Metze Research

Welcome

This website is operated by Dr. Marcel Metze (55), an independent journalist, author and historian, based in The Netherlands.

Over the past years, he published more than a dozen investigative books and hundreds of articles, essays and columns about business, finance, major economic trends, and a wide range of management issues.


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Metze's Master Class

Talented, ambitious students and post-graduates may participate in our projects as interns or trainees, or work on projects of their own, and develop their skills in historical research, investigative reporting, and excellent writing, in a small group under Marcel Metze's personal guidance.
Application: continuously.

Job offers

None at the moment.


In Progress

'Royal Dutch Shell, behind the scenes'

An independent, non-commissioned, investigative biography of Royal Dutch Shell, scheduled to appear in 2008.

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Metze's Monthly
Selection of Reading

To be resumed in October 2008.

most recent issue
earlier issues


Recent articles

Er hangt kou in de lucht: column over toenemend wantrouwen en controle in Nederland.
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De Aartsfalers: over het ondernemerschap van ABN AMRO, KLM en Hoogovens(Dutch).
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Management Essay 14:
Dynamiek komt nu van links, niet van rechts
(Dutch)
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Management Essay 13:
Weg van de beurs
(Dutch)
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Management Essay 12:
Bulldog Investors
(Dutch)
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The British Steel / Hoogovens Merger (Corus)
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Lectures and Presentations

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Upcoming Projects

RWS Book of Changes (restructuring at the Dutch Highway and Waterway Agency)

McKinsey & Company, a corporate biography, to be published in 2008
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