Rick Aalbers

Rick Aalbers is a tenured Full Professor in Strategy and Innovation at the department of Business Administration of Radboud University. He has been a visiting scholar at Imperial College London and The Tokyo Institute of Technology. Rick serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Management Studies and Radboud University Press. Prior to his academic career, Rick worked as a Manager at Deloitte Consulting where he advised on strategic change in the financial services industry. Currently he sits on the supervisory board of STMG.

Rick’s research focuses on corporate restructuring and innovation related topics and revolves around the following research lines:

Responsible restructuring and downsizing

Corporate collaboration and innovation

Advanced technology business model development

His work on these themes has been accepted for publication by leading international journals, including Harvard Business Review, Research Policy, Long Range Planning, Journal of Product Innovation Management, MIT Sloan Management Review (winner MIT’s Richard Beckhard award), Journal of Business Research, PLOSone, Social Science and Medicine and the British Journal of Management, among others. A monograph on Innovation networks appeared with Routledge in 2015.

Spearheading the theme of Responsible Restructuring, Rick founded the Radboud Centre for Organization Restructuring in 2012. As Principal Investigator he had research grants awarded at both EU and national levels (EC horizon2020 / NWO) on technology and restructuring related themes. Rick currently serves as program coordinator and principal investigator of the Marie Curie ITN Program FINDER, a competitive research grant by the European Commission.

A native of The Netherlands, he holds a Masters degree in Business Administration from Rotterdam School of Management, a second Masters degree in Business Economics (cum laude) from Erasmus University's School of Economics and a PhD in Business and Economics from Groningen University (winner of the SOM best dissertation award).