Metze Research
This website is operated by Dr. Marcel Metze, an independent business historian and investigative journalist, specialized in the research of (large) corporations, the financial industry, political economy, business ethics and management issues. All texts ©

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Master class investigative journalism

A joint venture with De Groene Amsterdammer.

Class 2013/2 will start mid-August.

Application closes June 9, 12PM.

Go to master class webpage (Dutch)

 

Earlier MC Investigations:

Class 2012/2: How The Netherlands became Europe's no. 1 fossil energy supplier.
Details (Dutch)

Class 2012/1: Big Brother on the Job.
Details (Dutch)

Class 2011/2: McKinsey & Co., Consultants or Information Traders?
Details (Dutch)


Class 2011/1: Hattrick. How Dutch professional soccer clubs scored more than 1 billion euro's govt. subsidies.
Details (Dutch)

More on Dutch home page.



Work in Progress

Royal Dutch Shell


A full-scale political biography.
Scheduled for publication in 2014.
Details and previews

Cryptology in The Netherlands

A history of cryptography and cryptanalysis in The Netherlands.
A co-production with prof. dr. Bart Jacobs of Radboud University Nijmegen. People with relevant information are invited to contact us. We guarantee confidentiality. Feel free to use PGP encrypted e-mail.

Contact Marcel Metze
Contact Bart Jacobs

The Rich and the Ruper -Rich

Money, power and status in The Netherlands. A co-production with élite-researcher Jos van Hezewijk.

Pubished in 2012

More Market, Less SBE?

The effects of new tendering procedures in road construction and hydraulic engineering in The Netherlands. November 2012. See Dutch home page.

The report (in Dutch)

The Ferry War

A bitter competition between two regional ferry lines in the north of The Netherlands. Report and booklet. See Dutch home page.

The Haughty

A short history of the manager. Preliminary study. See Dutch home page.

  Articles & Essays

History revisited: Margaret Thatcher's Revolution, as I described it in 1987.
In Dutch

Re-writing history: new facts about Philips' role as a cover for US espionage during WWII
Details (Dutch)

Management Essay 19: The cheering has faded. The Dutch economy in 1997-2012.
Details (Dutch)

Re-writing history: an OSS report (1943) called Philips 'a clear and present danger' for Allied warfare...
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Analysis: RD Shell in the US (Wikileaks) diplomatic cables.
Temporarily not available (Dutch)

Management Essay 18: Why top executives always want to earn more.
Details (Dutch)

Essay: Investigative journalism and the construction of reality.
Details (Dutch)

Management Essay 17: The deeper causes of the financial crisis.
Details (Dutch)


Lectures and Presentations

Buitenhof TV Dec 9th, 2012

In the Picture: Cor Boonstra, 21 May 2013, 8:15 PM, National TV Channel 2

Lectures page

Long-term Projects

A history of the manager, a co-production with prof. dr. Luchien Karsten.

McKinsey & Co.