THURIK Adriaan Roy

Roy Thurik is emeritus professor of Economics and Entrepreneurship at Erasmus University Rotterdam and of Entrepreneurship and Small Firms at the Free University in Amsterdam. He is professeur émérite at Montpellier Business School in France. He is a Research Fellow at two renowned Dutch research schools: the Tinbergen Institute for Economic Sciences and the Erasmus Research Institute for Management.

Roy's research focuses on the role of small firms in markets, the role of business owners in firms, industrial organisation and policy, geno-economics, nascent entrepreneurship and the consequences and causes of entrepreneurship in economies.

His research has been published in more than two hundred articles in leading international academic journals. He is (co)-editor of several scholarly books and serves on the editorial boards of many academic journals. He consulted with many firms and (international) institutions.

Roy’s courses included Small Business Economics, Economics of Entrepreneurship and Entrepreneurship and Small Business at EUR and Economics and Management of SMEs at the Free University Amsterdam. He coordinated the master’s program Entrepreneurship and Strategy Economics, the bachelor III major Entrepreneurship and Organization and the campus minor Entrepreneurship in the Modern Economy at the Erasmus School of Economics. He set up the famous Erasmus Masterclass Entrepreneurship.

THURIK, A. R., S. PARKER, T. ÅSTEBRO, D. B. AUDRETSCH, R. BLACKBURN, A. BURKE, ET AL., "Remembering David J Storey, a pioneer of the entrepreneurship field", Small Business Economics, January 2025, vol. 62, no. January 2024, pp. 1-21

THURIK, R., A. BENZARI, C. FISCH, J. MUKERJEE, O. TORRÈS, "Techno-overload and well-being of French small business owners: identifying the flipside of digital technologies.", Entrepreneurship & Regional Development, January 2024, vol. 36, no. 1/2, pp. 136-161

MUKERJEE, J., R. THURIK, O. TORRÈS, A. WISMANS, "Measuring organizational play in small businesses.", Management Review Quarterly, December 2024, vol. 74, no. December 2024, pp. 2443-2476

LASCH, F., K. MESSEGHEM, J. VALETTE, S. CASANOVA, J. M. COURRENT, W. NAKARA, S. SAMMUT, A. R. THURIK, O. TORRÈS - "Situation de l’activité entrepreneuriale en France : Rapport 2023/2024 du Global Entrepreneurship Monitor" - 2024, Montpellier, Labex Entreprendre, France

LASCH, F., K. MESSEGHEM, J. VALETTE, S. CASANOVA, J. M. COURRENT, W. NAKARA, S. SAMMUT, A. R. THURIK, O. OLIVIER TORRÉS - "Entrepreneurial activity in France: Report 2022/2023 of the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor" - 2024, Montpellier, France

LASCH, F., K. MESSEGHEM, J. VALETTE, S. CASANOVA, J. M. COURRENT, W. NAKARA, S. SAMMUT, A. R. THURIK, O. OLIVIER TORRÉS - "Entrepreneurial activity in France: Report 2023/2024 of the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor" - 2024, Montpellier, France

MEURER, M. M., M. BELITSKI, A. R. THURIK, "What gets published and what doesn’t? Exploring optimal distinctiveness and diverse expectations in entrepreneurship articles.", Small Business Economics, October 2024, vol. 63, no. October 2024, pp. 1139-1170

LE MOAL, M., A. R. THURIK, O. TORRÈS, "Validation and psychometric evaluation of the French version of the recovery experience questionnaire: internal consistency and validity assessment", Frontiers of Psychology, October 2024, vol. 15, no. October 2024, pp. 1466905

THURIK, A. R., A. WISMANS, P. JANSEN, P. PRINZIE, I. FRANKEN, "Seeking the roots of entrepreneurship: Childhood and adolescence extraversion predict entrepreneurial intention in adults", Applied Psychology, October 2024, vol. 73, no. 4, pp. 2021-2046

THURIK, A. R., D. B. AUDRETSCH, J. BLOCK, A. BURKE, M. A. CARREE, M. DEJARDIN, ET AL, "The impact of entrepreneurship research on other academic fields.", Small Business Economics, February 2024, vol. 62, no. February 2024, pp. 727-751

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