Marleen

DIELEMAN, Marleen

Associate Professor (Educator Track)

STRATEGY & POLICY

(65) 6516-3005
marleen@nus.edu.sg
BIZ1 6-51

Bio

Marleen Dieleman is an expert on strategy and governance in Asian family business groups. She published widely on this and her work is regularly quoted in international media. She won various teaching awards and is a regular speaker. She also worked with various Asian family firms as a consultant and board member.

Marleen's research focuses on corporate strategy, in particular of Asian family business groups. She has published various academic articles, books and cases on this topic. She is interested in how family business groups are governed, how they operate in emerging market environments characterised by weak institutions, and how they diversify, innovate, professionalize and internationalize over time. 

Her work on Asian family businesses has been widely recognized and mentioned in global media, including the Financial Times, Bloomberg and local media in Asia. She also leads the Asian Family Business program at NUS Business School.

Marleen has a special interest in Indonesian business and often travels there and publishes academic articles on strategy in Indonesian companies. She also leads the School's joint program with Astra International, one of Indonesia's largest diversified groups. Aside from this she has led workshops for many other Indonesian firms, including Indofood, Kalbe Farma, SMART, and Modern Group. She also works with Asian families from other countries.

Marleen won the "outstanding educator award" from NUS Business School as well as the "annual teaching excellence award" from the National University of Singapore for the past 3 years. She teaches corporate strategy and family business across all levels, including BBA, MBA and executive programs. In particular, she enjoys working with family firm boards on issues around strategy and governance.

Marleen has worked as a consultant for various Asian business families on improving the governance of the family and the business. She was an independent director of Mercator Lines (Singapore) Ltd from 2014-2016.

She has also published several reports on gender diversity in listed company boards in Asia. She has given numerous talks and media interviews on this topic and, as such, she contributed to greater awareness among corporates and the government of the low levels of gender diversity in Asian boards, in particular in Singapore. 

Marleen is married to Thorvald Kleve, and has two daughters: Maya and Vera.

Recognition & Awards

  • NUS Business School Outstanding Educator Award - 2015
  • NUS Annual Teaching Excellence Award - 2015
  • NUS Business School Outstanding Educator Award - 2014
  • NUS Annual Teaching Excellence Award - 2014
  • NUS Business School Outstanding Educator Award - 2013
  • BoardAgender Champion - 2012

Educational Qualifications

  • PhD, Leiden University, Netherlands, 2007
  • Master of Business Science, Rotterdam School of Management, Netherlands, 1997

Academic Experience

  • Associate Professor , National University of Singapore, 2013 - current
  • Associate Director, CGIO, National University of Singapore, 2010 - current
  • Senior Researcher, National University of Singapore, 2010 - 2013
  • Visiting Fellow, National University of Singapore, 2007 - 2010
  • Assistant Professor & Assistant Dean (LUSM), Leiden University, 2000 - 2007

Corporate Experience

  • Independent Director, Mercator Lines (Singapore) Ltd, 2014 - 2016
  • Consultant, Various Asian family firms

Selected Publications

How powerful political ties appropriate resources and how weaker organizations protect themselves: A case study from Indonesia

Journal Articles
Dieleman, Marleen with and Widjaja, H.
Asia Pacific Journal of Management

Year
2018

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The internationalization paradox: Untangling dependence in multinational state hybrids

Journal Articles
Dieleman, Marleen with and Rodrigues, S. B.
Journal of World Business, 53(1), 39-51

Year
2018

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bKash: Financial Technology Innovation for Emerging Markets

Others
Dieleman, Marleen with Mahmood, I. P., and Banu, N. T.
Ivey Case Publishing 9B17M097

Year
2017

Multistrada Agro International: Non-Market Strategy in Indonesia

Others
Dieleman, Marleen
Ivey Case publishing 9B17M007

Year
2017

A Place in the Family: Corporate Governance Practices in Family Firms

Others
Dieleman, Marleen
SAGE Publications: SAGE Business Cases Originals

Year
2017

Selected Publications

9

Journals

10

Books

11

Conference

15

Others

Journal Articles

How powerful political ties appropriate resources and how weaker organizations protect themselves: A case study from Indonesia

Journal Articles
Dieleman, Marleen with and Widjaja, H.
Asia Pacific Journal of Management

Year
2018

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The internationalization paradox: Untangling dependence in multinational state hybrids

Journal Articles
Dieleman, Marleen with and Rodrigues, S. B.
Journal of World Business, 53(1), 39-51

Year
2018

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How are institutional capabilities transferred across borders?

Journal Articles
Dieleman, Marleen with Carney, M., and Taussig, M.
Journal of World Business, 51(6), 882-894

Year
2016

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Liem Sioe Liong's Salim Group. The Business Pillar of Suharto's Indonesia

Journal Articles
Dieleman, Marleen
Bijadragen Tot de Taal- Land- En Volkenkunde, 171(1), 116-117

Year
2015

Using organization structure to buffer political ties in emerging markets: A case study

Journal Articles
Dieleman, Marleen with and Jean Boddewyn
Organization Studies , 33(1), 71-95

Year
2012

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New town development in Indonesia: Renegotiating, shaping and replacing institutions

Journal Articles
Dieleman, Marleen
Bijadragen Tot de Taal- Land- En Volkenkunde, 167(1), 60-85

Year
2011

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Indonesia's missing multinationals: Business groups and outward direct investment

Journal Articles
Dieleman, Marleen with and Michael Carney
Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies, 47(1), 105-127

Year
2011

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Shock-imprinting: External shocks and ethnic Chinese business groups in Indonesia

Journal Articles
Dieleman, Marleen
Asia Pacific Journal of Management, 502, 481

Year
2010

Coevolution of institutions and corporations in emerging economies: How the Salim Group morphed into an institution of Suharto's crony regime

Journal Articles
Dieleman, Marleen with and W.M. Sachs
Journal of Management Studies, 45(7), 1274-1300

Year
2008

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Books/Monographs

Internationalization as co-evolution of market and non-market strategies: The case of vale

Books/Monographs
Dieleman, Marleen with and Rodrigues, S. B.
269-294, In Progress in International Business Research

Year
2016

How do policy entrepreneurs shape new markets?

Books/Monographs
Dieleman, Marleen
120, In J.A.C. Vel, & D. Simandjuntak (Eds.), JARAK, the Short History of Jatropha Projects, Leiden: IIAS

Year
2014

Profile of Putera Sampoerna

Books/Monographs
Dieleman, Marleen
28-29, In S. Leo (Ed.), Southeast Asian Personalities of Chinese Descent: A Biographical Dictionary, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies

Year
2012

Profile of Ciputra

Books/Monographs
Dieleman, Marleen
4-5, In S. Leo (Ed.), Southeast Asian Personalities of Chinese Descent: A Biographical Dictionary, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS)

Year
2012

Chinese Indonesians and Regime Change

Books/Monographs
Dieleman, Marleen with Juliette Koning, and Peter Post
Brill Press

Year
2010

The value of social capital to family enterprises in Indonesia

Books/Monographs
Dieleman, Marleen with M. Carney, and W.M. Sachs
P. Phan, S. Venkataraman and R. Velamuri (eds), Entrepreneurship in emerging regions around the world: Theory, evidence and implications. Edward Elgar

Year
2008

Heroes and Villains: Ethnic Chinese family business in Southeast Asia

Books/Monographs
Dieleman, Marleen with and M. Carney
P.Phan and J.E. Butler (eds), Theoretical developments and future research in family Business. Information Age Press

Year
2008

Expropriation of minority shareholders or social dividend? Beware of good corporate citizens

Books/Monographs
Dieleman, Marleen with and W.M. Sachs
G. Suder (ed), International business under adversity: A role in corporate responsibility, conflict prevention and peace. Elgar Publishing

Year
2008

Reluctant internationalization: The case of the Salim Group

Books/Monographs
Dieleman, Marleen with and Sachs, W.M.
Suryadinata, L. (ed), Ethnic Chinese in contemporary Indonesia. ISEAS Press

Year
2008

The Rhythm of Strategy: A Corporate Biography of the Salim Group of Indonesia

Books/Monographs
Dieleman, Marleen
Amsterdam University Press

Year
2007

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Conference/Seminars

Institutional entrepreneurship across borders

Conference/Seminars
Dieleman, Marleen with Markus Taussig, and Michael Carney
nominated for best paper, EGOS

Year
2012

Using organization structure to manage political ties: The Salim business group in Indonesia

Conference/Seminars
Dieleman, Marleen with and Jean Boddewyn
Academy of Management

Year
2010

International institutional entrepreneurship

Conference/Seminars
Dieleman, Marleen with and M. Carney
Academy of Management

Year
2009

Family business group structure and non-market forces in emerging markets

Conference/Seminars
Dieleman, Marleen
Academy of International Business

Year
2008

The internationalization of Indonesian business groups: Crisis, institutional change and corporate responses

Conference/Seminars
Dieleman, Marleen
Academy of International Business

Year
2008

Regime change, crumbling social capital, and firm responses: A tale of two Indonesian giants

Conference/Seminars
Dieleman, Marleen with and P. Post
EGOS

Year
2008

Years of living dangerously: Family firm advantage in hostile environments

Conference/Seminars
Dieleman, Marleen with M. Carney, and W.M. Sachs
Special Issue Conference on Entrepreneurship in Emerging Regions of the Journal of Business Venturing

Year
2007

The evolution of ethnic Chinese business networks: The case of the Salim Group

Conference/Seminars
Dieleman, Marleen with and W.M. Sachs
Asia Pacific Management and Business Conference

Year
2007

Institutional entrepreneurship in emerging markets: A coevolutionary perspective

Conference/Seminars
Dieleman, Marleen with and W.M. Sachs
Academy of International Business

Year
2007

Managing dilemmas in organizations, irregular oscillation and coevolving causalities

Conference/Seminars
Dieleman, Marleen with W.M. Sachs, B. McKelvey, R. Kaminska-Labbe, C. Thomas, and J. Fendt
EGOS Conference

Year
2006

Economies of connectedness: Illustrated by the Salim Group of Indonesia.

Conference/Seminars
Dieleman, Marleen with and W.M. Sachs
Strategic Management Society

Year
2006

Others

bKash: Financial Technology Innovation for Emerging Markets

Others
Dieleman, Marleen with Mahmood, I. P., and Banu, N. T.
Ivey Case Publishing 9B17M097

Year
2017

Multistrada Agro International: Non-Market Strategy in Indonesia

Others
Dieleman, Marleen
Ivey Case publishing 9B17M007

Year
2017

A Place in the Family: Corporate Governance Practices in Family Firms

Others
Dieleman, Marleen
SAGE Publications: SAGE Business Cases Originals

Year
2017

Managing the Sibling Partnership: The Ong Group

Others
Dieleman, Marleen
Ivey Case Publishing 9B16M157

Year
2016

7-Eleven Indonesia Innovating in Emerging Markets

Others
Dieleman, Marleen with Mahmood, I. P., and Darmawan, P.
Ivey Case Publishing 9B15M081

Year
2015

Shades of Diversity: Analysing Board Composition in Asia Pacific

Others
LIM, Kim Geok, Vivien with Qian M, Dieleman, Marleen, and Ibrahim M
Shades of Diversity: Analysing Board Composition in Asia Pacific

Year
2015

Sheng Siong Supermarket: Building and Sustaining Competitive Advantage

Others
Dieleman, Marleen with Loh, L. Y. K., and Lee, Y. J.
Ivey Case publishing 9B14M108

Year
2014

The Rodamas Group (B): Designing the portfolio

Others
Dieleman, Marleen
Ivey Case Publishing 9B14M029

Year
2014

Balancing stakeholder interests at the Indonesian Railways

Others
Dieleman, Marleen
9B13M041w, Ivey Case Publishing

Year
2013

Succession in Asian Family Firms

Others
Dieleman, Marleen with and Jonathan Ho Wye Kit
(teaching case & teaching note), Ivey Case Publishing 9B12M039W.

Year
2012

Filling institutional voids in Indonesia: Jababeka?s foray into infrastructure

Others
Dieleman, Marleen
(teaching case and teaching note), Ivey Case Publishing 9B12M073W

Year
2012

Strategic entrepreneurship in emerging market multinationals: Marco Polo Marine

Others
Dieleman, Marleen with and Lee Yue-Jer
(teaching case & teaching note), Ivey Case Publishing: 9B11M046W

Year
2011

The IOI Group: Creating a Malaysian palm oil multinational

Others
Dieleman, Marleen with and Megha Mittal
(teaching case & teaching note), Ivey Case Publishing: 9B10M068W

Year
2010

The Rodamas Group: Designing strategies for changing realities in emerging economies

Others
Dieleman, Marleen with and Shawkat Kamal
(teaching case & teaching note), Ivey Case Publishing: 8b09M49W

Year
2009

The Ciputra Group: Shaping the city in Asia

Others
Dieleman, Marleen
(teaching case & teaching note), Ivey Case Publishing: 8b09M84W

Year
2009

Research / Teaching Areas

Asian Family Business

Emerging Market Strategy

Indonesia

Business Groups

Institutional Entrepreneurship

Courses

  • BSP3513, Family Business
  • BSP3001, Business Policy and Strategy
  • BMA5901, Management Practicum
  • BMA5119, Family Business
  • BMA5013, Corporate Strategy
  • BCP4002, Consulting Practicum
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