Theo de Bruijn, Senior Researcher

Name: Dr. Theo de Bruijn

E-mail: theo.debruijn@utwente.nl

Telephone: +31 53 489 4234

Fax: +31 53 489 4850

Room: Ravelijn 5133

Theo de Bruijn (1964) holds a Master’s degree in Technology and Society from Technical University Eindhoven and a Ph.D. in public administration from the University of Twente. He joined CSTM in 1989 and specialized in the governance of industrial transformation. He publishes and teaches on the dynamics of the interaction between public authorities and industry in environmental affairs. His research activities are commissioned by the Dutch National Science Foundation (NWO), the European Commission, Dutch ministries, provincial governments, municipalities and private companies. In addition to his research activities, he teaches Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainable Development in undergraduate and postgraduate courses.

Theo is Chair of the Coordinating Committee of the Greening of Industry Network, a global network for the transition towards sustainable industry (http://www.greeningofindustry.org).

He was a Visiting Scholar (summer 2001) at J.F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.

Next to CSTM, Theo de Bruijn is a Professor of Sustainable Development at Saxion University for Applied Sciences, also in the Netherlands (www.saxion.nl/leefomgeving).

Some other memberships and sidelines

Expertise

Dr. De Bruijn has worked with many companies on strengthening their CSR practices. He has published extensively on sustainable development, corporate social responsibility, and shared responsibility. He received an 'Outstanding Paper Award' at the Literati Network Awards for Excellence 2009 for the paper "Partnerships for corporate social responsibility; a review of concepts and strategic options" published in Management Decision, Vol. 46 No. 1, 2008:152-167 (co-authors: André Nijhof and Hakan Honders). Another noteworthy publication is the book he co-edited for The MIT Press: Industrial Transformation; Voluntary, collaborative and information-based approaches in environmental policies in the US and Europe, The MIT Press, 2005 (with Vicki Norberg-Bohm). He also contributed to The A to Z of Corporate Social Responsibility, Wiley, 2007 (edited by Wayne Visser, Dirk Matten, Manfred Pohl and Nick Tolhurst) and to The challenge of organizing and implementing corporate social responsibility, Palgrave McMillan, 2006 (edited by Jan Jonker and Marco de Witte).

Selected Publications

De Bruijn, T.J.N.M. & Lulofs, K.R.D. (1996). Bevordering van milieumanagement in organisaties; een kwantitatief onderzoek naar beleidsvoering met doelbewust gebruik van beleidsnetwerken. Enschede: Twente University Press.

De Bruijn, T.J.N.M., Groenewegen, P. & Grolin, J. (1997). Global restructuring – A place for ecology? Business Strategy and the Environment, 6(4), pp. 173-184.

Brand, E.M.L. & De Bruijn, T.J.N.M. (1999). Shared Responsibility at the Regional Level; The Building of Sustainable Industrial Estates. European Environment, 9(6), pp. 221-231.

Bruijn, T.J.N.M. de & Hofman, P.S. (1999). De stimulering van afvalpreventie: Een weg naar duurzame ontwikkeling? Milieu, 5, pp. 247-259.

Bruijn, T.J.N.M. de & Hofman, P.S. (2000). Pollution Prevention and Industrial Transformation; Evoking Structural Changes within Companies. Journal of Cleaner Production, 8(3), pp. 215-223.

Bruijn, T.J.N.M. de & Lulofs, K.R.D. (2000). Driving SMEs towards environmental management; Policy implementation in networks. In: R. Hillary (ed.), Small and Medium-sized Enterprises and the Environment; Business Imperatives, pp. 263-274, Sheffield: Greenleaf Publishing.

Bruijn, T.J.N.M. de & Hofman, P.S. (forthcoming). Pollution Prevention in SMEs; Evoking Structural Changes through partnerships. Greener Management International.

Bruijn, T.J.N.M. de (2001). Environmental management in a printing company; Transformation patterns in the Dutch industry. In: K. Green, P. Hofman & P. Groenewegen (eds), Ahead of the Curve: Cases of Innovation in Environmental Management, pp. 41-62, Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.

Bruijn, T. de & Tukker, A. (Eds.). (2002). Partnership and Leadership; Building alliances for a sustainable future, Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.

Bruijn, T.J.N.M. de (2003). Samenwerken in beleidsnetwerken. In: A. Hoogerwerf & M. Herweijer (eds), Overheidsbeleid: Een inleiding in de beleidswetenschap, 7^e ed., pp. 329-350, Dordrecht: Kluwer.

Bruijn, T. de (2003). The Impact of Policy Style on Policy Choice Across Scales: The E.U. Experience. In: H. Bressers & W. A. Rosenbaum (eds), Achieving Sustainable Development: The Challenge of Governance Across Social Scales. New York-Westpoint-London: Praeger Publishers.

Bressers, H., Bruijn, T. de & Lulofs, K. (2004). De evaluatie van de Nederlandse milieuconvenanten. Beleidswetenschap, 18(3), pp. 242-268.

Arentsen, M. & Bruijn, T. de (2005). National Room for Manoeuvre; the Dutch Position in EU Energy Policies. In: F. Wijen, K. Zoeteman & J. Pieters (eds), A Handbook of Globalisation and Environmental Policy: National Government Interventions in a Global Arena, pp. 417-434, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.

De Bruijn, T., & Norberg-Bohm, V. (2005). Innovations in the Environmental Policy System: Voluntary, Collaborative and Information-based Policies in the United States and the Netherlands. In: K. M. Weber & J. Hemmelskamp (eds), Towards Environmental Innovation Systems, pp. 269-281, Heidelberg: Springer.

Bressers, H. & Bruijn, T. de (2005). Environmental Voluntary agreements in the Dutch context. In: E. Croci (ed.), The Handbook of Environmental Voluntary Agreements; Design, implementation and evaluation issues, pp. 261-283, Berlin: Springer.

Bruijn, T. de & Norberg-Bohm, V. (2005). Industrial Transformation: Voluntary, collaborative and information-based approaches in environmental policies in the US and Europe. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Bressers, H. & De Bruijn, T. (2005). Conditions for the success of negotiated agreements: partnerships for environmental improvement in the Netherlands. Business Strategy and the Environment, 14(4), pp. 241-254.

Fisscher, O., Bruijn, T. de, Nijhof, A., Jonker, J., Schoemaker, M., & Karssing, E. (2005). MVO als collectieve competentie, eindrapportage, Enschede: Universiteit Twente.

Nijhof, A., Bruijn, T. de, Fisscher, O., Jonker, J., Karssing, E., & Schoemaker, M. (2006). Learning to be responsible: developing competences for organization-wide CSR. In: J. Jonker & M. De Witte (eds), The challenge of organizing and implementing corporate social responsibility, pp. 148-172, Hampshire: Palgrave McMillan.

Bressers, H., & Bruijn, T. de (2005). Conditions for the success of negotiated agreements: partnerships for environmental improvement in the Netherlands. Business Strategy and the Environment, 14(4), pp. 241-254.

Dinica, V., Bressers, H., & de Bruijn, T. (2007). The implementation of a multi-annual agreement for energy efficiency in the Netherlands. Energy Policy, 35(2), pp. 461-480: 1196-1212

Bressers, Hans, Theo de Bruijn & Valentina Dinica (2007). Integration and communication as central issues in Dutch negotiated agreements on industrial energy efficiency, European Environment, Volume 17, Issue 4, July/August 2007, pp. 215-230.

Bruijn, Theo de [several entries] (2007). In: Wayne Visser, Dirk Matten, Manfred Pohl and Nick Tolhurst, The A to Z of Corporate Social Responsibility, Wiley, 2007.

Bressers, Hans, Theo de Bruijn and Shi Hongwei (2008). Environmental Negotiated Agreements in the Dutch Context and its Inspirations for Chinese Environmental Management, Journal of US-China Public Administration, ISSN 1548-6591 Vol.5 No.3:1-11

Nijhof, André, Theo de Bruijn and Hakan Honders (2008). Partnerships for Corporate Social Responsibility; A review of concepts and strategic options. In: Management Decision, ISSN 0025-1747, 46 (1), pp. 152-167.

Bressers, Hans, Theo de Bruijn and Kris Lulofs (2009). Environmental Negotiated Agreements in the Netherlands, Environmental Politics, ISSN 0964-4016, 18 (1), p. 58-77.

Hofman, Peter S. and Theo de Bruijn (2010). The Emergence of Sustainable Innovations: Key Factors and Regional Support Structures. In: Joseph Sarkis, James Cordeiro, Diego Vazquez Brust (eds), Facilitating Sustainable Innovation Through Collaboration; a multistakeholder perspective, Springer, pp. 115-134.