Biography
Justin Jansen is Professor of Corporate Entrepreneurship at Rotterdam School of Management
Professor Jansen is intrigued by the notions of growth, scaling as well as strategic renewal of organizations over time. To persist and pursue sustainable, profitable growth over time. No matter whether organizations are for profit or not, embracing and navigating paradoxical demands are key! Even though many organizations want to grow and make impact to address emergent demands or tackle broader societal challanges, only a small minotiry is able to scale-up successfully. Moreover, many organizations seem to stall or crash over time because of having difficulties to renew and explore novel areas for growth beyond the core. Professor Jansen is fascinated about how organizations may revitalize and develop a futureproof identity that serves as an anchor for building and scaling new initiatives. His research provides new insights into the roles of leadership skills and mindsets of (scale-up) entrepreneurs and senior leadership teams, as well as organizational processes and capabilities driving the scalability and viability of organizations over time.
Based on the impact of his research, professor Jansen has been named as one of the most influential scientific minds worldwide by Thomson Reuters. Regarded as ' Hot Research', the ideas generated by and outcomes of Jansen's work have affected the future of management research in important new ways. Professor Jansen has also been named as one of the top-100 leading professors in the field of entrepreneurship, and noted to be one of the individuals cultivating the leaders of tomorrow. His research on strategic leadership, organizational learning and absorptive capacity, organizational ambidexterity and corporate entrepreneurship has been published in various academic journals including the Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Business Venturing, Journal of Management, Journal of Management Studies, Leadership Quarterly, Management Science, Organization Science, Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, and Strategic Management Journal. Moreover, his research has received recognition throughout the field and several accolades including the ERIM best paper award, the ERIM best dissertation award, and the SAP best strategy paper. He is a recipient of the Erasmus Research Fellowship. Professor Jansen is currently an associate editor of the Journal of Management Studies and serves on the editorial boards of the Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review and the Strategic Management Journal.
Professor Jansen is cofounder and senior fellow of the Erasmus Centre for Entrepreneurship (ECE). This center provides a unique platform that ranges from scholarly insights about (corporate) entrepreneurship and new opportunities, startup campuses for ambitious entrepreneurs, to exciting executive programs for leading and initiating entrepreneurial behaviors within established organizations. Moreover, to create a Pan-European platforms for scholars as well as practitioners to build a world-leading scaleup ecosystem, professor Jansen has initiated the European ScaleUp Institute with renowned partner insitutions across Europe.
Justin Jansen acts as a (research) consultant, speaker, and external advisor to a variety of companies as well as governmental agencies. He has designed and developed workshops as well as management programs about the ability of organizations to identify and initiate novel growth paths, to develop strategic leadership, and to combine seemingly opposing forces such as innovation and operational excellence. Moreover, he has advised governmental agencies on the improvement of the entrepreneurial climate in the Netherlands and on spurring the number of fast-growing organizations.
Together with the Erasmus University, professor Jansen has started a new venture - BuildtoGrow - together with professor Tom Mom, to help and support scaleups and grownups to sustain profitable growth over time. Transforming rigorous research into game-based learning offerings, BuildtoGrow offers game-based assessments and personalized learning journeys for leaders and employees of scaleups and grownups to drive and manage persistent growth over time.
Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University
- jjansen@rsm.nl
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Work
- Pourya Darnihamedani, Joern Block & Justin Jansen (2024) - Institutional reforms and entrepreneurial growth ambitions - International Small Business Journal, 42 (7), 805-840 - doi: 10.1177/02662426241240102 - [link]
- Maria Rita Micheli & Justin Jansen (2024) - Goal orientation and business model innovation in dynamic environments: Evidence from the creative industries - Creativity and Innovation Management, 33 (2), 197-212 - doi: 10.1111/caim.12588 - [link]
- Suzana Varga, Justin J.P. Jansen, Tom J.M. Mom & Magdalena Cholakova (2024) - Collapsing or prospering: High-growth firms and business scaling in a turbulent world - [link]
- Ajlin Dizdarevic, Vareska van de Vrande & Justin Jansen (2024) - When opposites attract: a review and synthesis of corporate-startup collaboration - Industry and Innovation, 31 (5), 544-578 - doi: 10.1080/13662716.2023.2271853 - [link]
- Felix Arndt, Barak Aharonson, Justin Jansen, Jiamin Jiang & Cao Ting (2023) - The Past and Future of Absorptive Capacity - Academy of Management Collections, 4 (2) - doi: 10.5465/amc.2021.0008
- Suzana Varga, Magdalena Cholakova, Justin Jansen, Tom Mom & Guus Kok (2023) - From platform growth to platform scaling: The role of decision rules and network effects over time - Journal of Business Venturing, 38 (6) - doi: 10.1016/j.jbusvent.2023.106346 - [link]
- Raphael Bomelburg, Stefan Berger, Justin Jansen & Heike Bruch (2023) - Regulatory focus climate, organizational structure, and employee ambidexterity: An interactive multilevel model - Human Resource Management, 62 (5), 701-719 - doi: 10.1002/hrm.22155 - [link]
- A Fernandez-Mesa, Ronald Clarke, Ana Garcia-Granero, Justo Herrera & Justin Jansen (2023) - Knowledge network structure and middle management involvement as determinants of TMT members’ ambidexterity: A multilevel analysis - Long Range Planning, 56 (3) - doi: 10.1016/j.lrp.2023.102318 - [link]
- Justin J.P. Jansen, Ciaran Heavey, Tom J.M. Mom, Zeki Simsek & Shaker A. Zahra (2023) - Scaling-up: Building, Leading and Sustaining Rapid Growth Over Time - Journal of Management Studies, 60 (3), 581-604 - doi: 10.1111/joms.12910 - [link]
- Thijs Geradts, Justin Jansen & Joep Cornelissen (2022) - Let's Profitably Fight Poverty, Shall We? How Managers Use Emotional Framing to Develop Base of the Pyramid Ventures Inside a Large Fast-moving Consumer Goods Company - Organization and Environment, 35 (4), 579-606 - doi: 10.1177/10860266221095253 - [link]
- Tom Mom & Justin Jansen (15 October 2021) - Top 250 growth companies in the Netherlands created 50,000 jobs last year
- Justin Jansen (5 March 2020) - Erasmus University Rotterdam: Takeaway.com Has Once Again Achieved Fastest Growth in Netherlands
- Justin Jansen (24 January 2020) - Hoe krijgt Nederland meer Picnics, Adyens en Takeaways? Dit zijn de plannen van prins Constantijn met Techleap.nl
- Justin Jansen (2012) - Academy of Management Review (Journal) (Editor)
Activity: Editorial work › Academic - Justin Jansen & Tom Mom (2012) - Unknown event (Participant)
Activity: Attending an event › Professional - Justin Jansen (2011) - Journal of Management Studies (Journal) (Editor)
Activity: Editorial work › Academic - Justin Jansen & Tom Mom (2011) - Unknown event (Participant)
Activity: Attending an event › Professional - Justin Jansen (2010) - Strategic Management Journal (Journal) (Editor)
Activity: Editorial work › Academic - Justin Jansen (2010) - Academy of Management Journal (Journal) (Editor)
Activity: Editorial work › Academic - Justin Jansen & Tom Mom (2010) - Unknown event (Participant)
Activity: Attending an event › Professional
- Frans Van Den Bosch, Justin Jansen, Henk Volberda & Ignacio Vaccaro (2009) - Management Innovation and Leadership: The moderating role of organizational size
Achmea NV
- Start date approval
- November 2019
- End date approval
- December 9999
- Place
- ZEIST
BuildtoGrow BV
- Start date approval
- September 2022
- End date approval
- September 2025
- Place
- ROTTERDAM
- Description
- Aandeelhouder en bestuurder
ECE BV
- Start date approval
- November 2022
- End date approval
- October 2025
- Place
- ROTTERDAM
- Description
- Outreach activities, keynotes, support and advice
RSM BV
- Start date approval
- November 2022
- End date approval
- October 2025
- Place
- ROTTERDAM
- Description
- Executive education
De Ondernemer
- Start date approval
- November 2022
- End date approval
- November 2025
- Place
- AMSTERDAM
- Description
- Member of the Advisory Board
Forward Looking Holding BV
- Start date approval
- May 2024
- End date approval
- December 2024
- Place
- ZEIST
- Description
- holdingmaatschappij en aandeelhouder BuildtoGrow
Corporate Strategy
- Year Level
- master, IM/CEMS, Exchange, ERIM
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- BMSM12