Paul C. van Fenema

I study why and how individuals and teams from one or more organizations cooperate and create value in today’s environment. I'm particularly interested in the intersection and co-evolution of communication, socio-cognitive, and action processes. I tend to focus on coherence as an emerging quality of these processes.

My research addresses generic challenges in organization and communication theory (e.g. cooperation, coherence, dealing with uncertainty, intra and interorganizational processes), as well as applied challenges in various domains (e.g. governmental processes, incident and crisis response, military operations, commercial organizations and for instance improvisational arts). Different types of organizational value creation call for different modes of organizing and communicating.

I collaborate and have collaborated with researchers from the US, UK, Germany, Sweden, Greece, Hong Kong, The Netherlands and Singapore. I participate or participated in communities such as the Academy of Management (e.g. OMT and OCIS community), European Group of Organization Studies, International Conference on Information Systems, and the Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society. My profile is on LinkedIn, SSRN and Erasmus IDEAS/RePEc.

Positions

Associate Professor

Netherlands Defense Academy (NLDA)

Faculty of Military Sciences

Section Management, Organization & Defense Economy

The Netherlands

August 2006 – current

Assistant Professor

(0.1 position for limited duration)

Tilburg University

Faculty of Social Sciences

Department of Organization Studies

The Netherlands

January 2008 – March 2010

Assistant Professor

Erasmus University

Rotterdam School of Management (RSM)

The Netherlands

September 2001 – July 2006

Exchange Researcher & Visiting Instructor

Florida International University (Carnegie 1 university)

College of Business Administration (AACSB accredited)

Department of Decision & Information Sciences (ranked #11 in the USA)

Miami, FL, USA

January 2000 – May 2001

Research Assistant &

Ph.D. Candidate

Erasmus University

Rotterdam School of Management

The Netherlands

September 1996 – August 2000

Student Assistant in Strategic Management

Erasmus University

Rotterdam School of Management

The Netherlands

Winter 1995 – Spring 1996

Education

Ph.D. in Business Administration

- Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

- Starting date: September 1996

- Graduation: October 2002 (not worked on the thesis during academic year 2000 – 2001 in the US)

- Ph.D. degree cum laude

- Specialization: Management of Information Systems

- Dissertation: “Coordination and Control of Globally Distributed Software Projects”

Courses in Strategic Management and Organization Theory

- Erasmus University, Rotterdam School of Management

- Academic year 1995 – 1996

Bachelor and Master Program “Law and Economics in Business and Society”

- Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

- Starting date: September 1991

- Graduation: August 1995

- MSc degree cum laude

- Specialization: Business Law and Economics

- Thesis: “Privatization in the Netherlands” (research conducted at the Ministry of Finance, The Netherlands)

Selected Publications

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles & Book Reviews

- 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.

Academic Books and Ph.D. Thesis

Available February 2010

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

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

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.

Peer-Reviewed Book Chapters

- 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.

► My full CV – available on request – contains information on teaching, training, service, and special achievements.