From 3-7 November is the 10th EMES International Research Conference on Social Enterprise. This years’ theme is Scaling Through Communities: The Role of Social Entrepreneurs and Social Enterprises in Boosting Societal Transitions. As co-organizers, our research group is looking forward to welcoming you in Rotterdam and Utrecht. If you haven’t registered yet, don’t wait too long. Registration is open until October 6.
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SEICA Knowledge Broker to strengthen data collection of citizen collectives
Research group Social Enterprises & Institutions for Collective Action welcomes Janna Vink as knowledge broker. She will identify relevant information for the movement of citizen collectives and to develop data structures that support organizations in data collection and management. This is made possible by an additional grant from the NWO Impact Explorer for the UNICA project.
Continue readingSEICA paper presentations during WEHC 2025
Team members and affiliated researchers of the SEICA research group visited the World Economic History Congress 2025 (Lund, Sweden). The theme for the congress was “Equality and Sustainability Challenges.” This theme underscores some of the pressing issues humanity faces today and draws connections to a diverse array of historical problems. To both understand and address these challenges and to derive insights from the historical record, a range of perspectives is essential.
Professor Florian Grisel, professor Tine De Moor, professor José-Miguel Lana Berasain, and Dr. Marianne Groep-Foncke presented their work as part of the session ‘Common Concerns. Environmental Literacy Among Commoners in Early Modern Europe’ on July 30, 2025.
Research on historical insights on institutional spread awarded during AOM Annual Meeting
During the Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, professor Tine De Moor moderated the paper session Institutions, Legitimacy and Change on Sunday 27 July. During this sessions, she presented the paper ‘Contagious Institutions? A Longitudinal Study of Institutional Spill-Over of European Guilds‘, co-authored with Fijnanda van Klingeren. Their paper delves into the spread of guilds across Europe over 600 years, offering fresh insights into the spatial and temporal factors influencing their proliferation.
For this paper, De Moor and Van Klingeren have been honoured with the Journal of Management History Award for Best International Paper. The award announcement was during the Management History Business Meeting, which took place on Monday, July 28.
Continue readingSEICA poster and paper presentations during AOM Annual Meeting 2025
During the 85th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management in Copenhagen, Denmark, team members of the research group Social Enterprises & institutions for Collective action presented the work of Tine De Moor, Shreya Paudel, Arthur Feinberg and Fijnanda van Klingeren.
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NWO Veni grant for SEICA affiliate researcher Enrique Santamaría Echeverría
Enrique Santamaría Echeverría, Assistant Professor of Innovation of Public Law at Erasmus School of Law, has received a prestigious Veni grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO). Over the next three years, he will explore the legal framework for the collective governance of health data in his project “Collective Governance of Health Data: Towards More Democratic and Inclusive Models.”
Continue reading€6.8 million for research on the collective power of citizens in societal transitions
A broad consortium of scientific and societal organizations, including the national government, umbrella organizations, universities, municipalities, and funding bodies, will collaborate over the coming years on the research project Empowering Citizen COllectives in societal transitions (ECCO). For this project, €6.8 million has been awarded by the Dutch Research Agenda (NWA).
Tine De Moor gave lecture on managing commons in Western Europe
On 10 April, professor Tine De Moor (RSM, Erasmus University) gave a lecture at the Northwest Agriculture and Forestry University, College of Economics and Management in Xianyang, China. The lecture was titled “Why History Matters for Today’s Community-Based Solutions: managing commons in Western Europe from past till present.”
Two additional team members to strengthen CollectieveKracht’s activities
The research group Social Enterprises & Institutions for Collective Action welcomes Brechtje Polman and Mickey Steijaert as part of the team. Both of them will work as community builders on the CollectieveKracht platform, developing its scope by connecting with citizen collectives and relevant stakeholder groups, such as scientists, civil servants and financiers. They look forward to bringing their enthusiasm for collective action to CollectieveKracht and to help bridging the gap between citizen collectives and science.
Welcome! See the profile pages of Mickey and Brechtje for more information.
Symposium on lessons from the Global South as inspiration for commons in Europe
On March 27, the symposium ‘Aspiring Commons – (Re)discoveries and Learning Opportunities from the Global South’ took place. This event brought together academics and practitioners to explore the lessons we can learn from commons initiatives in the Global South.
