Metze Research

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This website is operated by Marcel Metze (59), independent investigative journalist and author of books, articles and essays about (multinational) corporations, the financial industry, political economy, business ethics and a wide range of management matters.

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Metze/Groene Master Class

The next class will start in August 2012.

Application deadline: June 1st

Job offers

None at the moment.


On the Air

Metze/Groene Master Class Dossier Class 2011/2: Inside McKinsey

Dossier Class 2011/1
(press release)

More on the Dutch home page.

Recent Books & Reports

De Veerbootoorlog, kroniek van een uitgelokt conflict

De veerbootoorlog op de route Harlingen - Terschelling. David tegen Goliath? Of het gevolg van slecht overheidsbeleid? Verschijnt in mei 2012.

Samenvatting
Verantwoording Onderzoek

The Haughty

Once, managers were applauded as corporate statesmen. Now they are a haugthy class, driven by wealth, power and status. Will they eventually come to fall? In Dutch.

To be published in 2012

Running Royal Dutch Shell

A political biography of Royal Dutch Shell, scheduled for publication in 2012 (in Dutch).
details and previews!

Metze's Monthly
Selection of Reading

To be resumed in May 2012.

Most recent issue
Earlier issues

Recent articles

Revealing: Merchant and Spy. Philips' topmanagers as secret agents during WOII. In Dutch.
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Analysis: The Shell Cables. RD Shell as it is appears in the US (Wikileaks) diplomatic cables. In Dutch.
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Analysis: Make things better again, Philips in 2011. What this company needs is the eagerness of Silicon Valley. In Dutch.
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New Facts: Still an Elite. How a new meritocratic, university trained elite replaced the old boys' network. In Dutch.
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Essay: How the Dutch Christian Democratic Party (CDA) became a failure. In Dutch.
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Management Essay 18: Why do top executives always want to make more money? In Dutch.
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Essay:
'Nina', investigative journalism and the construction of reality. In Dutch
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the essay
rejoinder Eric Smit

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Management Essay 17: No one at the wheel, the deeper causes of the financial crisis. In Dutch.
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Lectures and Presentations

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In Progress

The Rich and Super-Rich, a book about money, power and status in The Netherlands.
A co-production with élite-researcher Jos van Hezewijk.