COLLECTIVE ACTION - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Researcher
- Postdoctoral Researcher
Daniel Petrovics is a postdoctoral researcher working on the scalability of community enterprises for sustainability at the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University.
He has a keen interest in urban sustainability issues, cooperative-based energy governance and organisational transparency. His PhD research is focused on the scalability of energy communities and is based on polycentric governance thinking and the strategic niche management approach.
Daniel holds a MSc degree in International Development Studies and an MSc degree in Urban and Regional Planning from the University of Amsterdam. He is also currently finishing his PhD at the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR). In the past 4 years Daniel has also been a Research Associate at the Institute for Environmental Studies of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam where among others he worked on the NEWCOMERS and RESILIO projects. Before, he worked with the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) on sustainability reporting policy and also acted as consultant on a number of projects involving organizations such as UNGC, UNEP, PwC, CDP and REN21.
Job Titles:
- Assistant Professor
- Affiliate Researcher
- Assistent Professor
Biography
Dr. Thomas Bauwens is an Assistant Professor researching collective action for sustainability at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University.
He is specialized in sustainability and energy issues with a pronounced interest in multi-disciplinarity. His research concerns the conditions conducive to the creation of effective collective solutions to the social, economic or environmental grand challenges of our times. He combines insights from geography, institutional economics, and organization studies to create new theoretical frameworks and empirical insights.
He was awarded a 1.5m Starting Grant from the European Research Council for the ambitious, five-year research project "SCENSUS" ("Scaling the Societal Impact of Community Enterprises for Sustainability").
Before joining RSM, Thomas worked in the Utrecht University's Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, where he led research and taught on circular economy, energy communities and sustainability transitions. Before that, he was a researcher at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne and at Oxford University. He holds a PhD in Economics and Management from HEC Management School, University of Liege, Belgium, and a MSc in Economics from the Economic School of Louvain, University of Louvain, Belgium.
Job Titles:
- Affiliate Researcher
- Research Fellow at the Centre
Dr. Grisel is a Research Fellow at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (University of Strasbourg, SAGE) and a Senior Research Fellow at Centre for Socio-Legal Studies (University of Oxford). In his book The Limits of Private Governance: Norms and Rules in a Mediterranean Fishery (Hart Publishing, 2021) he explores the history of a communal organisation and its role in the management of a Mediterranean fishery.
Job Titles:
- Researcher in the Business - Society Management Department Reporting to Thomas Bauwens
Biography
Jason Roncancio is a postdoctoral researcher in the Business-Society Management department reporting to Thomas Bauwens. He is a scholar with a Ph.D. in Business Economics from Vrije Universiteit Brussel. His research interests are centered around the creation of social value and the positive social impact derived from entrepreneurship and innovation outcomes. Jason holds a degree in Chemical Engineering and an MBA from Universidad Nacional de Colombia, complemented by studies in Innovation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
With over a decade of professional experience, he has excelled in data analysis for public health sector companies and has served as a university technology transfer officer. His academic contributions have been recognized through publications in Q1 journals such as the Journal of Technological Forecasting and Social Change and the International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour and Research.
Expertise
Academic Entrepreneurship
Technology Transfer
Social Entrepreneurship
Social Innovation
Pieter Steenbergen obtained his Master's degree in Social and Economic History from Leiden University in 1983. Between 1978 and 2017, he worked as a teacher (mostly in General Economics) at several high schools and at a teachers training institute. He was also member of the management team, and in that capacity responsible for school administration, exams, and quality management. In March 2017, he retired and after two months crossing the USA by bike, he presented himself as volunteer at Utrecht University, aiming to contribute to an existing research topic. When he was informed about the Institutions for Collective Action team, he offered to support this team by performing research focused on consumer co-operatives in the Netherlands. Although little has been published on this theme, this type of organization has become increasinglypopular since the 1990s. Pieter aims to fill the gap that seems to exist in publciations on this topic: e.g., in the work A global history of consumer co-operation since 1850 (eds. Mary Hilson and Greg Patmore, 2017), The Netherlands were not even mentioned. His main goal is to look for the critical success factors of consumer co-operatives.
Job Titles:
- Principal Investigator
- Tine De Moor - Principal Investigator
Biography
Tine De Moor (PhD; Ghent, Antwerp, and London) is professor "Social Enterprise and Institutions for Collective Action" at the department of Business-Society Management at the Rotterdam School of Management (RSM), Erasmus University Rotterdam. At her previous position as professor of Institutions for Collective Action in historical perspective at the Faculty of Humanities at Utrecht University, she started using an interdisciplinary approach for the study of the long-term evolution of rural commons. De Moor has been able to revise the historical basis of the widely debated metaphor of the Tragedy of the Commons, as launched in 1968 by G. Hardin. Whereas from a modern-day perspective the flaws in Hardin's theory have been well-documented, the historical deficiencies in his theory were hardly ever studied. De Moor's research, combined with extensive empirical research and analysis with explicit modelling and a strongly developed theoretical framework, has been published in several books and journals. She has been actively involved in developing innovative research methods. Besides, she is the co-founder of the peer-reviewed journal the International Journal of the Commons, and she has been member of the Executive council of the International Association for the Study of the Commons since 2008; in 2014, she was elected as President-Elect of the IASC, taking office as President on January 15, 2015. De Moor is currently in charge of or involved in several projects on institutions for collective action, of which several were awarded by an ERC Starting Grant and both VIDI and VICI Grants by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). In 2023, De Moor and her team won the Open and Responsible Science Award, category societal engagement, of Erasmus University.
Postdoctoral researcher Véronique De Herde is taking her next step after working with Social Enterprises & Institutions for Collective Action for 1,5 years. She starts a three-year postdoctoral mandate at the University of Liège, Center for Social Economy, with professor Frédéric Dufays. The research will focus on cooperative models of value chain organization in the agri-food sector. The objective is to disentangle the complex factors contributing to their strategic relevance for sustainable transitions.