dr. EFM (Emiel) Wubben

Dr Emiel F.M. Wubben is Associate Professor Strategic Management at Wageningen University, and Research Fellow of WASS. Earlier he was Assistant Professor Strategy and Business Environment at the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam. He is Doctor in Economics (Tinbergen Institute, EUR, 1993).

His prime interest is strategizing (business) transitions towards a more sustainable biobased and circular economy, intrigued by the trade-offs between the visible hand of management, authorities, and grassroots initiatives versus the invisible hand of market systems, and regimes. This interest has materialized in research on ,e.g., circular economy, eco-industrial parcs, vertical farming, collective action, and biomaterials. Domain specialization is on agrifood clusters and biobased & circular business, with some focus on the built environment, biorefineries, and horticulture. More recently, he is active in the WUR Investment theme Transformation Bio-Economy, and the 4TU-Build Environment, and the European Bio-Economy University (EBU-FOEBE). 

In education Wubben is core teacher and responsible coordinator of (BBC core course) Advanced Management and Marketing, the MBSc (foundational) course Circular Economy, the specialisation course Biobased and Circular Business, and the Entrepreneurship in agri-food Entrepreneurship. He also contribures to other (internal and external) courses. Co-organisor of various conferences, such as WICaNeM, and ARBOR. He co-supervises both regular and external PhD candidates. E.g., Maarten Batterink (2010), Gohar Nuhoff-Isakhanyan (2016) and Hanieh Kodaih, (2015) completed their PhD-trajectory under his supervision.

Regarding management, Wubben is active in the educational committees for the BBC/MME and the MBS, he was member of the PhD Admission Committee of WASS (MGS), member of admission committees of 5 MSc-programs, member of the Advisory Board for the Exploring Corporate Strategy textbook (Prentice Hall), research and educational program coordinator,  member chairgroup executive committee, action leader in research projects, sat on the program-committee of InnoFasEnergy, etc.

Winner of the 'J.Dorfman Dissertation Award 1994' and several educational recognitions himself, Wubben was supervisor of the 2011-winner of NOBEM PhD-thesis of the year Award, for the joint Dutch business schools. Wubben has (joint) publications in a variety of journals, such as Journal of Cleaner Production, Sustainability, Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, Energy Policy, British Food Journal, Journal on Chain and Network Science, Journal of Strategy and Management, China Insights Today, Postharvest Review, Supply Chain Management, and International Journal on Food System Dynamics, next to book (contribution)s for Edward Elgar, Routledge, Springer, MacMillan, and Wageningen Academic, and publications in popular press and as consultancy reports. External expert for strategic proposals e.g. for NWO, and the Research Council of Norway. Prime or co-organisor of WICaNeM 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010. Speaker and lecturer in various executive settings.