Georges Romme

A. Georges L. Romme
Born February 29, 1960(1960-02-29)
Nijmegen
Residence Netherlands
Nationality Dutch
Fields Organizational studies
Institutions Eindhoven University of Technology
Alma mater Tilburg University and Maastricht University
Doctoral advisor Hein Schreuder
Known for Design Science; Thesis circle; Boolean analysis
Notable awards awards and fellowships from e.g.
European Foundation for Management Development,
Advanced Institute of Management Research and
Maastricht University

A. Georges L. (Sjoerd) Romme is a Dutch organizational theorist and professor of entrepreneurship and innovation at the Eindhoven University of Technology.

Contents

Biography

Georges Romme received a MSc in economics from Tilburg University and in 1992 a PhD degree in business administration from Maastricht University. Since 2005 he is professor of entrepreneurship and innovation at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), and since 2007 also dean of the Industrial Engineering & Innovation Sciences department.

In the early 1990s, Georges Romme introduced Boolean comparative analysis to the organization and management sciences.[1][2] He also developed and pioneered the "thesis circle", a tool for collaboratively supervising final (BSc or MSc) projects.[3][4]

He was one of the original pioneers who brought design thinking and the design sciences to organization studies.[5][6][7] A key idea put forward by Romme (2003) and Romme & Endenburg (2006) is that design principles are instrumental in connecting description and explanation (by researchers) to design and construction (by practitioners). As such his work established the idea that social science-based research serves to advance the body of knowledge on management and organization, but needs to be complemented by pragmatic design knowledge for practitioners (e.g. managers, consultants).[8][9]

Publications

Books, a selection
Articles, a selection

References

  1. ^ Romme, A.G.L. (1995), Self-organizing processes in top management teams: a Boolean comparative approach. Journal of Business Research, vol. 34: 11-34.
  2. ^ Ann Brown (2005). Proceedings of the 4th European Conference on Research Methodology for Business and Management Studies. Academic Conferences Limited, p.252.
  3. ^ Romme, A.G.L., Redistributing power in the classroom: the missing link in problem-based learning. In: J. Hommes, P.K. Keizer, M. Pettigrew & J. Troy (eds.), Learning in a Changing Environment, p. 109-126. Dordrecht-London-Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1999.
  4. ^ Romme, A.G.L. and J. Nijhuis, Samenwerkend Leren in Afstudeerkringen, Groningen: Wolters-Noordhoff, 2000.
  5. ^ Paul Bate in: Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, vol. 43, 2007, p. 10; Jean Bartunek in: Organization Management Journal, vol. 5, 2008, p. 12.
  6. ^ Van de Ven, A.H. (2007), Engaged Scholarship: A Guide for Organizational and Social Research. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  7. ^ Garud, R., S. Jain & P. Tuertscher (2008), Incomplete by design and designing for incompleteness. Organization Studies, vol. 29: 351-371.
  8. ^ Hodgkinson, G.P. and D.M. Rousseau (2009), Bridging the rigour–relevance gap in management research: It's already happening! Journal of Management Studies, vol. 46: 534–546.
  9. ^ March, S.T. and Vogus, T.J. (2010), Design science in the management disciplines. In: A. Hevner and S. Chatterjee (eds.) Design Research in Information Systems (Integrated Series in Information Systems, vol. 22), pp. 195-208. New York: Springer.

External links