Abel Georges Lodewijk Romme | |
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Born | |
Nationality | Dutch |
Occupation(s) | Organizational theorist, academic and author |
Academic background | |
Education | BSc., Economics MSc., Economics Doctoral degree |
Alma mater | Tilburg University Maastricht University |
Academic work | |
Institutions | Maastricht University Tilburg University Eindhoven University of Technology |
Georges Romme (Dutch:Sjoerd) is a Dutch organizational theorist,academic and author. He is a full professor of Entrepreneurship &Innovation at the Eindhoven University of Technology. [1]
Romme is known for introducing design science to organization and management studies. [2] [3] [4] He has also pioneered the so-called thesis circle and is a thought leader on topics as professionalism and (organizational) hierarchy. [5] [6] He has authored and co-authored research articles and books,including The Quest for Professionalism:The Case of Management and Entrepreneurship,for which he received the EURAM Best Book Award [7] and the Responsible Research in Management Award in 2017. [8] He is also the recipient of the 2016 Tjalling C. Koopmans Asset Award from Tilburg University [9] and the 2019 Distinguished Scholar-Practitioner Award from the Academy of Management. [10]
Romme earned a BSc degree in Economics in 1981 and a MSc degree in 1984,both from Tilburg University. He worked as an assistant professor in Strategic Management at Maastricht University from 1989 to 1992 and obtained a doctoral degree from Maastricht University in 1992. [1]
Romme continued his academic career at Maastricht University as an associate professor in Strategy &Organization from 1992 to 2000 and a senior research fellow in the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration (from 1996 to 2000). Subsequently,he was appointed as a professor of Management at Tilburg University. Since 2005,he has been a professor of Entrepreneurship &Innovation at the Eindhoven University of Technology. [1] [11]
Romme served as the Dean of the Industrial Engineering &Innovation Sciences (IE &IS) department of Eindhoven University of Technology from 2007 to 2014. Concurrently,he was the chairman of the Supervisory Board of Research School Beta from 2007 to 2014. He also was a member of various advisory boards,such as the Scientific Advisory Board of Aalto University’s School of Science (2011-2020). [12]
Romme also was a co-founder of the EIT InnoEnergy. [13] He serves as the Ambassador for Entrepreneurship at the Eindhoven University of Technology [14] and is also a fellow at the Center for Design Science in Entrepreneurship at the ESCP Business School,Berlin. [15]
The scholarly work of Romme involves three main contributions:his work on the professionalization of the management discipline,design science methodology,and organizational hierarchy and circularity. [5]
Romme has authored and co-authored several publications exploring the realm and purpose of business and management scholarship. In The Quest for Professionalism:The Case of Management and Entrepreneurship,which won the 2017 EURAM Best Book Award, [7] he contended that the Quest for Professionalism is essential to mitigate the societal costs of managerial amateurism,by focusing on the development of a shared professional purpose and knowledge base,with an emphasis on the transformative role of management scholarship. Jan Spruijt wrote about this book that it "is a one-of-a-kind taking a much needed reflective approach to leadership and a critical note towards the level of professionalism that many of us are approaching the science of management and entrepreneurship with." [16]
Romme's publications on design science have focused on developing and applying a research methodology that solves the rigor-relevance gap in organization and management research,inspired by Herbert Simon's The Sciences of the Artificial . Here,Romme advocated for the adoption of the design approach as a primary research mode (alongside the social sciences and humanities as prevailing modes) in the field of management,emphasizing the role of ideal targets,design principles,and (testing) practical solutions to address the persistent gap between theory and practice. [17] With Dimo Dimov,Romme explored various ways to apply design science,distinguishing between developing a "theory of" empirical phenomena and a "theory for" generating them. [18]
In many joint publications,Romme applied design science to develop and test solutions for major problems and challenges. Examples are design principles and various best practices for creating university spin-offs; [19] a tool for mapping,analyzing and designing innovation ecosystems; [20] a tool that facilitates value crafting; [21] a practical approach to enhance citizen participation in a local democracy; [22] a software tool for partner search in open innovation settings; [23] design principles for sustainability assessment in business model innovation; [24] a method for controlling the work of civil servants; [25] and the blueprint of a deep-tech venture builder. [26]
Romme analyzed organizational structure and hierarchy. [27] [28] In his early work in this area,he collaborated with Gerard Endenburg to codify Sociocracy as a novel organizational form based on the circular flow of power, [29] [30] which later also informed the development of Holacracy. [31] In a study coauthored with Arjen van Witteloostuijn,Romme examined the role of triple loop learning in the emerging sociocratic (or circular) organization design,finding that this design facilitates single and double loop learning and acts as an infrastructure for triple loop learning,enabling well-informed choices about shared objectives and policies. [32] In more recent work,Romme categorized the hierarchy phenomenon into four types—that is,hierarchy based on formal authority,achieved status,self-organized responsibility,and ideology—each involving a distinct social mechanism,thereby offering a typology for understanding hierarchy in complex social systems. [33]
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