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I am born in the Hague at 22 April 1969. Currently I live in Amsterdam with my wife Halleh Ghorashi.
I work as Associate Professor in the Department of Organization Sciences of the Faculty of Social Sciences of the VU University Amsterdam. I am management committee member of the COST Action project: Living in Surveillance Societies (LiSS) financed by the EU. Next, I am the project leader of the Amsterdam Research on Emergency Administration (AREA).
My research is about: 1) the organization of safety, security and surveillance, 2) the organization of knowledge-intensive institutes like research laboratory and higher education institutes.
During the last 10 years I have been teaching in the courses Organizational Behavior, Organizational Politics, Organization Theory and Technology and Modern Culture. I supervised over 75 Master-students and I am/was involved as a co-promotor in 7 promotions.
At this website I show what I am doing and in what projects I am involved in. Please contact me if you have any questions: f.k.boersma@vu.nl
From February – August 2012 I am appointed visiting scholar at the University of Illinois in the Department of Communication and the Institute for Computing in Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (I-CHASS) where I work with professor Scott Poole and professor John Lammers. I am also researcher at the Illinois Fire Safety Institute (IFSI) during this period.
Office in Amsterdam:
VU University Amsterdam
Faculty of Social Sciences
Department of Organization Sceinces
De Boelelaan 1081c
1081 HV Amsterdam
Room: N 322 (Metropolitan-building)
Phone: +31 (0)20 598 6769
e-mail: f.k.boersma@vu.nl




This is my awarded book. It describes the early, organizational history of the Philips Research Department. The story indicates that it was not enough for Philips to simply have a tradition of innovation - the company needed to create a culture and structure that permitted the coordination between people and resources that was necessary for developing innovations in an industrial context.
I can send you a copy of the book.