Magnus van Haaren
Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam
Department of Technology and Operations Management
Education
PhD in Management
2022–presentRotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam
MSc in Management of Innovation, cum laude
2021Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam
BSc in Liberal Arts and Sciences
2020Erasmus University College, Erasmus University Rotterdam
Focus: Business and Managing Digital Innovation
Research interests
Organizational design; decentralized and algorithmic organizing; authority and collective search; participation in collective decision-making.
Methods: longitudinal and panel analysis, event-history analysis, and agent-based simulation.
Selected working papers
van Haaren, M., Klapper, H., & Stam, D. What the Vote Leaves Behind: Preference-Outcome Histories and Later Direct Ballots. Work in progress.
van Haaren, M., & Stam, D. A. Time-Symmetric Authority: Anticipated Evaluation, Power, and Collective Search. Working paper.
van Haaren, M., & Tarakci, M. Algorithmic Allies: Decentralized Autonomous Agents in the Era of Grand Challenges. Working paper.
Published conference contributions
van Haaren, M., & Klapper, H. (2025). Decentralized Autonomous Organizations: Can Decision Structures Enhance Participation? Proceedings of the 58th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. Conference paper.
https://doi.org/10.24251/HICSS.2025.556van Haaren, M. (2024). Reducing the Impact of Misalignment: Decentralized Decision-Making Structures. Academy of Management Proceedings, 2024(1). Conference abstract.
https://doi.org/10.5465/AMPROC.2024.18879abstractPresentations and workshops
Shadow Succession under Surveillance
2026Paper development workshop, School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University, Beijing
Chile Strategy Conference
2025Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago
Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
2025Decentralized Autonomous Organizations: Can Decision Structures Enhance Participation? With Helge Klapper.
Strategic Management Society Annual Conference
2024Aligning Preferences with Organizational Outcomes. Istanbul.
Academy of Management Annual Meeting
2024Reducing the Impact of Misalignment: Decentralized Decision-Making Structures. Chicago.
Reshaping Work
2022Web3 Ecosystem Governance: A Novel Form of Organizing. Amsterdam.
Organized symposia
Academy of Management, Chicago
2024Co-organizer, Humans and Algorithms in Organizations: Navigating the Intersection of Blockchain and AI.
Panelists: Oliver Baumann, Robert Wayne Gregory, Hanna Halaburda, Vivianna Fang He, and Alex Murray.
Academy of Management, Boston
2023Co-organizer, Web3 Decentralization: Blockchain Technologies’ Impact on Modern Organizational Governance.
Panelists: Ethan Bernstein, Hanna Halaburda, Ying-Ying Hsieh, Alex Murray, Joana Pereira, and Jean-Philippe Vergne.
Teaching and supervision
Lecturer, Rotterdam School of Management
2022–2025Managing Innovation in the Web3 Era (BMME187), MSc programmes in Management of Innovation and Business Information Management. Current course title: Managing Innovation in the Agentic Web Economy.
Course design, syllabus development, teaching, and assessment.
Master’s thesis supervision, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam.
Honours and awards
Behavioral Strategy IG Best PhD Proposal Award
2024Strategic Management Society
Innovative Teaching Award nominee
2023Rotterdam School of Management
Van Nunen Thesis Award finalist
2021Management of Innovation
T500 recognition
2020The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award
2017Professional and community experience
Expo 2020 Netherlands
2020–2022Ambassador, Dubai
Accenture Strategy, Amsterdam Innovation Centre
2019–2020Consulting, Amsterdam
Erasmus Tech Community
2018–2019Board member and Director of Innovation, Rotterdam
Gravity Ideas Behavioural Consultancy
2018Product management, Cape Town
Round Square
2015–2017International Ambassador, Bogotá
Red Cross Colombia
2016Volunteer, housing-construction projects, Bogotá
TEDx
2016Speaker, How Everyone Can Innovate, Bogotá
Round Square IDEALS evaluation
2016Focus group leader, Bogotá
Service and professional memberships
Reviewer: Academy of Management; Strategic Management Society; Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences.
Member: Academy of Management; Strategic Management Society; Organizational Design Community.
Languages and programming
Languages: English, Spanish, and Dutch.
Programming: Python, Stata, R, and SQL.