Emerald Award for Prof. van der Meer-Kooistra

Professor of Financial Management Jeltje van der Meer-Kooistra of the Faculty of Management and Organization has won the annual Emerald Award for Excellence. She has been awarded the prize for an article that she published with her colleague Prof. Ed Vosselman (Nijmegen) in the Journal of Accounting & Organizational Change. The award is sponsored by Emerald, publisher of several international academic journals. Van der Meer and Vosselman will be presented with the award in April.

The paper in question is about ‘interfirm transactional relationships’. ‘Vosselman and I have been working together in this field for some time now,’ says Van der Meer-Kooistra, ‘in other words, we have been looking at long-term cooperation agreements between independent organizations and how they can be designed and managed in the most efficient way possible. Cooperation agreements include joint ventures, strategic alliances, outsourcing or joint research projects. The NAM, for example, currently has an enormous outsourcing project for the renovation and maintenance of all gas extraction locations in the north of the Netherlands. We then investigate the management methods used to control such projects with many partners.’

The professor is pleased with the Emerald Award. ‘We have already published a lot about “transactional relationships” and are in the forefront of our field. Our article is an example of this and the recognition reflected by this award is very satisfying.’

Emerald Award for Excellence
Emerald Group Publishing (www.emeraldinsight.com) is the instigator of the Emerald Literati Network, which organizes annual Awards for Excellence for the affiliated journals. The editorial team of each journal proposes the best paper from the most recent issues.

-The title of the paper is: Efficiency seeking behaviour in changing management control in interfirm transactional relationships: an extended transaction cost economics perspective (2006).
-For further information: Prof. J. van der Meer-Kooistra, tel. (050) 363 4679, e-mail: j.van.der.meer-kooistra rug.nl