My research and teaching focus on the role of corporations and alternative forms of organizing such as social enterprises in addressing a range of complex challenges facing societies today. I study why and how these organizations integrate social goals into their commercial activities, the opportunities and challenges they encounter both from within and outside the organization, and how organizing for social and economic goals differs across institutional contexts.
I have a PhD in Management from the Freie Universitaet Berlin and was a visiting PhD student at the Kellogg School of Management and a Fulbright Scholar at Cornell University. Before joining Tilburg University, I was a postdoctoral scholar at the Hertie School.