A true inspiration to all learners.
Encourages independent and critical thought.
Always positive and motivating in class.
Dr Martijn van der Kamp is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Leadership and Executive Education at Monash Business School, Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University. He serves as Program Director for the online Master of Enterprise, teaches Leadership for Sustainable Development in the MBA program, heads the MBA integrated team program, and engages in executive education. His career history encompasses research positions at the UNSW Business School and Melbourne Business School, a visiting scholarship at Harvard Business School, and a role as strategic sourcing and partnership consultant at Kirkman Company. He has worked internationally with business, government, education, and research teams to design and implement teamwork and partnership strategies. Additionally, Dr van der Kamp holds the position of Team Science Fellow at the Australia-Indonesia Centre. His academic background includes a BA from the Rotterdam School of Management, an MBA from Erasmus University Rotterdam, and a PhD from the University of Melbourne.
Dr van der Kamp's research specializations centre on strategy, organisational design, and organisational behaviour, with a focus on teamwork in strategic alliances. He examines how diversity and team composition affect team effectiveness and outcomes, particularly in networks of teams across organisations. His research crosses levels of analysis and uses methods such as field studies, cases, and experiments. Key publications include 'On alliance teams: Conceptualization, review, and future research agenda' (van der Kamp, M., Tjemkes, B., Duplat, V., & Jehn, K., Human Relations, 2023), 'Navigating leadership teams' (Van der Kamp, M., Routledge, 2021), 'Make or break alliances: A process model of faultline contagion and alliance instability' (Van der Kamp, M., & Tjemkes, B. V., Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings, 2016), 'Faultline deactivation: Dealing with activated faultlines and conflicts in global teams' (Van der Kamp, M., Tjemkes, B. V., & Jehn, K. A., 2015), and 'The rise and fall of subgroups and conflict in teams: Faultline activation and deactivation' (2012). His work has received awards including the Academy of Management Best Paper Award: Conflict in Context (2016), APA Division 49 Richard Moreland Dissertation of the Year Award (2016), and runner-up Best Theoretical Conference Paper (2012). Dr van der Kamp's contributions appear in media and at international conferences.
