management Journal. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emj.2019.12.009

Supervisory Team

Han van Dissel
Han van Dissel
  • Member Doctoral Committee
Henk Volberda
Henk Volberda
Professor of Strategic Management & Business Policy
  • Member Doctoral Committee
Marjorie Lyles
Marjorie Lyles
  • Member Doctoral Committee
Frans Van Den Bosch
Frans Van Den Bosch
Professor of Management Interfaces between Organizations and Environment
  • Promotor
Andrew Pettigrew
  • Member Doctoral Committee