Sjoerd Abel Georges Lodewijk Romme (born 1960) is a Dutch organizational theorist and professor of entrepreneurship and innovation at the Eindhoven University of Technology.

Biography

Georges Romme received a MSc in economics from Tilburg University and in 1992 a PhD degree in business administration from Maastricht University. Since 2005 he is professor of entrepreneurship and innovation at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), and since 2007 also dean of the Industrial Engineering & Innovation Sciences department.

In the early 1990s, Georges Romme introduced Boolean comparative *ysis to the organization and management sciences. He also developed and pioneered the "thesis circle", a tool for collaboratively supervising final (BSc or MSc) projects.

He was one of the original pioneers who brought design thinking and the design sciences to organization studies. A key idea put forward by Romme (2003) and Romme & Endenburg (2006) is that design principles are instrumental in connecting description and explanation (by researchers) to design and construction (by prac*ioners). As such his work established the idea that social science-based research serves to advance the body of knowledge on management and organization, but needs to be complemented by pragmatic design knowledge for prac*ioners (e.g. managers, consultants).

Publications

• 1992. A Self-organization Perspective on Strategy Formation, doctoral dissertation, Maastricht University Press.

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