Staff profile
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Job title: Senior Lecturer
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Dept: Business School
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Tel: 01227 782118
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Campus: Canterbury
Biography
Wim holds a PhD in Technology Management and an MSc in Industrial Engineering and Management Science, both from the Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands. Wim specialises in entrepreneurship and innovation, with a further interest in strategy and organisational design.
Prior to joining Canterbury Christ Church University, Wim led a Business Advisory Services team at KPMG in Malta for six and a half years. During these years he provided a wide range of consultancy services to both private sector and public sector clients, with an emphasis on strategy, business development and improvement, economic impact assessments and policy development. Wim also held the post of Assistant Professor in Organisation Science for three years at the Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands prior to his move to Malta.
Wim is Director of the Centre for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, and Programme Director for the Postgraduate Certificate in Shared Services.
Teaching and Academic Interests
In the area of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Wim is the module leader for Small Business Management and Consultancy and New Business Planning, and leads the Business School’s involvement in the IBM Universities Business Challenge. He also teaches the Change Management and Analysis and Developing a Shared Service Roadmap modules on the Postgraduate Certificate in Shared Services.
His research interests include:
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the development of entrepreneurial skills and the role of experiential learning as part of the curriculum
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start-ups (in particular high growth start-ups)
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social enterprise (i.e. how the third sector is developing entrepreneurial activities to support their financial needs), and
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business models used in start-ups and social enterprise.
Subject Group
Subject Chair of the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Group
Publications, Working Papers and Conference Papers
Crayford, J., Fearon, C., McLaughlin, H. and van Vuuren, W. (2013). Affirming entrepreneurial education: learning, employability and personal development. Industrial and Commercial Training. (In Press)
Halman, J.I.M., Hofer, A.P, & Vuuren, W. van (2003). Platform driven development of product families: Linking theory with practice. The Journal of Product Innovation Management 20(2), p. 149-162.
Vuuren, W. van (2000). Cultural influences on risks and risk management: six case studies. Safety Science 34(1-3), p. 31-45.
Vuuren, W. van (1999). Organisational failure: lessons from industry applied in the medical domain. Safety Science 33(1-2), p. 13-29.
Vuuren, W. van (1998). Organisational failure: an exploratory study in the steel industry and the medical domain. PhD thesis, BETA Institute for Business Engineering and Technology Application.
Book chapters
Halman, J.I.M., Hofer, A.P. & Vuuren, W. van (2006). Platform driven development of product families. In Simpson, T.W., Siddique, Z. And Jiao, J. (Eds.), Product Platform and Product Family Design: Methods and Applications, 27-47, Springer, New York.
Vuuren, W. van & Kanse, L. (2003). Widening the scope of incident analysis in complex work environments. In Manser, T. (Ed.), Komplexes Handeln in der Anästhesie, 186-2007, Pabst Science Publishers, Lengerich.
Conference proceedings
Vuuren, W. van, Keizer, J.A. & Insũa Ortega, E. (2001). Product family development: Linking theory with practice. Proceedings of the EIASM 8th International Product Development Management Conference, Enschede, June 11-12, 2001, p. 919-932.
Vuuren, W. van & Schaaf, T.W. van der (1999). The influence of safety culture on risks and risk management. In Schueller, G.I. & Kafka, P. (Eds.), Safety and Reliability: Proceedings of ESREL '99, the tenth European conference on Safety and Reliability, Munich-Garching, September 13-17, 1999, p. 1261-1266.
Vuuren, W. van & Schaaf, T.W. van der (1999). Organisational failure: The development of a taxonomy. In Schueller, G.I. & Kafka, P. (Eds.), Safety and Reliability: Proceedings of ESREL '99, the tenth European conference on Safety and Reliability, Munich-Garching, September 13-17, 1999, p. 1273-1278.
Vuuren, W. van (1996). Organisational influences on human reliability in the steel industry. In Chi, C., Mital, A. & Kumar, S. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 4th Pan Pacific Conference on Occupational Ergonomics. Taiwan, November, 1996, p. 17-20.
Vuuren, W. van & Schaaf, T.W. van der (1995). Modelling organisational factors of human reliability in complex man-machine systems. In Sheridan, T.B. (Ed.), Proceedings of the 6th IFAC Symposium on Analysis, Design and Evaluation of Man-Machine Systems, M.I.T., Cambridge, USA, June 27-29, 1995, p. 323-328.
Vuuren, W. van (1995). Modelling organisational incident factors in complex technical systems. In Stassen, H.G. & Wieringa, P.A. (Eds.), Proceedings of the XIV European Annual Conference on Human Decision Making and Manual Control, Delft, June 14-16, 1995.
Consultancy Interests
2008 – to date: Owner and Director at Vision in Motion Consultancy Limited
2002 – 2008: Associate Director at KPMG Business Advisory Services in Malta