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Dr Pieter-Jan Bezemer

Dr Pieter-Jan is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Business and Law.

Key research areas

  • Strategic Management
  • Strategic Leadership & Stakeholder Management

Biography

Dr Pieter-Jan Bezemer holds a PhD in Business Administration from the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, The Netherlands. Over the past 20 years he has been teaching strategy, leadership and corporate governance in Australia, Estonia, Italy, The Netherlands and New Zealand. Pieter-Jan’s expertise is centred around decision-making in the boardroom and the diffusion of (contested) management practices. His research has been published in leading journals such as the Academy of Management Journal, Corporate Governance: An International Review, British Journal of Management, Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, and Strategic Organization.

He also contributed to the 1st edition of the student textbook Strategic Management Essentials by Grant, Murray, Orr, Butler and Bezemer (Wiley, 2021). He is currently Communications Editor at Corporate Governance: An International Review and a member of the editorial review board at Academy of Management Learning & Education. In Australia he has been involved in a series of formal boardroom evaluations, including financial institutions regulated by the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority. He is currently working on a NSW government-funded project on the prioritization of work, health & safety amongst Australian business leaders.

  • 2024 SBL Management Discipline Award
  • 2023 SBL Outstanding Publication Award
  • 2023 Outstanding Reviewer Award, Corporate Governance: The International Journal of Business in Society
  • 2021 SBL Award for Mentorship in Research
  • 2018 Best Paper Award, Corporate Governance: An International Review
  • 2015 Best Paper Award, Qualitative Research in Accounting & Management
  • Communications Editor of Corporate Governance: An International Review (2021-now)
  • Editorial review board of Academy of Management Learning & Education (2021-now)
  • Corporate governance
  • Boardroom dynamics
  • Strategic management
  • Diffusion of contested management practices
  • Sustainable development - poverty
  • Non-profit/church leadership

Co-lead of the Business Competitiveness (BC) research cluster.

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