The aim of the hub is to serve as a platform for paradox thinking. This entails three core activities: Facilitating research exchanges; bridging the research practice gap to generate and disseminate actionable knowledge enriching academia, business, and society; and exchanging and further paradox thinking in teaching.

The VU Knowledge Hub for Consulting and Professional Service Firms is known for its engagement in management consulting research and practice.

The VU Knowledge Hub for Strategizing & Organizing Innovation is dedicated to groundbreaking research and advice on how companies and other organizations can structurally boost their innovation performance and become world-class innovators.

The purpose of the VU Knowledge Hub for Diversity and Inclusion in Organisations is to advance scholarly, organisational and societal understandings of the diverse and inclusive organisations and to offer evidence-based solutions.

The VU Center for Enterprise Family Research (CEFR) studies enterprises at the family level and aims to be a platform of expertise on how to best prepare the rising generation (siblings or cousins who inherit family assets) to be responsible enterprise owners and figure out for themselves which role they want to play in the oversight and management of the enterprise family.

The VU Knowledge Hub for Ecosystems is a hub of expertise, which aims to be platform for research, education, and valorization. Propagating cross-disciplinary and multi-level research into the emergence, governance, and transformation of business ecosystems.

The VU Knowledge Hub for Global Business Development acts as a platform for researchers, students and professionals striving to master the intricacies of international business. With an expansive research agenda encompassing digital innovation and cross-cultural leadership, we offer tailored educational experiences to equip students and professionals for the global economy.