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Georges Romme

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Abel Georges Lodewijk Romme
Born (1960-02-29) February 29, 1960 (age 66)
Nijmegen, Netherlands
OccupationsOrganizational theorist, academic and author
AwardsSee below
Academic background
EducationBSc., Economics
MSc., Economics
Doctoral degree
Alma materTilburg University
Maastricht University
Academic work
InstitutionsMaastricht University
Tilburg University
Eindhoven University of Technology

Georges Romme (Dutch: Sjoerd; born 29 February 1960) is a Dutch organizational theorist, academic and author. He is a full professor of Entrepreneurship & Innovation at 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 thesis circle as a form of collaborative supervision and has published on professionalism and organizational hierarchy.[5] 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[6] and the Responsible Research in Management Award in 2017.[7] He is also the recipient of the 2016 Tjalling C. Koopmans Asset Award from Tilburg University[8] and the 2019 Distinguished Scholar-Practitioner Award from the Academy of Management.[9]

Education and career

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Romme earned a BSc degree in Economics in 1981 and an 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 Eindhoven University of Technology.[10]

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 was also a member of various advisory boards, including the Scientific Advisory Board of Aalto University's School of Science (2011–2020).[11]

Romme was a co-founder of EIT InnoEnergy. He served as the Ambassador for Entrepreneurship at Eindhoven University of Technology[12] and currently is a fellow at the Center for Design Science in Entrepreneurship at the ESCP Business School, Berlin.[13]

Research

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Romme's scholarly work involves three main areas: the professionalization of the management discipline, design science methodology, and organizational hierarchy and circularity.

Quest for Professionalism

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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,[6] he argued 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. The book was published by Oxford University Press in 2016.[14] Jan Spruijt, reviewing the book, wrote 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."[15]

Design science

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Romme's publications on design science have focused on developing and applying a research methodology that addresses the rigor-relevance gap in organization and management research, inspired by Herbert Simon's The Sciences of the Artificial. Romme advocated 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 practical solutions to bridge the persistent gap between theory and practice.[16][17][18]

In many joint publications, Romme applied design science to develop and test solutions for major problems and challenges. These include design principles and various best practices for creating university spin-offs;[19][20] a tool for mapping, analyzing and designing innovation ecosystems;[21][22][23][24] and the blueprint of HighTechXL as a deep-tech venture builder.[25][26][27] This latter work also encompassed the design and implementation of a new venture capital fund dedicated to early-stage deep-tech ventures.[28][29][30]

Organizational hierarchy and circularity

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In his early work on organizational hierarchy and circularity, Romme collaborated with Gerard Endenburg to codify Sociocracy as a novel organizational form in which power flows in a circular manner.[31][32][33][34] This work later informed the development of Holacracy.[35][36]

In more recent work, Romme categorized hierarchical organization 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.[37]

Awards and honors

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  • 1996 – Wynand Wijnen Education Prize, Maastricht University[38]
  • 2014 – Honorary Medal, Eindhoven University of Technology[39]
  • 2016 – Tjalling C. Koopmans Asset Award, Tilburg University[8]
  • 2017 – Best Book Award, European Academy of Management[6]
  • 2017 – Responsible Research in Management Award, Responsible Research in Business and Management Network[7]
  • 2019 – Distinguished Scholar-Practitioner Award, Academy of Management[9]
  • 2025 – Gerard & Anton Hightech Sparkler Award[40]
  • 2025 – Edith Penrose Award for Trailblazing Researchers, European Academy of Management[41][42]

Bibliography

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Selected books

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  • Romme, Abel Georges Lodewijk (1992). A Self-organization Perspective on Strategy Formation. Datawyse. ISBN 978-90-90-04827-7.
  • Romme, Georges (2016). The Quest for Professionalism. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198737735.001.0001. ISBN 978-0-19-873773-5.

Selected articles

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  • Romme, A. Georges L. (September 1995). "Self-organizing processes in top management teams: A boolean comparative approach". Journal of Business Research. 34 (1): 11–34. doi:10.1016/0148-2963(94)00032-A.
  • Romme, A. Georges L. (May 1996). "A note on the hierarchy-team debate". Strategic Management Journal. 17 (5): 411–417. doi:10.1002/(SICI)1097-0266(199605)17:5<411::AID-SMJ809>3.0.CO;2-O.
  • Romme, A. Georges L.; van Witteloostuijn, Arjen (October 1999). "Circular organizing and triple loop learning". Journal of Organizational Change Management. 12 (5): 439–454. doi:10.1108/09534819910289110.
  • Romme, A. Georges L. (October 2003). "Making a Difference: Organization as Design". Organization Science. 14 (5): 558–573. doi:10.1287/orsc.14.5.558.16769.
  • Romme, A. Georges L.; Endenburg, Gerard (April 2006). "Construction Principles and Design Rules in the Case of Circular Design". Organization Science. 17 (2): 287–297. doi:10.1287/orsc.1050.0169.
  • Van Burg, Elco; Romme, A. Georges L.; Gilsing, Victor A.; Reymen, Isabelle M. M. J. (March 2008). "Creating University Spin-Offs: A Science-Based Design Perspective". Journal of Product Innovation Management. 25 (2): 114–128. doi:10.1111/j.1540-5885.2008.00291.x.
  • van der Borgh, Michel; Cloodt, Myriam; Romme, A. Georges L. (March 2012). "Value creation by knowledge-based ecosystems: evidence from a field study". R&D Management. 42 (2): 150–169. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9310.2011.00673.x.
  • Dimov, Dimo; Maula, Markku; Romme, A. Georges L. (September 2023). "Crafting and Assessing Design Science Research for Entrepreneurship". Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice. 47 (5): 1543–1567. doi:10.1177/10422587221128271.
  • Romme, A. Georges L.; Holmström, Jan (March 2023). "From theories to tools: Calling for research on technological innovation informed by design science". Technovation. 121 102692. doi:10.1016/j.technovation.2023.102692.

References

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  1. 1 2 "Sjoerd Romme". Eindhoven University of Technology.
  2. ↑ Bate, Paul (March 2007). "Bringing the Design Sciences to Organization Development and Change Management: Introduction to the Special Issue". The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science. 43 (1): 8–11. doi:10.1177/0021886307299885.
  3. ↑ Bartunek, Jean M. (May 2008). "You're an organization development practitioner-scholar: Can you contribute to organizational theory?". Organization Management Journal. 5 (1): 6–16. doi:10.1057/omj.2008.3.
  4. ↑ Hodgkinson, Gerard P.; Rousseau, Denise M. (May 2009). "Bridging the Rigour–Relevance Gap in Management Research: It's Already Happening!". Journal of Management Studies. 46 (3): 534–546. doi:10.1111/j.1467-6486.2009.00832.x.
  5. ↑ "Georges (Sjoerd) Romme". Google Scholar.
  6. 1 2 3 "Overview of EURAM award winners". EURAM.
  7. 1 2 "2018 IACMR Presidential Award". Responsible Research in Business and Management Network.
  8. 1 2 "2016 Tjalling C. Koopmans Asset Award". Eindhoven University of Technology research portal.
  9. 1 2 "2019 Career Achievement Awards". Academy of Management.
  10. ↑ "Sjoerd Romme gets Career Achievement Award from Academy of Management". Eindhoven University of Technology.
  11. ↑ "Scientific Advisory Board | Aalto University". Aalto University. September 18, 2018.
  12. ↑ "TU/e's driver of entrepreneurship". Eindhoven University of Technology.
  13. ↑ "About us | ESCP Design Science Center". DS:E.
  14. ↑ Romme, Georges (2016). The Quest for Professionalism. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198737735.001.0001. ISBN 978-0-19-873773-5.
  15. ↑ "Clarifying Design in Business Sciences: a Design Thinking Taxonomy". Open Innovation. September 25, 2017.
  16. ↑ Bate, Paul (March 2007). "Bringing the Design Sciences to Organization Development and Change Management: Introduction to the Special Issue". The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science. 43 (1): 8–11. doi:10.1177/0021886307299885.
  17. ↑ Bartunek, Jean M. (May 2008). "You're an organization development practitioner-scholar: Can you contribute to organizational theory?". Organization Management Journal. 5 (1): 6–16. doi:10.1057/omj.2008.3.
  18. ↑ Hodgkinson, Gerard P.; Rousseau, Denise M. (May 2009). "Bridging the Rigour–Relevance Gap in Management Research: It's Already Happening!". Journal of Management Studies. 46 (3): 534–546. doi:10.1111/j.1467-6486.2009.00832.x.
  19. ↑ Van Burg, Elco; Romme, A. Georges L.; Gilsing, Victor A.; Reymen, Isabelle M. M. J. (March 2008). "Creating University Spin-Offs: A Science-Based Design Perspective". Journal of Product Innovation Management. 25 (2): 114–128. doi:10.1111/j.1540-5885.2008.00291.x.
  20. ↑ Barr, Steve H.; Baker, Ted; Markham, Stephen K.; Kingon, Angus A. (September 2009). "Bridging the Valley of Death: Lessons Learned From 14 Years of Commercialization of Technology Education". Academy of Management Learning and Education. 8 (3): 370–388. doi:10.5465/amle.8.3.zqr370.
  21. ↑ Talmar, Madis; Walrave, Bob; Podoynitsyna, Ksenia S.; Holmström, Jan; Romme, A. Georges L. (August 2020). "Mapping, analyzing and designing innovation ecosystems: The Ecosystem Pie Model". Long Range Planning. 53 (4): 101850. doi:10.1016/j.lrp.2018.09.002.
  22. ↑ De Moraes, Camila C.; Claro, Priscila B.; Rodrigues, Vinicius P. (January 2023). "Why can't the alternative become mainstream? Unpacking the barriers and enablers of sustainable protein innovation in Brazil". Sustainable Production and Consumption. 35: 313–324. doi:10.1016/j.spc.2022.11.008.
  23. ↑ Sourmelis, Sotirios; Pontikes, Yiannis; Myers, Rupert J.; Tennant, Mike (June 2024). "Business models for symbiosis between the alumina and cement industries". Resources, Conservation and Recycling. 205 107560. doi:10.1016/j.resconrec.2024.107560.
  24. ↑ Sylos Labini, Giovanni; Abbattista, Cristoforo; Fortunato, Vito; Amoruso, Leonardo; Pareschi, Remo; Bottoni, Paolo (March 2024). "Chapter 4: Blockchain-Enabled Satellite Onboard Computing for Smart Contract: Benefits for Multi-sided Markets and IoT Applications Family". In Cortesi, A. (ed.). Space Data Management. Springer. pp. 69–87. doi:10.1007/978-981-97-0041-7_4.
  25. ↑ Romme, A. Georges L.; Bell, John; Frericks, Guus (10 May 2023). "Designing a deep-tech venture builder to address grand challenges and overcome the valley of death". Journal of Organization Design. 12 (4): 217–237. doi:10.1007/s41469-023-00144-y.
  26. ↑ Lomas, Natasha (August 21, 2013). "Europe-based hardware accelerator, High Tech XL, targets IoT, robotics, graphene, med-tech & more". TechCrunch.
  27. ↑ Brouwers, Bart (May 30, 2023). "The Innovative approach by HighTechXL could be an example for Europe, study claims". Innovation Origins.
  28. ↑ Mittelmeijer, Hessel G.; Romme, A. Georges L.; Bell, John H. J.; Frericks, Guustaaf W. (December 2026). "The missing middle: Designing and implementing a venture capital fund for seed-stage deep-tech ventures". Journal of Business Venturing Design. 5 100037. doi:10.1016/j.jbvd.2026.100037.
  29. ↑ ASML (2022-05-24). "ASML participates in new Dutch deep-tech fund of €100 million". press release. Retrieved 2026-05-07.
  30. ↑ Invest-NL (2022-05-25). "Invest-NL investeert in DeepTechXL Fund I". press release (in Dutch). Retrieved 2026-05-07.
  31. ↑ Heusinkveld, Stefan; Smits, Armand (February 2025). "Where do maverick organization design ideas come from? Approaches to studying the development of organizational design knowledge". Journal of Organization Design. 14 (1): 51–60. doi:10.1007/s41469-024-00176-y. hdl:2066/316417.
  32. ↑ Maier, Florentine; Meyer, Michael; Schneider, Hanna (June 2026). "Design principles for long-lived circular organization: an Ostromian perspective". Journal of Co-operative Organization and Management. 14 (1) 100283. doi:10.1016/j.jcom.2026.100283.
  33. ↑ Romme, A. Georges L. (September 1999). "Domination, Self-Determination and Circular Organizing". Organization Studies. 20 (5): 801–832. doi:10.1177/0170840699205005.
  34. ↑ Romme, A. Georges L.; Endenburg, Gerard (April 2006). "Construction Principles and Design Rules in the Case of Circular Design". Organization Science. 17 (2): 287–297. doi:10.1287/orsc.1050.0169.
  35. ↑ Robertson, Brian J. (2016). Holacracy: The Revolutionary Management System that Abolishes Hierarchy. Penguin Books.
  36. ↑ Romme, Georges (September 10, 2015). "The Big Misconceptions Holding Holacracy Back". Harvard Business Review – via hbr.org.
  37. ↑ Romme, A. Georges L. (15 March 2021). "Ladders of Authority, Status, Responsibility and Ideology: Toward a Typology of Hierarchy in Social Systems". Systems. 9 (1): 20. doi:10.3390/systems9010020.
  38. ↑ "Recognitions". Maastricht University.
  39. ↑ "TU/e honorary medal". Eindhoven University of Technology research portal.
  40. ↑ "Jam-packed Philips Museum embraces winners of the eighth Gerard & Anton High Tech Peak Awards". Innovation Origins. 9 January 2025.
  41. ↑ "Sjoerd Romme Receives Prestigious EURAM Award". Eindhoven University of Technology.
  42. ↑ "Overview of EURAM award winners". EURAM.
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