Biography
Steven Sweldens obtained his PhD in Marketing at Erasmus University in 2009, after which he became a marketing professor at INSEAD. There he taught courses in marketing strategy (MBA), social psychological foundations of management (PhD), experimental design (PhD) and marketing in the financial sector (executive education). His teaching skills were lauded every year with the INSEAD 鈥淒ean鈥檚 Commendation for Excellence in MBA Teaching.鈥 At INSEAD, he published a case study on the Renova Paper Company, which became an instant best-seller, won the highest award at the Case Awards in 2012 and is now recognized as one of the 鈥10 classic cases in Marketing鈥 according to the Case Center. In 2014, Steven returned to RSM Erasmus University where he teaches the marketing core course in RSM鈥檚 MBA and EMBA programs. The course offers a dynamic mix of theory, case discussions and simulation experience and is one of the most highly evaluated courses at RSM. It was therefore lauded with the RSM Dean鈥檚 鈥淚nnovative Teaching Award鈥 in 2018. Most recently, Steven published a case study on TomTom, the navigation technology company, which again was lauded with multiple awards among which the Outstanding Case Writer award in 2020 and the Marketing Case award of 2021.
Steven鈥檚 academic research interests center on the psychological laws underlying advertising and the creation of brand attitudes. The importance of his research was recognized with several awards, winning for example the EMAC McKinsey Award for the best European Marketing Dissertation, was runner-up for the American Marketing Association John A. Howard Award for the worldwide best marketing dissertation, and won several Dutch national awards. His work was published in the top scientific journals in marketing (Journal of Consumer Research, Journal of Marketing Research), psychology (Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Personality and Social Psychology Review) and organizational behavior (Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes).
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Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University
- sweldens@rsm.nl
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Work
- Marina Lenkovskaya & Steven Sweldens (2025) - - Journal of Consumer Research, 51 (6), 1120-1143 - doi: -
- Mandy H眉tter & Steven Sweldens (2025) - - Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 128 (1), 38-60 - doi: -
- Steven Sweldens, Tao Yue, Johannes Boegershausen, Filippa Laurelii & Arnaud Monnier (2024) - -
- Christilene du Plessis, Serena D'Hooge & Steven Sweldens (2024) - - Journal of Consumer Research, 51 (1), 29-41 - doi: -
- Miguel C. Brendl & Steven Sweldens (2024) - - Consumer Psychology Review, 7 (1), 116-120 - doi: -
- Jia Gai, Mirjam Tuk & Steven Sweldens (2022) - - Journal of the Association for Consumer Research, 7 (4), 492-500 - doi: -
- M H眉tter & Steven Sweldens (2018) - - Journal of Consumer Research, 45 (2), 320-349 - doi: -
- Steven Sweldens (2018) - -
- Steven Sweldens, Mirjam Tuk & M H眉tter (2017) - - Journal of Consumer Research, 44 (2), 266-275 - doi: -
- Jeehye Christine Kim, Steven Sweldens & Mandy H眉tter (2016) - - Social Psychological and Personality Science, 7 (1), 61-68 - doi: -
- Steven Sweldens (14 November 2022) - Paying for Facebook, Twitter or TikTok? 鈥楾hat鈥檚 actually the upside-down world鈥 | Tech
- Steven Sweldens & Stefano Puntoni (24 February 2020) - GIBS Lecturer wins Outstanding Contribution to the Case Method at the European Case Centre鈥檚 30th Awards
- Steven Sweldens (2014) - Journal of Consumer Research (Journal) (Editor)
Activity: Publication Peer-review 鈥 Academic
ISS Institute for Service Leadership
- Start date approval
- September 2024
- End date approval
- September 2027
- Place
- UTRECHT
- Description
- Lezing in Lezingenreeks "Psychologie van de Klant"
RSM BV
- Start date approval
- September 2025
- End date approval
- September 2028
- Place
- ROTTERDAM
- Description
- teach core course in Marketing in MBA program
- Year Level
- master, IM/CEMS, Exchange, ERIM
- Year
- 2025
- Course Code
- BM04MM
- Year
- 2025
- Course Code
- EMBA26-M1-MM
- Year
- 2025
- Course Code
- EMBA27-M1-MM
- Year
- 2025
- Course Code
- MBA26-M2-MM
- Year
- 2025
- Course Code
- MBA26-M2-MSP
- Year
- 2025
- Course Code
- MBA27-M2-MM
- Year
- 2025
- Course Code
- MBA27-M2-MSP
