Michael Dooms

Prof. dr. Michaël Dooms (MSc & PhD, Applied Economics: Business and Technology, Solvay Business School, University of Brussels) is full-time tenured associate professor at the Solvay Business School at the University of Brussels (VUB). He teaches Strategic Management and is responsible for the internship program, the annual foreign trade missions and international entrepreneurship projects. For the trade mission project, since 2007, he has supervised more than 300 practical company-funded projects, aimed at foreign market expansion in various emerging economies such as India, Brazil, China, Indonesia, Kenya, Colombia.

His research interests are in the fields of complex project evaluation, stakeholder management, sustainability, CSR, competitiveness and strategy. He is a member of PortEconomics.eu, the Port Performance Research Network (PPRN) and serves as a council member and immediate past vice-president of the International Association of Maritime Economists (IAME).

He is a guest professor of port management and strategy at universities in the Netherlands (MEL-Erasmus University Rotterdam) and Greece (AUEB). He is the former coordinator of the PORTOPIA project, a large collaborative research project on port performance measurement. Further, he has worked as a project manager and researcher on complex (infrastructure) projects needing a multi-disciplinary and multi-stakeholder approach, as well as regional and cluster competitiveness studies, exceeding a total value of more than 12 million euros. In the field of strategy and complex organisational change, he was a core member of the strategy office (PMO) for the Belgian rail infrastructure manager Infrabel (2006-2010), leading the full program of the client/product strategy development, as well as the Balanced Scorecard and the optimisation of maintenance windows on the track. Since October 2021, he serves as an independent board member at Flanders Investment and Trade (FIT).

TEACHING

Business and Corporate Strategy

Trade Mission (Master Thesis)

Trade Mission (Practical course)

Internship

International Business Project

RESEARCH

Stakeholder Management

Strategic Management

CSR and Sustainability

Large-Scale Infrastructure Projects

Ports

KEY PUBLICATIONS

Geerts, M., Dooms, M., & Stas, L. (2021). Determinants of Sustainability Reporting in the Present Institutional Context: The Case of Port Managing Bodies. Sustainability, 13(6), [3148]. https://doi.org/10.3390/su13063148

Dooms, M., Van Der Lugt, L., Parola, F., Satta, G., & Song, D-W. (2019). The internationalization of port managing bodies in concept and practice. Maritime Policy & Management, 46(5), 585-612. https://doi.org/10.1080/03088839.2019.1584340

Dooms, M. (2019). Stakeholder management for Port Sustainability. Green Ports, 63–84. https://doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-12-814054-3.00004-9

De Schepper, S., Dooms, M., & Haezendonck, E. (2014). Stakeholder dynamics and responsibilities in Public–Private Partnerships: A mixed experience. International Journal of Project Management, 32(7), 1210-1222. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijproman.2014.01.006

Dooms, M., Verbeke, A., & Haezendonck, E. (2013). Stakeholder management and path dependence in large-scale transport infrastructure development: the port of Antwerp case (1960–2010). Journal of Transport Geography, 27, 14-25. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2012.06.002

Dooms, M., Van Der Lugt, L., & De Langen, P. (2013). International strategies of port authorities: the case of the Port of Rotterdam Authority. Research in Transportation Business & Management, (8), 148-157. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rtbm.2013.06.004