Biography
Khadija van der Straaten is Associate Professor researching International Business and Sustainability at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University. Her main research topics include gender and inequality in multinational enterprises and their global value chains. Her research has been published in the peer-reviewed scientific journals Journal of International Business Studies and Critical Perspectives on International Business. Her research has been featured on the World Economic Forum Agenda and in Forbes, as well as in the Dutch media (including NRC and BNR). In her empirical research, she uses both quantitative and configurational analysis.
Khadija is editorial review board member of the Journal of International Business Policy. Since 2021, she has been visiting research fellow of the John H. Dunning Centre for International Business at Henley Business School, UK.
Khadija received her PhD from the University of Amsterdam Business School in 2022. Her dissertation won both the Gunnar Heldlund award 2021-23 for best dissertation in the field of International Business (awarded at the European International Business Academy) and the best dissertation award 2021-22 of the University of Amsterdam Business School.
Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University
- vanderstraaten@rsm.nl
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Work
- Luc Fransen, Khadija van der Straaten, Ans Kolk, Victor Hartman & Kea Tijdens (2025) - - British Journal of Industrial Relations - doi:
- Khadija van der Straaten (2025) - - Journal of International Business Policy, 8 (4), 479 - doi:
- Khadija van der Straaten, Niccolò Pisani & Ans Kolk (2024) - - Journal of International Business Studies, 55 (6), 805-815 - doi: -
- Khadija van der Straaten, Rajneesh Narula & Elisa Giuliani (2023) - - Journal of International Business Studies, 54 (9), 1623-1640 - doi:
- Rajneesh Narula & Khadija van der Straaten (2021) - - Critical Perspectives on International Business, 17 (1), 32-51 - doi: -
- Khadija van der Straaten, Niccolò Pisani & Ans Kolk (2020) - - Journal of International Business Studies, 51 (9), 1355-1390 - doi: -
- Khadija van der Straaten (2020) - -
- Khadija van der Straaten (11 November 2022) - De masculiene man verdient het meest
- Khadija van der Straaten (11 November 2022) - ‘Mothers are judged on characteristics that give fathers a bonus’
- PR (Khadija) van der Straaten - (31 March 2020) - Why do multinationals pay women less in developing countries?
- Khadija van der Straaten (2023) - Gunnar Hedlund Award
MVO Nederland
- Start date approval
- January 2026
- End date approval
- January 2027
- Place
- UTRECHT
- Description
- Supervisory Board member
Henley Business School, University of Reading
- Start date approval
- January 2026
- End date approval
- January 2028
- Place
- READING
- Description
- Associate research member
- Year Level
- master, IM/CEMS, Exchange, ERIM
- Year
- 2025
- Course Code
- BM02GBS
- Year
- 2025
- Course Code
- BPE1102
- Year
- 2025
- Course Code
- BPN1102
