Joris Berns
Organization Studies · Tilburg University
Joris Berns
Executive communication is not only about what is said — it is about how it is said.
I am a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Organization Studies department at Tilburg University. My research sits at the intersection of behavioral decision-making, corporate governance, and corporate communication. I study how top managers behave when their organizations face severe threats: how perceptions of such threats form, why executives differ so markedly in those perceptions, and how this shapes their risk-taking and strategic communication.
Methodologically, I work with large-scale computational analysis of text, audio, and visual disclosure data — from natural language processing of earnings calls to paraverbal features of executive speech — often on the Dutch national supercomputer. I am a proponent of open science and share code and materials where possible.