Curriculum Vitae dr. ir. F. Kees Boersma

Curriculum Vitae dr. ir. F. Kees Boersma
Kees (Frederik Kornelis) Boersma was born on 22 April 1969 in Den Haag, the Netherlands. Since 1
January 2011 he is Associate Professor at the Organization Science Department of the VU
University Amsterdam. He is teacher in, among others, the courses Organizational Behavior,
Organizational Politics, Organization Theory and Technology and Modern Culture. He supervises(-ed)
4 PhD-students, 6 Research Ma-students, and about 75 Ma-students. Previous to his current position:
He received his secondary education and his B.Sc. Mechanical Engineering degree in
Rotterdam. After finishing his engineering study, he worked for a couple of months in the German
steel industry. In 1993 he started studying Technology and Society at the faculty Technology
Management the Eindhoven University of Technology and followed Science and Technology Study
(STS) courses at the University of Amsterdam. In 1996 he obtained his masters degree in Eindhoven.
Between 1996 and 1997 he worked as a junior researcher in the field of innovation studies at
the Eindhoven University of Technology (resulting in a regional Small and Medium Enterprises
(SME) innovation benchmark study). In 1997 he started on a PhD-thesis and followed a postdoctoral
course in social economic history. This work resulted in 2002 in the thesis ‘Inventing Structures for
Industrial Research. A history of the Philips Nat.Lab.’ (supervisors: prof.dr.ir. Harry W. Lintsen and
prof.dr. Arie Rip) for which he won the EBHA-award. During that period he participated in the
research schools N.W. Posthumus Instituut (social and economic history), WTMC (the Dutch STS
school) and ECIS (Eindhoven Center for Innovation Studies).
In 2000 he joined the history department of the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore (MD)
as a visiting scholar and worked in the ‘Institute for Applied Economics and Study of Business
Enterprise’ of prof.dr. Lou Galambos (business history) and with prof.dr. Bill Leslie (history of
science).
In August 2001 he started working at the Department of Culture, Organization and
Management (COM) of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the VU University Amsterdam (VUA) and
became a senior research member of the Netherlands Institute of Governance (NIG). In April 2006 he
was appointed Associate Professor at COM and from 2007-2010 he was the research manager of the
programme Cultural Change in Organizational Networks (CuCON). In 2011 COM became part of a
larger Organization Science Department where he is now Associate Professor.
In 2004-6 he participated in an exchange program on Science and Technology Studies
between the VU University Amsterdam and North West University in South Africa. Currently he takes
part in a research/consultancy programme with universities Ethiopia (in cooperation with the Center
for International Cooperation CIS). He participates in an exchange programme with the University of
Illinois (with prof.dr. Scott Poole) on the organization of emergency response and IT systems in-use.
From April 2009 – April 2013 he is Management Committee member of the EU COST Action
Living in Surveillance Societies and workgroup coordinator on Technologies and Surveillance of the
same COST Action.
Office
VU University Amsterdam
Faculty of Social Sciences
De Boelelaan 1081 c
1081 HV Amsterdam, the Netherlands
+ 31 20 5986769
f.k.boersma@vu.nl
Website: www.keesboersma.com
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Knowledge, Work and Organizational Change
My research addresses the problem of how, why, by whom and with what consequences (new)
technology and knowledge is developed within and for organizations. The question then is how the
technology and knowledge does affect the social identities of individuals, the work(space) and cultures
of organizations. My research is implemented in two different projects. Currently the focus is on
Project 1:
Project 1: Safety, Security and Surveillance
A study into social formations and the construction of new information and communication
technologies (ICTs) in the context of safety, security and surveillance. The implementation of these
new technologies tend to change the relationships between people and machines, make virtual settings
possible, and can have profound (un)intended consequences for organizational communication
patterns, information sharing and surveillance. Empirical domains:
a. Safety and Security Studies: research into the (re)organization of Emergency Response
Rooms for the police, the fire brigades and the first aid teams. It includes an analysis of the
ICT Systems in-use, netcentric work, urban safety, emerging communication networks and
the working routines on the floor. This research is carried out in close cooperation with
practitioners. [a22, a23, b11, b12, b13, b15, c6, d19, e33, e35, e38, e39].
b. Surveillance Studies: a study of the development and implementation of ICTs,
organizational change and surveillance. In my research I addresses the mutual shaping of
technology and organization. In studying ICTs I pay attention to the processes of user
practices, information sharing and surveillance within organizational contexts and social
networking sites (web 2.0). [a2, a9, a10, a12, a14, a19, a20, a22; b6, b7, b9, b16, b17, b18;
c7, c8, c9; d11, d13, d20].
Project 2: The Production of Knowledge
A study into knowledge creation, production and sharing in organizational networks and chains with
heterogeneous partners such as Higher Education Institutes, governmental research institutes,
industrial Research and Development (R&D) departments and interest groups. Empirical domains:
c. Higher Education Studies: A study of the (global) transformation of Higher Education
(HE) institutes. In this project I am interested in the question: (how) do policy makers at
universities anticipate upon internationalization of HE, and (how) do researchers and
teachers give meaning to transformations in HE. In this research I work with the Centre for
International Cooperation (CIS). [a13, a15, a17, a25, a26; b14; c3, c4, c5; d1, d14, d15,
d16].
d. Innovation Studies: A study into (industrial) R&D settings and university-industry
relations. The attention is on organizational change in techno-scientific settings. My PhDthesis
on the Philips R&D Department was one outcome of this project. Currently I study
university-industry relations in the context of city development and the urban space. [A,
a1, a3, a4, a5, a6, a7, a11, a13, a16, a21, a24; b1, b2, b9; c1; d2, d3, d5, d7, d8, d9, d10,
d12].
My research is based on triangulation of data and methods with an emphasis on qualitative methods,
such as life histories and historical, ethnographic and contextual analyses. I use also secondary
sources, such as written records in archives and literature. Interviews with key persons and participant
observation are carried out to result in case studies. The case studies will present the informants’ point
of view (life world perspective) while contributing to theoretical debates in organizational studies.
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Formal positions and activities
- January 2011 – present: associate professor at the Department of Organization Science of
the Faculty of Social Sciences at the VU University Amsterdam,
- April 2009 – present: Management Committee member of the EU COST Action ISO807
Living in Surveillance Societies. Chair: dr. William Webster,
- April 2006 – December 2010: associate professor at the Department of Culture,
Organization and Management of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the VU University
Amsterdam,
- January 2007 – December 2010: research manager of the program Cultural Change in
Organizational Networks (CuCON) of the Department of Culture, Organization and
Management of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the VU University Amsterdam,
- August 2001 - March 2006: assistant professor at the Department of Culture, Organization
and Management of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the VU University Amsterdam,
- 2000: visiting scholar at the business history group (the Institute for Applied Economics
and Study of Business Enterprise) of the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore MD,
USA on the ‘History of Industrial R&D’,
- 1997-2001: Ph.D. candidate ‘History of Business and Technology’ at the Department
History of Technology of the Faculty Technology Management at the Eindhoven
University of Technology,
- 1996-1997: junior researcher on ‘Sociological Analysis of Technological Development’ at
the Department Technology and Policy of the Faculty of Technology Management of the
Eindhoven University of Technology,
- 1995: student assistant Sociology and Technology at the Eindhoven University of
Technology,
- 1993: engineer-designer at ‘Stein Injection Technology’ (Stein Industrie-Anlagen,
Gevelsberg), in the German steel-industry,
- 1993 engineer-designer at ‘Scheepswerf De Biesbosch B.V.’, Dordrecht, a Dutch
shipyard.
Academic Awards and Grants
Award:
- 2002: European Business History Association Dissertation Award 2002 (at the 2002 EBHA
conference, Helsinki).
Grants:
- 2011: Project on cultural change in crisis response organizations by the Platform
Netcentric Operations (Crisisplein). PI together with prof.dr. Jaap de Heer; €40.000
- 2010: Project on Public Values in Mega Project by the consortium Next Generation
Infrastructures. PI together with prof.dr. Alfons van Marrewijk; €240.000 (including
matching)
- 2010: Project on Volunteers in Neighborhood Urban Development, ZonMw, with
Cybersoek. Execution of the project: Ellen van Eeden; €40.000
- 2010: Project coordination in the KNAW (Royal Netherlands Academy of Science)
Project Social Networks: Linking Social Science and Computer Science. PI: prof.dr. Peter
Groenewegen; €300.000
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- 2009-2013: MC-member in the EU COST Action Living in Surveillance Societies. Project
leader: dr. William Webster (University of Stirling); total budget for travelling, workshops
and conferences about €500.000
- 2007-8: Project on Multi-disciplinary Information Management of the Amsterdam
Emergency Rooms of the Police, Fire and Ambulances Services, with Peter Groenewegen
en Pieter Wagenaar. Principal: Peter van Zanten (Berenschot); €10.000
- 2008: Publication grant of the Netherlands Institute of Governance for the publication of
the editorial volume ICTs, Citizens & Governance: After the Hype! with dr. Albert Meijer
and dr. Pieter Wagenaar; €10.000
- 2007/9: Consultant Leadership, Management Development Programme (LMDP) in Addis
Ababa, Ethiopia in cooperation with the Center for International Cooperation; €10.000
- 2007: Consultant for the Dutch Tourist Organization with A. Kraakman and dr. P.E. Staal;
€3.500
- 2006: 0.2 fte research grant of the research centre CCSS of the Faculty of Social Sciences,
VU Amsterdam. Research project: Networks of R&D
- 2002: Dissertation grants by: Jurriaanse Stichting, Unger-van Brero Fonds and Dr Hendik
Muller’s Vaderlandsch Fonds; €5000
- 2001: Travel Grant from the Society for the History of Technology, SHOT; $750
- 2000: Dutch guilders grant of the faculty Technology Management of the Eindhoven
University of Technology to visit the Johns Hopkins University; fl.7500
Professional Affiliations and Memberships
- Senior Research Member of the Netherlands Institute of Governance (NIG: Nederlandse
Onderzoekschool voor de Bestuurskunde),
- European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS),
- International Community on information systems for crisis response and management
(ISCRAM),
- Society for Research into Higher Education (SHRE),
- The European Higher Education Society (EAIR),
- European Business History Association (EBHA),
- Society for the History of Technology (SHOT) (2000-2009).
Teaching Experiences
- 2009/10/11: coordinator and lecturer in Qualitative Methods of Organizational Research:
‘Methods of Meaning’. PhD Programme in Business and Organization, Amsterdam
Business Research Institute (ABRI) in 2010 together with prof.dr. Dvora Yanow,
- 2009/10/11: lecturer of ‘Organizational Politics’ as part of the international minor on
Culture, Organization and Management at the VU University Amsterdam (VUA),
- 2011/12: lecturer in Organisatie en Omgeving (Organization and Environment),
Department of Organization Sciences, ~250 students at the VUA,
- 2007/8/9/10/11 introduction (bachelor) course ‘Public Administration and Organization
Science’ (coordinator together with dr. Pieter Wagenaar, dr. Ingrid Wakkee and dr.ir.
Frank de Bakker. In total 12 instructors each year and ~250 students) including
supervision of a group of 20 students at the VUA,
- 2008/9 guest-instructor in the Ma-course ‘History of the Life Sciences’, inter-faculty
course at the VUA,
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- 2007/8 tutor ‘Thematic Reading Course’: Structure and Agency in Organization Theory,
with dr. Frank den Hond; research master at the VUA,
- 2007/8 course for Master-students on thematic reading within the course ‘Fieldwork
Preparation’ at the VUA,
- 2007/8/10/11 guest lectures in the course ‘Multicultural Organizations and Networks’,
VUA,
- 2007/8 guest lecture on ‘gender, diversity and technology’ in the course ‘Identity and
Diversity in Organizations’ as part of the international master Culture, Organization and
Mangement at the VUA,
- 2006/7 (together with prof.dr. Stewart Clegg): (pre-master) Theories of Management and
Organization (~80 students) at theVUA,
- 2006/7: (bachelor) course on ‘Organizational Politics and Social Theories on Power in
Organizations’, together with prof.dr. Stewart Clegg, at theVUA,
- 2004/5: evening class Organizational Culture and ICT. A course on paper writing with
~25 students at the VUA,
- 2003/4/5: (master) Organizational Culture and ICT. A course on paper writing (~100
students with feedback in smaller groups) at the VUA,
- 2003/4/5/6: (bachelor) course on ‘Organizational Politics and Social Theories on Power in
Organizations’ (~35 students each year), at the VUA (in 2005 with a guest lecture by
professor JoAnne Martin),
- 2002/3/4: (pre-master and bachelor) course on ‘Organizational Culture and Technology’
(~200 students) together with dr.ir. Sytze Kingma (coordinator), at the VUA,
- 2003/4: coordinator of the course on ‘Organizational Theory and Writing’, at the VUA
(~50 students),
- 2001/2/3: (pre-master) courses on ‘Organizational Theory and Writing’, at the VUA (~15
students each year),
- 2002/3: evening class Organizational Behavior with ~30 students at the VUA,
- 2001/2/3: (pre)master courses on Organizational Behavior (~250 students each year)
including co-ordination at the VUA,
- 1998: (master) course on ‘Technology Assessment for Mechanical Engineers’, at the
Eindhoven University of Technology (~40 students) together with Prof.dr. Marc de Vries.
Supervising PhD Projects
- Dr. Hanneke Duijnhoven, VUA, PhD student. Promoter: prof.dr. Marcel Veenswijk.
Thesis: For Security Reasons. Narratives about Security Practices and Organizational
Change in the Dutch and Spanish Railway Sector. Amsterdam: VU University Press (280
pp.). Promotion: 21 April 2010
- Dr. Han Bakker, VUA/Rotterdam University of Applied Science. Promotor: prof.dr.
Marcel Veenswijk. Thesis: Idea Management. Unravelling creative processes in three
professional organizations. Den Haag (240 pp.). Promotion: 6 December 2010
- Jeroen Wolbers MSc, VUA. Promoter prof.dr. Peter Groenewegen. Subject: Netcentric
Work in the Dutch Safety sector. Expected promotion date 2013
- Sander Merkus MSc, VUA. Promotor prof.dr. Jaap de Heer. Subject: Cultures in Dutch
Megaprojects and Ministries. Expected promotion date 2013
- Leonore van den Ende MSC, VUA. Promotor prof.dr. Alfons van Marrewijk. Subject: The
role of Rituals in Mega Project. Expected promotion date 2014
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Editing
- Member of the editorial board and cluster editor for ‘Linking Theory & Practice’ of The
Organization Management Journal (Palgrave),
- Member of the editorial board of the Journal of Change Management (Routledge),
- Member of the editorial team of the Journal of Management History (Emerald),
- Member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Information Technology
Project Management, (IGI Publishers),
- Member of the editorial board of TrippleC – Cognition, Communication, Co-operation,
Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society,
- Member of the editorial team of the Jaarboek De KennisSamenleving (Dutch Annual ‘The
Knowledge Society’) – first issue 2005 by Aksant Academic Publishers.
Refereeing
- Taylor & Francis: International Journal of Public Administration, Tertiary Education and
Management,
- Sage: Business and Society, Journal of Management Inquiry and Human Relations,
- Routledge: Business History,
- Emerald: Journal of Management History, Journal of Enterprise Information
Management and Personnel Review,
- World Scientific Publishing: International Journal of Innovation and Technology
Management,
- Idea Group: Encyclopedias,
- Elsevier: Journal of Strategic Information Systems, International Journal of Project
Management,
- Open Access systems: Sage Open, Surveillance and Society,
- Amsterdam University Press: Jaarboek De KennisSamenleving.
Professional Committees
At the VU University Amsterdam (2002-present)
- 2010 member of the evaluation committee Research Incentives at the Faculty of Social
Sciences VUA,
- Project member of the Centre for Educational Training CETAR (in a project on the use of
ICT tools in education; assessment of English writing skills) at FSW/VUA; 2007/8;
- Since 1 January 2007 member of the Research Management Committee (FOZ) of the
Faculty of Social Sciences of the VU Amsterdam,
- Since 1 January 2007 Research Manager of the program Cultural Change in
Organizational Networks (CuCON). Reports written (a selection):
- In 2007: Self-evaluation CuCON 2001-2006 (according to the SEP protocol),
- Annual Report COM 2006 (editor).
- Member of the Faculty ICT Committee, since 2005,
- Participating lecturer-expert within the Master COM accreditation; 22 March 2006,
- Public Relations en Voorlichting (PRV Committee COM), 2002-2006,
- Organizer of the Faculty Research Colloquium Social Sciences, 2003-2005,
- Member of the COM-Bachelor implementation workgroup in 2005.
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At the Eindhoven University of Technology (period 1997-2001)
- Organizer of the ECIS Research Colloquia Committee.
- Member of the Ph.D. Program Committee.
- Member of the campus Ethics and Technology Committee.
Organized conferences and workshops (selection)
- 2011: organizer of the VU Network Institute symposium, May 10, Amsterdam with dr.
Michel Klein, dr. Peter Polak and dr. Zuzana Sasovova, 60 participants.
- 2011: coordinator workshop Cost Action Living in Surveillance Societies with dr. Gemma
Galdon, Barcelona, 15-16 February.
- 2010: trainer at workshop Capacity Building, Mekelle University, Northern Ethiopia,
April, 25 participants.
- 2010: organizer of the sub-theme Organizing and Disorganizing Resilience in the
Globalizing City, at EGOS 2010, Lisbon, together with Stewart Clegg, and Martin
Kornberger, 15 participants.
- 2010: organizer of Colloquium Higher Education Institutes and Development, 9
November, with Dr. Henk van den Heuvel, Center for International Cooperation,
Amsterdam.
- 2010: stream on: Internet 2.0 and surveillance, at the Annual Conference of the EU COST
Action Living in Surveillance Societies, April 2010 at the City University London, with
Christian Fuchs, Anders Albrechtslund and Marisol Sandoval, 20 participants.
- 2009: committee member of the Amsterdam Bright City (ZuidAs) conference:
Cosmopolis 2025 with prof.dr. Saskia Sassen (keynote) and Job Cohen (major
Amsterdam).
- 2008: committee member (with Heidi Dahles, Tom Elfring, Frank den Hond and Sierk
Ybema) of the 24 th European Group of Organization Studies (EGOS) Colloquium
Upsetting Organizations, Amsterdam in July 2008. About 1350 participants.
- 2008: organizer of the sub-theme Conceptualizing, Organizing and Managing Cities, at
EGOS 2008, Amsterdam, together with Stewart Clegg, Barbara Czarniawska and Martin
Kornberger, 20 participants.
- 2008: workshop organizer with Peter Groenewegen, Ira Helsoot, Scott Poole and Pieter
Wagenaar on: Organization of Emergency Response, VU University Amsterdam, 17 June.
- 2007: organization of the seminar ICT after the Hype, at the NIG Session and Colloquium,
VU Amsterdam with dr. Albert Meijer and dr. Pieter Wagenaar.
- 2006: organization of the seminar Knowledge Society, at the NIG Session and
Colloquium, KUNijmegen with dr. Albert Meijer and dr. Pieter Wagenaar.
- 2005: co-organizer of a Workshop on STS curriculum building, at the North West
University (NWU) in South Africa, February and August.
- 2000: organizer of the Subtheme History of Industrial R&D, together with Marc de Vries
(chair: Leonard Reich), at at the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT)
Conference, München, Germany.
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Other Professional and Community Activities
- Board member (chair) of Cybersoek digital city Amsterdam (Stichting Cybersoek: digital
trapveld Amsterdam), since January 2006.
- Board member of the Dutch Society for Business History (Stichting Bedrijfsgeschiedenis)
since November 2005.
- Consultant to Leadership, Management Development Programme (LMDP) in Ethiopia of
the Center for International Cooperation (CIS: www.cis.vu.nl) on Higher Education
Development.
- Member of the Expert Pool The Netherlands National Archive in The Hague.
- Member of the scientific board of the Dutch Institute of Cultural Ethics
(wetenschapppelijke adviesraad voor het Instituut voor Cultuur Ethiek), since March
2004, contact person dr.ir. Jan van der Stoep.
- Columnist for Kompas, a neighborhood newspaper in De Baarsjes, Amsterdam, 2002/4,
- Board member of the TeMa Alumnivereniging Ingenieurs Techniek en Maatschappij
(Secretary of the TU/e Alumni-Society ITEM), 1998-2002.
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Publications and Lectures
[A] Ph.D. Thesis 2002
Boersma, F.K., Inventing Structures for Industrial Research. A History of the Philips Nat.
Lab., 1914-1946. Amsterdam, Aksant Academic Publishers, 320 pp. (EBHA-award
2002).
a) Refereed Articles in Journals
[a26] Boersma, F.K., A. van der Sluijs, J. van Spijk (2011). Organizational Change at a Local
Center of Excellence. The case of San Carlos University and the Office of Population
Studies in the Philippines, Creative Education, accepted for publication.
[a25] Ponzoni, E. and F.K. Boersma (2011). Writing history for the business man: the
development of business history between ‘old’ and ‘new’ production of knowledge,
Management & Organizational History, accepted for publication.
[a24] Roessingh, C.H. and F.K. Boersma (2011). “We’re growing Belize”: modernization and
organizational change in the Mennonite settlement of Spanish lookout, Belize,
International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business, accepted for publication.
[a23] Boersma, F.K., F.P. Wagenaar and J. Wolbers (2010). Organizing Emergent Safety
Organizations. The travelling of the concept ‘Netcentric Work’ in the Dutch Safety
sector. In: Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Information Systems for
Crisis Response and Management ISCRAM. Seattle, April 2010. S. French, B.
Tomaszewski and C. Zobel (eds.): 1-6.
[a22] Boersma, F.K. (2010). The Endless City. A Review, Culture and Organization, 16(3):
301-303.
[a21] Bor, S. and F.K. Boersma (2010). The Management of Formalization Processes in R&D
Collaboration, International Journal of Information Technology Project Management,
1(3): 1-13.
[a20] Veenswijk, M., A. van Marrewijk and F.K. Boersma (2010). Developing New
Knowledge in Collaborative Relationships in Megaproject Alliances: Organizing
Reflection in the Dutch Construction Sector, International Journal of Knowledge
Management Studies, 4(2): 216-232.
[a19] Ghorashi, H. and F.K. Boersma (2009). Iranian Diaspora and the New Media: From
Political Action to Humanitarian Help, Development and Change, 40(4): 667-691.
[a18] Boersma, F.K., P. Groenewegen and P. Wagenaar (2009). Emergency Response Rooms
in Action: an ethnographic case-study in Amsterdam. In: Proceeding of the 6th
International ISCRAM Conference. Gothenburg, Sweden, May 2009. J. Landgren and
S. Jul, eds. (ISBN 978-91-633-4715-3): 1-8.
[a17] Boersma, F.K., C. Reinecke and M. Gibbons (2008). Organizing the University-
Industry relationship: a case study of research policy and curriculum restructuring at the
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North-West University in South Africa, Tertiary Education and Management, 14(3): 209-
226.
[a16] Boersma, F.K. and M. de Vries (2008). Transitions in Industrial Research. The case of
the Philips Natuurkundig Laboratorium (1914-1994), Business History, 50(4) : 509-529.
[a15] Kerklaan, V., G. Moreiro and F.K. Boersma (2008). The role of language in the
internationalization of Higher Education – an example from Portugal, European Journal
of Education, 43: 241-255.
[a14] Wagenaar, P. and F.K. Boersma (2008). Soft sister and the rationalization of the world.
The driving forces behind increased surveillance, Administrative Theory & Practice
(PAT Net), 30(2): 184-206.
[a13] Boersma, F.K. (2007). Managing between Science and Industry, Journal of
Management History, 13(2): 122-134.
[a12] Boersma, F.K., S. F. Kingma and M. Veenswijk (2007). Paradoxes of control: the
(electronic) monitoring and reporting system of the Dutch High Speed Alliance (HSA),
Project Management Journal (PMJ), 38(2): 75-83.
[a11] Bakker, H., F.K. Boersma and S. Oreel (2006). Creativity Management in Industrial
R&D Organizations. A Crea-Political Process Model and an Empirical Illustration of
Corus RD&T, Creativity and Innovation Management, 15(3): 296-309. Runner up in
the ‘Tudor Rickards Best Paper Awards 2006’.
[a10] Boersma, F.K. and S.F. Kingma (2005). Developing a cultural perspective on ERP,
Business Process Management Journal, 11(2): 123-136.
[a9] Boersma, F.K. and S.F. Kingma (2005). From Means to Ends: The Transformation of
ERP in a Manufacturing Company, Journal of Strategic Information Systems. Special
Issue on Understanding the Contextual Influences on Enterprise Systems
Implementation, Usage and Evaluation, 14: 197-219.
[a8] Roessingh, C. and F.K. Boersma (2005). Local Interests versus Global Organizational
Power. Political Conflicts in the Organization of Belizean Football, Belizean Studies
(St. John’s College, internal review), 27(1): 77-82.
[a7] Boersma, F.K. (2004). The Organization of Industrial Research as a Network Activity.
Agricultural Research at Philips in the 1930s, Business History Review, 78(Summer):
255-272.
[a6] Boersma, F.K. (2003). Tensions within an Industrial Research Laboratory. The Case of
the X-ray Department of the Philips Research Laboratory between the two World Wars,
Enterprise and Society: the International Journal of Business History, 4(March): 65-98.
[a5] Boersma, F.K. (2003). Structural Ways to embed a research laboratory into the company.
A comparison between the Research Departments of Philips and General Electric,
History and Technology, 19(2): 1-18.
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[a4] Berends, H.H., F.K. Boersma and M. Weggeman (2003). The Structuration of
Organizational Learning, Human Relations, 56(9): 1035-1056.
[a3] Boersma, F.K. and M. de Vries (2003). De veranderende rol van het Natuurkundig
Laboratorium in het Philips-concern gedurende de periode 1914-1994, NEHA jaarboek
voor economische, bedrijfs- en techniekgeschiedenis, 66: 288-314.
[a2] Kingma, S.F. and F.K. Boersma (2002). No Time to Spare? Time and Technology.
Review article, Time & Society, 11(2/3): 351-355.
[a1] Boersma, F.K. (1999). De ontwikkeling van de röntgentechnologie in de beginjaren van
het Philips’ Natuurkundig Laboratorium, NEHA jaarboek voor economische, bedrijfsen
techniekgeschiedenis, 62: 291-318.
b) Refereed Contributions in Books and Encyclopedias
[b18] Boersma, F.K. (2011). ‘Internet and Surveillance. An outlook’, in Fuchs, C., F.K.
Boersma, A. Albrechtslund and M. Sandoval (eds.). Internet and Surveillance. London:
Routledge: expected 2011.
[b17] Fuchs, C., F.K. Boersma, A. Albrechtslund and M. Sandoval (2011). ‘Internet &
Surveillance. Introduction’, in Fuchs, C., F.K. Boersma, A. Albrechtslund and M.
Sandoval (eds.). Internet and Surveillance. London: Routledge: expected 2011.
[b16] Boersma, F.K. and S.F. Kingma (2011). ‘Organizational Learning Facilitation With
Intranet (2.0): a Socio-Cultural Approach’, in D.G. Schwartz and D. Te’eni (eds.),
Encyclopedia of Knowledge Management, 2 nd Edition, Hershey, London: Idea Group:
1280-1289.
[b15] Boersma, F.K., P. Groenewegen, P. Wagenaar (2010). ‘The information management of
co-located Emergency Response Rooms in the Netherlands’, in: Rahman, H. (ed.).
Cases on Adoption, Diffusion and Evaluation of Global E-Governance Systems: Impact
at the Grass Roots, Hershey USA: IGI Publishing: 107-116.
[b14] Teelken, C., F.K. Boersma and P. Groenewegen (2009). ‘The Graduate System in
Transition: External PhD Researchers in a Managerial Context?’, in: Jeroen Huisman
(ed.) International Perspectives on the Governance of Higher Education. Alternative
Frameworks for Coordination, New York and London: Routledge: 237-251.
[b13] Wagenaar, P., F.K. Boersma, P. Groenewegen and P. Niemandsverdriet (2009).
‘Implementing C2000 in the Dutch police region ‘Hollands-Midden’, in: A. Meijer,
F.K. Boersma and P. Wagenaar (eds). ICTs, Citizens & Governance: After the Hype!
Amsterdam: IOS Press series “Innovation and the Public Sector”: 119-134.
[b12] A. Meijer, F.K. Boersma and P. Wagenaar (2009). ‘Hypes: Love Them or Hate Them’,
introduction in: A. Meijer, F.K. Boersma and P. Wagenaar (eds). ICTs, Citizens &
Governance: After the Hype! Amsterdam: IOS Press series “Innovation and the Public
Sector”: 3-12.
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[b11] Boersma, F.K., A. Meijer and P. Wagenaar (2009). ‘Unraveling and understanding the
e-government hype’, in: A. Meijer, F.K. Boersma and P. Wagenaar (eds). ICTs, Citizens
& Governance: After the Hype! Amsterdam: IOS Press series “Innovation and the
Public Sector”: 256-266.
[b10] Boersma, F.K. and S.F. Kingma (2008). ‘A Socio-Cultural Approach to Intranet and
Organizational Learning’, in: Murray E. Jennex (ed). Knowledge Management:
Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications, Hershey, New York: IGI Global:
1065-1072. Reprint of: ‘A Socio-Cultural Approach to Intranet and Organizational
Learning’, in D.G. Schwartz (ed.) (2005), Encyclopedia of Knowledge Management
(Idea Group).
[d9] Bakker, H., F.K. Boersma and S. Oreel (2006). ‘Creativity (Ideas) Management in
Industrial R&D Organizations, Social Science Research Network, published at:
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=925463.
[b8] Bakker, H., F.K. Boersma and S. Oreel (2006). ‘Creativity Management in Industrial
R&D Organizations’, in: M.K. Stasiak and J. Buijs (eds.): Transformations, Lodz
(Poland): Wyzsza Szkola Humanistyczno-Ekonomiczna: 337-363.
[b7] Boersma, F.K. and S.F. Kingma (2006). ‘A Socio-Cultural Approach to Intranet and
Organizational Learning’, in D.G. Schwartz (ed.), Encyclopedia of Knowledge
Management, Hershey, London: Idea Group: 305-310.
[b6] Boersma, F.K. and S.F. Kingma (2005). ‘ERP Systems and Organizational Culture:
Exploring ERP-Systems from Life World Perspectives’, in: L. Morel-Guimaraes, Y.
Hosni and T. Khalil (eds.), Key Success Factors for Innovation and Sustainable
Development, Oxford: Pergamon, Elsevier Science: 329-348.
[b5] Vries, M., de and F.K. Boersma (2005). ‘Prologue: The Nat.Lab.’s Early Years (1914-
1923)’, in: M. de Vries (with contributions by F.K. Boersma): 80 Years of Research at
the Philips Natuurkundig Laboratorium (1914-1994), Amsterdam: Pallas Publications:
19-30.
[b4] Vries, M., de and F.K. Boersma (2005). ‘Developing a Research Organization for a
Diversifying Company’, in: M. de Vries (with contributions by F.K. Boersma): 80
Years of Research at the Philips Natuurkundig Laboratorium (1914-1994), Amsterdam:
Pallas Publications: 33-72.
[b3] Vries, M., de and F.K. Boersma (2005). ‘Research for Diversification in Action’, in: M.
de Vries (with contributions by F.K. Boersma): 80 Years of Research at the Philips
Natuurkundig Laboratorium (1914-1994), Amsterdam: Pallas Publications: 73-98.
[b2] Boersma, F.K. (2004). ‘Transistors.’, in: Encyclopedia of 20th-Century Technology, 2
vols., ed. C. Hempstead and W. Worthington. New York: Routledge: 843-846.
[b1] Boersma, F.K. (2004). ‘Vacuum Tubes/Valves.’, in: Encyclopedia of 20th-Century
Technology, 2 vols., ed. C. Hempstead and W. Worthington. New York: Routledge:
877-879.
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c) Edited Books
[c9] Fuchs, C., F.K. Boersma, A. Albrechtslund and M. Sandoval (eds.). Internet and
Surveillance. London: Routledge: expected 2011.
[c8] Pieters, W., F.K. Boersma, G. Alberts, J. Timmer, A. Dijkstra and M. Popkema (red.)
(2010). Inzicht en Toezicht. Jaarboek KennisSamenleving. Deel 6. Amsterdam: Aksant
Academic Publishers, 205 pp.
[c7] Meijer, A., F.K. Boersma and P. Wagenaar (eds.) (2009). ICTs, Citizens & Governance:
After the Hype! Amsterdam: IOS Press series “Innovation and the Public Sector”, 267 pp.
[c6] Alberts, G., F.K. Boersma, B. Broekhans, A. Dijkstra, W. Pieters, M. Popkema and Y.
van Tilborgh (red.) (2009). Gevoel voor kennis. Jaarboek KennisSamenleving. Deel 5 -
2009. Amsterdam: Aksant Academic Publishers (Dutch Annual ‘The Knowledge
Society’), 277 pp.
[c5] Alberts, G., F.K. Boersma, B. Broekhans, A. Dijkstra, P. Groenewegen, C. Koolstra, M.
Popkema and P. Wilhelm (red.) (2007). Onderwijs in de Kennissamenleving. Jaarboek
KennisSamenleving. Deel 3 – 2007. Amsterdam: Aksant Academic Publishers (Dutch
Annual ‘The Knowledge Society’), 320 pp.
[c4] Alberts, G., D. Beckers, F.K. Boersma, B. Broekhans, A. Dijkstra, P. Groenewegen, C.
Koolstra and M. Popkema (red.) (2006). Verbeelding van Kennis. Jaarboek
KennisSamenleving. Deel 2 – 2006. Amsterdam: Aksant Academic Publishers (Dutch
Annual ‘The Knowledge Society’), 222 pp.
[c3] Alberts, G., D. Beckers, F.K. Boersma, B. Broekhans, A. Dijkstra, P. Groenewegen, C.
Koolstra, M. Popkema and I. van der Weijden (red.) (2005). Kennis-vragen in de polder.
Jaarboek KennisSamenleving. Deel 1 – 2005. Amsterdam: Aksant Academic Publishers
(Dutch Annual ‘The Knowledge Society’), 282 pp.
[c2] Boersma, F.K., J. van der Stoep, M. Verkerk and A. Vlot, (red.) (2002). Aan Babels
stromen. Een bevrijdend perspectief op ethiek en techniek (afscheidsbundel professor
Egbert Schuurman) Amsterdam, Buijten & Schipperheijn, 312 pp.
[c1] Vries, M. de (with contributions by F.K. Boersma) (2001). 80 Years of Research at the
Philips Natuurkundig Laboratorium (1914-1994). The Role of the Nat.Lab. at Philips.
Eindhoven: Foundation for the History of Technology (SHT), 286 pp.
d) Professional (non refereed) Publications
[d22] Ghorashi, H. and F.K. Boersma (2011). The Networked Diaspora, on Arseh Sevom
weblog: http://www.arsehsevom.net/zine/?p=8 edited by Tori Egherman.
[d21] Ghorashi, H. and F.K. Boersma (2011). Berlin, Bam, New Media, and Transnational
Networks, on Arseh Sevom weblog: http://www.arsehsevom.net/zine/?p=14 edited by
Tori Egherman.
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[d20] Pieters, W., F.K. Boersma, G. Alberts, J. Timmer, A. Dijkstra and M. Popkema (2010).
‘Inzicht en Toezicht’, in Pieters, W., F.K. Boersma, G. Alberts, J. Timmer, A. Dijkstra
and M. Popkema (red.) (2010). Inzicht en Toezicht. Jaarboek KennisSamenleving. Deel
6. Amsterdam: Aksant Academic Publishers: 7-17.
[d19] Boersma, F.K., H.P.M. van Duivenboden, P. Groenewegen, I. Helsloot, S.B.
Soeparman, F.P. Wagenaar (2010). Meldkamers in actie. Openbaar Bestuur, 20(3): 8-12.
[d18] Pieters, W., M. Popkema, B. Broekhans, A. Dijkstra, K. Boersma and G. Alberts
(2009). ‘Gevoel voor kennis: emoties in de kennissamenleving’, in: Alberts, G., F.K.
Boersma, B. Broekhans, A. Dijkstra, W. Pieters, M. Popkema, Y. van Tilborgh (red.).
Gevoel voor kennis. Jaarboek KennisSamenleving. Deel 5. Amsterdam: Aksant
Academic Publishers: 7-20.
[d17] Boersma, F.K. and P. Staal (2007). ‘Lange termijnanalyse van de ANWB als hybride
organisatie’, Den Haag: Internal Advisory Report ANWB (advisory report for the Dutch
Tourist Organization).
[d16] Popkema, M., P. Wilhelm and F.K. Boersma (2007). ‘Leren over het nieuwe
onderwijs’, in: Gerard, A., F.K. Boersma, B. Broekhans, A. Dijkstra, P. Groenewegen, C.
Koolstra, M. Popkema and P. Wilhelm (red.): Onderwijs in de Kennissamenleving.
Jaarboek KennisSamenleving. Deel 3. Amsterdam: Aksant Academic Publishers: 7-18.
[d15] Broekhans, B., M. Popkema and F.K. Boersma (2005). ‘Kennis-vragen in de polder.
Een inleiding’, in: Gerard, A., D. Beckers, F.K. Boersma, B. Broekhans, A. Dijkstra, P.
Groenewegen, C. Koolstra, M. Popkema and I. van der Weijden (red.): Kennis-vragen in
de polder. Jaarboek Kennissamenleving. Deel 1. Amsterdam: Aksant Academic
Publishers: 9-13.
[d14] Boersma, F.K. (2004). ‘Creating an agricultural research network. Irradiation of plants
with artificial light at Philips Research in the 1930s’, Business and Economic History
OnLine, Vol.2: 1-27.
[d13] Boersma, F.K. and S.F. Kingma (2004). ‘Shaping the Enterprise System (ES): An
Empirical Study into ERP and Organizational Change’, in: M. de Vries, B. Bergvall-
Kåreborn and S. Strijbos (eds.), Interdisciplinarity and The Integration of Knowledge,
Maarssen: Proceedings of the 10th Annual Working Conference of CPTS (ISBN 90-
807718-3-X): 68-83.
[d12] Boersma, F.K. (2003). Inventing Structures for Industrial Research, EBHA Newsletter,
Jan. 2003, No. 16: 26-28.
[d11] Boersma, F.K. and S.F. Kingma (2002). Globalisering en technologie, Radix, Jaargang
28, No. 3: 220-230.
[d10] Boersma, F.K. (2002). Wetenschappelijk onderzoek in de industrie. De vroegste
geschiedenis van het Philips Natuurkundig Laboratorium, Nederlands Tijdschrift voor
Natuurkunde, Jaargang 68, nummer 7, juli: 224-228.
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[d9] Boersma, F.K. (2002). Techniekgeschiedenis op de WTS-agenda, Tijdschrift voor
Wetenschap Techniek en Samenleving, Jaargang 10, Nr. 5: 178-179.
[d8] Boersma, F.K. (2002). Wetenschap in een commerciële context, Technisch Weekblad,
Jaargang 33, nr. 50: 7.
[d7] Boersma, F.K. (2002). Holst en zijn Industrieel Lab., Link. Management, Marketing,
Technologie: Nieuwsbrief 2002.
[d6] Boersma, F.K. (2002). ‘Ethiek en productontwerp, inleiding en evaluatie’, in: F.K.
Boersma, J. van der Stoep, M. Verkerk and A. Vlot, (red.): Aan Babels stromen. Een
bevrijdend perspectief op ethiek en techniek, Amsterdam: Buijten & Schipperheijn: 137-9
en 192-7.
[d5] Berends, H.H., F.K. Boersma and M. Weggeman (2001). The Structuration of
Organizational Learning, Eindhoven: ECIS Work in Progress Series, 01.12: 1-25.
[d4] participant in Bestuurscommissie Techniek en Ethiek (Report of the Committee Ethics
and Technology) (2000). Techniek en Ethiek: Technologisch Onderzoek en Ontwerpen.
Eindhoven: Eindhoven University of Technology, 15 pp.
[d3] Boersma, F.K. (1999). Kennisontwikkeling in een industriële context: Philips Nat.Lab.,
KIVI Nieuws, 6e Jaargang: 6.
[d2] Boersma, F.K. (1999). Albert Bouwers, fysicus in de industrie, De Ingenieur, Jaargang
111: 37.
[d1] Meeus, M.T.H., L.A.G. Oerlemans, F.K. Boersma, B.H.J. Wessel Schulte and M. Prins
(1996). Externe rapporten voor 200 individuele industriële bedrijven: benchmarking in
de Nederlandse industrie op basis van het innovatie-trendonderzoek 'Concurrentiekracht,
innovatie, netwerken en technologiebeleid', deel 1-200. (Dutch regional SME innovation
benchmark study) Eindhoven: Technische Universiteit Eindhoven: 2600 pp.
e) Conferences, papers and organized workshops (selected)
[e45] Presentation on The Internet and Surveillance at the European Cost Project Annual
Meeting: ‘Surveillance in post-authoritarian societies: the ghost of surveillance’, Iasi
Romania, 5 May 2011.
[e44] Presentation on Business Process Engineering in Higher Education Ethiopia with dr. Henk
van den Heuvel, CIS, VU Amsterdam, 9 November 2010.
[e43] Presentation on Big Brother and Soft Sister – patterns of surveillance with dr. Pieter
Wagenaar at the COST Action LiSS Annual Conference, London, 15 April 2010.
[e42] Participant in the pre-proposal SANPAD workshop on The Digital Archive and South
African Heritage. University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban, South Africa, 10-11 February,
2010.
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[e41] Presentation and paper: Writing history for the business man. The development of business
history between ‘old’ and ‘new’ production of knowledge, at the 25 th EGOS Colloquium,
Barcelona, 2 July, 2009.
[e40] Presentation and paper (with Frank de Hond): Giddens a la Carte?, at the 25 th EGOS
Colloquium, Barcelona, 2 July, 2009.
[e39] Presentation with paper: Emergency Response Rooms in Action: an ethnographic casestudy
in Amsterdam at the ISCRAM Conference, Götenborg, Sweden, 10-13 May 2009.
[e38] Paper with Peter Groenewegen en Pieter Wagenaar: Learning in a Fragmented
Emergency Response Room in the City of Amsterdam at the OLKC Conference,
Amsterdam, 27 April 2009.
[e37] Management Committee meeting of the EU Cost Action Living in Surveillance
Societies in Brussels, 22-23 April, 2009.
[e36] paper with Pieter Wagenaar and Peter Groenewegen: Red, White and Blue: Organizational
Fragmentation of the Emergency Response Rooms in the City of Amsterdam at the NIG
conference, University of Twente, 20 November, 2008.
[e35] Conference-paper: The formalization process in R&D collaboration, with Sanne Bor
(Hanken, Finland) reviewed and accepted for: EuroMOT 2008, Nice (presentation by
Sanne Bor), 17-19 September, 2008.
[e34] Presentation and paper with Pieter Wagenaar and Peter Groenewegen: Red, White and
Blue: Organizational Fragmentation of the Emergency Response Rooms in the City of
Amsterdam at EGPA 2008, Erasmus University Rotterdam, 3 September, 2008.
[e33] Presentation and paper with Pieter Wagenaar: Red, White and Blue: Organizational
Fragmentation of the Emergency Response Rooms in the City of Amsterdam at the 24 th
EGOS Colloquium, Amsterdam, 11 July, 2008.
[e32] Roundtable discussion and research preparation/agenda setting at the University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign on The Organization and Structuration of Emergency Rooms with
Marshall Scott Poole (professor at University of Illinois), Noshir Contractor (professor at
Northwestern University, Evanston/Chicago), Annie Wang (graduate student at
Northwestern University), Prof.dr. Peter Groenewegen and Dr. Pieter Wagenaar (both
VU University Amsterdam), 16-21 January, 2008.
[e31] Workshop organizer with Peter Groenewegen, Ira Helsoot, Scott Poole and Pieter
Wagenaar on: Organization of Emergency Response, VU University Amsterdam, 17
June, 2008.
[e30] Presentation with Pieter Wagenaar: The interaction between technical and social
networks at the workshop Organization of Emergency Response, VU University
Amsterdam, 17 June, 2008.
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[e29] Paper Business Mathematics and Informatics: a Case Study of Curriculum
Restructuring at the North West University in South Africa presented at the Society for
Research into Higher Education (SRHE), Brighton/Sussex, UK, 12 December, 2007.
[e28] Paper and presentation with Pieter Wagenaar: Panopticon and Soft Sister at the Annual
Meeting of NIG, 7 November, Tilburg, the Netherlands, 2007.
[e27] Invited presentation: Accreditation Practices, at the 5 th National Conference on Private
Higher Education Institutions in Ethiopia, Addis Ababa, 25 August, 2007.
[e26] Chair of a roundtable expert meeting on Open innovation & social innovation organized
by Hiteq and Sijas Akkermans of the Center of Social Innovation, 20 March, Lelystad,
2007.
[e25] Paper and presentation with Pieter Wagenaar: Soft sister and the rationalization of the
world. The driving forces behind increasing surveillance at the Conference of the Public
Administration Theory Network, Harrisburg (Penn.), USA, 25 March, 2007.
[e24] Lecture: Managing a research programme and being a member of a faculty, for the
board and management of the Copperbelt University of Zambia, 13 June and at 1
October for the management of the University of Zambia, organized by CIS in
Amsterdam, 2007.
[e23] Commentator at the Amsterdam workshop on the commodification of academic
research organized by Professor Hans Radder, Blaise Pascal Instituut, Amsterdam, 21-
23 June, 2007.
[e22] Paper and presentation with Hanneke Duijnhoven: The Choreography of Security
Culture in the Dutch and Spanish Railway Sector, at the 24 th EGOS colloquium in
Vienna at the sub-them on post New Public Management, 6 May, 2007.
[e21] Organization of a workshop on STS curriculum at the NWU in South Africa,
Potchefstroom, together with Carools Reinecke and Marc de Vries, January 2006.
[e20] Roundtable discussion on Research Policy and Research Cultures at the University of
San Carlos (USC), Cebu in the Philippines, together with Ted Murnane (USC) and
Jeroen van Spijk (Centre for International Cooperation, CIS, VU), June 2006.
[e19] Organization of the “Knowledge Society” NIG Session and Colloquium, VU
Amsterdam with Albert Meijer, 9 November, 2006.
[e18] Paper with Sytze Kingma (presentation) and Marcel Veenswijk: Paradoxes of control:
the Dutch High Speed Alliance Train (HSA) Organizational consequences of electronic
reporting systems in a large scale infrastructural construction work. NWO/SISWOconference,
The Hague, the Netherlands, 9 October, 2005.
[e17] Organization of a Workshop on STS curriculum at the NWU in South Africa,
Potchefstroom, February and August, 2005.
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[e16] Paper with Sierk Ybema (presentation): The role of history in the social construction of
an identity change. Conflict among editors of the Dutch daily newspaper ‘de
Volkskrant’ at the EBHA-conference, Frankfurt, Germany, 1-3 September, 2005.
[e15] Organization of the “Knowledge Society” NIG Session and Colloquium, RU Nijmegen
with Albert Meijer, 9 November, 2005.
[e14] Paper with Sytze Kingma and Marcel Veenswijk (mutual presentation with Kingma):
The electronic management of the Dutch High Speed Train Project at “Knowledge
Society” NIG Session and Colloquium, Rotterdam, the Netherlands, 29 October, 2004.
[e13] Paper and presentation: Creating an agricultural network. Conference Paper at the
Business History Conference (BHC), Le Creusot, France, 18-20 June, 2004.
[e12] Paper with Sytze Kingma (mutual presentation): The Mutual Shaping of ERP and
Organizational Culture in a Manufacturing Company at the European Group for
Organizational Studies (EGOS), Ljubljana University, Slovenia, 1-3 July, 2004.
[e11] Paper and presentation: A Demanding Technology: making sense of an Enterprise
System. 6th International Conference on Organizational Discourse, Amsterdam, the
Netherlands, 28-30 July, 2004.
[e10] Paper and presentation: De worsteling met ICT hulpmiddelen in de organisatie voor de
Elfde Sociaal Wetenschappelijke Studiedagen van SISWO Instituut voor
Maatschappijwetenschappen, Amsterdam, 22-23 April, 2004.
[e9] Paper with Sytze Kingma (mutual presentation): ERP Systems and Organizational
Culture: Conceptualizing ERP from Life World Perspective. Refereed IAMOT
Conference Paper, Nancy, France, 13-15 May, 2003.
[e8] Paper and presentation: The role of an industrial research director as a stakeholder:
networking activities during the early history of the Philips Physics Laboratory at the
European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST), York, UK
(Chair of the session), 31 July - 4 August, 2002.
[e7] Paper and presentation: Inventing Structures for Industrial Research at the European
Business History Association (EBHA), University of Helsinki, Finland, 22-24 August,
2002.
[e6] Paper and presentation: How to embed an industrial laboratory in the company,
Proceedings of the European Business History Association (EBHA) Conference 2001,
Oslo, Norway, 2001.
[e5] Paper and presentation: Looking into the lab. A comparison between Philips and GE at
the SHOT Conference, San Hose, USA, 4-7 October, 2001.
[e4] Paper with Marc de Vries (mutual presentation): The history of Philips’ Physical
Laboratory 1914-1990: Conference presentation at the Society for the History of
Technology (SHOT) Conference, München, Germany, 17-20 August, 2000.
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[e3] Paper and presentation: De ontstaansgeschiedenis van het Philips Nat.Lab.: De groei
naar een professionele organisatie at the IIG Colloquium, Utrecht, 3 February, 2000.
[e2] Paper and presentation: Engineering Ethics, in: Proceedings of the Working Conference
SWEHOL: Managing the Technological Civilization, pp. 37-43, 1998.
[e1] Paper and presentation: The Social Shaping of Technology and Technology Dynamics, in:
Proceedings of the Working Conference SWEHOL: Managing the Technological
Civilization, pp. 31-44, 1997.
f) Book Reviews
[f10] Boersma, F.K. (2009). Review of: Arjan van Rooij [2007], ‘The Company That
Changed Itself. R&D and the Transformations of DSM.’ Amsterdam: Amsterdam
University Press, in: Business History Review, Vol.83, Issue 1: 218-220.
[f9] Boersma, F.K. (2005). Review of: Hugo van Dam, Frida de Jong [2003], ‘Geboeid door
Straling en Strategie.’ Zutphen: Walburg Pers, in: Tijdschrift voor Sociale en
Economische Geschiedenis: Jaargang 2, Nummer 1, pp: 127-129.
[f8] Boersma, F.K. (2005). Review of: Arjan van Rooij [2004], ‘Building Plants. Markets for
Technology and Internal Capabilities in DSM’s Fertiliser Business, 1925-1970.’
Amsterdam: Aksant, in: Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis:
Jaargang 2, Nummer 4, pp: 160-162.
[f7] Boersma, F.K. (2005). Review of: Arjan van Rooij [2004], ‘Building Plants. Markets for
Technology and Internal Capabilities in DSM’s Fertiliser Business, 1925-1970.’
Amsterdam: Aksant, in: Business History Review: Vol. 79, No 4: 913-915.
[f6] Boersma, F.K. (2004). Review of: Schot J.W. (ed.) [2002], ‘Techniek in Nederland in de
twintigste eeuw, V, Transport, Communicatie.’ Zutphen: Walburg Pers, in: Bijdragen
en Mededelingen betreffende de Geschiedenis der Nederlanden, deel 119, aflevering 1,
pp. 128-129.
[f5] Boersma, F.K. (2004). Review of: Schot J.W. (ed.) [2003], ‘Techniek in Nederland in de
twintigste eeuw, VI, Stad, Bouw, Industriële Productie.’ Zutphen: Walburg Pers, in:
Bijdragen en Mededelingen betreffende de Geschiedenis der Nederlanden, deel 119,
aflevering 2, pp. 279-280.
[f4] Boersma, F.K. (2004). Review of: Schot J.W. (ed.) [2003], ‘Techniek in Nederland in de
twintigste eeuw, VII Techniek en Modernisering. Balans van de Twintigste Eeuw.’
Zutphen: Walburg Pers, in: Bijdragen en Mededelingen betreffende de Geschiedenis der
Nederlanden, deel 119, aflevering 3, 442-444.
[f3] Boersma, F.K. (2003). Review of: Schot, J.W. (ed.) [2001], ‘Techniek in Nederland in de
twintigste eeuw, IV, Huishouden, Medische techniek.’ Zutphen, Walburg Pers, in:
Bijdragen en mededelingen betreffende de Geschiedenis der Nederlanden, deel 118,
aflevering 1, pp. 124-126.
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[f2] Boersma, F.K. (2002). Review of: Lintsen, H.W. (ed.) [2000], ‘Research tussen vetkool
en zoetstof. Zestig jaar DSM research 1940-2000.’ Zutphen, Walburg Pers, in: Gewina.
Tijdschrift voor de Geschiedenis der Geneeskunde, Natuurwetenschappen, Wiskunde en
Techniek, Vol. 25, No. 1, 75-76.
[f1] Boersma, F.K. (2001). Review of: J.W. Schot (ed.) [2000], ‘Techniek in Nederland in de
twintigste eeuw, II, Delfstoffen, energie, chemie.’, Zutphen: Walburgpers, in: Bijdragen
en Mededelingen betreffende de Geschiedenis der Nederlanden, deel 116, aflevering 4,
pp. 549-551.
g) Invited Lectures
[g15] lecture on: Decentralized Decision-Making: Exploring Commonalities in Social
Sciences and Informatics with prof.dr. Maarten van Steen at the VU Network Institute
Symposium, May 10, 2011.
[g14] lecture on: Writing Business History. At the: business history seminar of the Erasmus
University Rotterdam (by Ben Wubs and Abe de Jong), 7 December 2009. 2008.
[g13] lecture on: Communities in the 21 st century. At the: ‘Community Timorplein’
Amsterdam, Amsterdam, 4 September, 2008.
[g12] lecture on: Netwerken, communities, Web2.0 en de 21e eeuw. At the: ‘Community
Veranders’. Amsterdam, 22 November, 2007.
[g11] lecture on: Accreditation practices in the Netherlands at the 5 th National Conference on
Private Higher Education Institutions in Ethiopia, organized by StMary’s University
College in Addis Ababa, 25 August, 2007.
[g10] Key-note Enterprise-wide systems, organizational culture, and learning at the IS&CM
seminar ‘Knowledge and learning in the context of enterprise-wide systems’ with Sue
Newell, Anthony Wensly and Eveline van Stijn, University of Twente, the Netherlands, 6
July, 2006.
[g9] lecture on: Creativity management at Corus RD&T at the ECIS-seminar series,
Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands, 7 December, 2005.
[g8] lecture on: Creativity Management in Industrial R&D Organizations at the IKONseminar
series Warwick, U.K, 16 November, 2005.
[g7] lecture on: Knowledge Management at Philips Research at the conference on
‘Knowledge Management – The Marketplace of the Companies’, Mannheim, Germany,
2004.
[g6] lecture on: Scientific Research: an Institution and a Job, held for FOM-researchers
during a trainee program ‘Being successful in Dutch Organizations’ organized by
Paradox Research and Consultants, Nunspeet, the Netherlands, 2003 and 2004
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[g5] lecture on: The Holst period of the Philips Physical Laboratory 1914-1950, held at the
ECIS seminar of the University of Technology, Eindhoven, the Netherlands, 13 June,
2001.
[g4] lecture on: Philips en Industrieel Onderzoek, held at the Studiemiddag Ondernemerschap
door de Stichting Bedrijfsgeschiedenis, Utrecht, the Netherlands, november, 2001.
[g3] lecture on: Inventing Structures for Industrial Research. A comparison between Philips
R&D and General Electric R&D 1900-1945 held at the Institute of Applied Economics
and the Study of Business Enterprise of the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore MD,
USA, 2000.
[g2] lecture on: Philips and Industrial Research, held at the Hagley Museum (The Center for
the History of Business, Technology, and Society), Wilmington DE, USA, 2000.
[g1] lecture on: Knowledge Development in Industry: KIVI group Philosophy and
Technology, Utrecht, the Netherlands, 1999.
Readers
- 2007/8 Bachelorwerkboek and reader B&O with dr. Pieter Wagenaar and dr. Ingrid
Wakkee,
- 2006 Inleiding STS en wetenschapsleer: North West University, South Africa
- 2004/5/6: Organisatiepolitiek, cultuur en management, VU University Amsterdam,
- 2004/5: Schrijfpracticum Cultuur en ICT, Cultuur, Organisatie en Management, VU
University Amsterdam,
- 2003/4/5 (with: dr.ir. Sytze Kingma): Cultuur en ICT, VU University Amsterdam,
- 1997 (with: dr. Marius Meeus en ir. Edward Faber): Sociologische Analyse van
Technologische Ontwikkeling, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven. Deel 1: theorie, deel 2:
methodologie, deel 3: diffusie, deel 4: adoptie, deel 5: implementatie.
Media Articles and Interviews
- Mette Hedemand Soltoft: The Daily Show på persisk, in: Weekendavisen (Danisch
Newspaper), 25 February 2011, Ideer: p. 10. Journalist article on the basis of: Ghorashi,
H. and F.K. Boersma (2009). Iranian Diaspora and the New Media: From Political Action
to Humanitarian Help, Development and Change, 40(4): 667-691.
- Panel discussion at BNR newsradio about Creativity and Organizational Innovation. With
Joep Schrijvers and Wouter Peijsel, 8 December 2010.
- At 20 April 2009 Teleac started with an educational broadcasting program on ‘Places of
Science‘. The first part in the series of five broadcasts was about the Philips Nat.Lab. I
participated in the program together with amongst others prof.dr.ir. Pannenborg (a former
Philips Nat.Lab. director) and prof.dr.ir. Schouhamer Immink (a former Philips Nat.Lab.
researcher),
- Kees Boersma en Hans de Sonnaville (2008). Zuidas: snel terugkeren naar de menselijke
maat. Het Parool, dinsdag 2 december, p. 26.
- O Onderwijsmagazine, April 2006,
- Interview in OVT: april 2002,
- Interview in: Cursor, TU/e: jaargang 44, nr. 25, 2002,
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- Interview in: de Gelderlander: woensdag 15 mei 2002,
- Interview in: Eindhovens Dagblad: woensdag 3 maart 2002,
- Interview in: de Volkskrant, Wetenschapsbijlage: zaterdag 23 maart 2002.
Miscellaneous
- Certificate Robotics and Informatics (CIM Center Delft), Delft University of Technology,
8 – 12 February 1993.
- WTMC (Dutch School for Science and Technology Studies): Summer School ‘Science,
Politics, and the Law’, 1998.
- Diploma Social-Economic History Researcher, N.W. Posthumus Institute (Dutch School
for Social-Economic History) 1998-1999, June 1999.
- Course on Academic Leadership, December 2007.
- C1 level Oxford Quick Placement Test, March 2011. From the report: ‘The candidate
spoke fluently both during the prepared presentation and the unprepared discussion with
very little hesitation. He used a wide range of vocabulary and his pronunciation was
correct. His output was generally accurate with only occasional errors in the use of
prepositions and tenses.’
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