Tom ELFRING

Bio

I am a full professor in Entrepreneurship at emlyon business school. Previously I was Dean of Nijmegen School of Management of Radboud University in the Netherlands (2020-2023) and professor in Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship. I have also been professor at University of Liverpool Management School (2017-2020) and at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (2002-2017). I have been visiting professor at the Copenhagen Business School (1996), at Mays Business School, University of Texas A&M (2006), at the Aarhus School of Business (2008), at University of Alabama (2010), and at University of Bologna (2011 and 2012). I have been teaching at different levels on entrepreneurship, venture dynamics and strategic management. My research appeared in journals like Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Management, Journal of Business Venturing, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Long Range Planning, Organization Studies, Family Business Review, Small Business Economics and others. I have published eight books, his latest in 2021 on Entrepreneurship as networking with Oxford University Press. My book Rethinking Strategy has won the ERIM best book award and he has received the Emerald Management Reviews Citations of Excellence Award in 2012 and in 2017. My research has been funded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO), Royal Academy of Sciences (KNAW), The Netherlands Scientific Council for Government Policy (WRR), and European Science Foundation (ESF). Supervising PhD students has been one of my core activities; over 30 of them successfully completed their PhD.