Koen Heimeriks is a Visiting Professor at the Schools of Science and Business, Aalto University.  Previously, he was a Professor of Strategy at Tilburg University.  He has also been a visiting scholar at Carnegie Mellon University and INSEAD.

Koen studies how companies develop corporate development (i.e., alliance, acquisition, and divestiture) capabilities to realize corporate growth in high-velocity 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.

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.  Both his research and teaching won him prestigious international prizes.

• Organizational or vicarious routines? Serial acquirers' learning processes and acquisition integration performance (with Graebner M, 211.A) -- R&R
• Managing experience spillovers across corporate development capabilities (with Schijven M, 207.A) -- In prep for submission
• Dynamic capabilities, synergy capture, and post-merger acquisition integration processes (with Bingham C, Meyer-Doyle P, 214.A) -- Paper in preparation
• Tools use and power in acquisition integration (with Graebner M, 209.A) -- In preparation
• Conceptualizing and theorizing on the 'organizational experience' construct (with Maula M, Keil T, 310.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)