Koen Heimeriks is Professor of Strategy at Warwick Business School.  Previously, he was faculty at Copenhagen Business School, Rotterdam School of Management, and Tilburg University and he has also been visiting at Aalto, Carnegie Mellon University, and INSEAD.  He earned his Ph.D. at Eindhoven University of Technology.

Koen's research focuses on how companies develop corporate development (i.e., alliance, acquisition, and divestiture) capabilities to realize corporate growth in high-tech settings.  His work features in numerous top journals, including Academy of Management Annals, Academy of Management Journal, Harvard Business Review, Journal of Management Studies, Organization Science, Strategic Management Journal, and Strategic Organization.  He serves on the Editorial Boards of Organization Science, Strategic Management Journal, and Strategic Organization.  He also is an Associate Editor at Long Range Planning.

Besides his research, he trains, consults for, and works with executives at publicly listed and large private firms operating in volatile settings, e.g., high-tech and chemical industries, with a focus on corporate development and entrepreneurship, strategy, organizational change, and growth strategies.  Both his research and teaching won him prestigious international prizes, including the BPS Distinguished Paper Award, Sumantra Ghoshal Research & Practice Award, the CBS Teacher of the Year Award, and the Best European CEMS Course of the Year (best out of 100+ courses in Europe).

• Organizational or vicarious routines? Serial acquirers' learning processes and acquisition integration performance (with Graebner M, 211.A) -- R&R
• Experience schedules: unpacking experience accumulation and its consequences (with Bingham C, Kolev K, Haleblian JJ, 309.A) -- R&R
• Managing experience spillovers across corporate development capabilities (with Schijven M, 207.A) -- Under review
• Dynamic capabilities, synergy capture, and post-merger acquisition integration processes (with Bingham C, Meyer-Doyle P, 214.A) -- Under review
• Conceptualizing and theorizing on the 'organizational experience' construct (with Maula M, Keil T, 310.A) -- Under review
• Tool use and power in acquisition integration (with Graebner M, 209.A) -- In preparation
• Expert learning and internal learning dynamics in corporate development departments (with Graebner M, 220.A) -- In preparation
• A fuzzy set analysis of learning to manage acquisitions (with Schijven M, 218.A) -- In preparation

Upcoming events 2014

• Jan: Academic Workshop Toward a New Research Agenda on Alliances and Acquisitions, Tilburg
• Feb: Organization Science Winter Conference on Michael Cohen, Steamboat
• March: Winter Strategy Conference, Snowbird
• May: Atlanta Competitive Advantage Conference, Atlanta
• June: Microfoundations SMS Special Conference, Copenhagen
• June: Process Symposium, Rhodes
• August: Academy of Management Meeting, Philadelphia
• Sept: Strategic Management Society Annual Meeting, Madrid

Interesting past events 2011-13

• Academy of Management, Boston
• PDW on Alliance Portfolios, AoM, Boston
• Strategic Management Society, Prague

Interesting past events 2009-11

• ACAC Conference
• Copenhagen Conference on Strategic Management
• Organization Science Winter Conference 2010 (Call)
• Micro-level origins of organizational routines and capabilities for JMS Special Issue (Finland, 19-20 June, 2010)

Interesting past events 2007-09

• DRUID Conference
• Organization Science Winter Conference 2009 (Call) (Conference photos)
• ‘Knowledge transfer barriers’ Conference 2007 (Copenhagen)
• 'Towards the micro-level origins of routines and capabilities' (Rotterdam, 12-13 June 2009) (Call)