Wang, T.M., Heine, F. and van Witteloostuijn, A. (2023). Pro-social risk-taking and intergroup conflict: A volunteer's dilemma experiment Games and Economic Behavior, 140:363--379.
Arjen van Witteloostuijn
University
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
E-mail
Research field
Macroeconomics
Interests
Behavioral Economics, Bounded Rationality, Competition Policy, Corporate Governance, Entrepreneurship, Experimental Economics, Field Experiments, Game Theory, Globalization, Industrial Organization, International Economics, Methodology of Economics, Organizational Economics, Personnel Economics, Political Economy, Trade
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Biography
Arjen van Witteloostuijn is Professor of Business and Economics and Dean of the School of Business and Economics at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He is also a Research Professor in Business, Economics and Governance at the University of Antwerp and Antwerp Management School in Belgium. Earlier he was affiliated with the University of Groningen, University Maastricht, Tilburg University and Utrecht University, and Cardiff University and Durham University (the United Kingdom), and he visited New York University (the United States) and Warwick Business School (the United Kingdom). He holds degrees in Business, Economics and Psychology. In 1996-1998, he was Dean of the Maastricht Faculty of Economics and Business Administration. He is member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences (KNAW).
Key publications
List of publications
Boroomand, F., Tsui, AnneS., Djabbarov, I., van Witteloostuijn, A. and Mijnhardt, W. (2026). Business and management research on societal wellbeing: a historic, multi-journal and large language model analysis of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals Journal of International Business Studies.
Fitzgerald, J., Stroet, P., Weissmueller, K. and van Witteloostuijn, A. (2025). Is there a foreign language effect on workplace bribery susceptibility? Evidence from a randomized controlled vignette experiment Journal of Business Ethics, 197(1):73–97.
Bosma, B., Loots, E., Stroet, P. and van Witteloostuijn, A. (2025). Passionately or reluctantly independent? Artistic and non-artistic self-employment compared Journal of Cultural Economics, 49(3):515--545.
Delios, A., Tung, RosalieL. and van Witteloostuijn, A. (2025). How to intelligently embrace generative AI: The first guardrails for the use of GenAI in IB research Journal of International Business Studies, 56(4):451--460.
Ismail, I., Stam, P.J.A., Portrait, F.R.M., van Witteloostuijn, A. and Koolman, X. (2024). Addressing unanticipated interactions in risk equalization: A machine learning approach to modeling medical expenditure risk Economic Modelling, 130.
Bosma, B. and van Witteloostuijn, A. (2024). Machine learning in international business Journal of International Business Studies, 55(6):676--702.
Brakman, S., Garretsen, H., van Marrewijk, C. and van Witteloostuijn, A. (2023). The location of cross-border and national mergers and acquisitions within the United States Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 32(1):177--206.
Wickert, C. and van Witteloostuijn, A. (2023). Taking the P in political corporate social responsibility seriously Journal of International Business Studies, 54(5):928--937.
Wang, T.M., Heine, F. and van Witteloostuijn, A. (2023). Pro-social risk-taking and intergroup conflict: A volunteer's dilemma experiment Games and Economic Behavior, 140:363--379.
Dau, L.A., Santangelo, GraziaD. and van Witteloostuijn, A. (2022). Replication studies in international business Journal of International Business Studies, 53(2):215--230.
Brakman, S., Garretsen, H. and van Witteloostuijn, A. (2021). Robots do not get the coronavirus: The COVID-19 pandemic and the international division of labor Journal of International Business Studies, 52(6):1215--1224.
Coreynen, W., van Witteloostuijn, A. and Vanderstraeten, J. (2021). Toward Servitized Research: An Integrated Approach for Sustainable Product-Service Innovation Sustainability, 13(15):1--21.
Beugelsdijk, S., van Witteloostuijn, A. and Meyer, KlausE. (2020). A new approach to data access and research transparency (DART) Journal of International Business Studies, 51(6):887--905.
van Witteloostuijn, A. (2020). New-day statistical thinking: A bold proposal for a radical change in practices Journal of International Business Studies, 51(2):274--278.
Çakmaklı, A.D., Boone, C. and van Witteloostuijn, A. (2020). Identity realization, multiple logics and legitimacy: Organizational foundings during the emergence of the Dutch accounting industry Accounting, Organizations and Society, 83:1--12.
Liu, M. and van Witteloostuijn, A. (2020). Emergence of entrepreneurial populations: a feature dimensionality approach Small Business Economics, 54(4):971--989.
Meyer, KlausE., Van Witteloostuijn, A. and Beugelsdijk, S. (2017). What's in a p? Reassessing best practices for conducting and reporting hypothesis-testing research Journal of International Business Studies, 48(5):535--551.
Spanjer, A. and van Witteloostuijn, A. (2017). The entrepreneur’s experiential diversity and entrepreneurial performance Small Business Economics, 49(1):141--161.
Hermans, J., Slabbinck, H., Vanderstraeten, J., Brassey, J., Dejardin, M., Ramdani, D. and van Witteloostuijn, A. (2017). The power paradox: Implicit and explicit power motives, and the importance attached to prosocial organizational goals in SMEs Sustainability, 9(11):.
Bogaert, S., Boone, C., Negro, G. and van Witteloostuijn, A. (2016). Organizational Form Emergence: A Meta-Analysis of the Ecological Theory of Legitimation Journal of Management, 42(5):1344--1373.
Jansen, T., van Lier, A. and van Witteloostuijn, A. (2015). Managerial delegation and welfare effects of cost reductions Journal of Economics, 116(1):.
Boone, C., Wezel, F.C. and van Witteloostuijn, A. (2013). Joining the pack or going solo? A dynamic theory of new firm positioning Journal of Business Venturing, 28(4):511--527.
Muehlfeld, K., Weitzel, U. and van Witteloostuijn, A. (2013). Fight or freeze? Individual differences in investors' motivational systems and trading in experimental asset markets Journal of Economic Psychology, 34:195--209.
Brakman, S., Garretsen, H., Van Marrewijk, C. and Van Witteloostuijn, A. (2013). Cross-Border Merger & Acquisition Activity and Revealed Comparative Advantage in Manufacturing Industries Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 22(1):28--57.
Van Praag, M., van Witteloostuijn, A. and van der Sluis, J. (2013). The higher returns to formal education for entrepreneurs versus employees Small Business Economics, 40(2):375--396.
Muehlfeld, K., Rao Sahib, P. and Van Witteloostuijn, A. (2012). A contextual theory of organizational learning from failures and successes: A study of acquisition completion in the global newspaper industry, 1981-2008 Strategic Management Journal, 33(8):938--964.
Jansen, T., van Lier, A., van Witteloostuijn, A. and Boon von Ochssée, T. (2012). A modified Cournot model of the natural gas market in the European Union: Mixed-motives delegation in a politicized environment Energy Policy, 41:280--285.
Urbig, D., Weitzel, U., Rosenkranz, S. and Witteloostuijn, A.V. (2012). Exploiting opportunities at all cost? Entrepreneurial intent and externalities Journal of Economic Psychology, 33(2):379--393.
Bogaert, S., Boone, C. and van Witteloostuijn, A. (2012). Social Value Orientation and Climate Strength as Moderators of the Impact of Work Group Cooperative Climate on Affective Commitment Journal of Management Studies, 49(5):918--944.
Ramdani, D. and van Witteloostuijn, A. (2012). The Shareholder-Manager Relationship and Its Impact on the Likelihood of Firm Bribery Journal of Business Ethics, 108(4):495--507.
Muehlfeld, K., Weitzel, U. and van Witteloostuijn, A. (2011). Mergers and acquisitions in the global food processing industry in 1986-2006 Food Policy, 36(4):466--479.
Dikova, D., Sahib, P.R. and Van Witteloostuijn, A. (2010). Cross-border acquisition abandonment and completion: The effect of institutional differences and organizational learning in the international business service industry, 1981-2001 Journal of International Business Studies, 41(2):223--245.
Chang, S.J., Van Witteloostuijn, A. and Eden, L. (2010). From the Editors: Common method variance in international business research Journal of International Business Studies, 41(2):178--184.
van der Laan, G., van Ees, H. and van Witteloostuijn, A. (2010). Is pay related to performance in The Netherlands? An analysis of Dutch executive compensation, 2002-2006 De Economist, 158(2):123--149.
Zhou, C. and Van Witteloostuijn, A. (2010). Institutional constraints and ecological processes: Evolution of foreign-invested enterprises in the Chinese construction industry, 1993-2006 Journal of International Business Studies, 41(3):539--556.
Parker, SimonC., Storey, DavidJ. and van Witteloostuijn, A. (2010). What happens to gazelles? The importance of dynamic management strategy Small Business Economics, 35(2):203--226.
Parker, SimonC. and van Witteloostuijn, A. (2010). A General framework for estimating multidimensional contingency fit Organization Science, 21(2):540--553.
Bello, D., Leung, K., Radebaugh, L., Tung, RosalieL. and Van Witteloostuijn, A. (2009). From the Editors: Student samples in international business research Journal of International Business Studies, 40(3):361--364.
Van Der Laan, G., Van Ees, H. and Van Witteloostuijn, A. (2008). Corporate social and financial performance: An extended stakeholder theory, and empirical test with accounting measures Journal of Business Ethics, 79(3):299--310.
Tung, RosalieL. and Van Witteloostuijn, A. (2008). From the Editors: What makes a study sufficiently international? Journal of International Business Studies, 39(2):180--183.
van Witteloostuijn, A., Brakman, S. and van Marrewijk, C. (2007). Welfare distribution effect of a price reduction in the Dutch gas transport market: A scenario analysis of regulatory policy, market form and rent allocation Energy Policy, 35(12):6299--6308.
Dikova, D. and Van Witteloostuijn, A. (2007). Foreign direct investment mode choice: Entry and establishment modes in transition economies Journal of International Business Studies, 38(6):1013--1033.
Sorge, A. and Van Witteloostuijn, A. (2007). The (non)sense of organizational change continued: A rejoinder to Armbrster and Glckler Organization Studies, 28(12):1887--1892.
Jansen, T., van Lier, A. and van Witteloostuijn, A. (2007). A note on strategic delegation: The market share case International Journal of Industrial Organization, 25(3):531--539.
Wijbenga, FritsH. and van Witteloostuijn, A. (2007). Entrepreneurial locus of control and competitive strategies - The moderating effect of environmental dynamism Journal of Economic Psychology, 28(5):566--589.
Van Witteloostuijn, A. and Boone, C. (2006). A resource-based theory of market structure and organizational form Academy of Management Review, 31(2):409--426.
Boone, C., Van Olffen, W. and Van Witteloostuijn, A. (2005). Team locus-of-control composition, leadership structure, information acquisition, and financial performance: A business simulation study Academy of Management Journal, 48(5):889--909.
Zhang, J., Van Witteloostuijn, A. and Zhou, C. (2005). Chinese bilateral intra-industry trade: A panel data study for 50 countries in the 1992-2001 period Review of World Economics, 141(3):510--540.
Semeijn, J., Boone, C., van der Velden, R. and van Witteloostuijn, A. (2005). Graduates' personality characteristics and labor market entry an empirical study among dutch economics graduates Economics of Education Review, 24(1):67--83.
Boone, C., Van Olffen, W., Van Witteloostuijn, A. and De Brabander, B. (2004). The genesis of top management team diversity: Selective turnover among top management teams in Dutch newspaper publishing, 1970-94 Academy of Management Journal, 47(5):633--656.
Zhang, J. and Van Witteloostuijn, A. (2004). Economic openness and trade linkages of China: An empirical study of the determinants of Chinese trade intensities from 1993 to 1999 Review of World Economics, 140(2):254--281.
Boone, C. and van Witteloostuijn, A. (2004). A unified theory of market partitioning: An integration of resource-partitioning and sunk cost theories Industrial and Corporate Change, 13(5):701--725.
Boone, C., Carroll, GlennR. and van Witteloostuijn, A. (2004). Size, differentiation and the performance of Dutch daily newspaper Industrial and Corporate Change, 13(1):117--148.
Bröcheler, V., Maijoor, S. and van Witteloostuijn, A. (2004). Auditor human capital and audit firm survival. The Dutch audit industry in 1930-1992 Accounting, Organizations and Society, 29(7):627--646.
Sorge, A. and Van Witteloostuijn, A. (2004). The (non)sense of organizational change: An Essai about universal management hypes, sick consultancy metaphors, and healthy organization theories Organization Studies, 25(7):1205--1231.
Boone, C., Van Olffen, W. and Van Witteloostuijn, A. (2002). Erratum to 'Psychological team make-up as a determinant of economic firm performance: An experimental study' (Journal of Economic Psychology) (2001) vol. 19 (1) (43-73)) Journal of Economic Psychology, 23(6).
Van Witteloostuijn, A. (2000). Editorial Organization Studies, 21(2):v--xiv.
Boone, C., De Brabander, B. and Van Witteloostuijn, A. (1999). The impact of personality on behavior in five Prisoner's Dilemma games Journal of Economic Psychology, 20(3):343--377.
Boone, C., Van Olffen, W. and Van Witteloostuijn, A. (1998). Psychological team make-up as a determinant of economic firm performance: An experimental study Journal of Economic Psychology, 19(1):43--73.
Pennings, JohannesM., Lee, K. and Van Witteloostuijn, A. (1998). Human capital, social capital, and firm dissolution Academy of Management Journal, 41(4):425--440.
Van Witteloostuijn, A. (1998). Bridging behavioral and economic theories of decline: Organizational inertia, strategic competition, and chronic failure Management Science, 44(4):501--519.
Maijoor, S., Buijink, W., Meuwissen, R. and Witteloostuijn, A.V. (1998). Towards the establishment of an internal market for audit services within the European Union European Accounting Review, 7(4):655--673.
Maijoor, S. and Van Witteloostuijn, A. (1996). An empirical test of the resource-based theory: Strategic regulation in the Dutch audit industry Strategic Management Journal, 17(7):549--569.
Boom, C. and Van Witteloostuijn, A. (1996). Industry competition and firm human capital Small Business Economics, 8(5):347--364.
Boone, C., De Brabander, B. and Van Witteloostuijn, A. (1996). CEO locus of control and small firm performance: An integrative framework and empirical test Journal of Management Studies, 33(5):667--699.
Boone, C. and Van Witteloostuijn, A. (1995). Industrial Organization and Organizational Ecology: The Potentials for Cross-fertilization Organization Studies, 16(2):265--298.
Van Wegberg, M., Van Witteloostuijn, A. and Abbing, M.R. (1994). Multimarket and multiproject collusion - Why European integration may reduce intra-community competition De Economist, 142(3):253--285.
van Witteloostuijn, A. (1993). Multimarket competition and business strategy Review of Industrial Organization, 8(1):83--99.
van Witteloostuijn, A. (1992). Theories of competition and market performance - Multimarket competition and the source of potential entry De Economist, 140(1):109--139.
van Witteloostuijn, A. and van Wegberg, M. (1992). Multimarket competition. Theory and evidence Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 18(2):273--282.
Van Witteloostuijn, A. (1990). Contestability and investment in average cost reduction European Journal of Political Economy, 6(1):23--40.
Van Witteloostuijn, A. (1990). Learning in economic theory: a taxonomy with an application to expectations formation Journal of Economic Psychology, 11(2):183--207.
van Witteloostuijn, A. (1990). Product innovation and contestability De Economist, 138(2):181--196.
van Witteloostuijn, A. and Maks, J.AH (1988). Workable competition and the barrier market European Journal of Political Economy, 4(1):117--135.
van Witteloostuijn, A. (1988). Maximising and satisficing opposite or equivalent concepts? Journal of Economic Psychology, 9(3):289--313.