Biography
Roy Thurik is Professor of Entrepreneurship and Economics at the Montpellier Business School in France. He is Emeritus Professor of Economics and Entrepreneurship at the Erasmus School of Economics in Rotterdam and the Free University in Amsterdam. He is a Research Fellow at two renowned Dutch research schools: the Tinbergen Institute for Economic Sciences and the Erasmus Research Institute for Management. He is director of the Centre for Advanced Small Business Economics and the Erasmus University Rotterdam Institute for Biology and Behavior.
Roy's research focuses on the role of small firms in markets, the role of business owners in firms, industrial organisation and policy, nascent entrepreneurship and the consequences and causes of entrepreneurship in economies. Recently he moved to the field of health, biology and behaviour. His research has been published in more than two hundred articles in leading international academic journals. He consulted widely for commercial and public organisations.
Erasmus School of Economics
- thurik@ese.eur.nl
- Location
- Burg. Oudlaan 50, Rotterdam
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Work
- Marie Madeleine Meurer, Maksim Belitski, Christian Fisch & Roy Thurik (2024) - What gets published and what doesn’t?: Exploring optimal distinctiveness and diverse expectations in entrepreneurship articles - Small Business Economics - doi: 10.1007/s11187-023-00865-0 - [link]
- Mark Sanders, Erik Stam & Roy Thurik (2024) - The Entrepreneurial State Cannot Deliver Without an Entrepreneurial Society - doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-49196-2_14 - [link]
- Simon C. Parker, Thomas Åstebro, David B. Audretsch, Robert Blackburn, Andrew Burke, Alex Coad, Marc Cowling, Per Davidsson, Michael Fritsch, Francis Greene, Paul D. Reynolds & Roy Thurik (2024) - “Remembering David J Storey, a pioneer of the entrepreneurship field” - Small Business Economics, 62 (1), 1-21 - doi: 10.1007/s11187-023-00848-1 - [link]
- Annelot Wismans, Pauline Jansen, Roy Thurik, Peter Prinzie & Ingmar Franken (2024) - Seeking the roots of entrepreneurship: Childhood and adolescence extraversion predict entrepreneurial intention in adults - Applied Psychology - doi: 10.1111/apps.12531
- Roy Thurik, Alexandre Benzari, Christian Fisch, Jinia Mukerjee & Olivier Torrès (2024) - Techno-overload and well-being of French small business owners:: identifying the flipside of digital technologies - Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, 36 (1-2), 136-161 - doi: 10.1080/08985626.2023.2165713 - [link]
- Annelot Wismans, Peter van der Zwan & Roy Thurik (2023) - COVID-19 vaccination: lower intention and coverage among entrepreneurs compared to employees - International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour and Research, 29 (11), 312-336 - doi: 10.1108/IJEBR-12-2022-1070 - [link]
- A. Roy Thurik, David B. Audretsch, Jörn H. Block, Andrew Burke, Martin A. Carree, Marcus Dejardin, Cornelius A. Rietveld, Mark Sanders, Ute Stephan & Johan Wiklund (2023) - The impact of entrepreneurship research on other academic fields - Small Business Economics, 62 (2), 727-751 - doi: 10.1007/s11187-023-00781-3 - [link]
- Jinia Mukerjee, Roy Thurik, Olivier Torrès & Annelot Wismans (2023) - Measuring organizational play in small businesses - Management Review Quarterly - doi: 10.1007/s11301-023-00363-3 - [link]
- Annelot Wismans, Peter van der Zwan, Karl Wennberg, Ingmar Franken, Jinia Mukerjee, Rui Baptista, Jorge Barrientos Marín, Andrew Burke, Marcus Dejardin, Frank Janssen, Srebrenka Letina, José María Millán, Enrico Santarelli, Olivier Torrès & Roy Thurik (2022) - Face mask use during the COVID-19 pandemic: how risk perception, experience with COVID-19, and attitude towards government interact with country-wide policy stringency - BMC Public Health, 22 (1) - doi: 10.1186/s12889-022-13632-9 - [link]
- Maksim Belitski, Christina Guenther, Alexander S. Kritikos & Roy Thurik (2022) - Economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on entrepreneurship and small businesses - Small Business Economics, 58 (2), 593-609 - doi: 10.1007/s11187-021-00544-y - [link]
- Roy Thurik (2014) - Radio London is closing down
- Roy Thurik (2014) - Total factor productivity and the role of entrepreneurship
- Roy Thurik (2014) - Determinants of entrepreneurship and psychiatric scales : ADHD and entrepreneurial orientation
- Roy Thurik (2014) - The future of entrepreneurship research
- Roy Thurik (2014) - Introduction and the tunnel effect revisited
- Roy Thurik (2014) - The international Guesss project
- Roy Thurik (2014) - Motieven achter ondernemerschap
- Roy Thurik (2014) - Behavior and biomarkers: in search of the entrepreneurial gene
- Roy Thurik (2014) - Entrepreneurial motivation
- Roy Thurik (2014) - Ondernemerschapsonderzoek en de EUR
