THE PEOPLE INVOLVED:



Diederik de Boer is a lecturer and senior manager responsible for business development and international executive programmes at the Maastricht School of Management (MsM). His research interests include economic development and corporate social responsibility. Before joining MsM, he worked for the United Nations and the Dutch Ministry of Development Cooperation on rural development, aid coordination and private sector development.
deboermsm.nl



Gemma Crijns is coordinator of the Netherlands Platform on Corporate Social Responsibility (MVO Platform, www.mvo-platform.nl ), a platform of 35 non-government organisations. Before joining the MVO Platform, she was managing director of EIBE at Universiteit Nyenrode. Further, she worked for twenty years at the Dutch section of Amnesty International, where she developed a Business and Human Rights programme and established intensive counselling and stakeholder relations with Dutch multinational enterprises, topics on which she has developed a broad expertise.
g.crijnssomo.nl


Meine-Pieter van Dijk



Fabienne Fortanier works at AgBS (University of Amsterdam) as a researcher. Her research focuses on the interaction between internationalisation strategies of MNEs and host government policies in developing countries, and on the impact of those business-government interactions on economic growth and sustainable development. Prior to joining AgBS, she worked as a consultant at the OECD. F.N.Fortanieruva.nl - view personal web page




Robert Goedegebuure is an associate professor of international business at MsM, responsible for research and courses in international business. His research interests are in the fields of national competitiveness, economic development, industrial policy and multinational strategic behaviour.
goedegebuuremsm.nl




Ans Kolk is a professor of sustainable management and research director of the Amsterdam graduate Business School (AgBS), University of Amsterdam. Her areas of research and publications are in corporate social responsibility and environmental management, especially in relation to multinational corporations’ strategies, international policy and development issues.
akolkuva.nl - view personal web page




Alan Muller (United States) is assistant professor of strategy and international business at the AgBS (University of Amsterdam). He holds degrees from Erasmus University Rotterdam (PhD in management), University of Amsterdam (Masters in International Relations) and University of Washington (Bachelor in History), all cum laude. His research interests center on the role of companies in society, covering topics such as the drivers and impacts of firms' international strategies, MNEs and development, global versus local CSR strategies and the drivers of CSR in emerging markets. Recent ECSAD projects include research on Business-NGO partnerships in establishing sustainable commodity chains in developing countries and research on responsible tax behavior of MNEs in emerging markets.
A.R.Mulleruva.nl - view personal web page




Rob van Tulder is a professor of international business-society management at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. In his research and publications he has focused on strategic bargaining relations between actors, the role of governments and of large influential actors with an international, often cross-country and comparative perspective
rtulderfbk.eur.nl - view personal web page




Jeroen van Wijk is a lecturer in Business and Development at RSM - Erasmus University (PhD degree in international relations, University of Amsterdam, 1999). He has worked as consultant for various international organizations in the areas of agricultural biotechnology and intellectual property protection. His present research focuses on the linkages between MNEs and local companies, and the bridging of segmented markets in East Africa, particularly in the agro-food and tourism sectors. His main theoretical interests include global value chain analysis, institutionalism, and business networks.
JWijkrsm.nl - view personal web page


Sietze Vellema is lecturer at the Technology and Agrarian Development group of Wageningen University, where he connects development and technology studies in a technographic approach to the social, institutional and material dimensions of agri-food chains and networks. He combines detailed anthropological study of task groups and divisions of labour with insights in material mechanisms of making and performance. At the Agricultural Economics Research Institute (LEI), he leads the action research program Value Chains for Pro-poor Development, policy research and interdisciplinary strategic research.

sietze.vellemawur.nl