Biography
Professor Ansgar Richter (1969) is Dean of Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University (RSM). He is a professor of Corporate Strategy, Organisation and Governance. His research interests are at the interface of strategy, organisation and governance: dynamic capabilities, organisational design, incentives, ownership and justice in organisations, and the strategy and structure of professional service firms. Professor Richter studied Philosophy and Economics in Frankfurt and Bochum (Germany), before continuing his studies at London School of Economics (LSE), where he earned an MSc in Industrial Relations and Personnel Management, and a PhD in Management. Following his studies, he worked for over three years as a management consultant with McKinsey & Company, advising international clients on matters of strategy and organisation, before moving on to EBS Business School, Liverpool Management School and Surrey Business School. At various points in his academic career, Ansgar Richter was a visiting scholar at Berkeley, Stanford, and INSEAD. He has also taught at several major institutions internationally. In addition, he has provided a wide range of executive education programmes for companies in the automotive, chemical, pharmaceuticals, infrastructure, and professional service sectors. Prior to joining RSM, he was the dean of Surrey Business School. He has published extensively in journals, such as Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Management, Journal of Management Studies, Leadership Quarterly, and many others. Five of his papers have been included in the Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings. He is a member of the Editorial Boards of Journal of Management, Long-Range Planning, and serves as a reviewer for many other journals on a regular basis. He has also served as Chair of the Management Consulting Division of the Academy of Management. Meet the Dean: video message from Prof. Ansgar Richter
- richter@rsm.nl
- Location
- Burg. Oudlaan 50, Rotterdam
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Work
- Saneesh Edacherian, Ansgar Richter, Amit Karna & Balagopal Gopalakrishnan (2024) - Connecting the Right Knots: The Impact of Board Committee Interlocks on the Performance of Indian Firms - Corporate Governance: An International Review, 32 (1), 135-155 - doi: 10.1111/corg.12523 - [link]
- Abiola Sarnecki, Marjo-Riitta Diehl & Ansgar Richter (2023) - Organizational Injustice and Employee Affective Health: The Moderating Effects of Labor Market Conditions - European Management Journal - doi: 10.1016/j.emj.2023.08.005 - [link]
- Amit Karna, Christos Mavrovitis & Ansgar Richter (2022) - Disentangling reciprocal relationships between R&D intensity, profitability and capital market performance: A panel VAR analysis - Long Range Planning, 55 (5) - doi: 10.1016/j.lrp.2022.102247 - [link]
- Ansgar Richter (2021) - The evolving role of the “professions” - Global Focus, 15 (1), 120-123 - [link]
- P Ulrich, Ansgar Richter, M Schommer & A Karna (2019) - A New Playbook for Diversified Companies. Here’s How Strong Performers Are Defying Expectations about the Demise of Multi-Business Enterprise - MIT Sloan Management Review, 60 (2), 56-62 - [link]
- N Heirati, SC Henneberg, Ansgar Richter & R Harste (2019) - Differential importance of social and economic determinants of relationship performance in professional services - Industrial Marketing Management, 76, 23-35 - doi: 10.1016/j.indmarman.2018.07.009 - [link]
- M Schommer, Ansgar Richter & A Karma (2019) - Does the Diversification – Firm Performance Relationship Change Over Time? A Meta-Analytical Review - Journal of Management Studies, 56 (1), 270-298 - doi: 10.1111/joms.12393 - [link]
- CP Mavis, Ansgar Richter, C Landau, S L Schmidt, T Simons & K Steinbock (2019) - What Happens when Companies (don’t) Do What they Said they would? Stock Market Reactions to Strategic Integrity - European Management Review, 16 (3), 815-831 - doi: 10.1111/emre.12175 - [link]
- MR Diehl, Ansgar Richter & A Sarnecki (2018) - Variations in Employee Performance in Response to Organizational Justice: The Sensitizing Effect of Socioeconomic Conditions - Journal of Management, 44 (6), 2375-2404 - doi: 10.1177/0149206316671581 - [link]
- Ansgar Richter & M Schommer (2018) - Veränderung der Organisationsstruktur von Unternehmen: Redimensionierung - doi: 10.1007/978-3-658-04116-8_20 - [link]