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.
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Work
- Roy Thurik, Masatoshi Kato, Peter van der Zwan & Chihiro Kageura (2026) - Daily recovery experiences of Japanese small business owners and the link with well-being and ill-being - Eurasian Business Review - doi: 10.1007/s40821-026-00360-y - [link]
- Jinia Mukerjee, Roy Thurik, Olivier Torrès & Peter van der Zwan (2026) - Entrepreneurial play as a resource for well-being among entrepreneurs - International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour and Research, 32 (5), 1-32 - doi: 10.1108/IJEBR-04-2025-0523 - [link]
- Marcus T. Wolfe, Jon C. Carr, Nada Rejeb, Ute Stephan, Roy Thurik & Olivier Torrès (2026) - Guest editorial: Health and well-being in entrepreneurship: advancing the field through research and practice - International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour and Research, 32 (5), 1109-1123 - doi: 10.1108/IJEBR-05-2026-138 - [link]
- Mathieu Le Moal, Roy Thurik, Olivier Torrès & Guillaume Soenen (2026) - Mental health of entrepreneurs and daily recovery experiences - Small Business Economics, 66 (1), 27-48 - doi: 10.1007/s11187-025-01087-2 - [link]
- Roderick Udo, Ellen Loots, Roy Thurik & Lex van Teeffelen (2025) - Simply the best?: Entrepreneurial orientation and success of music artists - International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal, 21 (1) - doi: 10.1007/s11365-025-01131-3 - [link]
- Ingrid Verheul, Roy Thurik & Jinia Mukerjee (2025) - Temporal Focus and Entrepreneurial Orientation of Solo Self-Employed Workers - International Review of Entrepreneurship, 59-88 - [link]
- Jinia Mukerjee, Roy Thurik, Olivier Torrès & Annelot Wismans (2024) - Measuring organizational play in small businesses - Management Review Quarterly, 74 (4), 2443-2476 - doi: 10.1007/s11301-023-00363-3 - [link]
- Mathieu Le Moal, Roy Thurik & Olivier Torrès (2024) - Validation and psychometric evaluation of the French version of the recovery experience questionnaire: internal consistency and validity assessment - Frontiers in Psychology, 15 - doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1466905 - [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, 73 (4), 2021-2046 - doi: 10.1111/apps.12531 - [link]
- 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, 63 (3), 1139-1170 - doi: 10.1007/s11187-023-00865-0 - [link]
- Roy Thurik (2014) - Radio London is closing down (Speaker)
Activiteit: Oral presentation › Academic - Roy Thurik (2014) - Total factor productivity and the role of entrepreneurship (Speaker)
Activiteit: Oral presentation › Academic - Roy Thurik (2014) - Determinants of entrepreneurship and psychiatric scales : ADHD and entrepreneurial orientation (Speaker)
Activiteit: Oral presentation › Academic - Roy Thurik (2014) - The future of entrepreneurship research (Speaker)
Activiteit: Oral presentation › Academic - Roy Thurik (2014) - Introduction and the tunnel effect revisited (Speaker)
Activiteit: Oral presentation › Academic - Roy Thurik (2014) - The international Guesss project (Speaker)
Activiteit: Oral presentation › Academic - Roy Thurik (2014) - Motieven achter ondernemerschap (Speaker)
Activiteit: Oral presentation › Professional - Roy Thurik (2014) - Behavior and biomarkers: in search of the entrepreneurial gene (Speaker)
Activiteit: Oral presentation › Academic - Roy Thurik (2014) - Entrepreneurial motivation (Speaker)
Activiteit: Oral presentation › Professional - Roy Thurik (2014) - Ondernemerschapsonderzoek en de EUR (Speaker)
Activiteit: Oral presentation › Academic
