Research Methods and Skills

Jeroen van Wijk, PhD, Associate Professor

Jeroen van Wijk (PhD International Relations) is Associate Professor Global Value Chain and Partnerships at Maastricht School of Management (MSM), and Associate Consultant with the social enterprise Fair & Sustainable Consulting in Utrecht. He has been lecturing International Business, Global Value Chain Analysis, and Research Methods at MSM in Maastricht and at MSM’s outreach partners in various locations in the world. Jeroen’s research interest is on how emerging economies industrialize and insert themselves into global value chains. His present focus is on the question to what extent Chinese investments and the Chinese Belt and Road Initiative help East African economies in their industrialization efforts. Jeroen studied sociology and international relations at Leiden University and the University of Amsterdam, and received his PhD (1999) with a dissertation on the impact of intellectual property protection in food crops.

Caren Crowley, PhD, Assistant Professor in Research Methods and Skills

Caren Crowley is an Assistant Professor at Maastricht School of Management, where she teaches graduate research methods courses. Her research interests focus on digital, women's and artisan entrepreneurship. Her research has been published in top international journals, most recently, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, the Journal of Rural Studies and Small Business Economics (forthcoming). Caren has significant international research and teaching experience, working in China, Belgium, Saudi Arabia and the Netherlands. In 2008/2009 she received a Fulbright-CRH Scholarship to attend the University of Kentucky as a visiting scholar. Dr. Crowley holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics from University College Cork, Cork, Ireland (2003), a Master of Business Studies in Corporate Strategy and People Management from the National University of Ireland, Galway (2004) and a PhD in Management and Innovation Studies from the Whitaker Institute for Innovation and Societal Change, National University of Ireland, Galway (2011).

Terry Kakeeto-Aelen, PhD, Assistant Professor

Terry Kakeeto is Assistant Professor in Marketing at Maastricht School of Management. She first joined the School as a Junior Research Fellow in February 2012. Dr. Kakeeto holds a PhD from Tilburg University, The Netherlands, an MBA from the University of Pune, India and a Bachelor of Commerce degree from Makerere University in Uganda. She is a Chartered Marketer and member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM), UK. In her earlier career, Dr. Kakeeto worked as a lecturer at Makerere University Business School, Uganda where she taught marketing, entrepreneurship and subjects related to general business management. She also did a great deal of consultancy work in the area of marketing. Moreover, she was actively involved in training SME owner-managers and employees in Uganda and has carried out extension services in the areas of marketing and general business management. Her main research interests lie in the fields of relationship marketing and branding with a special focus on emerging and developing economies.

Adriana Seclaman, PhD, Lecturer

Adriana Seclaman is a Lecturer at the Maastricht School of Management. Dr. Seclaman holds a PhD in Management from Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu (Romania) and two Master degrees one focused in Science, Technology and Society from Maastricht University and one from Bucharest University of Economics in Business Administration, Management and Operations.

She is an alumna of SDA Bocconi School of Management. In her earlier career, Dr. Seclaman worked as a researcher and lecturer at the Romanian American University, her main research interests lying in the fields of Sustainable Development, Strategic Management, Digital Business Strategy and Digital Transformation.