Organisation

SOM is the coordinating research institute and the graduate school of the Faculty Economics & Business at the University of Groningen.

The mission of SOM is:

• to be a full range research school combining Economics and Business and to meet the needs of the academic community and students as well as society by conducting and stimulating excellent fundamental and applied research related to the firm in its economic environment, and
  
• to recruite and train talented students both at the Research Master and the PhD level and to provide them with high-level programmes, excellent supervision and a stimulating, international research environment.