Paul C. van Fenema

Paul C. van Fenema

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Research, Education, and Consultancy on

Network Value Creation and Coordination

- I focus on organized value creation in an environment characterized by uncertainty, advanced technology, globalization, complexity, and multiple needs and problems. I study why and how organizations cooperate and create value in today’s environment, emphasizing high and mid level strategic processes.

- I tend to focus on coherence and viability as emerging qualities of these processes. For instance, interorganizational alignment, and alignment between business (strategy) and functional areas such as IT and HRM.

- My research addresses challenges in organization theory and applied challenges in the public domain (e.g. governmental processes, incident and crisis response, military operations).

- I assume that different types of organizational value creation call for different modes of organizing and communicating.

Selected Publications

□ Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles & Book Reviews

- Davids, C., R. Beeres, and P.C. van Fenema, Sourcing of Military Logistics in Afghanistan: A Field Study. International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics Management Forthcoming.

- Laan, E.A. van der, Brito, M.P. de, Fenema, P.C. van, Vermaesen, S. (2009). Managing information cycles for intra-organisational coordination of humanitarian logistics. International Journal of Services Technology and Management, 12(4), pp. 362-390

- Kotlarsky, J., van Fenema, P.C., & Willcocks, L. P. (2008). Developing a Knowledge-based Perspective on Coordination: The Case of Global Software Projects. Information & Management, 45(2), 96-108.

- Vlaar, P. W. L., van Fenema, P.C., & Tiwari, V. (2008). Cocreating Understanding and Value in Distributed Work: How Members of Onsite and Offshore ISD Vendor Teams Give, Make, Demand and Break Sense. MIS Quarterly, 32(2), 227-255.

- Oshri, I., van Fenema, P.C., & Kotlarsky, J. (2008). Knowledge Transfer in Globally Distributed Teams: The Role of Transactive Memory. Information Systems Journal, 18(6) 593-616.

- van Fenema, P.C., van Baalen, P. J., & Koppius, O. R. (2007). Implementing Packaged Enterprise Software in Multi-site Firms: Intensification of Organizing and Learning. European Journal of Information Systems, 16(5), 584–598.

- Beulen, E., P.C. van Fenema, and W. Currie. 2005. From Application Outsourcing to Infrastructure Management: Extending the Offshore Outsourcing Portfolio. European Management Journal 23 (2).

- van Fenema, P.C. 2005. Collaborative Elasticity and Breakdowns in High Reliability Organizations: Contributions from Distributed Cognition and Collective Mind Theory. Cognition, Technology & Work 7 (2).

- van Fenema, P.C., and C. Räisänen. 2005. Invisible Social Infrastructures to Facilitate Time-Pressed Distributed Organizing. Time & Society 14 (2-3).

- van Fenema, P.C., and O.R. Koppius. 2004. Kamoche et. al. Organizational Improvisation - book review. Organization Studies 25 (2):319-324.

- Markus, M.L., C. Tanis, and P.C. van Fenema. 2000. Multisite ERP Implementations. Communications of the ACM 43 (4).

- Loebbecke, C., P.C. van Fenema, and P. Powell. 1999. Co-opetition and Knowledge Transfer. ACM SIGMIS Database 30 (2):14-25.

- Evaristo, J.R., and P.C. van Fenema. 1999. A Typology of Project Management: Emergence and Evolution of New Forms. International Journal of Project Management 17 (5):275-281.

□ Peer-Reviewed Book Chapters

- van Kampen, T., P.C. van Fenema, and T.J. Grant, Getting There and Back: Organizing Long-Distance Military Logistics with Customers in Mind, J. Meulen, Editor. 2012, Amsterdam University Press: Amsterdam.

- Raab, J., Soeters, J. M. M. L., van Fenema, P. C., & de Waard, E. 2009. Structure in Temporary Organizations. In P. N. Kenis, M. Janowicz-Panjaitan, & B. Cambré (Eds.), Temporary Organizations: Prevalence, Logic and Effectiveness. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar.

- van Fenema, P. C. 2009. Expeditionary Military Networks and Asymmetric Warfare. In G. Caforio (Ed.), Advances in Military Sociology: Essays in Honor of Charles C. Moskos part B. Bingley, UK Emerald.

- Beeres, R., & van Fenema, P.C. (2008). Assessing Civil-Military Performance: Towards A Research Agenda. In M. Bollen & S. J. H. Rietjens (Eds.), Managing Civil-Military Cooperation: A 24/7 Joint Effort for Stability. London: Ashgate.

- Oshri, I., Kotlarsky, J., & van Fenema, P.C. 2008. Transactive Memory and the Transfer of Knowledge Between Onsite and Offshore Teams (based on paper for the International Conference on Outsourcing Information Systems (ICOIS), Heidelberg, Germany). In R. Hirschheim, A. Heinzl, & J. Dibbern (Eds.), Information Systems Outsourcing: Enduring Themes, New, Perspectives and Global Challenges. New York: Springer.

- Van Baalen, P. J., & Van Fenema, P.C. (2008). Fighting SARS with a Hastily Formed Network. In D. Liere (Ed.), The Network Factor. Heidelberg: Springer.

- van Fenema, P.C., & Soeters, J. M. M. L. (2008). Military Organizations and Diversified Value Creation in Erratic Task Environments. In A. Weibull & B. Abrahamsson (Eds.), The Heritage and the Present – From Invasion Defence to Mission-oriented Organisation. Sweden: National Defence College.

- van Fenema, P.C., Tiwari, V., & Vlaar, P. W. L. (2008). Requirements Analysis in Offshore IS Development: Remote Bridging of Differences in Understandings. In I. Oshri, J. Kotlarsky & L. Willcocks (Eds.), Outsourcing Global Services: Knowledge, Innovation and Social Capital. London: Palgrave.

- Oshri, I., Kotlarsky, J., van Fenema, P. C., & Willcocks, L. 2007. Expertise Management in a Distributed Context: The Case of Offshore Information Technology Outsourcing (based on paper presented at IFIP WG 8.2/9.5 Conference on Virtuality and Virtualization, July 2007, Portland, OR). In K. Crowston, S. Sieber, & E. Wynn (Eds.), Virtuality and Virtualization: 295-314. New York: Springer.

- Kotlarsky, J., I. Oshri, et al. (2007). Building Trust in Globally Distributed Teams. Encyclopedia of Networked and Virtual Organizations. G. D. Putnik and M. M. Cunha. Hershey, PA, IDEA Group.

- Oshri, I., J. Kotlarsky, et al. (2007). Knowledge Transfer and Sharing in Globally Distributed Teams. Encyclopedia of Networked and Virtual Organizations. G. D. Putnik and M. M. Cunha. Hershey, PA, IDEA Group.

- van Fenema, P.C., I. Oshri, et al. (2007). Management of Distributed Project Teams. Encyclopedia of Networked and Virtual Organizations. G. D. Putnik and M. M. Cunha. Hershey, PA, IDEA Group.

- Kumar, K., P.C. van Fenema, and M.A. Von Glinow. 2005. Intense Collaboration in Globally Distributed Work Teams: Evolving Patterns of Dependencies and Coordination. In Managing Multinational Teams: Global Perspectives, edited by D. L. Shapiro, M. A. Von Glinow and J. L. C. Cheng. Oxford: Elsevier/ JAI.

- van Fenema, P.C., and F. Go. 2006. Moving Bodies and Connecting Minds in Space: It is a Matter of Mind over Matter. In Space, Organizations and Management Theory, edited by S. R. Clegg and M. Kornberger. Copenhagen: Liber/ Copenhagen Business School Press.

- van Fenema, P.C., and F. Go. 2003. Dispersed Communities: Weaving Collective and Individual Life, Fact and Fiction, Mediated and Direct Spatial Experiences. In Knowledge Sharing Under Distributed Circumstances, edited by R. M. Verburg and J. A. De Ridder. The Hague: NWO - MES.

- Loebbecke, C., P.C. van Fenema, and P. Powell. 2000. Towards A Theory of IS-Supported Inter-Organisational Knowledge Exchange. In Information Systems at the Core: European Perspectives on Deploying and Managing Information Systems in Business, edited by C. Murphy and P. Finnegan. Dublin: Blackhall.

- van Fenema, P.C., and K. Kumar. 2000. Coupling, Interdependence and Control in Global Projects. In Projects as Business Constituents and Guiding Motives, edited by R. A. Lundin and F. Hartman. Boston, MA: Kluwer Academic Publishers.

- Loebbecke, C., and P.C. van Fenema. 2000. Virtual Organizations That Cooperate and Compete: Managing the Risks of Knowledge Exchange. In Knowledge Management and Virtual Organizations, edited by Y. Malhotra. Hershey, PA: Idea Group Publishing (reprint in: Intelligent Support Systems Technology, Sugumaran, V. (editor), 2002, IRM Press).

- Loebbecke, C., van Fenema, P.C., & Powell, P. 1998. Knowledge Transfer under Co-opetition (reworked and published in ACM SIGMIS Database 30(2) 1999). In T. Larsen, L. Levine, & J. DeGross (Eds.), Information Systems: Current Issues and Future Changes (proceedings IFIP TC8 / WG 8.2 conference): 215-229. Laxenburg, Austria: IFIP.

□ Academic Books and Ph.D. Thesis

J.M.M.L. Soeters, P. C. Van Fenema & R. Beeres (2010). Managing Military Organizations: Theory and Practice. London: Routledge. Available from f.i. Amazon

Kotlarsky, J., I. Oshri, & van Fenema (2008). Knowledge Processes in Globally Distributed Contexts. Hampshire, UK Palgrave. Available from f.i. Amazon

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van Fenema, P. C. (2002). Coordination and Control of Globally Distributed Software Projects. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Erasmus University, Rotterdam. Available from ERIM Ph.D. Series in Management # 19.